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Sen. Walter Sobchak

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10. I don't think anyone really believed it would happen

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Fri Dec 1, 2017, 08:42 PM

Dec 2017

A British banker told me before the Brexit vote that the whole referendum was just David Cameron giving the fringe elements of the Conservative Party a "lazy handjob" and not to worry my pretty little American head about it, it would be impossible to unravel Britain from the EU.

When I last spoke to her in May she said something along the lines of the average Brexit voter isn't going to wake up until they realize what a British born prostitute looks like and fuck them all if she had to move to Germany because of this.

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Brexit : If UKs offer on the Border is unacceptable to Ireland it will be unacceptable to the EU [View all] OnDoutside Dec 2017 OP

Poor Britain... If only someone tried to warn them what a nightmare this would be Blue_Tires Dec 2017 #1

AND 350m a week extra to spend on the NHS ! That didn't make it past 24 hours of their win. OnDoutside Dec 2017 #2

Brits got sold a bill of goods gratuitous Dec 2017 #3

Time and again conservatives prove they can't think ahead more than week or so ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #4

There's a certain amount of mirth at their predicament, but the real fear is the effect a Hard OnDoutside Dec 2017 #5

I doubt a hard border would turn into the next Falls Rd ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #11

Tell that to the Republicans in bandit country. They didn't want a OnDoutside Dec 2017 #12

Ok, what you are alluding to is another ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #14

Sounds like Ireland can hold this up for as long as they want. BannonsLiver Dec 2017 #9

Undoubtedly a subject of mirth in Ireland gratuitous Dec 2017 #17

I don't think anyone really believed it would happen Sen. Walter Sobchak Dec 2017 #10

My cousin is a top lawyer in London, and 4 of his top 6 clients OnDoutside Dec 2017 #13

The message from the top where I work is our future is in France Sen. Walter Sobchak Dec 2017 #16

I love le Sud Ouest too...was in Castres in Oct, Biarritz next April. OnDoutside Dec 2017 #18

Sounds like Ireland is saying, not so fast eh nm AmericanActivist Dec 2017 #6

There's too much at stake for us in Ireland to take the British Government at their word. OnDoutside Dec 2017 #7

Agreed and historically theres reason to be AmericanActivist Dec 2017 #15

Damn, if thats not an example of revenge being a dish best served cold I dont know what is. BannonsLiver Dec 2017 #8