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Westministenders: Its time to fire the starting gun. At our own heads.

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RedToothBrush · 15/03/2017 12:03

Its time for the suicide. The note will say simply, "The EU made us do it".

David Davies, says that despite May’s assertion that no deal is better than a bad deal for the UK, that actually we don’t know this as he hasn’t got round to quantifying the impact of no deal.

He still has no answers for anything apart from “I dunno” and “I’ll do it later”. I can’t wait for when the dog ate my homework excuse.

After 9 months. That’s how far we’ve got. Brexit negotiation skills will have 18 months (not 2 years as it’ll need to be ratified). We are still hiring people for the Brexit department. What about all these EU agencies that the UK will have to replicate and hire and train up in 2 years time?

I’m still waiting for Davies to tell me what all these potential benefits he keeps going on about are too. Benefits for who exactly? Ah yes we know the answer to this one too, even if its not being said. Its political elites and elites with lots of money who can consolidate power and enslave the population through debt and desperation. Goodie. Just what I’ve always wanted. As long as I can wave my Union Jack. Oh. Shit. Bugger.

Nicola Sturgeon, has been doing a good job of showing Brexiteers exactly what they look like to Remainers by holding up the mirror of irony to the Vampires of the 19th Century State. The sight of them tripping over themselves saying its irrational to hold a ‘blind vote’ and that the economic argument is flawed is hilarious. If you are not British.

Hammond has been forced to u-turn on NIC budget announcement as it was not in the spirit of the manifesto. What happened to the manifesto pledge to the protect interests in the Single Market. Lets be honest, the New Tory Manifesto read simply: “We’ll wing it and see what we can get away with”. I wonder how many people would vote for that.

Its Brexit at all costs. No matter what. We must keep the foreigners out. Even though Davis hasn’t done an assessment on the financial impact of migration. Just think about that for a second. Actually don’t because you might actually want to shoot yourself in the head.

At best the government are still relying on Game Theory as a basis for their negotiations and the EU are already going, “Er we don’t think so”.

Perhaps this is the intention of May’s tour to build consensus. She’s handing out guns and bullets to anyone who displays rational thought, to blow their own brains out.

May’s weakness is her manner and her chip on her shoulder for the law. Her own party are not immune to it. She seems to think trade deals are not done based on goodwill. May’s weakness is Britain’s folly.

Pass the blindfolds round, and get on your knees and await our own execution by our own hands.

Bang.

RIP The United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. I will remember you with nostalgic fondness but equally with bitterness and shame. Our finest hours are long since passed (and were tainted with the excesses of exploitation anyway) and we must accept this as part of the process of ‘accepting Brexit’.

Now its time for the empty hand to start being shown and the blame game to begin in earnest. The politics of hate have only just begun and the divorce has not started yet. Scotland, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar are the kids we might not get custody of.

We’ll be blacking up again, running around groping women like Benny Hill and pushing people back into the closet as we hit the off switch before you know it. As well as having nice shiny new ID cards we’ll have to pay for the privilege of owning and carrying at all times, to prove we aren’t nasty illegal immigrants or those equally nasty legal ones clogging up our NHS (by working for it).

Don’t worry though. Uncle Donny will save us. If he doesn’t die suddenly after eating a bowl of Russia soup or have a fatal heart attack after accidentally falling out of a tenth story window.

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woman12345 · 17/03/2017 13:19

But you can put it on your CV and UCAS form.

RedToothBrush · 17/03/2017 13:23

Well you've got to do things like that now. How else will you keep up with the super humans like George.

When's he going to fit in his other job for Black Rock too? Or see his family?

All these Tory MPs getting elected and taking all our jobs. If we got rid of a few of them, there'd be loads more jobs out there.

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whatwouldrondo · 17/03/2017 13:26

We should deport them all back to the Surrey Hills.......

Peregrina · 17/03/2017 13:30

Remainers expect prices to rise more sharply in the coming months, which might suggest that they have brought spending plans forward, rather than just increased their expenditure."

We have plans. This is wrong of us, of course, because we should just be going la la la, it will all be wonderful.

