Westminstenders: The Tunnel or Bridge

[RedToothBrush]

Apparently negotiations are in the black hole of the EU tunnel or should that be on the back of the fantasy of the Boris Bridge?

Another week closer to complete meltdown.

I'm guessing that our world beating customs solution will be based on blackboard and chalk.

@BigChocFrenzy

MPs have voted against an attempt to formally ban undercover agents and informants from committing murder, torture and rape This is in the UK, not Saudi Arabia

Not to mention fathering children and fucking off.

LeClerc emailed earlier
he's very glad that he lives in France
but remains an English Cynic

Brexit is all going a bit Pete Tong at the moment
and when even my elderly Tory voting mother signs the "keep gyms open" petition
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/333869
you know that the world has turned upside down

www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/15/uk-must-make-necessary-moves-for-brexit-deal-leaked-eu-document

No 10 startled by EU insistence that UK accept Brexit trade terms

Downing Street reacted in dismay as Emmanuel Macron led EU leaders in warning Boris Johnson that he must swallow the bloc’s conditions, in what appeared to be taken as a direct challenge to the British prime minister’s threat to walk out on the talks.

At a summit in Brussels, the EU proposed a further “two to three weeks” of negotiations but Europe’s heads of state and government offered Johnson little succour, demanding that he alone needed to “make the necessary moves to make an agreement possible”.

The intervention was evidently regarded as incendiary in No 10 as Johnson had said he would make a decision on Friday on whether there were grounds to continue the talks. In September, he had said that without agreement by the time of this summit the government would “move on” to focus on no-deal preparations.

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Ha ha. Finally the bastard is reaping what he sowed.

BJ has totally underestimated how much breaking the WA angered the 27 heads of govt

They were united before in defending the SM, but now they are united in being pissed off at him as well

I like the way they have offered a two week extension as a helpful afterthought. The bloc wants a deal - but not at any price. I would be pidsed off with the whole shebang too, by now.

I am watching with interest to see what Johnson will do. Blame, fold, walk out or all three?

@borntobequiet

Ha ha. Finally the bastard is reaping what he sowed.

Born I'm worried that it's us who's reaping what Johnson has sowed. Let's not forget that there's still a lot of money backing no deal.

Would any of us be shocked to find that there's some folks in/near government who will reap windfalls from a no deal scenario.

For god's sake his own sister said as much on HIGNFY. Was a bit shocking that she said the words out loud. None of them, not one, will in any way from Brexit. Even a no deal.

*suffer

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@BigChocFrenzy

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That sort of cartoon really annoys me. Nobody is kicking the UK over the edge. They are jumping all on their own, despite their best efforts at blaming the EU for the mess they're in.

It amuses me
and the situation has changed since the IMB

BJ - like DD & co - has always thought he can wait until the 59th minute,
but now EU leaders like Macron will kick him over the edge because he has finally managed to piss them off

I saw it in an NL zine btw, so maybe it expressed their longing to finally kick him in the arse

I thought the same as Ochon - Johnson has finally decided to jump rather than be pushed. But he and the Brexiters will blame the EU - they didn't stop me jumping, wah, wah, wah.

Isn't it convenient though, how a row with the northern city Mayors about Covid restrictions has pushed the news of Johnson failing to meet his self-imposed deadline with the EU off the front pages?

See that Frost has been tweeting that he’s “disappointed”. Johnson to make a statement today apparently (no doubt after Cummings has written it for him).

Of course I’m worried about the rest of us, or I wouldn’t have been having these discussions over the last four years. But that doesn’t mean I can’t be pleased that the buffoon has had his comeuppance.

I agree with Peregrina that Covid rows are a convenient distraction from Brexit, but happy (in a specific and limited way, to avoid misinterpretation) that they’re possibly more damaging to the Govt than Brexit ones.

@Peregrina

Isn't it convenient though, how a row with the northern city Mayors about Covid restrictions has pushed the news of Johnson failing to meet his self-imposed deadline with the EU off the front pages?

We long ago passed the point where that was a consideration. The Brexit cheerleading media will just report that Boris deadline worked. Even now I can picture the Express story about THE EU CRUMBLES AT UK DEMANDS.

Remember: 60% of the population think Brexit was sorted in 2016.

Here's the headline:

Liz Truss

@trussliz

Today trade agreement signed between UK and Côte d'Ivoire to provide continuity for business and opportunities for the future.

• phew. That's a worry of my mind.

and ...

@DGRossetti

Here's the headline:

Liz Truss

@trussliz

Today trade agreement signed between UK and Côte d'Ivoire to provide continuity for business and opportunities for the future.

• phew. That's a worry of my mind.

Phew - chocolate is safe then.

Still, good to know we’re replacing the already tariff free EU deal with one of our own because ... errr ... errr ... there must be a reason why it’s better?

Still, good to know we’re replacing the already tariff free EU deal with one of our own because ... errr ... errr ... there must be a reason why it’s better?

Something random about Sovereignty?

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Today trade agreement signed between UK and Côte d'Ivoire to provide continuity for business and opportunities for the future.
But British chocolate
Why would we want to import
like British baked beans made with imported beans, tomatoes and sugar
The gammons will be frothing at the thought

There's also buckets of irony in trumpeting a trade deal with one of the few French former colonies - or is it just my weird sense of humour ?

(For those of you who like indy art house films, some of the nicest French I've heard spoken is by an Isaac de Bankolé - an Ivorian actor -in Jim Jarmusch's "Night on Earth". I've always thought it must be the French equivalent of Trevor McDonald ... )

I know I'm being self indulgent and gloaty but:
FUCK YOU, BREXITEERS. GOT OUR PASSPORTS LAST WEEK