So Boris has resigned because 'his conscience' told him to.... and if we don't deliver substantial progress, Farage is coming back.
Jarvis had it right (VVVNSFW but I won't apologise)
Why would the EU extend A50, it was set at 2 years for a reason.
What was the reason, out of interest?
I made the mistake of listening to that prick farage on LBC a few minutes ago, he had a brexit supporter call in and say “if we don’t fully leave the EU then i’m never voting again”.
Eureka!…..Wow that’s it, – if the other 17,410,432 ****tards who voted for brexit follow suit then all our problems are solved.
There's been a lot of talk about this in the brexity corners of Facebook over the last few days. The remain group I'm in has been all "OH NOES whatever will we do?!"
In other news, I have to share this with you.
Last night I went to a pub quiz and got a taxi home. The driver was a bloke of Asian descent, presumably ****stani, as is common for minicab drivers in East Lancashire. Maybe in his 40s or 50s, I wasn't paying that much attention.
Halfway home he spontaneously sparked up a conversation about Brexit, I'd had a beer or six so I don't remember exactly how it started now but it quickly descended into the usual tripe about the EU making our laws and all that jazz. My beer-fuelled brain went "right then, I'm having you" and launched. "Well, that's just not true, is it," I said, and explained about how all of the laws coming from the EU were endorsed by us and in many cases we actually proposed them. And of course, there's the ever-reliable "what rules do you object to, name one." He then went on a couple of other typical leaver flights of fancy which I roundly, if slurringly, rebutted. I expect it wasn't the direction he expected the conversation to go and sadly probably not how he's used to his fares responding.
And that's when it all went a bit... weird.
After he'd run out of semi-coherent arguments, he started going on about how the EU was really run by aliens, they were planning an invasion and we had to leave the EU to protect ourselves. The only way we were going to survive would be to isolate ourselves from the rest of the world in some sort of bubble or something. There was more, full-on David Icke conspiracy theory stuff, I forget now. Before I had time to say anything in reply he was pulling up outside home so I paid, left, and then burst out laughing so hard that I had to hold on to a garden wall to stay upright and the neighbours shouted out of their bedroom window to tell me off.
People, eh.
People, eh.
yeah, move along, no lizards to see here.
then burst out laughing so hard that I had to hold on to a garden wall to stay upright and the neighbours shouted out of their bedroom window to tell me off.
That's an awfully long-winded way to excuse yourself rolling home paralytic and annoying the neighbours with your braying and snorting. 🙂
Did they fall for it?
Another one's gone. Chris Green just walked.
https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/1016391868849033218
That’s an awfully long-winded way to excuse yourself rolling home paralytic and annoying the neighbours with your braying and snorting.
Not saying it's aliens but...
Chris Green just walked.
Sums up the recent performance of the Transport Department. Probably departing four hours late. Did he manage not to trip over his laces?
And does this mean his boss is planning similar if he can get someone to write the letter for him and remind him where the exit is?
Is it nasty to ask "who" when they say Chris Green has resigned?
Is it nasty to ask “who” when they say Chris Green has resigned?
Exactly my reaction. Someone on that Twitter feed responded that he's the Accrington Stanley of politics.
Sums up the recent performance of the Transport Department. Probably departing four hours late.
😆
Exactly my reaction. Someone on that Twitter feed responded that he’s the Accrington Stanley of politics.
See if you want to make a name you have to be in the top 5 otherwise you get no headline
Green's resignation letter:
https://twitter.com/CGreenUK/status/1016388724974915584
One of the more choice replies:
@The_JPR
Replying to @CGreenUK @ParlyApp
Ah there we go. Who had Chris Green in the resignation sweepstakes? Anyone? Nobody? Okay, it's a rollover. #MayMustGo
May’s letter to BoJo is Fantasic
I like his substance there, really brings a lot to the table, makes a lot of sense there - yep just another bag of hot air there
And to save the searching
Who is Conor Burns and does anyone give a ****?
why does she make a party political points to someone in her own party ? Most strange, it's almost like it's not to Mr Johnston at all.
