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  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 26,624
    IanB2 said:

    kle4 said:

    I just cannot wrap my head around how people who have pushed things to the wire, knowing full well parliament was going to fight against No deal, can be so frothingly angry at the near inevitable consequences of their own actions like European elections. Do they think this is what May wanted? She begged them not to see this happen.

    It is one of life's mysteries how the ERG, who have some clever lawyers, could not see the inevitable and take MV3 when it was on offer.

    History will show how inept they were and they were the principal reason for the coming brexit failure

    Astonishing, just astonishing
    They'd done enough damage by then that MV3 would have sunk even with them. Their failing is strategic, not tactical. They only speak to themselves and never imagined their trashing a soft Brexit hoping for a hard Brexit would rebound on their entire project.
    They trashed a Hard Brexit hoping for a Juche Brexit.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,162
    Foxy said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    If you recall, the SNP surge was after losing Sindyref.

    Remain parties may get a similar landslide in the next GE.
    If No Deal it could even be a TIG landslide, ironically the minor Leave parties will do best if there is No Brexit at all and the minor Remain parties will do best if it is ultra hard Brexit
  • kjohnwkjohnw Posts: 1,456
    Sean_F said:

    _Anazina_ said:

    IanB2 said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Nonsense. Only a tiny minority of people are angry. Hence the derisory support for Farage's PR stunts and the low vote for UKIP in the by-election.
    Whatever the outcome on Brexit, I think most normal people would be happy not to hear about it for a long time, so the chance of this outcome has to be pretty close to zero.
    I think if MayDay did indeed revoke, stand up and say, “well we tried our best, but whatever was put on the table, the Brexiteers refused to eat, in the end we had no choice but to send the little wankers to bed without any supper”, she’d race to 42% in the polls pretty quickly and most of the country would be relieved to hear the end of it, and get on with their lives.
    No offence, but I don't think you understand Conservative voters.

    Some are indeed pissed off by the ERG: others regard them as heroes. But, the vast majority want Brexit.
    If TM revokes she is toast and a new leaver PM will reinvoke A50, on a fresh GE mandate
  • TGOHFTGOHF Posts: 21,633
    Only a complete fool blames the ERG before the morons that voted May in and worse, kept her on for 1000 days. The whole herd of MPs should be fired.
  • ERG routed again
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    edited April 2019

    blueblue said:

    Sean_F said:

    Drutt said:

    GIN1138 said:

    blueblue said:

    GIN1138 said:

    blueblue said:

    GIN1138 said:

    HYUFD said:

    Corbyn may also have a problem with Deal plus Customs Union, not just May

    https://twitter.com/Andrew_ComRes/status/1115347591905120256?s=20

    May and the Tories will primarily get the blame though as she's the one who said over 100 times we'd leave the EU on 29th March. She's the one that said No Deal Is Better Than A Bad Deal (and that slogan has really struck home with leavers in the same way Take Back Control did)

    May is the one that made the Tories the Brexit Party in the 2017 election and made a point of saying we'd be out of SM and CU.

    And that's before we get on to all the abuse the Tories and their media allies have been directing at Corbyn and are now trying to get him to save their bacon.

    Just as the expenses scandal affected both parties but hit Labour disproportionately as the party of government so failure to deliver Brexit will obviously hit the Tories disproportionately...
    Failure to deliver Brexit will hurt the Tories? I'm a Tory, and I can tell you that if TM Revoked tomorrow and promised that we would never ever _ever_ hear the ******* word Brexit again, we'd be at 40%+ with the relief of a grateful nation.
    Remainers possibly - I'm sure the losers would love to become the winners.

    Leavers would be less impressed at being winners becoming losers...
    Any Leavers who still believe that they won anything worth a damn are frankly beyond reason. .
    That's 70% of your own voters sunshine. :D
    blueblue is Fiona Hill and i claim my £5
    Looking at the Com Res poll, 24% of 32% is 8%, so it's fair to conclude that the right wing pro-EU position is niche, as argued on the previous thread.
    I'm not "right wing pro-EU", I'm "right wing pro not destroying the Government, the economy, and letting in Corbyn". I don't give a damn about the EU itself apart from that.
    In London, especially, this view is also typically the view of many historic Conservative voters (hence the Tories current electoral popularity there)
    Even with Cameron leading the Tories they still didn't do particularly well in London.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,870
    Cash wrecking amendment fails 85 v 392
  • _Anazina__Anazina_ Posts: 1,810
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    Sean_F said:

    _Anazina_ said:

    IanB2 said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Nonsense. Only a tiny minority of people are angry. Hence the derisory support for Farage's PR stunts and the low vote for UKIP in the by-election.
    Whatever the outcome on Brexit, I think most normal people would be happy not to hear about it for a long time, so the chance of this outcome has to be pretty close to zero.
    I think if MayDay did indeed revoke, stand up and say, “well we tried our best, but whatever was put on the table, the Brexiteers refused to eat, in the end we had no choice but to send the little wankers to bed without any supper”, she’d race to 42% in the polls pretty quickly and most of the country would be relieved to hear the end of it, and get on with their lives.
    No offence, but I don't think you understand Conservative voters.

    Some are indeed pissed off by the ERG: others regard them as heroes. But, the vast majority want Brexit.
    She would attract plenty of non-Tories. That’s my point.
  • kjohnw said:

    Sean_F said:

    _Anazina_ said:

    IanB2 said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Nonsense. Only a tiny minority of people are angry. Hence the derisory support for Farage's PR stunts and the low vote for UKIP in the by-election.
    Whatever the outcome on Brexit, I think most normal people would be happy not to hear about it for a long time, so the chance of this outcome has to be pretty close to zero.
    I think if MayDay did indeed revoke, stand up and say, “well we tried our best, but whatever was put on the table, the Brexiteers refused to eat, in the end we had no choice but to send the little wankers to bed without any supper”, she’d race to 42% in the polls pretty quickly and most of the country would be relieved to hear the end of it, and get on with their lives.
    No offence, but I don't think you understand Conservative voters.

