"oh you don't get me I'm the end of the union": lol brexit is how we're all gonna die

This isn't going to end well.

Exclusive: Theresa May mulls amending Good Friday Agreement to get her Brexit deal past MPshttps://t.co/XGNdAqbg4a

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) January 20, 2019

Can't not end well if it just never ends /smartguy

Weird, I could have sworn that was a bilateral agreement.

Presumably that would need the agreement of the Irish government and the various groupings in Northern Ireland? Good luck with that

Just 🤔really🤔weird🤔how this idea materialised as a result of a shaky confidence and supply agreement with the only party in NI to oppose the GFA.

let's do it and be legends

see yis lads

im off to join the ra

Good lad

if we're going by subs then it's time we started talking abt one of the most important influencers in the media landscape: hbomberguy

the twitch feed of his marathon donkey kong 64 session to raise money for mermaids seems to have become a rallying point for the whole online left. AOC popped on to discuss govt shutdown earlier

they had chelsea manning & george romero earlier, paris lees & owen jones now. $246k playing donkey kong. this is rad

george....romero? is there a famous one of those that's still alive?

ha, john romero, the doom guy/fps king

oh lol

John Carpenter plays video games, they could've gotten him.

I just caught a bit of it last night but the atmosphere was lovely: mixture of famous ppl on the left, gaming ppl and regular ppl (who were generally the most interesting and informed). it was educational and ridiculous and it meant a lot to a lot of ppl. glinners mentions are now full of donkey kong, it's glorious

The apparent fact that May's Plan B is 'one more heave' to get the EU to change their minds on the backstop is pretty deranging, like there's a Roomba in charge of the country.

"foreign contaminant"

like there's a Roomba in charge of the country.

Except a Roomba cleans up the mess

centre-right party USP is supposed to be practical, safe, "strong and stable" management - and afaict those parties in both the UK and the US are in the process of comprehensively trashing that rep for at least a generation

A Roomba tracking through dog shit.

afaict those parties in both the UK and the US are in the process of comprehensively trashing that rep for at least a generation

and yet, people will vote for them anyway, and people who spent years going "can't vote for Labour bcz The Economy, got to vote for the party of business" appear quite happy for companies to move abroad and Boris to say "fuck business" as long as there are flags to wave

ho hum

lol some good stuff on Twitter about how a non-zero proportion of the population think "no deal" means "no Brexit"

I mean

it's time to take a stand pic.twitter.com/z5nvlNwEXt

— Stan The Golden Boy (@tristandross) October 5, 2016

what election are people most looking forward to, march or october?

Donald Tusk, the European council president, has claimed that David Cameron told him he thought he would never have to hold the referendum he promised because the Lib Dems would block it. In an interview for a BBC documentary, ‘Inside Europe: Ten Years of Turmoil’, the first episode of which goes out a week today, Tusk said:

"I asked David Cameron, ‘Why did you decide on this referendum, this – it’s so dangerous, so even stupid, you know,’ and, he told me - and I was really amazed and even shocked - that the only reason was his own party, [He told me] he felt really safe, because he thought at the same time that there’s no risk of a referendum, because, his coalition partner, the Liberals, would block this idea of a referendum. But then, surprisingly, he won and there was no coalition partner. So paradoxically David Cameron became the real victim of his own victory."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Tusk was right about Cameron then and he’s right now.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/23/polish-mps-ridicule-cameron-stupid-propaganda-eurosceptics

To be fair to the cunt no one thought the Tories were in with a chance of winning a majority when the idea was first proposed.

I was in a five-hour meeting today and didn’t keep up with Brexit and am now hopelessly adrift. Did anything happen? Plan B is Plan A: Brexit Boogaloo, right?

may hasnlooked into her heart to discern the will of the people and it's hard brexit with a side portion of fuck ireland an all

TM now claiming that all the political parties in NI are represented in opinion (dodging a pointed question about the GFA and how dealing with the only party that opposed it might affect that).

