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  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    The queen is being activated.
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,821
    SeanT said:

    Scott_P said:
    So something IS happening. Oh god. The tension!

    Come on PB what is it? Best guesses???
    She's about to make a major announcement about the funding of adult social care.
  • solarflaresolarflare Posts: 3,710
    Sean_F said:

    Just seen this on facebook.. Very strange

    It looks like some sort of revolutionary Socialist mural. Presumably, the woman in the centre symbolises the Labour Party, nourishing the country with her breasts.
    Why is Corbyn grimacing at his neck tit massage.
  • AndrewAndrew Posts: 2,900
    Sean_F said:


    Theresa May is invoking the Civil Contingencies Act, and will now rule by decree.


    Adonis, AC Grayling, Blair and entire ERG to be stripped of their citizenships.
  • WhisperingOracleWhisperingOracle Posts: 9,167
    edited March 2019

    The queen is being activated.

    Glad to hear. No use just keeping Her Maj in a cupboard.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,618

    The PM inviting opposition parties to meet this evening, where she will presumably just do what she always does and say "it's this deal or no deal or no Brexit".

    SeanT said:

    SeanT said:

    Scott_P said:
    ON TOPIC. BETTING ADVICE

    If the Macron rumours are true then surely a Brexit from Jan-March 2019 (currently 14% in the graph above) is easy money?

    The chances of No Deal Brexit or a somehow squeezed-through May Brexit by March 29 must now be 40%+?
    Can May squeeze through it within the next 9 days?

    Seems to me likely that Macron vetoes an extension request [for now] demanding more clarity from Parliament, Parliament backs MV3 in order to avoid No Deal, then Macron permits a 'short, technical extension' to ratify MV3 with the UK out by May 23.
    Yes, that's my interpretation. But the chances of No Deal must now be well over 14%.

    Latest thinking:

    TMay's deal and short extension: 40%
    No deal: 30%
    Referendum and long extension: 10%
    Revoke: 10%
    General Election and long extension: 5%
    Anglo-Chinese war: 5%
    What chance an Independence Day style alien invasion blitzing of the HOC.
    "Remainers. Nuke them. Let's nuke the bastards!"
  • solarflaresolarflare Posts: 3,710

    The queen is being activated.

    ROBO-QUEEN LASERS POWERING UP
  • Bob__SykesBob__Sykes Posts: 1,179
    edited March 2019
    Can we stop quoting that weird Labour poster, or whatever it is? I am trying to keep up to date with developments from the (open plan) office.... :-)
  • TykeTyke Posts: 18

    SeanT said:

    Scott_P said:
    So something IS happening. Oh god. The tension!

    Come on PB what is it? Best guesses???
    She's about to make a major announcement about the funding of adult social care.
    She must have cancelled their Easter holidays.

  • mattmatt Posts: 3,789
    IanB2 said:

    SO24 motion goes to a debate immediately after 10 minute rule motion for up to three hours

    3 hours. Could MPs perhaps just hold up signs saying "what I said earlier". There's been precious little to no creative thought or sparkling intellects on display for the last 2 years. Debates where opinions are frozen in aspic will not push the world forward.
  • rpjsrpjs Posts: 3,787

    Reading that lot, I have this playing in my mind:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IglUmgYGxLM

    It does all feel quite August 1914 doesn't it? No-one (except for lunatics) wants no-deal, but no-one is willing to stop it...
  • AnorakAnorak Posts: 6,621

    Can we stop quoting that weird Labour poster, or whatever it is? I am trying to keep up to date with developments from the (open plan) office.... :-)

    Yes. I have my browser window in the shape of a very thin letterbox for the same reason.
  • SeanTSeanT Posts: 549

    SeanT said:

    Scott_P said:
    So something IS happening. Oh god. The tension!

    Come on PB what is it? Best guesses???
    May knows there's no extension coming so she's telling everyone it's no deal or revoke. At a total uneducated made-up-off-the-top-of-my-head guess.
    Best guesses, in descending order of likelihood:
    1. TMay offers to resign if her Deal passes
    2. She's calling a GE
    3. Revocation
    4. She's legally changing her name to Raymond and going to live in Bhutan
  • SeanT said:

    Scott_P said:
    So something IS happening. Oh god. The tension!