    Some are indeed pissed off by the ERG: others regard them as heroes. But, the vast majority want Brexit.
    If TM revokes she is toast and a new leaver PM will reinvoke A50, on a fresh GE mandate
    TM will not revoke
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,162
    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    Given Leave is still at least 45% in the polls, ie identical to what Yes got in 2014, I would not be so confident if Brexit ultimately is reversed and we end up Remaining
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,870
    Lords amendment 5 to division. Amendment allows May 22 extension.
  • The idea that May would revoke is for the fairies.

    Even if she were to find herself in a position that revocation was the only out she would resign before she would do that.

  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    Sean_F said:

    kle4 said:

    kle4 said:

    I just cannot wrap my head around how people who have pushed things to the wire, knowing full well parliament was going to fight against No deal, can be so frothingly angry at the near inevitable consequences of their own actions like European elections. Do they think this is what May wanted? She begged them not to see this happen.

    It is one of life's mysteries how the ERG, who have some clever lawyers, could not see the inevitable and take MV3 when it was on offer.
    I can understand it from any who believe the WA is worse even than remaining. Clearly, in the end, many in the ERG such as Rees-Mogg did not believe that. But I can understand those that do holding out.

    But to get so furious that we are going to very likely have European elections? Sorry, just not getting it. They knew damn well how much no deal would be resisted, and so they were bound to happen if they said no. Heck, some accepted that remain might happen, in which case the elections were definitely coming.
    Most of those who said that Remain was better than the WA were posturing.
    True enough, and it's frustrating as they eventually came around to a course they clearly accept was the best option available, however mad they were about it, but equally that means they could have figured that out sooner and no postured so much. At least the holdouts genuinely believe what they are saying.
    Scott_P said:

    I see the perpetually angry headbangers are driving themselves apoplectic tonight because they were too stupid to vote for leaving the EU when they had the chance...

    It's poetic, in its own way.

    You see, it is totally not their fault that by voting with the opposition so many times that the UK will be participating in the EU elections. Nor is it their fault that on the off chance the government can agree a deal with the opposition to avoid those EU elections, that they will vote that down too.

    ERG logic.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,741
    HYUFD said:

    Foxy said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    If you recall, the SNP surge was after losing Sindyref.

    Remain parties may get a similar landslide in the next GE.
    If No Deal it could even be a TIG landslide, ironically the minor Leave parties will do best if there is No Brexit at all and the minor Remain parties will do best if it is ultra hard Brexit
    Nah, the Zeitgeist has changed. Both UKIP and the Brexit Party are collapsed soufflés.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,162

    The idea that May would revoke is for the fairies.

    Even if she were to find herself in a position that revocation was the only out she would resign before she would do that.

    She would not do it on her own, she would let the Commons do it for her then blame them when she does it
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    HYUFD said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    Given Leave is still at least 45% in the polls, ie identical to what Yes got in 2014, I would not be so confident if Brexit ultimately is reversed and we end up Remaining
    If that happens we’ll have a pro Brexit govt soon
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,870
    edited April 2019
    HYUFD said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    Given Leave is still at least 45% in the polls, ie identical to what Yes got in 2014, I would not be so confident if Brexit ultimately is reversed and we end up Remaining
    It's human nature not to want to admit being wrong. Doesn't mean you are going to walk from Sunderland to London to complain about it. Or even bother to walk to the polling station to write BREXIT on your ballot paper.
  • _Anazina__Anazina_ Posts: 1,810
    kjohnw said:

    Sean_F said:

    _Anazina_ said:

    IanB2 said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Nonsense. Only a tiny minority of people are angry. Hence the derisory support for Farage's PR stunts and the low vote for UKIP in the by-election.
    Whatever the outcome on Brexit, I think most normal people would be happy not to hear about it for a long time, so the chance of this outcome has to be pretty close to zero.
    I think if MayDay did indeed revoke, stand up and say, “well we tried our best, but whatever was put on the table, the Brexiteers refused to eat, in the end we had no choice but to send the little wankers to bed without any supper”, she’d race to 42% in the polls pretty quickly and most of the country would be relieved to hear the end of it, and get on with their lives.
    No offence, but I don't think you understand Conservative voters.

    Some are indeed pissed off by the ERG: others regard them as heroes. But, the vast majority want Brexit.
    If TM revokes she is toast and a new leaver PM will reinvoke A50, on a fresh GE mandate
    Ultimately May is toast a
    TGOHF said:

    Looks like the ERG were correct to try and vote out May. Was just the wet remainy loons that wanted her to stay.

    This from the guy who was pearl clutching about the use of the word loons the other day. Lol.
  • Chris_AChris_A Posts: 1,237
    Don't these 80-odd Tory nutters have nothing better to do than waste time on these pointless divisions?
  • solarflaresolarflare Posts: 3,710
    kjohnw said:

    Sean_F said:

    _Anazina_ said:

    IanB2 said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Nonsense. Only a tiny minority of people are angry. Hence the derisory support for Farage's PR stunts and the low vote for UKIP in the by-election.
    Whatever the outcome on Brexit, I think most normal people would be happy not to hear about it for a long time, so the chance of this outcome has to be pretty close to zero.
    I think if MayDay did indeed revoke, stand up and say, “well we tried our best, but whatever was put on the table, the Brexiteers refused to eat, in the end we had no choice but to send the little wankers to bed without any supper”, she’d race to 42% in the polls pretty quickly and most of the country would be relieved to hear the end of it, and get on with their lives.
    No offence, but I don't think you understand Conservative voters.

