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

I know you know this suzy but I just want to make an Albert Speer joke at this point

Go for it NV, birthday boy privileges etc

Mordaunt?

Rumours that May wants to prorogue parliament early, may not, then, be exaggerated

,#coup

— MalSimonLibertéAmitiéSolidarité (@opheliasbrother) December 11, 2018

fuck sorry, was meant to be this (that's the reply):

It is the 330th anniversary of James II tossing the Great Seal into the Thames, without which he believed no Act of Parliament could be validated, an example of a British political leader under attack attempting to delay the inevitable by stalling the political process. pic.twitter.com/lzA6IAYsCx

— Richard Coles (@RevRichardColes) December 11, 2018

how'd it end for him

parliament hired william of orange to be the next monarch on v strict conditions of not dicking parliament around, and WoO had a new seal made from the same mould as the old one

james lived in exile in france for another 13 years (i had to look that bit up tho)

i guess he didn't get his head cut off like his dad tho so maybe he felt this did the job

rather unsporting of him to not go willingly to the block imo

also occasional nutters still turn up on the History Channel claiming to be the most legitimate heir to the English throne

Irish ilxors may have some opinion on this idk

Franz, Duke of Bavaria is the current King according to the Jacobite succession. He seems a bit of a character and isn't a pretender

some prospecting mudlark might get rich if that original seal turns up at low tide one day.

surely it's been tacitly understood that the legitimate heir is whoever the Lords and Commons will tolerate since, like, the Wars of the Roses, nu?

it'll be narrated in Tony Robinson's Blairite drone and he'll say "geophys" at least 10 times

it is generally considered" is not a heuristic i wd put weight on right now

Ha, I think i qualified it enough that it's the homeopathic version of a opinion.

pretty sure that's how the UK constitution works

Since all time really (quickly checks Stephen and Matilda history)

Parliament/blokes with big swords being increasingly interchangeable as you go back in history

also occasional nutters still turn up on the History Channel claiming to be the most legitimate heir to the English throne

Doited Germans are still ruling us all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3TTMJW7mDA

... dited, I mean.

Irish ilxors may have some opinion on this idk

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still just wanting not to be dragged into the arguments when ye get drunk tbh

still entirely neutral except thrilled to be here at the death of the Empire

48 sbs confirmed lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGNK-cOtxSs

good luck uk

obligatory retrospective pic.twitter.com/UidFRuL0M5

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) December 11, 2018

sniff... rip S+S, some of her greatest (s)hits.

she’s making a statement at ten apparently - will she walk?

*grabs imaginary ceremonial mace and shakes it vigorously*

she’s making a statement at ten apparently - will she walk?

Most people would, but then she should have walked after the last election, or after her conference speech shambles, or numerous times since then. She seems to have a pathological desire to remain 'in power', while not actually having any power and just spending month after month being humiliated.

Ideally, she'll vow to fight on, win 51% tonight, be told by the cabinet that she ought to step aside, and then refuse to go.

Scrub that - ideally she'd win a decisive 52% v 48% victory

it seems the entire world is watching this. according to al jazeera and the guardian she was meant to speak 15 minutes ago. clearly chaos behind the door.

End of season twists:

Calls an election

Does a Cromwell an expels anyone who disagrees with her - Rump Parliament 2

Government of National unity - pick your Ramsey MacDonald

lol it sounds like she’s going to crush the saboteurs all over again, good luck uk

Newsflash: She certainly is not walking.

So after a month of the Tories jumping all over one another, whoever wins has to negotiate their magical fantasy deal with the EU and somehow get it through *the same Parliament* before the end of January?

Not gonna happen.

I'm disappointed she hadn't worked on a dance for this announcement.

danse maycabre

Only people named in her speech - Corbyn and McDonnell. No surprise there.

Good moaning!

history mayne

She will win the vote comfortably, I think.

Yup

im not sure she can do anything comfortably, her internal gremlins appear to have been muddled long ago

Yes, I think she'll win moderately well (I wouldn't go as far as comfortably - maybe the 50-60 vote range).

12d chess - could she have got some allies to force a vote she knows she will win?

They would have to be particularly deluded or unobservant allies to trust her with that one.

AKA "members of the Conservative party" zing