Westminstenders: Local Elections Madness

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This week has gone from banging your head against the wall to wanting to bang your head through it.

Labour have voted to support a 2nd ref as their EU election campaign strategy. Only for Corbyn to ignore it. And a row has broken out.

Change UK seem well on track to make everyone else look professional and to look as 'liberal elite' as humanly possible in a real life reverse paraody of themselves.

The Brexit Party is going from strength to strength with the most wtf candidates imaginable and Farage is happy cos his mate is coming to tea with the Queen.

The Liberal Democrats have decided that anti semitism is OK in an effort to keep Labour seats.

And the Conservatives. Where to start? Probably with the Tory Leadership Election infighting which looks suspiciously as if its now breached national security.

As for Brexit. No one really wants to talk about it. Local elections are next week. May is now apparently supporting the Malthouse Compromise. Be warned, it is difficult to see it as anything but a Trojan Horse for No Deal. Not that everyone has worked this out yet. But until we have the blood bath of the local elections over and done with on Thursday, don't expect much to happen.

Then expect the Tories to lose their minds...

{Corbyn is a Leaver, so can't see why you're so keen on him!}
Not surprising, you can't see very much really.

Mickey The parties choose their names; the pollsters choose their own abbreviations - CON is obvious, but probably the most insulting

boldly Labour at least wouldn't sell off workers & consumer rights to the US
However, Brexit under any party would mean the economy suffering

Green For a Wahlomat (useful in Germany) we'd need clear manifestos from all parties and for the parties to actually mean to carry them out
Currently, even Tory & Labour candidates probably don't know what their own party will do

German Wahlomat links to Vote Match UK,
but that looks far too old to be helpful and it may have died of despair coping with the current chaos

This is from the Spectator’s Isabel Hardman, who ran the marathon for charity.

@IsabelHardman
Starting to wonder if I should have asked people to sponsor me sitting through this PMQs. It’s far more gruelling than the marathon and seems to have gone on far longer too.
12:46 PM - May 1, 2019

why is everyone else calling it the CUK party, except the liberals on Mumsnet??

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{why is everyone else calling it the CUK party, except the liberals on Mumsnet??}
A more important question to be answered would be where the hell is the PLAN for when the UK leaves?
As it stands the UK should have been in transition or possibly having crashed out 2 months ago, but no one can decide who is 'in charge' let alone a plan of what to do. If the cabinet and HoC had bothered listening to Mr Barnier and team and understood the plain English terms used, they would have signed up to the WA ages ago and the UK would not be in such a state of limbo.
Yet, even yesterday you have cabinet and senior politicians spouting on about changing the backstop, which will not be happening.

Now the bastards want to remove my European Union bit to make things more difficult, all for no real reason.

Some people have already received ones without the words European Union on. There was a case featured in the paper a few weeks ago about a married couple who renewed, one got a passport from the old batch with European Union on and one a new one, without. The one with was a bit annoyed because they were leavers. It's a pity they couldn't ask which sort you wanted, then they could use their stocks up on Remainers.

It will be fun, if when the blue passports come in, they have to start printing ones with European Union on them.

why is everyone else calling it the CUK party, except the liberals on Mumsnet??

clearly the pollster BCF just quoted are calling them CHUK. So not just liberals on MN. Why on earth do you care what anyone calls them?

CON is obvious, but probably the most insulting

Especially if you speak French

I'm sheltering from the Labour Day march in Paris which is going on about 50m from my DD's apartment. Weird scenes with riot police protecting businesses just down the road and sirens going off everywhere, but walk a few metres up the road and it's a normal day in Paris with people drinking coffee in the sunshine.

I see our American friend has found his way here. His obsession with the word "cuck" tells us a lot.

Why should leavers have passports? They should jolly well stay within the shores of whichever bit of the UK they are in.
It is (apparently) well known that everywhere outside the UK is horrible with nasty 'foreign' types.

There was a post on twitter yesterday by someone who'd applied for passports for her twins. One got a passport with European Union on it, one without. Both maroon though.

Especially if you speak French

Oh dear!

Meanwhile ...

Heathrow expansion going ahead, thanks to the High court

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48118100

and tinfoil hat theories about Assange start wilting as he gets 50 weeks in the Big House

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48118908

Mistigri - that reminds me of the time when I was an assistante doing my year in France as part of my degree: I was teaching in a CES, so young teenagers, and I was asked to do a class on slang

All went well initially, giving them some of the many Scottish/English words for drunk and various other slang words and expressions.

I was then asked what the translation into English was for con To make matters worse, one of the kids in the class was the son of one of the English teachers . I eventually gave them the transaltion, but said that they should never ever use the term in English, that espece de con might be relatively mild in French but was dreadful in English

So we can look forward to Boris lying down in front of the bulldozers then can we?

I just had to Google the translation for con!

Cunt is my favourite swear word I literally called a bag of pasta a cunt today because it had the audacity to slip from my hand.

I forget sometimes that to some people it's word so will try to intermingle con in so I am less offensive

From the BBC website.
{The Department for Transport is cancelling contracts to provide extra ferry services after Brexit.

Ending the contracts with Brittany Ferries and DFDS could cost the taxpayer more than £50m. }

Well done Grayling, those millions could have been quite handy used for the good of the public.

The winding down of no deal preparations speaks volumes.

{The winding down of no deal preparations speaks volumes.}
I had wondered that, but on the other hand is it just yet more incompetence? OK there might be a 6 month delay but as it stands crashing out in October is on the cards. Whether it is 'cheaper' to cancel the contracts and have to reestablish them in a hurry in October or any other time, with law suits being argued over is difficult to call.

Just imagining the French glee when they read:
Cameron (Con)
Rees-Mogg (Con)

twat is another interesting one: in many areas (like mine), it is a very mild word meaning idiot whereas apparently in some areas it is highly offensive and people on MN have talked about being disciplined for using the word not realising how offensive it was in that location

Failing Grayling is a twat in every sense of the word ! Or a con

DGR - I worry that TM is winding down no deal because she is expecting WA to go through before we leave and it's just more pig-headedness. I also think she is trying to sign that she has faith in WA going through to EU, so it could all be bluster.

Yes @prettybird - my mum always told me it was TWOT never TWAT as that was an altogether different insult...

DGR - I worry that TM is winding down no deal because she is expecting WA to go through before we leave and it's just more pig-headedness. I also think she is trying to sign that she has faith in WA going through to EU, so it could all be bluster.

Well it'll carve an interesting swathe in the history books when a bill that was rejected by the largest ever Government defeat gets passed a few months later with no changes, if nothing else.

Anyway, the brilliant thing about the WA, is that it answers no ones questions. For the ERGistas, it's a steaming pile of doggy poo. For any Remainers, it's a pile of doggy poo. It's that cheese that follows you around at parties.

Meanwhile, psychically, with every passing day after 29th March - the day we were clearly told the UK would be leaving the EU, there's a subtle but growing change of some sort.

I notice all the talk of "not needing" to take part in the EU elections from a week ago has disappeared ...

As noted upthread, we are now in line for the surreal sight of Blue passports with "EU" on them ...