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		In the UK who will go out first: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, or the lights? (theguardian.com)		69
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brokenbiscuits

2022-11-02 7:52:49 AM

There is a small part of me that wants to unblock Brexit Bob in case he tries to defend the absolute shiat show the UK's Tory government is putting on and tell us all why this is EXACTLY what should be happening and why it means the UK is coming out on top.

Carter Pewterschmidt

2022-11-02 8:29:36 AM

brokenbiscuits: There is a small part of me that wants to unblock Brexit Bob in case he tries to defend the absolute shiat show the UK's Tory government is putting on and tell us all why this is EXACTLY what should be happening and why it means the UK is coming out on top.

The government planning and preparing for possible eventualities? Yes, that is exactly what governments should do.

It's what governments across Europe are doing....

EU Prepares for Possible Power Cuts and Other Emergencies as Energy Crisis Intensifies -RND (usnews.com)

France Faces Power Cuts in Case of a Cold Snap, Grid Says - BNN Bloomberg

France faces power cuts of several hours a day in worst-case scenario: Operator (aa.com.tr)

Power cuts this winter: France is setting up an interactive map to see your regional consumption - France News (francetv.space)

Short showers and limited heating: Germany prepares for possible power cuts this winter (msn.com)

Germany: 'Prepare for power cuts and possibly a blackout' - Thousands protest against energy crisis in Cologne - RSSNews.com

Are you suggesting the government shouldn't make contingency plans?

Or do you think this is only happening in the UK and is down to Brexit? You do know that for months the two pipelines carrying natural gas to the EU from the UK have been operating at full capacity? And we've been supplying electricity to France because over half their nuclear reactors are offline?

Gubbo

2022-11-02 8:31:36 AM

Spoiler. Because the mute function is only one way, he did exactly that in response to your post.

Carter Pewterschmidt

2022-11-02 8:35:37 AM

Gubbo: brokenbiscuits: There is a small part of me that wants to unblock Brexit Bob in case he tries to defend the absolute shiat show the UK's Tory government is putting on and tell us all why this is EXACTLY what should be happening and why it means the UK is coming out on top.

Spoiler. Because the mute function is only one way, he did exactly that in response to your post.

Well someone has to post facts.

It's usually me.

/Unless you can point out anything I said that is incorrect of course.

brokenbiscuits

2022-11-02 9:01:06 AM

Thanks for the heads up! Apropos of nothing, I'm just gonna leave this here...

Carter Pewterschmidt

2022-11-02 9:37:53 AM

brokenbiscuits: Gubbo: brokenbiscuits: There is a small part of me that wants to unblock Brexit Bob in case he tries to defend the absolute shiat show the UK's Tory government is putting on and tell us all why this is EXACTLY what should be happening and why it means the UK is coming out on top.

Spoiler. Because the mute function is only one way, he did exactly that in response to your post.

Thanks for the heads up! Apropos of nothing, I'm just gonna leave this here...

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Can't argue the facts so post memes.

Says it all.

At least I have the balls to reply to comments and argue my case. I'm not scared I might read something that upsets me.

Gubbo

2022-11-02 10:14:55 AM

Carter Pewterschmidt: brokenbiscuits: Gubbo: brokenbiscuits: There is a small part of me that wants to unblock Brexit Bob in case he tries to defend the absolute shiat show the UK's Tory government is putting on and tell us all why this is EXACTLY what should be happening and why it means the UK is coming out on top.

Spoiler. Because the mute function is only one way, he did exactly that in response to your post.

Thanks for the heads up! Apropos of nothing, I'm just gonna leave this here...

[Fark user image image 500x822]

Can't argue the facts so post memes.

Says it all.

At least I have the balls to reply to comments and argue my case. I'm not scared I might read something that upsets me.

No but you're muted by that account so you're just pissing into the wind.

2022-11-02 11:40:06 AM

Carter Pewterschmidt: brokenbiscuits: There is a small part of me that wants to unblock Brexit Bob in case he tries to defend the absolute shiat show the UK's Tory government is putting on and tell us all why this is EXACTLY what should be happening and why it means the UK is coming out on top.

The government planning and preparing for possible eventualities? Yes, that is exactly what governments should do.

It's what governments across Europe are doing....

EU Prepares for Possible Power Cuts and Other Emergencies as Energy Crisis Intensifies -RND (usnews.com)

France Faces Power Cuts in Case of a Cold Snap, Grid Says - BNN Bloomberg

France faces power cuts of several hours a day in worst-case scenario: Operator (aa.com.tr)

Power cuts this winter: France is setting up an interactive map to see your regional consumption - France News (francetv.space)

Short showers and limited heating: Germany prepares for possible power cuts this winter (msn.com)

Germany: 'Prepare for power cuts and possibly a blackout' - Thousands protest against energy crisis in Cologne - RSSNews.com

Are you suggesting the government shouldn't make contingency plans?

