Brexit Arms: Election Night Lock-In

[GreenishMe]

Welcome to the Brexit Arms - it's going to be a stormy old night! We're about to be buffeted from right to left and back again with no real idea what the landscape will finally look like in the morning. All are welcome to weather the storm in the warmth and safety of the Arms - but please remember this a hospitable establishment so let's try and keep it that way.

We're kicking off the evening with our Back to the 70's theme night while we wait for the big main event to unfold. The juke box is loaded with all your 70's favourites. Feel free to dance round your handbags but please, no dancing on the tables…. this could be seen as having too much fun.

As always, we've got a nice big pot of PG Tips on the brew and Camp coffee by the mugfuls in addition to our usual alcoholic beverages.

On a serious note, we know that tonight's events are going to cause some upsets. With this in mind, the mint imperial bowls on the bar have been filled with Diocalms and we urge all our customers to make use of these. There should be enough to go round as long as nobody starts trying to stockpile. We simply cannot risk the need for plumbers to unblock our loos on Friday morning, as they could have been called out on strike by then.

Landladies on duty tonight will be:

20:00-22:00 Greenish (with Babychams, Cherry B's and vol au vents)
2200-midnight Twattage (with Classic Dmitris and cheeseboard)
Midnight-0200 Singing (with stiff brandies to calm the nerves, plus a selection of fresh nuts)
0200-0400 Hate (possibly with Albanian delicacies and a hangover cure)

We'd like to get the glitter ball turning with this absolute classic:

….fingers crossed similar scenes will abound in the Arms by the end of tonight. Enjoy!

P.s. When ordering drinks between 8pm and 10pm please supply your own drinks emojis. Thankyou!

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Family Gathering today. Every single political hue represented. No one argued, no one cried, no one was vilified, no one disinherited —I hope—

I just don’t recognise the hate and sheer nastiness I see on here reflected in real life, it’s bizarre.

-I hope-

I’m sure Dusty will be a fab landlady

I would offer but between shifts and going to my ancient mummy (term of endearment) I’m never quite sure where I am!

The Conservative Party - like the Labour Party - is a broad church.

One of the benefits of a big majority is that there is room for a bit of occasional internal dissent and debate but the government still has the votes to put its programme through.

One person I was sorry to see go is Frank Field, who was standing as an independent. I'd like to see him offered a peerage, so he can continue to contribute from the Lords. But he's not young, so maybe he'll choose to retire.

As this thread draws to a close....

Wow... We got there! The BEST thread it's just sad the original landlady isn't around... Surfer jet to shares this.

Surferjet got such a lot of flak on the main boards! 🍷 chinchin dahling

I have over the years been impressed by David Blunkett, first as a star of Sheffield City Council and then as an MP, and as Home Secretary (and already in the HoL). I think, given the need to think very seriously about health and social care for the ageing population, Frank Field, who made this his Parliamentary career, and who is old enough (75) but lucid, to pick a couple of like minded younger rottweilwers, should be seriously considered. And Alan Johnson, who is close enough to the TUC to have some clout, with some of the younger moderates from the 2010 and 2017 intakes to ensure intergenerational equity, would be a good board, plus the PLP electing their preferred leader.

I like David Blunkett - met him once but I wasn't allowed to pat the dog because it was working - but as others have said, it has to be an actual MP according to the rules. Technically, they could ask a sitting MP in a safe seat to stand down and trigger a by-election but that's risky. It would also look wrong. It wouldn't stop him being an advisor though.

The MP criteria also rules out Frank Field, Alan Johnson and John Mann, sadly, although their advice would also be invaluable together with that of Ian Austin, Kate Hoey and Gisela Stuart.

When you look at some of the MPs the Labour Party once boasted, it's a tragedy. These people were political giants compared to some of the midgets playing at the job now.

I'd also urge the interim leader to commission Lord Ashcroft to carry out research and surveys concentrating on the views of the Labour voters who lent their precious votes to Boris. The Momentum purists would scream that Michael Ashcroft is an evil Tory but (a) he knows his onions, (b) he drills right down into the data via extensive vox pops, and (c) he's an outsider. There's no point in Labour looking in the mirror and asking itself plaintively "What just happened?" They need fresh eyes, fresh minds, people with no bias and no skin in the game.

But no one would ever ask us how to put things right because hey, what would we know? We're just evil Tories. Even when some of us are not Tories at all, just Labour voters looking for their way home.

Based on what I am seeing on other threads Lily, this one is for you, you called it! 😂

hope he's not allowed to slither away and make a fortune on speaking circuit.

Re Bercow. It's already started. He's booked to come to my city next year, tickets £19 and £26 for VIP (get to meet the great man himself).

It's always been about him, hasn't it?

So funny out there, it’s all “corbyn, yeah, I always said he was toxic...”, “well, apparently people don’t like being called thick northerners” (no shit sherlock 🙄) etc... still sprinkled with the occasional “if you voted conservative you deserve to die.”

“It's always been about him, hasn't it?”

His sour little face was a picture on election night... 😂

New Thread ✊🥀🍷

The Brexit Arms: Here it is! MERRY BREXIT!!! http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/eureferendumm2016/3768949-the-brexit-arms-here-it-is-merry-brexit

epic I missed him, would have love to have seen that.

Epic, I love that meme! Thank you!

still sprinkled with the occasional “if you voted conservative you deserve to die.”

Anyway, I claim the "Tory Bitch" title, seeing as how some loser in a red rosette called me that on polling day, so that makes it official.

When I relayed this to the local Tory chairman who called by to see how I was doing, he looked horrified and asked if I would like some support from someone at CCHQ. "Nah", I said, "I'm possibly the only woman in the village who has been snubbed by serial killers and sent to Coventry by sociopathic rapists so it would take more than that to knock me off my stride. Anyway, it wouldn't have been a fair fight. He didn't know I'm a trained killer".

I swear, he backed away from me very very slowly. I perhaps should have mentioned I only joke with an entirely straight face.
Mama, I'd pay twice that to avoid Bercow altogether, forever!

Dusty, thank you for the new thread! Popping over now to stake my usual seat at the bar.

This has been a great thread, hasn't it? A real rollercoaster.

Singing your spot on the there with how the Labour Party need to look into voters who went with Boris but really... New blood should be from the their ranks. The current line up cannot be reflective.

It would be interesting to have all brexit arms threads over the years culminating with this one... And of course the one when we actually leave together.

Thanks for hosting this thread Greenish 🍷

And what a thread!!!!!!!!

Best Ever 🙌✊🥀🍷

The thread where Sally Was Saved!!

Just raising a glass to Surfer hope she's here/lurking

@XingMing

Lol 😂 😂😂😂😂

Good of LQ to close the thread.

I know right?! 😂😂😂

There are no leavers & remainers now....

WE'RE ALL BREXITERS 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

🙌🏻🙌🏻 certainly are Dusty