Brexit vote, the zombie apocalypse and other fallout.

[Disembodied]

"The Horse is dead … long live the Horse!"

It totally works.

Plus, it would mean giving a horse a really nice life, surrounded by grass and trees, instead of making a whole host of actual human beings grow up in a warped circus-in-a-goldfish-bowl, surrounded by creeps, flunkies and paparazzi.

[Smivs]

Stop horsing around! Although there is a certain horse-sense to what you suggest. Horses for courses really, isn't it?
@ Disembodied - Hippocracy. Very clever and very funny

[Diziet Sma]

Kirsty Wark on Newsnight, acceding to the call by Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell for the BBC to play "God Save the Queen" at the end of the evening's programming, to "celebrate Brexit":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwsQ_5Wm4oo

Sort of, anyway. Be careful what you wish for …

Heh.. it wasn't hard to see that coming!

Our so-called national anthem is a bloody dirge, and should've been replaced decades ago - as should the royal family!

Amen to that!

[Diziet Sma]

If it's got anything to do with me,* we'll have a figurehead that doesn't imply that some people are born superior to the rest of us. A figurehead that we can unite around, but that doesn't cost a fortune to keep. To maintain some connection with our history, I propose we choose a horse.

Horses are noble animals, and - as Red Rum and Desert Orchid have ably demonstrated - are easily capable of opening things like sports centres, skateboard parks, fetes, parliament, etc. They have excellent profiles, which would look superb on coins and stamps. Our National Horse could be kept in a nice big field, and trotted out on state occasions. And every 25 years or so, the Horse would die - giving us all an extra day off work to mourn the old Horse, and celebrate the arrival of the new one.

Best of all, we would finally be able to say, with pride, that we live in a modern, democratic, constitutional Hippocracy.

* This, I grant you, is unlikely.

And this is why we need a 'like' button, mods and admins. [/subtle hint]

As an unexpected benefit, should the Horse, whilst opening parliament, happen to take a dump on the floor, it would serve as a symbolic reminder to all, of what parliament does best.

[Cody]

And this is why we need a 'like' button, mods and admins.

We had a farcebook 'like' button once - it wasn't too popular.

[Disembodied]

As an unexpected benefit, should the Horse, whilst opening parliament, happen to take a dump on the floor, it would serve as a symbolic reminder to all, of what parliament does best.

The downside, of course, is that the Horse would only ever vote "neigh".

[Cody]

Big day in the EU (Estados Unidos) - what a choice!

[maik]

Big day in the EU (Estados Unidos) - what a choice!

Strangely, that should rather be EE.UU.

[Smivs]

A plan has been proposed that would allow Brits to voluntarily retain EU citizenship after Brexit.
And guess what - the Brexiters don't like it.

[Cody]

Strangely, that should rather be EE.UU.

<nods> Yep!

[Disembodied]

Boris Johnson has announced that Britain will support Turkey's bid to join the EU despite putting warnings about the prospect at the heart of the Brexit campaign in the run up to the referendum.

During the EU referendum Mr Johnson warned that the accession of Turkey would give millions of migrants the right to live and work in the UK. The claim was one of the most controversial of the referendum campaign and led to accusations by senior Remain campaigners that Mr Johnson had lied.

Also:

During his first official visit to Turkey, Mr Johnson said that Britain will "help Turkey in any way" now that it is leaving the EU. He also declined to apologise for previously writing a limerick about the "love that flowers" between the Turkish President and a goat.

That's our Foreign Secretary, that is.

[Cody]

What's happening in Turkey is worrying, to say the least. As for Boris... oh dear!

[Disembodied]

As for Boris... oh dear!

He really does put the "dip" into "diplomacy"!

[Smivs]

The Government's Brexit plans have been a bit vague up till now, but now at last some clarity.
'Brexit means Brexit' means a Red, White and Blue Brexit.
Something we can understand!

[Disembodied]

The Government's Brexit plans have been a bit vague up till now, but now at last some clarity.
'Brexit means Brexit' means a Red, White and Blue Brexit.
Something we can understand!

Huzzah! All is clear. Let's sort things out based on bits of coloured cloth tied to sticks. So presumably we can have trade deals (and open borders) with Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovakia and Slovenia …

Although it does raise the question as to whether we can include e.g. Finland and Greece (white and blue), or Austria, Denmark, Latvia, Malta and Poland (red and white). Are all three colours mandatory? Should Romania be given partial credit for getting close with red, yellow and blue?

Mind you, these are just details - at least now we have a plan!