    Some are indeed pissed off by the ERG: others regard them as heroes. But, the vast majority want Brexit.
    If TM revokes she is toast and a new leaver PM will reinvoke A50, on a fresh GE mandate
    She's toast anyway.
  • kjohnwkjohnw Posts: 1,456
    I blame Michael Gove for knifing Boris in the back after the referendum . Had he not done so brexit would have been wrapped up by now and it would have been a far better deal than she got
  • NemtynakhtNemtynakht Posts: 2,329
    _Anazina_ said:

    R

    Sean_F said:

    _Anazina_ said:

    IanB2 said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Nonsense. Only a tiny minority of people are angry. Hence the derisory support for Farage's PR stunts and the low vote for UKIP in the by-election.
    Whatever the outcome on Brexit, I think most normal people would be happy not to hear about it for a long time, so the chance of this outcome has to be pretty close to zero.
    I think if MayDay did indeed revoke, stand up and say, “well we tried our best, but whatever was put on the table, the Brexiteers refused to eat, in the end we had no choice but to send the little wankers to bed without any supper”, she’d race to 42% in the polls pretty quickly and most of the country would be relieved to hear the end of it, and get on with their lives.
    No offence, but I don't think you understand Conservative voters.

    Some are indeed pissed off by the ERG: others regard them as heroes. But, the vast majority want Brexit.
    She would attract plenty of non-Tories. That’s my point.
    She wouldn’t though.
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 26,624
    TGOHF said:

    Only a complete fool blames the ERG before the morons that voted May in and worse, kept her on for 1000 days. The whole herd of MPs should be fired.

    So why didn't the ERG challenge May ?

    Allowing May to negotiate a deal and then having a tantrum is complete idiocy if you oppose the sort of deal May was negotiating.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,383
    AndyJS said:

    blueblue said:

    Sean_F said:

    Drutt said:

    GIN1138 said:

    blueblue said:

    GIN1138 said:

    blueblue said:

    GIN1138 said:

    HYUFD said:

    Corbyn may also have a problem with Deal plus Customs Union, not just May

    https://twitter.com/Andrew_ComRes/status/1115347591905120256?s=20

    May and the Tories will primarily get the blame though as she's the one who said over 100 times we'd leave the EU on 29th March. She's the one that said No Deal Is Better Than A Bad Deal (and that slogan has really struck home with leavers in the same way Take Back Control did)

    May is the one that made the Tories the Brexit Party in the 2017 election and made a point of saying we'd be out of SM and CU.

    And that's before we get on to all the abuse the Tories and their media allies have been directing at Corbyn and are now trying to get him to save their bacon.

    Just as the expenses scandal affected both parties but hit Labour disproportionately as the party of government so failure to deliver Brexit will obviously hit the Tories disproportionately...
    Failure to deliver Brexit will hurt the Tories? I'm a Tory, and I can tell you that if TM Revoked tomorrow and promised that we would never ever _ever_ hear the ******* word Brexit again, we'd be at 40%+ with the relief of a grateful nation.
    Remainers possibly - I'm sure the losers would love to become the winners.

    Leavers would be less impressed at being winners becoming losers...
    Any Leavers who still believe that they won anything worth a damn are frankly beyond reason. .
    That's 70% of your own voters sunshine. :D
    blueblue is Fiona Hill and i claim my £5
    Looking at the Com Res poll, 24% of 32% is 8%, so it's fair to conclude that the right wing pro-EU position is niche, as argued on the previous thread.
    I'm not "right wing pro-EU", I'm "right wing pro not destroying the Government, the economy, and letting in Corbyn". I don't give a damn about the EU itself apart from that.
    In London, especially, this view is also typically the view of many historic Conservative voters (hence the Tories current electoral popularity there)
    Even with Cameron leading the Tories they still didn't do particularly well in London.
    Conservative support has been stuck at around one third in London since 1994, although it's more efficiently distributed than it was in the mid nineties, now that residual support in seats like Streatham, Lewisham E and W, Brent Central, Hornsey & Wood Green, Croydon North, Mitcham & Morden has disappeared.
  • Chris_AChris_A Posts: 1,237
    _Anazina_ said:

    nico67 said:

    Wow Daniel Kawczynski on LBC really turning on the ERG now . Blaming them if Brexit implodes .

    Has he revealed why he didn't manage to work this out four months earlier ?

    Because he is a thick reactionary with the learning capacity of a comotose woodlouse?
    Damn shame we don't have a like button.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,870
    kjohnw said:

    I blame Michael Gove for knifing Boris in the back after the referendum . Had he not done so brexit would have been wrapped up by now and it would have been a far better deal than she got

    Welcome, visitor from a parallel universe.

    In reality things would have fallen apart much earlier.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,698
    kjohnw said:

    I blame Michael Gove for knifing Boris in the back after the referendum . Had he not done so brexit would have been wrapped up by now and it would have been a far better deal than she got

    Because we held all the cards?
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    Do the ERG have a sweepstake running?

    Member who says the most outrageously stupid thing on live telly wins a hamper?
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    isam said:
    That's a shame, I was thinking of supporting them.
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 26,624
    kjohnw said:

    I blame Michael Gove for knifing Boris in the back after the referendum . Had he not done so brexit would have been wrapped up by now and it would have been a far better deal than she got

    You think Boris is capable of detailed negotiations ?

    And how would it be far better ?
  • TGOHFTGOHF Posts: 21,633

    TGOHF said:

    Only a complete fool blames the ERG before the morons that voted May in and worse, kept her on for 1000 days. The whole herd of MPs should be fired.

    So why didn't the ERG challenge May ?

    Allowing May to negotiate a deal and then having a tantrum is complete idiocy if you oppose the sort of deal May was negotiating.

    TGOHF said:

    Only a complete fool blames the ERG before the morons that voted May in and worse, kept her on for 1000 days. The whole herd of MPs should be fired.

    So why didn't the ERG challenge May ?

    Allowing May to negotiate a deal and then having a tantrum is complete idiocy if you oppose the sort of deal May was negotiating.
    They did in December- when the wets voted for her to stay with Soubry and Allen..
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 51,720
    kjohnw said:

    I blame Michael Gove for knifing Boris in the back after the referendum . Had he not done so brexit would have been wrapped up by now and it would have been a far better deal than she got

    Maybe you need to go back further. It’s Michael Howard’s fault for setting up the 2005 leadership contest so that Cameron would win, stopping David Davis from becoming PM and implementing his double referendum plan.
  • RecidivistRecidivist Posts: 4,679
    Sean_F said:

    Foxy said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    If you recall, the SNP surge was after losing Sindyref.

