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

she doesn't strike me as being competent enough to be a Donald Maclean of the remain camp, but maybe that's the very cunning mask!

Silence from Michael Gove but not from one of his neighbours, who called over to us: "Give him hell, he's a total w*nker."

— Aubrey Allegretti (@breeallegretti) March 14, 2019

My interview with Steve Baker: "It would be a really catastrophic negotiating error to take no deal off the table"

Also Steve Baker (in the same interview): "Catastrophe is a word that should be reserved for genuine loss of life. No politician should use it." pic.twitter.com/sa3TqcGRyD

— Daniel Hewitt (@DanielHewittITV) March 13, 2019

He's no politician, etc...

The tin foil conhome line of course is that May is a closet remainer and this has been the plan all along.

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 14 March 2019 09:52 (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mrs mac keeps saying this and refusing to engage when i splutter

1. Following two successive votes rejecting the draft withdrawal agreement (DWA) (432-202 against and 391-242 against) and this evening’s vote (321-278) to reject any no deal Brexit, here is a personal reflection/contribution on possible extensions of time under Article 50 TEU.

— Eleanor Sharpston (@akulith) March 13, 2019

(Advocate General at the CJEU here)

do NOT want a headbanger* PM for the next stage of the negotiations

*corbyn jokes will get fp’d

if you listen to May's campaigning pre-ref, she was the luke-warm and weak remainer that fbpers unfairly characterise corbyn as.

16. However, a request for a significantly longer extension based on a clear commitment to work through that programme would be underpinned by a ‘plausible justification’ and thus be intrinsically more likely to achieve command the necessary unanimous support from the EU-27.

— Eleanor Sharpston (@akulith) March 13, 2019

Would something like this have to passed by Parliament? Because, it seems unlikely.

My [senior broadcaster] gossip source said they did think May would not want to be remembered as the PM who crashed the UK out of the EU without a deal, whatever the rest of her party are clamouring for, but she is not a classical Remainer because of seeing a golden opportunity to take the UK out of EU human rights legislation (and it’s no little irony that Corbyn’s Remain vote centres on keeping the UK in all those agreements plus GFA).

He's no politician, etc...

Eddie: “What about people who have changed their minds on Brexit?”

Liz Truss: “I don’t think people have changed their minds”

Eddie: “You have”

Liz Truss: “I have, thats true…” https://t.co/Qohzc1u1oj

— LBC (@LBC) March 13, 2019

Secret plan to deprive Farage of his salary?

30. Another possible solution might be to revert to the (old Parliamentary Assembly) practice of sending nominated MPs from the UK, rather than directly elected MEPs, to participate in the EP during that period.

— Eleanor Sharpston (@akulith) March 13, 2019

It's an interesting thread but is anyone listening to "advice"?

But sure, you're right, it's Jeremy Corbyn that has been blocking a second referendum https://t.co/RQh4gPfwkQ

— Adam Becket (@adambecket) March 14, 2019

looking increasingly unlikely that labour backbenchers will fold and take the political pain. ERG nutters won’t fold. DUP might align behind PM but still don’t see how she gets the numbers

The whip was paired off with a Labour MP who had a family emergency, apparently.

Vienna is the answer!

midge ure to thread

xxp I'm surprised anyone still trusts pairing after those Tories reneged on it last year

Well, they only reneged a pair on a pregnant woman, obviously not as important as a man with a grandchild in hospital...

Only one soldier on the hook for Bloody Sunday.

RTÉ are reporting charges will be brought for attempted murder against four other people.

How nice for all the other families to know their loved ones were shot by completely autonomous guns, I guess.

Every knife sold in the UK should have a gps tracker fitted in the handle. It’s time we had a national database like we do with guns. If you’re carrying it around you had better have a bloody good explanation, obvious exemptions for fishing etc.

— Scott Mann (@scottmann4NC) March 14, 2019

Despite everything, I think it’s sometimes easy to underestimate quite how stupid a lot of MPs are.

I look forward to the smart-knife revolution!

What if blockchain but for knives send tweet.

Sorry, was stopped on my bike - the answer is that Cox might yet agree that the Vienna Convention gives the right of unilateral exit to the backstop.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/13/erg-signals-it-could-back-may-brexit-deal-legal-advice-is-clearer

Also Andrew Griffiths, who lost the whip last year because he'd been sending violent sexual texts to constituents, and then was let back in before the confidence vote in December, ended up with a temporary promotion to whip last night, when the actual whips fucked off after the Brexit vote with business still to do.

every smart knife should have a small incendiary charge inside that will blast off the hand of anyone attempting to remove the gps tracker

then the small incendiary charge inside every smart knife should have a small incendiary charge inside it that will blast off the hand of anyone attempting to circumvent the small incendiary charge which prevents removal of the gps tracker

and so on and so forth until every knife handle holds enough explosive to level a small city

just start arresting young perps in their house.. entering your kitchen son? that's premeditated homicide .. book him!

i can never get my phone's gps to work indoors. so all those knives would also need wifi.

fuck soldier f

xp Sounds like worryingly close to the 'missile knife' from Iain M. Banks' Culture novels

NEW: Gavin Williamson statement on Bloody Sunday prosecution decision.

“We are indebted to those soldiers who served with courage and distinction to bring peace to Northern Ireland.” pic.twitter.com/yV0h5DJaGV

— Lucy Fisher (@LOS_Fisher) March 14, 2019

The dude shot one civilian in the back and another in the head and this is how Williamson wants to frame it.

extremely funny that the scottish tories were lauded immediately post-GE17 as a very influential voting bloc

Despite everything, I think it’s sometimes easy to underestimate quite how stupid a lot of MPs are.

Especially ones called Mann.

v cool that squaddies can continue to feel empowered to commit war crimes, thanks gavin

Is that the full statement? It doesn't even mention any apologies or condolences to the families and communities affected. I'd have thought something along those lines would be standard regardless of the verdict.

Hopefully it's just an excerpt but I can't see a longer one anywhere.

(Everyone otm about framing too, of course.)

its grand lads

grand

if you needed to pass stringent psychological evaluations for the MoD top job this nasty little fucker would be considered an immature liability at best. He's making Fallon look good. He's clearly got some incel/masculinity issues that he's working out through fantasy play/his job and is unfit for the position. Kim Jong Un is a model of calculated restraint next to this idiot. Hope RA blow his fucking legs off.

tory whips: as whips we are whipping against the whips
peoples vote: we are against the people's vote
road safety party: ROAD DANGER NOW

Conservative party: this line is passing out the petrol, that line is for the torches

Brexiteers: we're voting against leaving the EU

Mavericks to the bitter end.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/14/dup-leader-arlene-foster-ready-to-strike-deal-with-may-to-end-brexit-impasse

LOL if the DUP vote with the government and they still lose.

yeah, that would be extremely sweet

wondering how to get a few paras to just walk in and gun down the entire dup seeing as its always the right approach

It'll call the bluff of the ERG and we can find out whether they give an actual flying fuck about the backstop and NI, I'm guessing they don't.

Foster said it was “not only about the attorney general changing the advice” and said reassurances had to come as a package. She said: “When you come to the end of the negotiation, that’s when you really start to see the whites of people’s eyes and you get down to the point where you can make a deal.”

Reading this as "When people eyes are wide enough because they realise that we're actually properly a shower of lunatics, that's the sweet spot, right there"

xp I mean, 65% of NI is in favour of the backstop, if that's any clue.

Yeah but they're also in favour of the EU. The ERG problem with the backstop is the overweening CONTROL it gives those Euros over Britannia

there must be 10-15 hardcore ERG who would sooner pull the pin on the gov than vote through MV4