THE BREXIT FALLOUT OUT CONTINUES - THREAD EIGHT!
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Each of the parties seem to have a taken a very different style to their leadership contests.
The Tory party have been well documented as doing in the classic style of Hamlet. After the entire Conservative Party have spent two weeks stabbing each in the back and front, May steps forward to take the crown for herself.
But what about the others?
The UKIP leadership contest seems to be in comedy style of Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights. In a strange turn of events, that no one predicted and seem quite absurd, they seem to be changing their rules so their new leader must have been a member for 5 years. The punchline is this rules just about everyone out, apart from Neil Hamilton and Steven Woolfe. As BigChocFrenzy points out, we are expecting Arron Banks to hand out the brown envelopes. We are just waiting for the poorly thought out, and badly booked racist band to turn up and make everyone cringe in horror and distract everyone from UKIP's candidates and their manifestos in the process.
Meanwhile Labour Party decide to do what they thought was Star Wars Panto. After spending a week going “She’s Standing”, “Oh No She’s Not” Angela Eagle is declared the Empire Strikes Back candidate by Diane Abbot. Well if she’s the rebel leader, then who is Darth Vader and the Emperor?
Unfortunately, you’d be forgiven for thinking the performance is starting to look more and more like a re-enactment of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, by the minute:
A battle of wills between two forces locked together in a room with ultimately different and opposing self-interests. This is only resolved when the new leader to the dynamic who sought to upset the institution, and give the others their freedom, is lobotomised and subsequently killed in an act of mercy. His murderer manages to escape the prison to the cheers of those still stuck inside.
The Greens of course are a foreign language film, no one has heard of and no one is really that interested in watching.
The Lib Dems are merely sat in the audience. With Tim Farron heckling.
But where is Gandalf? 
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At least some sanity has returned and we now have some leaders. May can now get stuck into the job of handing the nightmare that is Brexit whilst making herself at home at Number 10. Rumours are circulating that it’s been left a bit of a pigsty.
We will follow May, on her new adventures to foreign lands to persuade Merkel and Juncker to hand over a mythical unicorn to the UK. Meanwhile will we continue our own hunt for the opposition, whilst we all consult our dictionaries for the meaning of the word ‘Brexit’ in bafflement in the wake of ‘Brexit means Brexit’.
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Sense of humour compulsory. No experience necessary though
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The Westministenders Hunger Games continues. Hunting for the Opposition.
RedToothBrush · 12/07/2016 14:18
Oh and a competition to name the new party/parties...prize is an all expenses trip to the hell out of here
How about: Benn Angela Seema Tom and the Remnants of a Dying Socialism. Just need a snappy abbreviation for it…
So much knowledge. So much balanced, reasoned discussion. Such a lack of sycophancy / agreeing with everyone else / bullying / bunfighting between people with different viewpoints
Maybe we could form the government and lead Brexit.
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Thanks Red. Wow. I think that is the most exciting development since this whole fuckstorm kicked off.
"It will be up to the government to decide whether it wants to start the process of agreeing a new law for a second referendum." Wow.
Bit different from Brexit means Brexit.
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