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

was hobnob man either of jrm or bj because i saw a (maddeningly unchallenged) interview with laura kuensseberg with the latter yesterday evening and thats v much his take

"the eu have bullied us using northern ireland"

somehow in no way inconsistent with

"a better deal would be achievable with proper british grit at the table"

your media is a bit of a joke obv this isnt aha news

Nick Robinson had a panel of ordinary people for some general public brexit talk and someone actually said this about the negging, I heard it live: "We sent a Rich Tea biscuit to battle a Hob Nob. A Hob Nob is the tough one of biscuits. If we’d sent a Hob Nob with chocolate on to battle a Hob Nob we’d have won.”

"See my frying pan? Gave it a wee dunt. Gave it a wee dunt in front of the kitchen knife... just in case".

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2zhsi0

DUP standing behind the EU and Ireland promises "as recently as two weeks ago" that there will be no hard border in Ireland "even in the event of No Deal". I've read this before (a couple of months ago) but a restating of it seems to conflict with backstop insistence (unless the promises are made on an unspoken predication of an Irish Sea border in which case oops you should have checked the small print).

IDS stated on PM last night that in the ERG meetings with Barnier last month (? Just before the WA was agreed I think) they submitted their alternative proposals "because he had asked us to previously" and he (Barnier) said they were "good, he liked them".

Anyway, a Hob Nob is hardly tough, as biscuits go, it's pretty crumbly really and if you should dunk it in your tea? Furgeddaboudit!

get in the tea

Yeah if you’re looking at a tough biscuit, you’d want a ginger nut.

You know who was ginger? Winston Churchill. Figures.

Churchill was in black and white iirc

Which biscuit would you send over there to sort out ISIS?

Er dunno but I've got a garibaldi punchline ready to go as soon as someone can figure out the right setup.

you'd want something lavish like a marks and spencer chocolate ring to show them that western excess is good not bad

kill them with kindess sort of thing

http://www.ukpol.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/robincook-223x300.jpg

Ginger and always looked like he'd be tricky in a fight

Also in a similar predicament to JimD regarding Boasters

Revolutionary biscuits of Italy
Rise up out of your box
You have nothing to lose but your wafers
Yum yum yum yum yum

Brixcuit

doesn't work does it

Biscuit means biscuit.

anyone who has ever worked at Foxes Biscuits will tell you this hard biscuit myth is bunk. They see the broken ones (along with their broken dreams) that get sold in bags at Batley Market because they couldn't even take the rough and tumble of a 5mph conveyor belt pile up.

xp (unless it means Jaffa)

this is the quality content that distinguishes the uk politics thread from the rest of the political discussion on ilx imo

Ofc Brown got stuck by not being able to name his favourite biscuit back in the day on mumsnet so it’s very much on brand!

https://www.mumsnet.com/politics/politicians-best-answers-mumsnet-biscuit-question

anything but a danish rly

lol remember when Corbyn said shortbread and the meltocracy tried to use that to show how out of touch and unelectable he was

Never see Morning Coffee biscuits these days- plain, but some quite intricate detailing and thin enough to sort of melt in the mouth, far superior to rich tea

xp I do remember this but it was the total joylessness of the response!

"I'm totally anti-sugar on health grounds, so eat very few biscuits," replied Mr Corbyn. "But if forced to accept one, it's always a pleasure to have a shortbread."

Johnny Mc gave the same answer he always does but at least he didn’t sound like he sighs when offered a biscuit?

In case readers hadn’t got the message, in reply to the usual Mumsnet question “what’s your favourite biscuit?” he answered: “My mum worked behind the biscuit counter in BHS and we lived off broken biscuits, in particular rich tea.”

BHS had a whole biscuit counter? Don't remember seeing that

Bit of working class one-upmanship from McDonnell there. Talking of which, my granny used to work at Gray Dunn's and we'd get broken biscuits (or brokies) from there.

My sister still works in a biscuit factory tbh

Several members of the Tory Party probably more familiar with the soggy variety tbh.

picked a bad time open this thread while dunking a digestive into this mug of warm milk tbh

brokies

authentocrat yet also twee, grand work here scotland

I can only apologise

https://www.facebook.com/350403692091816/photos/rpp.350403692091816/564266224038894

you will never be able to apologise enough ffs

authentocrat yet also twee, grand work here Scotland

"The Girl From the Biscuit Factory". Original screenplay and soundtrack by Stuart Murdoch. Starring Douglas T. Stewart as Mr. Gray and Stephen McRobbie as Mr. Dunn.

don't get ILM all over-excited + preparing for the ultimate indie-twee jizzfest like that, Tom.

Soz, of course a film about Glasgow by S. Murdoch wouldn't have any Scottish people, old people or ugly people in it anyway.

biscuit factory full of lissome early-20s indie girls or gtfo, rages belle and sebastian frontman (50) in shock outburst

BHS had a whole biscuit counter? Don't remember seeing that

everything was behind a counter in shops in those days. self service started v. slowly in about the early 50s, i think?

what

Lib Dem MP resigns to back the Brexit deal...https://t.co/m8K6TJ5bRF

— Nick Eardley (@nickeardleybbc) December 6, 2018

who

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DtvWGt9WwAAf5Zm.jpg

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.dailymail.co.uk%2Fi%2Fpix%2F2012%2F07%2F10%2Farticle-2171685-00E1F3201000044C-481_233x423.jpg&f=1

he looks a bit like "handsome Shrek" in Shrek 2, but with very dark secrets.

looks just like my sister-in-laws boxer. bet he loves having his tummy scratched

Very entertaining S. Bush takedown of Nick Timothy's Telegraph grandstanding here.

I know that looking for self-awareness from Nick Timothy is like looking for moral philosophy from a cow, but hang about: “the week that Brexit was finally killed” was the week of 18 May 2017: when Theresa May launched her manifesto, a politically toxic document that insulted the young, offended the elderly and alienated the middle-aged. The most damaging policy of all was that concerning social care: one authored by Nick Timothy, the object of concern to his co-chief, Fiona Hill, and the then health secretary Jeremy Hunt.

The damage that did to Theresa May’s popularity and to the Conservative campaign was decisive in the election result – which returned a Parliament which will only be able to agree a Norway-type Brexit. That is the clear and inescapable truth of every serious post-mortem of what happened to the Conservative Party in the final weeks of the campaign.

The reason why May can't make this argument personally is that it means returning to the scene of the crime: telling Conservative MPs that not only did her maladroit conduct of the 2017 campaign cost them their majority and the careers of their colleagues and friends, but that it locks them into a Brexit trajectory in which the only available exits are ones that most Conservative MPs fear will be politically disastrous. But if Nick Timothy wants to identify the week that Brexit was “killed”, he should look to the past: and if he wants to know the culprit, he should look in the mirror.

That's heavily otm

Also the fact that the Tories were so high on Brexit hubris they thought they could drop any steaming turd of a policy without anyone noticing.

Stephen Bush is mostly right, most of the time.

That was a very satisfying read. Still hoping for Nick Timothy to go the same way as his twin Rasputin, though.

Nick Timothy wishes he had the dark brooding sexual magnetism of Rasputin, he's more like the tosser off the Top Cashback adverts

Ugh. Thx for reminding me of those, NV.