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 🎉🥳🎈

Graham Stringer on LBC "whipping to vote against the Brexit deal is 'putting two fingers up to Labour Leave voters' "

Only remaining Labour MP who voted against the CU Amendment. Northern, still Brexit, still got a solid majority, shedloads of Govt experience, has been known to support Raab - just saying.

My overriding reason for voting Leave.

Brexit makes Scottish independence much more difficult.

Iain Macwhirter "The hard reality is that Scotland is about to leave the EU. The SNP's slogan of Independence in Europe is obsolete. The case for Europe, and independence, has to be remade from the ground up".

www.heraldscotland.com/news/18108471.snp-will-start-putting-case-hard-scexit/?ref=twtrec

Bit of a reality check from after 3 years of pie in the sky fantasy from him in the Herald - I may have to start reading it again occasionally.

Ian Murray is doing his best to sound quietly vindicated, as opposed to cock-a-hoop atm. He sounds like a good man.

Anyone else disappointed the Queen didn't proclaim Her Government will Get Brexit Done?

Me, Howabout. We were driving home through the pouring rain and listening to short excerpts of the Queen's Speech on the radio and I kept doing my best HM voice, saying, "My Ministers will Get Brexit Done!" Bet she was thinking it thought.

I'm saving up an article to read later - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard on why Boris's Brexit will make Scottish independence "all but impossible". Will let you know more later.

Hi Megan, that's a respectable position to take. I think a lot of people were conflicted Remainers but have since moved on and accepted the need to get on with it. I just welcome the end to uncertainty.

I think a lot of people got here via a similar path Megan

This article explains it well

unherd.com/2019/12/how-i-became-tory-scum/

Great article, thanks Autumn. I tend to vote Tory anyway (did vote for Blair first time though, have voted all sorts in local and EU elections) but this time was a very convinced Tory voter and even joined the party last September so I could vote in the leadership election.

Hello Armers! Just scanned the last two days worth of messages at very high speed. Have been away visiting my family for 48 hours, so unable to read along.

Desolate to hear of Epic's departure: we shall all miss you.

Welcome back, Xing. Hope all is well.

We're keeping a place warm for Epic in the snug, just in case.

Welcome back Xing 🍷

Am also hoping Epic comes back after a wee break from it all

Or is it simply that Remoaners took over, shouted the loudest, hurled abuse after abuse until the silent majority shut up?

It started the day after the Referendum. There were attempts by Leave voters to start threads to discuss the result from a Leave perspective, but they were immediately taken over by Remainers, with the 'thick xenophobic Little Englander' abuse, and sensible discussion became impossible. (I was around then under different names.)

Her Maj was overjoyed that Corbz is out on his ear.... 😉

I was on a few leavers threads then too Mary - think there was a quiet leavers one iirc full of posters who couldn't say out loud in real life that they'd voted leave because of the nastiness

That meme, Dusty 😂

My favourite HM moment when she had to greet Martin McGuinness at Buckingham Palace and he said, "How are you?"

She drily replied, "Well, I'm still here".

No thanks to him and his lot, mind.

She drily replied, "Well, I'm still here".
😮

I love Her Maj 😍

🚩✊🌹

That whole trip to Ireland changed my opinion of Her Maj.

In a positive way, that is

I love Her Maj

Earlier this year on an official visit -
'I'm still capable of planting a tree' as she shoved her handbag at someone and grabbed the shovel. Idea was that she would watch as someone else did the planting.

Glad to see that the FTPA is to go.

The carryings on in Parliament over the last few months were not good for democracy, or for the image of Parliament, and not something I would ever want to see repeated.

But I think in the end it's been good for Boris and the Conservatives. Labour had time to dig a bigger hole for themselves and piss off more voters. If they'd agreed to an election when Boris first asked, back in Sept/Oct, I think the result might have been quite different.

The carryings on in Parliament over the last few months were not good for democracy, or for the image of Parliament, and not something I would ever want to see repeated.

Agree

They were so caught up in their own bubble they spectacularly failed to grasp the mood of the country as a whole

Their game-playing & ritual humiliation of both TM & BJ wasn't just 'giving a bloody nose to The Tories!' - it was humiliating us as a country

People don't tend to like that 🤷🏻‍♀️

(Who knew....?!)

That whole trip to Ireland changed my opinion of Her Maj.
In a positive way, that is

How so?

(Nosy)

Love the Giles Fraser article.

"I got my Euroscepticism from Tony Benn, a great man and friend, who had long been alert to the way in which our membership of the European Union was diluting national sovereignty, and thus slowly undermining the one power that the poor shared equally with the rich: the power of their vote. Without this, capitalism would run unchecked.

I was genuinely shocked at how many on the Left lent instinctively towards Remain, preferring to cede their precious rights over to some distant authority whose main aim was to allow capital to move around unhindered between hitherto sovereign nations. Like Esau in the book of Genesis, we had sold our democratic birthright for a measly pot of capitalist pottage.

It wasn’t the referendum debate that changed me. It was the establishment’s reaction upon losing it. Slowly at first, then increasingly as the campaign against the referendum result began to pick up momentum throughout 2018 and 2019, as the opposition took to the courts, my indignation burned. 17.4 million people were being denigrated as racists. Democracy was being deliberately sabotaged because it didn’t square with world view of liberal metropolitans who had become all too used to getting their own way. On Twitter, I was discovering what it was like to be on the receiving end of the Left’s unquenchable self-righteousness. I had become “Tory scum”. It felt like my default allegiance to the Left had turned into something like an abusive relationship. Perhaps it had been like that for longer than I realised."

Did any of you see Boris and Jeremy Corbyn walking into the Chamber in today’s State Opening of Parliament?
Boris was grinning away and Jeremy had a face of thunder. I’ve never seen anyone so tight lipped and angry.

@Dapplegrey it was so childish! I've seen more maturity in the ball pool at the soft-play.

I know Boris has a bit of a reputation for silliness, or being human as I call it, but putting on a surly teenager expression isn't making us stop and think "ooops, we didn't elect Mr Serious....I feel such a fool"

Merry Brexmas to everyone.
So relieved that we might be getting on with it and the country can move on!

@MamaMary
I couldn't agree more.
Well put.