Or do you think this is only happening in the UK and is down to Brexit? You do know that for months the two pipelines carrying natural gas to the EU from the UK have been operating at full capacity? And we've been supplying electricity to France because over half their nuclear reactors are offline?

Wow, way to miss the point and reinforce it at the same time! Bravo!

Weaver95

2022-11-02 11:41:08 AM

Maybe the UK can burn the rich people to stay warm over the winter season?

inglixthemad

2022-11-02 11:41:12 AM

phalamir

2022-11-02 11:41:31 AM

And yet every square inch of blasted hellscape heath had to be designated "absolutely vital prime agricultural land" to prevent anyone putting up renewable energy infrastructure. The Orkneys and Hebrides are going to have to stock up on ammo to keep the benighted mainlanders out of their wind-powered oases. "Don't fire until you see the yellow of their teeth!"

HotWingConspiracy

2022-11-02 11:41:40 AM

Ed Miliband, the shadow climate secretary, said: "All governments do contingency planning for worst-case scenarios but the truth is that we are vulnerable as a country as a direct consequence of a decade of failed Conservative energy policy.

"Banning onshore wind, slashing investment in energy efficiency, stalling nuclear and closing gas storage have led to higher bills and reliance on gas imports, leaving us more exposed to the impact of Putin's use of energy as a geopolitical weapon."

Seems weird that the nativists support policy that makes them entirely reliant on imports, but I guess all the right people got paid.

MessyDwarf

2022-11-02 11:42:21 AM

stevenboof

2022-11-02 11:45:39 AM

You just had to do it, didn't you? You just had to summon Brexit Bevets.

Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste

2022-11-02 11:47:45 AM

Kiev just got resource infrastructure bombed and they're in far better shape than crumbling Little England.

Nicki Minaj's Cousin's Friend's Swollen Testicle

2022-11-02 11:48:51 AM

Why have we made this clod into a fark celebrity?

stevenboof

2022-11-02 11:50:03 AM

Nicki Minaj's Cousin's Friend's Swollen Testicle: Why have we made this clod into a fark celebrity?

We bore easily?

Nicki Minaj's Cousin's Friend's Swollen Testicle

2022-11-02 11:50:33 AM

stevenboof: Nicki Minaj's Cousin's Friend's Swollen Testicle: Why have we made this clod into a fark celebrity?

We bore easily?

TL,DR

Hillbilly Jim

2022-11-02 11:50:50 AM

stevenboof: brokenbiscuits: There is a small part of me that wants to unblock Brexit Bob in case he tries to defend the absolute shiat show the UK's Tory government is putting on and tell us all why this is EXACTLY what should be happening and why it means the UK is coming out on top.

You just had to do it, didn't you? You just had to summon Brexit Bevets.

Brexit Bevets... Laughter Out Loud

buravirgil

2022-11-02 11:58:49 AM

John Oliver Talks about Rishi Sunak Becoming Prime Minister on Last Week Tonight HD

PunGent

2022-11-02 12:01:34 PM

Carter Pewterschmidt: /Unless you can point out anything I said that is incorrect of course.

Pretty sure you said Brexit was a good idea :)

BitwiseShift

2022-11-02 12:01:41 PM

With all these power cuts and blackouts, Abbott really needs to leave the Texas governor's race and devote his calendar to touring Europe.

Myk-House of El

2022-11-02 12:03:23 PM

My guess?

Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights)

zero7717

2022-11-02 12:03:27 PM

The tories should campaign on trans rights, rejoining the EU, replacing the pound with euros, and abolishing the monarchy

harleyquinnical

2022-11-02 12:07:36 PM

zero7717: The tories should campaign on trans rights, rejoining the EU, replacing the pound with euros, and abolishing the monarchy

And then they will keep none of those promises

MaliFinn

2022-11-02 12:08:49 PM

Pardon me if I don't pay attention to every rock and branch the UK hits on the way down the cliff it decided to jump off

Hey Nurse!

2022-11-02 12:09:00 PM

He put a line in the water on a shiny new hook with a big fat worm and you just had to take a bite.
There's another Farker that loves his bicycle. I do the same thing to him and he must react every time. Sometimes, you guys really do make it too easy.

I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account

2022-11-02 12:10:14 PM

It doesn't matter.

The Conservatives will be running the country until January 2025. Unless you can make some 70 Conservative MPs leave office *AND* have non-Conservative supporting politicians win the bye elections, this is not going to change. Without a majority, you can't force an election. The Opposition does not have anything close to a majority.

