UN recognises U.K. as world’s first official Idiocracy

The United Nations have shown solidarity with the United Kingdom, during its current metamorphosis from sensible global citizen to basket case, by recognising the U.K. as the world’s first official Idiocracy.

“It is a hotly contested field,” UN spokesman Mrs Nnited Uations told LCD View’s first world problems analyst, “You would have thought that the US, by electing a man who confessed blithely to sexual assaults as president, would have been a shoe in. But plucky little Global Britain has got its nose to the fore and scooped the accolade of first Idiocracy on Earth.”

The surge by the UK that sees it take the prize was powered by the official appointment of a minister to oversee food shortages.

“America starves its poor. The UK starves its poor. It’s neck and neck in that thanks to right wing policies, primarily fuelled by the thinking (if you can call it that) of libertarian, darwinian tossers, but to actually plan to starve your entire population?

“And to announce a minister to that end. And to expect to stay in government after? An industrialised, first world country with an interconnected and highly efficient supply chain of food, which the intention is to tear to threads at the stroke of a clock just so a bunch of currency speculators can get even richer? Wow. Now that’s a level of national idiocy that even Trump hasn’t managed, yet.”

Prime Minister Ms May is to receive a gold plated ration book later today, in recognition of her government’s achievement, and she will be asked to share it with the leader of the official opposition, as it is really a cross party effort.

“You can’t turn your country into an Idiocracy with an official opposition actually opposing the policy agenda that does it,” the UN rep explained, “but you know what they say, never interrupt an elected representative in the middle of a taxpayer funded meal. No matter how many lives will be thrown into calamity by the pursuit of Idiocracy, at least 650 bellies will always be full.”

May to offer ‘People’s Vote’ on her Brexit deal v Remain

Somehow still prime minister Theresa May is to offer the people a ‘People’s Vote’ on her soon to be negotiated EU deal, versus cancelling Brexit and remaining in the EU.

The shock news comes ahead of the looming Conservative Party Conference, to be held in Stirling this year, and is intended to…

”Stop Boris screwing about with the sign behind her when she speaks this year,” strategic consultant to the PM, Mr Strategy, told LCD Views.

It’s believed the offer to confirm the will of the people prior to the greatest constitutional change to the U.K. since WW2 is being done because at the end of the day democracy is the most important thing. And yes, in spite of what some curious (curious in the sense of being idiots) people seem to believe, offering the people a confirmatory vote is more democracy, not less.

”It’ll also completely blindside the dumb old trots running Labour for a while, who are just playing politics with Brexit,” Mr Strategy said, “unlike ourselves who are just running scared of some homegrown swivelled eyed sociopaths we stupidly stuck blue rosettes on. Oh, and the Russians, we’ve taken far too much of their money. You wouldn’t believe how compromised we are as a party. It’s terrifying.”

Quite what the Labour leadership will make of the offer is not yet certain, but an insider with an ear inside their ruling Council of Ministers gave us the following, off the record, quote,

”A People’s Vote, without ruling out remain, that is not in the prime minister’s gift. That is solely the preserve of Labour and other jams. We’ll sue for intellectual property theft. This completely fcuking blindsides us strategically. It’s not on. We get to stare into the maw of the political gifthorse of Brexit as long as we fcuking well please! We call the shots. The Tories are finished.”

If Labour doesn’t seize the day, or carp and diem, as JRM might say, I wouldn’t be surprised if the savage strategists in the Tory Party, who know how to cling to power (even if it’s only to make people starve), take the gifthorse away.

Labour to debate whether to re-arrange chairs for Brexit debate

The steering committee at Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool has confirmed that it has allocated time for a debate as to whether seating arrangements in the main conference hall should be altered prior to any further debate on Brexit.

Committee spokesperson Loretta Beckence confirmed that the committee recognised that the Labour party is a broad church and that members have the right to disagree.

“For that reason we need to ensure that anyone opposing Jeremy’s decision to leave the European Union should only be allowed to sit at the back of the hall, preferably on the floor, bound and gagged,” she explained.

“They need to understand that their ideology of free thought and open debate is dead in the water and being forced down by the giant foot of popular historical Momentum,” she added explaining that those who failed to support the Corbyn leadership’s commitment to free speech and open debate will be purged.

“Like the half-digested Blairite scum that they are,” she added.

Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell confirmed to waiting reporters that neither the debate on seating arrangements nor any debate on Brexit itself would include any discussion on whether or not Brexit should actually go ahead.

