BREXIT Crunch time (part 38) WTF is going to happen next?

[Sprocket.]

Fans drinking pints of St Crispin's Ale in the stands.

Actually, there should be a line of Brexit branded beers:

'Drink 52% - guaranteed free movement!'
Old Barnier's Backstop
mv4 IPA

A quart of Democracy’s Downfall barkeep.

 

[Wilf]

A quart of Democracy’s Downfall barkeep.

Pint of Doom Barnier.

 

[Sprocket.]

even our plotters are a national disgrace

And the only plots Corbyn takes notice of have carrots and onions in them.

 

[chilango]

Spunking cock?

No. Sadly. Diatribes about Brexit.

 

[chilango]

Jus in the (possible) euro or in the council too?

Euros

 

[andysays]

Brexit: Donald Tusk suggests "flexible" delay of up to a year

European Council president Donald Tusk has suggested offering the UK a "flexible" extension to Brexit of up to a year, with the option of leaving earlier if a deal is ratified. He said there was "little reason to believe" a Brexit deal would be approved by the extension deadline UK PM Theresa May has requested - 30 June. Writing to EU leaders, he said any delay should have conditions attached.

Statement of the bleedin' obvious...

 

[Pickman's model]

Brexit: Donald Tusk suggests "flexible" delay of up to a year



Statement of the bleedin' obvious...

Au contraire, if we can still say that. By 30 June 2935 I think things will have been worked out

 

[Cid]

Au contraire, if we can still say that. By 30 June 2935 I think things will have been worked out

And, finally, May will be laid to rest.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Au contraire, if we can still say that. By 30 June 2935 I think things will have been worked out

You’ve always been a glass half full kind of fella

 

[Pickman's model]

You’ve always been a glass half full kind of fella

Half a glass of my arsenic root beer should do for may

 

[MickiQ]

Brexit: Donald Tusk suggests "flexible" delay of up to a year



Statement of the bleedin' obvious...

It doesn't matter how long a delay he gives her, She will waste all but the last week of it trying to get "her" Deal through, it's going to be like Groundhog Day the same damn thing over and over again, unless something external happens to change the HoC arithmetic then this Mexican standoff will continue.
I have this mental vision of Tusk frantically mouthing "Tell Her I'm Not In" every time his secretary picks up the phone.

 

[Sprocket.]

I seriously think May has convinced herself that any day now Bobby Ewing will step out of the shower.

 

[mx wcfc]

There is a meme on FB that I can't copy and paste, but it reads

"The year is 3029, and Parliament enacts the weekly ritual of voting down "Theresa May's Deal". The origins of this archaic rite are lost in time". (Pinched off The Tiger Lillies).

 

[Pickman's model]

It doesn't matter how long a delay he gives her, She will waste all but the last week of it trying to get "her" Deal through, it's going to be like Groundhog Day the same damn thing over and over again, unless something external happens to change the HoC arithmetic then this Mexican standoff will continue.
I have this mental vision of Tusk frantically mouthing "Tell Her I'm Not In" every time his secretary picks up the phone.

Feed may to the groundhogs

 

[Pickman's model]

I seriously think May has convinced herself that any day now Bobby Ewing will step out of the shower.

She's confusing scenes from dallas and psycho

 

[Sprocket.]

She's confusing scenes from dallas and psycho

Well I will always associate her with a shower forever now.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Well I will always associate her with a shower forever now.

i already do

 

[Sprocket.]

i already do

My inference too.

 

[Winot]

It doesn't matter how long a delay he gives her, She will waste all but the last week of it trying to get "her" Deal through, it's going to be like Groundhog Day the same damn thing over and over again, unless something external happens to change the HoC arithmetic then this Mexican standoff will continue.
I have this mental vision of Tusk frantically mouthing "Tell Her I'm Not In" every time his secretary picks up the phone.

If the extension lasts beyond December then she is vulnerable to a VONC again.

 

[Mr Moose]

Au contraire, if we can still say that. By 30 June 2935 I think things will have been worked out

So soon? Heavens.

 

[Pickman's model]

So soon? Heavens.

British politicians can get the job done speedily when they put their minds to work with a bayonet behind them

 

[Yossarian]

Fans drinking pints of St Crispin's Ale in the stands.

Actually, there should be a line of Brexit branded beers:

'Drink 52% - guaranteed free movement!'
Old Barnier's Backstop
mv4 IPA

This is apparently a real beer - would be more appropriate if it only came in "Bitter" and "Extra Bitter."

 

[newbie]

i already do

there's a list here of ministers who have resigned over brexit, though no doubt some were pushed. The recent battles might have been very different if the balance of power within the cabinet hadn't shifted.

 

[andysays]

If the extension lasts beyond December then she is vulnerable to a VONC again.

That's a VoNC as leader of the Tories. She/her government is also, in theory, vulnerable to a VoNC at any time.

But despite littlebabyjesus saying it would be sensible to have an election, there seems not to be a majority for such a thing either in the party or the HoC as a whole

 

[Teaboy]

That's a VoNC as leader of the Tories. She/her government is also, in theory, vulnerable to a VoNC at any time.

But despite littlebabyjesus saying it would be sensible to have an election, there seems not to be a majority for such a thing either in the party or the HoC as a whole

I can believe there isn't a majority on the tory benches for a general election but in the house as a whole? Party discipline would have had to break down to an astonishingly low level for both the tories and Labour to whip for the same outcome and still lose. Doesn't sound likely to me.

 

[killer b]

If may called a general there is no way she wouldnt get the votes to push it through.

 

[brogdale]

A trend we can all get behind? Voluntary disenfranchisement by the older demographic can only be a good thing.

Take back control; spoil your own ballot

Gaining traction!

Go on, posh ladies of the shires...get a spunking cock on yer ballot paper...that's the spirit!

 

[prunus]

Gaining traction!

Go on, posh ladies of the shires...get a spunking cock on yer ballot paper...that's the spirit!

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There is of course nothing like a show of petulance to demonstrate the rectitude of one’s position, and additionally I heartily commend to all the idea that those people who would otherwise vote for an anti-EU candidate should spoil their ballots. Take back control of the toyless pram.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Gaining traction!

Go on, posh ladies of the shires...get a spunking cock on yer ballot paper...that's the spirit!

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And as I keep repeating; spunking cock is a vote, so not disenfranchised, but adding to their mandate. Just bin your polling card and stop playing their silly games. The lower the turnout, the weaker the mandate.

 

[andysays]

If may called a general there is no way she wouldnt get the votes to push it through.

I agree, but as the context made clear, I'm talking about forcing a GE through a VoNC. There wasn't a majority for that last time and it's difficult to see that happening anytime in the future.