Being English is normally excellent, it's normally great, great fun. Everyone loves (or jokingly hates) the British. We're jolly, jolly good fun normally.
Blimey.
But fucking Brexit has pissed me right off mate. Blimey crikey cor blimey I'm reet off me tits on .... whatever the opposite of national pride is. National shame.
We seem to have sided with the most moronic elements of the world. Only Donald Trump (don't get me started), Boris Johnson (demonstrably lying), and ISIS thought it would be a good idea to leave the EU. But no, we thought we'd ignore every economist and historian and the advice of every technical institution and industry we have, and side with the racists. Great.
(For the foreign amongst you, the EU is the European [economic] Union).
Brexit does not mean we will be leaving the continent of Europe itself and physically floating away, nor does it mean (as some true ignoramuses actually believed), that we have voted to get the 'foreigners' to 'leave'. No, it simply means we have utterly shot ourselves in every bollock we posses, all in the name of giving two fingers up to David Cameron (not an entirely wasted effort I must confess), and has left our dear nation sadly lacking ... well ... a government, for a start. And for number two, at the mercy of every racist and xenophobe we posses.
Talking about a number two, we're off back to the fucking Bronze Age for a bit. Byee!
In the meantime, comic update; I've done 140 pages now. I'll be hard pressed to finish it in under 150 pages, but we're definitely getting there :)
Something to look forward to as our glorious nation folds itself into a singularity and falls foul of the total thuggish mentalists who normally stay in their bedsits and keep bloody quiet.
Lots of English rage right here. Sorry about that. Cup of tea? Two sugars?
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What, no crumpets? Maybe that's the reason for Brexit. You failed to eat your quota of crumpets.
In all actuality, as a US citizen, I know your pain. You just got to the punch first. Though thankfully it looks like we aren't going the way of the Brits. Ciao!
All i can think of is Moss's "Did you see that ludicrous display last night?" Still, how bout those Scots, eh?
What was Wenger thinking, sending Walcott on that early?
Thing about Labour is, they always try to walk it in.
If nothing else, the sheer amount of racist and hate crimes in the last week should be enough to prove this has many of the wrong ideas at heart.
BBC News was my go to for world events. Now it's overwhelmed.
I think that the EU has it's befits it certainly has a roll for peace but like any governing body can become bureaucratic when it becomes large. While I like the idea of the EU I think that it has enacted the wrong regulations in some cases and not enough in others. I don't believe that the UK will become isolated from Europe so long as there is a fiscal advantage to free trade with the rest of Europe. I really believe that the UK will benefit from greater autonomy than it has recently had. Perhaps this will be a wake-up call to the EU to reform and trim down, then maybe a majority of Brits will be inclined again to join that organization.
If we had decent leadership that agreed with you Frank, rather than a power vacuum and extremist elements being encouraged to come forward, I'd probably agree too, and be a bit more optimistic about our pulling it off in a peaceful and loving manner. The turmoil at the moment is very sad though.
Very sad.
Haha! I lolled :D
Honestly, if Trump gets in too, it'll be like 2016 vomited all over the whole world and there won't be enough tables to flip nor faces to palm. We'll in a bleak dystopian nightmare before 2017 has a chance to make it all better
I have to say reading your summary of it made me laugh.
It's sort or fitting your comic though, the whole situation makes you wish even more that you were actually in the comic.
old un 'ere, sorry but for once i disagree with you (pout)Trump is the madmans finger on the trigger, that Americans have always feared yet they want him. That is the American way, always have your finger on the trigger especially in schools. As for EU we never voted to join it, but had to vote to leave it. It was the useless wasteful Common Market we joined, butter mountains, spilt milk, but what the EU represents is Federalism (our American friends again) which has never been a democratic system. Anyway I've just come out of hospital after having me arse ripped up, in a way I feel like Boris Johnson after turning me back on Michael Gove!!
What we're seeing in the US with Trump vs Hillary is all about the power of media and celebrity in the modern mainstream and the ways those with wealth and power can and are gaming it.
That's a long rising problem we're seeing coming to the front and playing out to shocking extreme. A lot of eyes are too distracted between work work work work and the media circus to see proverbial fingers on triggers. It should be bleeding obvious that a businessman/ real estate billionaire/ windbag is not someone anyone should vote for highest post in their nation in these times yet masses are being played to that tune.
A LOT of Americans probably a majority are stunned and disgusted and don't know whether to vote for Hillary just to spite Trump or see it as proof the tail owns the dog now and they are just pawns who will be screwed over either way.
For a long time presidental support among Americans used to be based on things like RESPECT. That was a long time ago in what seems like a whole other country!
If Brexit is for the better or not remains to be seen but as a disturbing display of mass stupidity, the fact that its got such stiff competition from the US that it might not win top marks goes to show what crazy times we live in.
200. Go for 200. Plus. More issues. Many more issues. Yes: We could use more STFW comics. We could DEFINITELY use more. STFW FTW. And a drink. bbl......
The British did actually have a vote on whether to continue membership in the common market that eventually turned into the EU. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_European_Communities_membership_referendum,_1975
All this crying about lost sovereignty is a red herring. When the UK negotiates a treaty for access to the common market post-brexit, they will have to agree to follow all the regulations associated with that access. Except now, they will have absolutely no say in those regulations, all because they threw away their membership.
It is also funny to complain about federalism when British government has been a beacon of that for ages. Scotland, Wales, North Ireland, limited in autonomy by a distant government. I wonder whether all the people who voted leave are supportive of Scottish Secession? Because such a move is built on the same logic as the Brexit. Except of course, they regain sovereignty and then more political clout by joining the EU, whereas the Brexit leaves the UK with less political clout in a globalized world.
