Westminstenders: Local Elections Madness

[RedToothBrush]

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...

Woaaahhhhh indeed. Jesus! 😱😱😱😱

Did not see that coming! Glad the warmongering little shit is out though. The fear of him hogging the red button was quite real.

Actually he did openly show his contempt for China before, so we should have known!

{Surely if Revoke happens, we’ll be in Euroland too. That’s kind of the point}
Admittedly when I first posted I had not really considered that BUT with a bit more thought we go for a SERIOUS piss up using the FoM so a grand tour starting with Rhubarb wine in Yorkshire, Fine sparkling in Devon? then pop over the channel to wine in France then work the way East to better beers in Belgium (sorry, French beer is not always up to much), pop to Germany then go East again for the vodkas.
Travelling by coach and a sea crossing might put a slight dampener for those overdoing it.

Must be for breeching national security, surely?

Yes Red, woman19's post confirms it!

So are they another man down if he's sacked, reducing their majority again? Is he sacked, sacked? I'm assuming that's what told to leave Government is.

Remember Williamson blamed civil servants.

www.thesun.co.uk/news/8941084/gavin-williamson-huawei-telecom-5g-network-leak/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Defence Secretary accuses civil servants of ‘leaking details of Huawei’s 5G role’
Gavin Williamson has blamed civil servants in the Cabinet Office for the major security breach

Two things:

1. Williamson was the broker and signatory of the DUP deal and the one who had the best relationship with them and had been doing a lot of the talking with them
2. CABINET RESHUFFLE

{Statement about Williamson}
Strange how this was dealt with in a week? but the investigations into Russian influence that might implicate several haven't even started.
More fishy that Farage on a trawler.

Ha! when I heard on the news, last Thursday, that he'd put out a statement saying it wasn't him I thought: was anyone saying it was, Gavin? Me thought the defence secretary didst protest too much.

She must be annoyed if she's sacked him - she never sacks anyone!

No fluffy. He's still a Tory just not in the cabinet anymore. But he's a key May ally. They must have found something REALLY bad given Grayling still is in the Cabinet.

investigations into Russian influence that might implicate several haven't even started

@DeidreBrock
Once again the Prime Minister has refused to answer my questions about what meetings Cambridge Analytica and AggregateIQ have been having at the heart of her government
twitter.com/DeidreBrock/status/1123552657518530560

I wonder who gets custody of the tarantula.

Cynic in me wondered if he was taking the fall for Fox who is clearly in deep with USA and has likely promised them our plot in the Crypt to boot but then I remembered Gav threatening China with a good old fashioned bombing when Fox was trying to do a trade deal with them. He's not that chivalrous.

Penny Mordaunt new defence secretary.

Another one here ready for the Mother of All Piss-Ups if revoke ever happens.

On the plus side, according to the Guardian, TM is getting increasingly fed up of the ERG and it could be they have overplayed their hand. Especially if she can get an accommodation with Labour.

Let's wait and see after the elections.

She's previously worked in the defence department.

They must have found something REALLY bad given Grayling still is in the Cabinet.

I skim read that and thought you were suggesting that Grayling was a likely candidate for the next Defence Secretary. Did the reaction. And then re-read your post properly.

Always found her surname an oddly chilling one - More/Mort +Daunt. Almost like a Terry Pratchett character. Fitting.

Lewis Goodall's talking about Breach of Official Secrets Act liability for tarantula Gav.

Laura Kuenssberg @bbclaurak
Just spoken to Gavin Williamson who still denies he was the source of the leak from the National Security Council - says neither he nor his team would ever leak from NSC

{Another one here ready for the Mother of All Piss-Ups if revoke ever happens. }
Rumour has it there are some slightly second hand rubber dingys lying around somewhere in the UK if you feel the need to make a break for it.

Mordaunt was Minister of State for the Armed Forces and is a Royal Marine Reservist

Am I the only one that finds it a bit creepy that someone with the name Morduant is Defence Secretary?

I know she can't help her name (and I should know - I have the weirdest of surnames ) but I always think "Death" or even "Deatheater" whenever I see or hear her name

Quite apart from the fact that she is a heartless right wing Tory

At this point I think we should propose a Jeremy Kyle lie detector show for politicians. We could get the public to vote for who has to go and live in The Jungle with Ant and Dec pouring spiders on them rather than have them do it for publicity

Cross posted with you LonelyTiredAndLow