I spoke to a friend this morning who was instrumental in standing up Benny Gantz’s challenges
The biggest surprise and disappointment was Arab turnout - they feel so beaten down by the new legislation that they didn’t vote - turnout in this section of the community was half normal levels
If they had voted at normal rates it would have been Ciao Bibi.
But they are proud of what they achieved from a standing start in a few months and are not going away
FFS What a shambles. This is an AFL can kick.Brexit will die of boredom .
And I will need to check the 'use by' dates on a whole stack of stockpiled food.
Yes. I'd better break out the box tomorrow and circulate it back into the regular food supplies. (I'm not kidding - some of the end dates are August, so no good there)
This fudge to end of October designed to try and keep May in place and have it done and dusted before Bozo or another nutjob takes over .
The end of June review designed to appease Macrons tantrum and also give May a date to work towards and a fig leaf .
Personally an end of June cut off would have focused minds . I fear now MPs will just bicker for the next few months . The Tory Labour negotiations can now stop the pretence and collapse .
MPs need to stop this showboating and get real . Although Macron might have been criticized he did have a point . Unless there’s a hard end date sooner rather than later MPs will just drag the whole thing out .
Macron's primary motiviation was probably domestic politics, and if he did push it harder than the EU leaders thought reasonable that might have been overdoing it, but frankly it seemed a more likely way of achieving a resolution than the rest. But achieving a resolution, of some kind, is not really at the top of the list of priorities for most on any side here.
An end of June cut off with no further exensions would have forced MPs to get a grip . As it is I expect the warring factions to recommence battle whilst the public looks on in horror .
Actually, no - they government has decided to giive everyone a nice holiday, starting TOMORROW. So much for the talks.
This fudge to end of October designed to try and keep May in place and have it done and dusted before Bozo or another nutjob takes over .
The end of June review designed to appease Macrons tantrum and also give May a date to work towards and a fig leaf .
Personally an end of June cut off would have focused minds . I fear now MPs will just bicker for the next few months . The Tory Labour negotiations can now stop the pretence and collapse .
MPs need to stop this showboating and get real . Although Macron might have been criticized he did have a point . Unless there’s a hard end date sooner rather than later MPs will just drag the whole thing out .
Macron's primary motiviation was probably domestic politics, and if he did push it harder than the EU leaders thought reasonable that might have been overdoing it, but frankly it seemed a more likely way of achieving a resolution than the rest. But achieving a resolution, of some kind, is not really at the top of the list of priorities for most on any side here.
An end of June cut off with no further exensions would have forced MPs to get a grip . As it is I expect the warring factions to recommence battle whilst the public looks on in horror .
Actually, no - they government has decided to giive everyone a nice holiday, starting TOMORROW. So much for the talks.
"It was the quote on which some of Roger Scruton’s defenders are silent that did it. Not his reference to a “Soros empire” in Hungary. Nor what he said about the Chinese. Here is what he seems to have said about the country’s Communist Party. “They are creating robots out of their own people by so constraining what can be done. [Our italics.] Each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one and that is a very frightening thing.” By cutting the words in italics, the New Statesman, which interviewed Scruton, distorted his view. Their removal was apparently made “for reasons of space in print edition”. His words were further twisted in a tweet by the journalist who spoke to him."
"It was the quote on which some of Roger Scruton’s defenders are silent that did it. Not his reference to a “Soros empire” in Hungary. Nor what he said about the Chinese. Here is what he seems to have said about the country’s Communist Party. “They are creating robots out of their own people by so constraining what can be done. [Our italics.] Each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one and that is a very frightening thing.” By cutting the words in italics, the New Statesman, which interviewed Scruton, distorted his view. Their removal was apparently made “for reasons of space in print edition”. His words were further twisted in a tweet by the journalist who spoke to him."
May be one of the legal folk on here can say but if they have maliciously misrepresentated his position and caused him repetitional damage surely he could have recourse to the courts?
Hi William, I am a bit of a technophobe, how do you snapshot and post a tweet on here?
You just need to get the direct link to the tweet (either from the browser or find 'copy link to tweet' on the one you want) and post it directly into here.
