But beware of the day, if your Snark be a Boojum!
Did the rotation of Earth stop after the 2016 referendum? Did you learn something since then?
Best BREXIT sign yet! From the march today pic.twitter.com/UnFo9mktKn
— Catherine Butler (@ButlerDineen) March 23, 2019
Sufficiently intelligent people check from time to time whether the paradigms for their decisions have changed. An update after three years of learning is due. Another public vote on Brexit is not against democracy, it’s against dumbness.
This needs sending round over and over. #Bots aren’t able to vote! pic.twitter.com/qgWxuHGUCO
— ⚫️ Rachel Marie #Revokee #Survivor #Remain #EU🇪🇺 (@velvet2660) September 14, 2019
Now only a dictator could execute the Brexit.
»This is some game that three men in number 10 Downing Street have come up with.«
Jess Phillips MP – https://twitter.com/jessphillips
House of Commons, Wednesday, 2019-08-04, 20:37:22 to 20:45:22
Stream: https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/a91e27e8-e525-4703-aaeb-036189f4caed?in=20:37:22&out=20:45:22
Download (82.2 MiB, 8 minutes): https://boojum.snrk.de/video/House_of_Commons_04-09-19_20-37-22_20-45-22.m4v
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bonnetmaker/status/1169484491162828800
My latest blog looks back on the 2016 EU referendum campaign and the outrageous lies that were told during the campaign. What do you guys think was the biggest lie told during the referendum?
— Daniel Edwards (@danieledwardsma) September 1, 2019
Jacob Rees-Mogg just said we can't have another referendum now that people know more about Brexit, because we'd vote to stop it.@Femi_Sorry was *almost* speechless… pic.twitter.com/nDSOaWlVdr
— Our Future, Our Choice (@OFOCBrexit) September 2, 2019
See also: https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/jacob-rees-mogg-on-lbc-1-6247494
Now that people know more about piranhas, they would vote to stop the job. https://t.co/vpFBYCtEQ6
— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) September 2, 2019
I’m an accountant supporting small local businesses, Brexit will really harm, I’ve done a ton of research trying to understand Brexit. Along the way I’ve discovered some circles of self interest, I would like to share some of these with you. (thread)
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
1) Here are the Barclay brothers, they own the famously Pro Brexit Telegraph, the Spectator and the Ritz Hotel to name a few. They avoid paying tax, so much so that they moved to an island in the channel & are constantly trying to avoid tax. https://t.co/pcI0XgiCfq
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
2) They also don’t like their paper to report on people not paying tax, here is their chief political commentator, Peter Oborne (Brexiter) resigning over the Telegraph's reduction in reporting standards and influence of advertisers re HSBC scandal. https://t.co/5lEOGxIykv
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
3) Allister Heath, current editor of Telegraph wrote a book, advocating end of national insurance, inheritance tax, corporation tax & a flat tax rate for all. His sister formed Taxpayers alliance with Matthew Elliott of Vote Leave at 55 Tufton Street. https://t.co/AsWVdSZfcp
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
4) Florence Heath works for Oil Companies. https://t.co/X6V6Jo5Fi0
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
5) Meanwhile brother Allister, got himself a new fancy sounding title – 2020 Tax Commission, he says households will be better off with his low tax plan, he doesn’t mention services will be decimated.https://t.co/FFgKe1QQqI
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
6) After the Referendum Barclay Brothers threw a party for Nigel Farage. Does it matter they're pro Brexit anti tax? Maybe when they own a newspaper claiming that Brexit is anti establishment vote & remainers Traitors, but maybe not, stick with me please https://t.co/fLXbV3vEtm
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
7) Famously our PM is a columnist for the Telegraph. And here's Mr Johnson lobbying personally for Sarah Sands, ex editor of Sunday Telegraph, to get the job of Editor of Evening Standard (Guido is Tory website). https://t.co/kzALwsTHI7
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
8) Sarah Sands is now Editor of Radio 4 Today programme. Here is a picture of her with Nigel Farage, Rupert Murdoch and Liam Fox and a picture of her with our PM. pic.twitter.com/jQ4WoBeogo
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
9) Sands is Editor of #radio4today program, BBCs flagship news program. Remainers are mystified by its coverage of Brexit, lack of rigour in interviews with prominent Brexiters, lack of coverage of transgressions & lies in campaigns. Why could that be?https://t.co/bfaBbChLBT
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
10) Perhaps because her son, Henry Sands, set up a firm in March 2015, called SABI Group, which managed to get a contract with Vote Leave prior to referendum. The publicly available accounts show the firm already has reserves in the millions… not bad https://t.co/ITHGrxGlU5
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
11) Perhaps it’s b/c her husband, Kim Fletcher (also ex of the Telegraph) is a partner at Brunswick Group, an international PR & lobby group working to change govt policy & advise on crisis management. So Brexit is good for business there too. https://t.co/zw0NhJlrx0
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
12) I'm sure Sarah Sands, the person whose wages we pay through licence fees, really really does support Brexit, her mate is in No 10, her husband’s firm has a route to heart of government, her son has made a ton of money & launched a successful business on the back of it.
