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

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people like JW have completely stopped even trying the faux "Labour family" party of opposition game, not even pretending anymore!

like political zombies really, they need putting out of their misery.

I hate how much space and time the BBC have devoted to Alfie Evans, it's not a test case, the attention has proved to be entirely destructive, the facts of the case appear to be fairly cut and dry, yet they still seem to think they are acting in the public interest by leading with it for days on end.

A lot of people still don't seem to know that children have rights. Gotta pander to someone.

I am quite good at filtering out these grotesque media carnivals of exploited human misery, don't watch Bake Off either!

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Leeds Utd's next kit sponsor perhaps?

oops wrong thread!

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paw broon's got toothache again

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Nice FT piece talking about Momentum - try this to get you around the paywall:

Ben Judah on Corbyn's digital revolutionaries - inside Novara media and Momentum https://t.co/TToQ5ewO5n

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I ran into Emily Thornberry today (she was waiting for a taxi after giving a speech to canvassers at their meeting point) and we chatted for a bit about Amber Rudd, Aristo Wrangler - she didn’t realise about that particular bit of trivia until she spotted her name in the credits after watching Four Weddings, looked it up on IMDB and said her mind was truly boggled to discover that. She was off to Palestine for a conference and said she would probably be refreshing Twitter, waiting to see if/when the axe falls.

I’m not sure that Amber Rudd resigning would make all that much difference, especially when I think she is more liberal than she is being allowed to show. I look forward to seeing her sort it out, not just for the Windrush generation but for all the migrants who are caught up in this.”

Jess Phillips weighs in.

Deselection can’t come soon enough.

especially when I think she is more liberal than she is being allowed to show

citation needed

shared a joke over a subsidized g&t in the Commons one time

I can understand there is a large enough constituency of Sensible Centrists to make Woodcock, Phillips, etc comfortable with trashing Corbyn and the direction of the Labour Party but is there any real margin in being explicitly pro unpopular Tory MPs?

i assume it's nature, not tactics

They are like them exploding ants I was reading about recently, only turning on their own colony.

I absolutely assume it is nature but I am just slightly surprised that there is no internal filter telling them it’s a bad idea to say it.

“Diane Abbott receives so many racist messages that her office does not have time to take them to the police every day, so an assistant bundles them up and sends them once a week”

The Times doing a sympathetic Abbott piece seems a bit incongruous by their recent standards, not that I've read past the pay-walled fade.

Embarrassing:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/28/brexit-not-a-done-deal-battle-to-stay-in-eu-second-referendum

I mean, really:

The ideal scenario for the anti-Brexit movement goes like this. In October or November this year, the government will conclude negotiations and present the final Brexit deal to parliament. Under pressure from their constituents and opinion polls, MPs will vote to reject it and pass legislation for another referendum with a “No Brexit” option on the ballot. Remain will swing enough voters to win the referendum. The government will ask the EU to revoke article 50 before 29 March. RIP Brexit.

I’m sure you’ve got a point somewhere...?

I'm seeing more and more anti-Brexit activism these days. If there's even a 5% chance it could have any effect then that sounds good. But afraid that even 5% sounds wildly optimistic.

What are you struggling with Andrew? This is laughable, its not going to happen.

That seems ... far from clear? Your thirst for it is more certain, but I’ve never figured out why.

I don't want Brexit to happen - but it's just going to. And should it not (only saying in a never say never way), its absolutely not going to be like that. That para is a fairy tale of events.

heighten the contradictions or go home

I don't think anyone on here has a thirst for Brexit. But fuckwits who think you can just put it under a magicians hat and make it disappear without consequences are some of the most embarrassing ppl in politics r/n.

Did you read the paragraph immediately after that bit in italics?

Still, you need there to be a really decisive shift in public opinion - going into this without 60:40 polling in favour of remaining is a recipe for disaster whether they win or lose.

"Where Next for Brexit?, a separate but overlapping talking shop whose heavyweight attendees included Gina Miller, Alastair Campbell, Lord Adonis and AC Grayling. "

the crème de la crème

The only referendums I'd back would be privatise the bbc or liquidate the Windsors. But in the case of a 2nd ref, anything less than a Putinesque win is a defeat, or a conspiracy or just lose lose whatever the fucking result.

I agree with Matt in so far that a close reversal wouldn’t help in the long run (tho it would definitely help in the short term as regards not plummeting off a cliff).

Which is to say that I also agree with calzino but I’m not sure there’s a lot of people thinking that (what his fuckwits think).

Matt I did read the para after and then stopped there. Its merely striking a tone of scepticism about the scenario and talks about the polling in the case of a phantom 2nd referendum when actually what you need to see is the tide turning in a major way right now for there to be anything like a push for a 2nd ref.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moSFlvxnbgk

if these poor lambs feel so strongly about overturning the referendum they should maybe try and get their campaign fronted by people who aren't the same neolib wankers that drove people into the arms of Leave in the first place

my feeling is more that there will be a Fudge

can one of you mansplain to me the different milestones here? I assume March 29th is the last possible date for the EU to revoke Article 50, i.e. point of no return. Does the government even have to present a final deal to Parliament prior to then?

people wanted something symbolic; take back control

not many people who voted Brexit cared about customs unions or thought about Northern Ireland

they just want to say "we stuck it to them"

ultimately it should be quite easy to satisfy this sentiment without really doing anything as silly as leaving the eu

this seems really obvious?

I assume until negotiations are closed and there can be some paperwork on how badly Team May has fucked everyone over, that 60/40 isn't likely. The middle two quartiles of any given population really prefer to not give a shit about important stuff until it's on the doorstep.

tombot, there are actually really no lines in the sand. there is a single paragraph of EU Constitution that describes article 50/ as nobody really thought anyone would be mad enough. it's possible to just kick the can down the road indefinitely really

i don't think it is easy tho, what deal could possibly be made that would appease the sovereignty/stick it to the technocrats bloc? the question for remainers is really about whether there are enough shook middle ground voters who can be persuaded to switch sides. i'm not sure that most of the serious remainers really care about what the political fallout of that kind of turnaround might be.

second referendum in the near future would be a disaster. leave would win and the issue would be double underlined for two generations

there's no good outcome from a second referendum whether it's another Leave vote or a fractional Remain. the pols that are making this the focus of their efforts right now are just idiots.