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Westministenders: Festive Edition

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RedToothBrush · 22/12/2020 21:00

Good King BBBBaBoris looked out,
on the Port of Dover,
There the shit lay round about,
Deep around the stopover;
Brightly shone the moon that night,
Tho’ the frost was cruel,
When a poor man came in sight,
Delivering stuff for Yule.

“Bugger SAGE and stand by me,
We've all stuff that needs selling,
Yonder peasant, who is he?
Where and what his dwelling?”
“Sire, he lives a good league hence,
The other side the EU;
Though relations maybe tense,
He's trying to get goods through.”

“Oh god I need another wine,
I have many crisis to consider:
We must tell them its all fine,
I must not be seen to dither.”
SAGE and monarch, forth they went,
forth they went together;
Through the nation's sad lament
and really crappy weather.

“Sire, our plight is darker now,
And the covid transmission stronger;
Fails my heart, I know not how;
To keep Tier 2 much longer.”
“Soon we can drop their wage.
And treat them all more coldly
In Britain's new chrony age
A time to rob more boldly.”

In their master’s steps they trod,
On the quest to get minted;
Each and every last sod
Needs to be fingerprinted.
Therefore, Christian men, be sure,
DWP claimants are processing,
Ye who now will bless the poor,
God its all so depressing.

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PussyCatInChristmasStockings · 24/12/2020 07:20

@RedToothBrush

You better watch out You better not cry You better not pout I'm telling you why Brexit Clause is coming to town
Have you been on the festive gin already? Xmas Wink
RedToothBrush · 24/12/2020 07:23

Its before noon.

Nope.

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Choux · 24/12/2020 07:30

So announcement Christmas Eve. No papers at tomorrow or Saturday, country busy enjoying their slim Christmas to think about the slim deal.

Sunday press is where the press opinion will come. Even then there are less journos around, many juniors covering senior reporters who are off. Seniors just want to submit their copy and relax. So less in depth coverage. Are there any readership figures around? Is this Sunday the lowest circulation Sunday press around?

Christmas Eve seems like a great day to bury bad news in a normal year. Not so sure about this year and with an angry ERG mob who wrote for the Telegraph etc.

I wonder if caving on the 23rd and announcing Christmas Eve has been the plan for a while?

I bet in previous years Johnson has been found at 4pm on Christmas Eve in Rigby and Peller or Selfridges buying a couple of sets of lingerie (for the wife and the squeeze). After all no point giving a gift that doesn't benefit him in some way.

RedToothBrush · 24/12/2020 07:32

Kent online reporting Eurotunnel traffic is now flowing freely. Testing is happening at the Port of Dover now.

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SabrinaThwaite · 24/12/2020 07:34

@Sostenueto

All staged and how on Earth is Parliament supposed to scrutinise deal b4 New Year's Eve when they won't call Parliament back till Wednesday?
Wait, you mean like it’s been drawn out to be so late in the day just so that Johnson can slide it through with minimal scrutiny?

Whodathunkit.

SabrinaThwaite · 24/12/2020 07:36

Daily Fail online comments plus Farage’s Twitterers are all spitting feathers.

SabrinaThwaite · 24/12/2020 07:39

Johnson wafflefest to the nation is planned for 8am apparently.

Bit early for a drinking game, but how many times will he squeeze in “prosper mightily”?

SabrinaThwaite · 24/12/2020 07:50

Slipping to 10am now.

Sostenueto · 24/12/2020 07:53

Lol Red!😁

quiteathome · 24/12/2020 08:00

Is 10am an acceptable drinking time?

quiteathome · 24/12/2020 08:04

Wondering if this is significantly better than Theresa May's deal. Or at all better than hers.

OchonAgusOchonO · 24/12/2020 08:48

@veeeeh - I think this is great, but so sad that it took 4+ years to achieve.

If the UK had actually been negotiating for 4+ years, you might have a point. However, for most of the 4+ years, the UK just kept stating what they didn't want plus shouting "sovereignty" and assuming the EU would cave and give them what they wanted. The EU didn't, so negotiations only actually started quite recently.

WorriedMutha · 24/12/2020 08:50

Last night's Cabinet meeting said to have allowed only Gove, Sunak and the Chief Whip to speak. It was said that the emphasis has to be on selling the deal, sovereignty for all and being good neighbours with the EU.
It doesn't sound like a crowd pleaser for Nige and the ERG.

veeeeh · 24/12/2020 08:52

Ochon,

Such a waste of incompetence/exceptionism. By maybe that was the whole point in the end. Bluff was called though.

veeeeh · 24/12/2020 08:54

Exceptional I'm and arrogance even!

Mistigri · 24/12/2020 08:54

Wondering if this is significantly better than Theresa May's deal. Or at all better than hers.

May didn't have a trade deal - it was the withdrawal agreement that she was negotiating.

A May deal might have been more business friendly because of the backstop which involved the whole of the U.K. remaining at least temporarily in the EU customs area, as opposed to only NI.

veeeeh · 24/12/2020 08:56

Oh god if it was 4 in the morning I'd be forgiven! . Exceptionism and arrogance..LOL. Predictive text is a fkn curse

SabrinaThwaite · 24/12/2020 09:05

So can we look forward to a repeat of the WA being pushed through Parliament with minimal scrutiny followed a period of jingoistic flag waving and then a gradual dawning of buyer’s remorse?

SabrinaThwaite · 24/12/2020 09:15

Government analysis of the agreement so far is here:

www.scribd.com/document/489048219/Government-Analysis-of-the-Deal-Document

Looks like someone is trying to heavily spin UK “wins” 🤔🤣

GaspodeWonderCat · 24/12/2020 09:17

The 7Ps

Prior Planning and Preparation Prevents (Piss) Poor Performance

Cagney & Lacey (late 70s/early 80s).

Reading Churchill's history of WW2. In 1939 planning factories to build munitions/ships in 1941 onwards. Do we think Boris has planned beyond the end of the day? Ever?

The deal (if it happens) will be better than no deal. But nowhere near as good as the one we had. Furious about waste of last 4 years.

SabrinaThwaite · 24/12/2020 09:24

@SabrinaThwaite

Government analysis of the agreement so far is here:

www.scribd.com/document/489048219/Government-Analysis-of-the-Deal-Document

Looks like someone is trying to heavily spin UK “wins” 🤔🤣

Although apparently this version missed off this delightful section from the previously published (and now deleted) version (from Sam Lowe on Twitter):
Westministenders: Festive Edition
veeeeh · 24/12/2020 09:28

UK and Eu compromised. UK had to anyway, We all knew that.

ERG must benefit somehow lol. Otherwise there would be WAR.

Happy Christmas all, and hope Brexiteers accept that they need EU more than they need us.

FOM is gone though, and animal movement, and driver licences etc. And for what?

SabrinaThwaite · 24/12/2020 09:36

In 1939 planning factories to build munitions/ships in 1941 onwards.

Building key sites was started earlier than that - some were started in 1936 / 1937 in order to be ready for war. There is a view that Chamberlain’s appeasement in September 1938 was important as it gave Britain an extra year to gear up.

Key ROF sites were designed so that they comprised separate self-contained units on the same site, so if one unit was knocked out the others could step up production to compensate. Like someone had actually thought about it.

Tanith · 24/12/2020 10:02

"It doesn't sound like a crowd pleaser for Nige and the ERG."

Good! If there's one silver lining on this thunder black cloud, it is that those traitorous, greedy bastards are not happy with it.
How little I care for their opinion!

OchonAgusOchonO · 24/12/2020 10:02

Last minute hitch over fishing has delayed an announcement of the deal. Just heard it on the radio.

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