PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

You call the election before the pigeons arrive, obviously.

xp Because Blitz Spirit, because Project Fear, because the EU won't seriously take the side of Ireland over the UK once the chips are down, will they?

... Confucius says. (xp)

(IE they don't think the pigeons will come home in any significant way)

What are the odds they have the numbers for a successful VONC?

This is not awful as long as the left can organise around coordinated strike action and the likes of Corbyn can get some rallies going.

I mean who the fuck was up for positives meetings with woke Soubz.

Uh right, that'll be a game changer. (xp)

So...I know its Preston but..

“we'll dissolve Parliament and have an election between 1-5 November -- and that means no time for legislation”. Flippin’ ‘eck.

— Robert Peston (@Peston) August 28, 2019

Uh right, that'll be a game changer. (xp)

― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 bookmarkflaglink

What's your suggestion? Rolling over?

i think technically she could?

no fuckin chance she will tho

More chance of them sitting in a building across the road.

I think it's possible for Johnson to believe that in the immediate aftermath of a 31 Oct withdrawal he would benefit from an "I got on with it" swell of approval, a Brexit Party with no reason to exist, and furious Remainers splitting the opposition vote rather than coalescing to vote him out.

The full-on xenophobes will never admit Brexit was a bad move, no matter if the UK breaks up into neolithic warring tribes. The dithering leavers mayn't realise immediately what they've done and so back him for "leadership" if the election happens quickly enough

National strike supported by both unions and businesses sympathetic to avoiding no-deal would be phenomenally embarrassing and should be pursued in parallel to any parliamentary activity, though it won’t.

Well, yes, that's about as likely as the Rory's alternative parliament.

Yup he has to unite the right but he might still lose Tory/lib dem liberals in those marginals. xp to NV

Who would a general strike action be embarrassing to? If Parliament isn't allowed to sit it can't be pursued in parallel anyway.

lmao FBPE are going to behead the queen pic.twitter.com/f3ydmvTng2

— a a dril (@demarionunn) August 28, 2019

Who would a general strike action be embarrassing to?

Cummings Johnson, I assume?

Great?

"this is not democracy" -- well how do we show it?

A general strike would be embarrassing to the Johnson government but, imo, only if there was enough outright or tacit support from business. It’s not likely to happen but the Polish women’s strike a couple of years ago showed it’s not entirely impossible to imagine.

My umbrella broke but otherwise ready to HK dis ting

Nah gonna write to the Queen instead

A general strike would be embarrassing to the Johnson government but, imo, only if there was enough outright or tacit support from business. It’s not likely to happen but the Polish women’s strike a couple of years ago showed it’s not entirely impossible to imagine.

In Poland.

I have thought for ages if any of these people were out on the street every weekend you’d see more fear from the government, but they’d rather concentrate their energies on abusing Labour and writing up fantasy frontbenches instead.

Lol at this moaning and groaning:

Totally wrong to prorogue Parliament. Everyone can see this for what it is, a grubby attempt to force No Deal. As Privy Cllr & MP, I cannot support putting the Queen in an impossible position & closing down debate. Take back control now = take away control https://t.co/6PvCK61hDn

— Justine Greening (@JustineGreening) August 28, 2019

In Poland.

― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 bookmarkflaglink

Beautiful country I'm told.

lol Bercow's gonna die

so make a stand for your mam honey

Correct, can the Queen & bin the Lords too while you're at it pic.twitter.com/A6AECg1x7v

— Edmund Griffiths (@EdmundGriffiths) August 28, 2019

wonder whether a tory resigns

When you hate Corbyn so much you’re running interference for something that is blatantly anti democratic

PM is *not* preventing anti-no-dealers from trying to legislate: they can do that next week

— John Rentoul (@JohnRentoul) August 28, 2019

John Rentoul - The View From Beyond the Grave

As usual, no one will take to the streets.

Correction - you won't, Pom

Hve we forgotten March for Change already?

No, he’s right.

Hey Alphie, has it ever occurred to you… that you might be a bully and a troll?

20th October might be a good date for it - a year on since 700K+ on the streets. Otherwise I'm free whenever.

Pom you said that last week.

Why not now?

xp

(IE they don't think the pigeons will come home in any significant way)

― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 09:15 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

well yeah obv, stopped at hard border onv

John Bercow is on a family holiday and no one told him about this and he's fucking FURIOUS pic.twitter.com/Glur5M2hJs

— Dan Bloom (@danbloom1) August 28, 2019

stop bullying pom, julio -- it's incredibly boring

Yes, Pom is not Fred.

Is julio comrade alphabet’s actual name, cos ngl that’s a bit weird?

"Pom is not Fred" -- give it time

pomeo and julietul

^this is what I log on for

same

Moving on from fair Verona…

Forgive my ignorance, but is there a history of effective mass protests in this country?