So, there won't be an early election unless the polls swing heavily to the Tory side - in which case, there will be one right then and there to lock in another five years.

So, you know....suck it. The UK voted for this, and when it was clear what a farkup it was, they then voted explicitly for a government committed to making it happen anyway and handed that government an unassailable majority.

So yeah.

Sorry. But the people most responsible for this are the UK voters.

Gaythiest Elitist

2022-11-02 12:13:14 PM

Nicki Minaj's Cousin's Friend's Swollen Testicle: Why have we made this clod into a fark celebrity?

For the absurdity. It's performance art.

foo monkey

2022-11-02 12:15:01 PM

But electing a billionaire to run the government has proven to be so successful!

olrasputin

2022-11-02 12:17:51 PM

inglixthemad: brokenbiscuits: There is a small part of me that wants to unblock Brexit Bob in case he tries to defend the absolute shiat show the UK's Tory government is putting on and tell us all why this is EXACTLY what should be happening and why it means the UK is coming out on top.

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Seems pretty OP for just 2 land...

Hillbilly Jim

2022-11-02 12:23:03 PM

I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account: It doesn't matter.

The Conservatives will be running the country until January 2025. Unless you can make some 70 Conservative MPs leave office *AND* have non-Conservative supporting politicians win the bye elections, this is not going to change. Without a majority, you can't force an election. The Opposition does not have anything close to a majority.

So, there won't be an early election unless the polls swing heavily to the Tory side - in which case, there will be one right then and there to lock in another five years.

So, you know....suck it. The UK voted for this, and when it was clear what a farkup it was, they then voted explicitly for a government committed to making it happen anyway and handed that government an unassailable majority.

So yeah.

Sorry. But the people most responsible for this are the UK voters.

In replacement of rescind article 50 you twats I suggest an update and a Hold a general election you twats.

LucklessWonder

2022-11-02 12:30:06 PM

Hillbilly Jim: In replacement of rescind article 50 you twats I suggest an update and a Hold a general election you twats.

Not sure it'd even help...

Shaggy_C

2022-11-02 12:31:45 PM

Running a test against a worst-case scenario is now considered a bad thing? FFS, this is what rational, normal governments are supposed to do.

I swear, Farkers will attack any move by a government that isn't deemed sufficiently Left/Globalist enough. Anti-UK sentiment here has just become a lazy stand-in for Trumpism despite the two having little in common.

phalamir

2022-11-02 12:38:20 PM

Hillbilly Jim: I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account: It doesn't matter.

The Conservatives will be running the country until January 2025. Unless you can make some 70 Conservative MPs leave office *AND* have non-Conservative supporting politicians win the bye elections, this is not going to change. Without a majority, you can't force an election. The Opposition does not have anything close to a majority.

So, there won't be an early election unless the polls swing heavily to the Tory side - in which case, there will be one right then and there to lock in another five years.

So, you know....suck it. The UK voted for this, and when it was clear what a farkup it was, they then voted explicitly for a government committed to making it happen anyway and handed that government an unassailable majority.

So yeah.

Sorry. But the people most responsible for this are the UK voters.

In replacement of rescind article 50 you twats I suggest an update and a Hold a general election you twats.

Wouldn't do anything. The UK has already left the EU. There is no Article 50 to rescind. Article 50 is the process to leave - once you've left, it means nothing anymore. Even if a general election was called for today, was held in the usual 6 weeks, and Labour swept 600 seats, all they could do is petition to be allowed into the EU like any other nation. And then have to go through the entire process. Without the sweetheart deals they got the first time. And that's assuming the EU even considers the application. Right now, the UK is serving the purpose of an object lesson to Catalonia - letting the UK off the hook defeats that purpose. As long as the UK stays somewhere ahead of Burundi, the EU is probably content to point at it and say to Barcelona "And they managed to rule a quarter of the globe; you barely run your own backyard".

Ringshadow

2022-11-02 12:40:21 PM

Meanwhile they're trying to exclude trans people from having legal human rights. Priorities!

buravirgil

2022-11-02 12:40:45 PM

Shaggy_C: Anti-UK sentiment here has just become a lazy stand-in for Trumpism

You prefer stand-ins to be diligent?

iron de havilland

2022-11-02 12:46:29 PM

Hold a general election, you twats.
Hud a gaineral election, ya fannies.
Cùm taghadh coitcheann, twat.
Cynhaliwch etholiad cyffredinol, rydych chi'n twats.
Reáchtáil olltoghchán, a throideann.

/Any suggestions for other dialects, better translations of "twats" into Gaelic and Welsh welcome.

LucklessWonder

2022-11-02 12:51:42 PM

iron de havilland: Hillbilly Jim: I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account: It doesn't matter.

