12-12-2018, 17:42
No wonder Scotland wants to ditch us. It wouldn't be so bad being conniving bastards if we were even verging on the competent .....
Mrs May will win the confidence vote, because the ERG and their mates are as incompetent as the govt.
It seemed to me the EU's strongest card was that they didn't want us to leave. So obviously they weren't just going to give us very much. They could just sit there. Our strongest card in response should have been that we were prepared to leave with no deal and were making sure we'd be in a better position for no deal than them ....... so if they wanted just to feed us crap then we'd sit and wait. Unfortunately Mrs May hid that card behind a load of red lines, did nothing about it and finally dropped it into her blue handbag. And just to ensure failure, out of the whole country she made someone called Ollie central to the success of the whole enterprise. Tarquin and Jocasta were clearly unavailable!
So negotiations have really just been a sideshow for the peasants. No Trade Union leader or businessman would even have recognised them.
No Deal can now only be achieved by incompetence on both sides as neither of them wants it, but both do have more than enough incompetence to spare.
A Deal appears to need either a time-shift worthy of Dr Who and probably an outside intervention like a referendum or General Election.
No Brexit needs either Parliament to decide it knows better than the people, which would be a weird interpretation of the very strange idea of representative democracy and/or one of those outside interventions which might also lead to a deal.
The Fourth Option is that, at almost the last moment, the EU pulls a secret rabbit out of Mr Juncker's departing hat and we are all so grateful that we accept the basket of whatever carrots it is carrying, even though the rabbit clearly has myxamatosis.
Staying and No Deal clearly look better than May's Deal. If she wins tonight, does she have another go at putting forward her Finnegan's Wake of Gobbledygook ....... and when it hits the deck together with John Bercow's over-exercised jaw, what then?
Would it be better if England were simply excluded from the UK? We could sit in that side room staring at computers with that mono-syllabic teacher forcing us to get on with our work, instead of flicking fire bombs at little Macron across the room!
Mrs May will win the confidence vote, because the ERG and their mates are as incompetent as the govt.
It seemed to me the EU's strongest card was that they didn't want us to leave. So obviously they weren't just going to give us very much. They could just sit there. Our strongest card in response should have been that we were prepared to leave with no deal and were making sure we'd be in a better position for no deal than them ....... so if they wanted just to feed us crap then we'd sit and wait. Unfortunately Mrs May hid that card behind a load of red lines, did nothing about it and finally dropped it into her blue handbag. And just to ensure failure, out of the whole country she made someone called Ollie central to the success of the whole enterprise. Tarquin and Jocasta were clearly unavailable!
So negotiations have really just been a sideshow for the peasants. No Trade Union leader or businessman would even have recognised them.
No Deal can now only be achieved by incompetence on both sides as neither of them wants it, but both do have more than enough incompetence to spare.
A Deal appears to need either a time-shift worthy of Dr Who and probably an outside intervention like a referendum or General Election.
No Brexit needs either Parliament to decide it knows better than the people, which would be a weird interpretation of the very strange idea of representative democracy and/or one of those outside interventions which might also lead to a deal.
The Fourth Option is that, at almost the last moment, the EU pulls a secret rabbit out of Mr Juncker's departing hat and we are all so grateful that we accept the basket of whatever carrots it is carrying, even though the rabbit clearly has myxamatosis.
Staying and No Deal clearly look better than May's Deal. If she wins tonight, does she have another go at putting forward her Finnegan's Wake of Gobbledygook ....... and when it hits the deck together with John Bercow's over-exercised jaw, what then?
Would it be better if England were simply excluded from the UK? We could sit in that side room staring at computers with that mono-syllabic teacher forcing us to get on with our work, instead of flicking fire bombs at little Macron across the room!