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 🎉🥳🎈

Evening, All,

Epic, it's been reported in The Times and their sources are generally impeccable. Labour MPs are furious and are in effect planning a coup. I could only read the first three paragraphs because it's behind a paywall (I've used up my quota for the week) but if you Google "Labour MPs tell Jeremy Corbyn to go now", you'll get the result.

I think I mentioned that some time ago, after that overwhelming vote of no-confidence in Jezza in 2016 - which he ignored, saying it had no constitutional legitimacy - Joe Haines wrote the blueprint for legally mounting a coup within the PLP under a rebel leader and formally claiming the title of Official Opposition, along with the offices, assets, taxpayer funding, the lot.

Evening, Walking, depending on how quickly the PLP moves, Boris could be facing Margaret Hodge at PMQs. Stranger things have happened.

Johnson to change Withdrawal Agreement Bill to put into law

Walking, he's also stripping out the compromises and concessions he had to put in to get it over the line the first time, when he was having to placate Grieve, Letwin, Benn and their little gang.

Ah, update. Sadly, there won't be PMQs Wednesday. We won't know whether Jezza is on the front bench or somewhere on the backbenches till Friday when the WAB gets a new second reading.

I missed the Today programme this morning but apparently, Jezza has finally worked out where it all went horribly wrong, according to The Times.

"He told Today on BBC Radio 4: “This misdescription of manifesto as ultra-left is utter nonsense — the centre ground is where we lived. Sadly our country has moved so far to the right...... "

That's right. It's not him, it's us.

The Labour Party will either have to change its policies or change the electorate. I know which is easier.

Christ. What a deluded man...

...the centre ground is where we lived. Sadly our country has moved so far to the right"

And there you have it, delusion personified 🤦‍♀️

What a sad, bitter, patronising old irrelevance he is.

I am so looking forward to the first PMQs, Boris is going to have a field day with Corbyn. It will be a mauling. I hope a first aider is ready on hand.

I'm hoping Boris has a bit more grace than to do that. There's no need. Guess it depends on the stance and mood taken by the opposition on the day, but I would really like to see the good nature of the Arms extended into HOC from Boris' side. We'll see.

If he thinks this country is far right he is deluded.

Johnson to change Withdrawal Agreement Bill to put into law that transition arrangements with EU, during which UK is in effect non-voting member of EU, must end 31 Dec 2020. Will be seen as increasing risk of delayed no-deal Brexit.

So he's upping the ante for negotiations with EU then

No bad thing really

The banks passed the stress test, we're entirely prepared to walk away so won't settle for shit final deal & our economy is looking more resilient than the Eurozone

This should hopefully focus the minds of the EU negotiators now - I'd tentatively suggest that our chances of a decent deal have just gone up...

The only reason the EU have for screwing us over is to 'punish' us as a lesson to other members - why pursue that any longer if it's going to hurt them more? 🤷🏻‍♀️

That's right. It's not him, it's us.

The Labour Party will either have to change its policies or change the electorate. I know which is easier.

🙄

What a deluded little bellend that man is 😂

Morning to everyone btw!

While I despise the idea of No Deal and think flaunting it as an option is childish, people knew what they were voting for.
I'm a general prepper so No Deal is just another "thing " to me.

Morning, All!

It's cold and grey out there but here in the Arms, it's another bright blue day. We had a run on the buttery toast and crumpets yesterday so the Landlady has set up a new supplier - a small local business, of course - and they delivered first thing. Giant toasted tea cakes and bacon barms await so help yourselves.

Today in the HoC, new MPs will be sworn in - the Conservative ones had a barnstorming welcome from Boris yesterday with a stern reminder that they held a "sacred, sacred trust" and had better not let their voters down - and the new Father of the House, Sir Peter Bottomley, will open the proceedings for election of the new Speaker at 2.30pm

Is there anyone whose money is not on Sir Lindsay Hoyle? The no-nonsense Northerner with encyclopaedic knowledge of proper procedure and great good humour? He will set the tone - the disgraceful shenanigans of the Bercow era are over. There'll be no messing about on Lindsay's patch.

I'd tentatively suggest that our chances of a decent deal have just gone up...

I'd say your instincts are right, Dusty. From what I'm reading, the political leaders of the EU27 have given Barnier the hard word. It is being expressed rather more diplomatically than that, of course, but it's a very clear message nonetheless. When we voted on Thursday the 12th, the political reality was firmly settled once and for all. Now it's down to economic reality and reality bites.

Bellini, wait and see. Boris's preference is, and always has been, for a deal but he will not let the UK be walked all over.

Kettle's on.

