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

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.

God help me, I actually watched this and she said nothing new whatsoever, what was the point of doing that?

"At this late stage in the negotiations, it is not acceptable to simply reject the other side's proposals without a detailed explanation and counter proposals. So we now need to hear from the EU what the real issues are and what their alternative is so we can discuss them. Until we do, we cannot make progress."

FFS is it neck or just naivety?

It's Trump's so-called 'art' of the deal, without the browbeating leverage.

100% it's neck, just sheer fucking white-knuckle 'WE'VE GOTTA DO SOMETHING TO LOOK LIKE WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING' panic

actually i've changed my mind, brexit is good not bad now

Theresa May's warning to the EU: "We. Stand. Ready."

Me: "YAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS." 🙌 pic.twitter.com/SFwLtbFXPr

— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) September 21, 2018

(yes that is that darren grimes)

Between this and Elon Musk it's been tough times for the whole Grimes family.

https://i.postimg.cc/G3qbQWSz/asjd.png

Twenty-five years of plotting this exact moment and this is the best analogy he can come up with.

"Let them eat shit"

luv2 c england pay for my cake

wtf is Darren grimes ?

also, what is the other Darren Grimes?

Grimes is the 23-y-o fashion student mysteriously gifted £625k in dark money to buy adverts for Brexit illegally.

No deal is a lock. I'd like to renounce my citizenship. When is Soros going to sort me a seastead.

I feel like the problem with the EU's 'May will blink first' tactic is that it massively underestimates the stubborness and obsessiveness of her own backbenchers.

yes, may has been designed for disposability

I can't help but sympathise on some level. Brings to mind that Onion headline after Obama's election, 'Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job'.

Strong, tough, reckless: Verdict on Theresa May's blistering Brexit speech

So says the.. um... Bristol Post.

re grimes : ta SV for the reminder … I should have remembered that.

think that Redwood analogy used "milkshake" instead of "cake" originally

never heard of cake duck tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR61hCKAEqE

ill allow it

What's that German chess term for "a situation where one player has been absolutely banjaxed for the last half hour by a stupid error from about 20 moves ago but only just realised something is wrong"?

— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) September 21, 2018

lol

fraudandshowed

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/windrush-citizens-latest-citizenship-refused-home-office-sajid-javid-a8549101.html

the tory party reeks of death