“The people have spoken, and to do anything other than implement their will on the positioning of furniture or leaving the EU, would be a betrayal of the democratic process,” he snarled.

McDonnell declined to respond to questions as to whether at the next general election he would be seeking to overturn the will of the people that signally failed to come even close to electing Labour at the last three elections in 2010, 2015 and 2017, and in 2005 elected Labour as a single party government with only 35% of the vote, the lowest vote count recorded by a winning party in a general election.

“As Chinese communist leader Humpty Dumpty so rightly put it ‘When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less’,” he sneered.

Donald Trump to become standup comedian

Donald Trump is a name that has been attached to several titles over the years, mainly in the fields of business and politics, but now it seems he’s going to try adding another string to his broken bow, that of standup comedian.

When asked why at a press conference, he replied:

“It’s simple really. I got up and started telling some jokes at the UN, and they all cheered and applauded. And then it hit me – if they want to laugh at my material, then let’s get them to pay to hear it. So I’m gonna take it on tour.”

There have been some questions raised over the jokes he would be telling. No previews were available unless people wanted to pay $45,000 upfront – which nobody did – but rumour has it Trump’s material would make Bernard Manning look positively PC by comparison. Certainly it is hard to imagine Trump punching up when he takes so much delight in punching down.

The name of the show will be President Of Laughter – assuming his spelling is corrected, as he held up a draft tour poster saying “PREZZYDUNT OF LAFFTER”.

The tour is going to start in the US, but there is talk of a few select international venues. On this side of the Pond, comedian Frankie Boyle had a recommendation.

“He should come to Glasgow and play the Empire. When they talk about comedians dying on stage there, they mean it very differently to the rest of the world.”

Well, we hope he draws the crowds he deserves. Who knows, if all goes well America could give him the same reaction they eventually gave Bill Cosby.

Brexiters accused of trying to overturn the result of the Battle of Hastings

Campaigners arguing against Brexit have fought back at accusations that they are trying to overturn the result of the now-infamous referendum. They argue that Brexiters are instead trying to overturn the result of the Battle of Hastings.

“It’s the principle of it,” claims activist Russell Sprout. “As Brexiters are so keen to take us back to a rose-tinted past, how about 1066? The Norman French won, you lost, so get over it!”

Sprout explains that the UK (or its predecessors) has been governed by Europeans for a very long time. “You can’t just ignore almost 1,000 years of history,” he booms. “This country has been ruled by Europeans ever since 1066, and it is ridiculous to pretend otherwise. Conquest means Conquest!”

Brexiter Stan Dalone was not impressed. “The people had a vote!” he gammoned. “We want out, and we want out now. You can’t ignore 17.4 million people. Although you can ignore 16.1 million people, because they are liberal elitist traitors, and we don’t like them!”

“But a thousand years ago, a Frenchman shot an arrow into an Englishman’s eye,” Sprout persisted. “That means that the French won. It’s no good moaning, the result stands and I don’t care if the French cheated. You can’t argue with democracy!”

“Democracy didn’t stop in 1066!” squealed Dalone. “Democracy stopped on 23 June 2016!”

The debate was clearly going nowhere, so LCD Views sought the opinion of analyst Eva Nowt. “The truth is, the real reason for Brexit is nothing to do with democracy,” Nowt said. “It’s all about money. The argument goes, rich people are rich because they are good with money, so you give them more to look after. The poor would only squander it on rubbish like food, so they can’t be trusted with it. Brexit will help to transfer funds from the delinquent poor to the responsible rich.”

And that is, of course, exactly what the Normans did. Roll on feudalism!

RAF to airlift in blue passports from France if M20 becomes lorry park

The latest batch of No Deal notices released by HMG yesterday demonstrate that Brexit Britannia has all bases covered, especially when it comes to the all important symbols of our liberation from being a functioning member of the global community.

“The RAF is on standby to airlift in our new potatriotic British blue passports from France if the M20 becomes a lorry park,” Dominic Raab MP (for Meat) told a packed hall of patriots, “let me correct that, when the M20 becomes a lorry park.”

The reassurance will be welcome by a population busy contingency planning for the moments after the UK regains its independence, to just before the UK ceases to exist altogether.

“It’s worth it,” A Gammon told LCD Views, “after two and a bit years, billions sacrificed, the mental wellbeing of millions placed in jeopardy, the reputation of the United Kingdom trashed internationally for the callous and offhand way we are prepared to tear up legal agreements offering security and rights to millions over decades, and all to change the colour on a passport to a colour we could have changed to without Brexit.”

