This feels like a real booby trap situation now for the vote tomorrow. Anyone pushing to vote against the deal will be in career free-fall if no extension is granted and they end up out with no deal. And it's pretty damn tough to call whether an extension would be granted!

I thought it was illegal for them to leave without a deal or has that changed?

Quote from: Eoin McLove on October 18, 2019, 05:32:15 PM
I thought it was illegal for them to leave without a deal or has that changed?
I think it's if they didn't have a deal by the 19th they had to legally request an extension, since there's a deal made I'm guessing that goes out while they try to push it through parliament?

Could be completely wrong on this, getting hard to keep up with all the goings on

It's only a deal if Parliament passes it. If they don't, Johnson is bound by law to apply for an extension. The EU are not obliged to grant the extension. Tomorrow will be a day of great drama.

Looks like Boris is dead in a ditch.


General election 12th December...just make it all go away, so relentlessly tiresome!

Couldn't agree more. Just make it all go away.

Farage threatening to run candidates if Boris doesn't play ball is big. They could take great chunks of voters from the Tories and they both know it. How that fucking weasel co-ordinated his offer to Boris with an exclusive interview with Trump shows how much interest there is from the US in a damaging exit for the UK and the EU. Global cuntism on a grand scale and the EU were supposed to be the sinister organisation?

How does it benefit the US for them to leave with a bad deal? Surely their dealings with America will be their own regardless of their trade relationship with Europe? I know I'm missing something here...

Quote from: Pedrito on September 02, 2019, 09:21:09 PM
The Blair insight is bang on the money. People would rather vote 'for Brexit' or moreso 'towards the Brexit end of the scale than vote for 'Corbyn'. I think Johnson might be the sneakiest, shrewdest cunt we've seen in a long, long time.

Definitely the sneakiest, shrewdest cunt we've seen since Thatcher...I'm not sure how to process that, but politically he is far from a fool. Looks like Brexit will finally be done

Sorry, the sneakiest, shrewdest conservative. Blair was equally as snakey, if not an even greater political animal.

Pound flying high, Boris rocks

Looks like further interesting times ahead.  A second Scottish referendum is being discussed and Northern nationalists gain a majority.  I'm not really sure what that will mean if Sinn Féin refuse to sit, but we'll find out I'm sure. What implications might this have on the future of Northern Ireland? Getting Stormont back up and running will be a start.  And what will it mean for Ireland economically? At least the UK can move forward with something as opposed to the deadlock of the past few years,  I just hope the road ahead isn't too bumpy.

Interesting to see the Torys win in so many Labour areas. Shows how divisive a character Corbyn is. He has been a bit of a non event through all of this so maybe they'll come back with a real leader when the dust settles a bit.