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

top 3:

1/ Colony
2/ Female cyclists
3/ The dream is dying

Given recent events, I will discuss my next political move on LBC at 7pm.

— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) July 9, 2018

HE'S READY

(am i doing this right)

I was concerned, looking at Friday’s document, that there might be further concessions on immigration, or that we might end up effectively paying for access to the single market.

wtf? He thinks that UK should exit the EU and still have full and free access to the EU?

well, yeah

this has been their oft-repeated idee fixe for more than two years

if it seems not to make sense, aimless, it's because it's patently insane

I am told 1922 committee chairman Graham Brady made it clear that the 48 signatures that would start a leadership contest hadn’t been received

— iain watson (@iainjwatson) July 9, 2018

wtf? He thinks that UK should exit the EU and still have full and free access to the EU?

As an audience member on Question Time put it last week, "If you look at the car park outside, it's full of BMWs, Audis, Mercedes - they need us more than we need them". This is how these people think.

https://media.giphy.com/media/Emg9qPKR5hquI/giphy.gif

(xp)

Turns out the EU approved those lorry window regs Johnson is still complaining about — in 2014. While he was still mayor.

But too late for the Fruity Female Cyclist act.

I can well believe Boris spends a lot of time thinking about female cyclists.

pls don’t make me think about Horny Boris

He used to curry favour with the cycle couriers in the Duke of York as part of his bullshit man of the people table-football strategy. Pretty sure he’s never passed a lady bike saddle without sniffing it.

bizarro's plea went unheard

I'm regretting my initial post now tbh.

Journalism!

Allies of Michael Gove suggest Michael Gove to be foreign secretary

— Sam Coates Times (@SamCoatesTimes) July 9, 2018

‘allies of michael gove’ might be the saddest phrase in the english language

Allies plural?

those allies of michael gove in full

https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03293/Michael-Gove-Sarah_3293528b.jpg

All lies of Michael Gove suggest Michael Gove to be foreign secretary

During Gove's last little period of political exile he looked finished. I think it was him appearing on late night current affairs shows and looking into Ed Balls apathetic dead eyes of oblivion, and realising that be him soon, that inspired him to grasp his next chance with his sweaty little grasping hands!

I can't possibly imagine how Gove as foreign sec might backfire. OTOH it's probably a sign that any serious challenge to May is likely to fizzle out.

On the other hand, if he turns it down then the cat really is among the pigeons.

Hunt is going into no.10.

Gove to Health is not implausible.

Hunt confirmed.

Spoonerism.

My challenging opinion is that Jeremy Hunt would be relatively harmless as Foreign Secretary. Gove at Health would be a disaster.

Yes, though Gove still has a reputation for results at complicated ministries (Justice, Education, etc) with a bunch of Tories.

Gove has too much ego and too many shit ideas, a dangerous man.

Didn't hunt turn something down at the last reshuffle doing he was dedicated to health?

Doing / saying

nah he just strolled into Mays office and demanded a better job title when she was supposed to sack him!

Matt Hancock at Health.

Hancock is the first MP to launch his own smartphone app in 2018. The head of privacy rights group Big Brother Watch called the app a "fascinating comedy of errors", after the app was found to collect its users' photographs, friend details, check-ins, and contact information.

In his role as Minister of State for Energy, he was criticised for hiring a private jet to fly back from a climate conference[14] and accepting money[15] from climate change denial organisation Global Warming Policy Foundation. In October 2014, he apologized after retweeting a poem suggesting that the Labour Party was "full of queers", describing his actions as a "total accident".

hancock is so gormless and inept

what are hunt’s foreign policy positions ?

Seeing word that Chris Green is tendering resignation along with the letter over on FB.

gove has actually been alright at environment (mostly because he keeps pinching labour policies). wouldn’t want him anywhere near education/health/chancellor though

Your a pps Chris. It is not relevant and nobody gives a fuck. Apart from me obviously.

— Simon Hart (@Simonhartmp) July 9, 2018

Re hunt. This is what I remember:

https://metro.co.uk/2018/01/08/jeremy-hunt-refused-to-leave-department-of-health-during-mays-reshuffle-7214285/

From January

gove has actually been alright at environment (mostly because he keeps pinching labour policies). wouldn’t want him anywhere near education/health/chancellor though

I too have heard this - also that he’s an Ideas Man who Fights for His Ideas - so if you can convince him that your idea is actually his, you’re golden.

school system is still buried beneath the fucking damage this cretinous little runt inflicted on it, fuck him in every endeavour forever

lmao

Meeting the worst Foreign Secretary we’ve ever had amongst the destruction of Hurricane Irma in Anguilla. Disinterested and out of his depth he cared nothing for our situation. Good riddance pic.twitter.com/udzzpoZ7OW

— John McKendrick QC🇦🇮🇬🇧🇵🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 (@JohnMQC) July 9, 2018

hokeycokey.wav

Unless Brexit is back on track by March 2019, I will seriously consider putting my name forward to return as @UKIP leader. The will of 17.4m voters must be carried out. pic.twitter.com/BNLtA6xPiJ

— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) July 9, 2018

Oh man I hope that Anguilla tweet is just the tip of the iceberg.

He really wants to set a record for most times retiring from the same job.

We all know that Boris Johnson’s decision to quit is absolutely not about one man and his personal ambitions, but I’m struggling to think of another time where a Secretary of State called in the photographers to record the moment a resignation letter was signed. https://t.co/35FEuuh9dV

— Sam Macrory (@sammacrory) July 9, 2018

Announcing this arsehole's resignation before he got the chance to do so will go down as the greatest single achievement of May's goverment.