But with much less sovereignty.

“Yes. It’s all worth it. It’s still the only benefit identified, but once you hold that blue book in your hand and realise you’ll never leave home again with or without it, it’ll all be worth it.”

Quite where the RAF will land with the shipments of blue passports is not yet clear, as it’s unlikely they will be able to break the law and deliver them.

“They may have to airdrop them,” A Gammon mused, “presumably just south of the Irish border. Smugglers can take care of the rest after and get them into the UK.”

Never forget, as the day to day drama gathers distracting intensity with the running down of the clock, no one has yet been able to identify a tangible benefit of Brexit except for blue passports.

BMW to move Mini production to Turkey

BMW is planning to move production of the Mini to Turkey, if the government fails to secure a post Brexit trade deal that allows components to be moved in and out of the UK free of tariffs.

The German automotive giant announced last week that it is planning a one month “production holiday” at its Cowley plant near Oxford, after March 29th, in which to examine its options.

However according a mole in the BMW headquarters in deepest Bavaria, the company has no intention of restarting production in the UK and has already begun moves to lease an empty factory space at Izmir in the west of Turkey, where it plans to re-start production by the middle of next year.

“Turkey has been part of the customs union since January 1995, so there are no trade barriers, and with low labour costs and a young and well educated population, it’s a perfect base for a new production venture – unlike the UK which is full of fat, gammon-faced old people who don’t know the difference between ‘there, they’re and their’, and want everything for free,” he explained.

The move appears certain to generate strong opposition from across the political spectrum in the UK.

Anti Brexit groups have been quick to point out that manufacturers have been warning about the impossibility of maintaining complex cross border supply chains since before the referendum, and the predictability of BMW‘s decision to send Mini away from UK shores, 60 years after the first model was launched in 1959.

However others have noted a certain aptness in the planned move, given that the designer of the original Mini, Sir Alec Issigonis, was born and brought up in Izmir and had never set foot in Britain before his arrival aged 16 in 1923.

“He arrived as a refugee, penniless, with his widowed German mother,” explained UK car history expert Alvis Riley pointing out the irony, of the “fright adverts” warning of a that fear of a surge of migrants from Turkey used by the Leave campaign.

“Can you imagine a 16 year old Turkish lad or for that matter a Syrian refugee, being allowed into the UK nowadays, and for him to go on to  be single-handedly responsible for designing? one of the most iconic British brands,” he asked before answering his own question:

“Of course not, he’d have been stuck in camp in Calais, or in Turkey or Germany – because the UK refuses to accept refugees,” he laughed.

The BMW mole was able to confirm to LCD views that the irony of Issigonis‘ origins has not escaped the company’s marketing department which has already bought up the rights to a popular English tune with which to advertise the move.

“It’s coming home, it’s coming home…Mini’s coming home…..has ein zertain ring to it, don’t you tzink,” he smiled.

May to offer Barnier lands and titles in Kent to make EU accept Chequers works

Theresa May looks set to finally have her genius Chequers plan accepted by the EU this week after locating Michel Barnier’s weak spot and settling on a new saavy wheeze.

”He doesn’t have any lands and titles in England,” an aide to the penultimate prime minister of the U.K. told LCD Views,

“so naturally the obvious play is to offer Barnier lands and titles in Kent. Once he sees the carrot of taking back control of a piece of England as Lord Trade Barrier of Thanet, he’ll twist the arms of the other unelected, overpaid technocrats running the EU. Chequers looked dead, but that was only because it’s complete and utter nonsense, in reality once you find your enemy’s weak spot, anything is possible, even if you don’t hold all the cards.”

As to how receptive the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator is to the offer is not yet known, as the plan is still secret.

”We’re only announcing it in the British press at the moment,” the aide said, “as we know from the vicious and deceitful covers of our anti-EU moneylaundering rules newspapers, each and every day, that no one across the channel can read English. But we thought it best to let Thanet know that Sheriff Nigel is on the way out and Lord Trade-Barrier is moving in.”

It seems unlikely Barnier will reject the offer as everyone knows an English title is best.

”Of course he’ll have to apply to the Home Office for permanent residency first, but we’ll be providing an easy to use app for him to do that.”

But what if he refuses?

”We’ve thought of that too,” the aide beamed, “if Barnier is no go we’re going to offer Varadkar the city of Dublin to rule, after Ireland leaves the EU too and comes home to British rule.”

