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

JK is actually a gay space communist, she just left it out of the books

The core aim of the organisation seems to be to ‘combat Russian disinformation and promote democracy’ - though, as always, this is so loosely defined as to make anyone you dislike a vehicle for one and an enemy of the other. A bunch of ex-spies and military being given money under the table to attack anyone they want without any accountability is always going to run this risk.

not so much a risk as a design feature

Yeah I mean it was clearly tolerated or encouraged - tacitly or otherwise - within the organisation. It's one of those things where as soon as someone points out that this might make them look bad it's immediately blamed on some graduate going rogue on Twitter or whatever.

Be interesting to see if anyone else picks up on that story b/c surely the civil service running domestic covert ops against the leader of the opposition is a major scandal?

No sign of it anywhere but the Daily Ranger Record. We've got some strange ideas of what constitutes a charity in this country.

Someone ought to check if Craig Murray is ok.

Carole Cadwalladr now wondering why Emily Thornberry’s suddenly complaining about this when ahe’s never once mentioned Arron Banks etc. SIGH

european court of justice, go on chapo

The European Court of Justice has ruled the UK can cancel Brexit without the permission of the other 27 EU members.

The ECJ judges ruled this could be done without altering the terms of Britain's membership.

A group of anti-Brexit politicians argued the UK should be able to unilaterally halt Brexit, but they were opposed by the government and EU.

The decision comes a day before MPs are due to vote on Theresa May's deal for leaving the EU.

MPs are already widely expected to reject the proposals during a vote in the House of Commons on Tuesday night.

BBC Brussels correspondent Adam Fleming said the ruling made staying in the EU "a real, viable option" and that may "sway a few MPs" in the way they vote.

But he said "a lot would have to change in British politics" to see the UK remain in the EU, with Mrs May and the government having to change its mind to make it a "political reality".

This is huge but I guess it's worth a fair few votes to May in Parliament later. Admittedly that means closer to 50 rebel votes than 100.

in any case it looks possible that May is going to do the old reverse ferret on actually holding the Commons vote

classic strong and stable leadership move

certainly wouldn't be the first time. Under some imagined "normal" circumstances you'd say it would be an atrocious look for May to delay the vote just cos she's gonna fucking lose it, but this is May we are talking about - not someone who is reasonable or someone with a modicum of self-respect and a good rep to protect.

Say all you like but you've got to admire her ... NO YOU FUCKIN' DON'T SHE'S APPALLING.

Delaying the vote is probably just asking Tory MPs to No Confidence her though, surely?

suicide by cop

apparently Downing Street is saying the vote is being postponed while Cabinet Ministers are saying it is going ahead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

lol, government vmic

PM statement to Commons at 3.30 apparently, w/ vote postponed. Lol xp

"I resign, and I would encourage the people of Britain to never vote Conservative again" is what she should say

it will be some weak piss about going back to Brussels to renegotiate deal. Seriously, the fucking archbishop should be praying for old testament God to strike her fucking down.

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Leadsom statement on Commons business expected to follow PM statement this afternoon, which implies they are indeed pulling the vote

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) December 10, 2018

i think there's plenty of Tory rebels now who desperately want a face-saving tweak to the wording of the Declaration so they can vote it thru. Not sure if denying them the performance of hardmanning the first vote is in May's interests, she should have thrown them that fish rather than jumping straight to the "look we've put an imaginary deadline on the backstop guys, the party is saved" stage.

May's instinct has always been to delay problems rather than grasp the nettle, so delaying until the new year would be entirely in keeping with what we know about her

— Gordon Rayner (@gordonrayner) December 10, 2018

It seems so silly to postpone and try and get something more or other from EU when the problem's not with the EU or the deal, the problem's with the Tories.

Apparently delay has to be approved by a vote in Parliamentary business and if Commons votes against kicking it down the road, they have to have the vote tomorrow LOL

fucking incredible

what a time to be alive

maybe she can delay the vote on whether to delay the vote

European commission says it will not renegotiate withdrawal agreement

The European commission has said that it will not renegotiate the withdrawal agreement. At a press briefing the commission’s spokeswoman Mina Andreeva said:

We take note of the court of justice judgment today on the irrevocability of article 50.

We have an agreement on the table which was endorsed by the European council in its article 50 format on the 25th November.

As President Juncker said, this deal is the best and only deal possible. We will not renegotiate - our position has therefore not changed and as far as we are concerned the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union on the 29th March 2019.

EU wont play anymore obv

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L-R: EU, UK Parliament, UK electorate

Every possible configuration of those three actually kind of works. L-R: UK Electorate, UK Parliament, EU

A government source has said that there won’t be a vote on a business motion to cancel Tuesday’s vote. (See 1.38pm.) “We are replacing the business with a new statement but it isn’t a motion and therefore isn’t voteable,” the source said.

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The banter timeline keeps delivering. I can’t wait to see this next speech.

Will it be a barely contained rage like the one after Tusk mocked her on Instagram (lol, remember that? Ancient history) or will it be an all time classic like NOTHING HAS CHANGED?

watching all this play out is like looking at an art installation where a collapsing building is filmed at 4,000,000fps and played back at 24fps so it takes months to completely hit the ground

In order for the "Tory Syriza, second time as farce" thesis to play out properly, the following #banter events need to happen:
1. Hastily called referendum
2. Leave wins 60/40
3. Brexit is cancelled anyway

— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) December 10, 2018

4. May to win subsequent general election

— Marcus Bensasson (@mbensass) December 10, 2018

#banter to the XTREME

the magic money tree just keeps on giving

The UK government spent almost £100,000 on Facebook adverts promoting Theresa May’s Brexit deal in the lead-up to the Commons vote being pulled, figures released by the social media firm show. As the Press Association reports, the company’s ad library report showed between Sunday December 2 and Saturday December 8 the UK government spent £96,684 on 11 promotions on Facebook. They included videos on “what the Brexit Deal means for you - explained in 60 seconds” and others focusing on immigration and jobs. Three videos, intending to explain the deal in terms of free trade, the economy and “controlling our borders”, cost between £10,000 and £50,000 each to promote, reaching between 500,000 and one million Facebook users apiece, the Press Association reports.

cracking idea that, pissing money away to promote her deal to ppl who don't even get to vote on it!

Pulling the meaningful vote then losing the vote on the programme motion and it still takes place would be absolute unstoppable peak Theresa May

— Pawel Swidlicki (@pswidlicki) December 10, 2018

absolutely transparently craven self-serving keep-you-in-the-game tactics that should have been her undoing months ago is peak TM to me, but she keeps surviving death. Which as R Pryor pointed out was the ultimate test.

Say all you like but you've got to admire her ... NO YOU FUCKIN' DON'T SHE'S APPALLING.

I will withdraw that remark and call her a FUCKING HERO if she manages to pull this off:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/12/10/going-kill-conservative-party-telegraph-readers-react-brexit/

Bufton Tuftons collapsing face first into the consommé all over the Home Counties.

a boon to the uk's ailing monocle industry with all the popping that's going on today

This must be in the running for most lol government of all time

commons statement starting strong

May says the debate has gone on for three days now.

She has listened very carefully to what has been said, she says.

That triggers loud laughter.

There is broad support for many aspects of the deal, she says.

That triggers more laughter.

But there is opposition to the backstop. If the vote went ahead, it would be lost by a large margin. So the vote will be deferred, she says.

oh god I wish I could watch this at work

believe me, you ain't missing much!

DUP trotting out the “we don’t need a backstop because nobody is going to build a hard border in Ireland anyway” bollocks.

Two years in and it’s still tricky to figure out who is lying and who is just thick here.