Thought for the day | Theresa May: ‘I have reached a hard-won agreement not to do Brexit.’

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How are you this morning? Had a nice shower or bath? Good. Sit down.

Brexit. Ending free movement. ‘Taking back control’. Becoming more ‘outward looking’ by creating trade barriers with our neighbours. Chucking out essential workers for ‘taking our jobs’. All seems a bit silly now, right?

Well, it’s a funny story actually. It turns out it was never really possible. You see, to do those things, we’d need a hard border in Ireland and then we would have bombs. It’s a problem no one could possibly have foreseen.

The alternative, a barrier between Northern Ireland and the rest of us, wouldn’t really be Brexit and, well, have you met Arlene Foster?

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So, after days of intense negotiation, I’ve just reached a hard-won agreement with the European Commission which is in the interests of all: not to do it.

No hard border, no end to free movement, no making our own rules. And no totally fucking our economy.

We are still doing something with control: giving it away to the 27 remaining member states. And we’re still calling it Brexit.

I can do that, you see, because Brexit means Brexit.

Thought for the day | Philip Hammond: ‘Please help me to stop speaking.’

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Today, I am launching a crowdfund page to raise the money for an operation to sew my mouth closed.

An extreme measure, yes, but also the only way to protect us all from the volcanic-like eruption of idiocy that occurs when it is opened.

At this very moment, I feel the ignorance rising like magma within me. The pressure is building, forcing some new, bewilderingly misinformed proclamation towards the tectonic plates of my lips, until it explodes into the atmosphere like a toxic cloud of stupid.

Disabled people are lazy.

There. You see? It won’t be long until there is another one.

Help me, please. Just a small donation could help close this portal into an alternative world of boundless insensitivity.

How will I eat? With difficultly. A bit like the unemployed, I suppose.

There aren’t any.

Shit. Please donate today.

Thought for the day | David David, Brexit Secretary: ‘Brexit does not mean Brexit.’

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I do not know what Brexit means.

I know what it doesn’t mean: Brexit.

We cannot jeopardise peace with the hard border in Ireland that Brexit means. So it doesn’t mean that.

It means Northern Ireland keeping EU rules, but not, of course, being any different to the rest of the UK. Emphatically not. Why have you even thought that, it’s so random.

No. The whole of the UK will keep EU rules. That does not mean the UK will have EU rules. Keeping the same rules doesn’t mean having exactly the same rules. It’s both the EU and UK having mutually recognised rules. They recognise ours, we recognise theirs. Because they are exactly the same.

All words only mean what we say they do and sometimes they are the same but also different. Wave, for example, also means wave.

I’ve forgotten where I was going with this. It’s time for the EU to go away, think again and come back and tell me. Otherwise I’m walking away.

Thought for the day | David Davis, Brexit Secretary: ‘The bear never chases an animal it can see running away.’

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By now, you will all be aware of my hoarding of secrets about Brexit’s impact on the economy, lest Brussels should know that we are weak and use it against us at the negotiating table.

Now, you may argue that this very public display of fear itself weakens our position. That Juncker will think, ‘My God. He’s so afraid of handing those reports to the Brexit select committee that he’d rather face contempt of parliament. They must say that Britain is fucked. They will do anything we want.’

But you would be wrong, and I will tell you why. Consider stumbling upon a bear in a forest. It’s hungry but may not have knowledge of humans and how easy we are to kill. So, do you stand where you are, showing it yourself, as if you have nothing to fear? Will that make the animal cautious? Will its survival instincts tell it that your confidence could be a sign you are able to defend yourself?

No. It will think, ‘That animal cannot run. I am going to eat it.’

Now consider you instead run in abject terror, as fast your two legs will carry you. Will it think, ‘That animal is shitting itself and not even going very fast. I am going to catch it and eat it and it will be easy’?

No. It will think, ‘That animal is running. It must be very confident in its running ability. There is no way I am going to catch that. Looks like it’s going to be hare for tea again.’

So run. Hide behind a tree, even though it can see that is what you are doing. If it comes for you, move around the tree. Round and round.

That is my strategy.

Am I thinking of a crocodile? I may be thinking of a crocodile. The crocodile will eat you whatever you do, so may as well leg it. I seem to remember something about running in a zigzag. That’s okay. I’m doing that too.

Twitter goes strangely quiet for Brexit voter after suspension of Russian trolls

A Leave voter is wondering what has happened to Twitter after accounts run by Russian trolls were suspended.

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Ray Doyle, from Basildon, previously knew the site as a constantly refreshed source of opinion and ideas but last logged on to experience the social media equivalent of being left alone on Earth with Nigel Farage.

Mr Doyle said: “Suddenly I don’t follow anyone, have no followers and the only tweets are my own, which no one appears to have seen.

