the day after the deadline: can the union survive brexit and other deep questions

lol! Good job he didn't try shoehorning a clunky Fleetwood Mac ref in there as well.

... something about rumours, that's exactly what I thought too!

Enjoyed Hammond's admission that the Cabinet haven't even discussed what their preferred outcome is. It's like he deliberately picked his moment to drop that one.

Today Hammond says Britain will meet the divorce bill even in the case of no deal. No 10 deny this just hours later. What a mess this rabble are.

neat little highlights reel:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/nobody-said-it-was-easy?utm_term=.eswvLyy1a#.fq5dOQQYL

hammond seems good at this*
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/philip-hammond-uk-productivity-rates-low-because-more-disabled-people-are-in-work_uk_5a281714e4b044d16726b7bd

*gaffeing

Also the story of hammond being banned from flying in any MoD aircraft because of a funding row. What the fuck is going on?

the grown-ups are in charge iirc

https://i.imgur.com/sNrTf8N.gif

not only not in charge but gone on holiday and left us in the house on our own and we need to hope a neighbour calls social services

Moderation in all things including MoDaeration

poor

I didn't have any reports into a better pun

would have bet money on this tbh

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DQYtt1-WkAAkoX7.jpg

(ok maybe not the gift of home-made jam but the fact that they got on well) (it's from tim shipman's breezeblock of a book)

I can believe it too. My impression is that McDonnell is the one who truly detests, wouldn't get on at all.

one of the things the deep establishment has always been good at in this country is charming and disarming its stubbornest class enemies

i think they always have charles i in the back of their minds, like great great great uncle charlie who snubbed the bolshy footman and look what happened

i dunno they have TV nowadays they probably have a marginally better understanding of what the lower orders look like and how to behave around them, albeit in a David Attenborough kinda way

She got on like a house on fire with Harold Wilson. Can you imagine having to go from Harold to Ted Heath?

They do rather act like him around ppl I suppose xp

are we talking at a key party or what?

xp

Going from shooting the breeze with cheeky class traitor Wilson to being lectured to by frosty weirdo Heath.

I still see the white heat of his technology revolution every day. I think it's only use these days is as an oversized mobile phone signal booster.

think TV's probably blunted the skill badly tbh: aristocrats* as wary but brilliant diplomats, able to smile and talk their way out of any scrape feudalism can throw at you

*i'm not talking abt the merely posh, or oafs like the bullingdon mob, i'm talking abt the scene in the crown when mary of teck dismisses prince philip's family -- the schleswig-holstein-sonderburg-glücksburgs -- as parvenus, and not from a line that goes back a thousand years (a thousand years breeds formidable survival skills, the kind you don't lose over a few unrocky shallow decades sat in front of mr bean)

The newish snap election book, Betting the House (excellent btw) mentions that Corbyn gave the Queen jam for her 90th, but wouldn't let his staff tell the press.

This before or after he was pipped to the post

by mark s

it was seedless

mark seedless

Ba-dah-BA-DAH!

The newish snap election book, Betting the House (excellent btw) mentions that Corbyn gave the Queen jam for her 90th, but wouldn't let his staff tell the press.

fairly sure i read about this at the time.

yes i think the important takeaway was actually them getting on so well, the jam was the objective correlative at best

lol! first failed search result for that book: Bet the House: How I Gambled Over a Grand a Day for 30 Days on Sports, Poker, and Games of Chance

Richard Roeper

yes i think the Jam was actually them getting on so well, the important takeaway was the objective correlative at best.

I am drunk.

meant to do scorethroughs and that.

The BBC news site doesn't seem very interested in the Davis stuff...

no reason to expect anyone to feel personal ire towards her majesty, I imagine she is v magnanimous and relaxed in her meetings & she's nowhere near as bad as she could be.

She knows the value of mostly shutting the fuck up.

what vibe will charles emanate

gonna suggest some kind of haughty stoicism, coupled with concessions to moral responsibility that will just about keep him onside

Charles certainly doesn't know the value of shutting the fuck up.

on an "endless maundering" tip

Quite the quote from a DUP source to the Sun: “This is a battle of who blinks first, and we’ve cut off our eyelids."

— Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) December 7, 2017

hasn't Charles let it be known that he has no intention of ceasing to make interventions on controversial issues when he becomes king? so unlikely to be a late convert to mostly shutting the fuck up, plus think-skinned and whiny, seems unlikely to go well

24 hrs to go till another deadline is missed xp

Btw the Queen will live forever and we'll never get our bank hols sorry to disappoint.

The DUP, a sadistic cyclops in the kingdom of the blind.

Btw the Queen will live forever and we'll never get our bank hols sorry to disappoint.

yup. they're replacing her bit by bit. Cyberqueen.

Queen Elizabeth 2.0

She'll definitely outlive her Mum by a few years and Charles just handing it straight to Wills would endear him to the fourth estate more than he could manage as a monarch himself.