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Brexit

The Westministenders Hunger Games continues. Hunting for the Opposition.

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RedToothBrush · 12/07/2016 14:18

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? Sad

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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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TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 19:17

— Patrick Wintour (@patrickwintour)
July 13, 2016
Boris Johnson in Downing Street - please let it be the foreign office.

why?

TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 19:18

BBC news on TV saying Phil Hammond is Chancellor, Osborne has resigned.

RedToothBrush · 13/07/2016 19:18

Hammond, confirmed as Chancellor.
Osborne has 'resigned' from government. Not getting anything

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TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 19:18

Laura Kuenssberg ‏@bbclaurak 38s38 seconds ago
Press release also says 'Osborne has resigned from government'

RedToothBrush · 13/07/2016 19:19

Gove has arrived

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GingerIvy · 13/07/2016 19:19

Not pleased with OS in this regard. We don't need this attitude at all.

"Labour MP and leadership hopeful Owen Smith was caught on camera telling the female leader of the Welsh nationalists that she was only invited on TV because of her gender."

TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 19:20

Maybe Gove and Osborne are just there to be kicked repeatedly as recreation?

GingerIvy · 13/07/2016 19:21

Osborne nothing? Ouch. I'm surprised. But then, she may have not been happy with the gruesome twosome of Cameron and Osborne.

TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 19:21

yy Ginger that OSmith clip was shit

Motheroffourdragons · 13/07/2016 19:21

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RedToothBrush · 13/07/2016 19:21

Well I think I saw Gove has arrived. Now I can't find it.
Maybe I have imagined that.

Hammond has already been referred to as Voldermort on twitter...

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TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 19:21

There was some speculation that resigning that GO's choice, he didn't want a role. Dunno if true or if early expectation management...

RedToothBrush · 13/07/2016 19:22

Amber Rudd has arrived.

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TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 19:22

Amber Rudd is in the house

Floisme · 13/07/2016 19:22

flippinada thanks for that link to The Pool article about abuse faced by women in the labour party. If anyone's been out all day like I have, it's well worth a read - back on page 31, at the top.

I recall Militant Tendency supporters in the 70s/80s displaying pretty unpleasant attitudes to women - even for the times we were in then. Shocking to see it continuing.

EmilyDickinson · 13/07/2016 19:23

Osborne has resigned? Interesting. Do we think he was offered something that he thought was beneath him and said, "No thanks, I'm off."

prettybird · 13/07/2016 19:23

Isn't "resigned" code for "was offered something junior else but refused it"? Wink

GingerIvy · 13/07/2016 19:25

Tory MP welcomes Osborne's departure
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Nadine Dorries ✔ @NadineDorriesMP
George Osborne resigned from government. Is that what you do when it's obvious you aren't getting a job? Theresa May's first good call
7:18 PM - 13 Jul 2016

Ouch.

ObiWanCannelloni · 13/07/2016 19:25

Wtf. Johnson?!? Angry

TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 19:26

Arj Singh ‏@singharj 1m1 minute ago
Eagle rails against Corbyn for doing nothing to prevent abuse in the Labour Party

RedToothBrush · 13/07/2016 19:29

Arj Singh ‏@singharj

Eagle rails against Corbyn for doing nothing to prevent abuse in the Labour Party

Lib Dem Press Office ‏@LibDemPress
Cameron seems proudest of lib dem policies-same sex marriage driven by @lfeatherstone workers tax cuts by @nick_clegg 0.7% aid by Mike moore

Damien Green on way to No10

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TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 19:30

TM must be doing something right, Louise Mensch doesn't like it.

So far, the White House, Justin Trudeau and JC Juncker have contacted TM to offer congrats. Has there been a statement from Corbyn yet?

EmilyDickinson · 13/07/2016 19:31

If Johnson gets anything I hope it's Culture.

derxa · 13/07/2016 19:31

Boris fucking Johnson Angry The best I would give him is a kick up the arse.

TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 19:32

Arj Singh ‏@singharj 17m17 minutes ago
Eagle also ignored my question on the leadership contest excluding hundreds of thousands of members, which got big cheers in the room.

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