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Or if you are talented and have time a nice pic of Rees-Mogg showing contempt for proceedings.
I would prefer a nice pic of the Parliament in contempt of the people. 🤣
Every interviewer I’ve watched on TV ...
The media is always trying their best to ask the opposite type of questions to boost their rating. Rather normal really.
Some confusion about whether they’ve lost the whip or not
Sky is reporting a source close to Hammond as saying he's had the phone call informing him of the removal of the whip. Front bench in disarray. What a time to be alive!!
sobriety
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I kind of want the commons to do that, just to either force him to stand down as PM or watch him suffer for the next three years, it’s more than he deserves.
Roger that.
As much as mitigating/stopping the disaster that is Brexit, it's just as important to me that Boris is utterly humiliated in the process.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-49557734
Government sources have confirmed to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that all 21 Conservative rebels are having the whip removed.
Removing the whip effectively means expelling the MPs from the parliamentary party.
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It's a mess, predictably. The highlights have been seeing Ken Clarke take apart both Boris and JRM. Even Jezza wasn't useless today. Bercow will never have to buy his own drinks again.
Oh dear. Boris is really having a tamper tantrum tonight...
I hope Nanny (Cummings) can nurse him back to sleep.
Loyal tories now number 289, down from 317 at the last GE. May and Johnson playing a blinder!
Add in the 10 DUP S&C votes and they now have 299, 27 short of a majority and still well short even when Sinn Fein and speaker's votes are included.
But yeah, democracy. Much better than those unelected bureaucrats.
Anyone else starting to see the DUP getting sidelined in the weeks/months to come?😁
bwhahahahahahah
When does the civil war start?
Anyone else starting to see the DUP getting sidelined in the weeks/months to come?😁
I asked that question a page or three back.
Dom Cummings has just blown up the Tory party
https://twitter.com/CatSmithMP/status/1169009732117512192
I’ve been down the pub. Anything happened?
Kimbers...
I can't read the rest of that tweet, what does it say?
Dom Cummings has just blown up the Tory party
what did the tweet she was answering say since its been deleted.
Red unicorns ahoy. Labour policy - according to the Corbynite yes-man non-entity on BBC news - is on winning a general election (keep dreaming, son), to carry on and renegotiate a better Brexit
The cognitive dissonance is absolutely staggering.
Poopscoop
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Anyone else starting to see the DUP getting sidelined in the weeks/months to come?😁
DUP desperate looking for new friends tonight
https://twitter.com/duponline/status/1168977812361007105
Same DUP that recently rejected outreach from vradkaar for an all Ireland forum
I know they've been busy burning pallets tbf
Peter Walker
@peterwalker99
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I just bumped into Dominic Cummings, who was clutching a glass of red wine and wandering along the parliamentary press corridor, lost and looking for a particular newspaper office. This is not a usual occurrence.
what did the tweet she was answering say since its been deleted.
Thick Of It.
Kimbers…
I can’t read the rest of that tweet, what does it say?
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Interesting that it's been deleted..
It said Cummings accosted Corbyn as he was leaving commons & shouted iat him 'come on jeremy, give us an election, you know you want to' then he was bundled away by horrified aides
(Paraphrasing but that's pretty close)
So Cummings wandering around parliament red wine in hand p****d out of his head?
Government sources have confirmed to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg that all 21 Conservative rebels are having the whip removed.
Removing the whip effectively means expelling the MPs from the parliamentary party.
Well done PM BoJo! Woohoo! 👍 👍 👍
Kimbers
Same DUP that recently rejected outreach from vradkaar for an all Ireland forum
I know they’ve been busy burning pallets tbf
They really are a bunch of nasty self serving twunts aren't they.
Looks like the mad bastard Cummings is following through and removing the whip from the Tory MPs who voted against the self-serving mop
Interesting to see how he sees that as being advantageous
Nice to see them following the Trump example. Government by petulant toddler
I suppose the thing to remember is that Cummings is not actually a Tory.
