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

On Hunt, who compared the EU with the Soviet Union in his party conference speech on Monday, Verhofstadt added: “But in his case that is not so abnormal – he has once even confused Japan with China so that is not a first time that this is happening. That said, the previous time he was insulting his wife but here it was something far more different. He’s insulting not us but millions of ordinary citizens who have lived under Soviet rule for so long time and that’s, in fact, a point on which he has to apologise, I think, because we cannot take it as such a thing he said.”

'the previous time he was insulting his wife' is such a great phrase to be able to lob at a senior politician, entire without hyperbole

Jesus Christ.

Yes we really have reached the "lock her up" stage of Boris Johnson's campaign to become prime minister. #cpc2018 https://t.co/JXljorODYN

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) October 2, 2018

"It occurs to me that the authors of the Chequers proposal risk prosecution under the 14th-century statute of praemunire, which says that no foreign court or government shall have jurisdiction in this country," Johnson said.

"It would mean that UK business and industry - the entire UK economy - would be exposed perpetually to regulations that might have been expressly designed, at the behest of foreign competitors, to do them down."

praemunire was repealed in 1967, as he seems not to have spotted

Is this the best him and Bannon could come up with? I agree with locking May up tho!

really hard to tell when BJ is showboating for his own loser-clique and when he's just being a thick, lazy bastard.

yeah him + pals like Toby are often playing to the gallery, and then pulling serious faces + crying foul when their clowning get's them into the shit.

Toby had a R4 program about Character, where he kept mentioning his doomed stint with a government education role as "the time he got bullied on twitter and it cost him a job".

Diddums.

tbh there would be no better ending to this whole farrago than boris in jail

boris torn limb from limb by a repentant crowd of yes voters as an olive branch to the rest of ye

If he gets on the ballot he'll win. I think it's very unlikely he'll get on the ballot but given how small the Tory Party now is, that audience of loons and the people like them are probably the most disproportionately powerful people in Britain when it comes to determining the future direction of the country.

I *think* Boris as Tory leader would be good electoral news for non-sociopaths but who can tell any more?

surely if that happened a lord ashcroft figure would have to drop the bomb (he must have SUCH dirt on boris) and knowingly destroy tory rule - say to everyone 'have your five years of corbyn, it'll be a nightmare, then we can restore moderate tory normality' - or would there be a nagging fear that it wouldn't be a nightmare at all...

Asked some young Tories what policies they thought would attract voters under 30 to the party, and they replied "bring back public hanging" and "Scramble for Africa 2.0" #CPC18

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) October 1, 2018

Bongo Bongo Land.

Or Sirte. You only need to clear the dead bodies away.

"the time he got bullied on twitter and it cost him a job".

Getting bullied for attending a secret eugenics conference with a load of paedophiles?

Young Tories will always be psychos, there are v obvious reasons for that.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DoiMHAFW4AE8QHM.jpg

someone ought to keep an eye on these extremists.

A bonny bunch I must say.

I need to get my reading glasses on!

I presume that guy with the "Fuck The NHS" shirt has something much more contentious on there, that his friend is covering with his hand.

No 'Fuck Business' tees?

ws of shame tbf

It used be Nelson Mandela they wanted to hang, who do they want to hang now I wonder?

(xp) You mean the blonde who will be breaking up Boris Johnson's next marriage 10 years from now?

the nice thing about ws's of shame is that they can remain a shallow delight

The dude behind her in the glasses appears to be a fan.

TBF the guy who wants to fuck the NHS doesn’t have a hitler moustache like the guy on the far left and he does seem to ❤️ “Hammer and sickle”.

It’s a travesty there’s no hammer and sickle emoji the best we can do are ⚒🛠🇦🇴

bless him, a Red October tribute as well!

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-fight-for-the-soul-of-the-tory-party/

spot the logical fallacy

Do I have to read the article or is it obvious from the URL?

Pretty obvious from the url

Good, good, I don’t need to be followed around the internet by whatever twinsetted nightmares are pictured on the google ads for conservativewoman.co.uk

The URL might cause you to think it was by a conservative woman though!

Michael St George is a freelance writer arguing for minimal-state, low-tax, free-markets minarchist-libertarianism. He tweets as @A_Liberty_Rebel.

That’s a very cis-normative view on who might be writing under the nom de plume of Michael St George.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/oct/03/tories-london-mayor-pick-shaun-bailey-multiculturalism-robs-britain-of-its-community

I'd assumed up until now that he was just one of Cameron's well-meaning idiots but perhaps not.

there are no well-meaning tories iirc

minarchist = where your head of state is a tiny queen?

tbf we already have that

'May represents a different kind of politician: a calm headmistress in a chamber full of over-excitable public schoolboys.' - The Guardian

The year 2016, when some writers at the UK's quality broadsheet The Graun were projecting their own perverse fantasises on the new pm.

Swap "Calm" for "migraned" and

I just whiled away some time reading A*m*zon customer reviews of the two rush job Theresa May hagiographies after a "fully updated" one titled The Enigmatic Prime Minister appeared on my twitter feed!

Highest approval ratings for a Prime Minister ever, lest we forget.

"Rosa Prince maps the rise of a woman who had to fight against the odds to become the leader of her country."

and then the odds fought back!

Those odds are very odd.

Theresa May dances her way onto the stage for her big speech at #CPC18, as Abba's Dancing Queen plays in the background 💃

Live updates: https://t.co/fzegYJuJvG pic.twitter.com/A3xTSTUjva

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) October 3, 2018

will be nice to have Strictly Ballroom to fall back on