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 can’t find a clip of the cheering but perhaps it will be on the news.

yolo “something of the night” is such a funny term.

autumn I know what she meant... but he is a lovely man in person!

Evening good documentary on BBC 2 right now about the last few months of Brexit 😊

Jeremy Corbyn confirms Lab will vote against brexit bill on Friday: ‘...by putting an impossible timetable for a good deal with the EU, Boris Johnson has already shown that his priority is a toxic deal with Donald Trump that will sell out our NHS and risk the safety of our food.’

#LabourArentListening

Autumn - just wow!

I've been reading that thread you linked to for hours, only just got to the end!!

Thank you for linking it 😊

Walking that vid 😂😂😂😂😂

Brilliant!

Just read the CapX article Lily...

Nodding along as per usual

(Soz for my sporadic posts & not engaging properly btw - am doing a mad catch up & just posting as I go 😳)

Yolo I've had severely disabled relative under labour, the worst case scenario happened for us, I won't say any morel than that because if im triggered it will be that guy in Dr strangeglove.

I'm also triggered by mentions of NHS under tory in a big way.

All I'll say is it was all hideous toward the end of nigh on 10 years of Blair. Run down to failing and lives not at risk but lost.

This tory government is different people, different times and different agenda.

I'm already formulating what I'd like to lobby my mp for. I'm feeling very hopeful.

I don't hate them just because they are tory.
Let's wait and see..

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.

Hey Yolo! 🕊🍷

This is probs mostly true of old Tories but there's been incremental changes over the recent few intakes & the latest intake has a huge swathe of MPs from single parent families, working class backgrounds etc

The two major parties have undergone a lot of realignment over the last decade tbh

Raise 💐

I've watched nothing on telly about Parliament today - I've just been reading that monster thread that Autumn linked to, and watching/reading all the various links from it

It's engrossing & brilliant

Not gonna lie though - an awful lot of observations & comment on there has been said repeatedly by posters before, but because we were 'on the wrong side' we were shouted down & vilified before

That said, I'm getting the impression that the GE result we've had has let the pressure go for a lot of people

The fight is over & BJ/Brexit has 'won'

They can hold their heads high & say they fought to the end & didn't give up - this leaves space to being open to the future & to others (if that makes sense)

There's still pockets of nastiness all over the place but there's a calmer feel to things overall (I think...?)

Just double checked because I'm amazed at the shortness of political memory. The Bedroom tax was an extension of a Labour policy under Blair. Housing benefit was restricted by necessary bedrooms in the private sector under Blair - I have friends who were affected by this. All the Tories added was to extend it to social housing.

www.thecourier.co.uk/news/politics/85322/bedroom-tax-inspired-by-last-labour-government/

Lots of the other "Tory" changes are also long tail Labour - 1995 pension changes, PIP, reform of ESA, phasing out of widows' benefit. Even the move to UC was supported by Labour and HH actively defended the 2 child limit.

The BBC2 Doc was very good and well balanced. Somewhat shows the difficulty for the BBC in maintaining balance when there are 2 "establishments" and the normal party lines don't work.

There's still pockets of nastiness all over the place but there's a calmer feel to things overall (I think...?)

I see encouraging signs of open and honest debate on other threads too but I've had a RL conversation this evening with a family member who I knew was Labour but didn't realise was one of Momentum's true believers. I say "conversation" but it was more of a rant down the phone at me. The GE result is all my fault. It seems that Jezza is right. He is on the centre ground and we are all far-right. I have no mind or thoughts of my own because I'm under the control of Rupert Murdoch. Jezza is the victim of fake news and I am so gullible that I've swallowed it all without question. I have ruined the whole country. Singlehandedly. One day my eyes will be opened, I will achieve enlightenment, and then we move forward together to utopia. Or some such.

It's been hugely dispiriting. A thirty year family relationship bruised. But never mind. I'll have the last laugh. I'm going to leave him something in my will.

My three-volume biography of Margaret Thatcher.

Does anyone know why the SNP have kicked one their new MP's out of the party since the election last week. I can't find the answer on google.

Morning all

Just sweeping in & out in grand fashion...!

Walking, I'm pretty sure there was an SNP candidate who was dropped from SNP during campaign for social media comments they'd made or something?
He was still on ballot as SNP though
Not sure if that's who you're meaning??

How about I could be wrong but I'm sure labour got rid of legal aid to large degree.

If people can't access legal help when they need it...

Morning, All,

There's a roaring fire in the snug, radiating warmth through to the bar, so leave the cold and rain behind and help yourself to the complimentary breakfast tray. No giant toasted tea cakes left but the Landlady has provided bacon barms and egg muffins, so enjoy.

Swearing-in of new MPs continues today in readiness for tomorrow's Queen's Speech. I'm betting Her Majesty will be thrilled, not least because she can finally get away to Sandringham and start wrapping the presents.

Morning, Dusty, Raise and Walking. Neale Hanvey is the one. Dropped by the SNP with just weeks to go before the GE because, according to the Herald, he had compared Israel's treatment of the Palestinians to the Holocaust and has attributed actions unspecified to George Soros (sooo last year - does he not realise we are all the puppets of Rupert Murdoch?). He still ran and won his seat as an Independent. According to the article, he didn't realise that what he said was anti-Semitic but has since apologised to Jewish groups. His suspension from the SNP still holds.

Kettle's on.

Morning all! I think I'll stop in here today, the 'fuck boris' thread has descended into pure tantrum territory now 😱😅

Morning, Boswell, I've hidden the thread. There's no point in trying to reason with haters. I have, however, just contributed to SilverySurfer's thread - she's getting some reasonable responses but with the usual ploppers shouting Evil Tories, so I thought I'd give her some support.

☕️ for you.

I’m not reading any other thread on brexit. Heard it all 1000 x and not interested in labours post mortem.

I do wonder how the remainers on here feel though, after all the Westminster threads, petitions they kept posting, marches they’ve been on etc etc - all for nothing.

The remainers I know in RL are actually just glad something decisive is finally happening.

Does anyone know why the SNP have kicked one their new MP's out of the party since the election last week. I can't find the answer on google

Lily I saw Ian Blackford on TV last friday talking about this. The SNP MP had been caught making anti Semitic comments (not sure how recently) and IB was confirming that the individual was no longer an SNP MP as a result, and would be independent now?
Weird that it can't be found online though

Morning, Dirty and Holly.

It is a bit obscure but if you Google his name - Neale Hanvey - it's all there.

I'm going to take the most benign view and say that events are moving so quickly in politics that even the Wikipedia army is struggling to keep up

There's no point in trying to reason with haters

Indeed not. It doesn’t seem to occur to them to look at why Labour lost so many seats - it’s just the same old ‘fuck the Tories’.
Talking of which, was John Snow on tv when the exit poll was announced?

Thanks Autumn for signposting that Douglas Murray thread. Wow. Some fascinating stuff on there, with hardly any verbal assaults or deletions for stating the bleeding obvious (that those of us in the Arms have been banging on about for years). Jaw on the floor time.