    Come on PB what is it? Best guesses???
    If the meetings with the leaders tonight are with both TM and Lidington my guess is she is standing down and Lidington taking over though she carries on as PM until her successor is appointed

    I may be wrong but you did ask for best guess
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 61,814
    Mr. Flare, I, for one, welcome the supremacy of our Mecha-Monarch.
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,042
    Scott_P said:
    I had mine at dinner time. Do they mean "cancel your tea"?
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,821
    edited March 2019
    Or perhaps the Bavarian army of Field Marshall Bayerische Motorenwerke von Blücher is coming belatedly to the rescue.
  • Pro_RataPro_Rata Posts: 5,289

    Sean_F said:

    Just seen this on facebook.. Very strange

    It looks like some sort of revolutionary Socialist mural. Presumably, the woman in the centre symbolises the Labour Party, nourishing the country with her breasts.
    Why is Corbyn grimacing at his neck tit massage.
    Given the rest of the mural, I'm assuming Mary Lou Mcdonald
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    SeanT said:

    SeanT said:

    Scott_P said:
    So something IS happening. Oh god. The tension!

    Come on PB what is it? Best guesses???
    May knows there's no extension coming so she's telling everyone it's no deal or revoke. At a total uneducated made-up-off-the-top-of-my-head guess.
    Best guesses, in descending order of likelihood:
    1. TMay offers to resign if her Deal passes
    2. She's calling a GE
    3. Revocation
    4. She's legally changing her name to Raymond and going to live in Bhutan
    I'd put 4 ahead of 3.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,741

    The PM inviting opposition parties to meet this evening, where she will presumably just do what she always does and say "it's this deal or no deal or no Brexit".

    SeanT said:

    SeanT said:

    Scott_P said:
    ON TOPIC. BETTING ADVICE

    If the Macron rumours are true then surely a Brexit from Jan-March 2019 (currently 14% in the graph above) is easy money?

    The chances of No Deal Brexit or a somehow squeezed-through May Brexit by March 29 must now be 40%+?
    Can May squeeze through it within the next 9 days?

    Seems to me likely that Macron vetoes an extension request [for now] demanding more clarity from Parliament, Parliament backs MV3 in order to avoid No Deal, then Macron permits a 'short, technical extension' to ratify MV3 with the UK out by May 23.
    Yes, that's my interpretation. But the chances of No Deal must now be well over 14%.

    Latest thinking:

    TMay's deal and short extension: 40%
    No deal: 30%
    Referendum and long extension: 10%
    Revoke: 10%
    General Election and long extension: 5%
    Anglo-Chinese war: 5%
    What chance an Independence Day style alien invasion blitzing of the HOC.
    "Remainers. Nuke them. Let's nuke the bastards!"
    Pull out and nuke the planet from orbit. It is the only way to be sure.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,618
    matt said:

    IanB2 said:

    SO24 motion goes to a debate immediately after 10 minute rule motion for up to three hours

    3 hours. Could MPs perhaps just hold up signs saying "what I said earlier". There's been precious little to no creative thought or sparkling intellects on display for the last 2 years. Debates where opinions are frozen in aspic will not push the world forward.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-F2HKLzB6c
  • Nigel_ForemainNigel_Foremain Posts: 14,313
    TMay is going to announce that, as many Leavers have long believed, she is actually a lizard, and is second in command to Barak Obama (who actually wasn't born in the US, but on a planet called Zog)
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,498



    What's treacherous is arrogating to yourself the right to delegitimise the widely-held views of others. It's inconsistent with a democracy and you should be utterly ashamed of yourself.

    Mr Meeks.

    Not at all,this forum is a small middle-class bubble .

    The word that offends you and others on here is used regular out there and if the referendum is not respected,you will hear more of it.

    Completely correct. Fury bubbles under the surface
    And as often the case, the fury is mindless and stupid.
    But existant nonetheless. The middle class can't just ignore it because they feel it mindless. That way October revolutions lie
    No, it is mindless, and should be called such. People with hate in their hearts - which sums up so much of brexit.

    We saw the result of such mindless and stupid thinking in New Zealand last week. 'For Rotherham' indeed...
    That's your opinion. And lumping in working class brexiteers with right wing terrorist mass murderers isn't going to make everyone want to save tarquins studies in Germany or the smethursts 3rd overseas holiday
    I think there are rather more intelligent working class people that think it is mindless than you want to admit. Your rather patronising view of the working class is that they are all seething with hatred for people from foreign countries and those with children called Tarquin, because it suits your own prejudiced world view.

