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.

Peregrina The proposed transition is worse less than EFTA / EEA:
in EFTA, at least each member nation has one vote, so no population weighting

Still, who'd trust the current govt to use its vote sensibly

^Peregrina The proposed transition is worse less than EFTA / EEA:
in EFTA, at least each member nation has one vote, so no population weighting^

Ha, I like it, well in a sort of schadenfreude way. May spurns the EEA/EFTA option to propose something worse, but we still have FoM, still subject to the ECJ and still have to pay.

You know sometimes the irony gets too much ...

From another forum (yes, they do exist), I noticed a post from a prominent Leaver telling us that we are ignoring all the good news about Brexit - in fact, it's being suppressed (I know ...).

To underscore their "argument", they posted ..

inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/brexit-media-coverage-ignores-good-news-theres-lots/

which is 2 months out of date.

There really is nothing anyone could do better to wrap up moronic backwards looking little Englanders than that.

They may have just won the internet

Jrm getting his arse handed to him re tweeting economic data from 2015...by the reports author 😁

economic data from 2015

If they want 2015 data::

clearly im no professional baker, and this isnt the original bake i had planned, but this is ds's cake for tomorrow
in keeping with a brexit theme you can see the cars are al' heading for a cliff edge

Excellent and appropriate cake Hashi!

Gummy bear spectators - just fantastic !

Fabulous cake, hashi!

Wow, lucky MiniHashi !

That's amazing hashi!

Beautiful! Happy Birthday to your DS Hashi!

Thank you all. It was originally meant to be a full race track in cookie form which I could not decorate, so I'm fairly happy with the last minute save and dh is full from eating the cookie.

Maybe this is the sort of creative solution TM wants 😂

I have to make a cake for an event next weekend.
It will not end well. It won't look your masterpiece Hashi.

Pawel Swidlicki‏*@pswidlicki*
Going by IDS' piece, many Brexiteers simply do not understand what May conceed yesterday

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/22/brexiteers-can-live-two-year-transition-must-strictly-limited/
Brexiteers can live with a two-year transition – but it must be strictly limited

IDS says that as of 29 March 2019, "we will no longer be subject to the EU’s laws or to its court". That is simply not the case
EU has said transition means accepting "existing regulatory, budgetary, supervisory, judiciary and enforcement instruments and structures"
Rees-Mogg gets this. When it eventually dawns on IDS and others, I expect potent backlash. May has only delayed the intra-party reckoning
Classic mistake, seeking to reconcile the irreconcilable. Extraordinary to think this once serious Party had no better candidate (it didn't)

Peter Foster‏*@pmdfoster*

This thread will be painful reading in No 10. As it says, explains "odd spectacle" of May going to Florence to speak to her own lobby hacks.

Jeremy Cliffe‏ @JeremyCliffe
The @SZ reports Number 10 invited "European politicians of rank" to May's Florence speech but they all declined.

SZ Top-News‏ @SZ_TopNews
Grundsatzrede in Florenz: Britische Premierministerin May will den Brexit freundschaftlich regeln #brexit
www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/grossbritannien-briten-wollen-freunde-bleiben-1.3679177

Jeremy Cliffe‏ @JeremyCliffe
.@SZ: Florence accreditation granted to journalists who hadn't applied for it - No 10 giving away seats to avoid images of half-empty room.
So lack of interest from EU27 invitees explains the odd spectacle of May going to Italy to speak to a room full of British journalists.
Symptomatic of broader British delusion: May described Brexit yesterday as a "shared challenge". That's just not how it's seen on continent.
It's seen as baffling & rather sad act of self-mutilation (motivated by countless untruths) which it's the unhappy job of UK govt to inflict

Tim Shipman‏*@ShippersUnbound*
Stand by for the first revelations from my new book on the election. Sunday Times has a big extract tomorrow
They might be at war tonight but it wasn't always so for Boris Johnson and Philip Hammond
EXC: In small hours of election morning Phil Hammond texted Boris to say he would back him for leader
Hammond said he would back Boris to run a triumvirate with himself and David Davis to replace Theresa May on election night
Hammond leadership plan to replace May: he would run economy, DD would run Brexit, Boris would "run the shop" as front man. See Sunday Times
Even after he told May he was backing her, Boris team offered Downing Street jobs and got departing aide to stay so he could run for leader
Sunday Times: Cameron, Osborne, Major, Davidson and Feldman all agreed to set up Rudd leadership team the weeks after the election
Sunday Times: After Grenfell disaster plot began against May. Chief plotter says he discussed it with David Davis
Sunday Times: MP drawing up list of rebels to oust May says Davis allies fed him names and DD took a month before calling off the dogs
Sunday Times: Even after pledging loyalty to May her four top ministers - Boris, DD, Hammond, Rudd - all planned for her replacement
May brought in Damian Green as de facto deputy prime minister because chief whip told her 4 senior ministers were plotting to grab her job
Roman style triumvirate plan. Boris = Julius Caesar, SAS man DD = military man Pompey. Hammond = money bags Crassus
Every senior cabinet minister is ready to replace May. How secure is she feeling?
When I approached Team Hammond for comment on claims he offered to back Boris for leadership, they said "I'm not going to quibble with that"

I think the Norths are more likely to be right tbh.

Even if Barnier / Davis agree a deal, it still has to be ratified by the Uk parliament and the EU parliament.

I can't see that happening.

The issue is still that we have done no planning for a crash out...

Ben Riley-Smith‏ @benrileysmith
NEW
Boris's Brexit transition demands:
- No new EU rules/regs
- Free to sign trade deals
- 2yr absolute maximum
- No £ for single market

RIP Cabinet Brexit truce
(21 Sep - 23 Sep 2017)

RTB

NEW
Boris's Brexit transition demands:

What, the "plan" (or rather the list of cakes to be had and eaten?) is changing again?

I think its more to do with Boris being on manoeuvers again than Brexit. Brexit is secondary to his intentions.

There's a party conference coming...