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...

{I worry that TM is winding down no deal because she is expecting WA to go through }
Well in an important respect she is correct in that if the UK leaves the WA will be signed eventually. The only other option is remaining.
Whether the UK engages in it's civil war or just gives up through apathy is the only qualifying sub question.

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

Yes. That should put another Brexit lie to bed (the one about EU forcing us to have burgundy passports). I have to get new passports for both DC at some point this year. I’m fascinated to see which variety they get.

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

Surely twat means the same wherever it’s used, it’s just that some people don’t know it refers to.

A friend of mine’s mum called something ‘smeggy’ not realising what it referred to.

Will burgundy passports without European Union on them become collector's items?

It’s difficult to know re May and No Deal - she may genuinely be snookered on that point.

Currently on BBC news - Theresa May being grilled by the Select Committee over Brexit.

{Will burgundy passports without European Union on them become collector's items?}
I have one from 1979. Started reminiscing about the places I had been when I dug it out earlier. I had a visa stamp for Sierra Leone in there although I never got around to going (works trip that was cancelled).

{Currently on BBC news - Theresa May being grilled by the Select Committee over Brexit.}
Is that like a 'barbie'?
Cue old 'Spitting image' sketch, what about the vegetables?

I hadn't heard as many swear words being regularly used before I came on MN.

Just catching up on the thread ....

Americanisms - I'm often guilty of that despite having lived in the UK for yonks. Sorry.

Driving around today in areas that have two elections tomorrow and another one at the end of the week I was really struck by the fact that there are
No campaign posters in windows, on gates, anything,
for any party

Tomorrow is going to be very interesting

Cue old 'Spitting image' sketch, what about the vegetables?

Hahahaha! Yes that would be most appropriate!

I erred as well, it's the Liaison committee, not the Select one. They look much the same on the box!

Swearing can also be complicated by dialects. My DF learned a lot of Sicilian dialects when he did his national service and had to travel around Italy and Sicily. To the extent that I can't understand a word he says if he's talking to someone from Partinico, or Misilmeri.

tip only ones I've seen are for UKIP

When we were little, we were under the misapprehension that twat = pregnant goldfish. Oops.

If there were a United People's CHange UK party it would be UPCHUK.

Tomorrow is going to be very interesting

It is indeed - is it weird that I'm pretty pumped to watch the results and am planning to stay up, particularly enjoy watching John Curtice and his analysis!

Is Bernard Jenkin for real?!

From The Guardian www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2019/may/01/brexit-latest-news-pmqs-may-liaison-pm-to-face-questions-from-mps-amid-claims-she-is-preparing-for-deal-with-labour-live-news at 15:27

Bernard Jenkin, the Tory chair of the public administration and constitutional affairs committee, goes next.

Q: You were not obliged at the EU summit to accept an article 50 extension, were you?

May says parliament had passed legislation calling for this.

Q: But it just required you to seek an extension.

May says this was an act of parliament. If you are obliged to seek an extension, the implication is that you are also required to accept it.

She says, if she had asked for an extension and been given it by the EU, and if she had then turned it down, that would have looked very odd.

Jenkin says, if she had asked the attorney general, she would have been told she was not obliged to agree an extension.

{It is indeed - is it weird that I'm pretty pumped to watch the results and am planning to stay up, particularly enjoy watching John Curtice and his analysis!}
That sounds so sad. Surely better to have the day 'election free' (apart from voting as appropriate) then wake up on Friday and say 'bollocks', or be pleasantly surprised. Get it over with in a few minutes.

"I'd rather be a Chuck than a Brincel".

Driving around today in areas that have two elections tomorrow and another one at the end of the week I was really struck by the fact that there are No campaign posters in windows, on gates, anything, for any party

I'm in Brum, so no elections here. However, on the one day a week they allow me out I've seen a few posters. Quite a few independent. But then I'm not far from the Wyre forest which managed to return an independent MP a while back over a local issue.

Letting my mind wonder (as you do ...) be curious if the increasingly febrile nature of political debate in the UK - from mild tutting to murder - has had a chilling effect on peoples propensity to declare their political allegiances ? If it has (and whether or not it's a good/bad thing could be the supplementary question ) it's not something that would directly affect me or mine, as no one chez Rossetti has any history of putting up posters in windows. For anything really.

I wonder what the situation would be for someone renting a property and discovering that their landlord wants to (a) stick some political posters in the window, and/or (b) erect a sign in the front garden of a tenants house ?

That sounds so sad. Surely better to have the day 'election free' (apart from voting as appropriate) then wake up on Friday and say 'bollocks', or be pleasantly surprised. Get it over with in a few minutes.

What can I say, I have no life! I've already postally voted so theoretically I could forget the entire day on a political level and spend it reading about the zombie apocalypse!

"I'd rather be a Chuck than a Brincel".

All together now ...

Posted to quickly: That was an adaptation of an old song.🎤🎤🎼
And this.

ha ha, you got it DGR Nice to hear it again.

I was really struck by the fact that there are No campaign posters in windows

In a small rural tory town in Sarf East here.

No tory posters, or ukips in usual sites, but Lib Dem and Labour posters up.

I wonder what the situation would be for someone renting a property and discovering that their landlord wants to (a) stick some political posters in the window, and/or (b) erect a sign in the front garden of a tenants house?

They can't do they as it would breach the 'quiet enjoyment' term. The tenant has sole occupation of the property (unless any parts are specifically excluded in the tenancy), so in theory it shouldn't happen.