GhostofFrankGrimes · 17/03/2017 13:32

Food prices have already gone up.

woman12345 · 17/03/2017 13:37

And portions are smaller. Thread about it. Packaging is heavier than the food now.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-39299305
SNP deputy leader Angus Robertson says Scotland 'will have its referendum

Funny exchange on 'Today' programme with Humphreys barking at Robertson:, "Will you hold an advisory referendum with no legal status?"
Confused

TatianaLarina · 17/03/2017 13:38

Could some kind person c and p the TImes article? It's behind a paywall for me. Looks interesting.

TatianaLarina · 17/03/2017 13:41

Wrt bringing plans forward - just bought a new car and getting an extension done this summer in expectation of shit on the horizon.

Certainly not a mad spending spree for the sake of it.

Badders123 · 17/03/2017 13:51

We did quite a bit of house decoration last year after the vote as we thought "who knows what's going to happen?"

This year we have put off buying me a new car and have just spent £400 getting it repaired and new tyres etc

Should last me a couple more years 👍

We won't be doing anything else to the house unless it's really necessary (repairs) so new sofa is off the cards

We are only having one uk holiday (usually go away twice) so....yes I suppose we are altering our spending habits

My grocery shop has gone up since July las year, so has fuel.

Seems obvious to plan ahead and get saving to me....

unicornsIlovethem · 17/03/2017 13:58

Same here, Badders. There have been various things I've been planning for a while (installing woodburners / solar hot water/ gas not oil central heating) etc and buying a chest freezer! I would have done them all anyway, but probably not yet!

Glad to hear it isn't me bringing the country down, even though I'm apparently a foreign remoaning lefty whinger on benefits which I'm not. Although I was once told at JFK that Luton was not a real place of birth, and maybe it meant Pluto.

woman12345 · 17/03/2017 14:05

This is good it is kaija.

Badders123 · 17/03/2017 14:14

We have to remortgage in June - bloody hope the BofE BR stays the same til then!!!!
😀

Been to town today - LOTS of sales going on...

Mistigri · 17/03/2017 14:26

It's a bit different to us as we don't face such a big hike in inflation this year, but I suspect interest rates will start to rise in the eurozone in due course so am happy to have just signed on a 10 year mortgage fixed at ... 1.7% Grin. We are about to spend an obscene amount of money on a kitchen for our new house but we are still being careful to save regularly in view of the general uncertainty. It helps that DH's main client pays in USD, but at some point the dollar will start to suffer from Trumponomics and we'll be worse off when that happens.

lalalonglegs · 17/03/2017 14:27

Badders - nerdy property head on, you can remortgage several months in advance and the new mortgage will dovetail with the end of your old mortgage. I agree that looking into it sooner rather than later would be best (although I'm not convinced rates are going to change enormously in the next three months, why risk it?). Psychologically - and probably financially - the longer you can fix the rate, the better.

borntobequiet · 17/03/2017 14:28

woman I listened in bemusement to that Humphrys/Robinson exchange. What was the point of the question let alone the repetition? Of course he was not going to say...though I was hoping that he would point out that the Brexit ref was in effect only advisory.

Badders123 · 17/03/2017 14:34

I agree lala
We can lock in a rate end of May and we are
Looking at 5 year fix as we want to shorten the term too

Motheroffourdragons · 17/03/2017 14:37

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Badders123 · 17/03/2017 14:41

It's ALL bloody strange!
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whatwouldrondo · 17/03/2017 14:46

It's all bloody strange I keep thinking back to those strange innocent days before June. We took so much for granted Sad

Badders123 · 17/03/2017 14:48

I know, I know....

😞😞😞

lalalonglegs · 17/03/2017 14:50

Has anyone linked to Tony Blair's new think tank to combat populism? The Institute for Global Change seeks to reinvent (possibly locate) the centre ground of politics that seems to have all but disappeared.

I say good luck to him, I'm glad someone is taking this issue on

CardinalSin · 17/03/2017 15:13
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CardinalSin · 17/03/2017 15:13

Oops, wrong thread (Sorry!)

Motheroffourdragons · 17/03/2017 15:16

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