Our straight Pride walks all got cancelled this weekend in Scotland thanks to our council finally taking a stance against both sides. 
Yeah as they all wear Orange. I’m just joking as you know…
But it was good to see our council finally taking action after last weeks riots.
I don’t like the sound of this, though I doubt the national party takes much direction from Hartlepool councillors.
The Brexit party has taken control of Hartlepool borough council after forming a pact with the Conservatives overnight, dealing a significant blow to Labour in its north-east heartlands.
The Brexit party announced it had taken control of the local authority at a council meeting on Thursday night, where it revealed that nine councillors had joined the party and formed a pact with the council’s three Conservatives.
The Brexit party-Conservative coalition now has 13 councillors on the 32-seat council, compared with Labour’s 10.
Of the nine new Brexit party councillors, six sat as independents (four of whom were ex-Ukip) plus three defectors who until last night represented Ukip, Putting Hartlepool First and the Veterans and People’s party respectively.
The DUP story sounds like more total nonsense.
Apparently they have accepted “Northern Ireland abiding by some European Union rules post-Brexit,” and “would drop [their] objection to regulatory checks in the Irish Sea.” However that’s so “Brussels would abandon its insistence on Northern Ireland remaining in a customs union with the EU” and Foster continues to say “we are keen to see a sensible deal but not one that divides the internal market of the UK. We will not support any arrangements that create a barrier to East West trade.”
So, either the whole story is nonsense, or it’s another of the ridiculous have-your-cake-and-eat-it positions the Tories cook up only to have the EU reject them even before the next meeting.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/arlene-foster-denies-dup-brexit-lifeline/13/09/
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I see the good people of Hartlepool have mistaken monkeys for humans again.
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Years ago in Dublin I saw two English lads get into a loud argument, which which was only decided when one of them called the other ‘A monkey hanger’.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Andrew_Adonis/status/1172611584876785664
https://mobile.twitter.com/Andrew_Adonis/status/1172569710866698241
https://mobile.twitter.com/cybereuro/status/1172612926114541568
For all the bad things there are about Britain (and there are plenty) there’s not a lot of countries where people have the confidence to speak truth to the most powerful person in the country (shudder) in that way in the knowledge they are unlikely to face repercussions. Being able to tell the prime minister to fuck off on live TV an facing no sanction for it is an important freedom that not many people have.
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Cameron comes out firing. Desperately trying to save his reputation. Please don’t let me be the pig fucker who tore the country in two as an attempt to outwit nigel fucking farage a grinning certified idiot.
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“For the money - not for you.”
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