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.

Nah D^3. It knows its limitations.

Might see what it has to say if Halloween brings another cliff-edge though.

Would be quite fitting, I think.

Ooh though, do we think Treeza might like a consultation? The 🔮 would be up for that!

There are still nasty types posting but not as much.

Had my third 'go back home where you belong' type comment on social media today, despite having Anglo Saxon agricultural labourer ancestors going back hundreds of years.

It was in answer to a comment I had made that the Tory party was going too right wing. Quite ironic!

For:

Facts
Cats (& dogs)
Brexit related stuff
DCs
EU
NHS & schools
Menopause bonding
1890- 1910 artists and stuff
Wit
Poems especially silly ones

Against:

ERG
NF
Empire nostalgia
My FiL
Recipes
Referenda
Flouting Parliamentary process

The 'cabinet' decision to stand down no-deal preparations surely means the cabinet have accepted this is now off the table - yaaaay
(once those civil servants are back in their 'home' depts they're going to stay there aren't they? Bringing them back in four months that include the school summer holidays just doesn't compute?)

Oh - and possibly most relevant to brexit can I drop in a vote for 'tale of two cities' and a hope for HMG to get behind 'a far far better thing'?

Genuine question this, but over the last couple of weeks various people where I work have had to report certain numbers up the chain as part of the no deal preparedness. That must also have been happening in lots of other organisations around the country, so loads of people about the place (however generally uninterested in politics) must have been becoming aware that "they" as in the government were worried that things might go very wrong here. That's got to have at least a subtle effect on the general mood music around Brexit being A Good Idea or not? Maybe?

Pmk - families are so inconvenient when fun political history is being made....

The application asks for all the usernames you have ever used on social media

Who the hell would disclose that info?

Funny how the thread moves on! I like the fact it's a life form of its own!

I actually read dd the hobbit 2 weeks ago! I struggled with the songs personally, mainly because dd expects me to actually sing them (with the same tune for every verse like a 'real' song ) and I agree because it's the only bit she will actively read over my shoulder. She loved it and has spent 2 weeks trying out 'riddles' such as with varying success.

Any W. Morris fans - his house in London is lovely if anyone hasn't been and is local enough. We drove there last year (as dd had him as a topic) and parked down a residential road just next to it . Dd even elicited a very nervous chuckle from the guide when she loudly told everyone Morris owned an arsnic mine which was probably why he was so keen to put it in his wallpaper paints (kept them vibrant!) which ended up killing everyone...

The application asks for all the usernames you have ever used on social media

Who the hell would disclose that info?

You have to wonder if they are having to improvise a whip of their own, esp given the example of the way they work further up-thread

Jux - Please tell me there is a small black tile to continue the pattern under that filing cabinet. I knew someone a few years ago where the tiler had messed up the pattern on her bathroom floor. Every time I went to the loo at her house, it bugged the hell out of me. God knows how she could bear living with it 24/7.

Recipes can be useful to put off the unconstructive contributors (some of whom seemed to work surprisingly regular hours ) as they don't quite know how to react.

Ditto with gardening tips although they could have been useful for the "hungry gap"

To be fair, we haven't been invaded recently and the few Leavers who do post on here do so constructively even if I disagree with them

Louise28 and I have even managed to agree about Andrea Leadsome and there's a lot I agree with howabout about (and she helped me see a different perspective that I can understand even if I disagree with it).

Talking about social media personnae over the years, that's why I've always been careful never to say anything that I wouldn't be prepared to stand by in real life. My original MN name (from 2001 ) was actually my 1st name plus my surname's initial, but I've been prettybird since, iirc, 2003 or 2004. I can't remember what name I used on Babycentre - which is where I found out about MN (and soon abandoned). My Twitter handle is my 1st name plus a location. Again, I always make sure to be reasonable with anything I post and would be prepared to stand by it (eg if a potential employer were to look at it).

I'm easy to find if someone wanted to - so I make a conscious effort never to be overtly rude, even when I'm annoyed. Although I do get angry at politicians and will call out stupid fuckers in the public eye

But I can also be nice

I think facing reality is always a good idea, but it doesn’t necessarily resonate with everybody. I even have young (

May sparks up massive spliff and puts on Buffy box set from start

If it turned out Theresa May liked Buffy I'd see her in a whole new light. But she couldn't possibly. No one who loves Buffy could ever dream up the hostile environment.
Maybe if she started watching it she would have a Scroogesque change of heart and see the error of her ways and revoke the whole shit show. (I also agree that muppets is the best version of a Christma carol. Even if Michael Caine is now a brexiteer)

I've often thought TM could do with the wisdom of the Harry Potters as well. I think Dumbledore (much as I dislike him) has a lot to say on political power and it's proper usage that would resonate with her.

For:
My Brexit education on this thread
Literature ('Bleak House' IS Brexit, I agree, but I love Dickens)
Eating the stash
Menopause education (which thread? must have missed that one?)

Abstain:
Cats
'pissing all over the UK' (our politicians are doing it for us, sadly)

Against:
Popular culture (though I am binge watching Fleabag atm)
Tories
Deciding what is allowed on thread (unless you are RTB)

(Fleabag: esp Series 2 Episode 2, the bit with the Counsellor)

We have a particularly difficult group of colleagues where I work who challenge absolutely everything and play merry hell. Today a senior referred to them as the ERG.

@StripeyChina I adore Fleabag. I think every woman can identify with her. Pheobe is such a talented writer. I loved Killing Eve too! Blew Bodyguard out of the water esp the crap ending of bg.

boatyardblues re tiling catastrophes, a long time ago my very trendy, ahead of the curve friend bought metro tiles for her new bathroom years before I’d seen anyone else with them. She came home from work to find the entire bathroom had been tileed with them all in neat rows directly lined up with each other rather than in a brickwork design.

@Mother could you have an ants next or bugs using it as a trail and he's eating them? Or maybe a reflection?

tiled

@faisalislam
The End.

Final @skynews live from Downing St with the people that make it all happen ⁦*@KeithHopkins*⁩ -thanks to all the amazing camera, sound, production, logistical & technical colleagues helping us bring 5 years of political madness to air. Privilege to have been Pol Ed

Michael Crick has just left Channel 4 too.

The reporting on Assange on all British media has been particularly weird today.

We can combine!
5m ago
23:05
After Assange’s arrest many people were expecting news about his feline friend, who had been seen throughout the years posing for social media photos and peering out of windows of the Ecuadorian embassy.

But, turns out, Embassy Cat, had left long ago.

James Ball
✔
@jamesrbuk
For the record: Julian Assange’s cat was reportedly given to a shelter by the Ecuadorian embassy ages ago, so don’t expect a feline extradition in the next few hours.

(I genuinely offered to adopt it)

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Embassy Cat, whose twitter bio (where he is followed by more than 31K people) says it lives with Assange and is interested in “counter-purrveillance” was reportedly ousted after Ecuadorian officials told Assange he’d have to provide and pay for its care.

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