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

https://images.app.goo.gl/zLkVwftd3b2ieEoA8

Meanwhile I am just incredibly wearied at Downing Street's attempt to triangulate around a voter so unreasonable that when we leave on 8 November is going to kick off that it didn't happen on 31 October. https://t.co/pl4RMdQN5z

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) October 19, 2019

might be unable to resist stealing that joke

🐦[And if you have been out or at least, having a more normal Saturday night than those of us lucky enough to be witnessing these crazy times in Westmintser up close, this is what happened today https://t.co/EnEE2xGbs4🕸
— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) October 19, 2019🕸]🐦

I know there's the cchq PR stuff she does constantly, but I think the key kuenssberg characteristic that winds me up the most is the "exclusive club you're not invited to" bollocks. It's so tacky and also it's like "we all hate all of you, don't want to be anywhere near any of you and the only reason we follow any is this has nothing to do with finding any of it glamorous but because the consequences of all of you freaks make believe playing adults unfortunately affects our lives"

Noticed that cynical primadonna JRM brought his clone son with him to work to watch him fail in person and experience a police escort to/from the Commons.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHQNxl8X0AAQtI-?format=jpg&name=small

amazing what you can grow in a kilner jar these days

22 weeks

Starmer accepts that a referendum could take up to 22 weeks to organise. Would mean months of delay without any real functioning government.

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) October 20, 2019

could have predicted the thousands of witty replies to that one

22 weeks gives me a decent head start on building my fallout shelter and packing it to the rafters with supplies, thx keir

if they VONC now would that not force the EU’s hand to accept extension request

I don’t think the EU’s hand needs forcing. They’re just playing along for the time being, but they’ll allow the request.

So is the game now to pass this deal in early Nov?

Plot twist:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/20/labour-could-back-brexit-bill-if-second-referendum-attached-says-starmer

Still not really sure what the point of an extension is beyond LOL Boris. They seem pretty confident the deal will pass and I think they're right to be.

i presume it’s to remove the element of this-deal-or-no-deal brinksmanship which might have got this over the line yesterday if letwin hadn’t passed but who knows anything for sure at this point tbh

The only thing is that Boris has put a lot of his credibility on leaving deal or no deal on the 31st. But I don't think it will affect him too much in an election.

And I also don't see the deal passing as being as much of an issue for Lab in the election either

That's what Letwin's Amendment was about but what's the plan if we get an extension? (xp)

He was at the sherry last night.

Jog on Boris Johnson with your daft ideas. pic.twitter.com/ipFM12jXAB

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) October 19, 2019

some suggestion the EU will wait and see what happens w the deal this week - before they accept extension request. I know they’ll accept it, if required, regardless so think there’s little risk in going for a VONC now. opposition could VONC (which now has a good chance of passing as DUP are raging) and accelerate that process

That's what Letwin's Amendment was about but what's the plan if we get an extension? (xp)

Nice Sunday Business Post cartoon
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHTnrcEXkAAXIJI?format=jpg&name=large

tfw they just tweet it out:

what an origin story pic.twitter.com/pmDODKCeeO

— Lafargue (@Lafargue) October 20, 2019

what is it about social media that compels ghouls like nelson to tell on themselves so relentlessly and so thoroughly

he's replying to Jess Phillips who dragged her brats to Downing Street for a publicity stunt once - there is no end to the diabolical cycle of bad parents begetting more wretched damaged adults upon the world!

such a boringly inevitble countdown to the media feud between the JRM's rightwing thinktank offspring and the one that goes to the slade and does menstrual blood performance art

Pardon me?

Has anyone on Twitter ever asked Fraser Nelson why he talks like that?

the simple answer is because he's a cunt

ftb groundskeeper willie: also a scab (i'm guessing)?

nominative determinism is bad-pun central but sexius bonyface domino will totally be a BDSM art-goth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OY0FvhypaY

of course what radicalises him will be the collected works of n!ck l4nd :|

ftb groundskeeper willie: also a scab (i'm guessing)?

rare footage of expedited frictionless convergences defending a comrade:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9_jIa2WADc

precisely

There’s more on Fraser Nelson lol

Fraser went to the same school as me. No idea where his mum worked. But our school was never on strike and never had a picket line. He was, at best , skiving from the finest school in Scotland.

— Bad Ken (@kbmqs) October 20, 2019

lol every good tory needs a made up bollox origin story.

nothing speaks more to your character than making up some shit about your mom being a scab

I've previously heard Fraser talking about how he is quite an authoritative voice on the Scottish working class experience because his military dad grew up in some tenement block shithole somewhere

generational osmosed memory?
Long history of psychic activity in the family that allows him to have first hand experience?

The point of the extension is to allow time for proper Parliamentary scrutiny of the deal and for amendments to be tabled. 'LOL Boris' is merely a bonus.

KEITH who designed ILX knew Nelson at university.

Perhaps this has often been mentioned before.

Also that Starmer statement would only be a plot twist if there was a chance in hell of the government agreeing to a referendum of the deal when in reality everyone involved - including Starmer himself - knows there isn't.

lock the extension down and it's election time

xp I believe Alisa knew FN from school?

Any advance on two ILXors who have firsthand knowledge of Frazoor Noylsen?

but doctor i am frazer nelson *strips off greased groundkeeper willie suit to reveal italian clown suit, gold top hat*

Alisa? Ailsa?

let's do this lads

There will be lots of attention paid to the sexiest amendment: a second referendum. But that (prob) still doesn't have enough support. The explosive one is a customs union which probably does and crucially has support from Lab MPs who might back deal but would prefer a CU.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) October 20, 2019

If that happens (and it passes) I don't see any way out for Johnson, other than accepting the reality of the extension and using it to insist on an election where he campaigns for his deal. Tory Party as the Brexit (with a deal) Party.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) October 20, 2019

All this and they haven’t even finished the queen’s speech yet.