McDonnell and Corbyn visited by ghostly Nick Clegg

Word from the ether sphere is that Labour leaders John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn are in for a Christmas treat this year of the traditional Dickensian kind. Just as soon as they tuck their white haired heads into sleeping caps and lay down expecting to dream of erecting giant billboards with their faces on in every town square.

“It won’t be the dreams they expect. Ghostly Nick Clegg is planning to visit McDonnell and Corbyn this year on Christmas Eve,” LCD Views has been informed, during a seance to contact the pre-2015 Liberal Democrat parliamentary bloc, “and he’s bringing a warning from the future and the past for the present.”

The seance was conducted using a ouija board constructed with the dead wood of state paid university tuition, you know, before the neoliberal con-artists starting commodifying it to slow destruction, and letters cut out from the first university fee agreements issued after they were trebled.

”This talking board does not lie,” a political psychic on our payroll affirmed, “and that’s good. Dickens is the obvious frame for the message, as the Labour leadership’s support of Tory Brexit will lead to Dickensian conditions for the many, but not the few.”

But what will the ghost of Nick Clegg tell them?

”It’s not the ghost of Nick Clegg. He’s still alive thankfully,” our psychic corrects, “it will be a ghostly Nick Clegg. A different animal altogether. This one fully realises just how seriously it let ghoul scrooge Cameron manipulate it in order to destroy the Lib Dem’s as a parliamentary force and get the U.K. back to two party FPTP Westminster politics.”

Well, what will ghostly Nick Clegg tell McDonnell and Corbyn.

”It will point to what happened to real Nick Clegg after he sold out on key promises and principles to gain power. McDonnell and Corbyn are on the same tangent.”

How so?

”Before Nick Clegg said screw scraping tuition fees I’ve a seat at the big table now, let’s treble them. Before that he was viewed as one of the last honest brokers left in our politics, having picked up and run with the work of his forerunners, most especially Charles Kennedy.”

Who?

”Are you a member of Momentum? They’ve wiped him from memory too. Charles Kennedy led his entire party in opposition to Blair’s Iraq War.”

This is starting to sound like a party political broadcast…

”For which party? If Vince hands over to Gina Miller maybe…anyway. But no. We choose our targets from the news cycle. And McDonnell and Corbyn are doing the same thing as Clegg. Trashing the perception of themselves as honest brokers, bringing in a new kind of politics, in order to put perceived party interests before the country, with continual fence sitting Brexit fudgeberg making, even though they must know people are suffering from Brexit yesterday, today and everyone will suffer tomorrow. Comrade. What is it worth to make that omlette? How many eggs do they expect the Tories to break?”

And that will be ghostly Clegg’s warning? What happens when disillusionment kicks in?

”Just ask real Nick Clegg about what happens then. Turkeys may vote for Christmas, but afterwards only a miracle will get them to vote for it again.”

Venue where Brexit was hatched revealed to be the Möbius Strip Club

The architects of Brexit were the global mega-rich. Its seeds have been coddled in Fleet Street for many years. Its midwife was Nigel Farage. But now its birthplace has been revealed. Brexit emerged, crying and spluttering, into the world in the back room of ‘the club with the twist’, the Möbius Strip Club.

The club’s former owner, Constant D. Klein, resigned instead of throttling the infant at birth, as should have been done. In the pithy words of club regular Manny Fold, Klein “bottled it”.

Möbius strippers are a unique breed. Since they are the same on the inside and the outside, there is no need to remove any clothing. In any case, they are identical up to isomorphism. If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.

Möbius regulars are used to only seeing one side of an argument, and will swear that the inside of the club is the same as the outside. However, the real mischief went on in the exclusive “4D Lounge”. In that rarefied and esoteric environment, squaring the circle was not only desirable, it was compulsory.

Here, the possible and the impossible do not simply coexist, they are the same thing. Under the influence of strong homeomorphisms, Brexiters discovered that knotty problems like the Irish border exist and don’t exist simultaneously.

The contradictions became plainly projected, claims Fold. “We realised that objects could, apparently, pass through themselves” he said. “It was the answer to everything. Brexit could function continuously and compactly.”

The shadowy figure who provided the powerful transformations, known as “The Doctor in the Hausdorff”, was too busy transforming from a mug to a doughnut and back to talk to us. Homeomorphisms are dangerous in the wrong hands. Just say no, people.

This type of proposition requires rigorous proof. However, the Möbius Strip Group refuses to offer any justification. Instead, the proof is left as an exercise for the reader.