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

Nice to see Nicky Morgan sitting beside Boris and Theresa Villiers.

Jesus, Ian Blackford is such a pompous little prick.

the crofting tsar

I switched off but please let him have mentioned crofting? Angus Robertson was much better.

Lol Theresa May’s resignation honours list is out and she’s knighted Geoffrey Boycott.

Goodnight!

and a peerage for gavin barwell? is the whole list GBs?

be good if there were 84 of em

agent maybot sending out another signal

Sir Garry Bushell?

May also gave a peerage to John Mann. BOAK.

ffs embarrassing SNP guy indulging in a bit of Scots by way of the West of End of Glesga.

this is all less than 10% penetrable to me, but I love reading this thread

what the fuck is happening here

throwing shapes or throwing hail maries?

damn, I thought we were going to get some real crisis action for a minute there (Bercow looked like he wouldn't be leaving the chair)

one to entertain the tourists

I can confirm that we just sang Scots Wha Hae and now it’s Plaid and Labour having a wee go as well... Tories utterly dumbfounded !

— Martin Docherty-Hughes MP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 (@MartinJDocherty) September 10, 2019

That was crazy

It seems Labour MPs , while holding signs, grabbed the speaker to stop him leaving.
Possibly Tory MPs barging and shouting towards the Labour MPs
Labour MPs singing 'The Red Flag'
SNP MPs singing 'Flower Of Scotland' or 'ScotsWha Hae'
Welsh MPs singing 'Bread Of Heaven'.

and some absolutely pished Tory MPs.

And Bercow looking like he would gladly fight MPs.

Bercow said he didn't give a 'flying flamingo' what a Tory MP thought of him.

The closing down of Parliament by Johnson & the Tories provoked anger in the Commons but also in the final moments of this Parliamentary session a defiant burst of singing of the “Red Flag” by Labour MPs. We will never let this extreme right wing Tory sect silence our democracy. https://t.co/0HLwcUQAdr

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) September 10, 2019

After the prorogation ceremony with Black Rod in the House of Lords, Speaker John Bercow returns to the House Of Commons to relay what happened in the ceremony to the boycotting #Labour MPs who shout “shame!” #emergencydebate #Commons #Prorogation pic.twitter.com/T00WnUcnCG

— Omar Moore (@thepopcornreel) September 10, 2019

Labour MPs and other opposition MPs line up to shake hands with Speaker John Bercow following the prorogation ceremony with Black Rod. No Tory MPs are in sight, though there are one or two MPs on the left side chamber. Extraordinary scene. Unprecedented. #Commons #emergencydebate pic.twitter.com/XGdvppYQdY

— Omar Moore (@thepopcornreel) September 10, 2019

Re that protest

Tonight in the chamber @LoveSocialism Labour and Green MPs symbolically opposed the prorogation of Parliament. It was based on the 1629 event, where MPs pinned the Speaker to his seat in an attempt to prevent the prorogation of Parliament. #DefendDemocracy #OurParliamentSilenced https://t.co/2VwpwfuKfN pic.twitter.com/NW3h2bwPrr

— Clive Lewis MP (@labourlewis) September 10, 2019

will gavin barwell ever be held to account for grenfell?

LibDems promising to revoke A50 is 2019’s version of ‘no tuition fees’.

Martin Docherty-Hughes MP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈
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@MartinJDocherty

I can confirm that we just sang Scots Wha Hae and now it’s Plaid and Labour having a wee go as well... Tories utterly dumbfounded

Oh that's the prat I was refererring to last night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkhtpYIRHAU

xp esp cos they’re like, if we don’t win a majority we will campaign for a 2nd ref and to remain lol

A senior Tory told @BuzzFeed News that MPs had told whips that May's political secretary Stephen Parkinson “ has to go and should avoid hanging on and becoming an even bigger story".

