Westminstenders: The Maddest of May and Boris's Dare

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Boris Johnson just dared May to fire him.

That's what his little rant about £350 million buses is.

Meanwhile its been pointed out that HMRC literally are incapable of handling a no deal and can only cope with an EEA / EFTA deal with no tariffs.

And given how good and on time the government are with computer systems even in a best case scenario are extremely unlikely to crack it in time.

Which makes Hammond's talk of a civil contingence plan, look, well half arsed and lacking.

We also wouldn't have planes able to fly to Europe under a no deal as we would no longer be part of Open Skies. This could leave thousands stranded. But no biggie there.

Meanwhile if the Leave Alliance have things right, May is about to serve our one year notice on leaving the EEA making all these things a reality.

Which is less like shooting yourself in the head and more like shooting yourself in the head, chest, foot, arm, leg and face (for a second time), whilst being run over at the same time.

But hey, Boris Johnson has it sussed in his 10 point plan. Especially the point where he says Brexit will be a success.

If you call success ending democracy, becoming a dictatorship, starving everyone, bankrupting the country and causing civil unrest.

Rule Britannia.

woman I can't read the abbreviation BJ and actually think 'ah, Boris Johnson'.

All my curry recipes are in my head, but I'll try and get some down. I do cheat and use bought pastes as a base but then I jut adapt the heck out of them.

Today 17:13 Badders08

The sort of people who voted alongside you arent so keen on brown faces

I will find the YouTube link to the "Oh-so-very-naice-Remainer" at a Remain march. Villa in Tuscany. Mansion in Surrey being extended by brickies from Bulgaria. Son, Tarquin studying at the Sorbonne, daughter Perdita working as a ski chalet host in Verbier....You get the picture....

He basically starts saying how wonderful FOM is because "we can get the work we want done by white skinned people who are more acceptable"

And yet it's Leavers who get accused of Racism.

I like the idea of cinnamon in the crabapple and plum jelly: I always put a couple of cinnamon sticks in to my plum jam while I'm boiling it.

I also put cinnamon sticks into the chutney I make.

Quentin - you could probably use marrows as well. I make a spicy version now (with smoked paprika, mustard seeds or fenugreek if you can't find your mustard seeds , cumin, coriander, chopped chili or chili flakes ) but the first recipe I used (from one of the Hugh Fairly Eats-it-all River Cottage series) was called "Glutney" and said whatever you had in the garden.

Photo shows this year's batch, with plums and onions from the garden

Today 16:22 EternalOptimistToo
I think I have as much investment than you in this country (esp as you have been very keen to tell us that you are from immigrants descent too)

So please keep your 'go back home, we don't want to see you here' for yourself

I have never used those words. We need immigration but it should not be unlimited in number and certainly not favour 27 countries on our doorstep. I am in favour of immigration from all over the world - regardless of race, colour, creed, religion. As long as they bring particular skills and we can sensibly manage numbers, I am all for sensible levels of immigration.

You have identified as French. Why don't you apply to become British? I'm very proud to be British even though my parents weren't born here. Are your children proud of the country of their birth?

My SiL makes a lovely crab-apple jelly.

I don't much like chutney, but I guess I might have to learn to like it in the Sunlit Uplands. To preserve our home-grown turnip supply.

As far as general recipes go, I've found Miguel Barclay's £1 Meals cookbook useful for cheap but tasty inspiration.

Cool, thanks for that Elements!

I can only do blackberry and strawberry jam, but used to get a crate of oranges in the depths of winter and make marmalade. Turnips are imported, so even they will be a distant memory too.

Wonder how hallowe'en is going to work out with a pumpkin drought.

I am not sure why anyone is still proud to belong to a country increasingly full of racist bigots. It seems that those who complain about lack of immigration from the rest of the world, should really take things up with Theresa May - who has made life as difficult as possible for immigrants, to try to reach an arbitrary target of no more than 100,000.

@faisalislam

So @UKStatsAuth has succeeded in getting Boris Johnson to admit in writing that £350m/week was never going to available to public services

thanks pointythings I have one daal recipe on repeat.
Looking lovely prettybird

That Jamie Oliver veg curry recipe is lush, eaten it before.
Marrow and ginger jam sounds.....interesting.... Will google the chutney though
Just saw this
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/politics/855086/brexit-news-uk-eu-latest-trade-deals-south-africa/amp
Unicorns ahoy! Only costing £3.5bn pounds.

We are not all bad, we have just been taken over by a minority of selfish bigots perpetuating the myth that we all want low taxes at the expense of others.

