Brexit mega thread part 6: Invasion and Evasion

[Opal8]

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Heseltine giving advice to JRM in the Grauniad:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/03/jacob-rees-mogg-brexit-europe-michael-heseltine

Our boy Gav "the whip" Williamson getting a bloody knighthood. Just absolutely beggars belief.

Want to take bets that every single member of Johnson’s cabinet will end up with one before the next election. I think Bojo is just pissed that Starmer is a ‘Sir’ and all he wants is to be a ‘Lord’ to trump him in titles.

The government's spin of blaming brexit for their inability to sanction oligarchs is not going down well with legal people and Lord Pannick.

@DuncinToffee

The government's spin of blaming brexit for their inability to sanction oligarchs is not going down well with legal people and Lord Pannick.

Sorry? What? Surely as brexit was all about taking back control, it would not be easier to sanction them?

Our boy Gav "the whip" Williamson getting a bloody knighthood. Just absolutely beggars belief

Enough to generate tears of rage among many working in Education. He’s a disgrace. Someone must be terrified at the sort of beans he could spill.

Is it very wrong of me that my first thought is 'who's he got the dirt on?' because there's no way he got it for competence

I had to double check it wasn't April Fools Day.

Carole Cadwalladr has a thread on Williamson which is worth a read.
https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1499482812889681921?s=21

A tangled web - and Williamson seems to been in the middle of it.

@Notonthestairs

Carole Cadwalladr has a thread on Williamson which is worth a read. [[https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1499482812889681921?s=21]]

A tangled web - and Williamson seems to been in the middle of it.

That’s so unsurprising and disgusting at the same time. And now this with the pseudo outrage virtual signalling by the vile Johnson and pack of cronies.

I've heard of people succeeding despite fucking up their A-Levels but it's the first time I've heard of somebody being knighted for fucking up everybody else's...

"That’s so unsurprising and disgusting at the same time" Yep - explains a lot though.

The UK along with Canada, US and Ukraine has been invited to attend an EU summit.

This is from the BBC:

Ms Truss, who called it "one of the biggest days of diplomacy", said co-operation between the UK and EU was "essential to defend European security".

Funny that - only a few short weeks ago the future was with Australia and New Zealand, and we didn't need the EU, but now she is spouting off as though we are leading members instead of only there by invitation.

In a similar move Priti Patel is running off to Poland to see if she can get a slice of the action helping refugees.

No doubt there will be accompanying photo opportunities for both Truss & Patel.

Patel looking for fruit pickers?

No doubt and when the Ukraine battle is over, their heads will be so swollen with how they single handedly beat off the Russians.

@Notonthestairs

No doubt there will be accompanying photo opportunities for both Truss & Patel.

At the back.

I wonder if Priti Patel will rock her feldgrau look this time ?

Birmingham by election just 27% turn out

Cold War Steve

In other news, it appears that Covid misinformation is down as bot farms turn their attention to Ukraine misinformation instead...

It's been very quiet on Brexit too.

@Opal8

Birmingham by election just 27% turn out

From Britain Elects

Birmingham Erdington, by-election result:

LAB: 55.5% (+5.2)
CON: 36.3% (-3.8)
TUSC: 2.1% (+2.1)
REFUK: 1.7% (-2.4)
GRN: 1.4% (-0.4)
LDEM: 1.0% (-2.7)
IND: 0.6% (+0.6)
CPA: 0.5% (+0.5)
IND: 0.4% (+0.4)
MRLP: 0.3% (+0.3)
IND: 0.1% (+0.1)
MBPE: 0.0% (+0.0)

I'm guessing the climate change denial to keep the rest of the world buying their gas and oil, and the covid misinformation is stop people wanting AZ/Moderna/Pfizer vaccines created in the West.

If they succeed with the climate change denial, there would be nothing left for their empire, even if they won. They are trying to derail the future for nothing.

There is this from Desmond Swayne

Brexiteer Tory MP Desmond Swayne says it is ‘monstrous’ that British businesses now have to fill in forms to trade with the EU
twitter.com/jibbajabb/status/1499454855626342403?s=21

Honestly some of these Brexiter MPs appear to be brain dead. They have got the Brexit that Johnson negotiated and were happy to vote for. I think they really did think that we held all the cards, and that the EU would allow them to take what they wanted without having to fulfil any obligations on our part.

Although the Ukraine situation is deadly serious I am laughing at Johnson, Truss and Patel pretending that they are leading the Opposition to the Russian invasion when it's abundantly clear that we are but bit players now.

[quote DuncinToffee]There is this from Desmond Swayne

Brexiteer Tory MP Desmond Swayne says it is ‘monstrous’ that British businesses now have to fill in forms to trade with the EU
twitter.com/jibbajabb/status/1499454855626342403?s=21[/quote]
I am still gobsmacked at the seeming ability some of these Brexiteers have to link causes and effects.

You have to wonder at the blatant stupidity of these people.

How could they ever think they were suitable to run the country!