Perhaps someone should tell Boris that?😆
In case anyone was wondering, every scottish Tory voted No. I was going to say "with the government" but I'm not sure there is one. Only one of them represents a leave-voting seat.
Ruth's been gone 5 minutes...
Entitled p***k.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-49573630/jacob-rees-mogg-told-to-sit-up-man
Well done PM BoJo! Woohoo! 👍 👍
Yeah amazing job, he's gone from a +1 majority to a -42 majority, after 49 days as PM ???
Northwind
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In case anyone was wondering, every scottish Tory voted No. I was going to say “with the government” but I’m not sure there is one. Only one of them represents a leave-voting seat.Ruth’s been gone 5 minutes…
I think there might be a purge coming?
It occurs to me tonight looking at Mogg lying on that bench as if the whole system of this country is set up for him just for his amusement and profit... that he and his like are what we need to "leave".
If ever you wanted to see a picture of why the country needs reform here it is.
Anyone know which way the maybot voted, just curious really...
She voted with Boris I think....
Above anything, she is loyal to party.
^^ Interesting stuff!
Hahah - can't help but be a little tickled that May has got to have a bit of Schardenfreude over this. That's the face of someone who feels vindicated.
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In other news, Dominic Cummings was seen allegedly pissed as a newt and belligerent around Portcullis House, then there's the overheard phone call from an unnamed Brexity Tory along the lines of "Europe has f*****d our party".
This is only the beginning, the ERG have painted themselves into a corner while the Conservative Party implodes. Looming through the fog of unrestrained offshore donations we have the Brexit Party, run like a business with no internal democratic system of holding candidates to account ready to take the place of what's left of the Conservative Party. It's going to get nastier before the week is out.
they’ll just keep shooting themselves in the foot until they run out of bullets, asking tough questions is too hard
Hopefully they won't run out before the gun reaches their heads, but given their general incompetence one has to expect disappointment.
I for one fully support Chris Grayling for the post of Conservative Party Chairman.
Anyone else with me?
Seconded.
Well done PM BoJo! Woohoo!
which will not be backed by grassroots Tories and your hero will have no support. Ref: Hammond
Woo, and indeed, too.
Boris has just thrown Winston Churchill’s grandson out of the Tory Party
Let’s just take a moment to digest that...
To be fair to Corbyn and labour, they have a good plan (this week) in that they won't support a GE until crash out is no longer an option.
Can't see labour asking to form a government - unless it's during the prorogue ??? Wait until even the queen is sick of Boris .. he'd have to get Swinson to agree to support no-confidence , she may demand the moon on a stick which would scupper it.
Boris can't trigger a GE - miles short of the 2/3 needed. But could easily now lose a VNC and if his opponents can decide what that coalition should consist then do they automatically get the opportunity to form it, or can he refuse to go? And if they form one, do they get the rest of the term or another 5 years? I know much has been said about a coalition forming for one purpose only and the disbanding again, but with so much talent now between the Tory exiles, the Indies, and the moderates of red, yellow, etc hues, could this be the beginning of the end of the two party majority political system?
Whilst that was the only viable intelligent and moral result tonight I don't know where it'll get us.
Got to assume we are going to have election next month.
You would imagine parties will clear the decks with agreements all over the shop to stand aside.
Nasty Nige and his gang will probably get a minimum of a DUP sized influence, maybe more. Bojo won't contest working class labour brexit supporting seat to allow Farage a clear run.
You'd really hope that in tory remain seats enough will switch to Lib Dem that at least some will switch.
Problem is the anti No Deal gang are completely split about what they want. They will never be able to form a coalition of any sort.Until labour comes out and says 'I hear you, I know you wanted out but the best divorce that can be sort is a truly shite scenario so lets stay in' this is not going anywhere. Would be interesting to know the fate of the nation now if Burnham or Cooper had got the gig in 2015.