    Whilst I am not a socialist, it may escaped your attention that working class tradition has lead the charge against prejudice and division that is the hallmark of the type of unpleasant nationalism that typifies Brexit apologists.
    But, you can’t have that argument both ways.

    Plenty of working class people carefully weighed up their choice and decided on balance to vote to Leave, but get called stupid and nasty proles in response.
  • AnorakAnorak Posts: 6,621
    Tyke said:

    SeanT said:

    Scott_P said:
    So something IS happening. Oh god. The tension!

    Come on PB what is it? Best guesses???
    She's about to make a major announcement about the funding of adult social care.
    She must have cancelled their Easter holidays.

    She's given the DUP a supply and confidence agreement and told them to get on with it. Catholicism to be illegal by Friday.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 61,814
    Dr. Foxy, that'd be a lot more likely if the Government didn't waste money on foreign aid and instead spent it on my sensible suggestion of a small fleet of Death Stars.
  • notme2notme2 Posts: 1,006

    Just seen this on facebook.. Very strange

    Mindbleach pls...
    I don’t even understand it. Who is the woman ?
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,498
    Sean_F said:

    Just seen this on facebook.. Very strange

    It looks like some sort of revolutionary Socialist mural. Presumably, the woman in the centre symbolises the Labour Party, nourishing the country with her breasts.

    Sara Pascoe?
  • SeanTSeanT Posts: 549
    She's pregnant.
  • Tissue_PriceTissue_Price Posts: 9,039

    SeanT said:

    Scott_P said:
    So something IS happening. Oh god. The tension!

    Come on PB what is it? Best guesses???
    She's about to make a major announcement about the funding of adult social care.
    She'd better book the podium for Monday as well then.
  • solarflaresolarflare Posts: 3,710
    Scott_P said:
    We've bought in some chlorinated chicken for you?
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    SeanT said:

    She's pregnant.

    Theresa May? Or the Queen?
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,498

    SeanT said:

    Scott_P said:
    So something IS happening. Oh god. The tension!

    Come on PB what is it? Best guesses???
    She's about to make a major announcement about the funding of adult social care.
    Oh, fuck.

    I’d rather have another 3 years of faffing on Brexit.
  • SeanTSeanT Posts: 549

    SeanT said:

    She's pregnant.

    Theresa May? Or the Queen?
    Aha! That's the secret.

    Oh god this is insane.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,218
    Arkle Vs Mill House maybe
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 33,497

    SeanT said:

    Scott_P said:
    So something IS happening. Oh god. The tension!

    Come on PB what is it? Best guesses???
    If the meetings with the leaders tonight are with both TM and Lidington my guess is she is standing down and Lidington taking over though she carries on as PM until her successor is appointed

    I may be wrong but you did ask for best guess
    Can she do that? She can stand down and suggest to Her Maj that she sends for Lidington. She can't hide in a corner and leave it to DL.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,618
    Foxy said:

    The PM inviting opposition parties to meet this evening, where she will presumably just do what she always does and say "it's this deal or no deal or no Brexit".

    SeanT said:

    SeanT said:

    Scott_P said:
    ON TOPIC. BETTING ADVICE

    If the Macron rumours are true then surely a Brexit from Jan-March 2019 (currently 14% in the graph above) is easy money?

    The chances of No Deal Brexit or a somehow squeezed-through May Brexit by March 29 must now be 40%+?
    Can May squeeze through it within the next 9 days?

    Seems to me likely that Macron vetoes an extension request [for now] demanding more clarity from Parliament, Parliament backs MV3 in order to avoid No Deal, then Macron permits a 'short, technical extension' to ratify MV3 with the UK out by May 23.
    Yes, that's my interpretation. But the chances of No Deal must now be well over 14%.

