Westministenders: No Australia Don't Have A Deal

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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...

Respect to the Saj. A case of No Cummings, No Goings.

The Beeb signalled very clearly this morning that things may not go entirely to plan to be fair.

Steven Swinford@steven_swinford
BREAKING:

Rishi Sunak is the new chancellor

There will be a joint No10/No11 spad team to deliver on the Government's priorities

Absolutely seismic stuff

Sorry that should read

Steven Swinford@steven_swinford
BREAKING:

Dominic Cummings is the new Chancellor, as well as PM

There will be a joint No10/No11 spad team to deliver on the Government's priorities

Absolutely seismic stuff

Rishi Who?

The Beeb signalled very clearly this morning that things may not go entirely to plan to be fair.

Dear Gods really? And you believe the BBCs hot take?

Tim Shipman@shippersunbound
The notion that this reshuffle “has not gone according to plan” may not be quite the right read (at least for some concerned) on the Javid incident...

It's gone perfectly to plan.

The Beeb signalled very clearly this morning that things may not go entirely to plan to be fair.

Where are they based these days ? Pluto ? 280 minutes behind ?

There must be an asteroid a bit further out - maybe 3 light months ?

How to get rid of someone without sacking them by Dominic Cummings

Rishi Who, hereafter known as Dom's Poodle.

A bus driver's son replaced by a Wykehamist with an Oxford PPE married to the daughter of a billionare.

That's one in the eye for the elite.

Please let Javid sue for constructive dismissal.

David Schneider @davidschneider

^Interesting fact: "Damn! Rishi Sunak is the new Chancellor of the Exchequer" is an anagram for "Unelected Dominic Cummings runs the Treasury and everything"
#reshuffle^

Javid hasn't been in the job 2 years...

George Eustice at DEFRA? Seems to be the rumour going around.

He wrote this last year
amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/06/us-chlorinated-chicken-trade-deal-agriculture?__twitter_impression=true
The UK can’t accept backward US food standards – or chlorinated chicken

Ok ok enough of the snark! I haven't been keeping up with recent events as much as usual. Very long term poster with a name change.

And by going to plan, I meant the plan as trailed. I am not stupid enough to think that the plan and the real plan are the same.

Every time I think I have reached my lowest confidence levels about the Brexit process it turns out it can go lower.
Giving the second most important government job to a new inexperienced stooge at a time of huge upheaval just doesn't fill me with hope.

Quite.

And Pointless Patel has kept her job, sadly. I was hoping she'd go.

A bus driver's son replaced by a Wykehamist with an Oxford PPE married to the daughter of a billioniare

His parents were a GP and pharmacist. I wonder if a GP and pharmacist could afford to send their kids to Winchester College nowadays?

And Pointless Patel has kept her job, sadly. I was hoping she'd go.

She will. It would have been too obvious to get rid of her and Javid. For now she's needed to make it seem the Tories like women.

I wonder what the suspiciously-not-heard-from-them-since-last-year ERG are making of all this ?

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It does depend on the definition of "We"

Aka, we'll be all right, Jack

Just what we need, before entering into tough negotiations with our former, pissed-off trading partners.

I really hope whoever is reporting on the negotiations takes note of the NI outcome and gets the minutes signed off. In triplicate. With copies ready to go to the paper when Johnson whines about "not understanding".

I really hope whoever is reporting on the negotiations takes note of the NI outcome and gets the minutes signed off. In triplicate. With copies ready to go to the paper when Johnson whines about "not understanding".

It was only last week the entire world (especially family) was advised to bank any cheque from Boris by a respected world figure.

Does this mean that we can look forward to the warfare within the Tory party continuing?

Does this mean that we can look forward to the warfare within the Tory party continuing?

It's not really a fair fight though, is it ? Cummings and Johnson are pretty much set in stone now. They've won an election with a good majority. Who on earth has the standing to disagree with anything they say.

Look at the Huawei situation, for example.

It's starting to look a lot like the more headbanging Tory/ERG nutters aren't getting what they thought they were. With the added frisson that they are pretty much condemned to be self-censored at the moment.