It would look like this, but without the space:
h ttps://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1116122240729403392
So, assuming the PM accepts the proposals, where does that leave us?
Well, I can't see anything other than a summer of nothing. Labour will break off talks immediately as the deadline is now more than six months away. No changes will be made to the withdrawal agreement, so the 25 or so hardcore nutter ERG members won't change their tune. Neither will the 5-10 hardcore Grieve nutters who now see victory ahead. So the WA is still dead as a Dodo.
If I was guessing, I'd bet everyone in Parliament breathes a huge sigh of relief, and then... oh my, is that the time... nearly Easter. Off for a long jolly, followed by May Day bank holiday, half term, Whit and then its the summer recess. Back in September for Conferences were we can shout at how crap the other lot(s) are, before its October and we end up back were we started.
A mad panic to try and agree something at the last minute, with a possible further can kick.
I delay for delay's sake (and this is what this is) is pointless.
The only way out is possibly a 'Electoral event' (either a GE, or 2nd Referendum) as our Parliament has clearly failed to do what it is both paid and elected to do. This may not help matters, we could end up with another hung Parliament, or a very close 51:49 result (on whatever question, and whatever way) but I think having a vote on something is now the only way forward.
It's clear our elected representatives have failed us. We either need to make their decision for them, or get a new representative that won't fail.
Hi William, I am a bit of a technophobe, how do you snapshot and post a tweet on here?
You just need to get the direct link to the tweet (either from the browser or find 'copy link to tweet' on the one you want) and post it directly into here.
It would look like this, but without the space:
h ttps://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1116122240729403392
So, assuming the PM accepts the proposals, where does that leave us?
Well, I can't see anything other than a summer of nothing. Labour will break off talks immediately as the deadline is now more than six months away. No changes will be made to the withdrawal agreement, so the 25 or so hardcore nutter ERG members won't change their tune. Neither will the 5-10 hardcore Grieve nutters who now see victory ahead. So the WA is still dead as a Dodo.
If I was guessing, I'd bet everyone in Parliament breathes a huge sigh of relief, and then... oh my, is that the time... nearly Easter. Off for a long jolly, followed by May Day bank holiday, half term, Whit and then its the summer recess. Back in September for Conferences were we can shout at how crap the other lot(s) are, before its October and we end up back were we started.
A mad panic to try and agree something at the last minute, with a possible further can kick.
I delay for delay's sake (and this is what this is) is pointless.
The only way out is possibly a 'Electoral event' (either a GE, or 2nd Referendum) as our Parliament has clearly failed to do what it is both paid and elected to do. This may not help matters, we could end up with another hung Parliament, or a very close 51:49 result (on whatever question, and whatever way) but I think having a vote on something is now the only way forward.
It's clear our elected representatives have failed us. We either need to make their decision for them, or get a new representative that won't fail.
So, assuming the PM accepts the proposals, where does that leave us?
Well, I can't see anything other than a summer of nothing. Labour will break off talks immediately as the deadline is now more than six months away. No changes will be made to the withdrawal agreement, so the 25 or so hardcore nutter ERG members won't change their tune. Neither will the 5-10 hardcore Grieve nutters who now see victory ahead. So the WA is still dead as a Dodo.
If I was guessing, I'd bet everyone in Parliament breathes a huge sigh of relief, and then... oh my, is that the time... nearly Easter. Off for a long jolly, followed by May Day bank holiday, half term, Whit and then its the summer recess. Back in September for Conferences were we can shout at how crap the other lot(s) are, before its October and we end up back were we started.
A mad panic to try and agree something at the last minute, with a possible further can kick.
I delay for delay's sake (and this is what this is) is pointless.
The only way out is possibly a 'Electoral event' (either a GE, or 2nd Referendum) as our Parliament has clearly failed to do what it is both paid and elected to do. This may not help matters, we could end up with another hung Parliament, or a very close 51:49 result (on whatever question, and whatever way) but I think having a vote on something is now the only way forward.
It's clear our elected representatives have failed us. We either need to make their decision for them, or get a new representative that won't fail.
I do wonder if Tory MPs aren't eventually going to support a binding referendum. Their base won't like it but it's better than slowly bleeding to death, and once you're into extensions with no hint of a resolution it gets easier for them to justify it as a way to make brexit happen, rather than a way of holding it up.
