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.

I fear the liberal elitism of this thread is showing.

I must confess I've always given Dockens and Hardy a wide berth because reports I had were not great. I do have a copy of Tess that I will one day get round to reading but as yet - nope.
Tolkein is dire. Just ... dire.
Lady Chatterly's lover was a disappointment and -speaking of Lawrence's - I had to give up on Tristram Shandy because I didn't understand a word of it.

Anne Bronte was a revelation though. She is so underrated - but her books are absolutely the equal of her more showy sisters and I've always been a bit in love with their roguish brother.

By the way, I like how the mounting ennui with Brexit on these threads is leading to interesting cross-talk.

These threads are becoming increasingly impossible to follow because of all the waffle. Don't care if you like Shakespeare, tinned sprouts or your kid has got nits - just wish you'd stick to Brexit talk.

DIVISION!!

CLEAR THE THREAD!

I was just coming on to this thread to say I would 100% vote Labour in EU elections if they fully supported a referendum.

And then I find out the I may be able to vote for DGR and Born if they are indeed both WM and both stand as candidates.

Difficult choices - but choices I am so happy to be able to make

I love Tolkien. It's epic poetry.

Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.

Still job hunting in Canada. Don't trust May.

I cannot read Dickens. Just doesn't work for me on the page. Loved the TV adaptation of Bleak House though.

My (normally overly) optimistic husband reckons May will be gone soon, a headbanger will take charge and we are all doomed anyway. This was a response to my question of whether we should just eat the stockpile now?

So no to booking a holiday, then?

DIVISION!!

CLEAR THE THREAD!

Can’t we at least have an indicative vote on topical diversion vs Brexit purism (and keep casting our votes in meaningful votes until the diverters have a majority)?

I vote for:
Brexit related stuff
Menopause
Literature

Abstain on:
Recipes

Against:
Popular culture (which I don’t understand)
Armageddon

If the civil service is standing down no deal prep, I am standing down no deal prep. In other words, eating the chocolate...

Oh and for:
Cats and dogs

AYES TO THE RIGHT!

Tbh these threads move so quickly that if a particular off-topic chat bores or annoys you, it's easy to leave the thread and return a day or two later.

random sure your not thinking of running?

born let me know if you need a crash course in the Kardashian's to diversify your voter appeal 😂

Return a day or two later? We move much faster than that!!

@HazardGhost, the top Kardashian news today is that Kim has got a 4 year apprenticeship to train as a lawyer according to the news story I was sent today!

This has been my main source of Brexit info since the morning after the Referendum (oh god!). I even put up with most of you pissing all over the UK but, honestly, the waffle is getting out of hand. And now I'm waffling ...

Can I just say that I cannot stand period drama? So that rules out all the Dickens, Jane Austen etc etc TV series for me. Not keen on the books either - DM used to send me postcards of Jane Austen's gravestone on a fairly regular basis (think she had a pre-Brexit stockpile).

Honeychurch
We shoot the breeze on random stuff
because undiluted Brexit is too sodding depressing.

We are by no means out of the woods
and I have no faith at all that the crescendo will rise again
and I wonder what will happen on 23rd June

but at the moment I'm loving picking villas for next weekend

Noword yes!! Can totally see it, she's all about the power outfits and helped get that poor lady out of prison with presidents pardon or someit. Create some story lines in her show as well.

Why 23rd June? I’m out of the country!

Thanks Hazard all I know is that their names all begin with K (why?) and now (thanks Fluffy) that one is an apprentice.
Given that I teach apprentices, I’m now worried. Will our programmes be inundated by celebs? Will they be able to turn their phones off and put them away, as I require? Or will they tweet endlessly about the difficulties of ratio, averages and conversion between metric units?

YouGov
@YouGov
Do you think we will have left the EU by, or on, the 31st October?
Yes: 14%
No: 55%

I was thinking we could book a holiday boatyard.

The Maybot is determined to hang on and deliver Brexit as it is the "will of the people".

She is only interested in her shit "deal". I can't see her getting that through Parliament as everybody else hates it and it has already been voted down 3 times. Trying to browbeat the ERG into voting for it hasn't worked. Ditto the DUP. Ditto the Labour party. (Her idea of compromise ).

The Conservative party have no way of getting rid of her until December and she is ignoring all requests to resign.

I can't see a GE happening at the moment.

Yep she could be around for a bit yet.

And so it goes on...

whispers don't tell anyone but I don't like cats

FWIW, in the couple of weeks I pondered whether I should ask people to cut back on the chit chat, simply because I was struggling to keep up.

However I've always felt the threads were about two things: talking about Brexit and providing a certain amount of support through Brexit.

I've tried over the last couple of weeks to make up for them moving so fast by doing the best summary of the day possible so that people could keep up to a certain degree without having to read everything.

I think the pressure is off a little for a while, and I think Brexit news is going to be less profilic (I'm hoping to take a bit of a breather).

This week not a huge amount has happened. There's been a lot of waiting around in limbo. So I think the support side of things has been somewhat more important.

It ebbs and flows.

If something dead important happens it'll make an OP if I can possibly help it.

For:
Brexit related stuff
Literature
Jokes

Abstains:
Menopause
Cat pics

Against:
Tolkien
Tories

DD will be 6 on 23 June. Otherwise I doubt much will happen in our lives that day!

Do people there'll be protests re still being in the EU on the third anniversary of the referendum?