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

they're only doing it because they love us so much

they hate us for our freedoms of movement

We’re back on no-confidence watch again (in May, not the Govt)

And 15 minutes later we had our first taste of sherry
There was Tories giving lectures on why they call it Londonderry
The Prods all started killing folks and Theresa she got merry

You expect a bit of willful ignorance and arrogant dismissive trollery from senior Tory scum on the RoI, but some of that 2010 intake crowd just seem genuinely ignorant/thick as fuck/clueless about its history (Cleverly and Bradley are prime examples), not that it matters because it's nbd to the UK media.

These are people who've decided that being a Tory MP is a life goal tbf

^ “not that it matters because it’s nbd to the u.k. media” also seems to cover really nearly anything to do with policy, v the reporting of or on opinion westminster shitslinging and manoeuvring. that was even before brexit, and seems to have led to the tory budget policy under osborne (and also nick timothy approach)of “let’s give it a go and if no one shouts we’ll keep it, and if they do we reverse ferret and leave a rucking great unfilled hole in our budget and policies. because no one will scrutinise it”.

just before i left work my colleague who claims to have a well-connected friend on the inside track on westminster politics said “she’s reached 48” and i jumped on twitter to see if that was the case but sadly nothing doing by the looks of it. i mean it makes no difference to anything (see para above) as the tory party is still there, but the lolz wd be strong.

My understanding is that they can’t announce it if she’s out of the country.

Tbf she's really gone for it this week

Yes, I think there’s a whole thing has to happen before they publicly confirm 48

does it involve a mace

They have to give her 48 hours’ notice.

^^^ meaning, she gets two days advance warning before Brady announces. So cannot break embargo before Thursday or Friday if letters came through today.

YOU'VE GOT 48 HOURS TO SOLVE THIS CASE MAY

cut to May struggling to get out of her car.

Brady has asked to see May tomorrow

*muttering* election election

*louder* Election! Election!

*sweeps papers onto floor, stands on desk, downs can of lager* ELECTION

*hangs union jack outside window* ELECTION

*changes phone background to Image_from_#Rochester.jpg* ELECTION ELECTION

just heard it on R4 that Grady has the 48 and is summoning May to the "killing zone" tomorrow.

a political career based on being completely implacable and apparently impervious to stimuli can only last so long I suppose

so May is about to lose the PM spot, is that what you guys are blathering about? this thread can be hard to follow as an ignorant yank

rip big man, heaven needed the most disastrous prime minister in a century or more

Do you really think a party no confidence vote will send her down? It would be in character for her to win it and hang around for another year ‘to deliver Brexit’

In other new, Boris Johnson has lost a stone through quitting booze HE’S RUNNING

so May is about to lose the PM spot, is that what you guys are blathering about? this thread can be hard to follow as an ignorant yank

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, December 11, 2018 4:04 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it seems likely (although we may not know until tomorrow) that enough conservative MPs have asked for a vote of no confidence in her leadership of the party. if she resigned or lost that then that would ipso facto be stepping down as PM too.

this is what happened last time, it's all good fun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Conservative_Party_(UK)_leadership_election

is the prime minister allowed to be anyone other than the elected leader of the party that leads the government? Or is that person automatically the prime minister?

right, I remember that

also can we just lol @ Gove's wiki photo I mean wtf this is some Mr. Bean shit

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Official_portrait_of_Michael_Gove_crop_2.jpg/112px-Official_portrait_of_Michael_Gove_crop_2.jpg

xp

PM doesn’t need to be the leader, strictly speaking. But it’s v irregular for it not to be

is the prime minister allowed to be anyone other than the elected leader of the party that leads the government? Or is that person automatically the prime minister?

― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, December 11, 2018 4:13 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

PM is whoever the queen invites to PM. in practice she conventionally invites the leader of the largest party, if that party has over 50% of MPs, or leader of a coalition of over 50% of MPs if not (which is the present situation).

does the PM even need to be an MP?

i'm not saying i want the job, but if she asked me then i think i would say yes.

Perhaps we can all be the PM.

So like I know there's all this preparation in place for the queen dying; is there a parallel preparation for if the queen or one of her wide-faced issue try to actually exert their sovereign prerogative ever again?

oes the PM even need to be an MP?

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, December 11, 2018 1:18 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes

Not sure if I can handle the excitement of May losing the confidence vote and going and the results of the Belle and Sebastian poll in the same week.

little trick I use to remember: you can't spell PM without MP

does the PM even need to be an MP?

Most of them weren't until the 20th century.

Douglas-Home had to MP himself iirc? Nb I may not rc

He did become an MP but I don’t think he technically had to.

does the PM even need to be an MP?

Most of them weren't until the 20th century.

― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Tuesday, December 11, 2018 1:24 PM (thirteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

members of the house of lords aren't MPs in the popular meaning of that term but they are literally members of parliament.

For our American viewers right now it feels a bit like me saying "surely youse have a political mechanism for removing somebody clearly unfit to do the job?"

if theresa may loses the confidence vote, she should have to go on that belle & sebastian implication weekender cruise

But she mightn't even be into REDACTED year-old girls

Lord Hailsham gave up his peerage to try for leadership of the Tory Party and, thereafter, PM?

I think SV is correct

Nothing in the unwritten consitution says that a member of the government has to be either an MP or a member of the House of Lords (the Solicitor General for Scotland is neither but is a member of the government), and by extension nor does the Prime Minister. All s/he has to be is in a postion to command a majority in the House of Commons otherwise s/he could not run an administration. Sir Alec Douglas-Home was Prime Minister whilst still Earl of Home and member of the House of Lords. He renounced his title and became plain Sir Alec Douglas-Home so that he could stand for election to the Commons as described above. He remained Prime Minster even though he had left the Lords and had not yet been elected to the Commons. The leader of any party in the positon described by the questions would be expected to fight a very quick and easy by election.

(that's from notes and queries)

Altho let's be real the messiah isn't waiting In the House of Lords

Well, if Apprentice hosts are seen to be on trend...

I think (thought?) that it was generally considered that a PM would have to be an MP nowadays. Rather than a Lord, that is.

(ah, x-posts)