Although their current poll average is 52.6% on 2PP and 50.7% is required for a win (on uniform swing), so they don't have all that much margin for error during the campaign.
So, assuming the PM accepts the proposals, where does that leave us?
Well, I can't see anything other than a summer of nothing. Labour will break off talks immediately as the deadline is now more than six months away. No changes will be made to the withdrawal agreement, so the 25 or so hardcore nutter ERG members won't change their tune. Neither will the 5-10 hardcore Grieve nutters who now see victory ahead. So the WA is still dead as a Dodo.
If I was guessing, I'd bet everyone in Parliament breathes a huge sigh of relief, and then... oh my, is that the time... nearly Easter. Off for a long jolly, followed by May Day bank holiday, half term, Whit and then its the summer recess. Back in September for Conferences were we can shout at how crap the other lot(s) are, before its October and we end up back were we started.
A mad panic to try and agree something at the last minute, with a possible further can kick.
I delay for delay's sake (and this is what this is) is pointless.
The only way out is possibly a 'Electoral event' (either a GE, or 2nd Referendum) as our Parliament has clearly failed to do what it is both paid and elected to do. This may not help matters, we could end up with another hung Parliament, or a very close 51:49 result (on whatever question, and whatever way) but I think having a vote on something is now the only way forward.
It's clear our elected representatives have failed us. We either need to make their decision for them, or get a new representative that won't fail.
Definitely need a GE asap rather than another referendum.
All the signs are that things are just going to just drift.
I think media are key now - I think public will get bored quickly - media will drop Brexit down the news running order - and then self fulfilling prophecy that people will lose interest.
Also remember summer recess will be coming to block out best part of two months.
With this lengthier A50 extension agreed with EU, it would be ironic if Corbyn stands down first. And despite his constant demands for a GE, I just cannot see Corbyn being up for taking on the relentless workload May takes on daily as PM while Brexit remains unresolved. Can definitely see both parties having Leadership contests, especially if as I suspect a GE is becoming an ever more likely outcome later this year.
The media once again were desperate to big up no deal on Friday when anyone who knows the first thing about EU politics realized this was a manufactured drama .
The Macron veto collapsed quicker than a badly made soufflé !
The EU will never be the architects of a no deal . A no deal will have to be a UK decision.
Although their current poll average is 52.6% on 2PP and 50.7% is required for a win (on uniform swing), so they don't have all that much margin for error during the campaign.
The media once again were desperate to big up no deal on Friday when anyone who knows the first thing about EU politics realized this was a manufactured drama .
The Macron veto collapsed quicker than a badly made soufflé !
The EU will never be the architects of a no deal . A no deal will have to be a UK decision.
The media once again were desperate to big up no deal on Friday when anyone who knows the first thing about EU politics realized this was a manufactured drama .
The Macron veto collapsed quicker than a badly made soufflé !
The EU will never be the architects of a no deal . A no deal will have to be a UK decision.
nico67 Macron confirmed.
Lmao !
You see you need to follow me as I’m the Elysee Palace insider ! Macron was never going to veto regardless of the media hype .
Hi William, I am a bit of a technophobe, how do you snapshot and post a tweet on here?
You just need to get the direct link to the tweet (either from the browser or find 'copy link to tweet' on the one you want) and post it directly into here.
It would look like this, but without the space:
h ttps://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1116122240729403392
Many thanks William.
If I ever find the blighter who taught Scott how to do that....
Although their current poll average is 52.6% on 2PP and 50.7% is required for a win (on uniform swing), so they don't have all that much margin for error during the campaign.
Hi William, I am a bit of a technophobe, how do you snapshot and post a tweet on here?
You just need to get the direct link to the tweet (either from the browser or find 'copy link to tweet' on the one you want) and post it directly into here.
It would look like this, but without the space:
h ttps://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1116122240729403392
Many thanks William.
If I ever find the blighter who taught Scott how to do that....
The media once again were desperate to big up no deal on Friday when anyone who knows the first thing about EU politics realized this was a manufactured drama .
