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Well anyone who thinks Britain can’t get any worse than it is currently is an absolute fucking moron. Britain’s leadership left them behind, but if they think it can’t get worse they really are just closed minded idiots. If the middle class takes a battering, the working class are going to have it much worse. Saying “it can’t get any worse” is one of the stupidest things anyone can say regarding politics. It can always get worse - especially for people living in the Western world.

I mean I've experienced people saying similar stupid things. And I'll tell you the same thing I've told them - that's basically like saying you want to eat a pile of shite just so people you don't like can smell your breath. Sure, they'll all smell your shitty breath - but you'll also be the one who's eaten a pile of shite and gotten sick from it. Remainers, much like people who voted for Brexit, aren't some homogenised group either. I don't think you can say that remainers stand for anything unifying other than remaining in the EU. But the idea that we leave the EU and suddenly things go back to how they were pre-Thatcher is fucking mental. The idea that Brexit does anything positive for the working class is absurd. The idea that Westminster will spread more money around to neglected areas all across the UK, rather than divert it to the City of London like it currently has, once Brexit has taken place and there's less fucking money in the UK to spread around is pure fantasy. The disaster capitalists are looking down on working class leave voters thanking their lucky stars they have people they can trick into voting against their own interests. The people who's goal is for our next recession to be as big as possible, so they can "clean up the mess" by buying everything they can get their fucking hands on (which tbh, if you've got the cash lined up a No Deal Brexit might mean the best time to buy a nice house - but the people who've been tricked into voting against their interests are most definitely NOT the people with the cash lined up). And that's not just from a housing market crash, that's from them hoping austerity will force privitisation. That's a big opportunity for the ultra wealthy. But what's that fucking do for the working class? It means what austerity always means for the working class. And if the recession is very bad and the economy needs massive stimulation, that's going to lead to another conservative wet dream of massive deregulation. Does deregulation benefit the working class? Were people left behind? Absolutely. Do they have a right to be furious that they've been neglected for decades? Absolutely. Does this mean we should remove ourselves from the ability to participate in multilateral trade deals as a EU member state? No - why would it? The ultimate end result there is that Britain makes trade deals (because trade deals will still happen, most countries will want to avoid the friction of WTO tariffs and trade is going to be necessary because hampering our ability to participate in the global economy does not mean the global economy will stop - no matter how many people with the Little Britain mindset will tell you), but they've gotten worse deals than they would have because simply put our economy leverage in trade deals is much worse alone than it would be negotiating as part of the EU block. So what does that likely do? That likely makes a shitload of things (including things people need, like bog rolls and fucking food) more expensive. And that's also not accounting for how many businesses leave the UK after Brexit and the impact that'll make on our economy at large... not just Britain's leverage in trade negotiations. And do you know who'll feel the shit end of the stick the hardest in that hypothetical period of economic uncertainty that'll last for... fuck knows how long? Is it the upper class? Fuck no, it's not the upper class. Is it the middle class? Well, they'll certainly feel a squeeze. And it'll be tough for a lot of people. But who will it hurt the most? It'll hurt the working class the most, because shit economic policies ALWAYS hurt the working class the most. People willing to make themselves sick from eating from a pile of shit just so people they don't like will have to smell their breath shouldn't be so fucking stupid.

Jo Johnson looks like an alternate history Boris Johnson where Boris didn't try crack

The orbiter will be up there for a year documenting important things. Still mighty proud of the effort. EDIT Just posted at the same time with you @nudge. The orbiter does a lot of work. Well, now on to the Sun.

May he rot in hell

He should know that if he lives in Merseyside - the original article from FT is behind a paywall (unfortunately) so I won't post that here but: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/sun-boycott-on-merseyside-reduced-euroscepticism/26/08/ - Merseysiders are less Eurosceptic because we've been consuming less far right propaganda than the rest of the country since 1989.

They never set Ronaldo and Messi above 94 at the start of the game because then they wouldn't be able to upgrade them with the Team of the Week or Team of the Year variations and get idiots to spend hundreds of pounds trying to find them in packs.

India's Chandrayaan-2 mission's Vikram lander (with Pragyaan rover on board) will attempt a soft Moon landing today! If it's successful, India will become the fourth country ever to land on the lunar surface and the first one to land on the south polar region of the Moon. Will go live here in about three hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iqNTeZAq-c Hope all goes well.

Our private life remains private!

Little bit on Lingard on BBC's article about upcoming England games: Still amazes me he's 27 but as they say there, perceived as a youngster. The creativity he is supposedly meant to provide is non-existent, as well. No goals and assists since December 2018. And those in December being the only ones in a calendar year. It really does beg the question on how he keeps getting an England call-up. And another question to pose is at what point does he move to Everton when he's perceived not good enough for United?

Team plans colour film of a black hole at galaxy's centre The team that took the first-ever image of a black hole has announced plans to capture "razor-sharp" full-colour video of the one at the centre of our galaxy. Satellites would be launched to supplement the existing network of eight telescopes to make this movie. The researchers say the upgraded network will be able to see the supermassive black hole consuming the material around it. The team has been awarded the Breakthrough Award for Physics. Prof Heino Falcke, of Radboud University in the Netherlands, who proposed the idea of the so-called Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), told BBC News that the next step was to see a black hole in action. "Just like planets, a black hole rotates. And because of its incredibly strong gravity, it distorts space and time around it. And so seeing this very weird effect of space itself being rotated is one of the holy grails of astrophysics." FULL REPORT

Fucking hell! Even better than the first one!

Definitely remember some of you guys saying Rosberg is like Villeneuve now! Any of you been speaking to Max then ?

Femi gets all kinds of stick but not once does he ever retaliate and get in to a slanging match with the person he gets vile abuse from. For that I admire him (and all the other logic he gives to anyone and everyone about Brexit!)

I am the grand arbiter of racism, let's see what we have here. A bunch of dudes making monkey howls at a black footballer. Yeah, that's racist.

Brilliant sequel this after their biscuit video. When James revealed his favourite movie .

This was an odd find... didn't know if I should put it here on in the music section...

RIP... killed in a 3 way car crash in New Mexico about 9pm last night