“If that man in the film 28 Days later had woken up in hospital and checked Twitter instead of going for a walk, it would basically be this.

“Except for Farage. He’s still there, shouting. Imagine that. Alone in the world with a shouting Nigel Farage. That’s a user experience that Twitter might want to look at.

“Then again, they’ve probably been hacked by the same brainwashed zombie remainers that deleted all the accounts I follow. @Leavenowgetoverit told me that happens a lot. Before he disappeared.”

Man who distrusts all mainstream media has absolutely no idea what’s going on

A man who uses the term ‘mainstream media’ as a criticism has no fucking clue what is happening, it has emerged.

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Ray Doyle thinks all major news outlets spread ‘fake news’ and as a result only reads fake news.

After relying on Facebook to keep him informed, he thinks Barack Obama has been caught fighting for Isis using weapons he sold to himself and does not know Donald Trump is insane.

Mr Doyle said: “Why isn’t the mainstream media asking why Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond are both named after fish? Isn’t that suspicious?

“Yet the BBC has not mentioned it once. If it weren’t for all the stories about illuminati space fish in my news feed, I might not even know about it.

“The beauty is, because it’s filtered by Facebook it’s all stuff I want to hear and therefore true.”

Being a c**t is supposed to be frustrating, Trump’s press secretary reminded

Being press secretary for the Trump administration is frustrating because the Trump administration is a pile of shit, Sean Spicer has been reminded.

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Sean Spicer finds being a cunt “frustrating”.

After telling journalists at a press conference that their use of facts was “frustrating”, Trump’s press secretary faces calls to stop talking shit then.

Spicer complained that undermining the Trump “movement” with facts was “frustrating not just for him but for so many of us that are working to get this message out,” leading journalists to respond: “Yes.”

However, Ray Doyle, who watched the press conference on TV, said: “I completely understand Mr Spicer’s position. When I was charged with murder, I disagreed with the facts and presented alternative ones.

“I now find it hugely frustrating to be serving a life prison term.”

Movie lines in Trump’s speech were ‘Putin’s little joke’

Word-for-word excerpts of movie scripts were included in Donald Trump’s inauguration speech as a practical joke by Vladimir Putin, a Kremlin source has confirmed.

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Putin is said to have been unable to resist “having a little fun” after being assured Trump would say “absolutely anything” he was told.

Ideas considered included having the incoming US president begin his speech with: “My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the armies of the north, general of the Felix Legions.”

Putin is also said to have suggested Trump simply shout “Adrian! Adrian!” over and over again like a punch-drunk Rocky, before the Russian president was forced adjourn a meeting until all present had regained composure.

Our source said: “Amusing as it would have been to make it famous but arbitrarily chosen lines like ‘We’re gonna need a bigger boat,’ it was agreed the words should have some relevance to Trump’s character.

“So Mr Putin settled on the words of Bane from The Dark Knight Rises as well as lines from Bee Movie and Avatar, representing mania, juvenility and pointlessness respectively.

“We just assumed people would get it.”

Trump strenuously denied Putin is dictating his every word using famous film lines.

He said: “Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities, forget about your worries and your strife.

“I mean the bare necessities, that’s why a bear can rest at ease, with just the bare necessities of life.”

Vladimir Putin becomes 45th US president

January 20, 2017

Vladimir Putin became the 45th president of the United States as his representative Donald Trump took the oath today.

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Mr Putin, who also leads Russia, has promised to “make America great again”, with a self-assured smirk, as if addressing a child.

He has pledged to “unify” the US and Russia and make both countries work for “me, Vladimir Putin”.

Donald Trump said: “What he said.

“Exactly what he said.”

‘Please stop talking shit, this is important,’ PM urged

January 20, 2017

Theresa May should make up her mind what the actual fuck she wants out of Brexit and indeed politics because her job is actually quite important, she has been told.

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Mrs May’s political vision

People of all political persuasions are concerned that not one single thing she says is compatible with anything else she says, like an impossible jigsaw of little pieces of shit that only makes a big piece of shit.

Concerned citizen Ray Doyle said: “On Tuesday she said we’d leave the single market but then on Thursday she said we’d get ‘maximum access to the single market’ to stop all the banks leaving.

“She said the Brexit vote is all about people feeling left behind by globalisation but she’s going to use it to turn Britain into a global hub for foreign investment.

“She wants to govern for everyone, not just the privileged few, but might fuck over the EU by turning the UK into a tax haven for the privileged few.

“She says chucking out foreign workers makes Britain more internationalist.

“She says ‘leaving’ does not mean becoming ‘more distant’.

“Well, I’m sorry but it does. It actually does.”

Fellow citizen Will Bodie said: “I think Mrs May should continue as prime minister.

“By which I mean she should resign immediately.”