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  2. Mrs F, a lady with better opportunities, but despite those chooses to live in England with me, quizzed me yesterday evening.

    Her: “What’s going to happen?”
    Me: “Well, I can tell you what might not happen.”
    Her: “The deal’s off. And no-deal is off. And a delay is off. And a people’s Vote is off. And an election is off. So what’s going to happen?”
    Me: “Well, still any of those, probably. Or possibly something else.”
    Her: “So what’s going to happen?”

    After a couple cycles of this repeating, she went off (in search of her other passports, if she has any sense). And I went to do some GCSE Maths (differentiation and integration) to give my brain a rest.

    What a load, indeed.

    • But actually, Steve, (he said, getting all pedantic) just because the HoC has ‘voted’ to take ‘no deal’ off the table, doesn’t take it off the table.

      the options were (and events may have overtaken them by now)

      a) Carry on regardless and crash out by Automatic Operation Of Law on 29th March
      b) Ask the EU for an extension to article 50 for a period of time. I gather that the attitude to this request will be governed by the reasons given for needing it in the first instance; “Give us 3 months, we propose to spend it bickering with each other” may not result in a positive outcome.
      c) Revoke the Art 50 letter of March 2017.

      All talk of motions, amendments and whatever matter not a whit until/unless they feed into one (or more) of the options above. As one wag put it, the vote to avoid a ‘no deal’ was essentially the same as the passengers of the titanic agreeing that hitting an iceberg would be bad; it’s all very well to say that, but unless the captain does something…

      • Yes, quite. All of the above are still on the table, until they are taken off.

        Hence the circular discussion and Mrs F’s increasing exasperation, when I could only tell her what might not (but still could) happen.

        • @ivan absolutely correct, I think what it does do though is open the door to changing the law and also prevents idiot politicians suggesting it is a viable option (well, they still will of course but it has been formally excluded).

          My bet – ERG will fold faced with no Brexit. A lot comes down to what Labour and the DUP do. But my feeling is she’ll squeeze it over the line.

          I just read an article on 40 reasons why the WA is a bad deal, and really, it is a stinker. Why anyone would agree to it is behind me.

  3. Only a civil war or revolution will fix it now. I would but it’s Friday, I’ve got a curry to make, it’s my mum’s 90th birthday party tomorrow, I’m not starting on Sunday and back to work on Monday. Anyone else fit in an uprising…

  5. The most depressingly inevitable outcome of this shitstorms of shitstorms is the mind -numbingly realisation that Theresa and those bigoted fuckwits in the DUP are just about to announce a “deal”. Won’t get fooled again? Oh yes we are

  9. Lyrics that are more pertinent for 2019 than when they were originally released:

    “Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup they slither wildly as they slip away across the universe.”

    And, fair play to Weller: “The public gets what the public wants but I want nothing that society’s got, I’m going underground.”
    If we presume he wasn’t talking about the tube it sounds like an exceedingly good idea.

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