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

Willing to place a bet we won't even have left the EU by 2021.

I mean not if my home and livelihood depended on it obviously.

who goes first, uk or poch

Gotta be Poch you'd say but I still have a nagging worry about Oct 31

Lot of arms folded "well why don't they just fill out the form" retorting re settled status as if the form couldn't possibly be construed as a 'tell us your situation so we can deport you more easily' HO trap

How dare you sir we native born Brits believe in fair play

If you are a family member of an EU citizen but not an EU citizen yourself (i.e. husband, child etc) it's not just a form, you have to book an appointment for giving biometric information as well. Anything conveniently close, even in London, comes with a £60 booking fee. And if my experience is any indication it takes many follow-up phone calls to make sure the information gathered there actually gets attached to your application.

To be fair, the other parts of the process are quite well done, and the support lines etc are all well staffed. It's certainly far better thought through than I expected from anything connected with the Home Office.

It's all stupid of course, but if the UK really is leaving the EU then something like this has to be set up and honestly it could have ben done a whole lot worse.

Anything conveniently close, even in London, comes with a £60 booking fee.

Just stating the obvious here but going through the citizenship application process right now and having several friends in visa trouble it is striking how it all comes down to paying up in the end. It's like parody South American corruption except official.

LOL @ Andrea Leadsom claiming the ridiculous 'two letters' wheeze to get Bozo out of asking for an extension was 'perfectly reasonable' and being immediately schooled on it by all and sundry. It has been said itt already but this truly is the stupidest Cabinet the UK has ever had.

Dread Some Anal is waaaaay out in front when it comes to Cabinet stupids, though.

All countries have borders and everyone needs papers. If you aren't born here you need more papers which means knowing the system, filling your forms and paying your bullshit fees. And depending on the politics of the day then who is in or out shifts too. You were in yesterday? Well, that's not today.

That's the lot of the migrant.

Dread Some Anal is waaaaay out in front when it comes to Cabinet stupids, though.

priti patel, dominic raab, liz truss... it's a crowded field

RIP Chris Grayling, want to run to you

DAG not worried about the cunning plans:

General purpose tweet

To any piece of the form "Has [x] discovered a way round the Benn Act?"

The initial answer is "No, Padfield"

Only if the piece explains how the 1968 case of Padfield is also sidestepped, then the piece is legally worthless briefed by the legally amateur

— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) September 27, 2019

Also Corbyn giving a fine speech in Northampton, but I can't see the 6-month pledge for a referendum not coming back to bite him (given the chance, inshallah)

Truss has an intellect rivalled only by the bacteria that live in cheese. She is in a class of her own.

strikes me having a second referendum within 6 months (ie when you haven’t addressed the underlying factors which contributed to the last result)... is eminently loseable. unless JC is planning to do more in his first 6 months than we expect

October 31 is one of the busiest nights of the year for police officers.

Any Brexit-related disorder will put an additional strain on forces already stretched by dealing with seasonal antisocial behaviour.

Former Home Sec Theresa May agreed the date...https://t.co/GNrWMQTxvz

— Hannah Al-Othman (@HannahAlOthman) October 10, 2019

"I still have a nagging worry about Oct 31"

so do the fookin' plod, they call this period "Autumn Nights" and usually experience a seasonal spike in violent disorder. And this is under people just calmly feighting n' brawling as they normally do conditions!

if we do leave there's gonna be a krystallnacht of the skleps isn't there, the bastards have basically radicalised a huge swathe of the population

I mean, the rest of the speech indicate he's going to do a lot (but not timescales).

Some of the underlying factors have been addressed by the grim reaper, mind - Remain's been the winning option for 18 months at this point.

And yet they somehow can't get together a protest that's more than a few gammons outside Westminster or a handful of miserable looking Countryside Alliance twats trudging across Lincolnshire.

coppers are overplaying this, it's Halloween, it'll only be a few rowdy goths

height of poppy season also cue Priti calling for anyone not wearing one to be jailed

no trv goths are rowdy tbf

even rowdy goths can become suicidal agents of terror who won't be taken alive with a bit of mephedrone and cider!

Bad week to be a Transylvanian immigrant in Whitby

transylvanian rites are inhuman rites

Truss has an intellect rivalled only by the bacteria that live in cheese.

And James Cleverley.

Transylvania seen through the eyes of an Irishman. Reminds me of something…

state of SLAB here - see thread. FUCK motorists imho

Thread on today’s transport vote at Holyrood. Looks like Labour will vote against to shield bosses from a local levy on parking spaces. A Labour idea, no less, working well in Nottingham. https://t.co/SJjVFTX0T2

— James Mackenzie (@mrjamesmack) October 9, 2019

frankfield-best.jpg xp

fuck sake

Some of the underlying factors have been addressed by the grim reaper, mind

Didn't remain have a majority of over 80s?

Yes, the people who actually remember WW2 from childhood voted Remain, while those who remember the 1966 World Cup from childhood voted Leave. *chin scratch*

yet another reason to ban sport

Only English sport.

My parents, 82 and 92 respectively, both voted Remain - and they're Daily Mail readers! They love their European holidays, which I genuinely think informed their vote - contact with and respect for other cultures and contemplation of the travel chaos that Brexit will bring etc. Would be interesting to know the number of Brexiteers who have never or very rarely travelled abroad.

Depends how we define abroad

and whether the govt armed them to do so

Thread of Adam Boulton with anecdotal nuggets at a Brexit in the Media event

Sky News’ @adamboultonSKY now speaking at the Brexit in the Media event. #MediaBrexit pic.twitter.com/SceKT9rQs3

— Press Gazette (@pressgazette) October 10, 2019

Sky News had been in naughty corner with Govt. 2015 election got interview with David Cameron. Asked about his football team mix-up. Told it was outrageous and that they would never get ministerial access on a Sunday again.

So now politicians tend to appear with people they have some kind of relationship. Says Robert Peston’s show is half journalism and half showbiz. I no longer think there is fair trading for this kind of access, he says. #MediaBrexit

Departmental press officers are now too scared and too intimidated to give out any information

And yet they somehow can't get together a protest that's more than a few gammons outside Westminster or a handful of miserable looking Countryside Alliance twats trudging across Lincolnshire.

― Matt DC,

The supposed civil unrest that is going to follow an extension is difficult to believe in when there was already just an extension and the only civil unrest was 12 people driving slowly on the M18.

Can you imagine the weird atmosphere in any street parties that actually do take place if they do ever get to leave?

tomorrow_belongs_to_me.mpg

a lot of presumptions itt that any brexit disorder has to be brexiter driven. There might be lots of glistening blue face-paint amongst the claret + broken glass if NDB happens

Lots of excitable talk from the Irish press about concessions being made by Boris. FTQ and the DUP etc.

I went to Thornton Hough as a kid as part of our middle school quiz team. Our captain pronounced it "Hoe" rather than "Huff" when he did the introductions. The shame. The kids were posh but thick and we thrashed them.

More memories of a peninsular tomorrow, same time.

The MP Chris Williamson has lost his high court bid to be reinstated to the Labour party after he was suspended over allegations of anti-Semitism, the Press Association reports.

:-D

heh!

girfuy

all those labour party members pissing your money away into the CW crowdfunder - give it to a homeless person instead you fucking idiots.

how long till BJ/LV position unravels? don’t like when they get +ve news cycle

I give it til newsnight