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Trevor Noah roasts Brexit using multiple British accents

Even attempting to understand the ongoing nightmare that is Brexit is nigh on impossible — but Trevor Noah has an analogy that might help.

In The Daily Show clip above, he likens Britain leaving the EU to “the world’s biggest escape the room”, before launching into a range of chaotic British accents to emphasise the confusion.

To be fair, you can’t fault his John Oliver impression. Read more…

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Thousands of Brexit protesters flood the streets of London calling for new referendum

sudshr47 March 23, 2019

As the tire fire that is Theresa May’s handling of Brexit continues to burn, a crowd pegged at around a million people flooded the streets of London on Saturday, protesting the disastrous policy and calling on a new referendum.
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A petition to remain in the EU has gone so viral it crashed a government website

sudshr47 March 21, 2019

You might have heard, but things aren’t exactly going smoothly in the run-up to Brexit. The exodus from the EU is slated to happen on March 29, which (*checks calendar*) is just days away.
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UK asks competition watchdog to put adtech market review top of its to-do list

sudshr47 March 14, 2019

The UK government has written to the country’s competition authority to ask the watchdog to respond to concerns about the lack of transparency in the digital advertising market and carry out a formal market study “as soon as possible”. In a letter to the Competition and Markets Authority, chancellor Philip Hammond writes that the online […]

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Facebook refuses to disclose “chuck Chequers” Brexit advertiser to UK parliament

sudshr47 March 6, 2019

Facebook has refused to provide the British parliament with the names of individuals behind a shadowy network backing an extreme ‘no deal’ Brexit outcome over a government-negotiated compromise. Since the June 2016 EU referendum vote, politics in the UK has been consumed by the question of how to implement a close vote to leave. And […]

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Honda will shut its car plant in the UK in 2022, report says

sudshr47 February 19, 2019

Honda plans to shut down its sole car plant in the UK in 2022, cutting 3,500 jobs in the country, Reuters reported Tuesday.
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John Oliver shares his thoughts on Brexit and we honestly don’t know whether to laugh or cry

sudshr47 February 12, 2019

Deal or no deal, Brexit is happening on March 29. And while the idea of a no-deal Brexit has always been slightly terrifying, it was just made all the more so by British comedian John Oliver.
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How a no-deal Brexit could affect mobile phone roaming charges for UK users

sudshr47 February 7, 2019

In case of a no-deal Brexit, Brits who like using their phones when out of the country might have to start factoring in roaming charges before they start browsing in an EU member country.

Roaming charges — the fee you pay to use another phone network — were scrapped entirely in the EU in 2017. But, if the UK ends up leaving the European Union without a deal, roaming charges may come back on March 29, HuffPost first reported.

Per HuffPost, a set of regulations — entitled the Mobile Roaming (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 — presented to parliament on Tuesday, state that the UK will be revoking the legislation that protects you from extra costs when using your phone while travelling in another EU country. Read more…

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Europe’s highest human rights court to hear challenge to UK’s bulk surveillance regime

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The Queen appears to have weighed in on Brexit because things are literally THAT bad

sudshr47 January 25, 2019

You know things are bad when the Queen wades in.
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sudshr47 January 17, 2019

At this point it seems like nobody really knows what will actually happen when the UK leaves the European Union.
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