Westminstenders: Screaming at the TV.

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Theresa May has asked for a short extension until 30th June, after Cabinet Brexiteers stopped her asking for a longer extension.

She has not stated the purpose of the extension beyond 'to pass her deal'. Which does not have a majority, because if it did May would be overturn the standing order Bercow invoked to block MVIII.

The EU have not reacted well to the request. Noises from France sound negative.

That doesn't mean we won't get one, but its not looking good. If we do it looks unlikely to go beyond May 23rd and EU elections.

We do not expect a response from the EU until Monday.

May has therefore in practice reinstated the possibility of no deal next Friday. Or at the end of any extension we do get.

She is due to give a speech on a podum at 6pm tonight.

Parliament has called an emergency debate on the extension to try and take control of debate. It, so far, looks like no more that the Brexit Secretary filibusting. Its going round and round in circles going no where.

Meanwhile rumours that Operation Yellowhammer will kick in on Monday are in the air. That's the first steps to martial law to manage no deal. This is very bad.

9 days to go.

I wonder what the results of her last psych test were. She is seriously deluded.

I’m still absolutely baffled by her audacity, her complete and utter unwillingness to budge even a fraction of an inch or to allow others to express their views. Is there no way she can be held accountable for her disgraceful behaviour? The whole situation is just... words fail me.

So she had one chance to do something meaningful in live TV, and what she did is that she looked like a pathetic, angry and vendicative woman.

Exactly this. Gaslighting the public by saying we're at one with her and laying the blame firmly at the feet at everyone in parliament aside from the prime fucking minister.

May is still putting the Tory party first

Corbyn is putting his ego first

I hope that front bench MPs have been talking for weeks and making contingency plans to stop No Deal
If so, now is the last opportunity to bring them out

She is mental, i think she spent her childhood running through fields of skunk.

I wonder if Bercow will allow another vote? the Bill hasn't changed and unless Parliaments mood has, Bercow has to be consistent in his rulings.

Sky poll says 90% of Brits say Brexit negotiations are a national humiliation.

If Corbyn weren't Labour leader, this speech might have been the final straw that caused enough Tories to vote NC
Unfortunately that won't happen with him there.

Fuck off blaming MPs for "failing to make a decision". They did make a decision love. They rejected your deal. TWICE.

They’ve also voted against leaving with no deal (although they’ve not actually voted for anything that would avoid it). And didn’t they vote for asking for a short extension only if the WA was passed by 20 March? Which means she’s gone against parliament today?

They can't hold a no confidence vote as they had one and she was voted to stay.
The Tories can't get shot of her unless she resigns.

That 'speech' has got to be the biggest pile of pants EVER delivered by anyone in public life. I despair.

I don't think she ran through those fields of wheat. I think she drove through them on a great big fucking plough.

{How dare she try to blame Parliament for this mess!!!}
Parliament have been over a year late in waking up to what has been going on, they are in a way complicit in this. They have had every chance to get on top of things and actually have a meaningful discussion, but they haven't.
Having a madwoman as OM is bad, having 650 MPs that collectively can't get their arse into gear is just beyond crazy.

I've signed the revoke petition
Nothing else I can do from Germany

That petition is moving v fast

I found that chilling. I can't remember a Prime Minister attacking Parliament and trying to turn the public against their elected representatives before. The woman is dangerous.

^This.

PM obviously!

Can Labour not get rid of Corbyn?

Someone on Twitter called her 'Thatcher's last horcrux'. I lol'd
I didn't watch either for the same reason as Bigchoc

They already tried that

I do think though that It sounds like they won't allow no deal to go through. Its either go so close to 28th march and then hold an emergency summit to think of plan c, revoke, or go through on her deal.

Those fields of gold became tarnished after she had run through them with a pick axe.
' here's Theresa' ..

May
can’t have EP elections because they’d be divisive.

She is making Thatcher and Ceaușescu look reasonable.
What if she uses the same argument for a GE?

Unless a third of the population hold a four day vigil in Westminster, she will not budge, or even consider another opinion. Feck it is so obvious how we got here.

“We will now not leave on the 29th of March with a deal”

She hasn’t said we won’t leave on the the 29th of March without a deal, has she?

That was the most bizarre address I’ve ever seen. I’ve come here to try and make sense of it but it seems I’m not alone...

I can't remember a Prime Minister attacking Parliament and trying to turn the public against their elected representatives before.

I can only assume that her focus groups found that this tack (blaming Parliament for the delay when she was the one who kept running the clock down, and painting them as Remaniacal traitorous villains) rated well with Leave voters.

In short: someone else’s dog ate my homework.

Theresa May has jumped the shark here. There’s no going back. She has to go. Tomorrow.