Westministenders: No Australia Don't Have A Deal

[RedToothBrush]

Since Friday, far from letting things calm down, Johnson has doubled down stating that if we can't have a Canada Deal (which the EU says wouldn't be equal because we are much closer than Canada geographically) we will go for an Australia Deal.

This is the latest rehash of a managed no deal package up as something else which the EU have already repeatedly said no to.

So we are on track for no deal.

At the same time Johnson has got very excited about American food and how its great. Almost as if he wants no deal wit the EU to force a shitty bad deal with the us through.

Johnson and his chronies have also been trying to undermine journalistic transparency by blocking access to the lobby to some media outlets in a move that makes us look like a tinpot dictatorship. Fortunately there was a mass walk out of journalists but it remains to be seen how long that can be maintained.

Far from being a clean slate to move forward from its already proving that nothing has changed and old divisions are as deep as ever, if not worse...

Thanks red

Mistigri

Pmk

I am beginning to wonder if Johnson secretly wants to dismantle the conservative party.

Well, it's one way to be King I guess. Stanley Johnson would probably die a priaprismic death if he saw King Boris I crowned.

It's certainly DCs plan, I think...

David Henig on Twitter posted today that he's seeing a lot of new, very active "clean break" Brexit accounts on twitter, so it's not just here that is seeing renewed astroturfing activity.

Ooh who is the astroturf?

I have a feeling I've been going round and round in discussion with one.

It's a complete mystery, malylis

Anyway. Thank you for the sanity.

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Ooh who is the astroturf?

I think of him/her as the online equivalent of the public transport frotteur

It's definitely a him - he's admitted that in the past. I save lots of time by scrolling past his posts. 🎵🎶 They add nothing.

Thank you

Brexit viewed from Switzerland.

[Slinks in]
Pmk

Can anyone think of another example where one country is adamant that it's doing the right thing, but virtually all others think it's a mistake?Countries which we regard as allies, that is, not ones which are happy to see us destroy ourselves to save them doing the job.

I still can't get over how miserable the Leavers are.They certainly don't seem to be rolling up their sleeves and getting on with Brexit.

Sideways but one of the more amusing political stories today ....
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/27/couple-run-against-each-other-in-irish-election-holly-cairns-cork

Aah makes me think of John and Mary in Father Ted. But less violent.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=yTn6c1NMxjM

Could have done without knowing what priapismic means, DG.

I used to delight in sending my parents postcards of statues of Priapus when I was interrailing through Greece as a student

(Used to work the summer and then go off around Europe with a friend for the month of September using what I'd earned and saved).

It seems that I missed the first round of the fish wars.

French ships were prevented from fishing in Guernsey waters because some fishing permissions expired with Brexit on 31/1.

So French fisherman retaliated by preventing Guernsey trawlers from landing their fish in French ports.

Fish rotted. Guernsey folded.

The first of many true life Brexit fables.

Confirming that we are treading the Orwellian Newspeak path:
www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/04/no-more-deal-or-no-deal-no-10s-brexit-diktat-to-foreign-office

PMK, ugh its grimmer than I thought already!

The Guardian: BJ: "said Britain would be “governed by science, not mumbo-jumbo” when looking at whether imported food was acceptable for consumption in the UK. Johnson criticised “America bashers” who take a “hysterical” attitude towards US food and view it as “inferior”."