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DJGrenola

2017-06-09 04:38:25 pm

well, may's little fuckup has put another percent and a half on my stocks

well played old girl

DJGrenola

2017-06-09 04:40:20 pm

lol european politicians getting stuck into may big time on twitter

arkarian

2017-06-09 05:53:28 pm

red chamber dream

reading all the articles today has been quite fun

arkarian

2017-06-09 05:53:48 pm

red chamber dream

apparently may is still trying to push her agenda without having the support or something?

DJGrenola

2017-06-09 07:14:59 pm

yeah, she's trying to do a deal with one of the minority parties in order to secure a working majority in parliament

it's an insane gamble, frankly

DJGrenola

Edit history:

DJGrenola: 2017-06-09 07:26:34 pm

2017-06-09 07:19:05 pm

for about three reasons, most dangerous of which is that the party she's hoping to do a deal with are ... at the very least ideologically linked to one of the factions in the old ireland / northern ireland-related terrorist campaigns

DJGrenola

2017-06-09 07:23:11 pm

I am by no means an expert on this, but peace in northern ireland has been sustained essentially by a fractious power-sharing agreement between the factions that has only worked because the UK government has avoided fucking about with it

guess what theresa is about to do

DJGrenola

2017-06-09 07:25:39 pm

so yeah this could be a hat trick of stupid gambles for the conservative party, except this time the worst case scenario is they might actually end up with blood on their hands

DJGrenola

2017-06-09 07:29:09 pm

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/dup-conservatives-northern-ireland-coalition-ulster-defence-association-paramilitaries-peace-process-a7782631.html

that seems to be a decently balanced take on it, as far as I'm qualified to judge, which isn't very far honestly

DJGrenola

2017-06-09 07:33:55 pm

I guess there are two reasons why she's doing a deal with the DUP: a) it's the smallest party she can do a deal with and still get a majority, but more tellingly: b) no other minor party wants to be poisoned by associating with the conservatives right now

arkarian

2017-06-09 07:37:41 pm

red chamber dream

it kind of seems like she's eventually screwed either way

arkarian

2017-06-09 07:37:57 pm

red chamber dream

i didn't know about the historical stuff, that's fascinating

DJGrenola

2017-06-09 07:55:16 pm

a lot of people think we'll just end up having another election soon

DJGrenola

2017-06-09 07:56:10 pm

it would be the fifth time I've gone to the polls in like three years

arkarian

2017-06-09 08:06:13 pm

red chamber dream

haha wtf

tomatobob

2017-06-09 09:06:11 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Quote from DJGrenola:

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/dup-conservatives-northern-ireland-coalition-ulster-defence-association-paramilitaries-peace-process-a7782631.html

that seems to be a decently balanced take on it, as far as I'm qualified to judge, which isn't very far honestly

Christ, May just don't give a fuck, does she?

Poision Envy

2017-06-09 11:33:41 pm

Club 27 Goals

And she would've gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those damn kids

DJGrenola

2017-06-10 04:49:30 am

ooh I like the Times' headline

"May stares into the abyss"

very dramatic that one

arkarian

2017-06-10 12:10:44 pm

red chamber dream

lol it's very timesy

Poision Envy

2017-06-10 05:51:51 pm

Club 27 Goals

Got to witness my second house fire today. It's hot as fuck here lately and some house went up in flames by a lake we went swimming to. The winds are super high so it ended up spreading to the neighbors garage

DJGrenola

2017-06-12 02:24:13 am

did you see it start?

DJGrenola

2017-06-12 02:33:26 am

I spent the weekend in london soaking up the post-election zeitgeist

Poision Envy

2017-06-12 10:03:34 pm

Club 27 Goals

I was driving and saw some smoke start to rise where I was headed, by the time I got there the entire garage (Detached unit) was ablaze, and by the time we left there were two houses and two garages completely burnt down. Was kind of crazy.

DJGrenola

2017-06-13 01:01:46 pm

huh

they announced metroid prime 4

ryu

2017-06-13 01:03:37 pm

with a picture lol