One can only hope that is the outcome. I personally find it much risker losing the power to influence regulations directly, and yet still having to abide by them to get access to the common market. In the end, the EU might reform to become better, without the British in European parliament however, it might be better for the members, and not so much for the UK.
Did you ever think that, perhaps, most of the world liked the UK being a part of the EU because it kept the nation that had literally the most far-flunk empire in the history of the planet pliant and emasculated? That perhaps everyone else was silently chuckling over the fact that you were, by fete, prevented from fishing your own waters, using your own mineral resources, and producing what that market wanted you to produce? That maybe, just maybe, the slept in schadenfreudian repose over the fact that a nation that was famed the world over for its independence, strength, and sense of national integrity had been laid low by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels a lick of concern about the British people?
You always struck me as too intelligent to not recognize these points, clearly I was mistaken.
The British empire had fallen long before the the Common market, and even longer before the EU. All markets produce what the consumers want. When the consumer base is global, of course production will be dictated by what foreigners want. British sovereignty was nowhere near as curtailed as you strawman it to be.
You conveniently forget the recent history of the UK. The emasculation you speak of (I wouldn't use that term, too emotionally charged to have any place in a logical debate) occurred shortly after WW2 when the empire broke. Since joining the Common Market in 1973, Britain has remained steadfast as the fore-most military power in Europe. It's capital became one of the financial capitals of the world because money going to Europe came in through London. It had a Currency more valuable than any other in the world. It was the defacto leader in European foreign policy. And it had a say in how the entire continent was ran.
You imply that somehow by leaving they have regained their 'manhood' or pride. Tell me, what can the brexit provide that can possibly outweigh the humiliation it will cause? There is a good chance financial firms might leave london for the mainland. France is now the defacto leader in European foreign policy. The value of the Pound has dropped to its lowest value in over 3 decades. Britain loses its say in how all of Europe moves forward. Despite leaving, to access the common market, they still have to adhere to every EU regulation anyway.
Most damning of all though is that it was one thing to lose the colonies, but what happens to 'british pride' when there is no more 'Great Britain'? Because it is almost guaranteed that Scotland will do its damnedest to secede, and Britain by definition includes Scotland. It is the English who have fallen for the demagoguery and appeals to lost pride. When one makes decisions based only on looking backwards and cherry picking nostalgia, they are doomed to make the future worse.
I understand that the UK is a major source of revenue for the EU, not only is that a good reason to step out but it is a good reason for the EU to rethink some issues to entice the UK to come back or to prevent others such as Germany form doing the same thing.
Half the world is being smug and betting on how long before UK rejoins, There is nothing to be gained by leaving and everything to lose.
^ what bdude said. Referencing the history of the British Empire as a good thing we can return to is always going to hurt an argument. Unless you're in Sheffield and it's 1880, in which case carry on.
Plus I'd add that there's a reason we "weren't allowed to" fish our own waters. Namely sustainable marine care. Being prevented from fishing Cod to extinction is a good thing for everyone except the very short-term bank accounts of UK fishermen. If bureaucracy results in sustainable asset management then we should applaud it, not kneecap it.
Anyway, all fun and games. Soon our big selling point of being the financial gateway to Europe in this post-industrial era will be truly buggered and we'll find ourselves trying to survive on exports of sarcasm alone. Not sure we have enough.
Hah yeah, think that's why I started this stupid comic in the first place; utopian escapism.
Hah, well it's over 150 now already! Woopsy. Think it'll be 155 by the end. Maybe 160...
One might even wonder if we really know what the principal reasons motivating the policy chess games are. You know there's a lot of distrac- Hey look, blue buns!
Fit blue buns. Lots of fit buns.
* blinks
...ah, nevermind me, I'll ah, be...
* sneaks off
Living in the capitol of the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire these days is like being in the 1880's except back then, there were amidst the dirt and the squalor, jobs and a certain amount of self respect, but now thanks to thatcherism, globalisation and the EU, there is very little of either. Watching our country go down the swanny whilst paying for the privilege to go cap in hand to the rest of europe, who have much of their freedom due to sacrifices already made by us, is to me, not very comfortable shall we say. I am far from a nationalist, neither am i a racist, being a hippy at heart, I could never be either of those, but it still doesn't mean I believe we should join a club that has no benefits but high tariffs for membership. I have benefited, personally, in no way either from this little capitalist get together, perhaps if i was rich maybe i could see the point.
I thought the thing that gave Yorkshire a hard time was the nation stepping out of heavy industry in the 80s, and into the era of higher tech? Destruction of industry/foundry/steel/mining culture is going to kick somewhere like Sheffield pretty soundly, and wasn't the EU's fault. Surely EU investment actually helped Yorks just like it did Cardiff/Swansea dealing with the same issue? Some quick googling suggests it probably did: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/andrew-vine-what-the-eu-has-done-for-yorkshire-1-7972455
Either way, I can't see that ending the EU relationship is going to get any more post-industrial crutch-giving from London's direction; that's one capitalist venture that hardly wants to plough money into poorer areas.
Perhaps we'll see a total destruction of the Conservative model, get some proper fair investment in the gulags for once?! We can hope, comrade :)
Yeah this thread is getting too heavy anyway, lots of people (including me) pretending they know something about a thing.
Ah, who cares, let's just build spaceships and explore the big deep
That sounds terribly naughty. 'Explore the big deep'.
Heehee - that kinda joke's in the upcoming comic - "... maybe probe a black hole or something? Know what I mean - wink wink"
be nice if we could have some decent replicant tech to play with, a la Bladerunner, but no. All the rain, none of the sex dolls.
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