Westminstenders: 1001 Ways to wait for EUCO - Sprouts, Nits and Brexit

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Not much more to say other than, all we can do is wait to hear our fate.

Which seems to lie in the hands of Macron.

I think these tweet sums a lot of it up from a couple of jaded soft leavers

Iain Martin @ iainmartin1
This terrible farce in Brussels tonight is like being British during the eurovision song contest. British entrant awaits fate, watching humiliating results come in, trying to smile for the audience back home.

George Trefgarne @georgetrefgarne
To be honest I think Buck’s Fizz and Cheryl thingummy would have made a better job of it

My advice: Don't wait up!

Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar
EU source on Macron: "He is in a bit of a schizophrenic situation - (his) domestic audience demands that he is tough on Britain for historic reasons. On the other hand, France is among the most-hit in any no-deal Brexit. It will take hours before we pull him down from his tree."

So Macron may end up being the one who gets the UK what it wants but is doing it to be tough on us. I'm not sure I understand EU politics.

@PowerBadgersUnite - I like your style

NoWordForFluffy - I'm really not a Dickens fan. Why say something in a sentence when you can stretch it out across pages?!

An eminently sensible financial decision on his part, given he published his books on serial format and he was paid by the installment. But yeah, I agree, his writing is tedious.

I’ve never really thought that about Dickens. Thomas Hardy, on the other hand. Great stories but I was always inwardly screaming ‘Oh, for the love of god, just get on with it!

I also think quite a lot of Shakespear should only be watched drunk

Now, I do love Shakespeare. I voluntarily chose the Shakespeare option at uni. I know that some people would think I was certifiable for that!

Don't let me put you off, @SingingBabooshkaBadly. If you love Dickens I'm sure there's no reason why you'd dislike OMF.

Horses for courses and all that malarkey!

babooshka

I love great expectations. I know some dismiss it as Victorian melodrama but.....It's my favourite :)

Also love David Copperfield, a christmas Carol and hard times.

David Copperfield was autobiographical. Dickens had a dreadful childhood. It haunted him, I think.

‘Oh, for the love of god, just get on with it!

I feel this way about Tolkein. There is really only so much description of the inside of a cave I need.

The Civil Service "stands down" No Deal planning because the UK isn't now leaving until 31 October

What could possibly go wrong?

....somehow I don't think that the E27 (and in particular Ireland and the countries that border the North Sea/the Channel) are stepping down their contingency planning

@SkyNewsBreak

Sky Sources say civil servants have been told to stand down no deal Brexit operational planning with immediate effect

All. That. Money.

PowerBadgersUnite - I love Tolkein (at least, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings - couldn't get into The Silmarillion) - but I will admit to being very good at skimming the boring bits

TBH Our Mutual Friend is prob the hardest going Dickens for me.
Read slowly in short bursts. Take notes.

Now, I do love Shakespeare. I voluntarily chose the Shakespeare option at uni. I know that some people would think I was certifiable for that!

God no, not me! I really regretted not going for the Shakespeare option. For some reason I opted for a Linguistics module instead. I seem to remember my thinking was ‘well, Shakespeare, I’ve done that. I’ll try something different’.

Three terms of stupefying bewilderment and tedium followed...

Now, I do love Shakespeare. I voluntarily chose the Shakespeare option at uni. I know that some people would think I was certifiable for that!

I like Shakespeare I just think we have got into the frame of mind of watching it all poe faced and serious when quite a lot of it is bum jokes and nob gags. Even the apparently darker ones like Macbeth have their fair share of toilet humour. People need to lighten up a bit with the Shakespeare and they'd have more fun.

All. That. Money.

Don't worry, everyone knows that Brexit gives ministers a licence to spunk money left, right and centre.

Henry James is my contribution to the "using ten words where he could have used none at all" hall of fame. Studied The Portrait of a Lady for A-Level and wanted to slit my own throat.

Love Shakespeare! Did my MA on him.

People need to lighten up a bit with the Shakespeare and they'd have more fun.

Oh yeah, I totally agree with that!

I think people see the olde worlde language and assume that it'll be shit when, actually, it's anything but!

I have never been able to read Thomas Hardy.

Portrait of a Lady is one of my favourite books.

“Those of you who are inclined to judge her severely should know that, later, she became consistently wise only at the expense of an amount of folly that would constitute almost a direct appeal to charity.”

Standing down no deal prep... is no deal dead? If it is still alive and it was prepped for from now that would be sensible, stopping prep to then revive no deal planning in October would be daft...

I love Shakespeare and am also an unashamed pre-Raphaelite obsessive.

Can't stand bloody Hardy, though.

@Greensleeves, The Turn of the Screw is good, but it is a novella rather than the full nine yards. Not so much opportunity for verbosity!

Standing down no deal prep... is no deal dead?

Maybe the Civil Service knows something about May's intentions that we don't!

I love the Turn of the Screw, weirdly. Not nearly so pointlessly ponderous.

Is it OK to start eating the Brexit stash, then, do you think? There are some chocolates in there that have been weighing on my mind of late

Yay.

Less nightmares for a while.

Loving the optimism pretty 😊

I started a couple of nights ago Greensleeves - a lovely big bar of Milka chocolate