It's in tune with Johnson's letter, which started life as his Sunday Telegraph column but was rejected for being too pompous even for them.
Conor burns...... Looks properly #gammon
why does she make a party political points to someone in her own party ?
She needs to kill off the rebellion, negotiating isn't going to work. Yest the letter just like BoJo's is not to the person who is named at the top it's meant to court public opinion.
Who is Conor Burns and does anyone give a ****?
Coincidentally resigning as the PPS to the Foreign Secretary shortly after his boss takes a walk, and shortly before a new Foreign Secretary is appointed who would probably have him dispatched back into the backbenches.
1 November 2017 - Fallon
8 November 2017 - Patel
20 December 2017 - Green
29 April 2018 - Rudd
8 January 2018 - Greening
8 July 2018 - Davis
8 July 2018 - Baker
9 July 2018 - Johnson
the carnage will continue
It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.
The irony of how apt that quote is when applied to Britain 2016-18 and the Nasty Party in particular just makes me chuckle every time.
When the bloke who's in the Dept for Transport who isn't good enough to be Chris Grayling quits then you know that the sanity of the remain option should never be in any doubt.
isn’t good enough to be Chris Grayling
Just about the worst insult in politics there.
https://twitter.com/mrchrisaddison/status/1016407255950987264
Chris Addison is having some fun today
Isn't it time the queen stepped in and put and end to this mess? What are we paying her for again?
Jeremy Hunt is the new Foreign Secretary!
Jeremy Hunt is Foreign Secretary. Well at least it gets him away from the NHS.
I was excited when I seen the news flash on my phone, then disappointed to hear he’s still an MP.
Sorry posted in the other one but we all need a laugh
Why would the EU extend A50, it was set at 2 years for a reason.
What was the reason, out of interest?
I can can imagine the conversation as sat around thinking about the clause before they picked a number out of the air.
2yrs?
yes, we don’t want it to drag on too long plus anyone considering leaving the Union will have put significant time and energy into their own impact assessments and plans, either that or they have descended into some kind of financial ruin/dictatorship and then it will be a break like when the soviets cleared all external debts/funds/contact
My recommendation:
Have a think about all this then watch a Wile E Coyote and Roadrunner compendium.
The similarities are uncanny. Hilarious. And all he has to do is find something else to ****ing eat. But he can’t because he’s a mangy, avaricious, thick animal who hasn’t got any awareness of the bigger picture or a second brain cell to keep the first one company.
There the similarities do end, though, because he wasn’t appointed by the Great (pah) British public to run a country and then it isn’t quite so funny.
Jeremy Hunt is the new Foreign Secretary!
That noise you just heard was three quarters of a million nurses cheering.
The elephant in the room now of course is, who's going to backfill C- uh, Hunt's role?
who’s going to backfill C- uh, Hunt’s role?
I feel a bit sorry for Raab although I quickly get over it when I read some of what he has said.
If he hadnt just accepted the Brexit job he could have ended up foreign secretary.
Well I think we are now into the Ugly Kids getting invited to the dance, they think they are there on merit...
Or the ones, like me, who were last to be picked for football.
I could be foreign secretary.
So Liam Fox.....
Seems to be keeping a low profile.....
I think he is very confused.....
Looked very twitchy at PMs questions? Are the other "boys from the Brexit" bullying him into departing or is he too scared of the Head Mistress?
Deep down he knows he will never get a front bench job again...
It's pretty sad though... If england bring home the world cup, there'll be no cabinet to put it in
Liam is increasingly like Baldrick at Dunny-on-the-wold. He won’t do anything until his master says so.
Disgraced Liam has actually probably got the best job(?) in the world though doing his flying around the world thing.
Probably doesn’t want to lose that little number.
what a ****ing idiot, getting a photograph of himself signing his resignation letter
The elephant in the room now of course is, who’s going to backfill C- uh, Hunt’s role?
Chris Grayling.
Sorry. Not funny.