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.

@DrBlackbird

I am beyond depressed. Entering total body numbness as the only coping mechanism left at the venal, corrupt, shysters pretending to be government. And at the apologists applauding these Etonian faux spoilt boy tantrums and willingly swallowing their lies. It's like living through 2016 all over again what with Trump's possible likely reelection. Skyrocketing inequality, social unrest, nepotism, destruction of public services along with the civil service. And so much plain stupidity.

This, thank you for articulating my thoughts Dr Blackbird PMK

Over on the last thread someone said that Scotland only needed 51% for Independence. I would really love to see Sturgeon hold an 'advisory' referendum which gains 70% and see the Brexiters desperately try to spin their way out as to why that is not a mandate for Scottish Independence.

Interesting to see that Steve Baker is distancing himself - rats leaving the sinking ship. Although reading the article, it doesn't quite give that flavour.

Also, the name Farage's Garage is likely to stick - a most fitting memorial for the man.

"Farage's Garage"

Catchy, but I'd put more blame on BJ:

who cynically joined the Leave campaign just because he thought it was his route to being PM - after Remain lost ! -
who sabotaged May's attempts at a hard Brexit that many EU heads of govt thought was too good a deal for the UK
who has totally buggered up negotiations and broken an international treaty that he praised as oven-ready, to get elected and he only just signed

who is actually in charge

Spot on, pretty.
I found myself nodding along when reading Steve Baker's comments (can hardly believe I'm writing that).
Belated congratulations to bellini on the new passports.

I've heard from Nicola's own mouth that she wants to win Indyref2 by at least 60% - and that she wouldn't go for it until the polls were suggesting support at 60% as she understandably "doesn't want to lose again"

But she's always been anti an unauthorised Indyref poll - keeping away from Catalonia "unconstitutional" dilemma.

She's been bounced by circumstances into explicitly committing to campaigning for Indyref2 in the next election, but I think was right to do so. That way BJ would be on dodgy ground if he continued to refuse a Section 30 notice - not that that would stop him

Jacinda Adhern being on course to win a majority in a NZ Parliament designed not to have single party majorities (like Holyrood) on the back of her handling of the pandemic will be raising alarm bells in WM about the upcoming Scottish elections.

Cue dealings with Scotland getting really dirty

We could have the Farage Garage and the portaloos can be the Johnsons - although I saw a suggestion that they be called Jacob Rees-Boggs

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Interesting how the BBC reportage on NZ referendums seems to be at pains to point out the advisory nature of the recreational cannabis one and how that contrasts with the binding vote on End of Life ...

(New Zealand being the world capital of home distilling, by the way )

Arden has her landslide victory.

Thanks for the new thread. It’s just so demoralising. The Covid crisis continues, clearly the government has no intention of actually doing anything constructive just more divide and conquer. Now no deal Brexit in a matter of months, with more gaslighting that it’s all the EU’s fault. No hope of an EU passport, so me and my family are completely trapped on this sinking ship.

I’m calling the lorry parks the ‘Brexit fields of dreams’

@Darker

I’m calling the lorry parks the ‘Brexit fields of dreams’

Maybe the Potters Field, if you like your allusions biblical, deep and painfully accurate ? JRM would certainly get it.

(I cannot urge atheists to bone up on religion enough. Quite aside from the comedy value, you can see a lot more in what there is around you. It's the same as knowing the Greek/Roman/Norse myths really )

That's a bit dark, DGR.

I like Darker's name for it, in a warped sort of way. "Build it and they will come"

Although it's maybe a wee bit too positive if you know the whole story line

I'm aware of Potter's Field, but thought it went back to the Middle Ages, not the bible
So - after checking ! - another esoteric snippet of knowledge gained from Westministenders

Leviticus is very depressing if you're a woman, or have respect for women

President Jed Bartlet (West Wing):

(The dream president of some.... the others elected Trump ..... )

“I'm interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7.

She's a Georgetown sophomore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleared the table when it was her turn.

What would a good price for her be?

While thinking about that, can I ask another?

My Chief of Staff Leo McGarry insists on working on the Sabbath.
Exodus 35:2 clearly says he should be put to death.

Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or is it okay to call the police?

Here's one that's really important 'cause we've got a lot of sports fans in this town:

Touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean. Leviticus 11:7.

If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Redskins still play football?
Can Notre Dame?
Can West Point?

Does the whole town really have to be together to stone my brother John for planting different crops side by side?

Can I burn my mother in a small family gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads? ”

"Leviticus is very depressing if you're a woman, or have respect for women"

Leviticus is a very good example of what happens when fanatics interpret the law.

They were given ten commandments to live by. Just ten.
They couldn't resist adding to them.

Those Kent lorry parks must be the ‘sunlit uplands’...

Just saw a few posts on the last thread about the Irish referendum. It is simply the terms of the GFA that we need 50% +1 for the Secretary of State to have grounds to call a referendum. I myself would prefer to wait so that the unionist minority would feel good about it....I understand their issues. For much of the last 100 years Catholic nationalists were treated like second class citizens in this failed statelet and I feel much of the fear of unionists is that they will be treated as nationalists once were. But in a new Ireland, that doesn't have to be the case. It will be new for all of us but it is patently obvious partition does NOT work. And for the benefit of the next generation we have to see that reunification is best for us all.

There were to be a number of Think 32 events to be held this year but thanks to Covid they didn't happen. But they will. And I think once the full effects of Brexit are felt here, reunification will be the only option for more and more of us.

I have wanted it all my life and it feels so close now. Once Scotland gains independence, what really will the unionists be holding onto? Nothing. The union will be finished. It is already in its death throes.

Brexiters, fhe people who destroyed the Union ... just not the one they were intending to

I will be happy to see Johnson and Cameron go down in history as the ones who destroyed the UK.

Brexiters, the people who destroyed the Union ... just not the one they were intending to

...... and strengthened the Union that they were trying to destroy

Lorry parks = unicorn paddocks.

Just drove past where one of the emergency road closure lorry parks is due to be.
Its been moved a mile since the spring
to right next to what was the largest dogging site in the South of England
Snigger