    Remain parties may get a similar landslide in the next GE.
    I expect that if Brexit goes ahead, then Remain voters will be very fired up to vote, and if it is cancelled, Leave voters will be similarly fired up.
    Is there much fight left in the leave voters whatever happens? The ones I know seem totally demoralised or have forgotten the whole business already.
  • nico67nico67 Posts: 4,502
    The ERG should be sectioned . They’re clearly becoming unhinged and are a danger to the country .
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,870

    Sean_F said:

    Foxy said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    If you recall, the SNP surge was after losing Sindyref.

    Remain parties may get a similar landslide in the next GE.
    I expect that if Brexit goes ahead, then Remain voters will be very fired up to vote, and if it is cancelled, Leave voters will be similarly fired up.
    Is there much fight left in the leave voters whatever happens? The ones I know seem totally demoralised or have forgotten the whole business already.
    +1

    Only the enthusiasts are enraged. Everyone else just wants this to end.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,383

    Sean_F said:

    Foxy said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    If you recall, the SNP surge was after losing Sindyref.

    Remain parties may get a similar landslide in the next GE.
    I expect that if Brexit goes ahead, then Remain voters will be very fired up to vote, and if it is cancelled, Leave voters will be similarly fired up.
    Is there much fight left in the leave voters whatever happens? The ones I know seem totally demoralised or have forgotten the whole business already.
    I don't think that either the Conservatives or the Brexit supporters that you are acquainted with are typical.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,698
    nico67 said:

    The ERG should be sectioned . They’re clearly becoming unhinged and are a danger to the country .

    I think most of them have been unhinged for years... Brexit has just given them some limelight.
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 26,624
    TGOHF said:

    TGOHF said:

    Only a complete fool blames the ERG before the morons that voted May in and worse, kept her on for 1000 days. The whole herd of MPs should be fired.

    So why didn't the ERG challenge May ?

    Allowing May to negotiate a deal and then having a tantrum is complete idiocy if you oppose the sort of deal May was negotiating.

    TGOHF said:

    Only a complete fool blames the ERG before the morons that voted May in and worse, kept her on for 1000 days. The whole herd of MPs should be fired.

    So why didn't the ERG challenge May ?

    Allowing May to negotiate a deal and then having a tantrum is complete idiocy if you oppose the sort of deal May was negotiating.
    They did in December- when the wets voted for her to stay with Soubry and Allen..
    So two years too late.

    By then the negotiation had been done and the Deal agreed with the EU.

    What were the ERG going to do if they had got rid of May in December ?
  • nico67nico67 Posts: 4,502
    Just imagine if May had been ousted last December .

    We’d be heading for a crash out no deal . Thank heavens the ERG are clueless morons and went for the confidence vote too soon.
  • TGOHFTGOHF Posts: 21,633

    Sean_F said:

    Foxy said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    If you recall, the SNP surge was after losing Sindyref.

    Remain parties may get a similar landslide in the next GE.
    I expect that if Brexit goes ahead, then Remain voters will be very fired up to vote, and if it is cancelled, Leave voters will be similarly fired up.
    Is there much fight left in the leave voters whatever happens? The ones I know seem totally demoralised or have forgotten the whole business already.
    I’d imagine what they aren’t interested in - is donating, campaigning or voting for the Conservatives or Labour.

  • nico67 said:

    The ERG should be sectioned . They’re clearly becoming unhinged and are a danger to the country .

    The extreme members indeed
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 26,624

    Sean_F said:

    Foxy said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    If you recall, the SNP surge was after losing Sindyref.

    Remain parties may get a similar landslide in the next GE.
    I expect that if Brexit goes ahead, then Remain voters will be very fired up to vote, and if it is cancelled, Leave voters will be similarly fired up.
    Is there much fight left in the leave voters whatever happens? The ones I know seem totally demoralised or have forgotten the whole business already.
    I thought you'd told us previously you didn't know any Conservatives or Leavers ?
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,383
    IanB2 said:

    Sean_F said:

    Foxy said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    If you recall, the SNP surge was after losing Sindyref.

    Remain parties may get a similar landslide in the next GE.
    I expect that if Brexit goes ahead, then Remain voters will be very fired up to vote, and if it is cancelled, Leave voters will be similarly fired up.
    Is there much fight left in the leave voters whatever happens? The ones I know seem totally demoralised or have forgotten the whole business already.
    +1

    Only the enthusiasts are enraged. Everyone else just wants this to end.
    It's a variant on the argument we used to get pre-2016, that no one cared about the EU. It transpired that they did. You are passionately pro EU so why assume that your opponents care any less deeply?
  • blueblueblueblue Posts: 875
    kjohnw said:

    I blame Michael Gove for knifing Boris in the back after the referendum . Had he not done so brexit would have been wrapped up by now and it would have been a far better deal than she got

    I think Boris would have won a majority, and that would have made things much easier in general. But I'm not convinced that anything better would have been negotiated.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,293
    "Theresa May is facing demands from her own MPs to stand down immediately after senior backbenchers told her she is now “the problem”.

    A delegation of executives from the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers met Mrs May in Downing Street on Monday and said the mood among party supporters had turned against her over the weekend.

    Mrs May sat in stony silence and refused to discuss her future as the MPs made clear the “damage” she is causing the party, sources said.

    The meeting will draw comparisons with the final days of Margaret Thatcher's reign when she was visited by "the men in grey suits" and prevailed upon to resign for the good of the party..."

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/04/08/theresa-may-told-problem-backbenchers-urge-go-good-party/
  • _Anazina__Anazina_ Posts: 1,810
    IanB2 said:

    Sean_F said:

    Foxy said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    If you recall, the SNP surge was after losing Sindyref.

    Remain parties may get a similar landslide in the next GE.
    I expect that if Brexit goes ahead, then Remain voters will be very fired up to vote, and if it is cancelled, Leave voters will be similarly fired up.
    Is there much fight left in the leave voters whatever happens? The ones I know seem totally demoralised or have forgotten the whole business already.
    +1

    Only the enthusiasts are enraged. Everyone else just wants this to end.
    The pitiful Vote to Leave march suggests what fire and fight remains is isolated in an ever dwindling group.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,246
    kjohnw said:

    I blame Michael Gove for knifing Boris in the back after the referendum . Had he not done so brexit would have been wrapped up by now and it would have been a far better deal than she got

    As he doesn’t even seem capable of filling in the register of members’ interests, I am not as confident as you appear to be about that.

