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

is boris officially PM after he calls an election? or does he only stop being PM when he loses?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_the_United_Kingdom_by_length_of_tenure

Yeah he’s PM until he loses.

SNP and Lib Dem MPs are apparently lobbying the Speaker John Bercow not to select an amendment expected from Labour to demand votes for 16 and EU citizens.

They don't want to look bad by voting against 16 year-olds and EU nationals getting the vote.

— Matt Dathan (@matt_dathan) October 29, 2019

don’t vote against it then you fannies

What a bunch of cunts

16 and 17 year olds can vote for Holyrood elections though, no?

Lib Dem Brexit spokesperson Tom Brake MP says if Labour push for an amendment to give the vote to 16 and 17-year-olds it could make a pre-Christmas election “unachievable”https://t.co/Suxj6kflbt pic.twitter.com/z4HTkPxrlL

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) October 29, 2019

Yes, and in IndyRef. But the claim is that it'd take too long to register everyone in time for a December election, so we'd be looking at election next year if this passes. Over to Bercow for bantz. xp

16 year olds can already register to vote - just can’t vote until 18+

Make it a public holiday while we're at it

Love the optics of the Lib Dems handwringing over votes for EU citizens.

Lib Dems now say they'll back amendments to give votes to 16 & 17-year-olds and EU citizens.
My tweet about some Lib Dem and the SNP MPs apparently trying to lobby the Speaker's office not to call the amendment was wrong. They're not.

— Matt Dathan (@matt_dathan) October 29, 2019

skeptical the votes are there for these to pass

they should just write socialism or barbarism on the ballots

— hannah proctor (@hhnnccnnll) October 29, 2019

https://imgflip.com/s/meme/Two-Buttons.jpg

tbh I share anvil’s confusion, there’s no way this doesn’t come across as a ridiculous u-turn? No deal has not been taken off the table but labour have reversed their position anyway as they were always going to

Delighted to be the @LibDems candidate for Kensington for the next GE. The community deserves better than @Conservatives pursuing a reckless hard Brexit & out of touch with modern Britain & Corbyn’s @UKLabour & their assault on property rights & pensions https://t.co/0f0N7au4bf

— Sam Gyimah MP (@SamGyimah) October 29, 2019

Lib Dems got 6% of the vote in Kensington last time. Brexit Party running Jay Aston, lol.

That's a Tory gain then

You could even say that was the plan

An election is the worst possible way to resolve Brexit and all who have supported it have done so out of failure. But now it is happening it must be about stopping @BorisJohnson and his hard ruinous Brexit

— Alastair PEOPLE’S VOTE Campbell (@campbellclaret) October 29, 2019

omg just double checked that, *the* Jay Aston :D

imagine capitalising public shitshow PEOPLES VOTE in your handle still

it is Halloween tbf

You could even say that was the plan

barry shearman on a normal one on twitter

I know a ton of Labour voters in Kensington who are willing to pound pavements day and night alongside EDC.

slams the bell to summon calz to thread

I hear Labour frontbenchers & whips resigning over decision to vote for December election.

— Barry Sheerman (@BarrySheerman) October 29, 2019

Sheer madness to hold a General Election in December & on Boris Johnson’s agenda!

— Barry Sheerman (@BarrySheerman) October 29, 2019

I think Grenfell will be a huge election issue locally and maybe nationwide. There are a lot of people living in unsafe blocks right now - and not just council housing.

The Grenfell report is due out tomorrow.

Margaret Hodge IN Keith Vaz OUT

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/28/keith-vaz-faces-parliamentary-ban-over-drugs-for-sex-workers-scandal

Barry "Sheer madness" is hearing things

hopefully it won’t get as overlooked as it was no doubt planned to when Brexit day was supposed to be on halloween xxp

The inquiry examined claims published in the Sunday Mirror in 2016 that he offered to buy cocaine for male sex workers while posing as an industrial washing machine salesman.

Vaz’s explanation, which included that he had amnesia and could not recall key events, was “not believable and, indeed, ludicrous”, the inquiry found.

How do they argue that Keith Vaz should be the candidate if there’s a December election? Guessing they don’t.

nah, sounds legit imo xp

His wiki page goes places
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EH-wD6mWoAAql5t?format=png&name=large

POLL

I know it's all just speculation but surely there's a chance that December/Christmas subconsciously helps Labour - homelessness/food bank use etc is so visible; we all feel quite guilty about over-consumption; sharing and collectivism is sort of baked into the ritual of it all

— Eve Livingston (@eve_rebecca) October 29, 2019

grenfell report being spoilered by the Telegraph today, breaking the embargo to spin a govt-friendly line

What’s that? It was their own fault?

https://66.media.tumblr.com/60aeee62dc1aee0c3c0fbad1702eb860/tumblr_inline_pfp352ORsk1r4hkfd_250.png

Register to vote. Now.https://t.co/qXdulxPFk2

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) October 29, 2019

What’s that? It was their own fault?

It was nobody's fault, apparently, just one of those terrible things that can't be blamed on any government or council, and please stop mentioning cladding

oh and the fire brigade are bad not good

OBR going to publish their economic forecasts on 07/11

first setback for BJ

After claims by Vaz’s friends that the MP may have been drugged during the newspaper sting, the Mirror released details of what it claimed was a second meeting between Vaz and the two men. It included a transcript of him allegedly ordering them to take up sexual positions.

Vaz denied that the purpose of his encounter with the two men was to engage in paid-for sex, the inquiry report said. “He asserts that the purpose was to discuss the redecoration of the flat in which the meeting took place. He claims that this was necessary because an ambitious programme of redecoration of his main residence, a detached house in north London, was about to begin. For the duration of those works, Mr Vaz and his wife would need to relocate to the nearby flat which he also owned.

Gearing up for Christmas General Election like: pic.twitter.com/8wgk3exhHi

— Momentum (@PeoplesMomentum) October 29, 2019

If only there was some media available where people turn up to do some manual work only to find themselves having sex with each other.

Just lolled very conspicuously at that