[Tubby Isaacs]

This is all they have.

Johnson has gone along with them, but I wonder at some point, could he turn sensible on Brexit? It would still be a hard Brexit costing me money, of course, but will he get to a stage where he senses it's not worth dicking about with NI?

Maybe Trump would have won if he'd stopped tweeting a few months before the election. Of course, Trump couldn't stop. Johnson though could if it's in his interest.

Where would Johnson putting big boy trousers leave Labour?

[Watchman]

Why does Helmer still have MEP in his “title”, is it to remind us that he receives a non-contributory index linked pension?

[Bones McCoy]

Why does Helmer still have MEP in his “title”, is it to remind us that he receives a non-contributory index linked pension?

'Cos he's tired of walting as a General.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Pigeon chess latest.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Return of the Blazing Saddles sheriff.

[mattomac]

This is all they have.

Johnson has gone along with them, but I wonder at some point, could he turn sensible on Brexit? It would still be a hard Brexit costing me money, of course, but will he get to a stage where he senses it's not worth dicking about with NI?

Maybe Trump would have won if he'd stopped tweeting a few months before the election. Of course, Trump couldn't stop. Johnson though could if it's in his interest.

Where would Johnson putting big boy trousers leave Labour?

Probably more concern him would be where it leaves him.

I think he has gone so far down this rabbit hole that it might actually be very difficult for him to take anyone with him.

[Abernathy]

Where would Johnson putting [on] big boy trousers leave Labour?

I honestly don't think that he is capable of any such thing.

[RandomElement]

I think Johnson may be on his way out, admittedly he's like Teflon, but I think the Patterson debacle has lost him a lot of internal support. I reckon a lot of the more moderate Tory MPs are fed up with him but have kept supporting him as he has been popular; that now seems to be waining and last week made the MPs look like idiots with the flip-flopping vote.

If he U-turns on Brexit, he'll lose all support from the cabinet, so he can't stop supporting it.
Seeing how badly 'no-deal light' is going, even though some of that is actually global supply issues, pissing the EU off will not go down well apart from the usual suspects.

The 1922 committee could see him as a busted flush, get rid of him and the cabinet, and dump the whole blame of Brexit and the Pandemic fuck-ups on them. Get more moderate MPs for PM and cabinet and go back to sensible levels of corruption and if not exactly supporting the poorer citizens, go back to at least supporting their traditional voters and not just their mates.

[Boiler]

The 1922 committee could see him as a busted flush, get rid of him and the cabinet, and dump the whole blame of Brexit and the Pandemic fuck-ups on them.

I've got more chance of winning the lottery.

I don't do the lottery.

[RandomElement]

The 1922 committee could see him as a busted flush, get rid of him and the cabinet, and dump the whole blame of Brexit and the Pandemic fuck-ups on them.

I've got more chance of winning the lottery.

I don't do the lottery.

I hope you are wrong. But I doubt it.
But things do have a habit of changing pretty quickly and I guess whips would have something on Johnson that would force his resignation if needed.

[kreuzberger]

The point is that you had to be a complete, fucking headbanger to be selected as a Parliamentary candidate. That means that all avenues were closed off before the last election.

[Andy McDandy]

Very possibly involving whips.

[mattomac]

Yeah they lost a lot of the saner candidates.

Whoever takes charge will have to move away from this and I can see Sunak doing that but where does that leave the party (Though signing that meal deal might be problematic under any future enquiry, which probably favours Javid as he has come in at the tail end unless of course this all goes tits up again).

I’m reading the imposters which is about the direction the Republican Party took and the problem is you can’t reverse if you’ve gone so far down that road.

Tories aren’t at that stage but reversing does risk losing an election, it’s why I didn’t think anything of the 18 month rumours.

The Republicans will have to completely implode, which is something that the Tories should be mindful of.

[Youngian]

Ulster says ‘No’ to Fenian trees

[Cyclist]

Why do these jubilee trees have to be English? Brenda's a German, and queen of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland*, as well as In-ger-lund.



*And Gibraltar, and the Malvinas, and Diego Garcia, and Ascension, and and and...

[MisterMuncher]

Ulster says ‘No’ to Fenian trees

Green, innit?

[Spoonman]

Getting right to the heart of the big issues being caused by Brexshit...

Conservative peer calls for shortage of au pairs to be fixed by special Brexit rules

A Conservative peer has called on the government to introduce special immigration rules to fix a shortage of au pairs.

Baroness Hodgson of Abinger told the House of Lords that Brexit had meant there was no visa route to bring au pairs to the UK.

Speaking in the House of Lords on Monday, she said the lack of au pairs would affect "hard-working families".

She said the government had previously promised a temporary visa work route, but that none had yet to be delivered.

"The au pair scheme... is an excellent scheme: it gives hard-working families the benefit of flexible childcare, and au pairs leave the UK with improved English and are great ambassadors," Baroness Abinger said.

"According to the British Au Pair Agencies Association, Caroline Nokes, the Immigration Minister in 2019, gave assurances that there would be a temporary visa work route for au pairs, but this has not happened.

"Can my noble friend the Minister inform the House of when we can expect this to occur and will she undertake to expedite this issue?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/conservative- ... 19278.html

[Oboogie]

Ulster says ‘No’ to Fenian trees

Green, innit?

I'm reminded of the telecoms company who, in the 1990s, discovered that the Republican community didn't take too kindly to their strapline "The Future's Bright, The Future's Orange".

[mattomac]

Getting right to the heart of the big issues being caused by Brexshit...

Conservative peer calls for shortage of au pairs to be fixed by special Brexit rules

A Conservative peer has called on the government to introduce special immigration rules to fix a shortage of au pairs.

Baroness Hodgson of Abinger told the House of Lords that Brexit had meant there was no visa route to bring au pairs to the UK.

Speaking in the House of Lords on Monday, she said the lack of au pairs would affect "hard-working families".

She said the government had previously promised a temporary visa work route, but that none had yet to be delivered.

"The au pair scheme... is an excellent scheme: it gives hard-working families the benefit of flexible childcare, and au pairs leave the UK with improved English and are great ambassadors," Baroness Abinger said.

"According to the British Au Pair Agencies Association, Caroline Nokes, the Immigration Minister in 2019, gave assurances that there would be a temporary visa work route for au pairs, but this has not happened.

"Can my noble friend the Minister inform the House of when we can expect this to occur and will she undertake to expedite this issue?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/conservative- ... 19278.html

“Hard working families”

[Watchman]

That crossed my mind