The Macron veto collapsed quicker than a badly made soufflé !
The EU will never be the architects of a no deal . A no deal will have to be a UK decision.
So, assuming the PM accepts the proposals, where does that leave us?
Well, I can't see anything other than a summer of nothing. Labour will break off talks immediately as the deadline is now more than six months away. No changes will be made to the withdrawal agreement, so the 25 or so hardcore nutter ERG members won't change their tune. Neither will the 5-10 hardcore Grieve nutters who now see victory ahead. So the WA is still dead as a Dodo.
If I was guessing, I'd bet everyone in Parliament breathes a huge sigh of relief, and then... oh my, is that the time... nearly Easter. Off for a long jolly, followed by May Day bank holiday, half term, Whit and then its the summer recess. Back in September for Conferences were we can shout at how crap the other lot(s) are, before its October and we end up back were we started.
A mad panic to try and agree something at the last minute, with a possible further can kick.
I delay for delay's sake (and this is what this is) is pointless.
The only way out is possibly a 'Electoral event' (either a GE, or 2nd Referendum) as our Parliament has clearly failed to do what it is both paid and elected to do. This may not help matters, we could end up with another hung Parliament, or a very close 51:49 result (on whatever question, and whatever way) but I think having a vote on something is now the only way forward.
It's clear our elected representatives have failed us. We either need to make their decision for them, or get a new representative that won't fail.
I do wonder if Tory MPs aren't eventually going to support a binding referendum. Their base won't like it but it's better than slowly bleeding to death, and once you're into extensions with no hint of a resolution it gets easier for them to justify it as a way to make brexit happen, rather than a way of holding it up.
I don’t think there is enough time for us to have a referendum by the end of October. No I may be wrong but even setting the question takes a few months
I don’t think there is enough time for us to have a referendum by the end of October. No I may be wrong but even setting the question takes a few months
I think it would be doable but if not then the solution is another extension. The 27 just agreed to two extensions based on an obviously-doomed plan and a hopeful smile, they'd definitely do another one for a plan with either the WA or Revoke at the end of it.
Surely a compromise - France wanted June, Germany wanted Jan/March, so it's October
Enough time for a referendum, if we want one.
Not enough time for the Tories to install a new leader and for that person to do much damage, or try and head off toward a different Brexit, other than no deal or revoke.
Surely a compromise - France wanted June, Germany wanted Jan/March, so its October
I'm not saying the whole thing was a pantomime, but if you wanted to grant the extension while retaining the credibility of the threat to refuse future extensions, this was a great way to do it.
I posted a few thoughts on Israel on the last thread but on an iPhone so can’t port it over.
If anyone cares 😂
An interesting item on Newsnight where someone suggested this proposed annexation of Palestinian land was illegal... "Not if you go back 3000 years" they replied.
I'm torn between them being Sid and Doris or just plain bullies.
Incidentally Your mate Benny Gantz is no better than Netanyahu.
It is why their government spends so much on archaeology. Seriously.
Surely a compromise - France wanted June, Germany wanted Jan/March, so its October
I'm not saying the whole thing was a pantomime, but if you wanted to grant the extension while retaining the credibility of the threat to refuse future extensions, this was a great way to do it.
It was always a pantomime in the sense that actually using the veto is like farting in the room as far as most EU leaders are concerned, and was never going to happen, as I have been saying here for ages. Their tradition is always to find a consensus. But I suspect Macron's posturing was for domestic consumption (although he argued a bit too strongly and now looks somewhat weak).
And what an exquisite torture kit for the Tories! Two sets of upcoming elections in which the people with most incentive to protest or stay at home are their own activists, desperate to topple Mrs M.
"Only a fool tries to predict how things will ultimately play out. But if the UK is still a member state on July 1, 2019, then it's no stretch of the imagination to see the whole thing being thrown out and taken back to square one. That could mean a new Prime Minister, a new direction for Britain post-Brexit, a resurgence of support for no deal, or even the scrapping of Brexit altogether. At that point it will be hard not to ask the question: What on earth has all this been for?"
It would be ironic if the next major problem for the EU isn't anything to do with the UK specifically, but instead the results of the Euro Elections as a whole, if anti-EU parties win a heavy percentage of the seats.
polling, such as it is shows the anti EU parties losing seats.