    Or are you suggesting he’d have ballsed it up in double quick time, and we’d already have revoked ?

  • anothernickanothernick Posts: 3,591
    IanB2 said:

    kle4 said:

    I just cannot wrap my head around how people who have pushed things to the wire, knowing full well parliament was going to fight against No deal, can be so frothingly angry at the near inevitable consequences of their own actions like European elections. Do they think this is what May wanted? She begged them not to see this happen.

    It is one of life's mysteries how the ERG, who have some clever lawyers, could not see the inevitable and take MV3 when it was on offer.

    History will show how inept they were and they were the principal reason for the coming brexit failure

    Astonishing, just astonishing
    They'd done enough damage by then that MV3 would have sunk even with them. Their failing is strategic, not tactical. They only speak to themselves and never imagined their trashing a soft Brexit hoping for a hard Brexit would rebound on their entire project.
    They got so used to being indulged by successive Tory leaders that they thought all they had to do was snap their fingers and a hard Brexit would be theirs. Having pushed the Tories to adopt what had previously been seen as impossible positions, namely a referendum on the EU and then an A50 notice without any prior preparation, they assumed the Brexit of their dreams would follow. But they have found that the EU is rather less willing to indulge their self-important posturing than David Cameron and Theresa May.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    IanB2 said:

    Sean_F said:

    Foxy said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    If you recall, the SNP surge was after losing Sindyref.

    Remain parties may get a similar landslide in the next GE.
    I expect that if Brexit goes ahead, then Remain voters will be very fired up to vote, and if it is cancelled, Leave voters will be similarly fired up.
    Is there much fight left in the leave voters whatever happens? The ones I know seem totally demoralised or have forgotten the whole business already.
    +1

    Only the enthusiasts are enraged. Everyone else just wants this to end.
    I don't think that is true. I don't think as many are enraged as some think, but if everyone else just wanted this to end it would end, but the most likely outcome is extending it for the rest of the year. Yes, driven by MPs, but that's because they do not fear dragging it out for as long as it needs to be, because various sides think they can win if they do that. And the public are more ok with that than they might admit I think.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,217
    GIN1138 said:

    "Theresa May is facing demands from her own MPs to stand down immediately after senior backbenchers told her she is now “the problem”.

    A delegation of executives from the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers met Mrs May in Downing Street on Monday and said the mood among party supporters had turned against her over the weekend.

    Mrs May sat in stony silence and refused to discuss her future as the MPs made clear the “damage” she is causing the party, sources said.

    The meeting will draw comparisons with the final days of Margaret Thatcher's reign when she was visited by "the men in grey suits" and prevailed upon to resign for the good of the party..."

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/04/08/theresa-may-told-problem-backbenchers-urge-go-good-party/

    She won't go whilst Javid and Hunt are still at Foreign Sec and Home (Obviously it is looking unlikely that Phil will resign over Brexit :D )
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 26,624
    GIN1138 said:

    "Theresa May is facing demands from her own MPs to stand down immediately after senior backbenchers told her she is now “the problem”.

    A delegation of executives from the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers met Mrs May in Downing Street on Monday and said the mood among party supporters had turned against her over the weekend.

    Mrs May sat in stony silence and refused to discuss her future as the MPs made clear the “damage” she is causing the party, sources said.

    The meeting will draw comparisons with the final days of Margaret Thatcher's reign when she was visited by "the men in grey suits" and prevailed upon to resign for the good of the party..."

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/04/08/theresa-may-told-problem-backbenchers-urge-go-good-party/

    Considering that May has already offered to resign I don't see what the threat is.
  • blueblueblueblue Posts: 875
    GIN1138 said:

    "Theresa May is facing demands from her own MPs to stand down immediately after senior backbenchers told her she is now “the problem”.

    A delegation of executives from the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers met Mrs May in Downing Street on Monday and said the mood among party supporters had turned against her over the weekend.

    Mrs May sat in stony silence and refused to discuss her future as the MPs made clear the “damage” she is causing the party, sources said.

    The meeting will draw comparisons with the final days of Margaret Thatcher's reign when she was visited by "the men in grey suits" and prevailed upon to resign for the good of the party..."

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/04/08/theresa-may-told-problem-backbenchers-urge-go-good-party/

    TM to backbenchers: "I wish to read the following considered statement in reply:"

    'Vote for my plan or go **** yourselves'.

    "End of statement. Good day, gentlemen".
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    GIN1138 said:

    "Theresa May is facing demands from her own MPs to stand down immediately after senior backbenchers told her she is now “the problem”.

    A delegation of executives from the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers met Mrs May in Downing Street on Monday and said the mood among party supporters had turned against her over the weekend.

    Mrs May sat in stony silence and refused to discuss her future as the MPs made clear the “damage” she is causing the party, sources said.

    The meeting will draw comparisons with the final days of Margaret Thatcher's reign when she was visited by "the men in grey suits" and prevailed upon to resign for the good of the party..."

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/04/08/theresa-may-told-problem-backbenchers-urge-go-good-party/

    She already discussed her future with them. She's made clear she won't be there for any longer than is necessary to see Brexit occur. Given Tory backbenchers prevented Brexit, they are in no position to complain she is still there.
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 26,624
    edited April 2019
    Pulpstar said:

    GIN1138 said:

    "Theresa May is facing demands from her own MPs to stand down immediately after senior backbenchers told her she is now “the problem”.

    A delegation of executives from the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers met Mrs May in Downing Street on Monday and said the mood among party supporters had turned against her over the weekend.

    Mrs May sat in stony silence and refused to discuss her future as the MPs made clear the “damage” she is causing the party, sources said.

