The slow-motion car crash that is the government’s Brexit policy is continuing. Yesterday the PM had to face the HoC in PMQs for the first time after the Tory disaster that were the Local Elections a week ago.If you thought the ‘loyal opposition’ that is Labour would hold her to task about Brexit then you’d have been very much disappointed.
Most of the time the opposition leader and the PM conducted a slanging match over the NHS. The PM was so loud that my collie couldn’t bear to hear her voice any longer: after a few growls she left the room and stalked into the hall. It was that bad.
Pundits say that Brexit wasn’t on the table because the government and Labour were still ‘in talks’ – but at the same time we were told that these talks have ‘stalled’. The consequence is that the PM plans to bring her WA to the HoC yet again while refusing to give the Brady Bunch, the 1922 Committee, that ‘roadmap’ they asked for (see yesterday’s article). More on that below.
There were two other ‘events’, one which didn’t happen and one which was played down. Mr Williamson did not make a speech about his sacking regarding the Huawei ‘leak’: another roaring mouse, he. The US Foreign Secretary Mr Pompeo’s remarks on Huawei were overshadowed by those on Iran but the DM has a good report which is not paywalled, read it here. So nothing for the PM to be scared of.
After all, what does Huawei and our relationship to the USA matter when we can watch the PM destroy Brexit, the Tory Party and indeed herself live on our tellies! Watch this extraordinary ‘confession’ by the PM, in answer to Andrea Jenkyns MP demand for her to leave – the clip is in the linked text:
“Theresa May had the usually rambunctious MPs quieting down when she hit back at the suggestion she was to blame for the Brexit delay: “Actually, this is not an issue about me and it’s not an issue about her. If it were an issue about me and how I vote, we would already have left the European Union.” (link)
The PM is obviously unaware that herself and her WA are the issue. She doesn’t seem to be aware of the ‘Law of Holes’. Why she has her Party in such thrall is inexplicable, but yesterday’s PMQs showed clearly that she must have them by the short-and-curlies.
We’ve pointed out repeatedly that she regards getting her abomination of the WA across the line is intricately tied to her giving a date for her resignation. That was beautifully illustrated yesterday yet again. Here’s a report from RemainCentral, The Times (paywalled):
“As talks with the opposition stall, it seems that Mrs May has decided that confronting MPs with votes on Brexit is less risky than doing nothing and allowing calls for her to quit to grow. If she is to get her Brexit deal passed in time to stop MEPs elected from the UK taking their seats in a new European parliament on July 2, the bill needs to start its progress this month, according to Downing Street sources. May allies said it remained unclear whether the government would seek to hold “indicative votes” before the Bill’s introduction. No 10 insisted that the prime minister had already made a “generous” offer to quit once MPs had passed her Brexit deal.” (link, paywalled).
It’s a pity she never showed the same haggling skills when she negotiated with the EU! Savour how the toothless tigers of the Brady Bunch accepted that ‘generous offer’ by the PM:
“The prime minister ignored a deadline to set out a timetable for her departure before yesterday’s meeting of the 1922 Committee executive. Instead she agreed to meet the group of 16 senior Tory MPs who represent backbench interests next Wednesday. Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the committee, told reporters he expected Mrs May to respond to their demands that she depart whether her Brexit deal was agreed or not. He added that the prime minister intended to bring legislation implementing the EU departure agreement before the Strasbourg polls on May 23.” (link, paywalled)
It’s the same old same old: ‘vote for my deal and then I’ll go. Perhaps.’ A reporter of the DM has managed to speak to a ‘source’ on that 1922 Committee:
“Speaking after last night’s meeting of the committee, one former Cabinet minister told the Mail: ‘This feels like the endgame. The walls are closing in on her and there is no way out.’ […] With a new summer deadline for Brexit at the earliest, Downing Street is said to be planning for the PM to hang on until September in the hope that she can deliver it before stepping aside” (source)
The DT (paywalled) reported that ‘Brexiteer MPs emerged grim-faced’ from that meeting. That should have been ‘shamefaced’, shouldn’t it! What are they afraid of? A GE? Well, in view of the new expenses scandal reported by the DT that does make sense …
Isn’t it extraordinary how the PM and her supporters in the cabinet and the Party seem oblivious of the impact the EP elections are going to have. They take place in two weeks precisely and the whole Tory lot are not only fiddling while Country and Party burn, they are full of delusions of grandeur:
“The Downing Street source declined to say what part Mrs May would play in campaigning for the European elections. Asked whether the Tories would hold a formal campaign launch or publish a manifesto, the source said: “We announced a full slate of candidates last month and sent our election address out to UK households last week. Our message is there’s only one party that can deliver Brexit.” A leaked copy of the Tory campaign materials makes clear that the party will attack Nigel Farage as an opportunist with links to extremists.” (link, paywalled)
Unbelievable, isn’t it, that after last week’s election disaster the Tories still think they can win the EP vote with the same top-down attitude. Their plan to attack Nigel Farage because of ‘links to extremists’ is hypocrisy of the highest order.
As far as I know, Mr Farage hasn’t met with or supported Hamas, an organisation which has been firing countless rockets into Israel in the last few days. The leader of Labour supports Hamas, but if one needs talks with him in 10 Drowning Street to get that EU sell-out deal over the line, that ‘link to extremists’ is fine …
Still, some Tories recognise the danger, for example Ms Leadsom, but it’s not that TBP is on course to win the EP elections but because they may snatch votes from the Tories and thus lead to a Corbyn government (link).
The Tory leadership still seems to think that we peasants need to be shown the spectre of a Corbyn government which can only be averted by slaying the Farage Fox. Well, it worked once, but unlike them, we do change our minds when circumstances change.
