Westminstenders: It couldn't get any worse... Until today

[RedToothBrush]

We are trapped in the tailspin of the end of the UK. Firmly headed downward and getting more and more frenzied and desperate.

Even the most sensible of types like David Allen Green have finally noticed that Brexit isn't about leaving the EU it's about the frenzied and wilful destruction of our state instutions and structure. The collapse of the civil service, of our justice system, our democratic institutions and social order. All in the name of rule Britannia, a warped sense of taking back control to preserve an ideal that never existed and an idea of sovereignity that simply was a fantasy.

We move ever closer to Johnson becoming Prime Minister and a life under President Trump.

Joy.

Ode to Joy really isn't that bad.

Yes, I'm seeing 'currated'! Odd.

Yes, I'm seeing 'currated'! Odd.

Odd ? Or the entirely predictable outcome from getting a bunch of vloggers, bloggers, influencers and millennials to sell something ?

"they will destroy many of their neighbours in the process. ROI being one "

No, some EU members will suffer economically, but nowhere near as badly as the UK

• which is the only country that might be destroyed / split

Germany calculates it will lose 0.7% of GDP, bad news but not terrible and long since factored in
So much for "but cars ..."

The RoI has already received EU help for Brexit measures - transport infrastructure etc - and would receive a lot more for the next few years, if it's No Deal
That's the advantage of being in a Union

Noone will help the UK like that

• although I've read that some Brexiters expect the US to send the UK something like Marshall Aid** 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

(The RoI will face v tough political decisions on implementing goods checks, but they'll cope, as they did with the Troubles)

272-169

something like Marshall Aid

DG sigh

Yeah cause they're all deaf to reason.

DS’s new passport arrived. It doesn’t say European Union on the front cover

😞

Hmm Oubliette I can't work out what colour it is? It kind of looks neither blue nor burgundy? More royal purple (have I just made up that shade?)

I think it's the usual burgundy, tobee.

Oh obviously Oubliette has moody lighting

DS’s new passport arrived. It doesn’t say European Union on the front cover

Send it back and get one which does ?... we haven't left yet (and may never leave). Is there a danger it's now no longer a valid EU passport (even though the UK is still a member).

I agree with the interpretation that Trump is setting up his dinasty. He has identified Ivanka as his successor, trying to emulate a bit the Kennedy and the Bush...which is, after all, another demonstration that it’s a peculiar type of democracy, the American one....where campaigning costs so much that only wealthy and connected people can do it. Anyway
Good action of the day (or maybe not): I had a meaningful coffee-machine conversation with a very young guy in my company that was proud of having never voted. Clearly surrounded by a bunch of leavers, by the things he was reporting. I told him that he should not be proud of it, that he should not take it for granted, that I’d rather know he goes and —draw a willie— spoil the ballot paper than to think he’s giving up his right to find a representative, and he’s so disgruntled that he can’t bother reading politics or current news. I can totally understand his disillusions (he comes from an ethnic minority and he told me hus neighbourhood had many broken promises), but still....

Still burgundy. I’m not sure what was going on with the lighting.

pmk (late to the thread party)

Listening to Johnson at the hustings. Dear God :(
(I thought I couldnt feel more depressed after listening to May earlier)

Also listening to Boris. I can’t believe this man is going to be Prime Minister.

God Ellie I can't unsee that image. Pass the brain bleach...

I can't work out what colour it is? It kind of looks neither blue nor burgundy?

It's probably like that dress that looks gold to some folk and blue to others.

Peck:
Now @BorisJohnson is genuinely saying that we, the UK, "can use the leverage of a trade deal to get the USA to raise their own standards (on animal welfare)."

That's just more of the wise Greeks/brash young Romans relationship that Macmillan believed was possible. It's pure vanity..

LOL @ BJ's idea that the UK will have 'leverage'.

Not all chicken farms will be in the condition of the ones exposed recently though

I suspect they will. Either they will switch over to intensive production or they will go under.

It's hard to watch this hustings, isn't it?

Love that response Crunchy