Westministenders: High Drama at The Ok Coral

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3:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 26, 1881, Tombstone, Arizona.

After months of death threats from the Cowboy Billys, their long simmering feud with the law thing came to a head. The Earp Brothers and Doc Holliday faced the criminals down in a shootout.

Tomorrow's 'sleepover' is starting to feel like the Gunfight at the OK Coral.

The outcome of the real story was three of the outlaws were killed. Another two claimed they were unarmed and ran from the fight. Virgil, Morgan, and Doc Holliday were wounded, but Wyatt Earp was unharmed.

How many Brexiteers can we expect to roll over and resign from the Cabinet and how many will surrender to May and the Pro-Business lobby? ONly time will tell.

Please place your bets for the number of resignations and the number of 'I support the PM' comments.

But don't get too excited. The showdown wasn't the end of the matter.

One of the outlaws who legged it, filed murder charges against the Earps and Doc Holliday. It took them some time for them to be acquitted.

Then Virgil Earp was ambushed and disabled in the arm later that year in December and Morgan Earp was assassinated in March 1882. Wyatt Earp, then thinking he had no other option, went on a personal vendetta to kill the outlaws and then fled the state.

Given the Tory Cabinet and the perchant for stabbing each other in the back and settling personal scores, a repeat of a wild west gun fight, really doesn't sound too wildly off the cards now does it?

Buckle up. Its time to play at Chequers.

Andrea Leadsom I meant.

Also from Europe Elects

Sam Coates Times @SamCoatesTimes
Breaking: DexEU

I’m told officials may be considering pairing back the department

“A Robbins’ vivisection .... or perhaps amputation”

Stand by......

“Robbins taking all negotiating bits and lots of people” - source

Laura Kuenssberg @bbclaurak 2m2 minutes ago
Boris Johnson was due at Western Balkans summit by now - he hasn't turned up yet

hmm....

Law and policy @davidallengreen
Amid all the political excitement, keep your eyes on the ball of the Brexit White Paper. Expected this Thursday.

It is that, and not any particular politician, which will mean whether we are heading towards a deal or not.

I'm not holding my breathe for it.

Once again, The Daily Mash nails it!

BRITAIN is now officially a banana republic with constant sunshine, collapsing government and a good football team.

Anyway, Raab is a nasty piece of work. He was parachuted into my constituency, and it's a "pig in e blue rosette" constituency.

It also voted 60% Remain.

Our local LD councillor has been taking him apart on twitter.

Matt Dathan @matt_dathan
Boris Johnson is currently attending the Government's Cobra meeting on the Amesbury incident, Whitehall source confirms.

Doesn't sound like the location of a man about to resign.

Thomas Colson @tpgcolson
Absolutely incredible stuff from the BBC subtitles team.

Any chance TM will get the shove? Fingers quietly crossed

Which horror would replace May though? I was pleased when Cameron went, thinking he was bad, not realising that we could get worse.

Laura Kuenssberg
Drivers waiting outside Boris Johnson’s house and it looks like, delivering a new wine fridge - or is it removal van? Kidding #boriswatch - if anyone is at Cobra and knows he is actually there do please let us know

Laura Kuenssberg @bbclaurak
Hear he was not at Cobra and cancelled the lunch at the summit too

This is just asking for the hashtag #WheresWally

Any chance TM will get the shove? Fingers quietly crossed

Be careful what you wish for.

The last time I wished for a reshuffle, Jeremy Hunt ended up as Health Secretary. I haven't wished for one since.

May means No Deal.

If she quits / receives the pearl-handled revolver from the men in grey, difficult to see- assuming we remain a democracy - that any replacement could be worse on Brexit

An openly Ultra PM might bring the crisis more quickly to a jead, as businesses flee the UK en masse
triggering final govt collapse and caretaker govt asking the EU for emergency Remain

Matthew Smith @mattsmithetc
Conservative leadership head to heads, as calculated by new @YouGov Tory members survey.
Jacob Rees Mogg beats all comers
Sajid Javid and Ruth Davidson lose to Rees Mogg, tie with each other, beat everyone else
Gove beats Boris

yougov.co.uk/news/2018/07/09/leave-voting-conservative-party-members-are-starti/?utm_source=website_article&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=tory_members_july_2018

Smug is likely to be blocked from reaching the vote from the party membership on the basis of this alone.

Davidson isn't currently an option with being an MSP and pregnant.

Gove and Javid look strong. Hunt and Williamson don't.

Sam Coates Times @SamCoatesTimes
49% of Tory members think no deal good for Britain - YouGov

Do take time to reflect on who Tory MEMBERS are, when looking at this.

They are not exactly representative of the country as a whole.

Raab, over several years, has proved himself to be a hard right, misogynist, thoroughly nasty piece of work
and incompetent to boot

May chickened out and crawled to the Brexiters by appointing their man.
He certainly was not appointed on merit

Will Jennings @drjennings
Has anyone made the joke about Boris Johnson writing two letters yet?

order-order.com/2018/07/08/fox-likes-tweet-calling-deal-turd/
Fox Likes Tweet Calling Deal “A Turd”

A glitter covered turd.

German view: Dieser Mann soll May den Brexit retten
(This man is supposed to rescue Brexit for May)

They gave him a much kinder write-up than I would have done !
I think they just looked at wiki - probably Barnier & co. have a better idea of his reactionary politics

www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/dominic-raab-dieser-mann-soll-den-brexit-retten-15682251.html

Any chance TM will get the shove? Fingers quietly crossed
Be careful what you wish for.

Absolutely this. Like everything to do with Brexit, there is no happy outcome to May resigning.

Red, where can I get my mitts on those subtitling screengrabs? They're gold.

They can bring in Kermit the frog and Big Bird if they want but until someone actually reads the 'rules' and makes a plan even slightly close to what the rules specify there is still no point.

Do take time to reflect on who Tory MEMBERS are, when looking at this

Plus there are about ...what? 12 of them? 49% of 12 is ... not a lot of people.

But anyone 49% in favour means 51% against. And as we know, 52% is an absolutely stonking landslide majority that can never be gainsaid and must remain sacrosanct until the earth falls into the sun ... so to the 49% tory members - you'll lose - get over it.

@SamCoatesTimes
Boris quits
A Downing Street spokesman said: “This afternoon, the Prime Minister accepted the resignation of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary. His replacement will be announced shortly. The Prime Minister thanks Boris for his work.