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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 19:48

Everyone is commenting he looked pissed off

TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 19:48

— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson)
July 13, 2016
Oh for fuck's sake. May and Hammond? Really? We will end up thick and lost.

ObiWanCannelloni · 13/07/2016 19:49

Red of course, it's prob much harder work than he was expecting.... He may actually have to do a full day's work, trips away etc

But what's TM's logic?! He's a back stabbing waiting to happen and no skills at running a department and a foreign gaffe waiting to happen

RedToothBrush · 13/07/2016 19:49

David Davies now being touted as Brexit Minister...

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TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 19:51

Molly Wood ‏@mollywood 43s44 seconds ago
Molly Wood Retweeted BBC Breaking News
That's good, he seems AWESOME at foreign relations.

On Boris, from an American journalist (who admittedly likes a bit of sarcasm)

TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 19:51

Robert Peston ‏@Peston 2m2 minutes ago
So basically @BorisJohnson is Hilary to @theresa_may as Obama

squoosh · 13/07/2016 19:51

Johnson as Foreign Minister. Is this a joke?

colouringinagain · 13/07/2016 19:52

Keeping her enemies closer??? (clutching at straws now)

TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 19:52

The BBC's Vicki Young says the job of foreign secretary is a "huge reward" for Boris Johnson - but one that will surprise a lot of people.

Although he has never been in government, Mr Johnson has toured the world banging the drum for the UK as Mayor of London and has a big national profile

/BBC liveblog

ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe · 13/07/2016 19:52

Coming here to make sense of this.

squoosh · 13/07/2016 19:52

Gary Gibbon is reassurring me that Foreign Sec is no longer a big role and his appointment shouldn't be a cause for major worry.

TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 19:53

fleetstreetfox ‏@fleetstreetfox 1m1 minute ago
fleetstreetfox Retweeted Lloyd Embley
Only because he thought the job offer was FORKING SECRETARY.

TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 19:53

Chardonnay we're clutching at straws a bit!!

RedToothBrush · 13/07/2016 19:53

ON BORIS
Nick Cohen @NickCohen4

May making sure it will be the Brexiteers who are accused of selling out an impossible cause

Home Sec
Amber Rudd

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TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 19:53

Amber Rudd Home Sec

prettybird · 13/07/2016 19:54

Maybe May is playing a very dangerous game - albeit one that could damage the UK's standing in the world. Hmm

If he totally fucks up diplomacy not being his strong suit, then his potential as a threat is diminished. Hmm

TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 19:55

(((Dan Hodges))) ‏@DPJHodges 14s15 seconds ago
That Theresa May. With her dull, safety first appointments...

PattyPenguin · 13/07/2016 19:55

May wanting BoJo to cock up, get sacked, never become PM?

RedToothBrush · 13/07/2016 19:56

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ObiWanCannelloni · 13/07/2016 19:57

It's not like he had so much MP support that she was under pressure to include Johnson? (Judging my him not being able to get support for leader nom)

He's like a B-movie villain that keeps on getting up...
TM should have buried him on back benches till he resigned out of boredom of doing the actual non glamour job...

squoosh · 13/07/2016 19:58

Maybe Johnson has already been given his schedule for the next month and he's off on a whistlestop tour of Yemen, Nova Scotia, Lesotho, Taiwan and Togo. And it interferes with his planned summer cricket schedule. That'll be why he's pissed off.

TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 19:58

Jim Waterson ‏@jimwaterson 53s54 seconds ago
Disgraced former cabinet minister Liam Fox in Downing Street. Bloody hell.

flippinada · 13/07/2016 19:59

Boris as Foreign Secretary. Coo-er gosh.

Well, at least we know TM has a (rather dark) sense of humour.

RedToothBrush · 13/07/2016 19:59

Michael Crick ‏@MichaelLCrick
Lovely twist. The judgement is European Court case which David Davis took against Theresa May as Home Secretary, is due next week

Interesting! Especially if he's Brexit Minister

Is she stitching up people?!!

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ObiWanCannelloni · 13/07/2016 20:00

Liam Fox? Are you shitting me now?

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