    Latest thinking:

    TMay's deal and short extension: 40%
    No deal: 30%
    Referendum and long extension: 10%
    Revoke: 10%
    General Election and long extension: 5%
    Anglo-Chinese war: 5%
    What chance an Independence Day style alien invasion blitzing of the HOC.
    "Remainers. Nuke them. Let's nuke the bastards!"
    Pull out and nuke the planet from orbit. It is the only way to be sure.
    "I don't know if you've been keeping up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked pal!"
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,218
    Pulpstar said:

    Arkle Vs Mill House maybe
    Or more like May ready for the Findus
  • steve_garnersteve_garner Posts: 1,019
    Can't see May revoking voluntarily and can't see a mechanism to force her to revoke. If no extension is granted I think she says to Parliament it's my deal or no deal but either way we leave on 29 March. I've been wrong before though!
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,498

    The queen is being activated.

    My respect for the Queen is so high she makes me want to live under an absolute monarchy*.

    (*this applies solely to her)
  • JohnLilburneJohnLilburne Posts: 6,261
    Scott_P said:
    What's the Polish for "where the sun don't shine"?
  • SlackbladderSlackbladder Posts: 9,773
    Strap in boys and girls...this is going to get bumpy..
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,741



    What's treacherous is arrogating to yourself the right to delegitimise the widely-held views of others. It's inconsistent with a democracy and you should be utterly ashamed of yourself.

    Mr Meeks.

    Not at all,this forum is a small middle-class bubble .

    The word that offends you and others on here is used regular out there and if the referendum is not respected,you will hear more of it.

    Completely correct. Fury bubbles under the surface
    And as often the case, the fury is mindless and stupid.
    But existant nonetheless. The middle class can't just ignore it because they feel it mindless. That way October revolutions lie
    No, it is mindless, and should be called such. People with hate in their hearts - which sums up so much of brexit.

    We saw the result of such mindless and stupid thinking in New Zealand last week. 'For Rotherham' indeed...
    That's your opinion. And lumping in working class brexiteers with right wing terrorist mass murderers isn't going to make everyone want to save tarquins studies in Germany or the smethursts 3rd overseas holiday
    I think there are rather more intelligent working class people that think it is mindless than you want to admit. Your rather patronising view of the working class is that they are all seething with hatred for people from foreign countries and those with children called Tarquin, because it suits your own prejudiced world view.

    Whilst I am not a socialist, it may escaped your attention that working class tradition has lead the charge against prejudice and division that is the hallmark of the type of unpleasant nationalism that typifies Brexit apologists.
    But, you can’t have that argument both ways.

    Plenty of working class people carefully weighed up their choice and decided on balance to vote to Leave, but get called stupid and nasty proles in response.
    There is polling evidence that the biggest switchers Leave to Remain are WWC in the North.

    https://www.survation.com/what-does-the-british-public-now-think-about-brexit/
  • LucyJonesLucyJones Posts: 651
    Does TM already know what Tusk is about to announce at 5pm? Are they refusing an extension?

  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,362
    Ishmael_Z said:

    Ishmael_Z said:

    Scott_P said:
    Lets see.

    If he does that makes it deal v no deal by next friday
    And Bercow won't let the commons vote for deal...
    In those circumstances he would have no choice
    Does anyone know the facts underlying the 1604 ruling against asking the same question twice? I can't find anything on google but I strongly suspect that it was intended to exclude second debates on unbelievably *unimportant* subjects, and is therefore being misapplied here.
    It is obviously to stop arseholes doing what the Tories are doing therefore being applied correctly.
  • El_CapitanoEl_Capitano Posts: 4,239
    Suitably, right this moment, 500m away from Downing Street, the Choir of Westminster Abbey are singing Joubert's apocalyptic anthem 'O Lorde the maker of al thing':

    "Let neither us deluded be,
    Good Lorde, with dreame or phantasy"

    (It's on Radio 3 live right now.)
  • She’s going to resign once her deal is passed.

    She’ll say this exit deal is NOT THE FUCKING LONG TERM DEAL YOU BELL ENDS.
  • SeanT said:

    Scott_P said:
    So something IS happening. Oh god. The tension!

    Come on PB what is it? Best guesses???
    If the meetings with the leaders tonight are with both TM and Lidington my guess is she is standing down and Lidington taking over though she carries on as PM until her successor is appointed

    I may be wrong but you did ask for best guess
    Can she do that? She can stand down and suggest to Her Maj that she sends for Lidington. She can't hide in a corner and leave it to DL.
    It is only a guess but we will see.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,133
    SeanT said:

    Scott_P said:
    So something IS happening. Oh god. The tension!

