The Westminster Arms

Morning all
Beautiful breakfast

I take my hat off to Frisby for that one 😂

The BBC. Lol.

Most of this 1317 days, I didn’t believe we’d leave but here we are, how nice.

Good luck with the mammogram, Copper (ouch! Rather you than me )

And we waited for our chance to put an X in the ballot box again

We are the people who don't protest in the streets, the ones who don't make a song and dance about it. We just go in to the polling booth and quietly have our say. I love democracy! How many people in how many other countries would love to be able to do the same, quietly and in perfect safety.

Dominic Frisby is still making me laugh. Last night, he conceded that Ode to Joy will probably take the No. 1 spot but he joked "People didn't know what they were buying so we're going to run the charts again. We're going to have a People's Chart!"

I keep thinking about the 2019 European election and the general one, and the revenge of the electorate on our sergeant pepper crew, and chauvelin (sp?) in the Scarlet Pimpernel. "Oh the English and their STUPID sense of fair play". People told us we were wrong to vote to leave the EU. We were misguided, stupid, racist, and an alternative to honouring that vote was surely what the electorate really wanted, or would if they knew what was good for them. And we waited for our chance to put an X in the ballot box again, and we didn't start rioting in the streets, and we thought about the consequences of not respecting the 2016 vote, whatever we'd voted in it and whatever the merits of the outcomes and eventually, eventually we got to today. And chauvelin is definitely somewhere out in the ether saying that line.

Good morning everyone. The big day has arrived and tomorrow will be a new dawn of opportunities, new partnerships.
Tonight, I will be watching Boris’ address, celebrating quietly, not triumphantly and raising a glass to new beginnings.
I’m also going to buy a newspaper to put along with our referendum polling cards for DS to put in his keepsake box, as I do to remember significant events in our history.
Continuing on in my music theme is Phil Collins -
I can feel it (coming in the air tonight oh Lord)

Posted too soon.
Off for mammogram and to village party tonight.
Listening to the Today programme and they are talking about the race for no. 1 in the charts.
They played a part of 17m (very carefully, just listing the" helpers" and the Ode.

Morning all, and thank you again for the breakfast Singing.

I am so excited🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Morning everyone and celebratory greetings all round! I notice that Boris & Co are in Sunderland today - I remember that delicious moment so well, when that result came in!

This thread has moved fast, I've not caught up with it all yet. I'll have a good read when I sit down later with the first glass of fizz, to toast the Dawn of the New Era

Morning singing, dusty and all

Today is most definitely the day, it's been a bumpy ride to say the least but the power of the ballot box and democracy has seen us to the finish line (despite the best endeavours of some others with a somewhat warped sense of what is right).

With every vote being being equal and counted we have made our mark in the history books and I for one will be celebrating that achievement tonight.🍾🍾🍷🥂🎉🎊

Today unfortunately, I will be working so lurking but will see you all later 😘🥰.

Morning, all,

Well, can you believe it? At long last, the day we have been waiting for. It’s been a long haul; only 1317 days since the referendum. Sometimes it seemed as though we would never get here. But we have. In x hours and x minutes, the UK will formally and legally leave the EU. The Lisbon Treaty will no longer apply. Neither will the Treaties of Amsterdam, Nice or Maastricht.

It being Friday, neither the HoC nor the HoL will be sitting, although the work of government will go on. Boris will hold a special Cabinet meeting this morning in Sunderland - remember that glorious moment when Sunderland sent a shockwave through the Remain campaign by voting 61% Leave? - and his key message to ministers is that they must focus on delivering the benefits that come from the UK’s newfound freedom from Brussels. According to the Telegraph, “To give workers the feeling of an immediate Brexit bounce, Mr Johnson approved an increase in the threshold at which workers start paying National Insurance from £8,628 to £9,500, resulting in a tax cut of £104 for a typical employee starting in April.”

Boris will make a special address to the country at 10pm. The address, recorded on Thursday “will be published by Downing Street on social media, as well as being given to broadcasters, but the BBC was accused by MPs of being “churlish” for refusing to guarantee it will show the video in news bulletins”. The BBC has said it will “judge it on its news value” before deciding whether to air it.

Government buildings will be lit up in red, white and blue and Downing Street will be illuminated with a Brexit-themed light display to mark the moment we leave at 11pm tonight.

Today’s complimentary breakfast is sausage and egg barm with spicy homemade ketchup. Please help yourselves.

Kettle’s on ☕️☕️☕️ although in honour of the day, there is a tray of complimentary Buck’s Fizz 🥂 too.

Please don't drag arguments from another thread over to this one. Thank you.

God knows why you think Sally deserves an apology Autumn
Her post blaming the EU for cuts to local authority adult social care was batshit.

Party, party here tonight. 11pm.
Kick off.

Tum te tum te tum....

But ... bu....

Today's going to be amazing! I'm going to wake up in my Union Jack jim-jams to the sound of a squadron of Spitfires racing overhead and leaving a trail of hot buttered crumpets behind them. I'll run to the corner shop past all the British children who are laughing and squealing with excitement as they make a beautiful statue of the queen out of happy wriggling bulldog puppies - with two corgis for her eyebrows!

"Bunting flutters everywhere and the man from the betting shop steps into the street - 'guess what! England just won the World Cup and The Ashes and The Grand National and here's the best bit - Boris put a bet on it for everyone! You're all MILLIONAIRES!!!'

"The Red Arrows fly overhead dropping fish and chips as I walk into the corner shop, get my morning paper and go to the counter. 'How much please?' I say to the Asian lad there. 'One pence, everything in the whole shop now costs just 1p!' he laughs, leave it on the counter, I'm off back to Pakistan - we all are!'

"And he's right! Outside in the streets jolly old Nigel Farage is leading a huge crowd of happy foreigners - Turks, Poles, Romanians, Syrians - there's even a few English people with heavy suntans mixed up in there! Nigel's playing Rule Britannia on a long pipe, rather like the pipe that takes the gas into your oven, and they're all following and smiling and talking foreign, bless them!

"Just then Boris flies overhead in a concorde made of Bank of England gold - 'don't worry!' he laughs. 'I've cut out all the bits the French made!' and with that he crashes into the ground at 1200 miles an hour, along with the economy, the country and all the dozy nostalgic foreigner-fearing fuckwits who fell for this bullshit."

"Grow up. Wake up."

(credit to Matt Thomas)

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But was genuinely expecting more traffic on here!

Snoopy dance!

*"Open the bubbly and fill me up”
No, not a 'euphemism, just open the bubbly and point me at it lol.

I cant wait, cant sleep, so excited.

Walking “ Open the bubbly and fill me up”

Hopefully also not a euphemism 😂

Autumn you don't know how to make these people see sense? The council?

You mean, ridicule doesn't work?

Who knew!

Maybe carefully reasoned argument, backed up with evidence based fact might.... oh, never mind.

Off you go to skip and wave your union flag.

Bless.

Dusty, queen of the memes. Open the bubbly and fill me up.