I so hope you're right Dusty.
Guy Verhofstadt on twitter... hmm...

'Brexit will now happen. The British people have confirmed their referendum decision of 2016. The EU must now focus on building a new close, fair and lasting partnership with Britain. It is in our common interest.'

I'm hoping Boris has a bit more grace than to do that. There's no need. Guess it depends on the stance and mood taken by the opposition on the day, but I would really like to see the good nature of the Arms extended into HOC from Boris' side. We'll see.

Boris generally does remain good-humoured. He doesn't descend to personal attacks and insults, despite all the mud that has been slung at him over the last six months or so.

And yes, I hope we do see improved standards of behaviour generally in the HoC. Some of it was an awful example for any young people who were watching.

Morning all.
Big shout out Lady Nicky. Hope she's got herself a new handbag to celebrate. Also lovely pick of Theresa celebrating with Boris last night. She can now rock her leather trousers free of carping. Gove seems a little restrained of late. Sarah was asking what to buy him for Christmas - I vote for some nice new showy loafers to put him back on his stride. Would love it if he gets to do first PMQs against a Labour stand in.

JC is correct in pointing out there was nothing left-wing about the Labour manifesto. All the flagship economic policies were bungs to the middle classes - tuition fees, WASPI, public sector pay rises etc etc. All the direction of travel from renationalisation - free (for which read compulsory) childcare - regulating freedom of speech were highly Authoritarian. That was and is the problem.

Toasted teacakes are my favourite. I will be in the corner contentedly for a while.

Xing Taxation moving from national to an EU competence v soon. Pension rationalisation across the bloc already in the Programme of Works. They won't be levelling up the pensions in Romania, but levelling down the rest.

Is there plenty of salted butter for the toasted teacakes Lily? I don't know why, but hotel and catering butter tastes so much more buttery for some reason than if I buy the same in a full pack. I'll bring festive napkins for those of us who always end up with butter down their tops.

Howabout where did you see the pic of TM celebrating with BJ? Wonder how she really feels about it all?

Wee bit cognitive dissonance from our Nippy commenting on Nicky's appointment.

Nicola Sturgeon
@NicolaSturgeon
·
14h
No need to do anything as mundane as stand for and win an election to be in this Tory government - they have a nerve to call it democracy.

Last I checked Nippy wasn't standing to be a Westminster MP. She has spent 3 years demanding the UK have Brexit or not dictated to on her terms. She was included in multiple interviews and debates during the GE campaign. She spent all weekend stamping her heels at Boris and getting ample coverage for it. Her Party represents less than 50% of a population smaller than London - Now that is a brass neck.

I actually think putting Nicky in the Lords and leaving her with Culture, Media and Sport with a mandate to sort out some of the "issues" with the luvvies is genius.

hospitality it was on the BBC live feed yesterday at the Tory MP celebrations. I always thought she and PH were best buds but I clearly misjudged her - keeping him hanging around must have been the price of the Tory Remainers and thus why she couldn't get anything done.

If you want to get top marks from my DDs then you have to make butter curls for the teacakes. Then they have to be served hot enough so they can watch the melt. My Grandpa recommended a daidly for the catching of drips - off to check if that is a real word or just my particular family Scottish dialect (means big linen napkin tucked under your chin) - Glasgow Uni has just published a new research project so I may be somewhat distracted.

Just scanned some of the comments under Nippy's tweet. It's not just me.

Seen this linked on the WM thread - cuts through to the crux of why the politics of Corbyn et al will never be embraced by the working class in Britain

www.forbes.com/sites/timreuter/2018/05/24/why-socialists-are-despised-as-explained-by-george-orwell/#57c0ac1a1b00

Morning all, will attempt a cogent dialogue with you all today, but have a migraine brewing, so if I make little to no sense then please forgive me! I find it harder to articulate or consider anything in depth when I am like this, but once the fog clears I will hopefully be more useful...

Anyway, I am fine with the no deal negotiating shtick. It’s how you do good deals, if you sit down, all cards on the table and don’t make it clear where your lines are, you just get walked all over. The economy is strong enough to take it, he has a mandate in parliament and the Eurozone are under greater internal and external economic pressures than before, they need a trade deal sorted asap too, whether they say it or not (clue, they are not going to say it, they have to appear to have lines too, they have always said they wouldn’t make it easy as a lesson to other members, they have to look fully in control on the surface.) . There’s no reason why this tactic shouldn’t speed things along and work in our favour. Things have changed enormously in the past week. I’m bouyant and optimistic.

Boris and Theresa

twitter.com/EddieHughes4WN/status/1206666523462516736?s=20