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

Hahaha hope we get some resignations tomorrow

Pretty disgusting that Tory Marxists are still trying to shift the blame away from Corbyn

Meanwhile the ERG are a bit miffed. Diddums.

Just talked to two ERG MPs. Angry doesn’t quite cut it.

“This is serious stuff. She has fucked our party. She is fucking brexit. She is fucking the country.”

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) April 2, 2019

That’s me finally done.. I couldn’t now care less about voting for the next leader .
Jeremy Corbyn has no right to be involved after his behaviour over the last two years .@theresa_may you just killed @Conservatives party pic.twitter.com/wOw9LYkni1

— Adam Brooks (@EssexPR) April 2, 2019

Killed the Conservative Party? If only.

DUP warn of dangers of “subcontracting” brexit to Jeremy Corbyn pic.twitter.com/VJl3bGJN5A

— Sam Coates Times (@SamCoatesTimes) April 2, 2019

Lolllll

If May's looking for someone to bear the blame with her, I would suggest David Cameron.

inviting the Corbz around to own the DUPs!

she shoulda said "Brexit means Brexit" again

If May's looking for someone to bear the blame with her, I would suggest David Cameron.

May is not a cat person, but idk if she would stoop to animal cruelty. Probably just stare at poor Larry until he cracked and left.

A number of ministers have told me that @theresa_may has definitively decided that no-deal Brexit on 12 April must be avoided at all costs. So if she cannot reach Brexit compromise with @jeremycorbyn “we will have to reach out around him”, says one. Which will reinforce fears...

— Robert Peston (@Peston) April 2, 2019

Now we know why Penny Mordaunt left the cabinet meeting early.

struggling to comprehend ppl's incomprehension. having started from a position of wanting to force her deal through w/ no parliamentary vote, may has just conceded that if/when negotiations w/ corbs fail she will go with whatever the commons votes for

"the government would abide by the decision of the House – but only if Labour did so too" - this is abt whipping the final deal through right?

It’s about sharing the blame and if she meant any of that collaborative nonsense she’d have been doing it after she lost her majority.

Otoh, Corbyn loses nothing by at least attending this meeting, promising nothing, and is boiling oceans of racist piss in the meantime.

surely mordaunt was overdue her fortnightly orphan frightening

Twitter is unbelievably soothing tonight

i.e. "Given the European Research Group was formed over 25 years ago, what the Dickens have they been researching? Because leaving the EU doesn’t seem to have been on the list."

if the talks w/ corbs were anything other than a bit of decorum she wldn't be laying out what happens when they don't work

MIRROR: Help me Jeremy #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/MQbJd7I9Ah

— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) April 2, 2019

Can’t believe the Mirror missed the obvious Star Wars reference there.

Btw, Tory MPs attended a class about the customs union on Monday.

I hope they got Liz Truss to dust off her mortar board, she won't ever get a customs union mixed up with a block of cheese.

struggling to comprehend ppl's incomprehension. having started from a position of wanting to force her deal through w/ no parliamentary vote, may has just conceded that if/when negotiations w/ corbs fail she will go with whatever the commons votes for

"the government would abide by the decision of the House – but only if Labour did so too" - this is abt whipping the final deal through right?

And also the option that gets the most votes in a head-off between the options.

So her vast cunning is to get Labour to sign up to support the result, whip the deal to win the runoff, then expect Labour to whip for it.

yes i think so.

i mean fine lets just get it over with but her still presuming machiavellian brilliance and tossing off clunkers like that is just killing me

This is clearly that plan Z galaxy brain thinking in action as detailed by the journalist - the cabinet probably left thinking May was like, yeah, roll on no deal, only to see her then appear on TV going HELP ME JEREMY YOU’RE MY ONLY HOPE. Again, fully hoping for some resignations today.

Also, not linking, but did anyone else see the video of the paras using a huge picture of Corbyn as target practice? Cool and normal!

In the meanwhile, please inject everything like this directly into my veins:

Jeremy Corbyn is "somebody we can do business with" says Tory MP Sir Oliver Letwin #r4today https://t.co/hufLCzbSib

— BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) April 3, 2019

swiftly deleted but fortunately screencapped. it’s one of those things where it’s not just the act itself, but the fact of a culture where you kind of think it will be ok to post it up for lulz.

xp.

I don't know, apparently no deal was decided against yesterday (though I still think the language in her speech is as warm to it as ever) - though the claim that it was 14 for 10 against is apparently a massive lie from one of the brexiteers.

According to ministers, defining issue was that if there was a no-deal Brexit “we’d have to go to direct rule in Northern Ireland” says one. “Disaster. Huge risk. Of all legacies, the break-up of the Union (of the UK), the worst for a PM. She’ll never do no deal now”.

I am told that “Andrea (Leadsom) requested that we go ahead with the risk of direct rule but call it something else”.

(both from Peston)

I see no reason to think that the outcome of "a series of options for the future relationship ... put to the Commons in a series of votes" will be may's deal

what about "Any plan would have to agree the current Withdrawal Agreement"?

yes future rlship here means political declaration afaict; i.e. the non-binding aspirational stuff

Just lolled earlier when I heard JRM berating Today presenter for their "lefty approach".

yes, but she said that before the indicative votes last time too. if starmer is wrong upthread and you can have common market 2.0 or customs union with may's withdrawal agreement then... ok?

what about "Any plan would have to agree the current Withdrawal Agreement"?

Hi, I'm confused and overwhelmed: Anything that comes after the withdrawal agreement would have to result in a borderless Ireland in order to get the backstop to go away, right? Which means at least customs union?

I suspect any formula that can be got thru Parliament will not be relying on the votes of MPs opposed to the backstop.

But i think we're moving towards something Customs Unionish anyway

Yeah, it almost passed last time - after they sit and drink tea for 5 hours and Corbz comes out and says that he is calm and posting as he always does, I’d think that some of the people who were pv holdouts last time round would vote for it

Customs Union feels largely incompatible with Lexit fantasies but that isn't a strong enough constituency in Westminster anyway.

In any case if we get No Deal then everybody dies for a few weeks and then the UK government goes right back to the negotiating table with zero leverage and we end up with basically the same thing anyway.

Customs union by itself doesn’t wholly solve the border, I think the single market is more important. And if you’re moving that way, the question is going to be, increasingly, what’s the fucking point?

Blue passports and open racism!

The point has always been to be able to say you've honoured the result of the referendum with as straight a face as possible.

Plus as i've said before the UK seems too politically mental to work as a committed member of the EU anyway.

yeah its not so much a divorce as who looks after the mental brother when your parents die

you'd expect some ultra slow-cooked brino to be exquisitely flavourful but this mush is like dishwater!

Brave boys in Afghanistan using pics of Corbyn's face for shooting practice instead of someone I hate >:[

I guess that’s a view.

Something that will bring a smile to JRM's face at least:

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/apr/03/english-judge-says-man-having-sex-with-wife-is-fundamental-human-right

holy shit at the actual quote

lol but also ffs ban party menbership cards

The price of partnering with a socialist Marxist to overturn the will of the British people. pic.twitter.com/KSiygCkttv

— Turning Point UK (@TPointUK) April 2, 2019