    The meeting will draw comparisons with the final days of Margaret Thatcher's reign when she was visited by "the men in grey suits" and prevailed upon to resign for the good of the party..."

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/04/08/theresa-may-told-problem-backbenchers-urge-go-good-party/

    She won't go whilst Javid and Hunt are still at Foreign Sec and Home (Obviously it is looking unlikely that Phil will resign over Brexit :D )
    Has May got a downer on Javid and Hunt ?
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,870
    The Economist:

    The radicalisation of Remainers - Europhiles may shape British politics for years to come

    https://amp.economist.com/britain/2019/04/06/the-radicalisation-of-remainers?__twitter_impression=true
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453

    Considering that May has already offered to resign I don't see what the threat is.

    All they had to do was vote for it...
  • TGOHFTGOHF Posts: 21,633
    _Anazina_ said:

    IanB2 said:

    Sean_F said:

    Foxy said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    If you recall, the SNP surge was after losing Sindyref.

    Remain parties may get a similar landslide in the next GE.
    I expect that if Brexit goes ahead, then Remain voters will be very fired up to vote, and if it is cancelled, Leave voters will be similarly fired up.
    Is there much fight left in the leave voters whatever happens? The ones I know seem totally demoralised or have forgotten the whole business already.
    +1

    Only the enthusiasts are enraged. Everyone else just wants this to end.
    The pitiful Vote to Leave march suggests what fire and fight remains is isolated in an ever dwindling group.
    Suggests that leavers have better things to do than virtue signal. Like work or spend time with their families.

    Remained loons wearing EU flags and travelling to London to ponce around posting on Facebook that they are supporting a protectionist cartel are the pitiful ones. Get a life you sad sacks.
  • solarflaresolarflare Posts: 3,710
    Scott_P said:
    Isn't calling something the "real" mainstream a bit like when you stick "Democratic" in your country's name, i.e. anything but?
  • nico67nico67 Posts: 4,502
    The value of the Lords has been highlighted today .

    The Cooper Letwin Bill although laudable in its aspirations was flawed . The Lords have done as much as they can to rectify that with their amendments .
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,698
    "Delay in the No Lobby"... Are the ERG staging a naked protest?
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    Sean_F said:

    IanB2 said:

    Sean_F said:

    Foxy said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    If you recall, the SNP surge was after losing Sindyref.

    Remain parties may get a similar landslide in the next GE.
    I expect that if Brexit goes ahead, then Remain voters will be very fired up to vote, and if it is cancelled, Leave voters will be similarly fired up.
    Is there much fight left in the leave voters whatever happens? The ones I know seem totally demoralised or have forgotten the whole business already.
    +1

    Only the enthusiasts are enraged. Everyone else just wants this to end.
    It's a variant on the argument we used to get pre-2016, that no one cared about the EU. It transpired that they did. You are passionately pro EU so why assume that your opponents care any less deeply?
    And with UKIP GE 2015

    Echo chamber dwellers who think the votes of lawyers, opinion poll panels and MPs count treble.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,870
    Amendment 5 carried 390 v 81
  • anothernickanothernick Posts: 3,591
    _Anazina_ said:

    IanB2 said:

    Sean_F said:

    Foxy said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    If you recall, the SNP surge was after losing Sindyref.

    Remain parties may get a similar landslide in the next GE.
    I expect that if Brexit goes ahead, then Remain voters will be very fired up to vote, and if it is cancelled, Leave voters will be similarly fired up.
    Is there much fight left in the leave voters whatever happens? The ones I know seem totally demoralised or have forgotten the whole business already.
    +1

    Only the enthusiasts are enraged. Everyone else just wants this to end.
    The pitiful Vote to Leave march suggests what fire and fight remains is isolated in an ever dwindling group.
    Anecdotally a number of friends who were previously in the "let's get on with it" group are now paid up members of the "let's drop the whole idea" party.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163

    Scott_P said:
    Isn't calling something the "real" mainstream a bit like when you stick "Democratic" in your country's name, i.e. anything but?
    Except with the real ghostbusters.

    And in fairness they probably are maintstream among many Tory members.
  • _Anazina__Anazina_ Posts: 1,810
    AndyJS said:

    isam said:
    That's a shame, I was thinking of supporting them.

    Why? They are a socially conservative eurosceptic rabble these days, nothing like the SDP of Shirley Williams vintage.
  • nico67nico67 Posts: 4,502
    IanB2 said:

    Amendment 5 carried 390 v 81

    The nutjobs humiliated again !
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    _Anazina_ said:

    AndyJS said:

    isam said:
    That's a shame, I was thinking of supporting them.

    Why? They are a socially conservative eurosceptic rabble these days, nothing like the SDP of Shirley Williams vintage.
    That’s probably why
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    edited April 2019
    TGOHF said:

    _Anazina_ said:

    IanB2 said:

    Sean_F said:

    Foxy said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    If you recall, the SNP surge was after losing Sindyref.

    Remain parties may get a similar landslide in the next GE.
    I expect that if Brexit goes ahead, then Remain voters will be very fired up to vote, and if it is cancelled, Leave voters will be similarly fired up.
    Is there much fight left in the leave voters whatever happens? The ones I know seem totally demoralised or have forgotten the whole business already.
    +1

    Only the enthusiasts are enraged. Everyone else just wants this to end.
    The pitiful Vote to Leave march suggests what fire and fight remains is isolated in an ever dwindling group.
    Suggests that leavers have better things to do than virtue signal. Like work or spend time with their families.
    That argument falls down because why then was the march arranged in the first place? The whole point was to signal virtue.
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    edited April 2019
    isam said:

    _Anazina_ said:

    AndyJS said:

    isam said:
    That's a shame, I was thinking of supporting them.

    Why? They are a socially conservative eurosceptic rabble these days, nothing like the SDP of Shirley Williams vintage.
    That’s probably why
    They're mildly Eurosceptic and mildly socially conservative. I quite like the mildness, as opposed to the extremes you find in other parties.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,870
    edited April 2019
    Point of Order from Cooper now the Bill is agreed.

    Formality of Royal assent the only remaining hurdle.

