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

Cadwalladr went full-Mensch quite some time ago. She's already decided on a narrative and has been desperately searching for evidence to fit it. It taints any supposed dirt she actually does turn up.

It remains to be seen whether Salvini wants to go to war with the rest of the EU over something that has no direct benefit to Italy, or that the Leave.EU cru, rhetoric aside, actually wants to hand the UK a scapegoat for withdrawing A50, rather than extending it.

Interesting. how do you go about determining if someone has "decided on a narrative"?

The evidence is that there was major electoral interference and outright cheating in the Brexit vote, and that Arron Banks' source of the money that founded the campaign remain opaque - and it was great journalism to even get to that point in the first place.

The narrative, which she promotes largely via Twitter rather than her articles, is that this is all part of a unified international conspiracy emanating from Russia and tying in both Facebook and Trump.

I hear an interesting move is afoot by Tory/DUP/Labour Brexiteer MPs - tabling a joint amendment to rule out a 2nd Referendum in principle for Thursday’s voting. Plan is to spike People’s Vote’s guns early.

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) March 13, 2019

Downing Street unable to satisfactorily explain why the government is whipping against the Spelman amendment but isn't whipping against the Malthouse amendment, despite May saying she opposed both in the Commons earlier.

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) March 13, 2019

gyac OTM about the continued bigging up of the Malthouse amendment being embarrassing madness

I've long had a suspicion that those who slag her off either (i) don't want her to be right because of the awfulness of it or (ii) have vested interests. Happy to be corrected though.

Yes, it certainly is true that I’m a wide-eyed optimist in the pocket of Russia.

I think it’s a story worth covering, I just wish it was being done by someone who wasn’t her. You can dig up all the evidence of dodginess on the Leave side all you like, but when you’re spending time out there pouncing on everything and going “Russia!”, you’re stepping on your own good work and allowing the crowd being investigated to handwave anything accurate coming from you.

She tweeted this the other day, when a simple google would have saved her a lot of goodwill.

Really hope journalists in Ireland pay attention to this story. Explosive new doc reveals your prime minister was in thrall to Facebook & lobbied on its behalf. Your country’s relationship with Silicon Valley is deeply dysfunctional & affects us allhttps://t.co/xS171tYDVI

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 3, 2019

But why do that when you can be extrapolating on the reasons why Andy Wigmore might have his twitter location turned off?

It’s not even the most important story of how Brexit happened. These guys are undoubtedly wrong ‘uns but they’re small fry compared to Rupert Murdoch, the Rothermeres and the Barclays.

Yes the fact that we have a slavishly pro-Brexit press printing absolute fantasies on a daily basis is more significant and I don't think anyone has accused Rupert Murdoch of being in the pay of the Kremlin recently.

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9e52ba4e157a3b2681d2038bf7c5046570f6e136/0_276_5592_3355/master/5592.jpg

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9e52ba4e157a3b2681d2038bf7c5046570f6e136/0_276_5592_3355/master/5592.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=980075b3ec4c882871aa6babb4a7cccf

god willed the creation of the unitary nation state

he just did a bad job with the United Kingdom

i mean fine but why isnt he lobbying for a return to the actual nations of biblical times while hes up and roaring

Sodom, Gomorrah, um the other ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9uj2GY1MHQ

The Bible was originally written in English per the KJV's wording, which got babelized by swarthy foreigners then subsequently rediscovered in the 17th century iirc.

that's....way better than it has any right to be xp

snoop mogg alone justifies at least .5% of brexit

T May w/ ragged voice very compelling (not the words tho)

morbz no horny on main

Define “compelling.”

got my attention on the radio

kinda like Sinatra in the '90s

Regrets, she's had none.

these boots weren't made for turnin'

Tomorrow's front page: Theresa May vows to press ahead with her Brexit plan even if she loses her premiership https://t.co/iqBDGcqdpg pic.twitter.com/o0EwDTq53x

— The Sun (@TheSun) October 21, 2018

Balls, that was meant to link to the photo.

For some reason I thought she mentioned Sinatra in her Desert Island Discs, but no:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04pr6rz

let her be frank

desert island discs usually (about 99% of the time) features rich people who hate music, but i'll play along with this stupid show.

ok u got me, i edit The Sun

ummmmmmmm

The US admissions scandal: have any mediocre students ever ended up at Oxbridge? https://t.co/CoUUfmwBVp pic.twitter.com/I1bRuBfAy7

— Guardian G2 (@guardiang2) March 13, 2019

anyway - still potential for drama tonight if spelman gets moved and the government doesn’t allow a free vite

lmao she tried to withdraw it and bercow told her to get tae

My understanding was she was entitled to withdraw it unless one of the other signatories insisted? Dunno, i'm at work this evening so largely off-grid. Bercow is the Parliamentary equivalent of attention-hungry football refs who make the rules up as they go along

May risks further blow as Bercow dismisses attempt to stop vote on hostile no-deal amendment

Spelman says she is going to withdraw her amendment.

She says that that is because it is more important to have a big vote for a no-deal amendment (ie, a big majority for the government motion) than for her to carry on with an amendment already passed in January.

So she will withdraw her amendment, she says.

John Bercow, the Speaker, intervenes. He says she cannot withdraw it. It is being debated, and it is in the hands of the house. He says that she can choose not to move it. But other signatories to it could move it, he says.

Bercow dismisses Tory attempt to cancel a vote on a no-deal amendment embarrassing to the government.
This is awkward for Theresa May because the government motion would have been carried overwhelmingly, without the Conservative party splitting. But if the Spelman amendment is moved by one of the other signatories, as seems likely (Labour MPs Jack Dromey and Yvette Cooper are among those who have signed it), there probably will be a Tory split.

I'll admit that in moments of real denial and despair I've wondered if Bercow has some cunning, anorak-ish plan to scupper the whole thing via a certain interlocking series of votes and amendments that dials all the pieces into some inexorable zugzwang whose only resolution is revocation

Bercow said earlier if the unchanged deal comes back a third time, he can block it.

wonder if a wee spell in opposition (and all the requisite bloodletting that would entail) might not be the best option for the conservatives rn

For Labour, the path to resolving the Brexit crisis is easy enough in theory – they just need to win a parliamentary majority of 20 or above. In practice this may be quite difficult but it is at least theoretically achievable.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/elections/2019/03/why-its-not-true-say-general-election-wouldnt-change-anything-brexit

...a mere one-point swing from the Conservatives to Labour would see them lose 15 seats... In addition, a further 21 seats would fall to Labour if they can replicate their 2017 swing, which was in of itself only their fifth-best since 1945.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/elections/2017/10/jeremy-corbyns-2017-performance-was-better-you-think

Quoting private remarks by the Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, Weyand also said the decision to vote for no deal was “like the Titanic voting for the iceberg to get out of the way"

Yes I'm sure that's what was meant

voting on spelman now?

I didn’t realise the disgraced former Secretary was Scottish.

The Spelman amendment is being moved & this could split the Tories, let’s see...

How many MPs do you reckon go through the No Deal lobby?

200+

130 imo

I think Spelman is a whipped vote so in theory you’d expect to see some resignations (unless they abstain lol)

Which disgraced former secretary?

god willed the creation of the unitary nation state

Read this as 'god willed the creation of the urinary nation state'.

Disgraced former defence secretary Dr Liam Fox.

He doesn't sound Scottish to you?

liz truss on c4 news now coming across as an utter moron