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.

Am I missing something? Can the WA even be brought back for a vote? It seems from the BBC that it’s a given that it’ll be voted upon next week.

I wish I could afford a train ticket to london this weekend. Or that there were marches planned for other cities.

Now I've had chance to think, but not to calm down. It's clear that EVERYTHING TM is doing is a calculated manoeuvre.

She wants no deal. She wanted it all along, hence the red lines, the refusal to negotiate, the refusal to listen, to debate. To repeat herself on a fucking loop. To convince us it was something or someone else doing the doing all along.

I repeat myself from this morning. This is an engineered no deal. When it's done and chaos reigns, she will say - jobs done, people got what they asked for, tally ho old chums - and fuck off back to wherever her real lair is.

Devil incarnate. She wants this and she's teaching all the leave voters a lesson. Everyone else can fuck off too. (Not me, her)

You wanted it. You voted for it. Have it all, every last bit of misery.

I don't think my 56 loo rolls are enough. And the kids don't like tinned mackerel. But I think we are done now. No votes. No revoke. No WA. No extension.

And I didn't stockpile 🍷

You've got an ERG nutcase as your MP, Woolly. My mum emailed him the other day and his reply was nauseating.

Presumably she thought she'd come across as formidable and commanding, and that MPs would submit to voting for her WA rather than risk a No Deal. But it doesn't seem to have worked out like that. MPs are angry.

One minute we're told ' can't vote three times for the same thing'
Next thing it's ' will be a vote soon' ( for the same thing that was voted down twice before)

It's a full moon. Figures.

I like Beth Rigby’s coat and make up. Sorry I need to calm down and think of nice things before I go to bed.

She obviously doesn't read the papers. Doesn't read her reviews.

Amazing how fast that petition is moving!

There is a group that pays for train tickets to People's March if you can't afford it. Someone will have the link.

Amoregentlemanlikemanor my preference also would be to stay, I'd also be happy with a Norway deal if it came to it ultimately, I know brexiteers would say no to Norway deal though. 🤷

All I know is we can't go on like this for another 2 years as a nation, I actually don't think parlament will survive another 2 months of this!

In a way I'm glad she called out MP's on their recent behaviour. The lot of them have done nothing but argue and vote everything down, and no clear direction has been found!

@AwdBovril check on Facebook, loads of towns and cities are organising coaches to the march and donations are being made to pay for the seats of those who can't afford to go otherwise

I wish I could afford a train ticket to london this weekend. Or that there were marches planned for other cities.

Look to see if there is a coach leaving from somewhere near you (Leeds is sending 5 - and Yorkshire is sending 17! They sent 9 in October) There is a thread ohyoubadkitten is running detailing the known coaches - though there might be more out there if you check local pro Europe facebook pages.

And I think the People;s vote people were running a fund to help people who couldn't afford to travel. Maybe someone else will remember the details and post a link.

Lurpak, you have a point!
It keeps the party together: the ERG get what they want this way. She knows she can resign after it goes pear shaped and someone else will mop up the mess.

I don’t really understand what people want her to do. Everyone just wants her to listen to their side of the story. It’s completely meaningless to say that what she needs to do is to listen because when she listens people don’t agree with each other.

I was going to mention the cheap coaches, I think from memory the were 30 quid from York, but I deleted the email.

I just wonder who on earth wrote that speech and advised her it was a good idea? Unless she really does listen to no one.

She's an embarrassment and is starting to come across as a bit unhinged.

At least 500 MPs are against No Deal
It is absurd that they can't unite together, force some indicative votes and formulate a plan

The EU would leap at anything resembling a plan from the Uk side
and support it

Unfortunately, they can't rescue us on their own.
The Uk has to say what it wants .... which it has failed to do ever since the ref
(other than the toddler level cake fantasies)

I know coaches from the NW had spaces for about £12.

Its looking like I have a choice between a marriage and going right now. We'll see.

At least we know it's going to be no deal without an extension now and can plan accordingly...

I wonder if she's still taking shite advice from Nick Timothy

Amoregentlemanlikemanor “my preference also would be to stay, I'd also be happy with a Norway deal if it came to it ultimately, I know brexiteers would say no to Norway deal though. 🤷”

Well exactly

Petition is at 190, 000+
Was refreshing at 250 every 8 seconds during the news.

Apparently they can have an emergency summit 24 hours beforebrexit day.
Thé EU are going to vote on an extension tomorrow.

The petition is past the half way mark to the no deal one now.

DAG

In a splendid but inadvertent way, Theresa May appears to have singlehandedly to have destroyed her own Deal this evening with a needless late-night podium speech.

Fitting, in a way.