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

Implications for the date if they can’t form a caretaker gov iirc

Ian Blackford just said the SNP "wants to see votes for 16-17 year olds" in December election.

A) not enough time to get them on electoral register

B) if that's a red line then the bill dies.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) October 28, 2019

Corbyn says:

-when no deal off the table
-when date of election can be fixed in law
-when rights of students to vote can be guaranteed

Then Lab will support an election

I.e. they will amend election bill tomorrow on these grounds.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) October 28, 2019

The Tories have launched a data mining website called https://t.co/rlvXjgLHK8. On the website you can pop in your postcode and the website will give you a handy explainer about your MPs Brexit position and why, if they’re not in favour of the Governments position, it’s wrong.

— Mhairi Black MP 🏳️‍🌈 (@MhairiBlack) October 28, 2019

Lol at this though
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EH-vJYOXUAAv91b?format=jpg&name=large

Voted SNP since the 80s...vote to remain in the UK...ok

Corbyn, at the actual despatch box: “He said he’d die in a ditch. Another broken promise.”

Genuinely blaming the the prime minister for still being alive.

— Tom Peck (@tompeck) October 28, 2019

otm, drag his still-living ass

Tom Peck’s invisible lips disappearing even further as he vomits up some tumbleweed of a “joke” is it

you know when people put "Neither Left nor Right" in their online bios they're only half telling a lie

Not saying he’s got some concerning views but
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_ER3DIX4AAkN-6?format=png&name=small

Jo Swinson, for some unfathomable reason, has decided to dedicate this speech to attacking Labour for not supporting a People's Vote, even though it does support a People's Vote. Apparently this takes priority over challenging the government.

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) October 28, 2019

is it unfathomable, dunty?

Selective amnesia is a hell of a drug

Slight interruption in this stale debate as a couple of MPs have broken one of the green benches. Loud crack and it is now apparently sagging.

— Isabel Hardman (@IsabelHardman) October 28, 2019

Gapesy farted again

It wasn’t me...
Actually it was, a bit. But mainly it was @NicDakinMP and @PaulWilliamsMP 😬

— John Woodcock (@JWoodcockMP) October 28, 2019

It wasn’t me...
Actually it was, a bit. But mainly it was @NicDakinMP and @PaulWilliamsMP 😬

— John Woodcock (@JWoodcockMP) October 28, 2019

Felt like I remembered a couple of those names together before and, well, thereweare.gif

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/british-mps-who-accepted-thousands-13444404

Mike Gapes, John Spellar, Dr Paul Williams, John Woodcock, Kevan Jones - Labour
£8,762 a head on Accommodation, travel and hospitality.

Mr Gapes said he had: “long had an interest in the Middle East and the Arab world’.

Dr Williams tweeted: “My previous notions have been blown out of the water. I’ve seen a modern, progressive Saudi Arabia that has totally changed my view of this country.’”

not convinced labour have sufficiently rolled the pitch for this post-extension WAB-trapdoor “we need to take no deal off the table” line

Corbyn’s ‘another broken promise’ line getting huge traction though, may it be the most memorable item from this ridiculous day.

House of Commons vote on an early general election, result:

AYES: 299
NOES: 70

(434 MPs - two thirds majority - required in favour for motion to pass)

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) October 28, 2019

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the Government will table a bill for a 12 December General Election tomorrow.

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) October 28, 2019

don’t like smug contented look on tories’ faces lately

wary

I've completely forgotten why the fixed term parliaments act was passed.

it was passed because they couldn't find anything more important that they agreed on

I've completely forgotten why the fixed term parliaments act was passed.

"The Lib Dems want a date of 9 December, while students are still at university, but the Tories favour 12 December, after some have broken up for Christmas."

ah democracy

https://twitter.com/stephenkb/status/1188898118152130561

not sure why that didn’t embed but:


“In terms of "term dates and students": in the closest university marginal (Canterbury), term doesn't end until 18 December. AFAIK, the only university in a marginal constituency where the date is beforehand is Warwick and Leamington.”

xxxxp
I thought it was a case that most students have fucked off much earlier?

than both of them dates i meant.

changed a lot the last few years cos of semesterization

well I suppose like many of us, the students do have a lot to thank the LibDems for:p

Yeah the issue is not whenever they actually close for Christmas but when students start going home

The Labour MP Stephen Doughty says he was wrong when he suggested earlier that there were rumours that Boris Johnson could stand as a candidate in East Yorkshire, not in his current constituency, Uxbridge and South Ruislip. (See 5.42pm.) He says the Tory MP for East Yorkshire, Sir Greg Knight, has been readopted as a candidate. Doughty says he muddled the constituency up with another one.

Crushing it.

Trouble from the Lib Dems

Jo Swinson implies they might not back Dec 12 election:

'If Boris Johnson wants a General Election he could have supported our bill for a GE on Dec 9th

'Instead he has chosen to stick to his original plan for Dec 12 which we have already rejected'

— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) October 28, 2019

Ministers are concerned that if they agree to Dec 9th election it will have just *three days* to get royal assent

Whips don't think it's possible to get one-line bill through in that time, especially if there's filibustering in the Lords

Hence tortuous negotiations over date

— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) October 28, 2019

ummmmmmmm

just 3 days you say

U.K. to Destroy Commemorative 50p Coins in "Brexit" Meltdown https://t.co/DbCOP82JVL

— 🕷BenjaminP.Taylor🇪🇺 (@antlerboy) October 28, 2019

.. and he would have got away with it if it wasn't for those interfering spiders

what kind of idiot would risk authorizing ah never mind

Corbyn, at the actual despatch box: “He said he’d die in a ditch. Another broken promise.”

still lol'ing at this tbh

The best part was he wasn’t even joking

He should've made Johnson dying in a ditch a condition of voting for a general election

Choose your fighter
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EH_IYg5X0AA7rGz?format=jpg&name=large

up the arse corner

We should really be enjoying all the Gapes we can, he’s on borrowed time like this parliament

Mike Gapes in the Commons: "Instead of dying in the ditch, the prime minister has ditched the ditch." 🙄

— Ashley Cowburn (@ashcowburn) October 24, 2019

up the arse corner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIHUv2ooG38

literally just almost broke my swivel chair I lolled so hard at CW/MG image