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

[tonysingh]

The Sun front page leading with an update on Maddie McCann tomorrow

They're blaming her for this whole mess? Seems harsh.

 

[Wilf]

has anyone posted up that Bercow is likely to have to rule on whether the government is actually allowed to hold another vote on the exact same deal or not.

Parliamentary rules don't allow 2 votes on essentially the same motion in the same parliamentary session, and it's basically Bercow's discretion to decide if anything's different enough about any new motion to allow it to be voted on again.

Yes.

Ultimately I suspect the dup will be bribed on board in some way and that will speed up the number of erg-ers who seem to be shitting their pants tonight and talking about coming back into the fold. Whether that will get shitshow 3 through will of course be the centre of the whole thing. In some way, Bercow's ruling might be important in a related way. If they are forced to reformat shitshow 3 into shitsow 3 and a bit, that might do it. But if it looks yet more desperate it would fall. And finally, she would have to resign.

 

[Wilf]

They're blaming her for this whole mess? Seems harsh.

In many ways we are all sat in a tapas bar, looking nervously...

 

[Dogsauce]

The Sun front page leading with an update on Maddie McCann tomorrow

The ‘Dead cat’ strategy of political reporting. Nothing to see here. Tasteful.

Funnier was the Express blaming it all on remainers in this morning’s edition, as though it wasn’t the hard Brexit no deal nutcases that were frustrating May’s plans.

 

[Ted Striker]

Meltdown...

Meltdown...

Meltdown...

Erm...Maddie

 

[collectordave]

AH!

About time the government respected the wishes of the people.

The majority in the referendum did not vote for whatever reasons.

Parliament has now voted:-

1. Do not leave with the deal.
2. Do not leave without a deal.
3. Do not stay in.

Good to see they are as confused as the majority.

Come back Guy Fawkes I know some places a rocket could go.

 

[redsquirrel]

Until Thursday. They only need a SI to change the Withdrawal Act.

The government has already signalled that it will only go for short extension. May's plan continues to be to wind the clock down.

 

[Yossarian]

The print's so small I can't read what the 'Brexit update' is - I think it might be "blah blah blah blah."

 

[cupid_stunt]

The Sun front page leading with an update on Maddie McCann tomorrow

Jesus I thought you were making a shit joke about the Express and got the paper wrong.

Me too.

Even when Ted posted the front page above, I thought that must be a piss-take, which actually it basically is, but it's also the genuine front page, un-fucking-believable.

 

[MrCurry]

May going to go for third time lucky

So with no deal off the table and brexiteers minds focussed on the potential for losing Brexit entirely, what chance that May’s deal will be passed next week and the A50 extension will be just a short one?

 

[cupid_stunt]

However, discussions are taking place around a point that Jacob Rees-Mogg, the ERG chair, raised in the House of Commons before Tuesday’s vote, relating to “how article 62 of the Vienna convention could be used”.

Stephen Barclay, the Brexit secretary, replied that the UK would have the ability to terminate the withdrawal agreement “if the facts clearly warranted that there had been an unforeseen and fundamental change of circumstances affecting the essential basis of the treaty on which the United Kingdom’s consent had been given”.

ERG signals it could back May's Brexit deal if legal advice is clearer

Could this save May's deal?

 

[killer b]

No deal Brexit isn't off the table, so it doesn't really work as a threat to the ultras.

 

[killer b]

ERG signals it could back May's Brexit deal if legal advice is clearer

Could this save May's deal?

The ERG doesn't seem to United on this - large numbers of them are still saying 'nah'.

 

[andysays]

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Is Merson blaming Brexit?

 

[kabbes]

How is Paul Merson still front page news? Surely you have to be over 40 to even have a chance of knowing who he is? It’s not like he was a Prime A footballer even when he was playing in the 90s.

 

[killer b]

How is Paul Merson still front page news? Surely you have to be over 40 to even have a chance of knowing who he is? It’s not like he was a Prime A footballer even when he was playing in the 90s.

