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Westminstenders: Going, going, cummings

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RedToothBrush · 13/11/2020 18:36

As expected he's fucking off and leaving everyone else to pick up the pieces in January. But it does look like he was eventually shown the door and left with a cardboard box. As he should have been months ago.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with Johnson needing an image change, like the shape shifting creep he is, to one that fits more with the incoming Biden Administration. In other words hes got some serious sucking up to do...

... Meanwhile in Brexit land we are going into yet another final week of talks.

Many expect Cummings departure to signal 'the cave in'. The Eu say we havent moved enough and the uk say the EU wants us to do all the moving... Except the EU have done lots of moving. Barnier is still looking for a groundsman to level his field to play. We have yet to work out we aren't Canada and distance is important to trade.

Of course if we don't get a deal, that Pfizer vaccine in Germany that we want, might be hit with delays and extra costs we just can't afford.

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DGRossetti · 16/11/2020 15:37

@Whenwillow

I had to Google that, DGR because I'm not as clever as you, but yes exactly.
Trust me. If I was clever I wouldn't be in this mess.
Zebracat · 16/11/2020 16:44

@TheElementsOfMedical
Perhaps next time one of your fabulous interventions are required, you could tell us about the alleles required for smoke coloured cats?

Westminstenders: Going, going, cummings
PawFives · 16/11/2020 16:46

Oh FFS stop with the long cut & pastes about what other countries are doing - it doesn’t matter! It matters what happens here in 40 something days when we fall off the cliff edge. We are woefully unprepared and have the most lazy and self-serving PM “leading” us.
Sorry folks just had to get that out.

pussycatinboots · 16/11/2020 16:50

Zebracat erm, that's brave (and why the lids are always down on our loos)😂
Elements and why Ginger cats tend to be a little...podgy. 😹

SabrinaThwaite · 16/11/2020 18:04

Allegedly you can train cats to use a human toilet.

No way would I try with mine - being Mrs Clumsy she’d end up head first in it.

ListeningQuietly · 16/11/2020 18:17

My Dad's old cat used a human toilet

  • he's hop onto the bath and then step across in a genteel way and pee into the bowl.
Mistigri · 16/11/2020 18:21

Squirrelling activity presumably somewhat correlated with this:

"In hindsight, do you think Britain was right or wrong to vote to leave the European Union?"

Right to Leave: 38% (-3)
Wrong to Leave: 51% (+2)

Via @YouGov, 11-12 Nov.
Changes w/ 4-5 Nov.

Mistigri · 16/11/2020 18:28

Right to Leave: 38% (-3)
Wrong to Leave: 51% (+2)

On these numbers, the general public is not going to be AT ALL patient during the inevitable chaos in January (and even less patient if the shit hits the fan before New Year, as is quite possible if freight companies are risk-averse).

ListeningQuietly · 16/11/2020 18:39

As I've said since the beginning
news.sky.com/story/ports-warn-no-deal-customs-checks-will-be-impossible-12134058
It all comes down to moving lorries

Shrillharridan · 16/11/2020 19:02

No shit, sherlock

DGRossetti · 16/11/2020 19:03

Can't speak as to the accuracy of the statement

The EU is investing nearly €590 million to help achieve the European Green Deal—a 37% rise compared to last year. Post-#Brexit, the UK must meet or exceed the environmental commitments it made when it the EU.

but it linked to

ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_2052

Mistigri · 16/11/2020 19:07

Right to Leave: 38% (-3)
Wrong to Leave: 51% (+2)

11% of people are don't knows.

If you're a Tory strategist, or even just a Tory party social media warrior, you have to wonder which way that 11% is going to jump in January, when "not knowing" will become a lot harder.

boatyardblues · 16/11/2020 19:09

@ListeningQuietly

Ah so its the PPE that was ordered in error and will NEVER be needed even more evidence of utter incompetence by the Government.

Makes me wonder what they have in their Brexit stockpile Wink

We could burn it to keep warm.
TheElementsOfMedical · 16/11/2020 19:24

@Zebracat

The interaction between genetics and development in smoke/tipped/agouti cats is a bit more complex. It might take me a while to write up an essay, and I'm not sure the regulars on Westministenders will want to trawl through such a thing Grin

mrslaughan · 16/11/2020 19:31

But don't we already have a console of Freeport's?
Why are they obsessed with them?

twitter.com/rishisunak/status/1328318921540243458?s=12

mrslaughan · 16/11/2020 19:32

Have a couple of Freeport's....

Jason118 · 16/11/2020 19:36

Do they come with lemon?

SabrinaThwaite · 16/11/2020 19:42

@Jason118

Do they come with lemon?
No, but they do come with bitters.
TatianaBis · 16/11/2020 19:54

A hypothetical even split between right and wrong to leave (which would never happen because there are always don’t knows even when the writing is on the wall IN CAPS): 5.5% each way would make 56.5% wrong vs 43.5% right.

Tory strategists gotta pray that mayhem and border holdups convinces a significant % that leaving was right after all or they’re fucked.

ListeningQuietly · 16/11/2020 20:03

Well that give PLENTY of time to decide what adjustments are needed ......
www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/16/major-breakthrough-needed-to-avert-no-deal-brexit-says-irish-minister
28th December is the new Decision day
PERFECT

mrslaughan · 16/11/2020 20:04

More on those containers of PPE

www.eadt.co.uk/news/ppe-moved-to-suffolk-airfields-1-6931841

TheMShip · 16/11/2020 20:07

Haven't the EP said they'll vote against any deal unless the problematic parts of the IMB are removed? How does that work with a 28 Dec vote?

OchonAgusOchonO · 16/11/2020 20:21

@ListeningQuietly

Well that give PLENTY of time to decide what adjustments are needed ...... www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/16/major-breakthrough-needed-to-avert-no-deal-brexit-says-irish-minister 28th December is the new Decision day PERFECT
If 28th Dec is the vote, then today is the deadline for a deal as MEPs have said they need six weeks for the deal to be translated, scrutinised and passed through committees and the final full plenary vote.

Presumably they'll reduce that slightly that but realistically, if there isn't an agreement within the next week or so, there won't be a deal.

OchonAgusOchonO · 16/11/2020 20:24

@TheMShip

Haven't the EP said they'll vote against any deal unless the problematic parts of the IMB are removed? How does that work with a 28 Dec vote?
Very much so.

According to Simon Coveney (Irish minister for foreign affairs): "Even if we do get a new trade deal negotiated by both sides, if the British government is determined to continue with their Internal Market Bill - to reintroduce parts of that Bill that were removed by the House of Lords this week - then, I think this is a deal that won't be ratified by the EU," the minister said.

"Because there is no way the EU will agree to ratify a new agreement if the British government is breaking the existing agreement that is not even 12 months old, and breaking international law by doing that."

www.rte.ie/news/brexit/2020/1115/1178252-brexit/

OchonAgusOchonO · 16/11/2020 20:25

Any agreement will be contingent on the UK abandoning the dodgy bits go the IMB.