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

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

yeah tomorrow morning break would prob be as far as id give it

Is it possible there is no real breakthrough and Varadkar is just smart enough to know not to feed the Boris Johnson Victimhood Complex?

maybe Johnson showed him a drawing of his bridge

I was thinking the same thing MDC. This feels like it's already effectively blunted the "waaaah EU trying to fuck us" line at any rate.

Also feeds raging Brexiteer paranoia. Leo clever, Boris stupid.

I loved Leo Varadkar pwning BJ with a classics ref the other day, totally expecting he’s figured out how to play him for the benefit of the sane people in the UK.

Leo also looks smarter taller and more physically imposing than BJ. Which is completely irrelevant, but in some silly irrational way it pleases me. Probably something to do with the BJ rep as a loudmouthed bully.

tonight, @ExtinctionR have been invited onto @bbcquestiontime, and have put forward @GreenRupertRead to represent them. this is what rupert has to say on immigration. XR really, truly need to sort themselves out on this. this is unacceptable. https://t.co/2KOHzGQ6kO

— Ben Smoke (@bencsmoke) October 10, 2019

Bien-pensant green types - that is, people like me - often think that, because UKIP types (and the BNP, and the Tory Right) hate large-scale immigration into this country, we should love it.

But that's like saying: because Hitler was a vegetarian, we should be voracious meat-eaters.

By the way: next time someone trots out this canard, do please also point out that Hitler wasn't a vegetarian - or if he was, he was one with a particular relish for sausage, and turtle soup.

when chris williamson says he’ll still fight for Labour at the next GE pic.twitter.com/bZGIAJgRqV

— 🎃 Jake O’Lantern 🎃 (@JAACable) October 10, 2019

I'm at a city hall meeting and thought I had my ipad on mute but, I didn't, so that just blasted through the meeting, w/ everyone looking at me. Couldn't have been a more fitting soundbite :D

rupert read, lord lamont, d grieve and julia hartley-brewer splattered across 1 and 2 right now, representing the many diverse viewpoints of britain

That’ll be why I’m watching the FDR doc on BBC4 right now.

with turkey's incursion into northern syria risking the loss of security over thousands of detained IS fighters, sajid javid's decision not to repatriate shamima begum and others looking like the horrible piece of political short-termism it obviously always was

am livid at trump here

Same. I'm sick to the stomach about this. I can't sleep. I've friends/family in the region. Skyped tonight, they were ok now, but are ready to move at any time. (imagine being ready to move and ditch your hometown for all your life; they are...)

I lost all "hey this dumb fucked up insane quote of trump could be a brilliant title for next months thread!" fun. I wish someone would execute that shit for brains moron Trump, who's hands are drenched in blood now. He did this. He's responsible. He's made people I love pack their suitcases the day before yesterday.

holy shit, LBI. I hope for the best for your friends.

Sounds awful, hope they find safety.

Likewise, good luck LBI.

Is it possible there is no real breakthrough and Varadkar is just smart enough to know not to feed the Boris Johnson Victimhood Complex?

From what little I can tell, it seems like Varadkar has them heading to a NI-only backstop, and making returning to the EU's original position appear like a concession. When of course the backstop was the one genuine UK win during the negotiations.

Thanks guys <3 Very much the wrong thread for this, am duly aware. It's just... maddening.

It's a good thread for it, mate.

Talk about anything you want to here.

Who knew 'pathway' was the secret code word needed to have optimism surging, flowers blooming and world peace.

Not just any old pathway though, the pathway to the tunnel.

<3 LBI, I hope your friends are safe.

^this

thanks guys <3

Vent all you want, sending you good karma

That is fucking appalling and I can't even imagine

damn, LBI, what a terrible situation. sending you and your friends all the best

Karma dictates that Trump should choke on a burger forthwith and be reincarnated as a defenceless refugee with full cognizance of what he was in his previous life.

just been listening to the World Service reports

so fucking angry

<3 LBI

To think that the quest for world peace was an honest-to-god factor for a certain breed of Trump voters.

Fucking hell:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/11/multiple-stabbings-reported-near-arndale-centre-in-manchester

At times like this we must be vigilant and avoid Twitter

Diplomatic sources confirm that EU ambassadors have given the green light for deeper negotiations on a Brexit deal to commence

— Tony Connelly (@tconnellyRTE) October 11, 2019

https://www.meme-arsenal.com/memes/2729e60bf11162f59e9b071fef2dac94.jpg

Deeper negotiations = slow news Friday, gotta ramp it up a bit otherwise we will all fall asleep at our desks.

omg statecraft ledg Johnson pulls rabbit-like deal out of gold top hat

So who's getting screwed over here, the DUP or everyone else in Northern Ireland who is not the DUP?

probably a bit of both in the long term but the DUP are surely meaningless to any chance Johnson has of getting a deal thru Parliament at this stage

"getting a deal thru Parliament" contains an awful lot of heuristic possibilities. extension + a "my deal or no deal" election with the potential to win him enough seats to get a renegotiated WA thru?