Westministers: May Shares the Cake

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May's Speech Abbreviated:

We still have nfi how we are going to do this. EU this is your fault. You sort it out. We are too lazy, workshy and fighting like high school children to work it out ourselves. Be our whipping boy.

I support democracy as long as I get to do whatever I like
I support human rights as long as I can ignore them when I like.
I support the rule of law except when it doesn't suit my agenda.

Waffle waffle.

"Creative", "Dynamic" PR for my Premiership.

Waffle waffle

We really need policing cooperation, PLEASE keep it with us. I know I threatened to withdraw this, but I'm sorry, I was wrong and a bit of a dick about this.

Gets to the point FINALLY.

"2 year transition period"

(With another time bomb lock which is still too short for IT departments. Nothing to do with the next general election, honest).

RULE BRITANNIA!

Polite Applause.

Rosh Hashanah!

Thanks as always for the new thread, red - I've no idea how many there have been !

Cheers all Late MIL used to make industrial quantities of honey cake, now chocolate will have to do. Lindt will do nicely.
Sad legatum faces are certainly turning it into a nice Friday.

I'm even wondering if this was really the speech that May had planned, when she originally announced the date and venue

Could Dacre / Murdoch / Barclay brothers / Tory Ultras have said "NO" to her original draft ?

Of course, May is perfectly capable of endless vacuity, so it's not necessarily the case that her owners tugged hard on her lead

I agree that the Tory strategy is to delay Brexit until after the next GE
Party before country, as always

==> throwing poison chalice to Labour, who will get the permanent blame for either a Brexit recession or for cancelling the brilliant Brexit that the Tories would have done if they'd stayed in power

The Tory media are great at blaming Labour for events they couldn't have stopped, like the 2008 financial crash.
Blaming them for a bad / inadequate / cancelled Brexit might be easy

Honey cake....mmmmmm
Vacuous
Yes
That's the word

Happy honey cake day

Rosh Hashanah

@Peston
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And Faisal Islam is also a bit more nuanced about it.

Every time I hear 'Legatum', I think 'Negatus'. Out of Yonderland. Oh I do hope they are that incompetent in the end...

My 9 year old listened to the speech in full and said " Does that Teresa May want a special European Union just for us, but to call it something else?"

😂

lonely can your 9-year-old be in charge of the Brexit negotiations pretty please?

lonely

How did the 9 year old get hold of the tory brexit plans

It sounds like something bad from Harry Potter to me pointy.

Who thinks Theresa will get a vote of No Confidence soon?

lonely

pointy I just asked dh what he thought of when I said legatum. He said Negatus! Yonderland makes more sense than the UK right now

Lonely get that kid a well paid brexit role right now!

< another vote that Mini-Lonely replaces DD >

I love how we always find our sense of humour in our darkest hour.

I don't love how the darkest hour keeps bloody getting darker.

That Brexitbot didn't linger, did it? Are we getting good at scaring them off or do they not like curry?

That Brexitbot didn't linger, did it?

No, it scuttled off pretty sharpish. Needs to practise avoiding all its giveaway tells.

Although I don't know why they bother sending that bot, when there are plenty of other (probably genuine) Leave posters around (see the rather horrific AIBU thread) who are still happily and aggressively repeating the same arguments from last June as though the intervening year hasn't happened.

Am watching World's busiest cities on iPlayer (the Moscow episode).

Could I be forgiven in thinking that Russia would quite love for the UK to be outside of the EU and have a special Russia/UK trading relationship?

Putin - and ISIS ! - were and are massively pro-Brexit
Our enemies expect Brexit to weaken the UK significantly and the UK was the #3 power in the EU, hence a less powerful EU too

May's speech on No. 10 website:

www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pms-florence-speech-a-new-era-of-cooperation-and-partnership-between-the-uk-and-the-eu

What a waste of time & money, to take her entourage to Florence just for that !

when she could have just EMed Barnier: "Help, we're stuck ! "

I wonder if she just fancied a trip for snazzy Italian shoes ?
If I were PM and hopelessly lost, I might make a pointless speech near the Lindt production line

I thought the same - a nice jolly for them all to Firenze during the best month of the year for the city.

Most effective way to weaken your enemy? Convince them to weaken themselves.