Two thirds of people willing to pay higher taxes to fund NHS, poll finds
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/two-thirds-brits-willing-to-pay-more-tax-to-fund-nhs-poll-kings-fund-a7951361.html?amp

I discovered the amazingness of courgette jam thanks to this thread during our last visit from a GF. I imagine marrow would be pretty similar and therefore also be amazing. You could also try marrow cake as everything's great in cake form...fact!

Ok I will try jamming the marrows bigly. I do make jam out of most stuff....

From Quentin's post
LIAM FOX has announced billions of pounds in extra Government cash to bolster trade between the UK and South Africa after Brexit

Multi-millionaire Banks was a co-founder of pro-Brexit group Leave.EU and gave over a million pounds to the UK Independence Party while it was led by his friend Nigel Farage. He was the chief executive (CEO) of Southern Rock Insurance Company in 2014 and claims to control interest in a South African diamond mine

Banks gave £8m to Leave.

uk.businessinsider.com/twenty-one-biggest-donors-to-the-leave-brexit-campaign-2017-5/#21-tessa-keswick-20000-1

EU migration and FOM was not my primary reason for leaving the EU, I supported Leave because of the way the EU is designed, set up and run (with a lack of adequate democratic accountability).

Kilgore are you happy with the repel bill and what it amounts to ? The EU for all the hype is actually very keen on voting and being democratic and all that , unlike it seems our own dear government .

To everyone else , if a minister can just change a law/act willy nilly without putting it before parliament , when and how do they have to tell us they are considering it or that they have in fact amended it ?

Tin of chickpeas
Tin of green lentils
Tin of coconut milk. 2 tbsp Tikka Masala paste (not sauce!)
Head of broccoli
1 big carrot
Hand full of shelled pistachios
Runny Honey
3-4 potatoes, boiled

Chop and blanch the broccoli and the carrots. Drain the chickpease but not the lentils - put in a deep skillet on medium heat. Add the curry paste and coconut milk, stir and heat until lightly bubbling. Add the honey - you need a hint of sweet, not full on. This is to individual taste on the day. Put in the potatoes, cook for 3-5 minuts on low until slightly thickened. Stir through the broccoli, carrots and nuts so they stay crunchy. Serve as a one pan dish, naan bread is nice but not essential.

Leftovers can be frozen, blitzed and used to bulk out and improve any soup.

Sounds like a delicious recipe pointy, just the sort of thing that everybody in our household would love. I'm copying that now.

But, let's get to the important point - does your curry proudly identify as British? It should be a proud British curry! If not, why hasn't it LEFT YET?????

Talking of courgettes... it's the opening day of courgette season.

Oh no, I will have to boycott Burberry from now on, I had no idea Christopher Bailey was so vocal about and pro Brexit. I'd feel very wrong wearing anything Burberry knowing that.

Looks lovely pointythings I'll give that a whirl.

‘I am troubled with the thought that people are beginning to have genuinely split allegiances,’ Mr Johnson writes of ‘young people’ protesting the decision to leave the EU, adding:

‘A transnational sense of allegiance can weaken the ties between us.’
This isn’t nice. This isn’t funny. This isn’t cuddly or amusing or bumbling. This isn’t even excusable by the fact that Boris is utterly selfish and his principles fluidly subordinate to his career.

blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/09/boriss-nasty-politics-would-hurt-the-tories-and-britain/

Think I'll call him NPOW after Eddie Mair's monicker.

Kilgore about an hour and 55 mins ago you promised us a you tube link showing us that it isn't leavers that are racist because one man on a remain march (who takes the time to tell us about his villa in Tuscany and his children Tarquin (the Sorbonne educated) and Perdita) liked having white workers build his extension.

Could you post it please? I've had a search but found nothing

thanks.

BJ is an abject lesson to other politicians on what ambition and vanity can do

It hasn't escaped my notice that the GF ignored my post on the issue of the UK-born-Irish, and how damaging the suggestions that we should go home are - this being our home, and all.

I'm not surprised by it being ignored though. Fervent leave voters always ignore my community. They have to, because the issues are too complex, and the stakes too high, to replace the status quo (which took years of negotiation following decades of violence on both sides).

Nah, it's Dutch curry. Obviously. .

I do a sort of hybrid Malaysian curry too - it kind of doubles as a stir fry. Chicken, whatever vegetables you want, rice noodles (the wide ribbony ones). Then the spicing is light soy sauce/dark soy sauce in a ration of 1:2, sweet chilli sauce, 3-4 cloves of garlic, a dash of honey and a carton of coconut cream (not milk, you want it quite thick). Again it's a one pan dish. And well forrin.