Favourite Brexit memes

[Denzil_DC]

Dark humour's a British specialty in times of trouble. This might sink like a stone, but I've seen so many I really like over the past few days, I thought it might not be a bad idea to gather some of them together.

Here's a starter.




ETA: If you want to nominate big gifs, maybe link to them rather than pasting them below? - Not all of us have high-speed broadband!

[underpants]

1. Two of my favorites

[Surya Gayatri]

2. Great stuff, Denzil. Please post any other black Brit humour you find in the domestic press.

[Denzil_DC]

3. A few more for now:

And possibly my favourite to date:

[LeftishBrit]

4. And the way the story ends:

Christopher Robin came along and said 'It doesn't matter whether you're friends or not, because now that I don't have to deal with those pesky EU regulations, I'm chopping all the trees down, turning the Sixty Acre Wood into a luxury development for those bankers who can still be persuaded to stay here for a bit, and selling you off all off to my friend Putin's circus!'

So the only creatures that stayed in England were Piglet, who ended up on a tray on the dinner table, so that David Cameron could now do to him literally what before he had only done metaphorically; and Eeyore who was too gloomy-faced to be accepted for Putin's Circus, and spent the rest of his life braying in incredibly gloomy tones: 'I told you so! I told you so!'

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Oh, well played on the pig front!

Bravo!

[alterfurz]

5. The UK. Day 3: The Seinfeld Solution

v

[Denzil_DC]

7. Another (h/t BlueMTexpat on GD)

[Dworkin]

59. Brexiters very quiet

Hi,

At my wife's workplace there are a bunch of Brexiters who were always sounding off about Europe. She tells me that, since the vote, they have been very quiet, like its a taboo subject?

I find that interesting. What's happened?

D.

[LeftishBrit]

8. This, from Newsbiscuit, is one of the most succinct comments:

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2016/06/27/bbc-radio-4-schedule-changes-today-in-parliament-replaced-by-im-sorry-i-havent-a-clue/

BBC Radio 4 schedule changes: ‘Today in Parliament’ replaced by ‘I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue’

[Denzil_DC]

9. Too big to post directly here (dial-up warning on the link below - BIG gif)

but this is a doozy:

The gif that best describes the wrongness of the pro-Brexit "left"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027963087

(Spoof on the Monty Python "What have the Romans ever done for us?" scene from The Life of Brian)

I'd been thinking over the past few days that it was a shame Remain hadn't had the wit to put something like this together with its budget.

[Nihil]

10. Ridiculously close to the truth ...

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

[Denzil_DC]

11. Don't know if this one needs subtitles ...

You may recognize a riff on a certain meme from the US 2008 presidential election.

[niyad]

12. k and r

[LeftishBrit]

13. This sums up what's happening on both sides of the pond!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BHLexhBj1lG/

[Denzil_DC]

14. London calling ...

[Denzil_DC]

15. Home truths

[Denzil_DC]

16. Topical

:large

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. Was 'good luck' a reference to that scene in The Great Escape?

You know, the moment before it goes horribly wrong for Gordon Jackson and Richard Attenborough?

[Denzil_DC]

21. Dunno.

I took it as "Here's this chump left to hang in mid-air, he thinks he's won, and all he's got left is a couple of union flags to wave. Bon voyage, les rosbifs! etc."

In semaphore, he's signalling "Acknowledge / Correct". So that must be right.

But they're French. It could have all sorts of convoluted existentialist angles that went *whoosh* right over my head. I learned my lesson from Charlie Hebdo.

[Scootaloo]

27. I find it interesting that the "big one" was a false story about a quota for Roma MP's

....But I don't find it terribly surprising.

[Denzil_DC]

28. That chart's not too clear.

I'm not sure whether the callouts are just the more notable myths among many in that year (suspect this is the case), or the bars show the number of reports for what's labelled (I'm sure we've had more than one lump of BS piled on another in each year).

Anyway, the chart's from The Economist: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/06/daily-chart-15

[Denzil_DC]

17. Facepalm time in EU Parliament

[geardaddy]

98. Brilliant!

Thank you for pointing out what a twat Farage is.

[Denzil_DC]

18. Speechless here

[Denzil_DC]

19. "Dr" Gove is ready to do your vasectomy now

T May has thrown into the mix the right of EU migrants currently in UK to stay here. Says negotiation with EU will determine this.

https://twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/status/748452875173568512

[LeftishBrit]

22. I do not like this Michael Gove

https://www.facebook.com/TrumptonMayor/photos/a.1546123612299266.1073741829.1546095022302125/1768572786721013/?type=3&theater

[Denzil_DC]

23. The BBC titlers have gone rogue again ...

[auntpurl]

43. LO fucking L!

That's amazing.

[mwooldri]

50. I hear those BBC titlers turned down jobs at Fox.

After all they can't tell a D for an R.. at least Auntie can be brutally honest.