Has there ever been a UK political party leader who has trashed the brand of their party more than Theresa May? And yet, the muppets in her party that surround her, let her stay in place. I doubt the carnage the Tory party will experience in the forthcoming local elections will impact on her at all. After her 2017 election disaster, apart from Gavin Barwell, she did sod all for any of the poor mp's who lost their jobs due to her gross incompetence.
The hole the Tories have dug themselves into here is quite staggering, I don't see any route out. May resigning is probably the start - but she won't.
They haven’t stopped digging yet. Right now the death cult is getting more potent.
May's got zero political capital within the Tories right now. None of the top contenders actually want the job - so there is only one way to force the issue. The Labour excuse on the talks is now very real. A new leader can probably go to the country, May certainly can't - it would be seen as preposterous
The hole the Tories have dug themselves into here is quite staggering, I don't see any route out. May resigning is probably the start - but she won't.
They haven’t stopped digging yet. Right now the death cult is getting more potent.
May's got zero political capital within the Tories right now. None of the top contenders actually want the job - so there is only one way to force the issue. The Labour excuse on the talks is now very real. A new leader can probably go to the country, May certainly can't - it would be seen as preposterous
What does May think her role is - other than bed-blocking the possibility of Boris taking over? I mean, how bad would Boris have to have been to inflict a tenth of the damage on the Party she has done while keeping him from the levers of power?
Theresa May has been an astonishingly bad PM. She has been an infinitely worse leader of the Conservative Party. Yet even more disastrous for the Party were the idiotic MPs who backed her in December. You're now going to lose your seats. And then have to watch them be occupied by a bunch of loons who think Venezeula is an economic model to follow.
The only possibilty of a fight-back is if she is told by 200+ of her MPs that she has to stand down. It can start with the mass resignations from Cabinet, once they get back from the Easter recess.
The only possibilty of a fight-back is if she is told by 200+ of her MPs that she has to stand down. It can start with the mass resignations from Cabinet, once they get back from the Easter recess.
Why not just wait until the first phase of Brexit is done before getting rid of her? There isn't a Brexit deal that unites the Tory party, so she was always going to need Labour votes. A new leader would have the same problem, but would have burned through even more time.
Absolutely jiggered if I can see how this medium-length extension helps.
It falls pretty much slap bang between the two sensible options of a very short extension focusing minds on a decision or a really long delay to allow for the Tories to finally decide that's enough May, get someone else in, GE, referendum, whatever.
What is May actually going to DO with that time, other than spouting the same shite for another 6 months with no change to the result? Surely they asked her what her plan was...
Absolutely hopeless on all sides - the EU have surely got this one wrong.
The hole the Tories have dug themselves into here is quite staggering, I don't see any route out. May resigning is probably the start - but she won't.
They haven’t stopped digging yet. Right now the death cult is getting more potent.
May's got zero political capital within the Tories right now. None of the top contenders actually want the job - so there is only one way to force the issue. The Labour excuse on the talks is now very real. A new leader can probably go to the country, May certainly can't - it would be seen as preposterous
What does May think her role is - other than bed-blocking the possibility of Boris taking over? I mean, how bad would Boris have to have been to inflict a tenth of the damage on the Party she has done while keeping him from the levers of power?
Theresa May has been an astonishingly bad PM. She has been an infinitely worse leader of the Conservative Party. Yet even more disastrous for the Party were the idiotic MPs who backed her in December. You're now going to lose your seats. And then have to watch them be occupied by a bunch of loons who think Venezeula is an economic model to follow.
The only possibilty of a fight-back is if she is told by 200+ of her MPs that she has to stand down. It can start with the mass resignations from Cabinet, once they get back from the Easter recess.
It goes back further than December. After the 2017 general election debacle, the 1922 Committee banged their desks in support of the Prime Minister.
Since even Jeremy Corbyn must know that Britain is not sitting on the world's largest oil field, I doubt he literally wants to copy Venezuela's economic model, even without the US sanctions everyone forgets about.
May isn't quitting. She isn't done yet. Her plan is absolutely on track, no problems there, there will be a vote before May 22nd and she will WIN.
