So It Seems That Brexit Has Become a Category 5 Shitstorm

[Mr.Obvious]

I wish you well, I wish everyone well.  But most people will get coal in their Christmas stocking.  Belgium failed earlier, have you glued it back together yet?  Greece is under a German jack-boot, Denmark is failing, Finland is failing, Catalonia is splitting, France is rioting, Germany is under Muslim rule, Italy is trying to Italexit to China.  Thousands of Chinese already work in Italy as expatriate slave labor:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-21350013 ... over 300,000 Chinese in Italy now.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47679760

Compare the mercantilist (net exporter) Germany vs China.  China wants to be #1.  They understand that is how the British and other empires operated (old style) with gross import of raw materials and net export of finished goods?  Have you figured out the Belgian Congo yet?

Europe wants to be a socialist paradise like Venezuela ... so will you be ruled by Putin or by Xi?  Of course EUSR, Russia and China can be good comrades.  Let the Chinese enjoy the automobile dream, Europeans can live with bicycles and Mao jackets.  Just don't call it endless austerity.

I imagine you standing on the corner of a street wearing a sandwich-board saying 'the end is nigh!', right now :D

Word of advice though, all your other batshit questions and projections aside, Belgium has no need for glue. It's as strong as it ever was, and unbroken.
We are divided, yes. That is our nature. But that is also our strength. Because we don't know how to do much the best, but realizing how fictional and artificial our country actually is, has equiped us to be some of the best compromisers in the world. And what is economics and politics without that? And when you get down to it, what country isn't artificial? We just don't have any illusions on the matter.

[Baruch]

I imagine you standing on the corner of a street wearing a sandwich-board saying 'the end is nigh!', right now :D

Word of advice though, all your other batshit questions and projections aside, Belgium has no need for glue. It's as strong as it ever was, and unbroken.
We are divided, yes. That is our nature. But that is also our strength. Because we don't know how to do much the best, but realizing how fictional and artificial our country actually is, has equiped us to be some of the best compromisers in the world. And what is economics and politics without that? And when you get down to it, what country isn't artificial? We just don't have any illusions on the matter.

You know the facts on the ground.  But being close to the ground, you can't see the big picture from 10,000 meters up ;-)  The greatest threat to the EU, is from the EU ...

Princess Leia Organa: "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."  The Dao that is dictated from Brussels, isn't the true Dao.

Belgium in 1914 was strong, in 1940 not so much.  How will you stand against the limitless armies of Emperor Xi?

[Mr.Obvious]

You know the facts on the ground.  But being close to the ground, you can't see the big picture from 10,000 meters up ;-)  The greatest threat to the EU, is from the EU ...

Princess Leia Organa: "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."  The Dao that is dictated from Brussels, isn't the true Dao.

Belgium in 1914 was strong, in 1940 not so much.  How will you stand against the limitless armies of Emperor Xi?

Probably by compromising.

[Baruch]

Probably by compromising.

Yes, you will make tasty meal.  Round eye on stick ;-)  We should all compromise, just to show we are harmless.

Compromise, Emperor Xi style ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5S2cc8ZNTo

[Green Bottle]

[Munch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKJlQmq1S1M

god works as good advertising slogan

[Baruch]

"Naked environmental protesters flood House of Commons as MPs debate Brexit" ... I think all members of Parliament should debate naked, that way nobody can say they are hiding anything.  Famously, Churchill, on a visit to the WH, was caught naked coming out of the bath, by a "lack of situational awareness" FDR.  Churchill said pretty much the same thing.

[Cavebear]

Nothing like a good flow chart to makes things clear!  I LOVE flow charts...

[Cavebear]

"Choose Something" is right.  The worst thing the Brits can do is decide nothing.  Stay or Go, Negotiate one thing or another, deciding not to decide is the worst possible choice. 

I'll make a deal.  You take Trump, and the US will negotiate you out of the EU... 

[Mr.Obvious]

https://youtu.be/6SmibRvRelg

oh Nick, Nick don't go come on

[Baruch]

"Choose Something" is right.  The worst thing the Brits can do is decide nothing.  Stay or Go, Negotiate one thing or another, deciding not to decide is the worst possible choice. 

I'll make a deal.  You take Trump, and the US will negotiate you out of the EU...

Yes, a decision would be best.  But politicians are in the business of avoiding responsibility ...

Was the Sun clip from Friday?  On Monday the cabinet was working on reducing the list to the top 4, to be voted on Tuesday (today).  On Wednesday, the PM will decide if she will take up the hopefully majority Parliamentary deal, to present to the EU.  This is likely to be, a request for a long extension, which has already been rejected by the EU.  The EU council will meet in special session on April 10.  For now April 12 is the new No-deal Brexit date.

[Mr.Obvious]

https://youtu.be/g1gWV8NaOu0

https://youtu.be/l3NKx_hjUdE

And thus the greatest political comedy of the 21st century continues.

[Baruch]

Churchill will have the last laugh.  When he died the last Englishman died ;-(  As it was, the Parliament of 1940 would have lost GB to Nazi Germany, except for him.  Same tossers now as back then.  I can see a burlesque Hitler-in-Bunker video coming soon, with Hitler losing his cool over how pointless it is to negotiation with the English (which is what he wanted, so he could immediately focus on the Soviet Union).

Not quite there yet ... need another two weeks of helpless flailing about?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJWUmSbt0Ms

[Green Bottle]

[Baruch]

You have seen Outlander too many times, eh?