UK politics May 2018

Isn’t £1.5billion persuasive enough?

Or, I dunno, turn the whole of NI into a customs staging area and let them keep 25% of all tariffs

It’s really fucked isn’t it?

I had the great misfortune of seeing Peter fucking Bone on PMQs this lunchtime asking Theresa May if, on exiting the EU next year, she would be willing to visit Wellingborough, where his fine constituents would carry her aloft through the streets to a statue of “Queen Brexit”.

What an odious fucking lunatic. Put me right off my East Anglian baked potato.

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PMQs really needs to bin off these terrible timewasting questions that crap backbenchers get to ask.

MP CLIVE SHITHOUSE MP: “Wouldn’t my honorable colleague agree that we are ruddy wonderful, and the opposition are in fact a bunch of nubbin-faced winkie-smudgers?”

PM TERRY MAY: “My honourable colleague makes a very good point.”

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I think I said in the last politics thread, but if I were speaker any question of that ilk would be treated with the relevant MP being ejected for “Disorderly conduct”. Wouldn’t bother with that voting stuff for longer bans either; just eject them for the rest of the day until they all start to get the message.

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HILARIOUSLY

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Absolutely. The chance to directly ask questions to the Prime Minister should be seen as too important a thing to waste on this crap, irrespective of whether they’re in the Speaker’s party or not. It just demeans the whole of Parliament.

Not sure this is the right thread, but that TSB chap is doing a terrible job of dealing with the Treasury Committee at the moment.

Nicky Morgan: “Two of my staff are trying to access their accounts right at this moment and neither can log in”.
Paul Pester: “Well, it’s nice we have so many customers in this room!”

Mrs May replied: “My honourable friend’s absolutely right we will be leaving the European Union and I’m tempted to say to his request ‘how can I refuse?’”

the fact that she still has to keep saying we’re leaving the EU is what makes me think we won’t

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they’ve kept these number really well hidden, have the old MoD. anticipating a trickle of additional figures over the next few months, probably.

Stop bumping the April thread!

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I’ve closed it now to avoid confusion.

https://twitter.com/HMCabinetCat/status/991805209277067265

fyi I also enjoy dogsatpollingstations too.

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horrible obviously but also re “What have UKIP done for this area” quite amusing.

I mean just look at the tie he’s obviously brain dead

:fist::fist::fist::fist::fist:

https://twitter.com/Freedom_Paper/status/991620339577876480

:face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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Oh, in reply to your question in the April thread that wasn’t properly answered before it was closed:

No, you do not need ID, unless you are in one of the ID pilot areas (Swindon, Woking, Watford, Gosport or Bromley).

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Ta for closing the old thread, @hip_young_gunslinger :+1:. Hadn’t clocked that we’d moved on.

Can whoever starts these continuation threads please link up to them in the thread that’s being superseded, though? (Failing that, whoever closes the superseded thread.)

I mainly just keep up via the blue dots at the bottom of threads (or suggested new threads) and only intermittently check the main Social page for new threads.

(It’s also good housekeeping for anyone trawling back through for whatever reason - easy to follow on from one month to the next.)

Thankya.

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Wait, you mean it’s not April any more?

Couple of tweets worth a post:

https://twitter.com/JamieRoss7/status/991712969066270721

https://twitter.com/RobbieTravers/status/991771151297843200

https://twitter.com/frayne_jack/status/991817133276499969

Also, related to the Sun story:

https://twitter.com/RopesToInfinity/status/991960828927766528