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

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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 🎉🥳🎈

I agree with Capx.

Walking I'm really sorry to have missed it.

There was an electric atmosphere when he appeared as pm the first time, I can't imagine what today was like!

Is there anywhere I can watch it?

Lily sorry, I missed your suggested reply earlier 😂

Alas, this was from someone I know through work so I can’t risk annoying them!

howabout I see, that’s a pain

I’m very antisocial so my Twitter feed is not full of people I know IYSWIM.

The thing is, saying that Labour are doomed for ever is actually a Very Bad Thing for the country. Any govt which has a decent majority needs an opposition which is prepared to hold it to account - without that, we really do risk a descent into dictatorship.

Whoever is in power should expect, and deserve, to face hard questioning from their opposition, to open debate and to establish whether what the govt of the day is trying to do is fair and worthwhile.

I'll have a large please. I've got over the GE results, I'm now just waiting - warily - to see what happens next.

Siobhain McDonagh and Mary Creagh giving it both barrels on C4 News. I really feel for them. They are Labour, they have integrity and they have been so betrayed by Corbynism.

RaiseaGlasstoFreedom
... I'm really sorry to have missed it.
... Is there anywhere I can watch it?

You can probably see it on parliamentlive.tv It archives some 'shows'.

The thing is, saying that Labour are doomed for ever is actually a Very Bad Thing for the country. Any govt which has a decent majority needs an opposition which is prepared to hold it to account - without that, we really do risk a descent into dictatorship.

Whoever is in power should expect, and deserve, to face hard questioning from their opposition, to open debate and to establish whether what the govt of the day is trying to do is fair and worthwhile.

Yolofish, agree 100%. I've been saying that forever. As a Conservative, I say - RLB, bring it on. As someone who values democracy above all else, I say - Labour, what are you thinking???

When you are ready, please have a look at the link I posted earlier - the real reasons Labour lost. I warn you, it's bleak but it's excoriatingly honest. I for one would really like Labour to smash that glass they are gazing into and look at what's happened with fresh eyes. They need to fix the Party pronto - or it will be to the detriment of us all, regardless of political persuasion.

Large 🍷 for you, on me.

yolo I admit I’m very irregular round here 😂 but I think it’s fair to say there are many of who have voted Labour in the past, and I’d be surprised if anyone isn't worried by the idea of no real opposition.

After being insulted over Brexit for so long, we can hardly be blamed for having a wry chuckle over things. But no one wants to see the opposition vanish.

and youtube will get lots it as well.

Yolo I think everyone in the arms has repeatedly said that. I am not sure a single one of us is a Boris fan and most of us are swing voters.

But right now I'm feeling tremendous warmth and love for Boris. I said on different thread compared to line up, grim walking death corbyn, he seemed like a positive toddler bumbling toddling forth with incredible positivity

Whoever is in power should expect, and deserve, to face hard questioning from their opposition, to open debate and to establish whether what the govt of the day is trying to do is fair and worthwhile.

Yolofish judging from your comments on the ‘fuck you Boris Johnson’ thread I don’t imagine you would ever consider anything the Tories did to be fair and worthwhile.

Autumn on wryly chuckling an awful lot, I'm also wallowing in relief and joy and vindication and sheer joy.

What I'd like now is a robust and vigorous investigation into the speaker.
Id like investigation into why supreme Court could again show a lack of impartiality (spider woman gloating over taking Boris down), and why high court was over ruled... Then I'd like stringent laws in place to make sure parliament could never again be hijacked by Imposters who feel they know better than the people who elected them!!

Dapple I think we the people 😂😂 have moved on from pointless' hating the torys for the sake of it '' politics.

It's boring, pointless... Yawn.
People talk to us like far right rabids... That's why it's pointless and boring and so far frome the truth... Labour.... Drum roll....

lost lost

LOST LOST LOST LOST.

I simply can't be bothered with them right now. They didn't learn from 2016 and quite Frankly the mermers coming out, the crap about this and that is so irrelevant, I just can't be bothered. Maybe in 2 or 3 years time when we will need opposition, they will be something like opposition.

Right now we need a focused majority doing what was asked of them.

Hmm - Evening All, pint of best please and a crusty ham salad roll, or similar if you've got the makings.

