Oh ok.
Only a matter of time before one of the headbangers grabs the mace and goes hog wild with it imo. Kills four before turning it on himself, frothing at the mouth, screaming about traitors to the realm. Keunssberg describes it as an unconventional but brave effort to break the deadlock
“Yes Hugh I can tell you that there is blood everywhere and body parts strewn across the government benches. This genuinely alters the political calculus for tomorrow’s key vote.”
A furious argument breaks out over whether IDS carrying Mark Francois’ severed head in a bucket into the aye lobby counts as two votes.
Huw Edwards’ hair has been looking sharp af recently
“Enjoying” the fact that commentators seem to think that Jim Shannon doesn’t know what he’s actually saying no to this time.
His progress to silver hunk on his Insta has been a marvel to follow.
Was just reading the Guardian’s flowchart of what could happen today and beyond. Can’t work out if I got bored or confused first, but I definitely got both by half way down it.
Planning my workstream with some of it arriving in dollars is a fucking nightmare at the moment thanks to the exchange rate. I can go into a week with a rough target and then end up with a wild overshoot or a huge under. Royal pain in the butt.
GBP/USD is trading at the rate it was at in mid-May right now, but what happens on any given day could take 10% off it, it’s insane
(Maybe not a full 10%, but at least between there and 5% given recent performance, which is still scary)
Welcome to midlife.
The Northern Ireland Assembly is to sit for the first time since January 2017 after the DUP’s 28 MLAs, plus individual members from the UUP, TUV and SDLP, put their names to a recall petition demanding it reconvene to discuss abortion, which will be legalised by Westminster along with same-sex marriage if no executive is formed today. Sinn Féin’s refusal to partake in the sitting means devolved government cannot be restored, while Alliance say the move is a “cynical political stunt”.
Oh, SDLP.
Fucking hell, that’s an unnecessary burden. Mervyn King wrote a thing yesterday saying that we were entering the Great Stagnation, which this definitely ties into, everyone trying to legislate back to stability through tariffs &c, but the effect on businesses is unbelievable
I’m currently trying to keep as much as I get from work in Paypal dollars purely for stability’s sake. Sure I could have made a little bit by banking it at the correct times, but I’m not Rees-Mogg am I.
Yeah that narrative needs to be squashed by someone, but nobody’s doing much of a job of it so far.
You’re treading a fine fine line, xylem. Know that I’m watching you.
My dad was on this tip yesterday, “Everything is terrible like it is, they should’ve passed the deal and got it finished, at least we’ll know where we stand then”. Didn’t even make an economic argument against him, just told him that as long as their was still mileage in embarrassing Johnson, it was worth sticking it out.
Merv, mate. Hate to break this to ya, but we already a decade in.