    Come on PB what is it? Best guesses???
    Pass the deal or the Dementia Tax is back on the agenda...
  • SeanTSeanT Posts: 549
    This sounds much more significant than the maybot simply reiterating the obvious, evermore forcefully: i.e. it's my Deal or No Deal, and we leave on March 29

    Remember it has to be something that shocked the Cabinet, and made them all look "very very serious".
  • AndrewAndrew Posts: 2,900


    Government of National Unity?

    She's resigning, and advising Her Maj to send for Chris Williamson as the next PM.

  • Harris_TweedHarris_Tweed Posts: 1,337

    SeanT said:

    Scott_P said:
    So something IS happening. Oh god. The tension!

    Come on PB what is it? Best guesses???
    Dissolution of Parliament?
    "Fellas.. looks like we're going to be at a No Deal, Deal or Revoke moment in 24 hours. I've nailed my colours to the mast.. I'm pushing for MV3 and leaving with a Deal on May 23rd and I'm not about to change my mind. But I appreciate that's not a universal view, and this is big stuff to go through on a whim from me when even the cabinet couldn't agree. So if you lot have another plan, it's time to shit or get off the pot. I'm not going to help you, but I won't whip against motions to sit on Saturday or any of the other procedural stuff which might get in the way."
  • Nigel_ForemainNigel_Foremain Posts: 14,313



    What's treacherous is arrogating to yourself the right to delegitimise the widely-held views of others. It's inconsistent with a democracy and you should be utterly ashamed of yourself.

    Mr Meeks.

    Not at all,this forum is a small middle-class bubble .

    The word that offends you and others on here is used regular out there and if the referendum is not respected,you will hear more of it.

    Completely correct. Fury bubbles under the surface
    And as often the case, the fury is mindless and stupid.
    But existant nonetheless. The middle class can't just ignore it because they feel it mindless. That way October revolutions lie
    No, it is mindless, and should be called such. People with hate in their hearts - which sums up so much of brexit.

    We saw the result of such mindless and stupid thinking in New Zealand last week. 'For Rotherham' indeed...
    That's your opinion. And lumping in working class brexiteers with right wing terrorist mass murderers isn't going to make everyone want to save tarquins studies in Germany or the smethursts 3rd overseas holiday
    I think there are rather more intelligent working class people that think it is mindless than you want to admit. Your rather patronising view of the working class is that they are all seething with hatred for people from foreign countries and those with children called Tarquin, because it suits your own prejudiced world view.

    Whilst I am not a socialist, it may escaped your attention that working class tradition has lead the charge against prejudice and division that is the hallmark of the type of unpleasant nationalism that typifies Brexit apologists.
    But, you can’t have that argument both ways.

    Plenty of working class people carefully weighed up their choice and decided on balance to vote to Leave, but get called stupid and nasty proles in response.
    That was their prerogative. I have a number of my relatives that voted leave. Those who voted that way are not necessarily stupid at all. I could say possibly misinformed or possible gullible, but I accept that is opinion. There is also a large number of people that voted that way (sad to say including some of my relatives) from a motivation that was pure prejudice against foreigners. This is not necessarily limited to the so-called "working class", and far from it. This was encouraged by people like Farage with his famous poster that was designed to feed on people's fears
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,618
    SeanT said:

    SeanT said:

    Scott_P said:
    So something IS happening. Oh god. The tension!

    Come on PB what is it? Best guesses???
    May knows there's no extension coming so she's telling everyone it's no deal or revoke. At a total uneducated made-up-off-the-top-of-my-head guess.
    Best guesses, in descending order of likelihood:
    1. TMay offers to resign if her Deal passes
    2. She's calling a GE
    3. Revocation
    4. She's legally changing her name to Raymond and going to live in Bhutan
    Why would 1. cause grim faces from Cabinet? There'd be impossible-to-supress looks of glee......

    ....unless....

    .....gulp.....

    Boris has agreed to be interim PM?
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,133
    edited March 2019
    SeanT said:

    This sounds much more significant than the maybot simply reiterating the obvious, evermore forcefully: i.e. it's my Deal or No Deal, and we leave on March 29

    Remember it has to be something that shocked the Cabinet, and made them all look "very very serious".
    She told them she will fight the next GE? ;-)
  • tpfkartpfkar Posts: 1,565
    SeanT said:

    Scott_P said:
    So something IS happening. Oh god. The tension!