The Conservatives will be running the country until January 2025. Unless you can make some 70 Conservative MPs leave office *AND* have non-Conservative supporting politicians win the bye elections, this is not going to change. Without a majority, you can't force an election. The Opposition does not have anything close to a majority.

So, there won't be an early election unless the polls swing heavily to the Tory side - in which case, there will be one right then and there to lock in another five years.

So, you know....suck it. The UK voted for this, and when it was clear what a farkup it was, they then voted explicitly for a government committed to making it happen anyway and handed that government an unassailable majority.

So yeah.

Sorry. But the people most responsible for this are the UK voters.

In replacement of rescind article 50 you twats I suggest an update and a Hold a general election you twats.

Hold a general election, you twats.
Hud a gaineral election, ya fannies.
Cùm taghadh coitcheann, twat.
Cynhaliwch etholiad cyffredinol, rydych chi'n twats.
Reáchtáil olltoghchán, a throideann.

/Any suggestions for other dialects, better translations of "twats" into Gaelic and Welsh welcome.

Cornish? Manx?

iron de havilland

2022-11-02 12:55:36 PM

Ringshadow: Meanwhile they're trying to exclude trans people from having legal human rights. Priorities!

There was trans rights legislation passed in the Scottish Parliament in the past few days, which is good.

Unfortunately, there's clearly a significant TERF contingency here, because there has been a backlash including an SNP minister resigning her position and getting support from Rowling, who's calling the legislation "misogynistic".

/What a shiatbag.

thanksagainandagain

2022-11-02 12:58:29 PM

God you're a disingenuous twit.

Herbie555

2022-11-02 1:02:18 PM

Back to the question posed by the headline:

Sunak had been at No. 10 for less than a week before major papers like the Guardian were already running articles about "mounting errors" and "he faces an impossible situation".

From over here, it sounds like there are a number of colliding and mutually exclusive expectations being made by different factions of Tories, not to mention what it will take to soothe the national mood.

coldcuts

2022-11-02 1:02:46 PM

Have we already stopped using Lettuce as a measure of governmental viability?

anuran

2022-11-02 1:05:39 PM

PunGent: Carter Pewterschmidt: /Unless you can point out anything I said that is incorrect of course.

Pretty sure you said Brexit was a good idea :)

Even the British tabloids have stopped saying that, and the Tories are now saying it will be forty years before Little Britain starts to see any benefits from shooting itself in the dick

anuran

2022-11-02 1:07:42 PM

Sasanaigh

Flappyhead

2022-11-02 1:13:01 PM

HotWingConspiracy: Ed Miliband, the shadow climate secretary, said: "All governments do contingency planning for worst-case scenarios but the truth is that we are vulnerable as a country as a direct consequence of a decade of failed Conservative energy policy.

"Banning onshore wind, slashing investment in energy efficiency, stalling nuclear and closing gas storage have led to higher bills and reliance on gas imports, leaving us more exposed to the impact of Putin's use of energy as a geopolitical weapon."

Seems weird that the nativists support policy that makes them entirely reliant on imports, but I guess all the right people got paid.

You can always count on the Tories to intentionally hurt the people who vote for them. If the average person only knew just how much that party despises them.

Kalyco Jack

2022-11-02 1:16:12 PM

Have they stopped using lettuce because it's all the food they've got left?

djfitz

2022-11-02 1:24:57 PM

All I've seen the Tories propose is tax cuts for the wealthy, cutting public services while making them more expensive, reducing regulations on large corporations and polluters, and making climate change worse. Oh, and demonizing trans people.

Did I miss anything? Cuz so far this looks like the biggest cluster-fark of a government that isn't even trying to seriously govern.

Weaver95

2022-11-02 1:29:07 PM

djfitz: All I've seen the Tories propose is tax cuts for the wealthy, cutting public services while making them more expensive, reducing regulations on large corporations and polluters, and making climate change worse. Oh, and demonizing trans people.

Did I miss anything? Cuz so far this looks like the biggest cluster-fark of a government that isn't even trying to seriously govern.

I wonder what happens when food and medicine shortages start killing people in the UK?

groverpm

2022-11-02 1:31:10 PM

Carter Pewterschmidt: You do know that for months the two pipelines carrying natural gas to the EU from the UK have been operating at full capacity? And we've been supplying electricity to France because over half their nuclear reactors are offline?

That's because the UK doesn't have enough storage capacity. It would have to refuse shipments if it didn't pipe it to Europe. The EU is now at 95% capacity at the moment and has enough for winter and can't take any more gas for storage. There are ships queueing to unload their LNG cargos.

Gas storage capacity by country in the EU (2019)

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