Crankit posted:

What is the likely brex it outcome now?

bump_fn posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjatJ36cJvM

Mebh posted:

So uh. Was the scumm engine discworld point and click based off elements of "Guards! Guards!"? Because this is kind of uncanny.

Nice to be reading Pratchett again. I'd really missed how much his general prose just makes me smile.

Guavanaut posted:

"Shreddddder! From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs!"
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"General election: Lib Dems draw up target list for local pacts with Remain Tories posted:

The Liberal Democrats could stand aside in key seats to help the re-election of Conservative MPs opposed to a no-deal Brexit.

Senior party insiders have been discreetly drawing up a list of constituencies where support from Lib Dem voters could be critical.

Jo Swinson, the Lib Dem leader, wants to maximise the number of MPs opposed to no-deal who would be returned to the Commons in a snap election before before October 31.

Tory MPs who vote in favour of blocking no-deal face being deselected by their party as Boris Johnson steps up pressure to persuade Brussels to offer him a better Brexit deal. Some prominent rebels, including Rory Stuart, who stood against Boris Johnson in the party leadership election, are considering standing as independent Conservatives…

RubberJohnny posted:

That link 404s

Sanitary Naptime posted:

That Italian Guy posted:

Inspiration struck me:

CyberPingu posted:

Whats the timeline for today if anyone has it to hand?

quote:

11.30am: The Commons sitting starts with Welsh questions.

12pm: Boris Johnson takes PMQs. This will be his first PMQs as prime minister. Given that parliament may well be prorogued by next Wednesday, and that if there is an early election he could lose, it could be his last one too.

Around 12.50pm: Sajid Javid, the chancellor, makes a Commons statement about the spending review.

3pm: MPs begin the debate on Hilary Benn’s bill designed to rule out a no-deal Brexit on 31 October.

Around 3.30pm: Peers start debating a business motion tabled by Labour designed to ensure that, if the Benn bill gets to the Lords, it will complete its passage through the house by 5pm on Friday.

5pm: MPs vote for the second reading of the bill. That is a yes/no vote on whether it should go ahead. After that MPs will spend two hours debating amendments to the bill.

7pm: MPs vote on amendments to the bill and for its third reading. There are likely to be several votes, each one taking 15 minutes.

Mid-evening: After voting on the Benn bill is finished MPs will have a 90-minute debate on Boris Johnson’s motion saying “that there shall be an early election”. The motion may well pass but the opposition parties are not voting in favour (because they want the Benn bill passed before they agree to an early election), and so Johnson is not expected to get the two-thirds majority needed under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act for an early election to go ahead.

Hentai Jihadist posted:

yeah its gonna be an orchestrated push with the fash shitrags i assume

Barry Foster posted:

gently caress Singh Dhesi is spitting fire

quote:

[Javid] says the country still needs to live within its means. And he will still need to make difficult choices.

Calico Heart posted:

LOL i never thought I'd ever see a less consequential head of state than Theresa May but here we loving go

and I couldn't wish it on a better person. All his years of pretending to be a clown ended up amounting to nothing, It's delicious.

Doccykins posted:

BLUE ON BLUE

Tesseraction posted:

lol it seems The got punched in the dick on Nick Robinson's show this morning:

quote:

Sometimes it’s like watching a wasp land on a stinging nettle: someone’s going to get stung and you don’t care.

Guavanaut posted:

This is the Brexit Sajid Javid wants.

Guavanaut posted:

kanonvandekempen posted:

What is the UK thread's opinion on Skins? I never saw it during its original airing and I've seen it being pushed to me on Netflix.

Azza Bamboo posted:

Jose posted:

lmbo

https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1169551531173195776?s=20

Azza Bamboo posted:

The worst Jojo

Jose posted:

It's truly incredible how disconnected Westminster's journalists are from everyone else

quote:

Jeremy Corbyn could have given Boris Johnson a hard time at his first Prime Minister’s Questions. He asked tough questions about the consequences of a no-deal Brexit, and the prime minister conspicuously failed to answer.

But it was Johnson who actually won the exchanges easily because he challenged Corbyn on whether he wanted an election on 15 October – “or is he frit?” Johnson knows that the Labour leader wants an election but is being held back by his MPs, who are urging him to make life hard for the prime minister by refusing to vote for it.

Johnson returned to the theme repeatedly, calling Corbyn a “chlorinated chicken”, and was unexpectedly supported by Ian Blackford of the Scottish National Party, who quoted the opinion polls in Scotland and said: “If he wants an election, enable the bill and bring it on.”

Nuclear Spoon posted:

https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1169577165681254402

hell yeah

quote:

MPs to be asked again on Monday to vote for early election, Rees-Mogg says

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leader of the Commons, has just told MPs that on Monday the government will hold a second vote on having an early general election.

There was a vote last night that was passed, but without the two-thirds majority needed for the vote to lead to an early general election (two thirds of all MPs would have to vote for one, not just two thirds of MPs participating in the division).

Under Commons rules the government is not meant to put motions to a vote if they have already been defeated. But government sources say that this would not apply next week because Labour abstained last night on the grounds that the Benn bill, designed to stop a no-deal Brexit on 31 October, was not yet law. But Monday next week that bill should be law, so the circumstances will have changed, justifying a second vote.

Before MPs debate an early election on Monday, Rees-Mogg said they would also consider the remaining stages of the Benn bill, following its return from the Lords, as well as hold a debate required under the Northern Ireland (executive formation) bill.

Ms Fuchi posted:

But if they're waiting for the Benn Bill to complete passage, they won't be able to NDB, so what's the point in calling an early election?

happyhippy posted:

Better than junkie cockneys and sour faced northerners.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

that doesn't actually solve the problem though if the next guy in line doesn't go get the extension instead. Can he just sit in the Tower refusing and thus force England over the Brexit cliff?

Bobstar posted:

I made a thing.



(with apologies to Stephen Collins)

Tarnop posted:

https://twitter.com/ShippersUnbound/status/1170428797805629446

Rats and sinking ships etc

willie_dee posted:

Please stop getting my hopes up it hurts too much, I'm happier being an accelerationist who hates this country and everyone in it.

Apraxin posted:

Hey, what's this prominent article on the Beeb front page?



Oh ok, still can't think what this drunken brawl that could have led to Brexit might be tho-