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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

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/eu_referendum_2016_/2682358-The-Westministenders-Media-Baron-Hunger-Games-continues-Is-it-about-to-all-implode?pg=1 Previous thread 7

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TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 20:00

Chris Mason ‏@ChrisMasonBBC 2m2 minutes ago
This is the first time we’ve ever had two women holding Great Offices of State at the same time.

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RedToothBrush · 13/07/2016 20:00

Liam Fox arriving...

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TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 20:00

nope, obi once again everything we thought we knew is wrong.

lol on Davis suing himself.

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TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 20:01

2m ago
19:58
Michael Fallon remains as defence secretary

Michael Fallon remains as defence secretary, Number 10 has confirmed.

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squoosh · 13/07/2016 20:01

Liam wanking Fox.

Oh no.

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TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 20:01

Davis International Trade Minister - new role

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flippinada · 13/07/2016 20:02

Oh, that would be a terrible shame squoosh Grin

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Floisme · 13/07/2016 20:02

So the man who compared the EU to the nazis is our foreign secretary?
Righto.

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TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 20:03

(((Dan Hodges))) ‏@DPJHodges 5s6 seconds ago
Joking aside, the Boris/Erdogan thing is going to become an issue.

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ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe · 13/07/2016 20:03

We're fucked.

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RedToothBrush · 13/07/2016 20:03

Robert Peston ‏@Peston · 1m1 minute ago
Given what @BorisJohnson recently said about the corrupt elite of EU, presumably he will be a foreign sec prohibited from crossing Channel

Corbyn Watch
Jeremy Corbyn MP ‏@jeremycorbyn · 2m2 minutes ago
Proud to support @ChiOnwurah's call for tech companies to sign up to a Women in Tech Charter, like Finance Charter ↓
(together with picture)

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squoosh · 13/07/2016 20:03

Is she stitching up people?!!

I do hope so! She does seem the sort.

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Unicornsarelovely · 13/07/2016 20:03

BJ was promising glitter and unicorns in the referendum from all our former beloved empire who were just panting at the bit to get us out of the EU.

Now he has to deliver some decent trade deals. What an opportunity for him to do an embarrassing but contained fuck up. And partial Brexit involvement. Poor Boris Grin

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TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 20:04

sorry Fox is International trade, Davis is Brexit.

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TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 20:05

Ross Hawkins ‏@rosschawkins 1m1 minute ago
The Foreign Secretary and Brexit Secretary will defy Whitehall precedent if they don't end up having a messy turf war.

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EmilyDickinson · 13/07/2016 20:05

So is Theresa saying, "You helped to create this mess Boris, you can, and you will help clear it up."

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Chalalala · 13/07/2016 20:06

Davis laid out his Brexit plan here

//www.conservativehome.com/platform/2016/07/david-davis-trade-deals-tax-cuts-and-taking-time-before-triggering-article-50-a-brexit-economic-strategy-for-britain.html

He sounds great and really down to earth...

This leaves the question of Single Market access. The ideal outcome, (and in my view the most likely, after a lot of wrangling) is continued tariff-free access. Once the European nations realise that we are not going to budge on control of our borders, they will want to talk, in their own interest.

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TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 20:06

Jim Waterson ‏@jimwaterson now6 seconds ago
I do hope our foreign secretary continues to write his column, so rival countries can work out his strategic plans by buying the Telegraph.

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flippinada · 13/07/2016 20:06

I reckon she's sat there, rubbing her hands together and cackling away gleefully to herself between appointments.

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RedToothBrush · 13/07/2016 20:07

Jim Waterson ‏@jimwaterson · 1m1 minute ago

I do hope our foreign secretary continues to write his column, so rival countries can work out his strategic plans by buying the Telegraph.

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TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 20:07

Davis gets to get kicked by 27 other countries for a few months.

Oddly now Boris has a job Louise Mensch has stfu for 5 minutes.

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TheBathroomSink · 13/07/2016 20:08

she is aiming for the evil genius tag, i think flippin

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squoosh · 13/07/2016 20:08

'The ideal outcome, (and in my view the most likely, after a lot of wrangling) is continued tariff-free access. Once the European nations realise that we are not going to budge on control of our borders, they will want to talk, in their own interest'

They're all so bloody deluded aren't they?

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RedToothBrush · 13/07/2016 20:08

Home Secretary was Theresa's baby. She wanted someone good for that.

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BigChocFrenzy · 13/07/2016 20:41

Boris and Fox, the turds that can't be flushed.
Yet.
I'm sure TM defies Mumsnet by wielding a fearsome loo brush

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