They described his outing of Shahmir Sanni as "very distasteful" https://t.co/Aq3LyPZiAk

— Stuart Millar (@stuartmillar159) March 26, 2018

feels like an odd move from the lib dems. all their messaging has been about winning conservative voters. by trying to head off labour as well they risk doing neither.

i mean not uncharacteristic obv. just not v smart.

Boycott knighthood getting a fair bit of pushback for honouring a domestic abuser and fan of blackface.

A majority of both Conservative (55%) and Leave (60%) voters, however, think a no-deal Brexit would result in a clean break from the EU, meaning the country could then focus on something else https://t.co/qlpc8bmVsj pic.twitter.com/t9VsWdSeZe

— YouGov (@YouGov) September 9, 2019

Cool.

The more this goes on the more I think the rest of the world needs to come up with a solution for the UK akin to that which Douglas Adams came up with for Krikket. It’s the only thing that will make these morons happy.

Alternatively I have a half-remember radio play vignette about an alternate reality Britain (reachable through a stair at the back of Harrods Foodhall) that was Edwardian Britain in with a small patch of the Algarve so people could go on holiday. Could someone in London check for the staircase and start sending people down.

Tbh I'm a little disappointed that it didn't devolve into an MMA free-for-all, Ukrainian parliament-style.

Theresa May continuing to make some great decisions I see pic.twitter.com/8avQNTqeO7

— Alan White (@aljwhite) September 10, 2019

🐦[A majority of both Conservative (55%) and Leave (60%) voters, however, think a no-deal Brexit would result in a clean break from the EU, meaning the country could then focus on something else https://t.co/qlpc8bmVsj🕸 pic.twitter.com/t9VsWdSeZe🕸
— YouGov (@YouGov) September 9, 2019🕸]🐦

because xenophobia is a helluva drug?

because they said it once unthinkingly and well theres no going back now is there

xxpost For a lot of them, it’s because they’re not interested in the detail and complexity of government. They remember life before the EU, and they believe what is printed in the papers that they read (and what is said by the likes of Farage.)

Boycott has slipped so much tory brown-nosing into tea-breaks on 5 live during test commentary over the years I'm surprised the cunt wasn't knighted years ago.

because they just want to get on with it so they can return to discussing the finer points of the constitution and macroeconomic policy as they usually do

I guess I haven't thought about it too much but yeah why exactly are team "just get on with it" so keen to just get on with it? obviously many of them will be rampant Brexiters terrified that delay means revocation, but there must be a tranche of the kind of mimsy TV vox pop normies who just like saying shit like "just get on with it" because they know fuck all of what they speak but are big fans of acting without pissing about thinking

I think they want to “just get on with it” because it’s an electorally resonant message - ie let’s get a majority and deal with the fallout later

oh I meant the alleged voter on the street who keeps allegedly saying this, I know what the Cummings Party's game is

You could hold a referendum on literally any subject and ask would you rather choose:

[ ] Team 'get on with it'
[ ] Team 'let's not get on with it just yet'

The first option will always win. It's one of the better Tory spins to try and portray Remain/opposition as team 'not getting on with it', even though they (must) know their own team slogan is completely contrary to how it will play out. Get on wiffit just sounds 'better'. I'm afraid there's not a lot more to it than that.

Re: yougov I'd read that at least 40% of leavers don't want no deal which is a substantial split.

The splits into both remain and leave are why we could have another hung parliament.

xps

Doesn’t the great British public know that the future (much as the past) only hold variations on a them of half in and half out of the EU?

LBI otm. Team 'get on with it' is supposedly proactive and spirited and proud, unlike their static adversaries.

yeah i get that, i guess i'm just saying "just get on with it" only really sounds good if you're a fucking idiot

They are in denial.

Five million Tory voters chose Remain. Those poll numbers only prove that public support for no deal is dwindling when the number of Leave voters who want a deal are combined with Remain voters.

well yeah xp

all the money is being chucked on Harman to be the next speaker, she's as short as 5/2 now. Of course how much this means is dependent on how smart or dumb the money is!

I take back what I posted about Hoyle yesterday.