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

Rory is intents

A local councillor is so desperate for my vote he's been ringing me for days, turned up on the doorstep twice, local CLP secretary has been ringing me. I did tell them all I'm a f/t carer of two and rarely get spare time and don't want to spend any time in bullshit meetings unless it is in a pub. He must be short of numbers because he's got one of his runners to give me a lift to some meeting and back. lol didn't realise such responsibility came with party membership. Tbh I was all geared up to tell him to go fuck himself but he pleaded so hard I couldn't be so rude - the story of my life... alas.

I've been engaged with these kind of arguments calz and they've done nothing to endear me to party ultras

xp must be some sort of vote on?

How angry are some unionists, you ask? Well, Jetedty Cromblyn isn’t looking so bad now:

Jeremy Corbyn, yes that Jeremy Corbyn has actually never advocated that which Boris just signed up to. That is a damning indictment of Boris.

— Christopher Stalford (@CStalfordMLA) October 19, 2019

Corbyn would at least get a 2nd referendum and remain likely winning and keeping all the UK together. You lot have shafted us and expect us to just take it.

— Horatio Nelson (@HoratioNelson0) October 19, 2019

thank god all those people online shamed him into going to Westminster today instead of fleeing to Liverpool like he truly wanted to

the unionists shd do a deeper-magic-from-before-the-dawn-of-time* move to unravel what they helped wreak vonc-wise in 1979

*dawn of time = my 19th birthday as you know

Jared O'Mara could have given Sir Alfred Broughton a few lessons on unselfish national interest voting etiquette :p

lol

Loooool “I won’t sign it so I hope the EU see my keyses behind my back too”

I was not expecting this to be the thread where I learned that Groundskeeper Willie was a Yeats impersonation.

all my threads are educational

Nothing in the latest tactical idiocy to cause alarm

The Benn Act letter is sent, these other reported letters legally inconsequential

Seems clever, and will impress the easily impressed, but nothing to worry about

— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) October 19, 2019

The extension request has just arrived. I will now start consulting EU leaders on how to react. #Brexit

— Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) October 19, 2019

Jog on Boris Johnson with your daft ideas. pic.twitter.com/ipFM12jXAB

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) October 19, 2019

i'd've used Wingdings

Was just about to link. Classic tweet, almost as good as the time his account got hacked.

Ugh, watching the papers review on BBC News and it’s a former Tory adviser and some bald geez from the Sun using generalisations such as ‘the talk in the pubs’ says ‘get on with it’ and minimising the PV march as ‘Londoners’ (my FB timeline was full of people coming from as far as Cornwall and Cambridge to march). Help!

Also: Boris Johnson sent but did not sign the extension letter - what is he, five years old?

I suppose kuenssberg is still saying it's a grey area but this seems quite obviously a failure to comply with legislation.

Dunno how quickly a court can rule on that but I'm assuming the supreme court decision has sharpened the precedent

Think windmill Jolyon has a case on Monday about it

On Monday the Prime Minister will be ordered by the Court to send the letter and/or the Court will sign it himself. If the Prime Minister does not send the letter by the deadline tonight we *will* bring contempt of court proceedings against him personally. pic.twitter.com/DVQl1DK2g6

— Jo Maugham QC (@JolyonMaugham) October 19, 2019

I did read something a few weeks back saying that if boris tries to invalidate extension request to article 50 then some legal eagle from parliament can do whatever is necessary on his behalf to make it right. Obv it was worded in legalese and put differently than that.

But David Allen green said the first letter complied with the law so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And just now:

Striking how many are still tweeting about the letter being "unsigned"

There was no requirement for it to be signed

Utter red herring

— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) October 19, 2019

think it's more goofy bluster to cover the cave-in than non-compliance: why wd the EU treat it as anything but an official communique from the prime minister? (i mean we'll see but they don't have to pretend to take seriously how the BBC interprets it)

someone is primed say to something outrageous on marr tomorrow and that'll be sunday's dead cat bounce sorted

That’s correct but I mentioned it because it was such a juvenile dick move.

Tusk described it as an extension request!

