Westminstenders: Christmas Cold, Campaigning, Canvassing and Cancelled Carols

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It looks like a December General Election is on.

The EU have officially extended A50 until 31st January. We have to name an EU Commissioner though.

All that seems left to do is decide between the 9th and 12th December.

The difference between the two is about whether there is any possibility that the WAB can be passed before Parliament dissolves.

A pre-brexit GE is thought to favour the LDs at the expense of Labour and the Conservatives. What the Brexit Party decide to do and where they decide to stand will also be crucial.

How will that go down over here?

A US president intervening in a UK general election ? Should be shot down in flames across the globe.

Should be. Bet he isn't.

For every country that remains silent on this: you're next.

I think this might be a time to contact the US ambassador to the Court of St. James ?

Esther McVey seems vaguely human in Housing portfolio as opposed to being a dead-eyed barracuda in Work & Pensions.

Wtaf? That should help Labour considerably.

Am I allowed to cry? He's gone

No direct email.

Twitter might be a better bet.

He'll pop up soon enough in the House of Lords.

I think tears are allowed because it's the end of an era, and we're worried for our children / next generation, and we're seeing a defender of backbench voices leaving the stage. It's uncharted territory now.

Rachel Clarke
@doctor_oxford
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There's a reason @borisjohnson was booed out of Addenbrooks today.

Pretending his party loves the NHS after a decade of running it into the ground is, essentially, a way of gaslighting frontline staff.

Conditions have never been so grim.

Shame on him.
cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/boris-johnson-addenbrooks-hospital-boos-17178558

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/eu_referendum_2016_/3732036-Westminstenders-From-Uxbridge-to?watched=1

Esther McVey seems vaguely human in Housing portfolio as opposed to being a dead-eyed barracuda in Work & Pensions.

I know its Halloween and there's lots of zombies about but....

Mummmy I don't normally engage with you, but your contempt for the next generation of young people is just disgusting.

My DD1 is a student. She works hard. She volunteers in a museum. She mentors other students who have mental health problems because she has been there herself.

She is a better human being than you by far.

My ds1 is 16.

He volunteers at a foodbank, hepld snyone who asks and is someone I'm proud to know.

The old 70s/80s comedy trope about lazy students is as fake as your stories about your poor background and Tory votes.

One might almost think your uk cultural references are taken from 70d and 80s YouTube clips....

Speaking as an 80s student, I resemble that remark.

We slept late, but that was (partly) becaue we were up late reading things called books, which seem to have gone out of fashion.

Oh dear, tropey mummmy got caught out

OMG Did someone just say queer have I just been transported back to the 70's for crying out loud.

Depends if it was 'queer' situated within queer theory or intended as othering,

See you on the other thread? This one is full

Unionists may allow a Sinn Féin win to decapitate the DUP

The DUP have really pissed off other Unionists, their bungling plans having led to a permanent "frontstop"
Question is how many seats it might cost them

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/newton-emerson-unionists-may-allow-a-sinn-féin-win-to-decapitate-the-dup-1.4066942?_vfz=rtw_top_pages%3D6375100019560

DUP faces election threat as it is blamed for bringing disaster on union and devolution

Speaking as an 80s student, I resemble that remark.

I pulled a few 24-hour stints getting course and team work finished ...

New Thread from red:

https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/eureferendumm2016/3732036-Westminstenders-From-Uxbridge-to

The your DD is not one of the ones who forgot to vote, both in elections and the referendum, who got you into this position, but may did stay in bed .