Westminstenders: The gall of the french

[RedToothBrush]

We are full steam ahead with European Parliamentary Elections! Something that seemed unthinkable a few weeks ago.

May still remains adament that they will not happen, but the die has been cast.

May is off to beg Macron and Merkel to back an extension but the French are already stating they want assurances we won't screw thing up for everyone else.

May still is pushing for a deal with Corbyn and a Not a compromise.

Still there is no sign of a breakthrough either for an extension nor over a cross party deal. It drags on, but at least no one has mentioned the WA for ten minutes.

We might yet be in Europe for another Eurovision. Psychologically this feels important.

The ERG are not happy.

@aqbyrne
Andrew Byrne
All leaders have spoken: 17 pushed for a long extension, 4 prefer a short one but will go with the consensus. Only France sticking to a short extension. 3 are keeping an open mind

Oh, Manu...

Adam Fleming @ adamfleming
UPDATE: SEVENTEEN countries spoke in favour of a long #Brexit extension. 1 for short. 3 open, leaning towards short according to @eucopresident upsum in the summit rooms

3am just mentioned on Sky as decision time twatty

I hate sprouts and I have to go to bed so I will leave you with my text exchange with husband today.

I requested the set up of the Brexit topic Yes Its my fault everyone moaned it was hidden away

Mostly lurking about these days but I try to keep up with the threads when I can. RTB and the regulars you really have done an amazing job.

This feels oddly like that night in June 2016 - shattered and going to bed half-assuming I know what the answer will be by the time I wake... sadly, however, I was wrong that night.

As this embarrassment is costing France more is there anyway he can agree to a longer extension in return for some extra financial assistance in meeting the. OST's we've forced them to incur?

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Also why are Arlene ,IDS and Paterson a triumvirate all of a sudden.

I just googled Patterson perhaps he 's going as he speaks fluent French and German. He also has a house in France.

Also His substantial income from consultancy activities is weird... it's all in NI? Is he a mate of Arlene's?

On top of his MP salary- he's rumoured to have earned:
•£8,333 each month for regular 16 hours work Randox Laboratories, Northern Ireland.
•£2,000 for 4 hrs every other month (24 hrs a year) is £12,000 pa from Lynn's Country Foods Ltd, a Northern Ireland based processor and distributor of sausages.
•£4,399.06 from the Northern Ireland Meat Exporters Association Ltd for a single speech.

Typos sorry. " costs".

Bruno Waterfield @brunobrussels
France for short, spoke last. Dutch for long, spoke first

I love the fact that this thread is more up to date than the news apps I look at

Steven hawkes @ steve_hawkes
Macron "is in favour of short and only short" ... ...

woman oft I won't make that! I'll check when I inevitably wake up for the loo at 4.30. I have the bladder of a much older woman.

Cue manic laughing!

Hahhhahahaaha!

Not sure if that's me or May.

Mrs May is nothing if not dogged!

They haven't even finished all the speeches
(- crikey, are 27 people each going to make a speech ?)

Then there will probably be hours of discussion to reach a consensus

Issue is:
an extension must be approved unanimously
So if they are deadlocked, then the only extension they can approve - rather than have No Deal on Friday ! - would be a short one

I'll probably be awake too.
My brexit anxiety dreams have gotten more apocalyptic....last night remainers were being sacrificed into a live volcano

I'm off to sleep. I hope.

Feels about right Iambuffy

My Brexit dream was that all Remain voters had to live beneath the floor boards like Borrowers.

Is May going to stay up for the decision, do you think? Or will she go to bed to be woken at 7 am and be told, 'This is what we have decided, take it or leave it?'

I do hope the EU elections go ahead, and that we kick out Farage and Co, and have some pro-Europe MEPs, so that they at least can see that the will of the people is not to Leave.

Just to go to bed with a (bit of) a laugh:

What is the difference between brussell sprouts & bogeys?

You can't get children to eat brussell sprouts..............

And from the Guardian:

Basil Fawlty & Brexit.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/09/brexit-basil-fawlty-towers-sitcom

Honestly, I've seen it all now, Brexit, Basil, sprouts & nits..........

to you all, especially redtoothbrush for keeping me (relatively) sane through all of this.

"I'll stay on for a year"
may be her strategy to get her 30 June extension, rather than a long one

The EU may cave in at the thought of another year of May

Or maybe she secretly would like endless extensions, because she now realises any Brexit would be shit, but doesn't dare say so

I love the fact that this thread is more up to date than the news apps I look at
Imagine if women ran media companies.........
twatty
I agree maud I stayed up till the end for Scottish ref, I was proper concerned then, too...........
Not sure if that's me or May
Thank you again red and all for these threads. What a ride.......

Express and Telegraph

Everyone's talking as if Westminsterenders thread is about to end......😳

Expected time of summit to finish is 3 am
Well I did say decision would be in the early hours. Suffice to say I will be dreaming of running through a field of wheat...oh you naughty sostenueto!