The grand duchy of the high court of bollockshire tells me Boris Johnson faces the death penalty for not signing the letter. I take no pleasure in reporting this.

has boris won a single vote yet? does he think all this crap is helping?

didn't he have his first win a couple of days ago?

(i've already forgotten what it was)

Seems to me that Boris would be foolish to state that the letter was without legal force because unsigned. Is this his declared position?

boris wins his first commons vote:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-vote-brexit-house-of-commons-mps-defeat-a9157101.html

"sources at number 10" (and party flunkies) are spinning it as without legal force to journalists and political commentators -- it's obviously not an official line

It seems obvious that the the letter is either legitimate and thus complies with the Benn or it isn't and doesn't

xpa
oh that wasn't the vote he won to make his dog disappear!

it's a cloud of stinky squid ink, to help manoeuvre him past everyone in this country who remembers he said he'd "die rather than do this" lol

naturally it's already worked with laura kuenssberg and robert peston at the bbc: sovereign citizens and freemen of the land may also be very taken with it (i actually doubt it will work so effectively with the ERG: many of them are dim but they very much know not to trust him, and the betrayed feral screaming of the DUP continues to be very audible)

Can’t wait for him to win the backing of this crowd and say it doubly doesn’t count cos Boris isn’t his legal name

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36499750

A further web search took me to a site called legalnamefraud.com , which outlines a theory that when your birth was registered, a legal entity - your legal name - was created. But the legal entity "Jane Smith" is distinct from the actual physical person Jane Smith, the website says.

When your parents registered your birth on the certificate, it insists, they unknowingly gave the Crown Corporation ownership of your name. "Simply thus, all legal names are owned by the Crown, and therefore using a legal name without their written permission is fraud."

@simonk_133 is currently unlocked for any dweebs like me to follow: he's good on the detailed maths of elections (and the evils of bromley council)

lol gyac

might be unable to resist stealing that joke

And if you have been out or at least, having a more normal Saturday night than those of us lucky enough to be witnessing these crazy times in Westmintser up close, this is what happened today https://t.co/EnEE2xGbs4

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) October 19, 2019

I know there's the cchq PR stuff she does constantly, but I think the key kuenssberg characteristic that winds me up the most is the "exclusive club you're not invited to" bollocks. It's so tacky and also it's like "we all hate all of you, don't want to be anywhere near any of you and the only reason we follow any is this has nothing to do with finding any of it glamorous but because the consequences of all of you freaks make believe playing adults unfortunately affects our lives"

I used to see the legal name billboards a lot, then they just vanished.

https://images.app.goo.gl/zLkVwftd3b2ieEoA8

https://images.app.goo.gl/zLkVwftd3b2ieEoA8

Meanwhile I am just incredibly wearied at Downing Street's attempt to triangulate around a voter so unreasonable that when we leave on 8 November is going to kick off that it didn't happen on 31 October. https://t.co/pl4RMdQN5z

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) October 19, 2019

might be unable to resist stealing that joke

🐦[And if you have been out or at least, having a more normal Saturday night than those of us lucky enough to be witnessing these crazy times in Westmintser up close, this is what happened today https://t.co/EnEE2xGbs4🕸
— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) October 19, 2019🕸]🐦

I know there's the cchq PR stuff she does constantly, but I think the key kuenssberg characteristic that winds me up the most is the "exclusive club you're not invited to" bollocks. It's so tacky and also it's like "we all hate all of you, don't want to be anywhere near any of you and the only reason we follow any is this has nothing to do with finding any of it glamorous but because the consequences of all of you freaks make believe playing adults unfortunately affects our lives"

Noticed that cynical primadonna JRM brought his clone son with him to work to watch him fail in person and experience a police escort to/from the Commons.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHQNxl8X0AAQtI-?format=jpg&name=small

amazing what you can grow in a kilner jar these days

22 weeks

Starmer accepts that a referendum could take up to 22 weeks to organise. Would mean months of delay without any real functioning government.

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) October 20, 2019

could have predicted the thousands of witty replies to that one

22 weeks gives me a decent head start on building my fallout shelter and packing it to the rafters with supplies, thx keir