When she announces that to the house today will her own side be openly howling her down? Then it will be "don't act before the locals" then it will be "don't act before the Euros".
The beauty for Labour is that it's abundantly clear that the blockage is May. Yet the Tories won't remove her. Labour will not try and help them along.
May isn't quitting. She isn't done yet. Her plan is absolutely on track, no problems there, there will be a vote before May 22nd and she will WIN.
When she announces that to the house today will her own side be openly howling her down? Then it will be "don't act before the locals" then it will be "don't act before the Euros".
The beauty for Labour is that it's abundantly clear that the blockage is May. Yet the Tories won't remove her. Labour will not try and help them along.
A VONC now could be a win win for Labour. Get the likes of Francois to support May and consolidate her position or trigger a GE.
The only possibilty of a fight-back is if she is told by 200+ of her MPs that she has to stand down. It can start with the mass resignations from Cabinet, once they get back from the Easter recess.
Why not just wait until the first phase of Brexit is done before getting rid of her? There isn't a Brexit deal that unites the Tory party, so she was always going to need Labour votes. A new leader would have the same problem, but would have burned through even more time.
The first stage of Brexit isn't going to happen whilst she is in place, that's why.
The hole the Tories have dug themselves into here is quite staggering, I don't see any route out. May resigning is probably the start - but she won't.
They haven’t stopped digging yet. Right now the death cult is getting more potent.
May's got zero political capital within the Tories right now. None of the top contenders actually want the job - so there is only one way to force the issue. The Labour excuse on the talks is now very real. A new leader can probably go to the country, May certainly can't - it would be seen as preposterous
What does May think her role is - other than bed-blocking the possibility of Boris taking over? I mean, how bad would Boris have to have been to inflict a tenth of the damage on the Party she has done while keeping him from the levers of power?
Theresa May has been an astonishingly bad PM. She has been an infinitely worse leader of the Conservative Party. Yet even more disastrous for the Party were the idiotic MPs who backed her in December. You're now going to lose your seats. And then have to watch them be occupied by a bunch of loons who think Venezeula is an economic model to follow.
The only possibilty of a fight-back is if she is told by 200+ of her MPs that she has to stand down. It can start with the mass resignations from Cabinet, once they get back from the Easter recess.
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(But interesting, thanks.)
We'll be eating Fray Bentos pies for a week now.
"It was the quote on which some of Roger Scruton’s defenders are silent that did it. Not his reference to a “Soros empire” in Hungary. Nor what he said about the Chinese. Here is what he seems to have said about the country’s Communist Party. “They are creating robots out of their own people by so constraining what can be done. [Our italics.] Each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one and that is a very frightening thing.” By cutting the words in italics, the New Statesman, which interviewed Scruton, distorted his view. Their removal was apparently made “for reasons of space in print edition”. His words were further twisted in a tweet by the journalist who spoke to him."
https://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2019/04/screwing-scruton.html
Paul Brand@PaulBrandITV
Hearing PM disagreed with some of the detail of EU27’s plan, so Tusk has had to go back to them. We may be a little while longer yet.
It would look like this, but without the space:
h ttps://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1116122240729403392
Well, I can't see anything other than a summer of nothing. Labour will break off talks immediately as the deadline is now more than six months away. No changes will be made to the withdrawal agreement, so the 25 or so hardcore nutter ERG members won't change their tune. Neither will the 5-10 hardcore Grieve nutters who now see victory ahead. So the WA is still dead as a Dodo.
If I was guessing, I'd bet everyone in Parliament breathes a huge sigh of relief, and then... oh my, is that the time... nearly Easter. Off for a long jolly, followed by May Day bank holiday, half term, Whit and then its the summer recess. Back in September for Conferences were we can shout at how crap the other lot(s) are, before its October and we end up back were we started.
A mad panic to try and agree something at the last minute, with a possible further can kick.
I delay for delay's sake (and this is what this is) is pointless.
The only way out is possibly a 'Electoral event' (either a GE, or 2nd Referendum) as our Parliament has clearly failed to do what it is both paid and elected to do.
