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...

@prettybird - yes it's a bit Harry Potter too. I went for Pratchett but yes, Tories are more sinister.

Paul Brand@paulbranditv
BREAKING: Rory Stewart just gone in to Downing Street. Surely that means he’s got DIFID. Would potentially put him in position to bid for leadership later as a tester cabinet secretary.

Rory Stewart is 'a Remainer' but very very loyal to May.

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

Seconded!

Tbf his background and experience make him a natural and wise choice for the role. Good pick.

Just heard about Williamson in car. Couldn't happen to a nicer bloke!!

Isabel Hardman @ isabelhardman
Rory Stewart has potential to be v.g. DfID Sec. But also worth noting that he now won't have to resign from his MoJ job if it transpires that prisons are still in crisis as per his own pledge

Rory Stewart, isn't he the one who completely made up statistics in an interview? Said that 80% of the population support Theresa May's deal.

Rory Stewart

I read that as 'Rod Stewart' and imagined him singing 'Wake up, Maggie I think I've got something to say to you...'

Rory Stewart, isn't he the one who completely made up statistics in an interview? Said that 80% of the population support Theresa May's deal.

And that sucking up to May has worked well hasn't it.

He apologised and admitted he made it up. And Tbf he's still under the label of 'one of the better Tory MPs', though that's a field of complete fuckers, cockwombles, twatbadgers and just plain old fashioned lying cunts.

Anybody might get the impression you are not satisfied with the Tories RTB!

Just sayin' that there was a leak of information from the National Security Council for which Williamson was responsible. That's sackable.

Yet old Foxy breached security rules left tight and centre taking his Weritty mate to Security defence type meetings without security clearance. He also set up a dodgy charity that the charity commission said wasn't charitable? Yet he's ok to be in charge of our trade?

If you've breached national security you actually should be sacked, sacked, not just demoted to an £80k per year job instead!

UK House of Commons
@HouseofCommons
The Speaker has announced that the Recall Petition in #Peterborough has been successful.

As more than 10% of the constituency's electorate signed the petition, Fiona Onasanya is no longer an MP and there will be a by-election in Peterborough.

Pippa Crerar@pippacrerar
BREAKING: John Bercow confirms that Peterborough by-election is ON after successful recall petition of Fiona Onasanya means she is kicked out by her constituents.

This will be an interesting by-election. This has Brexit Party target written on it if I'm not mistaken... Need to check the figures.

Anybody might get the impression you are not satisfied with the Tories RTB!

It's not just Tories. I'm not partisan when it comes to fuckwittery.

@KateEMcCann
Allies of Mr Williamson claim that this was a politically motivated decision made because Mark Sedwill asked the PM to sack him over historical disagreements between the pair.

Gavin Williamson says he is not the source of this leak and that the PM has no evidence that he was. He says she had to do something to look strong, but that he has been “completely and utterly screwed”

Striking the difference in law between a car fine/ticket and literally putting national security at risk, isn't it?

Yep Peterborough was 60% Leave (based on council based actual result), Chris Hanrettys constituency based figures puts it at 61%.

The polling cards for the EU elections arrived today.

Williamson screwed?

Happy days

Tim Shipman @shippersunbound
As the Sunday Times revealed at the weekend, this inquiry was set up by Mark Sedwill without consulting May. She signed it off later. This is government by official. Again. Not a sign of prime ministerial strength

Looks like we know how this is going to be spun.

Gavin Williamson says he is not the source of this leak and that the PM has no evidence that he was. He says she had to do something to look strong, but that he has been “completely and utterly screwed”

Bet he'd like some workers rights at the moment.

I think that Fiona O's sentence was more because she lied in court you'd think they'd learn have Chris Huhn

....but there again, did or did not Gavin Williamson lie too? And was that more serious because of the implications with regard to the Official Secrets Act.

Alistair Bunkall
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@AliBunkallSKY
Spoken to Gavin Williamson. He swore on his children’s life to me that he didn’t leak the Huawei news and neither did his staff. Said he believes this is the settling of a vendetta between him and Mark Sedwill

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Anyone else have a pet peeve about people swearing on their kid's lives? He is sounding like a real drama llama.

@tnewtondunn
I understand there will be NO criminal inquiry into Gavin Williamson, despite suggestions from some that he broke the Official Secrets Act.