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
13) I'm sure she doesn't want to bring up the illegality of the Vote Leave campaign or the problems a post Brexit environment will cause small/medium uk firms. And here is a screen shot of what the Telegraph really wants pic.twitter.com/UymIckBJ4Q
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
14) And all I would ask is whether, protesting that huge swathes of UK small businesses don't know what'll happen to them in 60 days & we can't crash out of Europe with no deal b/c it'll destroy them makes me a traitor? https://t.co/q5z1Aau82m
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
Regimes like the Johnson regime can grab power because opposition parties are too devided. I fear that Johnson will win that game. He is stronger than British traditions.
And the queen just could leave her work to a signing machine.
(image source: https://t.co/a3mcxPJwoa) pic.twitter.com/bzk1JvDsbO
— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) August 29, 2019
— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) August 30, 2019
Whoops. And the Queen can't do anything against it. https://t.co/OkymFbMFGZ
— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) August 30, 2019
— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) August 30, 2019
This is Boris Johnson's letter to MPs about shutting down parliament. Now without question, to be firmly placed within the history books, as the core and singular primary source, to demonstrate when the exact time of the UK democracy’s death was called. pic.twitter.com/Ul75cGLQA5
— Dr. Jennifer Cassidy (@OxfordDiplomat) August 28, 2019
"But that should be no excuse for the lack of ambition!"
Boris Johnson, 2019-08-28, Letter to the MPsSnarks have "five unmistakable marks":
"The fifth is ambition."
Lewis Carroll, 1876, "The Hunting of the Snark".https://t.co/fgEUozRyrF pic.twitter.com/pdEuH6RzMA— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) August 28, 2019
‘Your majesty, what will it take to suspend parliament….temporarily of course’
‘One word: Epstein’ pic.twitter.com/7nO3r2TZjP
— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) August 28, 2019
When the queen met the Boojum: https://t.co/jMDyeDURcvpic.twitter.com/Qx9uuexyHG
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) August 28, 2019
"The Hunting of the Snark" »may be taken as an Allegory for the Pursuit of Happiness. The characteristic “ambition” works well into this theory— … that the pursuer of happiness … betakes himself … the happiness he has failed to find elsewhere.«https://t.co/dNG7zzOkpp pic.twitter.com/fNXcFFAbad
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 25, 2019
Too often in that pursuit of happiness the hunters make each other unhappy.
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) August 28, 2019
How do Boris Johnson and the Bellman (in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark") compare? What do you think?
I rearranged some lines a bit: pic.twitter.com/CTUQQSLeBy
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) August 28, 2019
»Supporting each man on the top of the tide
By a finger entwined in his hair.«Carroll played with ambiguity. What if (different from the image) the hair in which his finger is entwined is the Bellman's hair, and the finger…? Well, how does Boris Johnson support you Brits? pic.twitter.com/Yl04WNsQnX
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) August 28, 2019
Well, I'm a yank, but I'd say, by the short hairs, also not illustrated.
— Zero G Badillion (@ZeroGBadillion) August 28, 2019
I learned a new idiom! Perhaps Carroll meant it. https://t.co/U8jQ9AaqI4: » … by the short hairs
Under one's complete control. …. It is in effect a euphemism for have someone by the balls, the hairs in question being pubic hair. [Colloquial; second half of 1800s] …«— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) August 28, 2019
Aha! I learned something as well.
Had heard the expression as used by LBJ…
and pretty sure he was not referring to the hairs on the back of the neck.
— Zero G Badillion (@ZeroGBadillion) August 28, 2019
Snarks come in two batches:
»It next will be right
To describe each particular batch:
Distinguishing
※ those that have feathers, and bite,
※ And those that have whiskers, and scratch.«https://t.co/dCukY792NxMeet another Bellman: pic.twitter.com/UcbKBN4Eg0
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) August 28, 2019
The House of Commons has risen for summer recess and will return on 3 September at 2.30pm.
