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

it's generally taken rather than given.

um-bridge
To bridge one's phrases with the syllable "um".
He was such a halting speaker that everyone took umbrage at his um-bridge.

good old urban dict!

Typing on a mobile during a fire drill is the excuse i am going to use here.

london is unusual in being able to centrally manage its bus services. I think there are one or two other smaller cities that do it but the 1985 transport act holds over most of the country and has been I think by most measures a total disaster

― ogmor, Thursday, 20 September 2018 11:09

Quite right on all counts, I was just saying that you don't necessarily need state ownership of bus companies to run a functioning bus service. Though I'd probably still favour a wholly state-owned model.

Since prisons were brought up I'll just mention again that another privatized sector is immigration removal centres, often operated by the likes of G4S. Since the UK's the only state in Europe that allows indefinite detention it's quite a nice business.

xp I favour proper regulation and pushing brian souter into the pit

I'm sure most regular train users could accept a generally shit standard of service, late trains, cancellations etc.. if the cost of tickets was back down to peak BR rates.

pushing brian souter into the pit

u & k

Ann Gloag into the pit as well, obvs.

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I took the quiz and apparently I am Spain. Result!

John Redwood looking distinctly uneasy and getting very shouty when a haulier takes him to task on customs checks post Brexit. https://t.co/LyxwUSd1tv

— Otto English (@Otto_English) September 20, 2018

From the Guardian live blog:

Q: You said it was your deal or a no deal. The EU is saying your plan is unacceptable. Isn’t it all falling apart?

May says she always said this would be tough.

She wants to have a Brexit that avoids a hard border in Ireland.

If there are concerns from the EU, “let’s hear what those concerns are,” she says.

(That is an odd thing to say. The EU has been spelling out its concerns all summer.)

christ how is she still so fucking bad at this

Oof. She's being butchered left and right.

lol, all the papers are running with Tusk calling Chequers ‘dead’ and Macron saying it won’t work, apart from The Times - which leads with one leader saying there is greater momentum for a fair compromise.

Viktor Orban.

Brutal.

Peston, Newton Dunn, etc calling it ‘an almost unprecedented humiliation’.

it sounds like she was genuinely shocked at Chequers getting pumped even though it was practically 1/1000 that it would be!

lots of Tories blaming Olly Robbins on twitter!

‘an almost unprecedented humiliation’.

that's really saying something considering may's unbroken string of faceplants, each worse than the last, since the referendum

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnjaWl5WsAk8WFA.jpg

omg

whatever his yearly salary is, it isn't enough

i want that to be in textbooks

A David Low for our time

May says Chequers is the only option which maintains an open border in Ireland. Not true: there is Barnier's long-preferred single market + customs union model (also backed by the Irish). Many in Brussels are absolutely sure the UK will blink in this game of chicken

— Tom McTague (@TomMcTague) September 20, 2018

Feel like it might be time for a 'how does Brexit end?' poll.

May's house of cards will fall like a row of dominoes... checkmate

Those seem like unusually dark trousers in Matt's otherwise homogenitalous physiognomic greytopia.

rolling UK politics sept 2018: matt sticks the boot in

Thought you meant DC for a minute there :-O

Nailed it again

really enjoying the BBC’s the mighty redcar which feels like a necessary corrective to things like john harris’ brexit series in the guardian

Really brutal set of front pages today for the PM. With the Mail apparently defanged there's only the Sun there to cry ambush and betrayal.

whatever his yearly salary is, it isn't enough

― imago, Thursday, September 20, 2018 7:20 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was she cross yesterday? She was steaming. Literally. The head wobbled with fury. Her eyes darted and bulged and practically boiled in their own juices. The old banger's temperature gauge was needling deep into the danger zone.

Oops. Did I just call our Prime Minster an old banger? It was meant in the metaphorical sense. Let's just say that in Star Trek at this point, Scottie would have been shaking his head and saying he couldna hold her much longer, Cap'n.

They had apportioned a tiny room near Mozart University for the May press conference. It was a veritable sweat box. The Salzburg smoker. As hot and nasty as a prop forward's jockstrap.

Quentin Letts' salary is definitely too high. I remember him doing *this type of thing* on her famous conference speech, he really shouldn't be encouraged!

Good that the Guardian is continuing to pay attention to this sort of thing.

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/21/children-as-young-as-10-denied-uk-citizenship-for-failing-good-character-test?__twitter_impression=true

I thought you meant it in a sarcastic sense before I clicked, it is good - because no other paper seems interested rn.

I’m at Ukip conference, where of course you can buy Nigel Farage condoms.

“For when you have a hard Brexit”

£1 each or 4 for £2 from the Young Independence stall. pic.twitter.com/MRnsGjt41d

— Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) September 21, 2018

UKIP unveil their new zero-child policy.

CONFIRMED: BBC have been summoned to Downing Street. PM will give a statement on government Brexit policy. No other journos invited. On telly at 1345.

Or 'Tell Laura I Love Her'

So we're heading for no deal eh.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45603192

stop the pressezzzzz

The statement has been delayed as the room they’d booked for it doesn’t have any electricity. Sounds like they might as well not bother.

Metaphor alert: there’s currently no power in the room at No 10 where the PM is going to make her speech. Might delay things a bit.

— Tom Larkin (@TomLarkinSky) September 21, 2018

Bah xp

nothing new except possible softening on EU citizens' rights in the UK? bah fuck these people

She's demanding respect from the EU.

These are the most pathetic choads in all Christendom.