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

tbf getting a classical mythology reference 180° wrong is a modernising repudiation of their former bufton-tufton-style stuffiness

More like dickarus, right?

farage unfazed by melts thus far imo

a+

So Parliament reconvenes, but only the Scottish MPs come back? I mean, it's not what I had written here, but I'm not unhappy.

Ian Blackford is..... The Caretaker

j/k

It seems like a lot depends on Bercow. He could un-suspend Monday's sitting (which wasn't adjourned) and expect them all to troop back. You might expect the government to boycott though — and then we'll have a legitimacy crisis over anything passed.

I suspect the actual answer is they won't do anything until the Supreme Court rules on Tuesday.

can this go to the ECJ for the LOL

does anyone know which are the two momentum candidates for the Conference Arrangements Committee Representative vote? I've left it late and too busy google shit rn!

frank field and mike gapes iirc

seema chandwani and billy hayes

Looks like there are three, but not a member & don’t know how it works

For the first time, Conference will elected a disabled representative to the Conference Arrangements Committee (CAC) this year. Momentum is supporting Wayne Blackburn (Pendle, L1219739), who is also supported by Disability Labour.
Elections for the two members’ representatives on the Conference Arrangements Committee will take place this Summer, via a One Member One Vote ballot of party members. Momentum will once again be supporting Seema Chandwani (Tottenham CLP, L1187007) and Billy Hayes (Mitcham and Morden CLP, A065571) for the CAC. CLPs have until June 28th to make nominations.

they'll do thanx!

Wayne isn't on the ballot so I'll do the other 2.

stet otm

Government source says they will abide by whatever the Supreme Court rules.

Parliament will remain prorogued until the appeals process is complete but if the Supreme Court goes against the government, they will set a recall date via a Privy Council process.

— Shehab Khan (@ShehabKhan) September 11, 2019

Tonight the government is due to hand over secret papers relating to its no-deal preparation project, Operation Yellowhammer, which MPs at the gathering said should have been debated in the Commons.

Thread of Lord Ashcroft polls in NI, so take with huge amount of salt

And if there were a referendum tomorrow, how would you vote? pic.twitter.com/muhAdZ5LUh

— Lord Ashcroft (@LordAshcroft) September 11, 2019

However, if they had to choose between a Labour government with Corbyn as Prime Minister or a Conservative government led by Johnson, Northern Ireland voters as a whole plump for the former by 53 per cent to 47 per cent – though nine in ten unionists prefer Johnson and the Tories.

tokyo rosemary to thread

Well a few months ago I did try to explain Brexit to my tricopines which I only know anything about pretty much because of ILX threads and Twitter.

NEW: Understand new @LibDems policy of pledging to revoke Article 50 and cancelling Brexit has put off one potential defector who had been close to joining the party.

“For me revoking Article 50 is just the opposite of No Deal - neither brings the country back together.”

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) September 11, 2019

Bye Tom

NEW: Jeremy Corbyn on @tom_watson’s call for a referendum before a general election

“It’s Tom’s view, I don’t accept it and I don’t agree with it, our priority is for a general election”

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) September 11, 2019

Swinson + Watson ... the real resistance

JC otm

Tom Kibasi is consistently good on this stuff:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/11/tom-watson-wrong-britain-needs-election-before-second-brexit-referendum

Instead of solving this problem, Theresa May exacerbated it by fundamentally misunderstanding her principal political task. She thought her job was to negotiate a deal with the EU when it was in fact to take a general mandate to leave and refine it into a specific mandate as to how. Rather than bringing the country together, her arrogant, aggressive leadership style ripped us further apart. And now, ultra remainers are taking a leaf out of her book. By demanding the divisive, they are driving the country down yet another Brexit dead end.

tbf a lot of remainers were ultras from day 1. I'm sure the referendum, once it happened, could've been handled *better* by government, but a lot of the fundamental divisions it exploded had been there for decades and the touchpaper was lit on the day the referendum was set

This is what makes me eyeroll at the idea of reuniting the nation, both sides have a lot of believers who see compromise itself as betrayal

careful now

Most Remainers that are now ultra/Remainiacs developed this aspect of their personalities starting on 24.06.16 - perhaps as a corrective to their own complacency during the campaign phase, and quite a few of these used it as a cudgel to beat the Labour leadership.

there are remainiacs, that's for sure

https://i0.wp.com/www.fortressofsolitude.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Animaniacs.jpg?w=736&ssl=1

I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up, but... pic.twitter.com/72iZuUXJdt

— Yasmeen Serhan (@YasmeenSerhan) September 11, 2019

For the curious: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/831199/20190802_Latest_Yellowhammer_Planning_assumptions_CDL.pdf

"Reasonable worst case"

No time to read, can someone maybe sum it up in a pithy phrase

lol we're all gonna die?

That’s the one

Official confirmation of thread title

i wonder what the big redacted paragraph says

prolly ‘lol we’re all gonna die’ in big red type i s’pose

Troops on the streets seems to be the consensus opinion

lol we’re all gonna die at the hands of twitchy squaddies

lol we’re all gonna die at the hands of twitchy squaddies

You trying to get a chant going?

Threads to thread

https://video-images.vice.com/articles/5a661c43d80acb7809d381b4/lede/1516641424659-image1.jpeg

You trying to get a chant going?

xxxp no news to the Irish among us...

well, yeah

that updated title seems... significant

What's different about the new Yellowhammer document that the government has just published compared with the one I got hold of last month? The heading.
What did the version I had say? BASE SCENARIO
Now what does the new one say? HMG Reasonable Worst Case Planning Assumptions

— Rosamund Urwin (@RosamundUrwin) September 11, 2019

i just skimmed it and don't see anything about soldiers on the streets?

The redacted bit is about refineries according to Faisal Islam