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

still unclear what extent the tories are just trolling as the clock ticks down or whether its all stupidity

a lack of exposure to consequences is a hell of a drug

Sorry to link to Spectator but Ivan Rogers mainly otm https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/09/ivan-rogers-the-realities-of-a-no-deal-brexit/

"Please do not waste this time."

NEW: I’ve been sent the transcript of Monday’s closed-door briefing from the UK prime minister’s official spokesperson.

With the government in a deep crisis, guess what the country’s top political journalists focused on?

This is not a parody.https://t.co/QaIdsOQlcD pic.twitter.com/C7gxlHtnzz

— Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻 (@MarkDiStef) September 2, 2019

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8ba0a6aed0c5608688adca0f9f22d235477b6c0a/0_133_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnxVHFeUkAAKVIx.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/oCQopgG.jpg

boris’ pupper stratagem is paying off nicely

So that's why he bought a dog.

― nashwan, Monday, 2 September 2019 15:24 (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

irl lol

A source says draft legal text is just the existing protocol with the relevant articles on the backstop crossed out

1. lol
2. NI has been without its Assembly for 2.5 years and every month for the last 6 months there has been at least one bomb discovered or exploded there; perhaps our govt would like to take NI a little bit more seriously? just a thought
3. oh no, never mind that, there's a cute puppy, never mind people's actual lives. lol Boris, legernd, check out the puppy!

*clenches fists and grimaces at work desk, hopes nobody notices*

If anything its prorogation and fevered election talk that's distracting from Johnson's feel-good pupper gambit

Sorry to link to Spectator but Ivan Rogers mainly otm https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/09/ivan-rogers-the-realities-of-a-no-deal-brexit/

― stet, Monday, September 2, 2019 5:34 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Good piece. Rogers rightfully laments the 'political elite' still not being serious about this, ie. being completely clueless. And it is otm. It just feels so 'Groundhog Day' doesn't it? I'm willing to bet the same piece could more or less be written three years from now.

we’ll all be dead in three years iirc

You know other things were discussed at the briefing, right? And that discussing one subject doesn’t take time away from discussions of other subjects?

— Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) September 2, 2019

i love a party with a happy atmosphere

DUP have gone into the Number 10 drinks party too

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) September 2, 2019

Kuenssberg really thinks she's writing a society column from the 1930s doesn't she?

a german society column from the 30s, sure

Boris is making a speech at 6, please tell me what lectern is shown in case my awful connection goes & I can’t load anything but zing

dreadnought class lectern

"I am on your side...and so is little Lancelot here"

says "PRIME MINISTER" on it in Futura Extra Black Italic

Lads

still raging from last time may brought out the fkn lectern tbrr

he’s ready

Here it is pic.twitter.com/iQll8mom0s

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) September 2, 2019

Thank god

I have connection now

BREAKING: @BorisJohnson will say If MPs vote tomorrow for another delay, then Wednesday there will be vote on general election. MPs gone, no 14 days, no legislation on extension. Election on 14 October. Government source: “who does country want to sort it out on 18 Oct at EU?”

— Robert Peston (@Peston) September 2, 2019

just strong and stabling as the tories always do

actually watching this for once and the analysts prattling away just sound so fucking clueless, so fucking soft and accepting of johnson. is this truly what our media has become

is being late for statements part of the Tory thing now, like the power stance

no good evening or nothing.

you can hear the boos on the bbc feed lololol

Ugh, just look at this fucking clown.

No election, May-like waste of a lectern.

State of that speech

pretty sure the chants fucked his delivery too

Lol wasteman

what about the puppy though

I know that "the country" is sick of hearing about Brexit, but do they actually think we can just start saying "let's focus on the NHS" and we'll just glide over No Deal without really noticing?

pretty sure the chants fucked his delivery too

Yeah, I thought that too, take him outside of his comfort zone of brown-nosing journos and he flounders tbh.

nothing new. just continued posturing and electioneering - lovely stuff

pic.twitter.com/prC19jzocE

— wint MP (@parliawint) September 2, 2019

Tories fighting on the NHS did a job for them in 2010 but it won’t again. NHS is Labour territory.

there's also bribes and blatant bribes. Austerity is playing so badly right now there's not enough time to dissociate the all-new Johnson Tories from it

(xp) Then they had a leader with a disabled child who died - and even then I'm not sure people believed them. Boris can't even bring up the abortions he's paid for as those were private.

Lol

I mean, that's what the dog is really for.

Does jeremey cobybm look bad for being punchy about an election now does he eh

Bozzer Running Scared of An Election

"I don't want an election, you don't want an election," he tells the cameras

dude

In the last few weeks the chances of a deal have been rising, I believe, for three reasons. They can see that we want a deal.

They can see that we have a clear vision for our future relationship with the EU - something that has perhaps not always been the case.

And they can see that we are utterly determined to strengthen our position by getting ready to come out regardless, come what may.

But if there is one thing that can hold us back in these talks it is the sense in Brussels that MPs may find some way to cancel the referendum.

I started to count the number of lies in this little nugget but dizzied (?) myself and passed out.

labour going to do brexit eek

https://i.imgur.com/dAtEtNm.png

did dril tweet what he did after seeing this image on top of the gruan's live blog, or did this guy read dril's tweet and then pursued in horror?

https://i.makeagif.com/media/7-15-2015/OTNmFL.gif