Westminstenders: Prepare for what we said would never happen

[RedToothBrush]

I think that there may be a run on tinned tomatoes and pasta coming. Pizza will no longer have mozzarella in 2021.

On the plus side turnips are in season.

We can have a garden party chez prettybird when (ever ) this is all over - assuming the English Westministenders can get across the border

You might want to bring tents to start the refugee camp

RTB
From what I'm hearing on my networks, many Borough and District councils are going to literally run out of cash before March.

Geek alert
Councils are required to hold a couple of months expenditure in general reserves to cover emergencies
Councils are allowed to earmark for projects that meet NAO rules and build up reserves
Councils are allowed to hold standing reserves such as for self insurance
What I'm hearing is that every earmarked reserve that can be has been rolled back into general reserves and spent.
A council leader told me in a phone call that they have enough for the wages and not much else for the January / February hungry gap

Interesting times
even before Brexit costs

@ListeningQuietly

RTB From what I'm hearing on my networks, many Borough and District councils are going to literally run out of cash before March.

Geek alert
Councils are required to hold a couple of months expenditure in general reserves to cover emergencies
Councils are allowed to earmark for projects that meet NAO rules and build up reserves
Councils are allowed to hold standing reserves such as for self insurance
What I'm hearing is that every earmarked reserve that can be has been rolled back into general reserves and spent.
A council leader told me in a phone call that they have enough for the wages and not much else for the January / February hungry gap

Interesting times
even before Brexit costs

Im not even remotely surprised.

Councils need costly residents in care homes to die of covid...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/oct/16/tory-election-agent-guilty-of-tricking-voters-into-nominating-candidates

A Conservative party election agent has been convicted of tricking voters in a Labour stronghold borough into signing nomination forms for Tory candidates in a local election.

Diana Dianescu posed variously as a representative of the Green party or the Labour party, or as a council official, when knocking on doors in Hackney, east London, during the May 2018 local elections.

Her scam was rumbled after a Hackney resident, Sandra Stanton, saw her and her husband’s names listed on the council website as assentors for three Tory candidates, and complained to the council, which passed on her complaint to the police.

After a five-week trial involving 32 prosecution witnesses, Danescu, of South Woodford, east London, was on Friday found guilty of 16 offences of causing or permitting a false signature to be included on a nomination form under the Representation of the People Act 1983. She was handed a six-month suspended sentence and told to undertake 200 hours of community service

(contd)

Thanks, red 💐

Australian Brexit ??
It will NOT be that good

EU: List of treaties by country: Australia

An FTA is still being discussed, but there are several existing agreements - international treaties - e.g. on conformity assessment

ec.europa.eu/world/agreements/searchByCountryAndContinent.do?countryId=2131&countryName=Australia&countryFlag=treaties

Macron

"It just so happens that making the British prime minister happy isn't the vocation of sovereign leaders of the 27 member states that chose to remain in the EU."

"They are much more dependent on us than we are on them"

https://twitter.com/dw_europe/status/1317115916358922240
(English subtitles)

From REd "Councils need costly residents in care homes to die of covid..."

Well there working on that, with the policy to again discharge elderly patients back into care homes, whether or not they are Covid positive .... or without a test...... that protective ring.....

The govt was reportedly hoping this Berlin summit might bring some change from the EU (NO chance of that, anyway)

DW Politics@dw_politics

Angela Merkel has canceled an informal #EUsummit, she planned to host in Berlin in November.

The German chancellor said calling off the meeting, due to the spike in #coronavirus infections, was a "necessary message" to the public that face-to-face contact should be avoided.

Ok so sitting down now after running around like a headless chicken for a while. Ive drunk all the gin.

What has always worried me is that this lot are not interested in re election. So...

Wow - just wow

twitter.com/joe_mayes/status/1317109797788045314?s=21

So
returning to the dead cat stories, my mum put my cat Jenny in the freezer after she died. I'd had her as long as i could remember. I was 17 when she died. She did it so i could say goodbye to a non smelly cat. It was sad and weird.

Lord Oates asked: Who does the we' refer to when the government says we' will prosper under Australia-style terms? Is it business, farmers, the services industry?

Gove: `The Government.'

True dat.

mrslaughan wow.

I have had to restrain myself from swearing in caps all over Twitter today.

SInce the UK does NOT have the EU-Australian trade treaties listed above,

if they want a country beginning with "A"

Afghanistan Brexit ?

Ascension Island Brexit ?

Johnson did once say "Fuck Business"

Better-go-out-and-stock-up-or-I'll-have-missed-my-chance PMK

Pmk

Ffs.

Ponders where else I can store food?

Pmk.

Too despondent to look at Twitter tonight.

www.rte.ie/news/brexit/2020/1016/1171889-brexit-uk-eu/

Frost withdraws Barnier invitation for talks as Brexit row deepens

Priti Patel will be setting up nets & barriers in the Channel to keep out Barnier !

Some comfort watching Gogglebox!

George Osborne has got a new job....

Osborne? Jeez.