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Westminstenders: The Non-Pact Pact

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RedToothBrush · 12/11/2019 00:23

The Brexit Party and the Conservatives have agreed a trumpian pact to no deal. Led by the ERG.

They don't want you to know its a pact because the Conservatives still want One Nation Conservatives types to believe they are still One Nation Conservatives, simply because they say they are. They are not.

The Brexit Party won't stand any candidates in a Conservative held seat. But don't be surprised if there isn't more Non-Pact tactical stepping aside. This of course won't be a Pact. Cos the Brexit Party say its not. And the Conservative Party say its not.

The Liberal Democrats, Plaid and the Greens are in an electoral pact. They say they are in an electoral pact and have published a list.

Meanwhile the Labour Party isn't in a Pact. But there is still talk that in key seats that someone (either the LDs or Labour) should stand aside to try and deseat key Conservatives. This won't happen because the Lib Dems and Labour are not in a pact. And when they say they are not in a pact they aren't.

If after an election we have a hung parliament then either the Conservatives or Labour who are not in a pact and say they will never be in a pact, will try and woo someone to a kingmaker and be in government with them, probably on a supply and demand basis rather than coalition. They'll deny this but we kind of know how this goes...

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Violetparis · 12/11/2019 22:41

The Lib Dems are going to stand a new candidate in Canterbury, presume it's because they want the Tory Remainer's vote elsewhere.

SwedishEdith · 12/11/2019 22:42

Tom Newton Dunn
@tnewtondunn
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New: David Gauke tells #PSAAwards he will run as an independent against the Tory candidate in his constituency of South West Hertfordshire. Another safe seat now at risk before Boris Johnson refused to return the whip.

Good - he can split the Tory vote.

Alsohuman · 12/11/2019 22:44

The Lib Dems are going to stand a new candidate in Canterbury, presume it's because they want the Tory Remainer's vote elsewhere

I reckon they’ll lose their deposit in Canterbury now. And serve them right.

AutumnCrow · 12/11/2019 22:48

No more Heroes @ClashCityRocker? Smile They all taste shit now since they were taken over by Kraft or whoever it was.

Talking of which, I've got the luminous 12 inch single of Kraftwerk's Trans Europe Express that's due an airing soon.

SwedishEdith · 12/11/2019 22:50

BBC Question Time
@bbcquestiontime
First of our #bbcqt leader election specials with @ Nigel_Farage
of @ brexitparty_uk is being recorded in Peterborough, next Monday 18th Nov.

Apply here to join the audience: bbc.in/2Qck2cl

Even though he's not standing. Anyone going to apply to be in the audience? 😁

CendrillonSings · 12/11/2019 22:50

The Lib Dems are going to stand a new candidate in Canterbury, presume it's because they want the Tory Remainer's vote elsewhere.

They have to - their Tory Remainer votes would evaporate if they became Corbyn’s little helpers...

TokyoSushi · 12/11/2019 22:52

I think how you make a cup of tea says a lot about a person @catdoctor has it right!

ArseDarkly · 12/11/2019 22:57

Even though he's not standing. Anyone going to apply to be in the audience?

I can think of a few hundred former Brexit party candidates who might like to apply

ArseDarkly · 12/11/2019 22:59

By the 18th Farage may not be leader of a 'party' anymore

3dogs2cats · 12/11/2019 23:06

Boris makes tea just like me, specially if I’m distracted, and I am,easily. I am dyspraxia, and I wonder if he is. I’m not a knob tho.

tobee · 12/11/2019 23:10

Yeah but every time I hear Eton Rifles it's spoilt for me remembering that Cameron said he loved it while at school. All the passion in the lyrics of that song and an arrogant bunch of Eton pupils going "oh yah! That's about us! We'll have that!"

CendrillonSings · 12/11/2019 23:16

Come on tobee, did you think a special song all about them was not going to thrill the Etonians?

prettybird · 12/11/2019 23:17

As you would expect Wink I'm a metropolitan Remain elite tea maker Grin: loose tea (a home mix of 50:50 Twinings Earl Grey and Sainsbury's Darjeeling), brewed for a few minutes in a teapot before pouring (using a tea strainer of course Wink). Milk in afterwards Grin

tobee · 12/11/2019 23:25

Of course I did Cendrillon. Coz entitled wankers conform to type.

Oakenbeach · 12/11/2019 23:39

New: David Gauke tells #PSAAwards he will run as an independent against the Tory candidate in his constituency of South West Hertfordshire. Another safe seat now at risk before Boris Johnson refused to return the whip.

Good - he can split the Tory vote.

No, I’d have thought it far more likely to split the Remainer vote with the LDs and allow the Tories a comfortable victory. The Tories were always likely to win here, but the LDs had a small chance.... that’s now surely evaporated.

Even more stark is rebel Tory Ann Milton’s choice to stand in Guildford.... That’s a definite LD target which she’s made a whole lot easier for the Tories to win by standing.

Epanoui · 12/11/2019 23:41

The Clash is most relevant to the age group who were in their 20s at the end of the 70s.

While I can't stand Boris Johnson, this is ridiculous. Johnson was a teenager in the late 70s. Of course he likes the Clash. People who were in their twenties then would have been too old for that kind of music.

Awful awful PPB. Really cringeworthy. But I guess they are aiming at someone other than me.

HateIsNotGood · 12/11/2019 23:53

Nice walk through a bunch of good music - i bid you bon nuit for now.

UtterlyPerfectCartoonGiraffe · 13/11/2019 00:10

A bit of Grin from Matt Lucas on Twitter:

mobile.twitter.com/RealMattLucas/status/1194366776194338822

UtterlyPerfectCartoonGiraffe · 13/11/2019 00:11

And my tactical voting options here. Clear as the muddiest of muddy muds...

Westminstenders: The Non-Pact Pact
UtterlyPerfectCartoonGiraffe · 13/11/2019 00:13

The Matt Lucas post from twitter if anyone doesn’t want to click:

Westminstenders: The Non-Pact Pact
BigChocFrenzy · 13/11/2019 00:38

GCHQ confirm Labour were hacked, but not by Russia

Tom Newton Dunn@tnewtondunn

GCHQ sources say no evidence to suggest cyber attack on the Labour Party was state-sponsored.

^The denial of service method used was low level in sophistication, so likely instead to be the work of amateur hackers.

BigChocFrenzy · 13/11/2019 00:40

Who was it here who wanted Thornberry to be the next Labour leader
(I can't stand her, btw)

Matt Dathan@matt_dathan

Excl: Internal Labour party polling found Emily Thornberry is on course to lose her seat to the Lib Dems

BigChocFrenzy · 13/11/2019 00:42

Tom Newton Dunn@tnewtondunn

Old Chinese proverb:

A man who lends his £10m Westminster town house to Boris's leadership campaign gets a safe seat 4 months later.

Mark Wallace@wallaceme

....Andrew Griffith
(NB NB this is Griffith, No10 adviser and former COO of Sky, not Andrew GriffithS who is in trouble in Burton)

wins the nomination as Conservative candidate for Arundel & South Downs (Majority 23,883) on the first ballot

thecatfromjapan · 13/11/2019 01:22

UK losing investment due to Brexit.

https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1194392723492626432?s=21

It's not just what is closing but what isn't coming here.

tobee · 13/11/2019 02:29

In that still of Johnson from the ppb why does he look like he's about to punch viewers in the face? Hmm

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