# In the news thread
**URL:** https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17
**Category:** General
**Created:** [March 4, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17 "2019-03-04T15:57:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 17
### Author:  [@KeithBeef](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/KeithBeef)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 11:06am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/332 "2019-07-23T11:06:43Z")
Oh bugger.
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### Author:  [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 11:11am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/333 "2019-07-23T11:11:16Z")
Did he lie in literally his first utterances? The whole 3000/7000 miles thing?
What the **absolute fuck** is he babling on about? This is a car crash. He’s an ape in a man suit.
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 11:14am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/334 "2019-07-23T11:14:49Z")
Heading into Number Ten like
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### Author:  [@Garlicnaan](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Garlicnaan)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 11:30am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/335 "2019-07-23T11:30:15Z")
Hey look, it’s Boris leading us out of the EU
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hRwnXmdRCo)
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### Author:  [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 11:32am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/336 "2019-07-23T11:32:05Z")
He’s the Prime Minister we deserve.
Is it technically possible he will never actually get to be PM? That would be hilarious.
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### Author:  [@anon90826813](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anon90826813)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 11:33am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/337 "2019-07-23T11:33:00Z")
Absolutely, we are a nation of absolute morons.
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### Author:  [@Mush](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mush)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 11:52am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/338 "2019-07-23T11:52:41Z")
What a time to be alive. Jesus.
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 11:57am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/339 "2019-07-23T11:57:44Z")
And now Scottish Independence. Except that the FM has done absolutely fuck all to suggest she can run [her own](https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/3025241/govanhill-crime-squalor-investigation/) [constituency](https://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/17787770.glasgow-msp-calls-urgent-action-end-schools-pest-problem/), let alone a country.
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### Author:  [@Mush](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mush)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 12:47pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/340 "2019-07-23T12:47:55Z")
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/341 "2019-07-23T13:04:38Z")
Anybody know what the Prince of Whales makes of it all?
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### Author:  [@telmernatorx](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/telmernatorx)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/342 "2019-07-23T13:17:26Z")
i had dinner at ikea the other day, dinner in a furniture shop, now this, what have we become??
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### Author:  [@chasone](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/chasone)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/343 "2019-07-23T13:19:42Z")
We were on holiday in Sweden a couple of years ago and thought it would be funny to eat at Ikea for dinner one evening (as we were passing it). Got served by Mike from Plymouth. Joke was on us.
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### Author:  [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/344 "2019-07-23T13:25:53Z")
Pretty spot on summary of what de Pfeffel is facing:
> **[Boris Johnson: The next human sacrifice to the Brexit machine](https://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2019/07/23/boris-johnson-the-next-human-sacrifice-to-the-brexit-machine/)**
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> The only question is: Which of his promises does Boris Johnson break first?
> If the backstop is not in the withdrawal agreement, the EU will not sign it. If it is in the withdrawal agreement, Johnson cannot get behind it and parliament anyway will not back it. So a deal is impossible.
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> No-deal, on the other hand, will never pass through parliament. Nor can Johnson try to cancel parliament to get it through. Last week’s vote made it clear MPs wouldn’t stand for it.
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> Whichever way he looks, he is shackled by a deadlocked parliament. The solution is obvious: hold a general election and try to get some more loyal MPs. But he has ruled that out.
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> Or he could use a second referendum, but he has ruled that out too.
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> All the options are closed. Some are closed by reality. Others are closed by the fantasies that he peddled in order to pretend it did not exist.
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> So which promise does he choose to break? The promise to get rid of the backstop? Or to secure no-deal? Or to avoid an election? Or to stop a referendum? He’s going to have to break one of them.
Good luck with all that you floppy haired chancing twat.
When it all goes tits up it will turn out that Boris wasn’t Brexity enough all along.
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### Author:  [@jimvo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/jimvo)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/345 "2019-07-23T13:57:55Z")
Best outcome, Tories completely self destruct, Labour win GE, Brexit delayed until further notice, by which time all leavers dead or living in Costa del Sol.
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### Author:  [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 2:02pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/346 "2019-07-23T14:02:19Z")
> [@jimvo](#):
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> Labour win GE, Brexit delayed
Hmmm. Only delayed so that they can try and get their ‘jobs first’ Brexit.
Whatever that is.
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### Author:  [@voodoo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/voodoo)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/347 "2019-07-23T14:42:17Z")
Could Corbyn win a GE now? I’m not so sure unfortunately. He has come across and very wishy, washy, with the whole Brexit shambles. Instead of stepping up and been seen to do something, anything. He doesn’t look like a strong and stable (oof) leader to a lot of the public.
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### Author:  [@Garlicnaan](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Garlicnaan)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/348 "2019-07-23T14:45:37Z")
As much as I like Corbyn I think they will need to have their own leadership contest before they’re ready to compete in a GE.
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### Author:  [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/349 "2019-07-23T15:16:35Z")
> [@voodoo](#):
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> Could Corbyn win a GE now?
No one could win a general election now.
Both the cons and Labour will leak massive amounts of votes to the Brexit party, the lib dems, the greens and plaid. Then there’s the SNP.
This would be fine if we had proportional representation, but we don’t. So that’s a…problem.
A new complication is that the lib dems won’t go into a coalition with either Labour or the conservatives making them hard to vote for.
They are going to push a few votes back to Labour I guess by doing that.
A general election would put us into even more of a no man’s land. Great.
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### Author:  [@ihatethegeneralpublic](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ihatethegeneralpublic)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/350 "2019-07-23T15:34:38Z")
> [@Les\_Zeppelin](#):
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> A new complication is that the lib dems won’t go into a coalition with either Labour or the conservatives making them hard to vote for.
Obviously from their side the less said about coalitions the better! They’re almost as blacklisted from getting my vote as the Tories are.
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### Author:  [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/in-the-news-thread/17/351 "2019-07-23T15:41:59Z")
That was then and this is now. At least they have a coherent stance on Brexit that I can get behind.
If they won’t work with jeremy corbyn though I’m properly snookered.
I didn’t watch any of the Glastonbury footage this year. I presume all the crowds were chanting his name this year yeah?
If only there was literally 1 positive thing about Brexit I’m not sure I would give a fuck but there literally isn’t.
I think my job is probably OK but all of our suppliers are based in Denmark so I’m not sure what will happen really. I do know that everything is absolutely fine as it is.
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