Seizing back control: The ILX lol brexit is how we're all gonna die thread.

wtf:

David Cameron will join Byron Burger as a consultant to "steer the brand through Brexit" https://t.co/bfyNYokivm pic.twitter.com/NA8VcXp9SB

— Eater London (@eaterlondon) April 1, 2019

Bercow is merely the Mark Clattenburg of UK politics, nothing more

xp saw that and disregarded it as an april fools, it real??

haha yeah it has to be April Fools, just forgot.

It’s very much on-brand considering Byron staged that disgraceful stunt where they called a load of their foreign staff in for a “meeting” but Border Force was there instead.

One of the things Cameron plans to introduce as part of the turnaround is a pork and apple patty, which he says does “very well at the barbecue at home in the Cotswolds, so why not?” An early prototype of the burger also includes a small slice of gammon. There are rumours, too, about a Big Mac-style, double decker chicken burger, with kale, French dressing, Spanish onions, and Provolone. It will be called The Bullingdon Club Sandwich.

Cameron’s former deputy George Osborne, the now-editor of the Evening Standard newspaper and famous Byron hypebeast is said to be “intrigued” and “excited” by the news

Tipping towards "April fools, but not funny"

xp yeah that was what briefly made me think "well, he's not entirely off-brand"

"April fools, but not funny"

Unnecessary qualifiers I have known

Oh yeah, forgot it was April Fools but could be real.

I don't get why the ultimate april fools prank - the Edinburgh comedy festival is always run at a different time of year.

I did particularly think of yourself when I saw the Guardian "Bob Geldof for healing tsar"!

Bob Geldolf - the Germoloids Cream of brexit!

more like the haemmorhoid

the bumtown rats

they were going to make him suicide tsar until someone pointed out the brief was actually prevention.

Bingo

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— Modern Toss (@ModernToss) April 1, 2019

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^^^

Important Chuck Tingle analysis.

from the Downing Street lobby briefing on the Guardian liveblog

The spokesman implicitly rejected the chief whip’s claim that the government should have been clearer after the 2017 general election about the need to go for a softer Brexit. Stressing that he did not accept the term softer Brexit, the spokesman said May had repeatedly stressed the need to bring the country together in the Brexit process. The spokesman also refused to say whether the PM accepted Julian Smith’s claim that May’s ministers had displayed the “worst example of ill discipline in cabinet in British political history”. That was a judgment for historians, the spokesman said.

Isn't this basically "you might think so, but I couldn't possibly comment" and from her own spokesman?

the spokesman said May had repeatedly stressed the need to bring the country together in the Brexit process.

I mean, job very much fucking done.

not for the first time, i'm hoping chuck tingle will be proved correct

Labour whipping for CU 2.0 with ratification vote. Which is the least-worst of all the Brexits, even though it's still a Betrayal

did i hear correctly that SNP will be voting for it as well?

and potentially the DUP.

Peston told by my second favourite Spurs fan:

Many good people support Brexit, but it is being pushed by extreme right-wing forces. From Boris Johnson's private talks with white supremacist Steve Bannon, to the ERG’s leader JRM promoting the AfD. They even borrowed a name from the KKK. I will always call this out. https://t.co/eOKvB6gPhc

— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) April 1, 2019

As Aditya Chakrabortty pointed out, the Tories have been partners with AFD and others of their ilk in the European Parliament since Cameron was in charge.

I think Fine Gael also sit in the same grouping 🙃

oh cool we like Lammy now ;)

I never didn’t like Lammy? You’re thinking of cal, and maybe that fella we don’t name

Though you might also consider it to mean how few Spurs fans I like...

spare a thought for the poor kids whose parents bought into his progressive clouting/beating discipline agenda tho!

xp so you dislike half of uk ilx then lol

oh good let's have the ilx lammy rammy again

plaxico brought the hardest lammy beef iirc

Sounds like something off the same shelf as Hard Brexxxit.

There isn’t a recursive enough “second thoughts about seconds thoughts about” thread imaginable for me to post what I just thought of posting

You might as well like

scenes as Bercow breaks it to the Brexiteers that there's no chance of changing the backstop

oh cool we like Lammy now ;)

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issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

— wint (@dril) February 15, 2017

why are the SNP supporting "common market 2.0" (lol) but not customs union? what's the difference?

The four of amendments for another night of misery:

John Bercow, the Speaker, announces he has selected four amendments.

C - Ken Clarke’s for a customs union

The Tory former chancellor Ken Clarke’s customs union plan requires any Brexit deal to include, as a minimum, a commitment to negotiate a “permanent and comprehensive UK-wide customs union with the EU”. This was defeated by the smallest margin in the first round, falling just six votes short.

On 27 March, MPs voted against this option by 271 t0 265.

D - Nick Boles’ for common market 2.0

Tabled by the Conservatives Nick Boles, Robert Halfon and Dame Caroline Spelman, Labour’s Stephen Kinnock and Lucy Powell plus the SNP’s Stewart Hosie. The motion proposes UK membership of the European Free Trade Association (Efta) and European Economic Area. It allows continued participation in the single market and a “comprehensive customs arrangement” with the EU after Brexit – including a “UK say” on future EU trade deals – would remain in place until the agreement of a wider trade deal that guarantees frictionless movement of goods and an open border in Ireland.

On 27 March, MPs voted against this option by 283 to 189.

E - Peter Kyle’s for a confirmatory public vote

It has been drawn up by the Labour MPs Peter Kyle and Phil Wilson. This motion would require a public vote to confirm any Brexit deal passed by parliament before its ratification. This option, tabled last time by the Labour former foreign secretary Dame Margaret Beckett, polled the highest number of votes although it was defeated by 295 votes to 268.

On 27 March, MPs voted against this option by 295 to 268.

G - Joanna Cherry’s for revoking article 50 in the face of no-deal Brexit

The SNP MP Joanna Cherry joins Grieve and MPs from other parties with this plan to seek an extension to the Brexit process, and if this is not possible then parliament will choose between either no deal or revoking article 50.

An inquiry would follow to assess the future relationship likely to be acceptable to Brussels and have majority support in the UK.

On 27 March, MPs voted against this option by 293 to 184.

xp Freedom of movement, which is necessary for their support.

What, the SNP aren't fully pro freedom of movement? But but but but but

got it, thanks. here's a common market 2.0/norway+ explainer for idiots aka me https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-47639946

xp. i think you/re misreading what andrew is saying

For a while i felt like "Common Market 2.0" was a savvy marketing notion because a lot of Brexiters used to claim that the EU as Common Market was fine and their objections were based on a mission now crept out of control but we're at least months past that kind of disingenuousness

jim i'm sure you're right, i'm halfway pissed

so we're expecting common market 2.0 and confirmatory vote to pass, right?

and then there's a 3 hour cabinet meeting tomorrow sans civil servants so they can discuss a general election.

doesn't feel banter enough.

There is a naked protest in the public gallery

— PARLY (@ParlyApp) April 1, 2019

Anything 2.0 should be rejected on the principle that a 3.0 or even a 4.0 would be better.

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