This may not help matters, we could end up with another hung Parliament, or a very close 51:49 result (on whatever question, and whatever way) but I think having a vote on something is now the only way forward.
It's clear our elected representatives have failed us. We either need to make their decision for them, or get a new representative that won't fail.
https://www.pollbludger.net/bludgertrack2019/
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-01/federal-election-2019-antony-green-house-of-reps-calculator/10872122
Earlier 1.08/1.10
Now 1.13/1.19
I think media are key now - I think public will get bored quickly - media will drop Brexit down the news running order - and then self fulfilling prophecy that people will lose interest.
Also remember summer recess will be coming to block out best part of two months.
The Macron veto collapsed quicker than a badly made soufflé !
The EU will never be the architects of a no deal . A no deal will have to be a UK decision.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom
You see you need to follow me as I’m the Elysee Palace insider ! Macron was never going to veto regardless of the media hype .
If correct, Commons will break up tomorrow and then not return until Tues 23 April.
So, again if correct, absolutely nothing will be happening for next 12 days for starters.
NB. Parliament website still shows business for next week.
Are you now happy to admit that your endless drum banging of No Deal was wrong?
I’ll say again for those who are hard of hearing:
NO DEAL AIN’T HAPPENING.
The media and the PB No Deal Wallahs.
Absolute rubbish.
She is going nowhere.
The hero we need, but not the one we deserve.
Enough time for a referendum, if we want one.
Not enough time for the Tories to install a new leader and for that person to do much damage, or try and head off toward a different Brexit, other than no deal or revoke.
A reminder we have not yet cornered the market in crap politicians:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47889356
https://twitter.com/bmadiba7/status/1115598302865645570
"Only a fool tries to predict how things will ultimately play out. But if the UK is still a member state on July 1, 2019, then it's no stretch of the imagination to see the whole thing being thrown out and taken back to square one. That could mean a new Prime Minister, a new direction for Britain post-Brexit, a resurgence of support for no deal, or even the scrapping of Brexit altogether. At that point it will be hard not to ask the question: What on earth has all this been for?"
Men in grey suits to kidnap the PM on her return from Brussels?
I doubt the carnage the Tory party will experience in the forthcoming local elections will impact on her at all. After her 2017 election disaster, apart from Gavin Barwell, she did sod all for any of the poor mp's who lost their jobs due to her gross incompetence.
The Labour excuse on the talks is now very real.
A new leader can probably go to the country, May certainly can't - it would be seen as preposterous
https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1116208675306209280?s=21
Theresa May has been an astonishingly bad PM. She has been an infinitely worse leader of the Conservative Party. Yet even more disastrous for the Party were the idiotic MPs who backed her in December. You're now going to lose your seats. And then have to watch them be occupied by a bunch of loons who think Venezeula is an economic model to follow.
The only possibilty of a fight-back is if she is told by 200+ of her MPs that she has to stand down. It can start with the mass resignations from Cabinet, once they get back from the Easter recess.
There isn't a Brexit deal that unites the Tory party, so she was always going to need Labour votes. A new leader would have the same problem, but would have burned through even more time.
It falls pretty much slap bang between the two sensible options of a very short extension focusing minds on a decision or a really long delay to allow for the Tories to finally decide that's enough May, get someone else in, GE, referendum, whatever.
What is May actually going to DO with that time, other than spouting the same shite for another 6 months with no change to the result? Surely they asked her what her plan was...
Absolutely hopeless on all sides - the EU have surely got this one wrong.
Since even Jeremy Corbyn must know that Britain is not sitting on the world's largest oil field, I doubt he literally wants to copy Venezuela's economic model, even without the US sanctions everyone forgets about.
When she announces that to the house today will her own side be openly howling her down? Then it will be "don't act before the locals" then it will be "don't act before the Euros".
The beauty for Labour is that it's abundantly clear that the blockage is May. Yet the Tories won't remove her. Labour will not try and help them along.
Oh, and Good Morning everyone, on what seems a bright but cold Spring morning.
Every wing of the party is convinced they’re not the ones causing the problem.
So nothing will change.
I'm not a Halloween fan. Too much trick or treat nonsense. Guy Fawkes' Night is clearly superior.