EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

^ what with the Ashes too.

Post rest day in the vuelta.
People will be flying.

And the vuelta.

Bollocks, Damo.

https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/ff02f7f6-014a-4a8c-9ef7-bd2cd9986e53?in=22:14:00&out=22:16:00

Somewhere there?

Gove's cheeky grin at JRM...

I keep hoping Goves head will explode when he gets excited like that...

It will when he watches tomorrow's vuelta stage.

BBC person:

Now been told that all 21 will lose whip in all circumstances!

Okay, that's good in a sense. "Reconsider overnight" sounded a bit sinister to me.

Can we just halt proceedings for a minute to talk about the Brexit Party's candidate for Stirling ?

I checked, this is real. A PR person actually signed this off. Not only does someone think people will vote for this, but that enough people might look at what may in other circumstances resemble the caricature of a playground nonce, for him to win a seat in an election?

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https://twitter.com/bigredal/status/1168998946938732549

Image search for "brexit party candidate announcement" and they're all like that. This guy's my favourite though

oh christ. literally looks like he's fallen out a boozer at 4.30 am and gone in search of a knocking shop.

Both look like local ‘characters’ I.e local pub bore dullards with questionable, ill informed opinions on everything.

So perfect fit for their audience.

Amazing! I believe the Italian term sprezzatura best summarises the studied carelessness and nonchalance on display here

Haha Brexit Party rookies photographed with the office webcam, cut out with scissors, type set in ms paint. Successful fascists usually have amazing banners.

The fun continues:

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I can't say I know much about Philip Lee but him joining the Lib Dems has caused the chair of LGBT+ Liberal Democrats to resign.

I wouldn't worry about it too much, he's in a new party now, so his views are bound to be flexible ...

^^ more tax irregularities than candidates. Jaguars, 3rd wives, much small-town carpet business DOMINATION. Probably some cigars.

I have to say that compared to the urgency of getting Boris Johnson as far away from any kind of government or public body as possible, the importance of anything to do with 'Brexit' has shrunk to the size of the atom of a radioactive isotope*.

* See Parliamentary question from Philippa Whitford.

I suppose we need versions of that with Arthur Daley and Del Boy on it now, too.

As for Ian Dunt's obsessive Tweeting, I think my favourite comments are those reserved for Gavin Williamson (although I've never heard him speak or anything, they are just funny).

Ian Dunt:

Let that sink in. A few days after the anniversary of the start of the Second World War, the Conservative prime minister is going to withdraw the whip from Winston Churchill's grandson, because of the strategy of someone who we're not certain is even in the Conservative party.

One might add: A 'Conservative' 'Prime Minister' who wrote an awful book on Churchill full of factual errors (if the reviews by eminent historians can be believed) ...

Ian Dunt:

Oliver Letwin makes the SO24 application

Speaker John Bercow stopping MPs on govt benches complaining - they can object afterwards.

Letwin up. Very calm. "It has become an urgent matter parliament to discuss when it can accept a no-deal exit and I'm therefore asking you to grant an urgent debate under standing order 24 about that matter."

Bercow says he is "satisfied the matter is proper to be discussed". We're on. "Does the hon gen have the leave of the House?" Chaos, applause, shouts, boos.

Bercow says debate will be held today. Will last for up to three hours if it starts before 7pm.

Peter Bone (Con) has a point of order. When a standing order is notified on a Tuesday (here we go) it has to be by 10 in the morning., He checked at 10:30. "So it seems to me sir that under those circumstances it shouldn't be heard today.

Bercow: "I'd have thought he would have known this, the responsibility of a member seeking to make such an application is to lodge that application with eh Speaker, and I can advise that that application was lodged with me yesterday evening."

Fucking hell Bone is useless. He really thought he had a slam dunk there.

That famous charisma beaming out here at full force:

Boycie too!

^This face often seen just before neighbours call the police, I suspect.