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

proud to hep ye

i mean we have actually FBPE-ers on this thread regularly i don't think darragh's hamming it up is gonna send anybody over the edge

no wait come back this time im different

different red lines is the most interesting approach meaning as it does the dratted dups must have been removed

Irl lol @ this guy getting huffy that the UK can’t extend unilaterally

so many clips of our award-winning MPs that should be shown over a caption from Blair's "politicians are the *real* experts" speech

The idea that Labour will be able to deliver some kind of smoother Brexit is complete pie-in-the-sky thinking unless they somehow win a big majority. They could offer the softest Brexit possible and it would still be hammered from all sides and probably defeated in the Commons.

They'd be better off not getting any of this shit on their hands in the first place.

TM to revoke & resign

(many xps) If there's a vote against no deal, then the vote on Thursday has to extension vs cancellation, surely? In which case extension will win handily.

The one thing an election makes likely is the removal of the DUP as kingmakers. In which case suddenly a border in the sea is totally acceptable and we’re off to Singapore at last.

the entire countrys stuck up a tree it can’t go further up or get down from. we’ll be here till the end of days.

Tomorrow's vote will be very interesting, if to show the rift in the tory party alone. All the JRM-and-the-likes bastards have had to do up till now is say no to anything TM. Tomorrow they'll have to show their ~true colours~

I like that tree analogy very much. If only it could replace all the road-based ones in the media.

when the rubber hits the twigs

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bf/Kite_eating_tree_and_Charlie_brown.jpeg

Wonder if any of the EU27 feels like fucking the UK over now by veto-ing an extension

“The tone is hardening among the 27” say the Oracles. UK has to make a case for why it should have an extension

That case will be “how dare you not ReSpeCT thE REsuLT”

Been thinking that since seeing the German EU official straight after the vote. Xp

Pretty sure at least one of the ERG gameplans is to just keep delaying until the 27's patience snaps

xxp

👋🏻

now travelling to Cromwell rd to petition the motherland to veto for the bants

Politicians moving into talk of extensions and what length etc feels like the merchant ivory films where the gentlemen retire to the smoking room with the port and brandy.

If extension passes, then will there be votes to see if there's a majority for the three main options (a few months for a GE, ???? for a referendum, a few years for lads, go make yourself a pot of coffee and have a look at the state of ye)

Normally I'd say that the order of those votes is important, all votes are contextual etc etc, but I'm starting to realise that I'm thinking in terms of politicians who realise that if you can't get what you want, maybe see if you can get what'd be next on your list - and not a bunch of idiots, brains rotted from FPTP, pushing the button over and over until the pellet appears and growling if something else happens. The most influential politician of the time might yet be Ian Paisley.

Or have we actually reached a live enactment of the dinner party scene in carry on up the khyber?

Pretty sure at least one of the ERG gameplans is to just keep delaying until the 27's patience snaps

― Carpool Tunnel (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, March 12, 2019 9:29 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This isn't too far off imo.

I also wonder if May might yet turn the car around - she's warned that the defeat might lead to no Brexit, would she end up putting out a flowchart with "and if none of you can get your act together then we'll cancel".

Also, lolz at "we don't want to be stuck in the EU for ages with this weak backstop arrangement" leading to being stuck in the EU for ages

I also wonder if May might yet turn the car around - she's warned that the defeat might lead to no Brexit, would she end up putting out a flowchart with "and if none of you can get your act together then we'll cancel".

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 20:34 (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes but is she talking to her lot, the commons or the eu in this quote

trying to save the conservative party by trashing its brand for a generation. it’s certainly a strategy

the problem with having a GE for the CP now is that the one brexit position that they could all unite behind (malthouse) has been thoroughly discredited by the EU. they would not campaign on ND so... what? may’s deal ?!

https://t.co/VypdxawguJ

— Editing TheGrayLady (@nyt_diff) March 12, 2019

https://t.co/VypdxawguJ

— Editing TheGrayLady (@nyt_diff) March 12, 2019

That crop in the preview makes Lidington & Hammond look like palette swaps.

ugh you can't post the updates separately -- i was just amused at the "gray lady's" attempts to rewrite the headline over the last hour or so

(you can see them if you click through)

Tbh if Parliament can dictate government policy tomorrow then I support all kinds of wacky amendments like, I dunno, forcing Jacob Rees-Mogg to quit Westminster and become a turnip farmer or something.

Honestly seeing the Tory Party slowly realise they're in the wickerman has been one of the few bright spots in this, and I would really love for May to decide that since her deal is the best one possible from the clear mandate that the public gives her when it speaks in her head at 11:32 every day, the real way forwards would be to go back to the public with that as the official policy and get a proper mandate.

Any conservative minded to campaign for No Deal can of course caucus with the Brexit Party, which recently overtook UKIP for sitting MEP count.

for = 'as regards'

BTW it’s being reported that Tom Watson registered Furure Britain or whatever on the same day TIG registered their shit.

We should welcome the success of @jeremycorbyn in healing the most damaging split in the history of the modern Labour Party - that between Blairites & Brownites - and look forward to their contribution to policy debate in our pluralist, democratic party https://t.co/zwHhx2R6pB

— Jon Lansman (@jonlansman) March 12, 2019

Iannucci posting about a simultaneously catastrophic lack of credible opposition and government to a typically thick-headed Caitlin Moran post is some fbpe gold for you people tonight!

I also wonder if May might yet turn the car around - she's warned that the defeat might lead to no Brexit, would she end up putting out a flowchart with "and if none of you can get your act together then we'll cancel".

Worst FAP ever

“I’m a socialist.”

“Joe’s an arch neo-liberal Tory.”

“I’m socially right.”

The facebook group which gets people with radically different political views to meet up in the pub and chat, nicely.

We need more of this! 👏 pic.twitter.com/Evdn75Bvle

— Catrin Nye (@CatrinNye) March 12, 2019

*bashes self to sleep*

we're all going to die:

Yep, this actually just happened at Brunton Park...#cufc pic.twitter.com/SPTw1fCMb3

— Matthew Hill (@NicoHillkenberg) March 12, 2019

Ugh I just remembered we still have to hear about the Bloody Sunday trials this week too. 💀

The Westminster meeting was attended by about 90 MPs and peers

At least nobody can accuse these guys of being populists

Ugh, Jess Phillips is on cancer Bake-Off next week.

Jess Phillips is a Nandos Tucker Carlson for the Guardian voyeur set

^ most spot on descriptive metaphor since "authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board"