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Westminstenders: Indicative Crossiants

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RedToothBrush · 26/03/2019 18:23

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.

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LonelyTiredandLow · 27/03/2019 20:04

whymewhynow that is why I was wondering if this is a Tory willy waving distraction from the fact they don't have control? I feel it's a bit like the Sunday meet-up that took the March off the headlines.

Runningintothesunset · 27/03/2019 20:04

First of tonight’s resignations...

Melanie Onn has quit as a shadow housing minister after Labour whipped in favour of second referendum proposal put forward by Kyle/Wilson (in the name of Margaret Beckett)

MayhemandMadness01 · 27/03/2019 20:07

Is there a debate scheduled around the Brexit Withdrawal Bill? If so, they could use this to get round Bercows ban on MV3

Calamapo · 27/03/2019 20:07

Ian Dunt seems to think that Mogg and Johnson made strategic errors today. That would be some comfort to me, if Narcissist Johnson had (to a borrow a phrase of his) spaffed his leadership chances up a wall. To be so nakedly without principles will not go down well with all his colleagues.

Someone on Twitter reminded me of that cringesome photo op he arranged when he simply had to resign as Foreign Secretary because he could not agree to May's deal.

I ask you, has there ever been a more colossal bellend?

Westminstenders: Indicative Crossiants
SwedishEdith · 27/03/2019 20:08

Nicky Morgan makes me think of the kind of putative Tory who, as a schoolgirl, always did her homework on time, worked hard and was neat, was polite to the teachers, gave them an apple, was a good and polite teenager, never rebelling and did what she was told. And couldn't understand why no one liked her. So became a Tory to get her own back.

Sounds like Theresa May.

SusanWalker · 27/03/2019 20:08

Steve Baker's just a JRM/BJ wannabe.

tobee · 27/03/2019 20:09

No. Calamapo

Eyewhisker · 27/03/2019 20:09

You have to be a conservative party member for 3 months to vote in a leadership election, so it’s tight. I joined today so can vote from 28th June onwards. If May resigns on 22nd May, then there need to be a couple of rounds with MPs before the final 2 candidates go to a postal ballot. So a decent chance of voting, but not certain.

The monthly £2 is by clicking on £25/year and then paying by monthly direct debit. I didn’t see a minimum commitment, but even so, happy to pay £25 to stop Boris/Raab/Jarvid - frankly all of them.

QueenOfThorns · 27/03/2019 20:10

I ask you, has there ever been a more colossal bellend?

Yes.

Westminstenders: Indicative Crossiants
woman19 · 27/03/2019 20:11

Baker has the impoverished semantic register of an illiterate English man trying to sound clever.

Steve Baker hugged by JRM and others at top table “his voice cracking with emotion” during his speech. “I may well resign the whip than be part of this

He's lost a lot of money today.

I would imagine.

That often upsets men like him. Smile

Peter Hennessy, (Channel 4 news just now), on the other hand, is linguistic and intellectual balm.

"This strange new country we have found ourselves in: Brexitland."

Horehound · 27/03/2019 20:11

Are they saying the extension is illegal?

tobee · 27/03/2019 20:12

Ah but he's our colossal bellend QueenOfThorns

Peregrina · 27/03/2019 20:12

Someone on Twitter reminded me of that cringesome photo op he arranged when he simply had to resign as Foreign Secretary because he could not agree to May's deal.

IMO he blew that - he should have walked out at Chequers and pictures of seeing him dragging his suitcase down the drive would have been more effective. It would have been even more effective if we had then seen him waiting at the nearest bus stop.

Colossal bellend?JR-M also fits the bill.

Eyewhisker · 27/03/2019 20:13

BBC website suggests 2 months for a Conservative leadership election - 2 weeks with MPs and then 6 weeks for the membership stage

wheresmymojo · 27/03/2019 20:13

I turned off...I couldn't listen to that MP drone on any more.

I have a law degree and even I couldn't bring myself to focus on what he was trying to say in the longest speech ever.

But (before I switched off) I believe he was trying to find a way of saying it might not be legal.

MayhemandMadness01 · 27/03/2019 20:14

Trump's special relationship with Bojo - not something that should be inflicted on the world

Sostenueto · 27/03/2019 20:14

Bill Cash is such a boooooooore. He wants SI voted down as he says its illegal.

Runningintothesunset · 27/03/2019 20:14

Geoffrey Cox has his Kill Me Now face on

Horehound · 27/03/2019 20:14

Yeh i switched off but my husband is really enjoying it! He said they are saying its illegal.

Also as a side note.. where the fuck are the women? Here's like 3 of them in there..

wheresmymojo · 27/03/2019 20:14

I couldn't focus for long enough to tell you whether he has a point or not though. What has his argument actually been in less than 20,000 words?

Monst3ra · 27/03/2019 20:15

This isn't likely to be voted down though, is it?

Horehound · 27/03/2019 20:15

Bill Cash is such a boooooooore. He wants SI voted down as he says its illegal.

Well, is it?

BigChocFrenzy · 27/03/2019 20:15

Those joining the Tory party to vote on the leader:

  • it may just be decided by MPs, if one of the last 2 withdraws, as Leadsom did, to let in May

  • there may not be a tolerable candidate. You might have to choose between Gove or Leadsom, JRM or Boris

So you may be donating 25 quid to a hard right party - without gaining the vote you want

SwedishEdith · 27/03/2019 20:15

Oh, I like "impoverished semantic register" re Steve Baker. I'd put Steve Barclay in there as well.

Calamapo · 27/03/2019 20:15

Fair point, QueenOfThorns. On a global stage that particular bellend is hard to beat.

If those Top Trumps cards are still a thing they could definitely bring out a Politicians of the World: 2019, deck.