    Benn asks whether assent will be given tonight. Speaker hopes so, says steps are in train.

    In which case motion under the Act will be taken tomorrow.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 51,720
    nico67 said:

    Wow Daniel Kawczynski on LBC really turning on the ERG now . Blaming them if Brexit implodes .

    Some of the callers aren't happy - "It should be simple. It was simple when we went over during the war."
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    nico67 said:

    IanB2 said:

    Amendment 5 carried 390 v 81

    The nutjobs humiliated again !
    Not that humilated, it's only 79 worse a defeat than the government faces somedays.
  • _Anazina__Anazina_ Posts: 1,810
    TGOHF said:

    _Anazina_ said:

    IanB2 said:

    Sean_F said:

    Foxy said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    If you recall, the SNP surge was after losing Sindyref.

    Remain parties may get a similar landslide in the next GE.
    I expect that if Brexit goes ahead, then Remain voters will be very fired up to vote, and if it is cancelled, Leave voters will be similarly fired up.
    Is there much fight left in the leave voters whatever happens? The ones I know seem totally demoralised or have forgotten the whole business already.
    +1

    Only the enthusiasts are enraged. Everyone else just wants this to end.
    The pitiful Vote to Leave march suggests what fire and fight remains is isolated in an ever dwindling group.
    Suggests that leavers have better things to do than virtue signal. Like work or spend time with their families.

    Remained loons wearing EU flags and travelling to London to ponce around posting on Facebook that they are supporting a protectionist cartel are the pitiful ones. Get a life you sad sacks.
    I suggest you source a variety of grapes that is easier on the palate.
  • Richard_TyndallRichard_Tyndall Posts: 32,580
    Sean_F said:

    IanB2 said:

    Sean_F said:

    Foxy said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    If you recall, the SNP surge was after losing Sindyref.

    Remain parties may get a similar landslide in the next GE.
    I expect that if Brexit goes ahead, then Remain voters will be very fired up to vote, and if it is cancelled, Leave voters will be similarly fired up.
    Is there much fight left in the leave voters whatever happens? The ones I know seem totally demoralised or have forgotten the whole business already.
    +1

    Only the enthusiasts are enraged. Everyone else just wants this to end.
    It's a variant on the argument we used to get pre-2016, that no one cared about the EU. It transpired that they did. You are passionately pro EU so why assume that your opponents care any less deeply?
    Yep I remember all those posts from Mike and his 'No one gives a Monkey's' comments. Turns out they did after all.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,426
    Well, it's certainly replete with pond life and scum.
  • nico67nico67 Posts: 4,502

    nico67 said:

    Wow Daniel Kawczynski on LBC really turning on the ERG now . Blaming them if Brexit implodes .

    Some of the callers aren't happy - "It should be simple. It was simple when we went over during the war."
    Oh dear ! Time for an emergency sterilization programme to stop these nutjobs from further polluting the UK gene pool.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,383
    isam said:

    Sean_F said:

    IanB2 said:

    Sean_F said:

    Foxy said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    If you recall, the SNP surge was after losing Sindyref.

    Remain parties may get a similar landslide in the next GE.
    I expect that if Brexit goes ahead, then Remain voters will be very fired up to vote, and if it is cancelled, Leave voters will be similarly fired up.
    Is there much fight left in the leave votedy.
    +1

    Only the enthusiasts are enraged. Everyone else just wants this to end.
    It's a variant on th?
    And with UKIP GE 2015

    Echo chamber dwellers who think the votes of lawyers, opinion poll panels and MPs count treble.
    UKIP won 16% in 2004. Nobody cares about the EU

    They won 16% in 2009. They've peaked, nobody cares about the EU.

    They won 28% in 2014. it was a protest vote about immigration. 66% of the votes went to parties that support EU membership.

    Polling shifted heavily in favour of Remain in 2014/15. If there was a referendum, it would be a shoe in for Remain.

    And throughout that time, eurosceptic organisations were shambolic, riven with infighting, and usually got one man and his dog to their demonstrations. But, somehow, they struck a chord with the public.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,870
    edited April 2019
    ..
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118

    Sean_F said:

    IanB2 said:

    Sean_F said:

    Foxy said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    If you recall, the SNP surge was after losing Sindyref.

    Remain parties may get a similar landslide in the next GE.
    I expect that if Brexit goes ahead, then Remain voters will be very fired up to vote, and if it is cancelled, Leave voters will be similarly fired up.
    Is there much fight left in the leave voters whatever happens? The ones I know seem totally demoralised or have forgotten the whole business already.
    +1

    Only the enthusiasts are enraged. Everyone else just wants this to end.
    It's a variant on the argument we used to get pre-2016, that no one cared about the EU. It transpired that they did. You are passionately pro EU so why assume that your opponents care any less deeply?
    Yep I remember all those posts from Mike and his 'No one gives a Monkey's' comments. Turns out they did after all.
    It’s incredible that after all the polling disasters of this decade, people still buy into the media and political bubble noise that fuels, and is fuelled by, them
  • TGOHFTGOHF Posts: 21,633
    edited April 2019
    _Anazina_ said:



    I suggest you source a variety of grapes that is easier on the palate.

    You wouldn’t catch me dead on a March what a waste of a day - hope you enjoyed the million loser remain day out - bet it looked awesome on insta.
  • _Anazina__Anazina_ Posts: 1,810
    AndyJS said:

    isam said:

    _Anazina_ said:

    AndyJS said:

    isam said:
    That's a shame, I was thinking of supporting them.

    Why? They are a socially conservative eurosceptic rabble these days, nothing like the SDP of Shirley Williams vintage.
    That’s probably why
    They're mildly Eurosceptic and mildly socially conservative. I quite like the mildness, as opposed to the extremes you find in other parties.
    Aren’t you a Remainer? Why would you then vote for a pro Leave party? Odd, but up to you.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,870
    Speaker suggesting even if Royal Assent is given tomorrow it may still be possible to take a motion tomorrow. But expects someone will wake her Maj. up tonight to secure her autograph.
  • nico67nico67 Posts: 4,502
    IanB2 said:

    nico67 said:

    nico67 said:

    Wow Daniel Kawczynski on LBC really turning on the ERG now . Blaming them if Brexit implodes .

