She is only speaking for/to the brexiteers
Us in the 48% can go and fornicate ourselves as far as she’s concerned
Yes and this is so short-sighted (the 48% are not going anywhere).... as is any attempt to make out the EU are the bad guys (we will still have to deal with them, best to have them onside)... as is any fudge on the Irish border (a solution will still have to be found)
Can she be removed on grounds of insanity?
I honestly think she has flipped.
Ouch Newsnight complaining that Labour have refused to put up a shadow cabinet minister 3 nights in a row
As if they'd say anything worthwhile anyway.
Have you not sussed out yet that the labour has abdicated its duty to oppose and is just happy to sit back and watch this shitshow unravel. Mainly because their ‘leader’ really really wants a no deal Brexit as apparently this will usher in a socialist revolution
Think she has flipped also. The speech was desperate & massively misguided.
PM being accused by MPs of incitement to hatred now...
This.....just....keeps getting better.
Ouch Newsnight complaining that Labour have refused to put up a shadow cabinet minister 3 nights in a row
The marrow and cabbage minister was probably at a kebab awards or something.
suzanne evans on newsnight is **** mental
100 signatures a second on that petition at the moment. Wow.
suzanne evans on newsnight is **** mental
She got in all the catch phrases though … "no deal means that we carry on as we are now" … "no deal solves so many problems" … "the people support no deal" … job done, lies amplified … timed well to avoid being challenged.
lisa nandy did not have nice things to say about farage on peston either
https://twitter.com/lisanandy/status/1108511881269002240
unbelievable the rate that petition is getting signatures. 150 000 when I posted it 320 000 now a couple of hours later
i signed it a couple of weeks ago, it was at sub 10,000 at he weekend...
Isn't this the only Govt to be held in contempt of Parliament a few months back?
Speaks volumes of what May thinks they're there to do. ie what she wants. I think some-one needs to give her the handbook on "How representative democracy works"
Ouch Newsnight complaining that Labour have refused to put up a shadow cabinet minister 3 nights in a row
Apparently that is not true - I read that someone was ready to appear and was told they were not needed/wanted.
Completely bizarrre speech last night. She wilfully stated, in so many words, that she herself and alone will do the work. Without Parliament. On behalf of 'The People'!
Most of whom, if not just standing there completely stunned at the vision of her transmorgrification into Supermaybot, hate her and wish she would just go away...
unbelievable the rate that petition is getting signatures. 150 000 when I posted it 320 000 now a couple of hours later
450k now. Going up 500 every refresh...
Mainly because their ‘leader’ really really wants a no deal Brexit as apparently this will usher in a socialist revolution
Clearly because the status quo has been a resounding social and economic success.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584 to revoke A50 has more than doubled since I signed last night at ~2100! 😮
Is she by any chance going to make brexit great again?
So how many times was the vote delayed on her deal, then it’s their fault that Brexit hasn’t been delivered? Amazing the delusion she has about herself.
Apparently that is not true – I read that someone was ready to appear and was told they were not needed/wanted.
I saw that too,
But they wanted a cabinet minister, these days backbenchers (of any party) can just say whatever they like!
Well the petition hit 500K, I'm not sure it really does anything though does it? If it hits 18m then maybe otherwise it's easy enough for politicians to ignore
hamas
the ira
hezbolla
chukka
One of these things is not like the others.
Can you guess why?
Hamas... Because it's tasty on pitta bread? 😉
For anyone who thought May was actually cunningly playing this well all along
https://twitter.com/mrjamesob/status/1108639281961205760?s=19
Can you guess why?
One isn't a political party?
Anyone heard from Bercow about whether he'll allow 'May vs The House III' to be voted on again next week? The deal hasn't changed, just the date when it needs to be in place, so in what way does this pass the test that this week's planned vote failed?
My feeling is he'll allow it but will also choose some pretty juicy amendments, some of which will get passed when they haven't been before (and if he allows MV3 then surely he has to allow some of the previous amendments to return)
So, whose turn is it to go on telly and chuck a massive benny today?
The Corbyn apologists are amazing… but where are the May apologists…? We must have more than Mefty? Anyway, all going well, we are blessed with amazing leaders at this difficult time, they deserve our willfully blind support.
I think the petition has just crashed the website? Can anyone else get it to load?
Yes it's down!
Petitions website server has gone down… recind A50 petition was at about 650,000 when I last looked.
One of these things is not like the others
Who does Chukka represent?
One isn’t a political party?
I see 2 that aren't a political party.
1/ IRA
2/ Chukka
Care to enlighten everyone?
Getting 502 bad gateway.
