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

Speaking of Gardiner, I only really saw this classic clip from last year.

Labour's Barry Gardiner strikes again. How many Cornflakes does 6.8 pence buy you? May, the lunch snatcher. pic.twitter.com/f7OvB4cwb1

— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) May 31, 2017

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/indy100/eJ0axHCqmx/18477-6rv6cn.jpg

I got this off the Toozemeister, when May talks about the "Singapore model" as something to emulate, it seems we're already half way there.

if the weather and food matched up I could deal

Singapore with Morrissey's fave food from a foodbank is as good as it will get I'm afraid.

..and shit weather, and doing a collective peasant's workout to Morrissey's music every day before your Soylent Green Tofu is served up!

A Tory activist told me that at a dinner hosted by his local Conservative association, 5 BME attendees were placed on one table at the far end of the room.

When a complaint was raised the deputy leader of the group replied “he could not be racist because his girlfriend is black”

— Shehab Khan (@ShehabKhan) June 6, 2018

that sounds so Lolico!

I know we justifiably dunk on washed-up ex-Britpop frontmen but:

The irony of Morrissey being a gammon : /

— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) June 6, 2018

i'll allow it

Zounds! that's the strongest case for a "gammon" ban I've seen yet.

De Britse politicus @DanielJHannan is verrast dat de Europese Unie na het Brexit-referendum niet meer moeite deed om de Britten in de EU te houden. “De deur stond bij ons open, maar de EU heeft de deur dichtgegooid."

▶️ https://t.co/OmBc8e3AD5 pic.twitter.com/aEHWH9plqx

— EenVandaag (@EenVandaag) June 4, 2018

This is hilarious. Hannan is disappointed the EU didn't try to convince GB (more) to stay in the EU because the ref outcome was 'just' 52-48%.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jun/06/paul-dacre-to-step-down-as-daily-mail-editor-in-november?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet

In a statement Dacre thanked Rothermere for giving him the freedom to edit without interference

I'll bet he did.

https://1645110239.rsc.cdn77.org/image/f330x470/q80/mm/been/movies18406/posters/the-death-of-stalin.20180314115916.jpg

I wish he had died in puddle of his own piss, but he'll be swilling his brandy and cackling at his handiwork for many more years yet, because there is no god.

Barnett is saying this is a crushing blow to May and her Brexit strategy, that sounds a bit hopeful to me, not that I would mind any crushing blows to her rn though.

the amount of "crushing blows" she has taken in the last year shows it doesn't really what happens as long as the dodgy parliamentary majority is maintained.

who's Barnett?

Dacre's announced resignation from the Daily Mail is a crushing blow for Theresa May and her Brexit strategy. Brexit is now doomed

— Anthony Barnett (@AnthonyBarnett) June 6, 2018

this fellow, mark s used to go on about him a bit!

I'm not sure what he means by doomed.

amusing to see DD do anything he possibly can to resign.

I did feel bad reading out the news to my missus because the obvious hope would be that he’d died.

as an ex-SAS reserve DD probably should commit suicide or go on a killing spree or something rather than resigning - Who Dares Totally Shits Out is his new motto!

@NadineDorries

David Davis is ex SAS He’s trained to survive. He’s also trained to take people out. #Brexit

Nadine Dorries is ex SEN

ex IACGMOOH

nadine dorries quietly encouraging david davis to carry out a murder-suicide mission on theresa may is good not bad

meh! I bet he couldn't even put out a cigarette! He was an SAS Reserve ffs! I loved in the 90's when you'd bump into some Andy McNab bore in the pub telling you how nails the SAS is over and over again. Well here's an important counterpoint to that: David Davis!

you'll change your tune right quick after he slots the pm

wait i have a concerning understanding of the verb "to slot"

arrgh! such troubling images (apart from the ones where he punches the 5ft diabetic woman!-oh shit I'll get 51-ed here!)

either 'slotting' is sas slang for killing someone or bravo two zero was much more of an erotic story than i realised at the time

speaking of erotic stories

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfFCyTBXUAAiE_a.jpg:large

strong confessions of a (terrible) brexit negotiator vibes.

People seem to be taking that Nadine tweet as evidence that the Brexiters are shook and panicking when in fact it's exactly the same sort of deranged nonsense that Dorries comes out with all the time.

DD such a flouncer. Stephen Bush this morning: On the one hand, this isn't the first time that friends of Davis (or Davis himself) have hinted he might quit as Brexit Secretary - in fact, this is the fifth one.

On the other, it's the looming 10-year-anniversary of the most pointless by-election in history, when Davis quit his job as shadow home secretary in protest over 42 days detention (a policy his party opposed) and triggered a by-election in his ultra-safe seat as a referendum on the issue. (The other parties sensibly denied him the spotlight by not fielding candidates.) The Brexit Secretary has form on pointless resignations.

And have no doubt, this would be a pointless resignation. For the fallback arrangement to be meaningful, it can't be time limited.

I wonder if he has a couple of scotches and decides to *make a stand*. Don’t quite see it. Strikes me as essentially a frivolous man, so maybe he periodically feels the need to aim for seriousness and misses the mark.

He's shitting himself because he knows he's not up to the job and also must know by now that it's all a terrible idea anyway. It's nothing to do with the backstop.

otm

Catchy

Government proposes creating a new customs territory after the UK leaves the EU customs territory called “the customs territory comprising the customs territories of the UK and the EU” pic.twitter.com/sTUuJpI7WX

— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) June 7, 2018

the customs territory of all customs territories that are not members of themselves

the ol' tctctctotukateu, trips right off the tongue

or ctcctukeu if you take out all the thes, ofs and ands

feels Lovecraftian.

appropriately

we're leaving the eu in favour of being subsumed into r'lyeh

the infernal, mind-destroying clutches of Cthulhu preferable to the current Cabinet IMO
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/look-all-im-saying-is-lets-at-least-give-nyarlathotep-a-chance

total centrist dad position

i've long said that no rational person would choose michael gove over any given shoggoth to carry out virtually any task

shoggoth is less freaky lookin tbf

itt: goveshaming

which i'm all for, to be clear

lol davis rescinds his “threat”. no eyeroll big enough.

and our prime minister remains safely unslotted :(

lol, this arsehole

This Brexiteer became so angry during a rant about Remainers, he had to cut short the call and put the phone down https://t.co/6If6bRCZ43

— LBC (@LBC) June 7, 2018