Westminstenders: Crisis. What Crisis

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October is slowly rolling into November.

Your eyes, rightly, will be distracted by events the other side of the pond.

It won't be good and it won't be pretty and it will have an impact on what happens here in relation to Brexit in one way or another.

May seems to have headed off trouble makers for now. But that means nothing if she can't get a deal through parliament.

And if you think we are in anyway prepared for No Deal I'd like whatever drugs you are taking. That way lies only disorder and to put it bluntly, deaths.

We MUST find a deal, any deal to prevent that. Desperation is the final ingredients in this mess. Who will blink as they realise what's at stake?

The problem is though, is too few MPs have grasped what's at state, such is the quality of our elected representatives. And that's the truly terrifying bit.

If they can't work out the risk of no deal, they certainly not equipped to handle the fall out of no deal.

If you want to shit yourself anymore, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind you that the minister responsible for hauling all your food and medical supplies in the event if no deal, is Mr Christopher Grayling.

Start praying.

Not just the far right, Chavez used to say this too.

Good point. Extremists then.

Budget day and a nasty helicopter crash. Which affects most people? Which has got most of the news?

I have gone back to feeling depressed again, and don't see any way out of crashing out. Transition would just prolong the agony, although it might just buy a little time.

Peregrina I feel the same. Depressed. I think the march boosted my spirit briefly. I felt like I was doing something positive and being surrounded by so many others who felt as I did left me feeling surely something positive would come from it. I think I’ve crashed since. It’s increasingly hard to see anything other than no deal, even with my most optimistic hat on. I’m back to feeling we’re in that car, being driven towards a cliff edge by a maniac who won’t listen to our pleas to stop. Except now the cliff edge is so near it looks like even if the maniac suddenly decided to break, we’re too close and we’re going over anyway.

I feel defeated. I hate myself for feeling that way.

Ridiculous. The Mint are producing a Brexit 50p piece.
The Royal Mail, however, have declined to do a Brexit stamp.
Can ever a previous coin have been minted to commemmorate an event which half the public don’t want?

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/7604295/new-50p-coin-brexit/amp/

Ridiculous, when there are so many priorities. I wondered if we would be able to refuse the coin, e.g. by bagging them up and taking them back to the bank. I already mentally call the soon to be blue passports as traitors passports and will no doubt think of the 50p as the traitors coin.

Oh FFS. When do we find out we’re all part of some mass scale prank show? A Brexit 50p piece? Will it be made in special lightweight material so we call easily transport wheelbarrows full when we have hyperinflation?

The bad ews is that they may have a face value of 50p now but by March 30th may be worth 30p.

Thinking of the new 50p, we could adapt something from the poll tax protests. We could pay Leaver shops in bags of 50ps, saving up the Brexit 50p to do so. This is limited to amounts not exceeding £10, so the scope is a bit limited.

The bad ews is that they may have a face value of 50p now but by March 30th may be worth 30p

it’s funny cause it’s true

Yes Peregrina, I think I’ll refuse to take the coin in shops as change.

I have this happy image in my head of thousands of Brexit 50 pences being melted down because Brexit is cancelled.

Or alternatively, in years to come, as an unhappy but necessary reminder of the time when the country went a bit mad.

Thinking of the new 50p, we could adapt something from the poll tax protests. We could pay Leaver shops in bags of 50ps, saving up the Brexit 50p to do so. This is limited to amounts not exceeding £10, so the scope is a bit limited.

Businessès that support Brexit will never knowingly get a single penny of my money, not even 50p. I will never buy a Dyson again or go to Wetherspoons. Any other businesses you suggest I avoid?

Brexit 50p pieces...ridiculous. Will there be street parties too?

It's up to the Leavers to organise the street parties. I will make sure I am not at home if they organise one locally.

Brexit 50ps are a batshit idea. If they do get made I'll be passing any I get straight to charity- at least then something Brexit related will be doing good.

Good idea Sam. Make a campaign of that. It takes them out of circulation if you have a charity box at home and drop coins into it. It's one reason given for not abolishing 1p and 2ps - because they know that charities benefit by people emptying out their pockets.

Kenn some searching found me this boycott list, although I’m not sure how current it is.
I won’t be shopping at Next, Superdrug or Reebok again; going to Wetherspoons or Patisserie Valerie; or buying Dyson, Sony or Tate & Lyle products. Never again will I buy a JCB digger ().

www.eumemes.eu/brexit-boycott-lists.html

Brexit 50p? I'll give it to charity. Or save it up to use for bartering when the economy tanks because of .....Brexit.

I thought I would give to charity as well (Brexit 50p).
Will have to think of those most impacted by Brexit.

That 50p thing has really annoyed me this morning. I hate that we are being forced to “celebrate” what is obviously a disaster.

Maybe it's designed to make us angry? It's worked. Coins, parties and blue passports.

What sop is being thrown to the other half the country?



Well you consider the 'Budget' today as being a pantomime as it is probably all fiction, since the nearest thing to a 'plan' might be revealed on 12 November which could turn the whole thing upside down.
So we will see all these politicians sat in Westminster to listen to Mr Hammond waffle for a hour or so when we KNOW it is mostly untrue.
They could actually use the time constructively by working out how to get out of this mess.

Justine Greening hinting at leadership bid.