The Brexit Arms: Here it is! MERRY BREXIT!!!

[DustyDiamond]

We did it!!!

We saw off Jezbollah, Mao-ZeMcDonnell & Head-Girl Jo 🙌🙌🙌

✊🥀

We got Brexit! (...finally... 🙄)

The HoC is painted Blue for Brexit & it's oven ready 😍

Dominic Raab is looking sexier than ever & will be returning for my our viewing pleasure which is the BEST RESULT OF ALL! 🥰🥰

To the tune of Slade's 'Merry Xmas Everybody':

🎵 🎶 🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶

IT'S CHRIIIIIISTMAAAAAAS!!!!!!!

So we booted John & Jez & head-girl Jo-o-o
And we gave our vote to Bo-oris & co-o-o

We can GET THAT BREXIT DONE now...
We can start to hope again!
Now the Marxists have been consigned to the biiiiin

So here it IIIIS - MERRY BREXIT!
Everybody’s having fun!
Loook to the future now, it’s only just be-gu-u-un

Now we’re laughing at the Corbyn Cult implo-o-ode
And we’re snorting as momentum start to fo-o-old...

Coz we’re on the Boris love train!
And it’s going full steam ahead!
How we CHEERED when all those seats flipped BLUE from re-e-ed

So here it IIIIS - MERRY BREXIT!
Everybody’s having fun!
Loook to the future now, it’s only just be-gu-u-un

🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶

Much festive cheer to all in the Arms!
🍾 🥂 🍻🍷

As ever, all are welcome - only one rule:

DON'T BE A TWAT!!

Note: I am a shit host, and not a patch on previous Landladies - I don't cook, I don't clean & I don't prepare drinks. I am a selfish bellend. If you want feeding, there's a microwave in back & a shop down the road. If you want drinks just help yourself 😘 - it's a free bar 🎉🥳🎈

Angryresister, have a Pimms on the house, chuck. We're still in post-election euphoria. Nice of you to join us. Cheers 🥃

Didn’t see Bercow, tbh his face in that picture looks the same as it ever was!

I'm fairly certain that's the look he gives Sally when she asks him to stand on the stairs so they can have a face-to-face conversation.

Singing that's naughty 😂😂

“It’s my party and I’ll cheer if I want to” 🎶

Lily! 😂😂😂😂

Just caught up on that #BlueLabour trend on twitter... 😂😂😂, the carnage! Haha!

Just had a look at it, Epic. It's the five stages of grief thing, isn't it? They're all stuck at Stage 1.

Yes but they've been stuck there since ref day!

I’ve only just looked at this and the Top Tweet mystified me for a minute. I’ve copied and pasted.

I really should be going back to my hermit lifestyle 😂

*I can imagine there will be lots of Blue Labour bullshit going around soon so let's please not give in to it.

Either we stand for all of the working class, which includes people of colour, LGBT+ people and migrants, or we don't stand for the working class.*

Carrie thought 25 majority.

They thought she was being bullish.

😮😂😍

A celebratory Losers Pic!

The Living Dead 💀

And how exactly is taking people’s rights away worth cheering for? Do tell

Hi AngryAnderson!

Have a drink & chillax 😉🍷

I'm fairly certain that's the look he gives Sally when she asks him to stand on the stairs so they can have a face-to-face conversation.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I’m convinced quite a few threads have been started by trolls tonight.

I can’t wait for Brexit. I’m a remain voter, and I voted against the Tories, because I didn’t believe we would ever get a Brexit that benefited us. But we’re getting it, and on reflection, I’m absolutely delighted. Here’s what I’m most looking forward to:

That 350 million (per week, is it?) going to the NHS and no selling it off to Trump, all those trade deals we’ve been promised, our glorious economy soaring and the return of the empire. Plus continued peace in NI while absolutely sticking rigidly to the GFA.

I can’t wait , there are literally no downsides.

Morning all!
And morning Pumper

Good that you've accepted democracy now & are accepting of Brexit

and the return of the empire

I'll have to disagree with you here - whilst you may be salivating at the thought of a return to the Empire, it's def not something that I've ever heard fellow Leavers hankering for

It must be a Remain thing 🤷🏻‍♀️

So many Remainers have mentioned 'the glory days of empire', 'return to empire' & similar - I'm not sure why, but it's def not on the cards with a BJ Brexit!

Anyhoo!
We're all Brexiters now!
What a glorious Xmas gift, and a great start to a new decade!!

