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Westministenders: No Australia Don't Have A Deal

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RedToothBrush · 04/02/2020 16:47

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...

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Peregrina · 13/02/2020 10:00

McVey gone - something of a relief, but which other incompetent will get the post?

BigChocFrenzy · 13/02/2020 10:01

From 30 January interview with Ivan Rogers
(Former UK permanent representative to the EU)
by Duncan Robinson (Brussels bureau chief, The Economist
at the Interdependence Summit 2020 of Forum Europe

Jennifer Rankin@JenniferMerode
....... < referring to the talks, NOT the UK economy >

‘Not a great deal will happen in the next few months,
heading for the rocks by the summer
and towards a major crisis in autumn 2020.’

..... IR thinks Johnson's economic policy so far more of throwback to 1960s Butskellism, with echoes of Chamberlain
Not Thatcherism, nor Singapore on Thames.

BigChocFrenzy · 13/02/2020 10:02

His policy is fuckwittery

Peregrina · 13/02/2020 10:06

Who will Johnson have made enemies of? Who has enough power to wound him? I doubt if Leasdom comes into that category, but there must be some who do.

Mistigri · 13/02/2020 10:08

Pic stolen from twitter.

Interesting that several NI secretaries have been so bad that Owen Paterson ranks as merely mediocre Shock

Westministenders: No Australia Don't Have A Deal
ContinuityError · 13/02/2020 10:12

Loathsome has gone too.

Peregrina · 13/02/2020 10:16

Was Humphrey Atkins a real person, and not someone in Yes Minister?

Could we give Brokenshire a pass - I think he was seriously ill at the time?

SegregateMumBev · 13/02/2020 10:19

Humphrey was real, I have memories of Paisley doing one of his blustering speeches going "So we say to Humphrey, to (other names I can't recall), never. never. never!"

DGRossetti · 13/02/2020 10:22

Could we give Brokenshire a pass - I think he was seriously ill at the time?

Not really, he was an utter cock at the Home Office.

RedToothBrush · 13/02/2020 10:29

No 10 were blindsided by the Stormont deal they were fully briefed on.

Was someone not paying attention in class?

Bodes Well for a series of trade deals that...

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ContinuityError · 13/02/2020 10:44

Villiers sacked and Cox allegedly resigned as well.

Plus, from BBC live reporting:

Someone outside the gates of Downing Street is using a large speaker to blast music towards Number 10, the PA News agency says.

^Tracks played so far include Fun Boy Three's The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum), and Part Of

Teehee.

prettybird · 13/02/2020 10:45

"There is concern over the way he has been operating", a senior government source said

What's the betting that that "source" was Cummings and he was pissed off because Smith was competent and achieving results that weren't in Cummings' grand scheme of things and/or that Cummings BJ couldn't take credit for Hmm

ContinuityError · 13/02/2020 10:45

Last para should read:

Tracks played so far include Fun Boy Three's The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum), and Part Of The Union by Strawbs.

Mockersisrightasusual · 13/02/2020 10:57

It's a ill wind, etc.

McVile gone, hopefully forever.

TheSultanofPingu · 13/02/2020 11:08

A good one to play would be Running the world by Jarvis Cocker, but it's a bit sweary.

DGRossetti · 13/02/2020 11:13

A good one to play would be Running the world by Jarvis Cocker, but it's a bit sweary.

Everybody Wants To Rule The World ?

Any Londoners recall growing up in the 70s to Capital Radios "Six of the best" on Saturday Nights ? When they were on "194" ...

Mockersisrightasusual · 13/02/2020 11:34

If they're taking requests

Hello, Hooray, I prefer the plague to the Eton Rifles

CrunchyCarrot · 13/02/2020 11:54

Wow Sajid Javid has resigned - apparently because he was told he must sack all his advisers. He refused and resigned.

hanahsaunt · 13/02/2020 11:55

Not sure that Rishi Sunak will be any better.

prettybird · 13/02/2020 11:58

Javid's resignation is directly to do with Cummings' malign influence and need to be in control with no other "experts" around to contradict him

He really is a current version of Rasputin.

CrunchyCarrot · 13/02/2020 11:59

So true, prettybird.

DGRossetti · 13/02/2020 11:59

Wow Sajid Javid has resigned - apparently because he was told he must sack all his advisers. He refused and resigned.

Why "Wow" ? It was foretold days ago.

TokyoSushi · 13/02/2020 11:59

Ooh, I don't blame 'The Saj' - Cumings clearly had it in for him so it was never going to go anywhere. What an uber twat Cummings really is.

Mahoosive promotion for Rishi Sunak. or somebody else?

CrunchyCarrot · 13/02/2020 12:00

Why "Wow" ? It was foretold days ago.

Well probably because I only dip in and out of here and the news, now. Sorry for being so behind the times!

DGRossetti · 13/02/2020 12:01

Well probably because I only dip in and out of here and the news, now. Sorry for being so behind the times!

Amused at the BBCs surprised take on it. It does make you wonder quite what(s left) of it's political reporting team have been up ot ?