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

Giving a speech in Madrid, Mr Barclay today said the government needs a year to come up with a replacement to the Irish backstop idea – but it still wants to leave on 31 October.
The cabinet minister said the EU has set Britain a test it ‘cannot meet’ with its demands for a backstop replacement.
Mr Barclay said: ‘We are told the UK must provide legally operative text by the 31 October, yet the alternative to the backstop is not necessary until the end of the Implementation Period in December 2020.
‘And this will be shaped by the future relationship – which is still to be determined.
‘In short, why risk crystallising an undesirable result this November, when both sides can work together until December 2020.’
He added: ‘The EU risks continuing to insist on a test that the UK cannot meet and that the UK Parliament has rejected three times.’

Stephen Barclay.... partially OTM?

omg mark are you ok? I missed you.

yes i am (they let me out)

but there is a good story to tell! i will write it up on the atrial fibbing thread tho (and not right now)

Yay!

in what way is barclay in any way otm

the backstop is a binding agreement in the event of uk not satisfying the ongoing requirements of the land border with roi and the necessities of the GFA

let them sign it as a show of good faith that they intend to resolve those issues within the implementation period

if they will not do so they demonstrate unequivocally their lack of serious interest in a negotiated consensus and no further discussions are necessary, prepare for ndb and disregard the nonsense coming from the uk delegation that is purely for the benefit of their own press

100% agree (sidetracked by mark coming back). Like there’s been zero good faith on the UK side, he’s literally just like, ah well let’s not be ~silly~ about this, we’re all friends here, who needs a binding written agreement?

Welcome back, mark. Hope you're alright.

Remember when some guy "confronted" Jeremy Corbyn by punching him in the head and instead of even slightly digging into or scrutinizing the politics and affiliations of the culprit, every melt journo had a wee giggle about it instead.

— ACAB Rees-Mogg (@jelly_pack) September 18, 2019

I wrote music stuff for Modern Review under Kodwo Eshun

Apologies Suzy but I did lol thinking of Mr Eshun sitting on you while you tried to write up your copy.

And welcome back Mark. Glad they let you out!

At pains* to point out that Kodwo commissioned me, rather than TY/JB.

*the lanky, bony-arsed git was sitting on me the whole time obvs.

He's otm only in that he's admitting that the government isn't within an ass's roar of an actual solution on the backstop.

Ministers will table "formal written solutions when we are ready" and not to an "artificial deadline"

https://i.imgur.com/SEdmZpC.png

all deadlines are artificial

thread of artificial fibbing

Tom otm

all deadlines are artificial

Police? I’d like to report a murder: on the bottom of page 138 of David Cameron’s book. pic.twitter.com/xWvJETX1Ow

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) September 19, 2019

I've got used to how much Bush buzzes off Cameron as a politician just by the odd comment or fifty about him in the past. He's loving the book by the look of it!

i have no idea what he considers the "murder" there

the blandishments in the middle I presume, but yeah!

theresa was excellent whereas failing grayling just served, presumably

maybe Karen Bradley made her fucking look good!

xp otm, but how many roles did Cameron put him in again?!

didnt put him with the p roles anyway

Grayling has become such a widely clowned figure that it seems pretty weak piss from Cameron.

We've got Priti Patel as Home Secretary now, so the joke's on us.

Who da thought that when we've got three Britannia Unchained lunatic extremists as cabinet ministers that everything would be so chained up

To go back to an earlier argument I missed

At the end of all this - not sure quite what “this” is or whether it will ever end - we need to think about what “hard right”, “hard left” “far right” “far left”
and “fascist” mean now, because they are being thrown around with such abandon that we will need new words soon.

— Rob Burley (@RobBurl) September 19, 2019

BBC Westminster was one of the last places I worked at the BBC and there is definitely not any shred of a project to lace reporting with an agenda. We were attacked daily - the main goal each day was to be fair, and invalidate those accusations

— Julia Macfarlane (@juliamacfarlane) September 18, 2019

first step to avoid having an agenda is to admit that you've got an agenda

Haha yes^

otm

Some of the all time greats. But which one has the biggest body count? pic.twitter.com/vlZsoMwUWA

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) September 19, 2019

hedges is still making me lol

Part of the problem with the BBC and other broadcasters is that middle-class people working there are asked to imagine how someone in Wigan might feel, and head out on gammon safari, because they cannot imagine anything other than stereotypes, which they then perpetuate.

Wait...has Hedges gone Corbynite? That’s well off brand.

is he saying the coalition killed more ppl than Iraq ? !!!

Part of the issue afaict is they have this weird sense that they work for the BBC, so they’re the good guys and everyone who criticises them is delusional and can’t see their obviously reasonable intentions.

I mean, look at how wet this is:

Ok, you’ve libelled four people! But don’t worry we have to lie down and take it. But I have reported you to Twitter (for all the good that will do) and will be blocking you. I doubt you’ll miss my tweets.

— Rob Burley (@RobBurl) September 19, 2019

Lol yes let's put Francois in I'm a Celeb he could be our Bolsanaro.

https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2019/sep/19/could-mark-francois-brexit-bellower-be-tvs-next-explosive-star

xp

without so much as once having the decency to publicly discuss exactly how right wing and how fringe he thinks you have to be before you stop deserving a national media platform. i guess he figures all the Maoist guests on QT even it out

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/53n9v8/the-new-wave-of-satire-for-our-morbid-political-landscape - the hedges explainer is still very good. Interesting point made about the most prominent voices on twitter being journalists.

xp platform 👏🏻comrade👏🏻alphabet👏🏻

Lol yes let's put Francois in I'm a Celeb he could be our Bolsanaro.

https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2019/sep/19/could-mark-francois-brexit-bellower-be-tvs-next-explosive-star

― xyzzzz__,

What the hell is this? its almost unreadable

it's The Guardian

She's done it again, I've just laughed so hard I'm suffering from a prolapsed rectum. Didn't read it tbh

Ed Davey getting his arse handed to him from all sides tonight

Tory woman is dire.

she does well to cope with stage 3 rigor mortis and talking on live tv

Good morning

I want someone to look at me the way Laura Kuenssberg looks at Boris when he gives a speech. pic.twitter.com/Irwgzs0mjS

— Joshua Funnell 🌹 (@JoshuaFunnell2) September 19, 2019

they have definitely fucked

and it was hawwwwwwwt

Excellent:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/labour-plan-army-social-welfare-20100959