    Come on PB what is it? Best guesses???
    "I've decided that the best outcome is to leave with my deal and I am committed to leaving with my deal. That is all. Goodnight."
  • AnorakAnorak Posts: 6,621

    She’s going to resign once her deal is passed.

    She’ll say this exit deal is NOT THE FUCKING LONG TERM DEAL YOU BELL ENDS.

    Her actually doing that is about the only thing that would make me vote Tory again. As long as she did it while holding David Davis in a headlock, of course.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,387
    SeanT said:

    She's pregnant.

    With Jeremy Corbyn's love child.
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,042

    Strap in boys and girls...this is going to get bumpy..

    More like strap on. The government is about to get shafted.
  • stodgestodge Posts: 13,902
    Afternoon all :)

    Well, this can only mean one thing. Both May and Corbyn are going to resign and order their parties to be dissolved with immediate effect. The SNP will declare an independent Scotland and Vince Cable will be left with the task of saving us all in coalition with Plaid and the Greens and the TIG.

    Once done, this will usher in a centrist utopia where nobody will ever have the wobbles.
  • Andrew said:


    Government of National Unity?

    She's resigning, and advising Her Maj to send for Chris Williamson as the next PM.

    He'd do a good job.
  • AnorakAnorak Posts: 6,621
    Sean_F said:

    SeanT said:

    She's pregnant.

    With Jeremy Corbyn's love child.
    Although paternity is disputed by Vince Cable, who is demanding a DNA test.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,618
    SeanT said:

    This sounds much more significant than the maybot simply reiterating the obvious, evermore forcefully: i.e. it's my Deal or No Deal, and we leave on March 29

    Remember it has to be something that shocked the Cabinet, and made them all look "very very serious".
    She's written another letter to the EU.

    "No Deal it is then...."
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,133
    First that poster and now a May / Jezza / Cable threesome talk...I have just had my lunch!
  • I miss the good old days when a government clusterfuck was about pasties.
  • solarflaresolarflare Posts: 3,710
    Maybe the EU have made their extension conditional on May's resignation. That'd be, um, something.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,136

    I understand that the European Parliament has to give consent to the withdrawal agreement?

    When do they last sit before their elections in May?

    I HAVE. BEEN. POINTING. THIS. OUT. FOR. MONTHS.

    (I think it's the 28th March, to answer your question)
  • Andrew said:


    Government of National Unity?

    She's resigning, and advising Her Maj to send for Chris Williamson as the next PM.

    At the point now where I wouldn't rule anything out, because everything is RUINED.
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 33,497
    Scott_P said:
    That's not actually still happening, is it?

    Mind, it isn't got a time on it!
  • SeanT said:

    This sounds much more significant than the maybot simply reiterating the obvious, evermore forcefully: i.e. it's my Deal or No Deal, and we leave on March 29

    Remember it has to be something that shocked the Cabinet, and made them all look "very very serious".
    As opposed to gormless, their usual look.
  • OblitusSumMeOblitusSumMe Posts: 9,143
    SeanT said:

    This sounds much more significant than the maybot simply reiterating the obvious, evermore forcefully: i.e. it's my Deal or No Deal, and we leave on March 29

    Remember it has to be something that shocked the Cabinet, and made them all look "very very serious".
    "Nothing Has Changed" would do that in the circumstances because of the level of denial it implies.
  • notme2notme2 Posts: 1,006

    I miss the good old days when a government clusterfuck was about pasties.

    And then you supported Andrea Jenkyns and it all went wrong....
  • notme2 said:

    I miss the good old days when a government clusterfuck was about pasties.

    And then you supported Andrea Jenkyns and it all went wrong....
    I also got Stuart Andrew re-elected.
  • AnorakAnorak Posts: 6,621
    edited March 2019
    Pipped.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,618
    Something's a foot - and it's not twelve inches.....

  • RecidivistRecidivist Posts: 4,679

    God. Do you remember the days when everyone was sweating about whether the deal would be agreed at the September or December summit, in case there wasn't enough time to sort the practicalities out?

    Happy, carefree times.

    Do you remember the discussions on whether or not a successful Brexit would bring an electoral dividend or not?
  • Nigel_ForemainNigel_Foremain Posts: 14,313

    The queen is being activated.