No-one under 40 reads a physical newspaper. I think the star has it's own peculiar ecosystem of interests too, he's probably been someone they regularly return to over the last 20 years.

 

[binka]

How is Paul Merson still front page news? Surely you have to be over 40 to even have a chance of knowing who he is? It’s not like he was a Prime A footballer even when he was playing in the 90s.

He's a well known pundit even for fans too young to remember him as a player - he's on Soccer Saturday every week

 

[Pickman's model]

No-one under 40 reads a physical newspaper. I think the star has it's own peculiar ecosystem of interests too, he's probably been someone they regularly return to over the last 20 years.

Loads of people under 40 read physical newspapers.

 

[kabbes]

Ah, that explains that then!

 

[Pickman's model]

No-one under 40 reads a physical newspaper. I think the star has it's own peculiar ecosystem of interests too, he's probably been someone they regularly return to over the last 20 years.

Perhaps if you read the star front page you might see why they've returned to him

 

[Sprocket.]

It’s the old ploy of we don’t like that news so we will go with populist guff.

ETA. Slight aside, I’ve noticed this morning that you can buy the Morning Star in Tesco but it’s not stocked in Sainsbury’s, piles of Mails and Express’ though.

 

[Pickman's model]

It’s the old ploy of we don’t like that news so we will go with populist guff.

ETA. Slight aside, I’ve noticed this morning that you can buy the Morning Star in Tesco but it’s not stocked in Sainsbury’s, piles of Mails and Express’ though.

I often see the morning star in Waitrose

 

[Sprocket.]

I often see the morning star in Waitrose

Petty bourgeois anarchists.

 

[Ted Striker]

How is Paul Merson still front page news? Surely you have to be over 40 to even have a chance of knowing who he is? It’s not like he was a Prime A footballer even when he was playing in the 90s.

His autobiography is hands-down the best sports bio I've ever read.

You're right tho, of course. He never came on my radar as some that should be a 'threat'/piss me off (as a spurs fan). I think he did score some memorable goals. IIRC, he became more famous for a divorce deal that was a a beacon for incandescent men to get angsty about the unfairness of it all, and then descended into a soccer am/Chris Kamara era bantz king.

Tbh his career is of more interest as the last era before the watershed moment when football became serious (and, tbf, shit).

But I digress, Brexit...

 

[Pickman's model]

Petty bourgeois anarchists.

when Sainsbury's goes soviet and stops stocking stuff they sell in Waitrose I buy in Waitrose

 

[SpookyFrank]

No-one under 40 reads a physical newspaper.

Whut now?

 

[killer b]

ok, very few people under 40 read a physical newspaper.

 

[danny la rouge]

I often see the morning star in Waitrose

I often see the Morning Star in Waitrose,
Beside the European, its leaves blown wild,
Each page a hectic flutter, more loud than in repose,
As if on its cobweb corpse the Sun had smiled.
Oh had I seen it at the Miners' Welfare, long pulled down,
And there, in mem'ry, lively eyes, now weeping dim,
Had a known a full-branch'd oak from whose red leaves
Spilled dappled lights, and on each, bosses cast a frown;
But now the lost-light flickers, among the shoppers prim,
So far beneath their notice, whisper rustling sheaves.

 

[Pickman's model]

I often see the Morning Star in Waitrose,
Beside the European, its leaves blown wild,
Each page a hectic flutter, more loud than in repose,
As if on its cobweb corpse the Sun had smiled.
Oh had I seen it at the Miners' Welfare, long pulled down,
And there, in mem'ry, lively eyes, now weeping dim,
Had a known a full-branch'd oak from whose red leaves
Spilled dappled lights, and on each, bosses cast a frown;
But now the lost-light flickers, among the shoppers prim,
So far beneath their notice, whisper rustling sheaves.

Below the thunders of the high street,
Far, far beneath in the abysmal mall,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Waitrose sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge convenience stores in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the high street die.

 

[Pickman's model]

Loads of people under 40 read physical newspapers.

ok, very few people under 40 read a physical newspaper.