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

Some Spectator writers loved it and how it appealed to the little people.

jesus we're right over here yknow

just in case this gets dragged out until the last minute, is that last minute Thursday 23:59 EU time or is it UK time?

EU time, there is a faction of MPs trying to get Big Ben, currently undergoing engineering work, to bong specially at 11pm U.K. time to mark th occasion.

The Death Knell Committee

Re: Corbyn, it doesn't actually matter if the meeting's a sham - it's better to go and then tell everybody it was a sham and then keep the pressure on the PM while making yourself look like the only grown-up in the room at a time of national crisis. (Or better still make Chuka leave for the very valid reason that he isn't a party leader).

It doesn't matter that much but it does hand a small propaganda victory to the Indie Group (won't help them if there's an election, mind). As it is there's a story being spun, that a lot of people believe, that we have two stubborn, intransigent leaders taking the country to the brink of national crisis. You only want people to believe half of that. I know we over-use the word 'optics' these days, but still, it's the optics.

When Corbyn walked out of that meeting you just know that Chuka was invisibly punching the air with delight.

idk, he secured the bilateral meeting he wanted (a telephone call late last night) and gets to show he is not going to be pushed around by May. There was a narrative emerging last night that Corbyn would cave on the text of the withdrawal agreement in favour of amending the non-binding political statement around it - which this pretty quickly killed.

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chuka would have had his PR win anyway - he would come out carping about the broken intransigence of our two main party leaders AND he would have stuck the knife into JC in particular given that TIG are a labour spoiler op. may will have known there was a chance JC would just leave - either way, if he stays, she still gets to go on the ten saying MPs have failed you now have licence to lamp them in the street

the stunt will backfire for the conservatives in the med-long term tho: TM needs labour votes to pass her deals. so she needs to create scenarios which strengthen JC. his walkout gives a free hit to LDs/TIG/SNP so lab need to shore up against those remain forces. so they can’t then move towards her deal. she has done this repeatedly: made it harder and harder for labour votes to cross the aisle toward her (see eg the struggling town fund)

MDC OTM. When someone too junior somehow inveigles their way into a meeting like that, the right thing to do is send *them* away. Terrible optics, though - Robbie Gibb must’ve been texting around the Westminster press pool with glee.

Yeah that's OTM about Labour votes. Thing is that having to rely on Labour to get your flagship policy across would be humiliating for May and I get the sense she'd almost rather just lose the vote. And also I think there's a decent chance that Labour will continue to vote against her whatever happens, and there aren't enough flakes to make up for Tory rebels.

So, we've all signed the Revoke and Remain petition, yes?

523K signatories and counting!

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584

sure they'll debate that, they've got a ton of time

Bar code & Matt both otm - it’s bad optics for JC, but if he’d stayed you know Chuka would have made hay out of him rolling his eyes or some shit.

Though anyone still talking about this this morning (not us, obvs, commentators) rather than that horrific speech isn’t acting in good faith imo.

Oh make no mistake, May definitely came out worse out of last night.

Missed all the fun last night because lol we're all gonna die as well.

That speech was really something else. Think it was NV who said it's insulting to Baldrick to call her Baldrick, which is as otm as it gets.

lol parliament.uk has been crashed by quickest to 3/4 mill petition ever.

The true meaning of operation yellowhammer is to divert resources from the petitions IT budget to truck parking in Kent.

This one is already even bigger than the petition that just said “Stop ISIS” . Can’t fail.

Didn’t a million plus people sign the petition to have IDS survive on Jobseekers for a week?

The one stopping Trump coming the UK was enormous too. And a complete waste of time and effort.

Nah it helped keep his presence to the minimum esp. in London.

Make 'netting' hedgerows to prevent birds from nesting a criminal offence.

^^^

would have signed this one if the site wasn't fritzed.

only reasonable analysis is she’s engineering the failure of her premiership

Operation Yellowhammer indeed xp

Does everyone follow this account?

"Recommend Her Majesty The Queen dissolve parliament and take personal control." https://t.co/YMWP3cucLF

— Rejected Petitions (@rejectpetitions) March 19, 2019

Bit of a kar krash performance by Kwasi Kwarteng on Sky News this morning. He obviously drew the short straw and had the task of interpreting and explaining May's doolally speech to reporters chomping at the bit to rip it to shreds.

Head like a hole
PM is a troll
She'd rather die than give you control
Bow down before the one you serve
You're going to get what you deserve

You could post the rest of that song unchanged and it’d fit perfectly.

Well, you've got me working so hard lately
Working my whips until they bleed
If I was twice the PM I could be
I'd still be half of what you need

I dunno about petitions. Really think what we need is for Russell Brand to weigh in.

Kwasi loves that short straw and any opportunity to patronise a news presenter

it's heads-on-pikes time here in our fair nation

MPs have been advised to travel home by taxi when they leave Parliament over fears they could be attacked by angry voters over their handling of Brexit, Kevin Schofield reports at PoliticsHome.

fs

A thought/question, oh #Brexit Twitter about what happens if the Withdrawal Agrement is voted down again next week.

How does @theresa_may get sent back to Brussels to ask for an extension she says she will not ask for? 1/Thread

— Peter Foster (@pmdfoster) March 21, 2019

squeaky nation time

theres an ever stronger argument t'give et giggseh tbf

proven track record of REDACTED PENDING SUPERINJUNCTION

what a time to be alive

meanwhile, i think this guy might be onto something tbh

A Remain-backing caller stunned LBC listeners when he said the answer to the Irish border question was to invade the Republic of Ireland.

Steve was repeatedly branded “stupid” for his suggestion by fellow caller Peter who was on the line at the same time.

“We could invade [Ireland],” Steve said during his call to Tom Swarbrick.

“We’ve invaded Iraq, we’ve invaded Afghanistan, why not Ireland?"

A flabbergasted Peter responded: “You’re being stupid now… What a stupid thing for the guy to say.”

To which Steve replied: “It’s not stupid. War is the ultimate answer to a problem.”

He added: “I voted Remain because I knew this would be a problem.”

Peter finished: “If you’re the sort of person who voted Remain, it shows how stupid people are who voted that way.”

*taps mayan calendar yet again* we're not alive

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Bolon_Yokte%27_K%27uh.jpg

otm

what a time to be caught forever on the event horizon of dec 21 2012, never able to break free of the spacetime collapse of the apocalypse, i should really have said

what a not-time to be caught forever on the event horizon of dec 21 2012, never able to break free of the spacetime collapse of the apocalypse, i should really have said

ftfy

"MPs have been advised to travel home by taxi when they leave Parliament over fears they could be attacked by angry voters Prime Ministers over their handling of Brexit, Kevin Schofield reports at PoliticsHome."

thank u sensei xp

There's something quite Macbeth like about TM - as if she's been given some prophecy and is holing up, waiting for her moment of anagnorisis, a sign that'll finally convince her she's fucked. Maybe Big Ben tolling is that sign.

if colossal defeats on meaningful votes and being in contempt of parliament aren't signs enough i dunno what would be

except when he's bad steve bell is good:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D2LmRDuWwAAlCNr.png

that is not good