Westministenders: The Slow Reveal

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The DUP are playing silly buggers.
The EU are getting nervous and turning down the pressure.
The ERG still want Schroedingers Brexit.
The Budget is coming. So is a government defeat or climb down.
The M26 is closing.

Keep thinking of the glorious freedom your blue passport will give up whilst you search waste tips.

WoodenCupCake - your post was lovely . Feel free to contribute - constructive posts are always welcome .

I also enjoy reading the commentary on these threads - and always find the links educational and informative.

I try to return the favour when I come across interesting statistics or reports. I often think about the lurkers when posting and try to remain polite at all times. The GFs are best ignored.

Motortrader

It would be amusing to try and slide those suggestions - one at a time - into a Brexiteer forum, and see how many fall for them ... although I must admit, pictures would probably be useful.

Somebody's rattled

OOH, let's call ourselves "The Disagreeables" 

WoodenCupCake

If remain is an impossibility, you can console yourself with the fact that it's unlikely there will be a single Leave voter who gets the Brexit they wanted. Which - given there were 17 million of them, is quite an achievement. Possibly unrivalled in modern history, although liberal elitists like myself, who actually bother reading will recall a certain King Pyrrhus, who pretty much achieved the same in antiquity. Funnily enough, he blamed the EU too ....

I'm willing to bet trained leprechaun was actually floated and debated in some corner of ERG.

OOH, let's call ourselves "The Disagreeables"

Sounds terribly lah-di-dah (gunner Graham ....)

(I was copying from the "Deplorables" that Trumpets took with pride)

Deplorables ?

Or Expendables ?

@red Ipad is burping, so can't find your post again
Sorry if you said the house offer was very low
Any other viewings ?

@BigChocFrenzy - there's dollars made in Deplorables T-shirts. Maybe a canny Mnetter could sell Disagreeables T-shirts on the March. I'd buy one. I'm increasingly disagreeable.

That Quote from red:

"senior UK gov figure on the consequences for Ireland of a no-deal Brexit: “They would be hit the hardest, they would be fucked, less food security, smaller country, small economy, less ability to manoeuvre, if you think our house prices will fall 30% theirs will go down 50-60%”"

However, the RoI has 26 mates who will rally round, sub them and give them practical help,
whereas the UK will be Billy-No-Mates bent naked over a barrel

I don't count Trump as the UK's mate, merely as a sociopathic, aggressive looter

That quote illustrates the venom and contempt of Brexiters towards Ireland
and follows their policy of trying to bully the RoI into giving it to the UK over the NI border

• following several centuries of far more serious bullying, of course.

I don't count Trump as the UK's mate, merely as a sociopathic, aggressive looter

I fully expect Trump to do another U turn, and suddenly decide that "Brexit is a bigly bad idea" (after a no deal crash out) and has "hurt US interests" so shouldn't be rewarded. Just to keep any other countries with heavy US investment in line.

The UK as the new Cuba.

Anyway, just in case people are feeling too down, there's never a bad time to discuss Julian Assanges pussy.

Tusk is not optimistic.

twitter.com/eucopresident/status/1052201396315901954

Neither is Tony Connelly, an excellent commentator on all this IMV.

twitter.com/tconnellyRTE/status/1052195003777212416

But here's hoping it is all just theatre.

I know it's childish, but I feel an urge to taunt some Brexiteers (a second time grin). Does anyone know where they can be found?

There were a few on my resoundingly unpopular AIBU thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3395588-AIBU-to-ask-whether-the-people-of-the-UK-needs-to-take-the-threat-of-a-no-deal-Brexit-seriously

I had a another apparently intelligent person tell me today that the Irish border was the EUs fault because it wanted a border to stop stuff sneaking into and out of the EU.
FFS.

I had a another apparently intelligent person tell me today that the Irish border was the EUs fault

So not intelligent at all. Just another thick Brexiteer then.

When you trot out so much shit without stopping to check it - especially when it's a contentious issue, then you, my thick friend, are thick. Once again (with feeling) we are all entitled to our own opinions, but we're not entitled to our own facts.

On what math posted yesterday about gove, baker and leadsom:

Saw this earlier:

In 1914, the Tories were secretly arming the Ulster Protestants, in the hope that a civil war breaking out over home rule in Ireland would bring down the Liberal Govt in London

I don't mind being a disagreeable, but I think I prefer being a filthy remainer as that requires me to ignore my housework in favour of more liberal elitist pastimes like reading (and crocheting blankets but not sure if that's elitist enough).

Skilled British workers (doctors, scientists, engineers etc) leave the UK.
DS - two degrees, one UG, one PG, Chartered Engineer with getting on for 10 years post Charter experience. Leaves end of January. Working currently on an EU funded project, which will no doubt be pulled out of the UK, regardless of whether the UK gets a deal or not, because we will be a third country.

I know it's childish, but I feel an urge to taunt some Brexiteers

I feel exactly the same. Where are they? Perhaps they are getting ready for their street parties?

You never did post a picture of your lemon drizzle cake Mrsr8

Ds' flatmate really loved the Jaffa drizzle cake I'd made for ds to take back up and appreciated the effort if gone to - plus that I'd amended my chocolate chip cookie recipe (based on a MN recipe), that ds had also asked for (and had brought back the Quality Street tin for me to fill ) to be gluten free. I also made him some of my brilliant, if I say so myself tablet to take back up.

I know we shouldn't feed the visitors, especially when lemon drizzles are about. However there was a reference to this corner of MN being smug. I really think it's a very modest corner tbh.

It's normally winners that are described as smug. If the term is applied to losers -surely that is ( at last) a concession that the losers have been proved right?

PIL have been staying this week, who are very anxious about no-deal risk. To help us prep a bit, they v kindly dug over a rather neglected flowerbed in my garden and planted it with fun sounding things like perpetual spinach. DS1, seeing this on arrival home from school, said: 'It's like what people did in the second world war.' Out of the mouth of babes...

Get back to work injunction to PO.

The High Court is to hear a full case about whether the POA has the right to refuse to work if prisons are unsafe

The union today appeared in court to challenge the injunction imposed by the government last week after a prison officer was strangled by an inmate at HMP Lindholme in Yorkshire

www.union-news.co.uk/breaking-poa-get-back-to-work-case-to-go-to-full-trial/