Westminstenders: It's like a bloody aviary

[RedToothBrush]

From Flamingos to Yellowhammer and Black Swans.

The Tory Remainer is now a Dodo. Instead the party in inhabited by disaster capitalist Vultures. Jeremy Corbyn, meanwhile, has been labelled by the right wing press as a Chicken. The SNP would very much like Boris Johnson to be a Jailbird. The LDs are keen to sing like Canaries about the contents of BlackSwan. The Br

And the Tower of London is starting to get very jumpy about the whereabouts and location of its Ravens.

I would not, however, advise eating urban wild pigeons if things get desperate, from what I know of their health.

I'd have thought the 31st and the 1st Nov would be equally shit for travelling etc if the UK crashes out, no?

Has anyone else noticed this tweet dug up from February doing the rounds?

@SamCoatesSky
Times EXC
37 page “Operation Yellowhammer” no deal planning pack for staff leaks. Marked “official sensitive”

twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1091613737923067905
I've linked to it as it contains a lot of pictures on the thread

Have the legalproceedings against Johnston been linked to in here yet?
goodlawproject.org/rule-law-not-thing-grifted-not-even-prime-minister/

DGR - I first remember hearing POTUS c20 years ago in the 1st episode of "The West Wing" smile - something along the lines of POTUS has fallen (when he cycled into a tree)

First time I’d heard it too Prettybird and it was used several times in the episode before the meaning was revealed to Sam’s date. For that reason I always assumed the term wasn’t widely known then even in the US so was surprised to discover it had been coined in the nineteenth century.

Basil You totally nailed that explanation

@red That was a pretty pathetic show of support for Leave in Manchester
considering there must have been a non-trivial minority who voted Leave there

37 pages, not 6.....

Friend who was/is a BC/DR expert has been making the same points as those outlined in Sam Coates thread: that the real issue is the interaction of all these things going wrong at once

Any one of them going wrong would be difficult; all of them happening at once will be catastrophic

"Making other people miserable doesn’t put food on the table, it doesn’t bring jobs back, and it’s the working class - in all its diversity! - who know that better than most."

^^This
Applause, poster00

Poor old BJ-Cummings - getting heckled about accountability and parliament and then having to back track about how the "chair" of this new Northern powerhouse group was going to be appointed - initially saying "in consultation with those in the North" and then having to ad lib that "we'll need to look at how they would be appointed".

My heart bleeds for him

Yep POTUS=west wing for me too.

imo, a bog-standard govt is fully stretched coping with 1 real - not media-invented - crisis at a time
and a good govt can handle 2 or 3 in parallel
but the systems aren't adequate - and govts have too many "normal" duties - to be able to properly manage much more

We have the most sub-standard govt in living memory, that has abandoned even their normal duties
and which would be inadequate for any crisis,
let along the biggest crisis post-WW2

Don't watch West WIng and then a report on Trump, if you are at all prone to depression
Jed Bartlet, the dream POTUS - and look what the US landed the world with in rl

This was Bartlet colliding with a tree mishap, btw

The President while riding a bicycle on his vacation in Jackson Hole, came to a sudden arboreal stop.

Dmitry Grozoubinski@DmitryOpines

Nothing screams,
"we are confident about our No-Deal preparations,"

like the parliament compelled last minute redacted release of a scanned photocopy consisting five terrifying previously leaked pages with the words,

"BUT WE TOTES FIXED IT SINCE THEN"
scrawled across the top.

We have the most sub-standard govt in living memory, that has abandoned even their normal duties

I find it interesting how quiet my Leave voting friends and colleagues have become.
Many are in the public sector and if they poo poo that document they have to poo poo all the documents they get from the same teams

I do think the penny is starting to drop
3 years too late

The city of Manchester voted Remain but the towns in Greater Manchester, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale etc voted Leave. Where was the Leave protest Red ? The BNP used to be very active and had suppport in some areas of Greater Manchester, I used to see their campaign stalls in certain areas, chilled me to the bone.

Johnson is getting a rough time in Doncaster and Rotherham, so pleased to see Northerners not falling for his crap.

South leafy nice part of Trafford.

Posted too quick. A substandard Government trying to implement the most complex policy which effects every single part of the constitution, every single citizen, a peace treaty, our relationship in both a political and economic sense with the rest of the world. Against a backdrop of austerity that has left the NHS and Government agencies with no capacity to cope with extra demand, a world where there is an economic downturn with Trump engaging with a trade war with China.

All whilst they are a minority Government run by a party at war with itself.

And we think this is going to turn out well ???

We couldn’t cope with a shortage of KFC and ice lollies.

Thanks Red

Well said Basil

R4 WATO report from Barrow confirms the Northern leave-voters will not vote Tory and especially not if BJ is PM. They 'might consider' voting Farage, but mostly remain loyal to their leave-supporting Labour and ex-Labour MPs.

Not surprised BJ going down like a cup of cold sick. He was round these parts helping with the local elections we are very Brexity and have a Tory MP and I wouldn’t even describe his welcome as lukewarm.

And that was before all the really bad stuff started happening and he was still ‘box fresh’ for the Brexiteers back in May. I imagine it would be frosty politeness at best now.

Go on Steph adda girl you tell him.