[MisterMuncher]

GP2 was their short-lived Les Paul competitor. There's not many left in the world, and a large majority are in the hands of Josh Homme. For Doom/Stoner stuff, it's that, a Yamaha SG 2000 or a LP Custom.

[Spoonman]

I see a certain L. Foreman is either "very tired & emotional" or is gagging to get sued with his shit-posting tweets on Angela Rayner earlier today.

Not gonna link to said tweets for what should be obvious reasons.

[mattomac]

Note what Harwood actually says.

Developed countries, where the white people live, are facing population decline and attendant problems.

Other countries - the ones where the black, brown and yellow people live, are experiencing population growth.

It's about white supremacy on a global scale.

Nobody wants to fuck Tom Harwood.

Rumour I heard is the opposite but it’s not the kind of sex that procreates.

[Spoonman]

Well, we (as in those of us that frequent this forum) knew well this was going to be the case, but there's still plenty of whingers that still don't understand that "YOU VOTED FOR THIS!!!!!!!1".

And 'cos it's the E*press, I'm C&P the whole article here for a change so you don't have to visit their site.

Irish tourists given 'preferential treatment' to Brits at Spanish airport

BRITS have accused a Spanish airport of giving Irish tourists "preferential treatment" by giving them an "express lane" in passport control.

While Irish passengers can use the service to skip long queues at Malaga Airport, Brits must watch on because the UK is no longer in the European Union (EU). Like in most airports, there are two queues at Malaga - one sealed off with black tape and signposted with a Union Flag and the other enclosed with green tape and shows an Irish tricolour and EU flag labelled for "EU citizens".

Brits have faced larger queues recently in their lane and many tourists have vented their anger online, reports Dublin Live.

One visitor returning from Spain tweeted: "The express bus lane (green tape) with the automated turnstiles is for Irish EU citizens. The Disneyland queue (black tape) with the police toll booths is for non-EU citizens."

Another British passenger claimed Irish citizens were getting "preferential treatment" while others reported "two-hour queues for non-EU passengers".

A third Twitter user said: "Sitting in Malaga Airport to return. What a joke! A huge queue for UK passengers stretching all the way back to duty free exit…whilst the lane for EU empty."

"Preferential treatment for the one flight to Ireland. Travellers beware," another added.

More than 3,000 passengers missed their flights at Madrid Airport over the Easter break.

Since Brexit, British tourists are only allowed to stay in the Schengen area (a free movement area without border controls that includes 26 countries including Spain but excluding Ireland) for 90 out of 180 days and must get their passports stamped when they leave or could face being refused entry on another visit.

Meanwhile Irish citizens benefit from EU-wide passenger rights for travel into, out of, or within the EU by air, rail, bus/coach or ship.

But it's feared the chaotic scenes at airports might repeat themselves in the summer.

President of Airlines Association (ALA) in Spain, Javier Gandara, said: "There have already been problems at the airports over Easter and we need to avoid this happening in peak season.

"It will be the first summer when passports for travellers to the UK have to be checked and the first when air traffic is likely to be normal, now that the British government has lifted all the restrictions imposed because of the pandemic."

https://www.express.co.uk/travel/articl ... ain-Brexit

[Abernathy]

I read this articl3 earlier. I would call it unbelievable, but having lived through the entire Brexit shitstorm, I’m completely unsurprised. Of course, these cunts knew exactly what they were voting for..


One can only hope that it just might be beginning to dawn on them that they’ve been conned.

[Andy McDandy]

When we were in, it was "how dare these foreigners think of themselves as our equals". Now it's "how dare they get something we don't".

Heart of stone not to laugh. How many other countries have fucked themselves over so deliberately and so comprehensively, ever?

[Boiler]

I read this articl3 earlier. I would call it unbelievable, but having lived through the entire Brexit shitstorm, I’m completely unsurprised. Of course, these cunts knew exactly what they were voting for..


One can only hope that it just might be beginning to dawn on them that they’ve been conned.

I'm afraid the more extreme of them would rather eat grass and drink from puddles than admit they were wrong. You can guarantee that if you asked someone in a customs queue if they voted for Brexit and they replied "yes", a response of "well, you got what you wanted so what's your problem?" would be met with either silence or violence.

Meanwhile those who have got very fat on the back of Brexit will laugh themselves incontinent at how they conned so many and did so well out of it.

