There was also the delightful spectacle of Amber ‘I don’t need to understand encryption to stop people using it’ Rudd forcing the rest of the Cabinet to give May a standing ovation every time the PM coughed. It got utterly hypnotic. Every time she cleared her throat they were leaping to their feet applauding like a…

And not just any slogan. Once again, satire is eclipsed.

Modern Britain, ladies and gentlemen. Sometimes the irony just coalesces out of the ether all on its own.

The “fuck it I have a spare moment for a mini UK Update” update:

NPR played Theresa May’s voiceless address to the Conservative conference. They said that while she was cracking her way through her laryngitis (or whatever it was) the letters on the set behind her were falling off. It was described as something a comedy show would have done to satirize her, only it really happened.

Folks - stay tuned for Mortal’s UK update - I promise you, this is going to be epic.

he doesn’t want a partner - he wants an accessory, a bauble, a thing he can look at other people and say, look at this thing that i have and you don’t. 

Dutch guy here. There’s no such thing as a burqa ban here. The Burqa ban has been proposed by our mini-trump idiot (who got way to many votes last election) but no burqa ban.

Who pretends progress is happening?

Also, for everyone in Austria (a place where it can be cold as fuck) to get frost nip during the winter, because now they can’t cover their skin to protect it from the weather. Freedom!

Exactly, this entire movement has been a smoke screen for the corrupt officials in the region. I get it, they don’t want to financially support the South of the country, usually for wink wink nudge nudge reasons, but this strain of populism is being used as nothing more than a distraction.

Don’t be. These seperatists are a bunch of sanctimonious assholes. The whole movement really only got rolling at around 2010-2012, before that they were fine with being an autonomous region. They only started to really care when the financial crisis hit and they being the most prosperous part of Spain feeling like…

A non violent action declared illegal by the highest court in the country, with the aim to seperate an entire region from the country. Wars have been fought over for less. The whole Scotland independence vote in 2014 was pretty unique in the way how lax the response from London was. Its usually a cause for civil war.

England seems to think otherwise. So does the North Sea oil... or not, depending on whose propaganda you choose to pay attention to on any given day. Either way, no one is behaving as if the stakesare low, nor did they in 2014.

The only way to protect western democracy is to destroy everything it stands for. /s

If it’s an unconstitutional vote, then Spain does not have to recognize it. I don’t even understand why Spain is trying to stop this. If the vote was illegal, then the best way to deal with it is just not acknowledge it.

I’m not getting too worried. It’s not an everyday thing, yet. Just look at the birds flying and kids playing outside. You’ll realize there are a few things that’ll make you smile. 😊

The fact Corbyn is trying to take the high-ground here is laughable.

This is bananas shit to throw at a nonviolent public action, however you feel about independence movements. I’m in Scotland and I’m really worried that Westminster may be taking notes. 2014 was peaceful but contentious and it’s hard not to envision that the post-Brexit, Trumpian decline in civility isn’t going to…

We don’t need another unhinged narcissitic mentally unfit person in office. I’d be happier with Kim as president and I very much dislike that family.