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Brexit

Westminstenders Contines. Boris outmaneovered everyone?! Now War and Peace?

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RedToothBrush · 14/07/2016 22:31

THE BREXIT FALLOUT CONTINUES - THREAD TEN

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This set of threads started out asking if Boris had been outmanoeuvred by Cameron handing him a poison chalice. Fate made it seem as if Boris lost the battle but May has confounded everyone and handed him a second chance. Or so it might seem.

May now has a new Cabinet after a sweeping cull of Cameron's lot. It is more right wing than in a generation. A number of appointments have raised eyebrows. There are plenty of poison chalices and plenty of Brexiteers. Will this create peace in the Tory ranks? Or is it just the calm before the storm

Labour are tearing themselves apart what now seems to be all out civil war. Talk of gerrymandering, violence, disenfranchisement, deselection and intimidation are rife. The seems to be no end in sight, and no prospect of a solution apparent. The question perhaps seems to be when and how, rather than if the party will split, and who will retain the name and party funds.

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So the sad face of British politics in the last two days can be summed up in a single image. Boris and a brick.

Depressed?

I think we have a while to go yet before we hit the bottom.

Excuse me with the intros as I'm starting to struggle to keep up with things myself

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/eu_referendum_2016_/2684990-The-Westminster-Hunger-Games-Contines-May-Day-May-Day Previous Thread Nine

Westminstenders Contines. Boris outmaneovered everyone?! Now War and Peace?

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RedToothBrush · 14/07/2016 23:03

rightsinfo.org/changing-human-rights-laws-break-united-kingdom/

Brexit and Human Rights Laws.

OP posts:

Chalalala · 14/07/2016 23:05

Oh do fuck off Andrea.

BigChocFrenzy · 14/07/2016 23:05

Dreadful news from France.
Sobering thought if 30 dead from being run down by a truck, not by explosives or guns

TheBathroomSink · 14/07/2016 23:07

I can't believe that TeamTM didn't ask loathsome if there were any more damaging comments that didn't get reported, very basic oversight if they did.

SalemsLott · 14/07/2016 23:07

Horrific news from France

GingerIvy · 14/07/2016 23:08

Is it enough that TM may reconsider her on the cabinet?

ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe · 14/07/2016 23:09

I think Boris accidentally outmanoeuvred himself.

BigChocFrenzy · 14/07/2016 23:10

Re Human Rights Laws: Looks like the government could in practice only remove them in England. Maybe use EVEL
No demand in the other countries anyway, only the English voters seem in sufficiently nasty mood to want this, to help get rid of foreigners basically.

LineyReborn · 14/07/2016 23:12

Men looking after children might be paedophiles?

Sheep in big fields, butterflies on the hills?

Sorry for the unparliamentary language but Andrea Leadsom is fucking barking.

ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe · 14/07/2016 23:13

Time for the first reshuffle of the reshuffle, a la JC, maybe?

thecatfromjapan · 14/07/2016 23:14

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TheBathroomSink · 14/07/2016 23:15

God I hope so ginger. Throws a spanner in the hyper-competent image TM has been trying to project though. A functional opposition could make a lot of political capital out of something like this.

Anyone know where we can get one?

DoinItFine · 14/07/2016 23:15

Thanks Red.

Awful about Nice.

TheBathroomSink · 14/07/2016 23:16

Liney, never mind unparliamentary, I think you're being too generous!

GingerIvy · 14/07/2016 23:17

Anyone know where we can get one?

Nope. No sign of one anywhere.

flippinada · 14/07/2016 23:17

Dreadful woman. No wonder she pulled out... Would have known this was coming and I bet there's more we don't know about as well.

TheBathroomSink · 14/07/2016 23:18

Loathsome doesn't need to worry about feminism being used to bash men, she's pretty fucking good at it all by herself.

BigChocFrenzy · 14/07/2016 23:18

I gather Hunt was originally going to be sacked, but Crabb turned down the health job.
Probably TM then again decided to let Hunt clean up his own mess

Chalalala · 14/07/2016 23:18

They're confirming about 30 dead and probably around 109 injured, the driver went on for a long time at full speed, hence the many victims. There seems no question it was deliberate, the driver was shot dead.

Fuck.

TheBathroomSink · 14/07/2016 23:19

No doubt flippin. Rachel sylvester must have thought she'd struck gold in that interview.

Chalalala · 14/07/2016 23:19

around 100 - "around 109" was a weirdly specific typo

flippinada · 14/07/2016 23:19

I'd like one of those too Bathroom.

If anyone finds one, don't keep it to yourself will you?

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GingerIvy · 14/07/2016 23:19

Sky news saying another accomplice on the run?

flippinada · 14/07/2016 23:20

YY. They'll be keeping it in reserve no doubt.

LineyReborn · 14/07/2016 23:21

I didn't think my opinion of Leadsom could sink any lower but it just plunged down to the earth's core.

How fucking dare she seek to tarnish men who seek to work with or care for children like that?

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