Just listening to snippets of newz here and there, as being a bit laissez faire about it all.

My little noticed things include all the hoohah and immediate discussions about the next Labour Leader and Scottish Independence - best thing I heard was on R4 this evening where the 'presenter' said to Ian Blackford 'why don't you just wait [a bit] and see what happens (in regards to Brexit as it unfolds) before you push for 'IndyRef2' and, even Blackford agreed it was good advice.

Labour need to calm down a bit before they elect their next Leader - sure it's about time they had a Woman/Northern/or Both person, but greater 'criteria' should be applied.

Flint vs Thornberry - well I'm sure Ms Flint is canny enough not to publicly state her recollections if she couldn't evidence them; and such blatant 'damage limitation' today with the PR that Thornberry advised that a 'Remain' stance might not be such a good thing, some time ago. Funny that.

Ironically, the business of Bercow makes me think of the issues with the Garden Bridge

Someone’s got too much power when they’re able to roadblock that way, or spend £64million on their idea, with only nonsultations carried out.

yolo you might find the thread I linked to on Feminism answers some of your questions.

RaiseaGlasstoFreedom

Is there anywhere I can watch it?

BBC Parliament on iplayer. I'm watching it now. There's some interesting (non-political) panel discussion too, talking about parliamentary history and procedure.

There's a school party watching MPs proceed across the lobby to Lords. Exciting day for them to be there.

Woman making a hash of reading the royal commission. You had one job....

Final thought from me for the day.
Boris has done Labour a huge favour by amending the WA Bill.

No need for Nandy to soul search. Just vote against blaming potential for 2020 "cliff edge" and removal of concessions on workers rights etc. End of Brexit discussion for Labour. Shut up about it, let the Govt negotiate with Barnier in peace and move on.

(Negotiating International Treaties was an Executive Function before Gina Miller and the Art 50 case. It only got dragged into Parliamentary process via spurious link to UK domestic legislation (EU law enacted into UK law). In this regard Parliament has already fulfilled its scrutinising function.)

I think I've always been honest on here: I hate what the current Tory party stands for/does/will do. I've never bought hatred or abuse onto this thread. Dapple I dont think commenting on what I've said on the other thread is particularly relevant? I think all those things, I wouldnt bring them on here because it's clearly not the place.

I don't love the Labour party or Corbyn; this time around I thought they offered the best options for the country as a whole and I was wrong because Tory landslide.

So, I have to accept it. But I am wary about the future for all of us, especially the poor/disadvantaged/disabled, and I don't think that's a particularly unusual position. And for that not to be the case, we need an opposition which can actually oppose rather than infighting (and yeah, I'm not holding my breath either).

Cheers Lily and thank you for the !

Sir Lindsay Hoyle on his feet now. I like him.

Hey yolo - I'm sure most agree with you on what you are saying here, and you'd still be welcome even if most didn't - as long as you don't resort to 'below the belt' comments.

Now Hate is a very strong word - to feel Hate can lead you down paths that normally you wouldn't consider. This idea/belief that the Tories wish ill on the disabled and other vulnerable people, is rather 'overstretching any description' and therefore not worth any of your Hate.

I hatestrongly dislike party politics and all their party lines, whips, mantras, etc and just would rather politicians could just say what they thought, rather than what they were told/should/ought to say.

Fair point hate (ironic abbreviation given your name!)

No I probably wouldnt hate (some of) these people if I met them in real life, and I don't think they actually wish ill harm to vulnerable people. But what I do think is that many of them have never walked in those type of shoes, and lack the imagination or the joined up thinking to see that if we do X to benefits we create Y problem for eg - the bedroom tax being a prime example.

Totally agree with your final sentence! I hatestrongly dislike party politics and all their party lines, whips, mantras, etc and just would rather politicians could just say what they thought, rather than what they were told/should/ought to say.

PR rather than FPTP would ensure better representation of people, but would of course cause more problems for whichever party of the day is in favour.

Michael Howard (he described as having 'something of the night about him' by Ann Widdecombe) used to be my MP. He was - well, still is, absolutely charming and a bloody good constituency MP, whether Tory or not.

However, he was of the days of before Party before Country rather than the other way around (not that I approved of everything he did but YKWIM!)