IS this jsut traffic overload? The cynic in me said someone pulled the plug to stop the embarrassment.
Back up and running
The fact it crashed will be reported more actively than just the number of signatures.
Could be a ddos attack...
Back up and running
and down for maintenance.
It crashed as i was half way through signing. Remember when people were turned away from voting in the referendum??
Who does Chukka represent?
1) a small group of MPs in a parliament where no party has an overall majority
2) his constituency (I have family there, who voted for him DESPITE standing for Labour, not because, doubt they are the only ones)
Up again now.. 100k signatures in the last hour, I imagine there's a load of spectators hitting F5 too.
... And it's down again!
… And it’s down again!
Is complete mystery
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Looks like my uncle...
Its down for me too.
Looks like my uncle
Made a quick note not to upset you. Prefer to dodge various poisons in my coffee.
Pardon my ignorance here, but isn't there an Alastair Campbell/ Malcolm Tucker behind the scenes in the tory party keeping May in line or has she gone completely rogue of her own accord?
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584 up and running again, at this rate it will hit 1 million easily before today is over.
Not really boardingbob. Gone completely rogue
Was up, back down for maintenance...
Pointless anyway May knows exactly what people want, I mean she has gone out of her way to meet loads of them.
Saw someone complaining on twitter about how ridiculous it was that a good chunk of the population was against the referendum result now. Apparently the will of the people can't be changed, even if the people will it.
It's back.
The UK?
1 million signatures by lunchtime?
May knows exactly what people want, I mean she has gone out of her way to meet loads of them.
Here she is, meeting people. Oh ... hang on a mo ...
Loads of newspaper websites now reporting on this petition, long may it continue to rapidly increase and hopefully blow Maybot's and other MPs' minds!
This could be the point where it all starts unravelling
May's speech last night was flabbergasting, and poured petrol on the flames of an already raging inferno. It's bad enough that there is no deal agreed 8 days before the leave date, but for May to go to war against the commons is astonishing. I had hopes that a deal would emerge as a result of the commons majority as that was the common sense logical, and necessary, conclusion. May has made that almost impossible now with her Donald Trump impression.
What next? Barricades in the street? General strike? Miltary coup? Civil War?
696,204 signatures now and rising.
Nigel Farage retweeted this earlier, maybe he's just giving up now...
https://twitter.com/itvpeston/status/1108511980908875778
She's going full retard.
696k signatures now.
I've just reread the first few pages of this thread for giggles.
I think I can safely say we are better informed now, but what a cost.
Someday in the far future the start and end of this thread could be the basis of a fairytale for children where the moral is "be careful what you wish for".
What does that sign say, Peston Pong?
If "another referendum" was removed, I'd bet that 14% would stick on "revoke A50".
Can we vote on farages thing?
The whole thing reminds me of Lou and Andy.
"I want a snake"
"you can't have a snake"
...later...
"I don't want it"
Pardon my ignorance here, but isn’t there an Alastair Campbell/ Malcolm Tucker behind the scenes in the tory party keeping May in line or has she gone completely rogue of her own accord?
James Slack
zippykona
Subscriber
Can we vote on farages thing?
its closed, only ran for an hour
after the show he sent it out to his followers and it was at 55% No deal, but a concerted fbpe effort saw it swing the other way, I was tweeting it to people as they signed the revoke A50 petition & posted on twitter
I dunno, I almost feel sorry for her.
I might be inclined to that, if the shit she finds herself and the UK in, were not entirely of her own making.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out, luv.
What does that sign say, Peston Pong?
Peston Poontang
There's a twitter bot to follow tweeting the petition (there's suggestion that folk watching the numbers go up are helping to crash the site).
[mod edit: link removed due to excessively sweary content. Twitter account is 'UltraButt']
So what is she up to? The assumption is that May hopes the public will pile pressure on their local MPs over the next few days to back her deal next week. But could there be another reason the PM wants to curry favour with the voters? “Here’s a thought, silly really, but maybe worth noting, for all those people wondering why May chose to appeal to the public and blame MPs tonight,” the Indy’s Political Editor Joe Watts tweeted late last night. “Wednesday next is the last day she can dissolve parliament if she wants a general election to take place on May 2, with the locals.” She wouldn’t … would she?
I might be inclined to that, if the shit she finds herself and the UK in, were not entirely of her own making.
Remind me, who was it that triggered Article 50, with no ****ing clue what to do afterwards?
711,000 now and going up about 300 every time it auto-refreshes. Jeez.
... 713,000 in the time it took me to write this.
the petition site crashing has given it a far higher exposure! tin foil hat time 😉