Today's headlines in the Daily Express!

Mark Dennehy

@cstross Minimum distance* from the UK to Ireland is 1.3km (about .85 miles) between Magilligan point and Greencastle, so are they proposing to annex Donegal as part of Brexit now?
Because Donegal is in the EU and the EU is less of a fan than you'd think of people annexing its territory.

*Minimum distance by sea, obviously. Minimum distance by land is zero.

🔏 Matthias Wiesmann

@cstross Yay! Let's breach Article 38 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and jam the channel, what could possibly go wrong?

Kat S

@cstross Send 'em all to Sealand. They're welcome to be self-sufficient there.

Philippa Cowderoy

@cstross @aadeacon Hand of Glory in the Wind

Charlie Stross

@isaackuo NB: "withdraw from the ECHR" is a dog-whistle for "we want to reintroduce hanging and torture dissidents".

Charlie Stross

@FediThing yes. Be afraid.

Seiðr

@cstross This fucking LARP of 'Children of men' (movie) is going too fucking far.

Gerard Cunningham ✒️

@cstross
Unlimited rice pudding!

Gracchus Babeuf Bourguignon

@markdennehy @cstross you think these people give a suffering fig for Nordie Land?

It didn't enter their calculations and machinations in 2016, it "robbed" them of their Glorious Sunlit Uplands in 2020, it is an irritation to them, nothing more.

Uilebheist

@cstross The Daily Distress.

Ray McCarthy

@FediThing @cstross
ECHR isn't an EU thing.
UK founded it.

Charlie Stross

@raymaccarthy @FediThing Yes, although adopting it is mandatory for EU membership: the Brexiters are somehow convinced that they want rid of it (despite it initially being called for by their object of veneration Winston Churchill.)

Angus McIntyre

@cstross Ah yes, it's “The reason why Brexit didn't work is because it wasn't REAL Brexit." It's the right-wing version of the continually-moving-the-goalposts logic that has a certain class of tankie telling you that the reason the Soviet Union wasn't paradise on Earth is because it wasn't REAL Communism (that part at least is true, but …)

I assume the Real Brexiteers won't be happy until the British Empire is restored. Or not even then, because of course it won't be the REAL British Empire …

Uilebheist

@cstross Also, stop all supplies coming into the UK 12 miles from port. Or unload into a British vessel in the middle of the sea!!!!111!!!!

matlag

@cstross I don't think that will cut it. I think true Brexit will be achieved when the UK bans all exchanges of any kind with the EU: trade, people, communication, including sectioning Internet cables.

Angus McIntyre

@bruce Coming soon to a @cstross novel near you: “Undead cyborg Admiral Nelson commanding Her Majesty's warships Caledonia and Hibernia at the re-taking of Hong Kong and Kowloon: Chinese robot defenders sorely discomfited by brisk volley of grapeshot fired by stout-hearted tars of the Royal Navy.”

Daniel

@rogerb @angusm @cstross That’s not too far from current reality anyways, is it?

Cass M 🇨🇦 :failtusk: :CApride:

@rogerb @angusm @cstross same as the Alberta separatists…they think they'll get statehood because oil but would become a territory with subjected to poor wages and unleashed pollution.

Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫

@Remittancegirl @angusm @cstross

They're trapped by a politics of negativity. They don't want to build, nourish, invest, research, create. It's all ban this, cancel that, withdraw from any kind of cooperation, stop the boats, cut taxes, cut regulations. They're full of ideas to stop doing things or go back to an imagined past, haven't got the most rudimentary idea of a positive thing to start doing or a way to move forwards.

Also they're super racist and creepy around women and children.

Wayward Sun (yak shaver extraordinaire)

@angusm @cstross On the continent, we call this kind of thing a Dolchstosslegende: it is taken as so self-evident that X should have succeeded, even if it clearly didn't (say starting WW I, or leaving the EU), it must be due to some deep conspiracy, so the solution is to do the same thing, only harder...