The future of the EU and the UK, post-Brexit

why, on a Houston bbs, do we care about Brexit?

 

Beats me.

There's 128 pages worth of Brexity goodness, so I'm asking because I didn't care enough to catch up.

 

Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city, is being forced to dim lights and cut sanitation services due to bankruptcy

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-17/birmingham-uk-bankrupt-cutting-public-services/103965704

 

football team is third tier. sad.

 

"It's like we're living in the Dickens era, where the streets are going to be littered with rubbish and the lights are going to be off … it's like this kind of dystopian nightmare"

 

Swiftian, not Dickensian.

 

there's almost nothing dumber than a Taylor Swift story

 

Swifties would eat their babies if it meant nabbing a concert ticket.