Oh yes – yesterday the BBC broadcast the first part of a Belgium TV series, a behind-the-scenes report on how our dear EU friends regard us and the PM. It was filmed during the ‘negotiations’. The concluding part will be on tonight.
When Remain BBC set the date for this broadcast they obviously believed the PM and the Remain HoC, that there would be no EP elections. Caught out, weren’t they …
This show is delicious campaign material for all Leavers and especially for TBP. Now the BBC has egg on their faces while the Leave Nation sniggers. Thank you, BBC!
KBO!
-“Most of the time the opposition leader and the PM conducted a slanging match over the NHS. ”
How interesting, this is one of the very reasons why I stopped watching BBC’s Question Time, because it seemed on so many occasions that no matter what the question was that was asked, the Tory and Labour panel members inevitably turned the discussion into an argument over which party has been ‘better’ for the NHS.
So when politicians start arguing over the NHS, it usually means they’re deflecting the debate away from the issue at hand.
‘What are they afraid of? A GE?’ I think you’ve hit the nail on the head, Viv. She has threatened her MPs that she’ll go to the country if they don’t support her – and with the Tories on rock bottom in the polls, they’ll all lose their seats and their inflated salaries, and the gravy train they’re all on at the moment.
Don’t they realise that if they support Brexit, the electorate is far less likely to dethrone them? All they need to do is put it out that they’re supporting a full withdrawal from the EU and trading on WTO terms and the voters will flock to them. That’s what Nigel has done and look how TBP is soaring in the polls.
A) Most of them don’t want us to leave, let alone on WTO terms as they are internationalists with no belief in the country.
B) “Never trust a Tory” is now a truism along with death and taxes.
Most ordinary Tory party members deplore what is happening but lets call a spade and spade – it is the ordinary Tory party members who are giving succour to this treacherous party which no longer represents them anway. Cameron even wanted to remove the right of members to select their party leader. My message to Tory party members is that they are just useful idiots to further the globalist , internationalist, crony capitalism agenda that is slowly but surely dismantling the nation state and representative democracy. The Tory party must be routed and routed thoroughly – there is no other remedy as it is rotten to the core.
so get them to cancel membership and payments we did many years ago, we even left our conservative club
Remember that when John Major lost the Maastricht vote, he brought it back next day coupled to a vote of no-confidence, and, quelle surpris – it passed! 🙄
If May brings the WA back coupled to a vote of confidence, she’ll lose.
The second paragraph was almost enough. Of course they are arguing about the NHS. They have all been guilty of following EU Directives which have gradually been dismantling our country.
So maybe they are starting to realise what a lot of naughty children they are, all of them.
Even the Huawei business is EU driven. As reported in March, Merkel does not intend to exclude Huawei from Germany’s 5G infrastructure.
Our politicians are not governing our country because they have already given it away without telling us. Now they are in an almighty sweat because they have to ask for it back.
It seems that they have not yet worked out for themselves that staying in the e.u means accepting the provisions of the TTIP that is being worked out by e.u officials and Washington, That means the end of the NHS as we have known it, but then that’s what the Tories excel at, lets follow the e.u directives and sell off the Royal Mail as that was such a success for the Post Office as well they know. Still they succeeded in integrating that other national treasure the military without any discussion either in the H.O.C or the MSM so getting rid of the NHS shouldn’t prove difficult.
Yes, but that doesn’t explain why Labour is so keen for us to stay in, either through BRINO where we become rule-takers, or ‘for real’ when they get that 2nd Referendum which they think they’ll win.
Has anybody told them?
I wonder what happened to ‘Gavin’ knows where the bodies are buried line and he will bring her down stories, That worked well it seems, now according to the Daily Express Johnny Mercer is not going to vote for anything the government puts before government, EXCEPT the W.A. He’a apparently on strike! Has anyone noticed?
the only way he should vote on the wa is against as most of the population
Cheer up folks! On a day when The Scotsman and The Sun are running anti-UKIP editorials, I learn that https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos is flying in to campaign for us! Marvellous! (In a font with more irony than a certain notorious throne) 🙄
Spon, the existence of this creature had previously passed me by thank goodness
After reading the Wikipedia laudation of this dangerous lout I have no hesitation in applauding your ironic “outing” of this menace as you say to “us”.
Just not sure who the Royal “US” applies to, Battens mob or Nigel`s mob – I assume he is flying over after an invite from one or the other of them
PS this is for Viv, has she noticed I have a new email address? I would be glad if she or someone else can send me a return email just to see if it is working
He’s flying in to support his good buddy Sargon, UKIP’s #1 in the South West.
Nigel will be cock-a-hoop! 😡
Actually, Lawrence Webb is UKIP’s #1 in the South West isn’t he Spon?
Not my region, but yes, you’re right, he’s #2…
A picture is worth a thousand words, and so it in the picture today, two cars head to head at a stop sign, oblivious to the obvious health and safety sign warning of potential danger. Which both Sat Navs and the occupants of the cars are unaware, owing to rising tide of illiteracy thanks to the educational establishment, I sense that the coming of emojy traffic signs will be rolled out by the EU very soon. This will save money and produce uniformity and equality, to NOT to have signs written in the language of the used to be countries of the European regions.
The pathfinder is of course the USA and their model for achieving uniformity is clearly outline in this link:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/d-dictatorship-disguised-democracy/5676839
Roger, it’s often unwise to judge people on what other people say or write about them. Far better I think to go directly to what they have actually said or written.
One entertaining thing for sure about Milo is that the fact that he’s gay and married to a black man, yet has individualistic, largely libertarian views on freedom, free speech, censorship and political correctness etc,.all tends to throw the liberal left bigots into a bit of a tailspin as to how to attack him.
It’s a good point, Howard, but unfortunately most of the people we want to vote for us will just recal the headlines from Google News… 😢