[Denzil_DC]

24. Still at it

[Denzil_DC]

25. The Honorable Member for IKEA

[Denzil_DC]

26. Nailed it

[Denzil_DC]

29. Je suis ...

[LeftishBrit]

30. This Completely Batshit Week In British Politics, Explained For Americans

https://www.buzzfeed.com/lukebailey/the-crisis-explained-maybe?utm_term=.pb1dpe3Ax#.bjGW5re3l

[Denzil_DC]

31. The big guns roll out in the post-Brexit Labour civil war

(For any of our US pals looking in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Titchmarsh)

[muriel_volestrangler]

32. He's actually saying he likes it, though he should tie the roses back

“I think it’s rather lovely that he letting it overflow with greenery.

“Please don’t discourage him, it’s about the only thing I agree on with Jeremy Corbyn.
...
Mr Titchmarsh said he applauded people keeping their front gardens as green as possible, even if it meant they looked overgrown.

“He’s clearly doing something right – it’s growing like fury.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/29/jeremy-corbyns-overgrown-garden-reflects-the-man-himself-alan-ti/

[Denzil_DC]

33. Didn't say what side

he was on!

[Denzil_DC]

34. Blast from the past

[Denzil_DC]

35. Timely

[Denzil_DC]

36. Not a spoof

Told ya so: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3c76e90a-270e-11e6-8ba3-cdd781d02d89.html

[LeftishBrit]

37. Zoicks! Says it all!

[Denzil_DC]

38. "A week's a long time in politics" - Harold Wilson

[LeftishBrit]

39. SNORT at both!

[Denzil_DC]

40. Been trying to find this one for ages

[Denzil_DC]

41. What a time to be alive!

[Denzil_DC]

42. Plus ça change ...

[Denzil_DC]

44. A plan

[LeftishBrit]

45. The country seems to be following that advice, all right!!!

[Denzil_DC]

46. Banner displayed on fence of Scottish hunting estate:

(The Langwell Estate belongs to Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre. The Daily Mail had been campaigning to get the UK out of Europe for years despite its editor creaming off all that free EU CAP cash for his various country estates - he has more than one.)

[Denzil_DC]

47. Those were the days ...

[LeftishBrit]

51. Ironic indeed.

[Denzil_DC]

48. Next stop, Mornington Crecent

[Denzil_DC]

49. Parting note

[Denzil_DC]

52. Hold the front page

[LeftishBrit]

53. Why Britain suddenly has a new Prime Minister, explained for Americans

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/may-day?utm_term=.bbxG177Q#.rcQdzyyn

[Denzil_DC]

54. Mayhem

[Denzil_DC]

57. Variant

[Denzil_DC]

55. A map of all the countries Boris Johnson has offended

http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/a-map-of-all-the-countries-boris-johnson-has-offended--W1zaTLC63rW

[Denzil_DC]

56. Brace yourself

[Denzil_DC]

58. From Switzerland's Tages Anzeiger daily:

May: "I didn't have children ..."

"Now I do."

[Denzil_DC]

60. Private Eye Cover

[Denzil_DC]

61. Rejoice!

https://twitter.com/HeatherWheeler/status/767756321219379201

[muriel_volestrangler]

63. She had to count the USA as 'British Empire' to manage that

Pretty desperate ...

[Denzil_DC]

64. There are now a host rival memes out there,

such as:



https://twitter.com/hrtbps/status/767853219175333888


Wheeler didn't invent that first meme, in case anyone imagines the newly appointed Tory whip is that inventive, she just "borrowed" it wholesale from arch-troll Guido Fawkes (which speaks volumes about her anyway) and she's since tried to walk it back as "a tongue in cheek pop" in response to an earlier Olympic results tweet from an EU body.

I'm so glad the adults are in charge.

[LeftishBrit]

62. Jim Jones has created some anti-Brexit cartoons, and permitted their sharing

Last edited Sat Sep 24, 2016, 03:01 PM - Edit history (2)

https://www.facebook.com/antibrexitcartoons/?fref=ts

https://twitter.com/antibrexcartoon

[Denzil_DC]

65. May's cabinet meets, after working hard through its hols, to thrash out its ideas for Brexit

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/aug/31/restricting-immigration-will-be-at-heart-of-brexit-deal-theresa-may-says

[Denzil_DC]

66. Graphs

Last edited Fri Sep 2, 2016, 07:03 PM - Edit history (1)

The media trumpet the massive improvement in the Purchasing Managers' Index leading to a "massive bounce" in the pound (circled in red) as evidence that the doomsayers were wrong about Brexit:



"The pound in your pocket," etc. etc.



