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A national emergency - Chris Grey
My sense, especially after her broadcast this week, is that we have a Prime Minister who - more for psychological than political reasons - will do all she can to ensure that if her deal isn't passed there will be a no-deal Brexit, despite having in the past promised the could not happen without explicit parliamentary assent. It is now being reported by reliable sources that she is, indeed, now determined on this course of action (£) in which she will of course be cheered on by the increasingly unhinged Brexit Ultras within and outside her party. Even if she were to immediately face and lose a no confidence motion she could still, if I understand the Fixed Terms Parliament Act correctly, be Prime Minister for another fortnight, enough to take us over the cliff. She looks like someone who won't go down without bringing the rest of us with her if she possibly can. Indeed it is all too believable that she would regard it as her "sacred duty" (£) to do so.
Even if she were to immediately face and lose a no confidence motion she could still, if I understand the Fixed Terms Parliament Act correctly, be Prime Minister for another fortnight, enough to take us over the cliff. She looks like someone who won't go down without bringing the rest of us with her if she possibly can. Indeed it is all too believable that she would regard it as her "sacred duty" (£) to do so.
Does parliament have to wait two weeks to appoint one, or can they appoint one on as soon as May is gone? Because if they are going to do anything other than crash out, they need a PM in some form.
Rees-Mogg will be become the new Screaming Lord Sutch of Britpol. Bojo by then will go full skinhead and opine the same absurdist ballyhoo as ever in a Sarf Lunnen brogue.
Circled by psychiatrists, Teresa will be staunch to the end in a never-before-seen advanced stage of dementia politicalis, shouting 'Brexit meant Brexit' over the howling winds of nationalism and the numb silence of voters surveying the damage, picking flotsam and jetsam at low tide.
Hunt and Hammond swan-dove off the poop, Corbyn decided that he could never decide about the EU because that's above his pay grade. He just wants to patch up as many voters as he can and being a man of integrity, he cannot bring himself to support anything less than his own full leadership of HMS WTF. Watching the Debordian spectacle of the Tory debâcle is too distractingly stimulating to worry about the EU much. Barnier sighs, knowing the national nervous breakdown the U-Kay is experiencing could turn all jilly-jally and spread to other countries in his retirement purview. He grits his choppers and meditates on the May elections.
(No not that May, wally. The month!)
The yoga breathing sessions with Tusk and Jungker will help with dyspepsia. 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
Word is the Council wanted to offer a two month extension to end May but ran into the Parliamentary elections deadline... Index of Frank's Diaries
Or till the end of May. And the beginning of the Mayn't. Mayday! 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
We already saw an inkling last week when the second referendum campaign somehow thought it would be great tactics to tell MPs not to vote for a second referendum amendment!? Because of the march or timing or something?! After whipping against that amendment, Corbyn stood up and declared he supports a second referendum!?
There is quite the chance that the sheeple in parliament will miss the boat because of their complancency and gullibility. No-deal crash by 'accident'. This is not accidental. But according to May, 'the people voted to suffer'. Schengen is toast!
I also wont be surprised if a period of grace of a few months is declared for a selection of critical goods. luis_de_sousa@mastodon.social
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