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Kids are stupid. They don't know to be afraid :D

British intelligence used fabricated information about Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons program that appears to have been cribbed from the Michael Bay thriller The Rock. And, yes, that’s a true sentence.

You really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up.

That approach hasn't really done Corbyn any favours so far, sadly.

Oh really?

HuffPost UK has reported that Labour membership has now hit about 500,000 – easily surpassing the previous peak of 405,000 which occurred during Tony Blair’s leadership of the party.

Here's a tip for the Labour party. Think of Tony Blair. Try to imagine what he'd do in your position. Then do the exact fucking opposite.

This is the welcoming the Icelandic team got when they came home to Reykjavik:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMIdPcf_50I

Well, that went as expected. Still, Iceland had a hell of a run, and made their side proud. I like the fact that they kept fighting right till the whistle.

I'm rooting for France to win the whole thing now.

Nice flag there, Ade!

So, are we happy that Germany knocked out the other Axis power saturday? I am, if for no other reason than that the Germans play football in a far more entertaining way than the extremely defensive Italians.

I am stoked for tonight's bout, although I really can't see Iceland standing much of a chance against the French juggernaut,

The PLP may not support Corbyn but they have behaved disgracefully since his election. Even this coup is so pathetically managed they've shown they can't even get backstabbing right.

It's funny because it's true.

Here's a Norwegian leftist friend's perspective on the Corbyn-debacle. I'd be interested to hear your take on this!

44% in the poll think Jeremy Corbin should step down now, but 51% think he should not. In the current crisis situation, that is impressive. In addition, 60% think the shadow cabinet members were wrong to resign to try to force Corbyn to resign, with only 36% supporting the move.

 

Local party chairs also continue to support Corbyn: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-labour-leade...

 

Therefore, the PLP has a problem

They're very right in not trying to make it all fit chronologically.

By the way, does anyone have tips to good articles analyzing what Boris Johnson has done and stood for as a politician?

Meanwhile, the EU are busy acting like kindergarten kids throwing a tantrum:

Danuta Hübner, the head of the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee (AFCO), warned Monday that English will not be one of the European Union’s official languages after Britain leaves the EU.

 

English is one of the EU’s 24 official languages because the U.K. identified it as its own official language, Hübner said. But as soon as Britain completes the process to leave the EU, English could lose its status.

 

“We have a regulation … where every EU country has the right to notify one official language,” Hübner said. “The Irish have notified Gaelic, and the Maltese have notified Maltese, so you have only the U.K. notifying English.”

 

“If we don’t have the U.K., we don’t have English,” Hübner said.

I'm sure removing English as an official language will do wonders for European integration and whatnot.

This article makes a lot of sense re:Labour crisis.

The Brexit referendum has exposed deep divisions in British society.

 

One of the most important of these, broadly speaking, was between winners and losers of globalization.

 

Remain tended to win among younger, more educated, and more culturally liberal voters, particularly those in diverse and prosperous urban areas. But it lost badly among older white workers in places like the North East, Yorkshire, and Wales.

 

In order to build a social majority and win elections the Labour Party needs a platform that can bring together these two wings of its base.

 

This is by no means an easy task — but no one is better positioned to do it than Jeremy Corbyn.

 

He is the only leading figure in the party with purchase among young Labour voters, almost doubling his rivals combined in the under-forty category during the leadership election.

 

And he is the only plausible candidate with credibility in opposing the policies of economic liberalization, pursued by both Conservative and Labour governments, which have hollowed out England and Wales’s industrial heartlands.

Ah! That would indeed explain it. Not the best editing, then.

Yeah, not bad. Not surprised that Cersei chose the nuclear option, and even more not surprised that it came back to bite her. Kinda sad that we now wont get to see what Margaerys plan was.

Arya pulling a Shakespeare was really nice. Meanwhile, Jon Snow is still dull as dishwater.

A sidenote: WTF was Varys doing on that ship at the end? Didn't we JUST see him in Dorn?

Yeah, they're not having the best of times. Iceland actually won fair and square. They were the better team yesterday.

If the rest of the EU out of petty vindictiveness should insist on not making a deal with the UK, who would lose out?

 

Quite right, Red. very ''prisoners dilemma'' . I have always thought MY government should have said to the whole world, ''be fair and straight forward in all your requirements, or our companies sell you NOTHING''. fuck free trade deals, they are nothing more than rapists and robbers insisting on you agreeing to the assault first.

if the UK said get fucked to any egregious ''deals'' CONSISTENTLY, the other counties would deal straight, or they could go without. But then the UK powers-that-be have also always been guilty of the same shit, they totally fucked New Zealand and Australia as soon as they saw an advantage to themselves, by joining in the first place.

There is no honor in capitalism, only self-interest. Honor must be imposed politically, from the outside, it does not come naturally. That requires political mobilization and strong ideological bulwarks. (Things that seem sorely lacking in the contemporary European left)

The recent rebellion against Corbyn is a fucking disgrace. What a shower of pillocks.

Very true, but it's not just the trade balance that's an issue here, as there's plenty of other stuff that can be done in the name of petty spite. If I was a British citizen who lived and worked in an EU country, I'd be shitting myself about the consequences of Spode negotiating the terms of Britain's exit from the EU, to pick one obvious potential problem.

Sure, but again that cuts both ways. There are many migrants living and working in Britain, especially from eastern Europe. I think people are overplaying the potential consequences here to a massive degree, especially since the Tories have no actual desire to see eastern european laborers chucked out, since they are efficiently undercutting the labor market. Why on earth would the tories want that to stop? So I imagine a deal where the Poles get to stay in Britain, in exchange for the Brits being allowed to stay in other EU countries will be fairly easy to piece together.

Does anyone here actually think that EU businesses will allow Brussels to NOT have a trade agreement with Britain? Everyone is talking as if Britain is the only party with a vested economic interest in maintaining healthy trade ties with the rest of Europe. Has anyone stopped to think that it goes the other way as well? If the rest of the EU out of petty vindictiveness should insist on not making a deal with the UK, who would lose out? Only the UK? The amount of German, French, Italian etc capital invested in Britain is fairly huge, and Britain is a huge export market for European industry. It's not like EU countries wouldn't have a lot to gain by having amicable trading relations with the world's fifth biggest economy.

Yay! :boogie:

Red, looks like Spode is a shoo in as Cameltoe's replacement now, and there's already been a vote of no confidence in Corbyn as well.

Spode? Who's that?

And has there been a vote against Corbyn? Where, when, how?

Cameron's (predictably) going but given the other shit that'll fill the space it's not much to celebrate.

Oh, I think we can safely squeeze out a gleeful smirk, even though some other [over-used word] will take his place.