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

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

i hate this fucking country

"She questions whether former Labour PM Jim Callaghan would have asked the Russian government to confirm the findings of the UK's intelligence agencies, and asks what it has come to when Jewish people are considering leaving the country as they do not feel safe"

is there a number for the jewish people leaving the country because they don't feel safe and how does it compare to the number of europeans leaving the country because of brexit?

Legit wooooow at May saying the Tories stand for opportunities such as “the opportunity for your Windrush parents to come to the UK and see you become candidate for London mayor”

Who are these “four nations” btw, I only count three.

Have You Seen Which Song The British PM Danced To During Her Speech: This Is Everything

jesus christ that windrush line

http://images.gawker.com/18odwyjcs21z3gif/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_470.gif

Highest approval ratings for a Prime Minister ever

I'd forgotten that - in that magical time last year when the wheels were in motion to finally crush those saboteurs.

I don't know that I've ever seen a PM as unpopular as her now - possibly John Major? She seems to have literally no-one as a constituency.

this is when she really became Prime Minister

suspect this incredible dancing entrance is how I will remember her. it's like the necromancer who is controlling her and making her gun for a hard brexit she disagrees with is now forcing her body to move in unfamiliar ways and 'dance' awkwardly to put on a show for the party she must basically hate at this point. her rictus grin as she powers through constant humiliating internal deaths. I can only admire her ungodly determination.

Yeah, Major in '92: deadbeat leader without a strong mandate, of a party divided by Europe, facing a Labour party that has reinvented itself since the previous election but has a leader who puts people off...

i have now watched that video and metal micky dances more convincingly

Whole speech is playing to the crowd and Corbyn- bashing. Like where’s their alternative? What difference are they going to make in people’s lives? Corbyn is the leader of the opposition, has any LOTO ever been the focus for the actual governing party in this way before?

Bitter laugh about the professed concern about tolerance from someone in a confidence and supply agreement with a party who’d see the GFA destroyed.

Blair surely? Especially as the hate for him has persisted, does anyone really hate Major anymore?

I can only admire her ungodly determination.

and let's not forget her ungodly determination to see brexit through is actually ungodly determination to do something she didn't believe in in the first place

she's a profoundly odd character

has any LOTO ever been the focus for the actual governing party in this way before

it's been a long time since a leader of the opposition has actually staked out a visibly different alternative future for the country in the way corbyn has, and the tories are shitting it

Also love to profess concern for Jewish community with one hand while protecting a virulently anti Semitic government with the other.

xxp At least Major did better in that election than anyone expected..

gyac - while the hate for him has clearly continued and deepened, there are still no shortage of people who'd vote for Blair again in a heartbeat.

Bitter laugh about the professed concern about tolerance from someone in a confidence and supply agreement with a party who’d see the GFA destroyed.

Lest we forget #2

https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02629/Immigrant-billboar_2629522b.jpg

dead cat dance

Never liked them much tbh.

101 uses for a dead May

http://www.comicsreporter.com/images/uploads/simonbonddeadcat.jpg

Oh and by the way, fuck the complicit media letting people parrot “no deal is better than a bad deal” completely unchallenged. That something favoured by maybe 10% of people at an absolute maximum is seriously under consideration is nothing less than a dereliction of duty and everyone who let this shit go by unchallenged or undiscussed deserves to be completely ashamed.

― gyac, Friday, 20 July 2018 09:44 (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is arguably most important speech given by @theresa_may. She plants Conservative Party firmly in centre of politics, to fill the space she says @jeremycorbyn’s Labour has vacated. It shows, as I said on @NewsAtTen last night, she has no intention of quitting any time soon

— Robert Peston (@Peston) October 3, 2018

The plan for Britain to crash out without a deal is the centre now. Thanks for the scrutiny!

Some good news though, she's staying on as leader.

fishhook theory is real

is that all it takes to shift to the centre of politics, just a bit of lip service in a conference speech.

ah yes, 'the centre of politics', that comfortable goldilocks zone where *checks notes* the country is frantically stockpiling medicines against the threat of a supply-chain collapse

is that all it takes to shift to the centre of politics, just a bit of lip service in a conference speech.

Bit of a soft shoe shuffle.

Call it what it is, an *attempt* to pitch herself into the centre ground, doomed to failure because Brexit is pretty much the #1 thing that pisses centrists off the most.

I mean her last big well-received non-Brexit speech was just after she became leader, which small shoots of hope have resulted in the news that she'll be cancelling Austerity next year, provided she gets her way with Brexit, which she won't.

Brb scrubbing my eyes w/ soap after seeing that 'dancing' footage. I can't decide whether she's determined or deranged. Probably both.

I won't believe she's trying to capture the centre ground until she makes some vague pledges and literally has them carved into stone, that would show serious intent!

Theresa May’s speech - Snap verdict: By the relatively low standard of what was expected, that was a success - probably even a triumph.

She convinced the Gruan tho

it's definitely an abject failure then.

"May leaves to Mr Blue Sky"

that's that ruined

"May leaves to Mr Blue Sky"

that's that ruined

never mind, i'll remember you this i'll remember you this way

BUT SOON COMES MISTER NIGHT

lol rekt

The writing is on the wall for the Conservatives. Or at least it was…

Eight years of budget cuts and the Tories have completely abandoned any pretense of standing for security and stability.#CPC18 pic.twitter.com/DydqAlUeOv

— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) October 3, 2018

> CPC18

makes me think of Combat 18 everytime i see that...

Opportunism