brexit negging when yr mandate is is trash: or further chronicles of a garbage-fire

if they can straight-up binCharlie Elphicke before a case has even been brought against him then perhaps they really are in bloodletting mode

Number 10 instructed Development Secretary Priti Patel not to include her meeting with the Israel foreign ministry official Yuval Rotem in New York on 18 September in her list of undisclosed meetings with Israelis which was published on Monday, the JC has learned.

Ms Patel listed 12 meetings in the statement, and the emergence of two more last night is thought to have made her sacking imminent.

But the JC understands, from two different sources, that Ms Patel did disclose the meeting with Mr Rotem but was told by Number 10 not to include it as it would embarrass the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Downing Street has been claiming all week that they didn't know about the meetings.

This story just keeps getting more entertaining.

Has Stephen Pollard found a way to blame this on Corbyn yet?

Fine, I missed a meeting, calling people clumsily bowlderised versions of bitch is funny now.

winding up Andrew Farrell is what is and always has been funny

LOL I thought that was misspelling of bunch?

back binches is funny, i will die on this hill (alone) (far from the battle)

It is hard enough keeping up with zugzwang without having to study the Urban Dictionary as well!

I just passed a local Asian builder this morning who has FREE PALESTINE splashed across the front of his van. I felt like stopping + asking: So what do think of the Priti situation then?

For someone with charisma she has managed to alienate the lazy UK workforce and the Asian community, that doesn't seem like someone with broad appeal.

I can't countenance the idea that she has charisma at all, but fuck knows how some people think. Apparently 40% of the electorate would still vote for this shower.

Mum, can we go to Disneyland next year?

"And Marcus Dysch, the Jewish Chronicle’s political editor, thinks his boss’s scoop raises a question about Theresa May’s future."

another layer of intrigue.

Huge scoop from @JewishChron editor @stephenpollard: Number 10 *did* know about #PritiPatel meetings with Israelis, and encouraged her not to include them on Monday's list: https://t.co/zSRefNJmDR pic.twitter.com/oIYqkuYZMz

— Marcus Dysch (@MarcusDysch) November 8, 2017

Did Netanyahu also know that the PM knew or did he not know that the PM did not know?

If it turns out that Number 10 lied about this/tried to cover it up, could that take May down? Feel like a stronger PM would struggle in these circumstance, but it also feels like mutually assured destruction is the only thing keeping her in a job right now.

Quentin Letts really does seem like a man with some dark secrets.

Headlines traditionally convey the most salient/powerful point made by the writer. Here’s Quentin Letts on Parliament’s response to a Foreign Secretary recklessly endangering a British citizen. pic.twitter.com/WJHyMFUPdn

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) November 8, 2017

has priti been skipping her brain force plus

you'd wonder if this could bring down may apart from the fact she actually died in the summer.

I just passed a local Asian builder this morning who has FREE PALESTINE splashed across the front of his van.

i hope it read FOR EVERY CUSTOMER on the back

May makes me think of that famous Kaiser Wilhelm "tethered to a corpse" quote.

xp lol! that might get you killed though!

is this a uk politics season finale do we think

maybe a midseason finale. brexit lingereth

tethered to a foundering fatberg in a sea of sewage (in a garbage fire)

"This is series 10 of the Big Breakfast, and you're the fucking dinner lady they've asked to host the show."

The finale thing worked during the coalition years. Brexit-era Britain is more of a zombie soap.

yeah finale already happened iirc, this is like.. DVD extras

the blooper reel

bloopocalypse

Good job, Israeli government! It would be LOL if this brings May down and ushers in Labour...

...cue hundreds of bad Bibi ‘Downfall’ parodies.

Thing about a season finale is that it involves seemingly everyone - politicians, media overlords, celebs etc. This is pretty niche by comparison.

i think we're bubbling up to something

largely involving brexit but much besides

This is not the 'JC brings down Tory government' headline I was hoping for.

enh, i'll take a collapsed tory government by any means necessary at this point

as someone pointed out on Twitter, it was the boring, obscure and seemingly trivial Westland Affair followed by being savaged by the dead sheep that was Geoffrey Howe that did for Maggie, so fingers crossed!

The Westland thing was 3 or 4 years before?

dented her reputation badly enough to allow leadership challenges to take place subsequently though

when is theresa may going to emerge from her cryogenic coffin

in the Tories' hour of need, look who's BACK!

The Conservatives can beat Labour at every turn (and did just a few months ago!). We need to be proud to shout up about our beliefs because it is Conservatives who represent the many not the few!

— Activate UK (@ActivateBritain) November 8, 2017

We’re at “OJ and the white bronco” stage of the coverage as BBC News now showing Priti Patel’s flight from Kenya on the online flight radar: “You can see its just over Greece at the moment" pic.twitter.com/Xf407P2kRF

— Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻 (@MarkDiStef) November 8, 2017

'the conservatives can beat labour at every turn!' crows activate britain, mere months after the most humiliating tory election disaster in recent memory

dented her reputation badly enough to allow leadership challenges to take place subsequently though

ru saying we need a STALKING HORSE to throw his/her HAT IN THE RING (at the LAST CHANCE SALOON)

(xxp) Painfully reminiscent of The Day Today sketch about John Major processing to Buckingham Palace to be punched by the Queen.

surely it's long past time for the quiet man of british politics to step once more into the spotlight, buoyed by the amooth rollout and colossal success of universal credit

xp ha otm

I guess I shld now reveal that despite having produced many similar studies for the European Commission & the UK govt in the past including+

— Andrew Lilico (@andrew_lilico) November 1, 2017

obligatory auto-response: lolico

ru saying we need a STALKING HORSE to throw his/her HAT IN THE RING (at the LAST CHANCE SALOON)

for now the stalking horses are ruminating peacefully on the fields of unrest, yet it is only a matter of time before one finds itself cantering towards number 10