oh she's actually stood down - I thought she'd hold until after next GE. oh well... jackson it is
― самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Monday, 2 September 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
not been following any of this shit closely recently... evidently
― самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Monday, 2 September 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
I thought the whole point of being regional party leader without actually holding a seat is that you get to avoid that consequence.
― nashwan, Monday, 2 September 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
yeah almost certainly losing most of those 13 seats in Scotland means toryscum might want a 20 pt lead if they are entertaining ideas of a working majority.
― calzino, Monday, 2 September 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
NEWCabinet ministers to be told draft legal text on Northern Ireland plan has been drawn up and ready to be introduced BUT😱A source says draft legal text is just the existing protocol with the relevant articles on the backstop crossed out - not exactly a worked up plan😱— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) September 2, 2019
― mark s, Monday, 2 September 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
and SUCKS TO BE YOU written at the top in brown crayon
― mark s, Monday, 2 September 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
Draft legal text is just the Ts & Cs copied from just-eat.com
― nashwan, Monday, 2 September 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
3. One after Oct 31st, post-No Deal, with people eating dogs and cats.
Are they going to be eating dogs and cats on day one of post no-deal? If not, it could be a very good time for Boris to call a GE
― anvil, Monday, 2 September 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
actual lols at that tweet from mark s. This is some sub-Baldrick shit now.
― stet, Monday, 2 September 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
So that's why he bought a dog.
― nashwan, Monday, 2 September 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
and yeah, I think the days following No Deal get election-rout bad fast -- look at what a bit of snow does to the country.
― stet, Monday, 2 September 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
"Well no one said it would be easy, bound to be a couple of teething problems, but the main thing is we did it!" "Macron, Zidane, your boys took one hell of a beating", Farage isn't standing hmm
― anvil, Monday, 2 September 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
still unclear what extent the tories are just trolling as the clock ticks down or whether its all stupidity
a lack of exposure to consequences is a hell of a drug
― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Monday, 2 September 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
Sorry to link to Spectator but Ivan Rogers mainly otm https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/09/ivan-rogers-the-realities-of-a-no-deal-brexit/
― stet, Monday, 2 September 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
"Please do not waste this time."
NEW: I’ve been sent the transcript of Monday’s closed-door briefing from the UK prime minister’s official spokesperson. With the government in a deep crisis, guess what the country’s top political journalists focused on?This is not a parody.https://t.co/QaIdsOQlcD pic.twitter.com/C7gxlHtnzz— Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻 (@MarkDiStef) September 2, 2019
― nashwan, Monday, 2 September 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8ba0a6aed0c5608688adca0f9f22d235477b6c0a/0_133_3500_2100/master/3500.jpghttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnxVHFeUkAAKVIx.jpg
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 2 September 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/oCQopgG.jpg
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 2 September 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
boris’ pupper stratagem is paying off nicely
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 2 September 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
So that's why he bought a dog.― nashwan, Monday, 2 September 2019 15:24 (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― nashwan, Monday, 2 September 2019 15:24 (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
irl lol
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Monday, 2 September 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
A source says draft legal text is just the existing protocol with the relevant articles on the backstop crossed out
1. lol2. NI has been without its Assembly for 2.5 years and every month for the last 6 months there has been at least one bomb discovered or exploded there; perhaps our govt would like to take NI a little bit more seriously? just a thought3. oh no, never mind that, there's a cute puppy, never mind people's actual lives. lol Boris, legernd, check out the puppy!
*clenches fists and grimaces at work desk, hopes nobody notices*
― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 2 September 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
If anything its prorogation and fevered election talk that's distracting from Johnson's feel-good pupper gambit
― Aston "Family Court" Barrett (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 2 September 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
― stet, Monday, September 2, 2019 5:34 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Good piece. Rogers rightfully laments the 'political elite' still not being serious about this, ie. being completely clueless. And it is otm. It just feels so 'Groundhog Day' doesn't it? I'm willing to bet the same piece could more or less be written three years from now.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 2 September 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
we’ll all be dead in three years iirc
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 2 September 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
You know other things were discussed at the briefing, right? And that discussing one subject doesn’t take time away from discussions of other subjects?— Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) September 2, 2019
― gyac, Monday, 2 September 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
i love a party with a happy atmosphere
DUP have gone into the Number 10 drinks party too— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) September 2, 2019
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 2 September 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
Kuenssberg really thinks she's writing a society column from the 1930s doesn't she?
― plax (ico), Monday, 2 September 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
a german society column from the 30s, sure
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 2 September 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
Boris is making a speech at 6, please tell me what lectern is shown in case my awful connection goes & I can’t load anything but zing
― gyac, Monday, 2 September 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
dreadnought class lectern
― imago, Monday, 2 September 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
"I am on your side...and so is little Lancelot here"
― nashwan, Monday, 2 September 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
says "PRIME MINISTER" on it in Futura Extra Black Italic
― stet, Monday, 2 September 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
Lads
― gyac, Monday, 2 September 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
still raging from last time may brought out the fkn lectern tbrr
― самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Monday, 2 September 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
he’s ready
Here it is pic.twitter.com/iQll8mom0s— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) September 2, 2019
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 2 September 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
Thank godI have connection now
― gyac, Monday, 2 September 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
BREAKING: @BorisJohnson will say If MPs vote tomorrow for another delay, then Wednesday there will be vote on general election. MPs gone, no 14 days, no legislation on extension. Election on 14 October. Government source: “who does country want to sort it out on 18 Oct at EU?”— Robert Peston (@Peston) September 2, 2019
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 2 September 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
just strong and stabling as the tories always do
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 2 September 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
actually watching this for once and the analysts prattling away just sound so fucking clueless, so fucking soft and accepting of johnson. is this truly what our media has become
― imago, Monday, 2 September 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
is being late for statements part of the Tory thing now, like the power stance
― stet, Monday, 2 September 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
no good evening or nothing.
you can hear the boos on the bbc feed lololol
― stet, Monday, 2 September 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
Ugh, just look at this fucking clown.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Monday, 2 September 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
No election, May-like waste of a lectern.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Monday, 2 September 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
State of that speech
― gyac, Monday, 2 September 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
pretty sure the chants fucked his delivery too
― stet, Monday, 2 September 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
Lol wasteman
― Aston "Family Court" Barrett (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 2 September 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
what about the puppy though
― StanM, Monday, 2 September 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
I know that "the country" is sick of hearing about Brexit, but do they actually think we can just start saying "let's focus on the NHS" and we'll just glide over No Deal without really noticing?
― stet, Monday, 2 September 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I thought that too, take him outside of his comfort zone of brown-nosing journos and he flounders tbh.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Monday, 2 September 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
nothing new. just continued posturing and electioneering - lovely stuff
― самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Monday, 2 September 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/prC19jzocE— wint MP (@parliawint) September 2, 2019
― Simon H., Monday, 2 September 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link