Find out what will be debated when the House returns: https://t.co/uHaZ3REUuy— UK House of Commons (@HouseofCommons) July 25, 2019
But the principal failing occurred in the sailing,
And the Bellman, perplexed and distressed,
Said he had hoped, at least, when the wind blew due East,
That the ship would not travel due West!https://t.co/brWZiWUkIq pic.twitter.com/hq4mVviEMV— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 26, 2019
https://t.co/xXBRmahv4L pic.twitter.com/sk8hR7DWzZ
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 26, 2019
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 26, 2019
By the way, your MPs in your chamber have no tables. That's at least an occupational health issue.https://t.co/19k5ThwzWT pic.twitter.com/KTK5dVKJxR
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 28, 2019
Actually, your chamber is an ergonomic disaster. How about using the summer recess to think about learning from Canada?
Image source: https://t.co/SMLgp1acDj pic.twitter.com/LoPU6L0yjK
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 28, 2019
Next, about what do MPs talk?
Searching the Hansard (1988-11 to 2016-03)https://t.co/gdqstdNcBF
※ "The Hunting of the Snark": 46 hitsMore:
※ "What I tell you three times is true": 46 hits
※ Snark: 270 hits
※ Boojum: 26 hits
※ Bellman map: 25 hits— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 28, 2019
As it seems to be important to you, how about using the summer recess for reading "The Hunting of the Snark" more carefully? https://t.co/QbSf0V3BGe pic.twitter.com/YQbZZjrx7P
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 28, 2019
Does the Snark help you to understand your present Brexit project? Yes, it does, because it is a tragedy.https://t.co/RaClCCPoij pic.twitter.com/RhL4gSZCP3
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 28, 2019
To make it digestable for younger readers, Lewis Carroll wrote his Snark poem as a tragicomedy. But Henry Holiday, to whom it was a tragedy, left a hint to us: The Baker got baked. It ends with burning Thomas Cranmer at the stake.https://t.co/kV1kqhERrD pic.twitter.com/GqWsyd90Zl
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 28, 2019
I think that "The Hunting of the Snark" is about confrontational but still legitimate debates (Snark) turning into toxic disputes (Boojum). If that is so, you know pretty well why the poem is about you and your politics of pain.
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 28, 2019
If the Snark is too much for you in your summer recess, then please at least take a little time to watch this. https://t.co/ZyXii8QLd4
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 28, 2019
And if even that would exhaust you too much in this hot summer, enjoy James Acaster's teabag metaphor, before your tea bag ends up in the bin. https://t.co/jMttiWwh8m
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 28, 2019
The completely outdated work environment in the HoC chamber might inhibit your understanding of the realities of today. For example, there seem to be some issues in the HoC with representing UK citizens.
Image by @simonjhix from @YouGov data. pic.twitter.com/mN5kvufwqW
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 30, 2019
Would it be possible to return to some more rational modes of decision making? There should be a way to apply the Deming Cycle in a democratic way. Please.
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 30, 2019
The method employed I would gladly explain,
While I have it so clear in my head,
If I had but the time and you had but the brain—
But much yet remains to be said.https://t.co/THPb5WTaZB— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 30, 2019
Fokus on what is best for the UK, not on what is best for your party or for saving a few individuals' investments in failure.
There is too much distraction from fulfilling your duties.https://t.co/AAUH0jaA29 pic.twitter.com/1XcYjaajRB
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 30, 2019
By the way, some of you know that there have been earlier Brexits.https://t.co/ThhRPLmiTY pic.twitter.com/U3EJQherFo
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 30, 2019
Even parts of that 16th century Brexit painting ended up in the "Snark". The nose of that walking-cane sucking pavonine Broker (one of the 9 or 10 Snark hunting titans who forged British nonsense) first grew on the face of a Roman Catholic monk.https://t.co/MKhKnzh5T7 pic.twitter.com/12x6ASewbs
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 30, 2019
There is unfinished business. Trust in your people and the knowledge they gained since 2016. Let them finish the work.https://t.co/za4KicMqXe pic.twitter.com/zmAcWdyqFu
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 30, 2019
But you fear the monster which you unchained in 2016.https://t.co/IoMSGQvLLG pic.twitter.com/4Ho0yQmJJE
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 31, 2019
— Snark Sesquicentennial (@Snark150) July 31, 2019