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

Arlene Foster says that Angela Merkel's comments have revealed the 'real objective of Dublin and the EU'

'The PM's proposals have flushed out Dublin's real intentions Northern Ireland in the EU customs union forever

'We will not accept any such ultimatum or outcome'

I can paraphrase that for you - No Surrender Ya Fenian Bastards.

banter heuristic now demands that germany leave the eu with no apparent effort while forcing the uk to remain

Khan

having led London through a genuinely traumatic summer in 2017

What was this about? I'm afraid I can't remember, though I was in London the whole time.

Oh - you must mean Grenfell Tower. Yes. I had thought it must be a terrorist attack.

things continuing to go well I see

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The EU to become just the UK, Ireland and former Warsaw Pact territories

see the gov are planning to bury the report on grenfell by releasing it on 30/10

I would think that the trouble with Stewart is that he takes far more votes from Cons than from Labour and thus is actually likely to make Khan's reelection easier -- like Ross Perot in 1992.

I really don't see a lot of Labour voters voting for this ex-Con, whereas Cons who don't like Brexit, and Lib Dems, will.

Peter Hitchens often says things I agree with - he is generally against foreign military intervention, for instance.

yes same, and he was the only right wing conservative columnist who was correctly scathing about the causes of the Grenfell trajedy. But I won't get too carried away!

Poor old Farage has woken from his slumbers and started frantically tweeting as he's realized the Tories have comprehensively outflanked him.

bit of strategic ineptitude* that the backstop was cast as a piece of UK compromise. as opposed to the UK diplomatic success and EU compromise that it actually was. means now that BJ is trying to water it down, any pushback from the EU is seen as intransigence on their behalf.

*perhaps genius depending on your bent

can this clown even pass a queen’s speech

Pinefox - there were four terrorist attacks in London in 2017. Westminster Bridge, Borough, Finsbury Park and Parsons Green. And then Grenfell on top of that obviously.

Surely Johnson can only pass a Queens Speech with the help of Tory MPs and it depends on how generous they're feeling (and how scared of Corbyn).

Isn't passing a queen's speech also a prerequisite for the session of parliament to start and any further attempt to copper-bottom the Benn bill?

Angela Merkel's demand that Britain leaves Northern Ireland to rot inside the Customs Union is reprehensible and shows the true colours of our supposed "European allies".

Enough of this nonsense, we walk away as an independent, self-governing nation in three weeks' time! 🥳🇬🇧👍

— Leave.EU (@LeaveEUOfficial) October 8, 2019

They're ready

"kraut" fuck off, is this really what passes for officially branded political discourse in 2019?

and of all the ways Britain has left NI to rot, the Customs Union is... not on the list at all actually?

rargh *bristles*

At least they didn't say two World Wars and one World Cup.

BXP should adopt that as their election slogan. they’d well and truly split the tory vote then

they can't be as deranged as this. so they're lying. but to what end?? it can't all be about disaster capitalism can it??

It depends on your definition of lying. Did she actually say it? Whats that got to do with anything?

She COULD have said it, she most likely thinks it, and sne probably says it all the time. So we have to wait around for her to say it conveniently within earshot?

Whether she said it on any particular occasion or not ia pernickity and officous in the extreme. Its the underlying truth that matters, not the tangential

i wish i has your faith tbh xp

.@BorisJohnson, what’s at stake is not winning some stupid blame game. At stake is the future of Europe and the UK as well as the security and interests of our people. You don’t want a deal, you don’t want an extension, you don’t want to revoke, quo vadis?

— Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) October 8, 2019

That Sienkiewicz reference is A+ given the addressee.

anvil i don't mean the briefing against merkel, i mean the whole fantasy of a "clean break". surely no politician actually believes this. so what is their motivation for promoting it? is it just short-term political gain and they don't think the consequences will be that bad?

I don't think anvil's being entirely serious?

It's the Tories and it's the UK, so it's short-term political gain.

+ financial gain (I'm a pound-shorting truther)

yeah but it can't JUST be disaster capitalism and staving off nigel can it? i feel like i'm not getting something

what else is there apart from naked, craven greed and fear of losing power

and child abuse, of course

they probably aren't thinking much about long term gains, clinging onto power by any means seems the game. maybe they'll get away with: we've knackered the economy and there might be burning corpse piles in the streets, but hey we saved you from the German Empire + Corbynism.

yeah but it can't JUST be disaster capitalism and staving off nigel can it? i feel like i'm not getting something

I don't think you understand Tories.

jiminy testicle having another normal one on twitter today I see

is this journalism? pic.twitter.com/ByyKO6T6d1

— ian mighty (@iammightor) October 8, 2019

NFU says farmers would feel 'betrayed' by government in event of no-deal Brexit

Well you shouldn't have voted to Leave or spent the last billions years voting Tory. Cunts.

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It's terrible fanfic but at least it isn't breaking any impartiality rules.

ew ew ew at that LK tweet :(

not to be all save-a-Laura but that's a spoof tweet

it is actually difficult to tell the difference

Could've fooled me (and did)

xp true enough

i mean yeah look lk is awful but thats not a supportive tweet

anvil i don't mean the briefing against merkel, i mean the whole fantasy of a "clean break". surely no politician actually believes this.

Its just a larger version of the same thing. We really need to stop being so literal with this truth thing, its an entirely upside down way of looking at things

seems bad

Glasgow's Lord Provost billed the taxpayer for 23 pairs of shoes as part of an £8000 spending spree on clothing and beauty products.https://t.co/vKmztBzpiL

— The Daily Record (@Daily_Record) October 8, 2019

will GCC forever be such a morass of sleaze?

To be fair, she is also the Commissioner of Northern Lighthouses. That's got to require a few fleeces, some waterproof kecks and stout footwear. Plus all the official regalia she has to change into once she's in there, trimming the wick.

phwoarrr

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