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Westminstenders: The Last Rites

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RedToothBrush · 20/03/2019 23:52

After May's disastrous speech to the nation, we've hit the impasse once and for all.

She managed to enrage everyone from Brexiteers to hard Remainers and everyone in between. It was so poorly judged it's difficult to know where to begin. It just feeds the division and anger in our society in all quarters.

It's also massively undermines her appeal to the EU for an extension. If France thought we were a political basket case they were well shot of, and didn't want more social contagion from before 8pm, then they certainly won't have changed their minds since.

May's speech was that of a would be dictator. After next Friday, she effectively has both the justification and the power to act upon those instincts. She has spoken out against parliamentary democracy and consistently disregarded the law.

It's hard to see any outcome but no deal with no extension at this point. We are no waiting on a miracle to save us and that's no more than a forlorn hope. Something we hold on to, until reality presents itself.

The Last Rites of British Democracy have been served this week.

And now we face the wait for what seems now inevitable.

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CurlyWurlyTwirly · 21/03/2019 09:24

What does bead gateway mean?
Has the petition crashed?

lonelyplanetmum · 21/03/2019 09:24

I have signed, reignited a dead Facebook account to share to Public, written to my MP, donated to the Get me to the March fund and shared that on FB too.

Anything else?!?

Sign up to or just 'like' FB 48% groups, end the chaos, Scientists for the EU, NHS against Brexit, Brexit job losses etc just to show the numbers growing.

If you can bear it sign up for the LibDem, Green or TIGGers alerters? This again shows numbers growing. I am certain all this numbers stuff must get reported back to the PM. You can always unsubscribe in a week or so!

Drizzlehair · 21/03/2019 09:24

Oops x post. I'll be patient

CurlyWurlyTwirly · 21/03/2019 09:24

*bad not bead

prettybird · 21/03/2019 09:25

I'm still getting the 502 error too - after it came back up again briefly to show number now at 619,288 Shock

OogieMcBoogie · 21/03/2019 09:26

The Guardian reporting that NHS hospitals have been banned from making any Brexit risk assessments public...this morning I feel like we’ve moved from living in a democracy to a dictatorship.

Littlespaces · 21/03/2019 09:26

Petition is down. Can't see it atm.

averylongtimeago · 21/03/2019 09:26

Petition has vanished- overwhelmed or taken down?

TheMostBoringPersonEver · 21/03/2019 09:29

Question time should be interesting this morning.

CurlyWurlyTwirly · 21/03/2019 09:31

What time is questions?

CurlyWurlyTwirly · 21/03/2019 09:32

The whole parliament petitions website has crashed

Bluelonerose · 21/03/2019 09:33

Managed to sign can't march on Saturday but I am so angry with the whole lot of them. Angry

GeistohneGrenzen · 21/03/2019 09:33

What does bead gateway mean?

Ah I see you corrected that to 'bad' further down - my immediate thought was somebody had managed to block the gateway with all her balls and chains bling Grin

LurpakIsTheOnlyButter · 21/03/2019 09:33

Emailed my MP for the first time ever.

Peregrina · 21/03/2019 09:33

The Guardian reporting that NHS hospitals have been banned from making any Brexit risk assessments public...this morning I feel like we’ve moved from living in a democracy to a dictatorship.

I wish that all the Senior Management of the various trusts would get together and ignore this. May can't round them all up and send them to prison.

I can see that their doing this could cause panic, but if they were able to say what plans they had to mitigate potential problems this might stop that. Panic IMO is more likely when people don't know what is happening and the rumour mill starts working overtime.

DGRossetti · 21/03/2019 09:35

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TheMostBoringPersonEver · 21/03/2019 09:37

Oh I might be wrong. Maybe there are no questions today?

9.30

Oral Questions: Transport

10.30am

Urgent Questions (if any), Business Question to the Leader of the House, Ministerial Statements (if any)

Select Committee Statement on:

Twelfth Report of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee on Leasehold Reform, HC 1468
Until 5.00pm

Backbench Business:

General Debate: Services for people with autism
Motion: NICE appraisal processes for treatments for rare diseases
Until 5.30pm or for half an hour

Adjournment Debate: Valproate pregnancy prevention programme (Cat Smith)

1tisILeClerc · 21/03/2019 09:37

{The Guardian reporting that NHS hospitals have been banned from making any Brexit risk assessments public...this morning I feel like we’ve moved from living in a democracy to a dictatorship.}

With the planned commencement of 'operation yellowhammer' on Monday? it is just the government taking control.
With Fox taking control of all trade deals (bypassing parliamentary scrutiny according to the link someone (RTB?) put up on here yesterday evening it is beginning to look 'interesting' for next week.

LarkDescending · 21/03/2019 09:38

PMQs are on Wednesdays. She’s in Brussels today.

TheMostBoringPersonEver · 21/03/2019 09:38

Current Signatures on the petition:

621,970

SparklySneakers · 21/03/2019 09:40

I've gone from generally worried and low-mid level anxious to full out scared of what will happen now. My stomach is so bloated I look 8 months pregnant. Stress. Headache has subsided from splitting to a general ache now thankfully.
I have loads to do to keep me occupied today as my house looks like 3 children have rampaged through it. Which they have 😩
Sending virtual support and strength to all.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

TheMostBoringPersonEver · 21/03/2019 09:40

It is rising quickly: 624,488 since i posted two minutes ago

LoonvanBoon · 21/03/2019 09:40

icannotremember, I felt like that too, though it wasn't the first time. Tried to watch some of the debate yesterday afternoon too but had to turn it off as the rage I felt at Stephen Barclay's smugness and pathetic point scoring was so overwhelming.

Feeling totally despondent today. We (DH, two teenage sons & I) had planned to come down to the March from East Yorkshire. We'd arranged to come down tomorrow after school / work in the car and stay at a friend's London flat to make it a bit easier.

Everything is conspiring against us. I'm having a bad flare up of my interstitial cystitis / painful bladder syndrome and at the moment am just curled up with a hot water bottle. I haven't had a flare since Autumn 2017 and thought I was pretty much in remission. I can't imagine standing for hours while I'm feeling like this.

Now it seems there's also a fucking lorry go-slow planned for Friday night on the M1 southbound, between Leeds & Sheffield, which could leave us stuck in traffic for hours - not ideal at the best of times but impossible if I keep needing the loo.

Our sons really want to go and so do I, but friend needs confirmation if we're coming by this afternoon and I'm still in so much pain. I wonder if all the Brexshit stress has actually brought it on, after reading about some of you breaking out in hives.

I don't see how Theresa May could have done more to widen divisions and destroy possibilities of consensus / reconciliation over the past 3 years if she'd tried. I feel so angry, impotent and just sad too, especially at the sense that the EU is just (understandably) sick of us now.

SparklySneakers · 21/03/2019 09:42

Petition is jumping about 800 every few seconds.

CordeliaEarhart · 21/03/2019 09:42

As that petition has gone from 10,000 to well over half a million in a less a day and is being signed at a rate the governments servers are being overwhelmed, it really would be anti-democratic to ignore it.