[Spoonman]

Meanwhile, in news that'll likely make a few heads turn and spit out their masticated cornflakes. And you don't have to delve too deep for what is regarded as the main reason...

More Irish than UK passports issued in Northern Ireland for first time

The number of Irish passports being issued in the North has surpassed their UK counterparts for the first time on record, newly obtained figures reveal.

Her Majesty’s Passport Office in London has confirmed 48,555 citizens in Northern Ireland applied for a UK passport in 2020 – at least 356 fewer than those who opted for an Irish passport the same year (48,911).

Official figures on Irish passports in the region are only available for those issued through Northern Ireland Passport Express (NIPX), available through post offices, and do not include citizens who apply for their passports directly from Dublin.

The fresh records, released under Freedom of Information laws, confirm an escalating trend over recent years in rising applications for Irish passports, as numbers opting to carry a UK passport wane.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland ... -1.4867712

[Youngian]

Soon after the EURef, superBrit Ian Paisley Jr was advising his constituents to apply for an Irish passport. Sound experienced advice from a junket jet setter.

[Youngian]

Allister Heath was always a mad mullah of Monetarism (as the neoliberals used to known, kids) but now as Sunday Telegraph editor he’s moved to the barmy Kipper fringes

Brexit Britain can defeat the EU's vicious attempt at trade war blackmail

Brussels is seeking to use the Protocol to punish the UK. We should fight back with hardcore capitalism

Yet Brussels is once again on the verge of a disastrous miscalculation. The Protocol is broken. It was always the product of an unequal treaty, a monstrously unjust imperialistic blueprint imposed, Versailles-style, on Brexit Britain, and agreed to only under duress. The sequencing of the negotiations were the result of a series of grievous tactical, strategic and ideological errors by Theresa May.

In the end, Johnson had to sign it, or be subjected by the EU to a trade war (while still failing to resolve the Irish border). There was a chance Brussels would realise that what it obtained was too good to be true, and thus interpret the Protocol sensibly, but it was not to be. Virtually every single British proposal for constructive reform has been rejected. The EU continues to obsess about the supposed sanctity of the single market and the grave risks posed by the possibility of “leakage” of British food products. It’s nonsense, but trade between the UK and Northern Ireland has declined dramatically, among myriad other problems. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/0 ... blackmail/

[Boiler]

<fx: yawns>

You won, get over it, actions have consequences... <said in bored monotone>

[satnav]

I love the way in which Theresa May gets all the blame for the Northern Ireland protocol yet no blame at all for her Foreign Secretary who did bugger all for two years before flouncing off to prepare his leadership bid.

[Andy McDandy]

Especially as the protocol is IIRC entirely a Johnson thing. May was lumbered with the "hated Irish backstop", which was basically put things on hold until an effective solution is found.

[Boiler]

From today's BBC Live news feed;

Screenshot 2022-05-17 at 14-14-13 Northern Ireland Protocol Truss announces plans for changes to post-Brexit trade - BBC News.png (9.22 KiB) Viewed 4854 times

Isn't a lot of law in Latin?

[MisterMuncher]

I guarantee that any Latin involved is entirely of the loanword variety. Ian Óg is so full of shit he speaks fart.

[Spoonman]

[Youngian]

From today's BBC Live news feed;


Screenshot 2022-05-17 at 14-14-13 Northern Ireland Protocol Truss announces plans for changes to post-Brexit trade - BBC News.png


Isn't a lot of law in Latin?

Latin = Rome = Tentacles of Popery

[Boiler]

I did wonder....

[Malcolm Armsteen]

From today's BBC Live news feed;


Screenshot 2022-05-17 at 14-14-13 Northern Ireland Protocol Truss announces plans for changes to post-Brexit trade - BBC News.png


Isn't a lot of law in Latin?

Latin = Rome = Tentacles of Popery

He's objecting to Times Roman...

[Youngian]

From today's BBC Live news feed;


Screenshot 2022-05-17 at 14-14-13 Northern Ireland Protocol Truss announces plans for changes to post-Brexit trade - BBC News.png


Isn't a lot of law in Latin?

Latin = Rome = Tentacles of Popery

He's objecting to Times Roman...

That would be a good joke if there wasn’t a very good chance that its true