If only political leaders had done more during the referendum campaign:

[Denzil_DC]

67. Cabinet of Curiosities

[Denzil_DC]

68. Ouch.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-britain-germany-france-idUSKCN11T1WY

[Denzil_DC]

69. The EU's lead Brexit negotiator is getting the hang of British politics

[Denzil_DC]

70. In case you were wondering how things are going in the Brexit camp, it's fine, just fine.

The British government is terrified that Brexit is going to be an absolute mess

[Denzil_DC]

71. Wily photographer 1, Tory Conference stage designer 0

Meanwhile ...

[Denzil_DC]

72. "O brave new world, That has such people in 't!"

[Denzil_DC]

73. Ironic

[Denzil_DC]

74. The natives are restless

[LeftishBrit]

75. Deplorable

The hatred shown by some of the papers for large segments of the public is terrifying.

Unpatriotic? I don't think it's patriotic in any sense to con the citizens of your country into voting for economic sanctions on their own country, and 'dividing and ruling' the country into near break-up, while living in nice little tax havens elsewhere like most of these media owners do.

Fortunately, the nutter who wants to nuke Germany will have no chance of getting near the nuclear button; but I do worry that the newspaper extremism may incite violence in some unstable people against 'Bremoaners' as it has already been doing against migrants. Note that neither the Mail nor the Express writer had the guts to sign their name to their piece. No accountability.

[Denzil_DC]

76. Rejoice!

Source: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/10/daily-chart-6?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/brexit_regret

[Denzil_DC]

77. It's being so cheerful that keeps us going

Dammit. Don't bring me problems, bring me solutions:




A word from the Secretary of What a State for Bremoaning:





(Boris Johnson makes light of 'semi-parodic' pro-EU column)















The number of people who regret voting for Brexit is now greater than the margin of victory for Leave

[Denzil_DC]

80. Meanwhile, here in our little island paradise ...

A riff off an oldie:

[LeftishBrit]

81. I don't know why there are two totally empty posts at the end, dated January 1970, but it somehow

seems exquisitely appropriate in a surreal sort of way.

[Denzil_DC]

82. Let's call the whole thing off ...

[Denzil_DC]

83. All together now ...

Link to tweet

[Denzil_DC]

84. YOU WERE ONLY SUPPOSED TO BLOW THE BLOODY DOORS OFF

[Denzil_DC]

85. "Now is not the time" - Theresa May on 2nd Scottish independence referendum

Link to tweet

ITV News ✔ @itvnews

Theresa May repeatedly told @Peston that "now is not the time" for #IndyRef2http://bit.ly/2mxJgjT

[Denzil_DC]

86. European press react to Article 50 trigger

Die Welt



Die Welt Kompakt


Libération - "Missing you already!"



Meanwhile, united we stand ...

... then




... and now































But on the bright side:

Nigel Farage: I will emigrate if Brexit is a disaster
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-i-will-emigrate-if-brexit-is-a-disaster-a7653786.html

[Denzil_DC]

87. "The country is coming together ..." T. May, Easter address to plebs.

[LeftishBrit]

88. Wow. 'Crush the saboteurs' - sounds like something that Hitler or Stalin would have said

I don't usually Godwinize, and I'm not saying that even the Hate-Mail really wants to literally crush all dissidents, but the rhetoric of the Brexit media is becoming truly terrifying.

Why? What is in it for them? That the EU make it more difficult for the rich owners to find suitable tax havens? Or just getting drunk on hate?

So I am a saboteur to be crushed along with nearly half my fellow-citizens?

[muriel_volestrangler]

89. And yet, even faced with that, some DUers will defend the Mail

See https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028947833

[Denzil_DC]

90. "For the avoidance of doubt, neither the PM nor this peace-loving paper proposes genocide."

Well, not on today's front page, anyway.

[muriel_volestrangler]

91. "We have long known the Left demonises anyone with whom it disagrees"

says the paper who just called voting a different way "sabotage", and judges who said parliament had to vote to undo something that had been put into law by parliament "enemies of the people".

The Daily Mail has been ridiculous for decades. The comparison to Erdogan is apt - they want parliament to rubber-stamp whatever May decides, just like in Turkey.

[LeftishBrit]

93. Well, THAT'S reassuring; nice to know that my democracy's government and media don't go quite so far

as to advocate genocide!

[Denzil_DC]

92. Could this be the Mail's/May's "deplorable" moment?

#saboteurs

[Denzil_DC]

95. From the Spectator (of all places!):

‘From Cool Britannia to Poor Britannia’: Europe’s press ridicules Theresa May

The people with whom Theresa May will soon be negotiating over Brexit have been looking on in astonishment at her self-immolation. Here’s a selection of the media coverage on the continent.





https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/06/cool-britannia-poor-britannia-europes-press-ridicules-theresa-may/

[muriel_volestrangler]

96. From the Trumpton twitter account

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Denzil_DC]

97. In Tory Britain, it's deja vu all over again

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-and-michael-gove-revive-brexit-dream-team-zhxpczjq6

Link to tweet

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