EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Given the authors I'd expect it to be in crayon unless they get some outside assistance.

Come on, Leadsome is an ex-high flying banking professional! Not just some personal assistant to a high flying banking professional that somehow blagged her way into politics for fuck's sake!

And she's a mother! With children! That came from her vagina! Made with ovaries and fallopian tubes and everything. No scrimping on biology, every chromosome accounted for.

Eminently qualified.

Meanwhile, in Scotland...

Scottish Secretary David Mundell vowed to quit if the union was under threat, and has refused to honor that pledge. Now even his own MPs are asking him to. Hilarious if it wasn't so tawdry and cheap....

Honestly, fuck the fucking fishermen and there shitty “industry” built on turning the sea into a dead wasteland. It’s somewhere on the list of importance to the economy just behind the pet insurance industry. Anything which can’t be made into fish and chips is just going to rot on the docks waiting to clear customs anyway.

Parklife etc

I’m sick of hearing about fucking fishing.

To be fair they do make up well over 0.1% of the UK economy.

Yes, they do carp on. But don’t rise to the bait. Sadly some of the public have bought into it hook, line and sinker. You only have to trawl through the popular press to see that.

We can’t let the government off the hook. They’re slippery eels at the best of times. And I think they’re out of their depth with the scale of a problem they’ve not had the nous to tackle.

Cod be worse though...

Don't dredge up all that again, it's creely not fair. Prince of tides Michael Gove has a veritable lagoon of fishing knowledge inside him, he's certainly no minnow when it comes to chumming the water for the Leave campaign either. It'll be like shooting fish in a barrel when he gets stuck into the EU fisheries commission, full of porpoise and wind in his sails.

Fishing is going to be affected very significantly negatively by the end of FOM- unless they can convince Brits to gut fish at 4am there is no point landing said fish.

Email from Corbyn to labour members:

Dear Big Balls,

The government is falling apart before our eyes. Their half-baked deal has unravelled, the Prime Minister has lost all authority and is clearly incapable of delivering a Brexit deal that commands even the support of her Cabinet - let alone Parliament and the people of our country.

Our Party Conference agreed that this deal would be judged against our six tests, and if it failed to meet them we would vote against it.

After two years of bungled negotiations, the government has produced a botched deal that breaches the Prime Minister's own red lines, does not meet our six tests and will leave the country in an indefinite halfway house without a real say.

As I said in Parliament earlier today, people around the country will be feeling anxious about the industries they work in, the jobs they hold and the stability of this country.

We do not accept that the choice is between the government's deal and 'no deal'. We will work across Parliament to stop a 'no deal' outcome. Labour has set out our alternative plan for a sensible Brexit that would work for all of our nations and regions, bring Parliament and the country together, support jobs and our economy and guarantee rights, standards and protections.

If Parliament votes down this shambolic Tory deal — as seems likely — this will represent a loss of confidence in the government. In those circumstances the best outcome for the country is an immediate General Election that can sweep the Tories from power and deliver the Labour government this country desperately needs.

If we cannot get a General Election, in line with our conference policy, we will support all options remaining on the table, including campaigning for a public vote.

We are ready to lead, ready to deliver a sensible deal that works for all our regions and nations and ready to build a Britain that works for the many, not the few.

Jeremy Corbyn
Leader of the Labour Party

Fantasy still, but at least a hope of a second ref if no GE

If the DUP withdraw their support, a general election is all but certain.

Which is why they are saying that they still support the Conservatives- but not May, I imagine.

Prisons minister on newsnight.

We’re putting all current prisoners on the channel tunnel with no passport?

Not even blue passports! Monsters!

Those are printed in France- if the convicts can get one, they can return.

Auswiedersehen, Pet

Not sure if there's meant to be a pun in there somehow, but the title of course is "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet". :)

Wait, why is everybody discussing such unimportant things?

CSI: Lubeck & Freunden

Do you mean "Lübeck und Freunde"?

We do not accept that the choice is between the government's deal and 'no deal'.

Other options being cake, unicorn poo and magic pixie dust.

a botched deal that breaches the Prime Minister's own red lines, does not meet our six tests and will leave the country in an indefinite halfway house

Oh do fuck off Corbyn. This statement does not endear me to the man. Negotiations will be messy regardless of who's in charge on the UK side.
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When you're this close to the cliff edge of no deal you don't portray yourself as principled and stubborn. The only option left is pragmatism really.

The Telegraph

Editorial or a letter?

The Parliament sketch