    Some of the callers aren't happy - "It should be simple. It was simple when we went over during the war."
    Oh dear ! Time for an emergency sterilization programme to stop these nutjobs from further polluting the UK gene pool.
    The age of most of them suggests you will be too late.
    Lmao . Very funny !
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,162
    Foxy said:

    HYUFD said:

    Foxy said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    If the Commons votes to revoke Art 50 on Thursday or Friday it is not impossible the Brexit Party could do an SNP 2015 at the next GE and Farage could become PM under FPTP. Remember about 2/3 of constituencies voted Leave in 2016
    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    If you recall, the SNP surge was after losing Sindyref.

    Remain parties may get a similar landslide in the next GE.
    If No Deal it could even be a TIG landslide, ironically the minor Leave parties will do best if there is No Brexit at all and the minor Remain parties will do best if it is ultra hard Brexit
    Nah, the Zeitgeist has changed. Both UKIP and the Brexit Party are collapsed soufflés.
    Combined they are on 12% already ie already back to UKIP 2015 levels, if Brexit was revoked and the Tories did not elect a hard Brexiteer as leader by the next general election they would certainly be contenders
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,293
    IanB2 said:

    Speaker suggesting even if Royal Assent is given tomorrow it may still be possible to take a motion tomorrow. But expects someone will wake her Maj. up tonight to secure her autograph.

    Weirdo remainer MPs now disturbing Her Majesty's sleep! :(
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,617
    IanB2 said:

    Point of Order from Cooper now the Bill is agreed.

    Formality of Royal assent the only remaining hurdle.

    Benn asks whether assent will be given tonight. Speaker hopes so, says steps are in train.

    In which case motion under the Act will be taken tomorrow.

    About the last piece of drama Brexit hasn't had is HM the Q keeling over before royal assent is given.....
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    TGOHF said:
    Tories at 4/1! I'm not throwing my money down that black pit.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 51,720
    GIN1138 said:

    IanB2 said:

    Speaker suggesting even if Royal Assent is given tomorrow it may still be possible to take a motion tomorrow. But expects someone will wake her Maj. up tonight to secure her autograph.

    Weirdo remainer MPs now disturbing Her Majesty's sleep! :(
    https://twitter.com/nicholaswatt/status/1115374648361926656
  • _Anazina__Anazina_ Posts: 1,810
    Tgohf

    Saucer of milk for table five!
    TGOHF said:

    _Anazina_ said:



    I suggest you source a variety of grapes that is easier on the palate.

    You wouldn’t catch me dead on a March what a waste of a day - hope you enjoyed the million loser remain day out - bet it looked awesome on insta.
    I didn’t attend it.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,870
    kle4 said:

    TGOHF said:
    Tories at 4/1! I'm not throwing my money down that black pit.
    A shame you can't lay that Brexit Party 3/1.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163

    IanB2 said:

    Point of Order from Cooper now the Bill is agreed.

    Formality of Royal assent the only remaining hurdle.

    Benn asks whether assent will be given tonight. Speaker hopes so, says steps are in train.

    In which case motion under the Act will be taken tomorrow.

    About the last piece of drama Brexit hasn't had is HM the Q keeling over before royal assent is given.....
    Christ, it doesn't bear thinking about. Blessings to the health of Her Majesty.
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    Sean_F said:

    isam said:

    Sean_F said:

    IanB2 said:

    Sean_F said:

    Foxy said:

    IanB2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    isam said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    There was what was probably a voodoo poll on aol today which had the Brexit party on 52% with the Tories at something like 13% and Labour on 9%.

    People are really pissed off.

    You could be right. I don’t think that remainers or our remainer dominated media are close to understanding how angry people are getting about this. Do what you were f******* told.
    Yes and Farage could get a majority conceivably on just 35 to 40% of the vote
    Look how the SNP cleaned up when they lost the Indy Ref... not Brexiting is surely similar enough to draw conclusions from that?

    For the Euro's I meant
    Agreed for the Euro`s certainly maybe beyond
    Nah. The SNP achieved what Boris hoped to - a sympathy surge for a heroic near miss.

    Actually winning the referendum and then having it demonstrated to the world that your success has reduced the country's politics to the abject and pitiful humiliation we are now living through is another matter entirely.

    There won't be a big sympathy surge when this fiasco is put out of its misery.
    If you recall, the SNP surge was after losing Sindyref.

    Remain parties may get a similar landslide in the next GE.
    I expect that if Brexit goes ahead, then Remain voters will be very fired up to vote, and if it is cancelled, Leave voters will be similarly fired up.
    Is there much fight left in the leave votedy.
    +1

    Only the enthusiasts are enraged. Everyone else just wants this to end.
    It's a variant on th?
    And with UKIP GE 2015

    Echo chamber dwellers who think the votes of lawyers, opinion poll panels and MPs count treble.
    UKIP won 16% in 2004. Nobody cares about the EU

    They won 16% in 2009. They've peaked, nobody cares about the EU.

    They won 28% in 2014. it was a protest vote about immigration. 66% of the votes went to parties that support EU membership.

    Polling shifted heavily in favour of Remain in 2014/15. If there was a referendum, it would be a shoe in for Remain.

    And throughout that time, eurosceptic organisations were shambolic, riven with infighting, and usually got one man and his dog to their demonstrations. But, somehow, they struck a chord with the public.
    Yes, amazing... and it’s happening again, right here on this thread tonight.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    Any idea when we might hear when Change UK's application for party status goes through? Nominations will be needed in double quick time.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,246
    @ydoethur might enjoy this story in a perverse fashion:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-47853438
    Ofsted's head of research has complained on Twitter of being turned down in his application for "settled status" in the UK after Brexit.
    Professor Daniel Muijs, a senior figure in England's education watchdog, has held posts in Southampton, Manchester, Newcastle and Warwick Universities.
    Originally from Belgium, he has worked in the UK for more than 20 years.
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