    My respect for the Queen is so high she makes me want to live under an absolute monarchy*.

    (*this applies solely to her)
    I am not a royalist, but I would agree with you there. The only problem is that the appointed successor is the Regal equivalent of a hybrid between Theresa May and Gordon Brown
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,741
    Is it time to panic buy at the supermarket yet?
  • numbertwelvenumbertwelve Posts: 6,817
    So my guess, for what it’s worrh.

    EU have turned down extension and told TM in advance.

    TM is going to stand there and say the choice is now my deal or no deal because there’s no time otherwise.

    She’s called the opposition parties in to tell them there will be no deal unless they whip their MPs to pass the deal.

    She might throw a resignation-once-deal-is-passed in there but I think that’s unlikely.
  • I miss the good old days when a government clusterfuck was about pasties.

    We can trace much of our current predicament to a man eating a sandwich, and a big block of stone.

    I do hope I live long enough to see the knockabout comedy film that will eventually be made.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,261

    Maybe the EU have made their extension conditional on May's resignation. That'd be, um, something.

    Well the EU do have a certain amount of form in imposing leaders on member states...
  • Nigel_ForemainNigel_Foremain Posts: 14,313

    Strap in boys and girls...this is going to get bumpy..

    More like strap on. The government is about to get shafted.
    By 27. Simultaneously or sequentially?
  • mattmatt Posts: 3,789

    Andrew said:


    Government of National Unity?

    She's resigning, and advising Her Maj to send for Chris Williamson as the next PM.

    He'd do a good job.
    Ah, you're *that* sort of intellect.
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,821
    edited March 2019

    So my guess, for what it’s worrh.

    EU have turned down extension and told TM in advance.

    TM is going to stand there and say the choice is now my deal or no deal because there’s no time otherwise.

    She’s called the opposition parties in to tell them there will be no deal unless they whip their MPs to pass the deal.

    She might throw a resignation-once-deal-is-passed in there but I think that’s unlikely.

    The EU won't give a formal response until the European Council meets.
  • AnorakAnorak Posts: 6,621

    We can trace much of our current predicament to a man eating a sandwich.

    Outstanding.
  • CD13CD13 Posts: 6,366
    edited March 2019
    I'm going to panic-buy in case people decide to panic-buy.

    Won't it be a let-down if it's just the EU saying no to an extension?
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,133

    Strap in boys and girls...this is going to get bumpy..

    More like strap on. The government is about to get shafted.
    By 27. Simultaneously or sequentially?
    Don't you now need some special government pass to be able to watch this kind of filth?
  • eekeek Posts: 28,406
    edited March 2019

    Andrew said:


    Government of National Unity?

    She's resigning, and advising Her Maj to send for Chris Williamson as the next PM.

    He'd do a good job.
    Sadly the email get corrupted and HM is sending for Chris Grayling....
  • StreeterStreeter Posts: 684

    Something's a foot - and it's not twelve inches.....

    It’s a funny shaped thing on the end of a leg.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,387
    Nigelb said:

    Maybe the EU have made their extension conditional on May's resignation. That'd be, um, something.

    Well the EU do have a certain amount of form in imposing leaders on member states...
    Maybe they're demanding that Jeremy Corbyn be appointed as PM.
  • SeanTSeanT Posts: 549
    edited March 2019
    Am I the only PB-er with an odd desire to start drinking in the middle of the afternoon?

    This is like Paris a week before the Blitzkrieg. The Bunker in Berlin as the Red Army shells exploded overhead. Gotterdammerung.

    It requires gin.
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,042
    CD13 said:

    I'm going to panic-buy in case people decide to panic-buy.

    Won't it be a let-down if it's just the EU saying no to an extension?

    I have stockpiled a 2 year supply of Good Brie.

    As a non-brie-eater, it doesn't take up much space.
  • Nigel_ForemainNigel_Foremain Posts: 14,313

    Strap in boys and girls...this is going to get bumpy..

    More like strap on. The government is about to get shafted.
    By 27. Simultaneously or sequentially?
    Don't you now need some special government pass to be able to watch this kind of filth?
    You might want to ask Damian Green?
  • notme2notme2 Posts: 1,006

    Scott_P said:
    We've bought in some chlorinated chicken for you?
    What’s wrong with chlorinated washed chickens?
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