one out all out: a brexit from the modern world and every one of its problems please (we're all gonna die lol)

lol why does it have to be so far in the future?

For narratological reasons.

might have been the 5th actually, just saw it quoted as happening in "early December".

do you think brexit will have no negative effect on your life or do you just not give a shit?

my best *guess* is that like many people it will impact me negatively but from a position where the margins for things getting more negative are so fine as to not feel particularly scary. but the real point is jim and Matt's.

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— æon (@aeonofdiscord) November 15, 2018

If we'd heard as much about Brexit in the run up to the 2015 election as we have since then maybe we wouldn't be in this situation because a few people might have thought twice about voting for Cameron, but it just didn't seem to be an issue then.

it was never enough of an issue to give UKIP any kind of Parliamentary representation

I’m hallucinating. I just imagined that our Prime Minister, having lost a chunk of her cabinet and the support of her party, called a press conference, announced that she was Geoffrey Boycott and sashayed off screen.

— The Secret Barrister (@BarristerSecret) November 15, 2018

I caught the end of this on periscope (my new favourite way to follow political drama!) and the whole stream laughed at her going “he got the runs in the end” and striding off dramatically.

Probably a reference to this:

Since I first went into bat eleven years ago, the score at your end has ticked over nicely, You are now the 663rd Lord Mayor. At the Prime Minister's end, we are stuck on 49. I am still at the crease, though the bowling has been pretty hostile of late. And in case anyone doubted it, can I assure you there will be no ducking the bouncers, no stonewalling, no playing for time. The bowling's going to get hit all round the ground. That is my style.

though idk if specifically likening yourself to a spousal-abusing racist improves it,

When all else fails, quote your favourite perpetrator of domestic violence.

xxp Cameron spent every chance he got shitting on the EU for wingnut points before he actually won that majority and had to follow through his bluff.

xxp can’t believe she’s ruining cricket for you now

"Geoffrey Boycott stuck to it and he got the runs in the end" - Theresa May compares herself to her cricketing hero @GeoffreyBoycott.

Get more on all the political fallout here: https://t.co/6YKa5xpWPu pic.twitter.com/1eU2X8DRtj

— Sky News (@SkyNews) November 15, 2018

Boycott not renowned for hitting it all round the ground tbf. Cricket balls that is, girlfriends may be a different matter.

Boycott not renowned for looking after his partners either. Batting partners that is, etc.

Is the specific Boycott reference to him batting for seven hours in the 1978 match England lost to New Zealand - giving their first competitive victory against them. That’s the most famous time he spent ages at the crease I can think of.

Every time Boycott was at the crease it felt like ages.

This is probably a good illustration of how unintentionally great the comparison was.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/604169.html

“Brearley said that ”when he took over after I broke my arm, (Boycott) won little except the recognition he was not the man to captain England“ http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/604169.html

today has been amazing. top work from the tory party. may’s duracell ability to keep walking with a cultivated obliviousness* to the explosions around her is incredible and will lead us triumphantly into the jaws of no deal.

cognate is “forgetfulness” rather than indifference but wotevs

lol xpost

That is perfect, SV.

A fitting time to wheel out this old Popbitch story about Geoffrey Boycott... pic.twitter.com/aM4sUsgyO5

— Kit Lovelace (@kitlovelace) November 15, 2018

so theresa may is... saying she has diarrhoea?

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l-r Theresa May - Jacob Rees-Mogg

That's the pin number for the DEXEU credit card

The sign language interpreter doing the Brexit Agreement on BBC News is perfectly conveying the perplexing fuckery of this situation #Brexit #BrexitChaos pic.twitter.com/bA66SYMXqN

— Ell Potter (@Pottell) November 15, 2018

Mr. @DanielJHannan: 100,000 people were killed in Bosnia, the worst atrocities in Europe since WWII & the Holocaust occurred there btw 1992-95. How dare you invoke Bosnia as a comparison for your government’s self-inflicted, incompetent, nativist Brexit circus? Revolting. https://t.co/xiXS65vx7Q

— Jasmin Mujanović (@JasminMuj) November 14, 2018

In the pub today a Chinese student was asking me to explain what's going on at the moment. It's surprisingly hard to do in an unbiased manner.

"you know how britain once ruled the waves? we're reversing out of that at catastrophic speed -- whatever the absolute opposite of straddling the globe is, that's what we're aiming for"

To a Chinese student - we are voluntarily entering into our own set of unequal treaties. Got any opium you need to offload and can I interest you in a 99 year lease on Canvey Island?

Does "getting the runs" not mean diarrhea here then?

it does

apparently the journalists were all giggling abt it after she left

Arlene Foster looks like she’s demanding a word with the head because her three sons had a sex ed class and came home in tears pic.twitter.com/NCdbZ6xqAE

— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) November 15, 2018

She also kept erroneously calling bald journalists 'George' in the belief they were some bloke from the FT. Getting the runs was just the icing on the cake.

in these historic end days of the British Empire you'd think the least the BBC could do would be to broadcast Question Time from Wembley Stadium

Increasingly looks like JRM has shot his wad and not enough followed him to reach the 48. That’s satisfying, even if we end up with more May.

At this rate she will be fighting the next election. The Tories just don’t appear have an plan B to any of it - Brexit, the leadership, the election, a second ref - that they agree on. Labour is going to have to somehow trigger a crisis if it wants to break this.

gardiner getting roasted on QT

this TUC guy for PM imo

This Claire Tory is an arsehole.

I take it back, Labour don’t need to precipitate the crisis

Tonight, senior sources in DUP have told me that the confidence and supply agreement is over - unless Theresa May goes. They say the future of the agreement “depends on who the leader of the Conservative Party is”.

— Harry Yorke (@HarryYorke1) November 15, 2018

is lord carson available then?

This Claire Tory is an arsehole.

She's comprehensively intimidated Dimbleby and, in doing so, forced him to show he's still got hair on his chest by bullying bumbling Barry.

Surely confidence and supply doesn't matter when the only business of Parliament is thrashing out a No Deal

the fuckin dup tho theyre the type of thickneck bolloxes that never get whats coming to them because theyre just too dense to hold to full account, those kids whose beleagured and worried mothers realised early on in development that obstinate aggression based around a very simple set of demands was the only toolkit worth drilling into the thick fucks

please god the wounds in this cousinfucking are fatal to both blights

Claire Perry is a cock. She’s muttering when any other panellist is trying to speak and patronising everyone in the room and OH MY GOD while I was trying to write the audience went mad at her for off-piste ad him attacks on Corbyn.

Well they haven’t passed the budget yet, so supply might matter imminently

I love the way the bbc are trying to hang "the markets fear of a Corbyn government and raised corporation tax, nationalisation etc" on the plummeting value of sterling today in radio reports. Their whole poisonous political dept needs to be turned to mulch if they are to have any kind of public funded future imo. And I don't mean replacing with the fucking Canary either!

Well, they won’t be able to do that if a GE is called.

unsurprisingly 2019 is the just about odds again hot fav at the bookies for the next election now, stoked for the madness!

"odds against" I meant to type.