Westminstenders: Indicative Crossiants

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Tomorrow the Indicative debate starts at 3pm

The Speaker will choose options to go to vote.

Vote at 7pm for yes or no for each option.

7.30pm The SI debate on extension followed by vote.

Announcement of the indicative vote sometime between 8.15pm and 9.30pm

Meanwhile the DUP have indicated they would prefer a long delay (and presumably EU elections by default) rather than May's deal, in a strange twist of Brexit.

I love Mr Tusk.

Could you please stop using the word "remainiacs"? I'm not particularly offended by it, but I now have the animaniacs theme tune stuck in my head and I have no chance of getting rid of it while you all keep using the term!

Another one here who wants to thank Tusk. I presume it is possible to email his office - anyone know the address?

TheMostBoringPersonEver
Sorry, who is Richard Ashworth and where did he say that superb piece?
I am attempting to do some work and not following intently!

^ Donald Tusk@eucopresident

They may not feel sufficiently represented by UK Parliament but they must feel represented by you. Because they are Europeans.^
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I have a lump in my throat now...Richard Ashworth and Donald Tusk have reinforced why I want us to stay in the EU. Farage and the current government do not speak for me.

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Well. I shouldn't have read that.

I'm crying now.

I think the petition has been useful in that it has given MPs an alternative way out. Before it was just no deal if it came to the crunch, but yesterday I heard MPs saying they would vote for revoke rather than crash out at the last minute, which is new.

I don't care what JRM calls me. He is the lowest of the low. Remember his quote about not wanting the state to pay people for loafing around and not working? Then he gets £7 million from the state to do up his wife's mansion. And I still don't have a carpet in my bedroom because I can't afford it.

I love Donald Tusk. He has never stopped hoping we will stay. He must be a very forgiving man, given what he must have been through with TM.

Now DS has actually left his room and is in the living room, so I am going to clean his disgusting room and paint his ceiling.

Richard Ashworth is an MEP for the South East. He's a Conservative but I believe TM withdrew the whip because he wouldn't back her deal.

His email address is [email protected]

If you do Facebook you could comment here on what Tusk said

m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=320639971975036&id=543228812481111&anchor_composer=false&ref=page_internal

Tusk 💙💛

Kitkats weren't on offer so might have to raid the stash. I do have doughnuts though 😃

Thanks for the Richard Ashworth email address, I've just sent a few words of appreciation.

I am way behind on the threads - I think I needed a brexit break...... but just read Tusks tweet- and I love him!!! And it gave me hope.....

Just e mailed.

Can you contact donald tusk?

I've got flapjacks and lemon drizzle on the go.

Fuck it.

And Richard Ashworth!

I'm not sure what you mean by that question TisILeClerc

If you mean do people distrust the state broadcaster in Scotland, then yes, since the Indyref campaign, many people do now. There was a massive surge in people choosing to no longer pay the licence fee (although I do still).

If you mean, "are the MPs in WM toeing the London line?", then the SNP has been consistent in its line throughout this shenanigans and the 13 Scottish Tories have been cowards followed May. Fluffy (aka, Mundell, the Secretary of State for Scotland) has kept on threatening to resign and the criteria for his resignation keep on coming and going (ditto with most of the rest of the Scottish Tory MPs). Of the Labour MPs, I think that Ian Murray (who was the only Labour MP in Scotland in the 2015-17 parliament) is like Grieve, incredibly disappointed in "his" party, within an ace of leaving, but clinging on by his fingertips because his party has been his life (and he may well think that he can do more to influence its future direction from within rather than without the party).

chevvy grab some tissues and watch and hear the applause from other MEPs ...........
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-news-donald-tusk-article-50-extend-delay-theresa-may-a8841466.html
PS, I do hope that you and other Westminstenderers are considering standing for the forthcoming EU elections......

Hi Prettybird
What I meant to ask was whether the Scottish studios and reporters of the UK state broadcaster are saying anything different to the material from London, or are they just toeing the London line?

They pretty much toe the London line. They are also into #SNPBad.

Although I've not watched the new Scotland Nine nor its version of QT (which I believe isn't quite as UKIP/anti-EU dominated).

Thank you Mr Tusk

Tom Watson on Twitter:

I've had many calls about Barry Gardiner's interview on @BBCr4today, which I missed. Whipping arrangement have not yet been agreed. I support the Kyle/Wilson amendment.

I quite like the term remainiac (sorry Cordelia). Might adopt it and use it with pride.

This thread s giving me a real craving for crossiants though

Chevvy
{I've got flapjacks and lemon drizzle on the go.}
I am getting quite concerned about your diet. You need to embrace Europe and try the delights further afield. Cornish Pasty, Bath buns, black forest gateau (very '70's but a winner in my book).

I hope the UK MPs are taking note that the 'foreigners' in the EU are more concerned about the citizens of the UK than many of them.

The Road to Brexit review: BBC comedy special is the best thing to come out of this whole mess

Despite the po-faced title, you realise very quickly that it’s not yet another drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch – rather it’s a clever, very, very funny parcel of ‘bollocks to Brexit’

Berry is introduced to us as historian Michael Squeamish, author of “Fish and Chips and Frog’s Legs: Britain and Europe since the War”. He has a “lived-in” look, as if he has spent too much time on the port. He cuts an inelegant figure as he wanders around London in his slacks and tweed jacket, seemingly never too far away from a pub or British Eurovision-winning band.

As Squeamish explains, with bleak candour, Britain’s relationship with Europe is “often dictated by whatever stock footage is available” – justification enough for using archive film of Archbishop Makarios (President of Cyprus 1960 – 1977) instead of Iain Duncan Smith, and identifying Adam Ant as a symbol of the Tory party (his actual political affiliations have not yet been substantiated).
www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/the-road-to-brexit-review-bbc-matt-berry-arthur-matthews-eu-referendum-a8840456.html

I have to watch this.