This is a really poor performance, just saying stuff like the Tories support workers rights.

A lot of feigned outrage here (and referring to the GFA as the Belfast agreement).

Fair play to the SNP, some good questions here.

I was p much where you were today Stet, and what I gathered from today was that, indeed, May has no fucking clue, no plan B, nothing.

"The Prime Minister says she wants to listen to" the most common sentence in the papers liveblogs today. It is just so weak, so completely void of ideas, or better yet, a true stance. She's hopelessly adrift.

(tinkering w/ the GFA seems already an abandoned srategy, less than 24h after it being called into question)

Gotta say I kinda love* that Prince Philip is driving around like a lunatic going fuck knows where while the country is on its knees.

*I will starting minding if he severely injures or kills someone.

what if that someone is

it's hope

I wish that overrated tosh with Scully playing M Thatcher would ditch the hagiography style and boldly portray Phillip as a fascist paedo-necrophilliac, trawling the morgues with Jimmy Savile and getting rat-arsed in his secret nazi-memorabilia chamber.

NEW: @YvetteCooperMP bill just out. Gives PM until Feb 26 to get her deal through. If she fails, Parliament will be able to direct next steps. Bill will give Parliament a vote to prevent No Deal & vote on whether to extend A50 and for how long. Backed by Boles, Letwin, Morgan pic.twitter.com/Ftvu0GuDi8

— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) January 21, 2019

And... NEW: Labour tables own amendment, ruling out No Deal and with two options: 1) A Norway style arrangement with ‘comprehensive customs union’ anstrong single market deal’ 2) Option of a public vote > Corbyn wants option 1.... pic.twitter.com/2o0xTVknLk

— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) January 21, 2019

can someone pls read the amendments and plug them into the 'wtf happens next model'

I agree with Corbyn. I’d take a Norway style arrangement if it was possible.

So I don't *think* that these two amendments are contradictory but I've completely lost track of what's going on. I'm assuming Dominic Grieve is going to chuck one on the pile as well.

fnar fnar. It's quite amusing that even some casual observers actually fucking know who Dominic Grieve is these days, aka the diaphanous nobody etc.

Beth Rigby's "vote on whether to extend article 50" bugs me, making it sound like the UK has the power to do this rather than just make a request to do so.

If Matt has lost track with what's going on, there's no hope for the rest of us.

Which EU nations are most likely to veto the request? Serious question. I guess Italy, maybe Hungary? Lots of nations won't want to make things difficult for their citizens over here.

I think revoke and reapply is an option as revoking can be done unilaterally so the EU can choose a short extension or two more years of this.

I'm worried that the more the loser's vote people continue to flex their rolodexes and talk loudly - all across the airwaves - about the necessity for a second referendum... the more leavers will become bitterly entrenched and a minority of a minority position - no deal - could become the most popular option amongst the leave-voting public. spite is a trip. particularly in a context where all of the other options seem irreducible and politicians incapable of sorting things out.

"shared institutions and obligations" and "dynamic alignment on rights and standards" sound like quite a soft brexit to me. second vote wording is interesting too. can envisage a scenario where labour electioneers on a manifesto to offer a ratification referendum for either formal confirmation of negotiated deal or considered rejection of the whole shebang

GE set up nicely

CON: we would have delivered Real Brexit if labour had respected democracy. vote for us and we will deliver Real Brexit, and restore faith in politics.

LAB: we would have delivered Sensible Brexit but that shambles wasted 2 years now it's impossible. vote for us and we will rebuild our shattered political and economic institutions. we will seek a new deal with the EU and let people have the final say on the question once and for all

"shared institutions and obligations" = ECJ and FOM-by-another-name?

they've been being a bit cute on FOM ("FOM will end when we leave") in much the same way they were cute about "A customs union / THE customs union".

i just want a no deal is better than a bad deal red white and blue brexit is that too much to ask blimey