✊🥀🎉🍷

Morning, All,

Morning, Dusty,

It's another Bright Blue day here in the Arms! The post-election euphoria has not worn off. This is going to be a rip-roaring journey and there'll be plenty to cheer (and whinge) about as we follow the twists and turns of the first 100 days.

Dusty was up late last night clearing away the party streamers and empty bottles from last night's celebration and so, with her blessing, I've set up the complimentary breakfast tray. It's Sunday so the Arms' world-famous All-Day Breakfast Barm is on the menu along with the usual sautéed mushrooms on lightly-grilled sourdough.

Today's cheery news is courtesy of The Telegraph.

"Boris Johnson is plotting a dramatic overhaul of Whitehall after his landslide election victory, in a drive to demonstrate that the Government “works for the people”.

Dominic Cummings, Mr Johnson’s chief aide, is to spearhead plans for radical reforms to the civil service, including a review of the processes for hiring and firing officials, to ensure Whitehall delivers the Prime Minister’s agenda."
Yes, fellow Armers, Dmitri is taking up the first item on the to-do list (did anyone else catch him heaving a sigh of relief when Boris thanked the Northerners and Midlanders outside No. 10 for lending him their votes and promising not to let them down? Boris wrote the speech himself - apparently this is unusual for a PM - but he said just what Dmitri wanted him to say).

The subtext is...clean up the lines of accountability, cut out the messy overlaps, cut out the bloated departments, put civil servants back in their boxes of political impartiality as per the Civil Service Code, make the Civil Service do its job of serving the country instead of serving itself, and above all, stop rewarding failure.

As a former senior civil servant, I welcome that. And if Dmitri is short of ideas (unlikely), I've got a few he might like. Dmitri, PM me.

Some departments will be merged or streamlined. Not before time. This will mean an immediate saving to the taxpayer as well as a huge long-term benefit to all of us because of the associated pension liability.

I'm calling it the Dissolution of the Ministries.

Kettle's on.

Great pic Dusty, I hope all their political careers are dead. They were not servants of the people.

Boris starting off well. Though Theresa May started off very well too. At least he's got a stronger majority.

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Dusty, that meme must have taken ages! The faces, the pallor, the multi-Carrie moment. Genius!

Morning, Derxa, you can have a ☕️ too. I know you have different views and many reservations but you can still enjoy the ☕️

And the NHS money Dusty? And the GFA? And the trade agreements? And no deals with Trump? Can’t wait!

And ☕️ for you too, Pumper.

It's Sunday. Relax.

Morning

Pumperthepumper
It’s time to move on and build bridges.
Everyone is sick of the arguing.
Chill.

Oh. I’m disappointed. I thought you’d all be rejoicing over this glorious new world we’ve been promised. Trade deals without Trump! GFA agreements and continued peace in NI! 350 million a week for the NHS! Why is nobody else so delighted with all this?

Glad you're on board the Boris Train Pumper! 😍

Morning Derxa 🕊
from me as well

It took me AGES to do those pics!!
I'm getting better & better but I have a fondness for the absolute shitness of my early creations 😂

Over the moon that they're going to hit the ground running & making changes that should have happened years ago - Cameron & May were stymied by their majority sizes (lack of) so had to tinker round edges of things - Boris has so much more room to get stuff done, which is great.

Was thinking earlier about the FTPA - was there a finite time limit to govt before it came in?
I know it often didn't go to 5 years but was there a cut off?

I'm hoping they get rid of it ASAP as it proved its flaws this year, but the 5 yr max time limit is something I'd def keep.

Morning all - we went out last night to a carol thing (er beer festival) and there were people talking loudly around us in the crowd about how happy they were that Boris had won and that their hard-earned savings which they'd worked for all their lives weren't about to be trashed by Corbyn. Everyone (apart from some sore losers) still seems to be extremely happy - I'm also still feeling amazing and I'm happy to read the plans for governing this morning.

Clearly the proof will be in the pudding but at least directionally it seems sensible.

It's about time there was a clear-out in Whitehall. A friend of my best friend is a senior civil servant and said person seems to float around doing different jobs (including doing PR) without any particular expertise in any given area. That's not how it works in business and it really annoys me that someone can call themselves a PR expert (Head of PR) without having the requisite experience and qualifications that I have gained over 20 years on the job (and I would pretend to be walking into another discipline without the right skills).

Lily yes someone would usually write the leader's speech but since Boris is a journo by trade he'll be used to rattling them off quickly himself. I would imagine nobody was going to try to wrestle a draft off him on Friday to check his lines to take and key messages! I certainly wouldn't have dared...