Absolutely Everything Is Going To Be Shit!

Meanwhile in London, ministers begin to panic and predict “a party meltdown nationwide” if PM's deal falls next week. Brexiteer minister: "If we lose on Tuesday, absolutely everything is going to be shit".

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) March 6, 2019

Tories In Open Revolt

Wow! First real evidence of Tory grassroots fury over the #Brexit deal.
Exclusive. Tory Association Chairmen protest against the “misuse of Party funds” on “propaganda campaign” backing the deal | Conservative Home https://t.co/MeXGh3GUhI Great story by @wallaceme

— Christopher Hope (@christopherhope) December 7, 2018

To make it absolutely clear, Theresa May is the wrong person, with the wrong personality, in the wrong job at the wrong time!

Corbyn Is Delusional

The EU have said you can’t have the exact same benefits outside the EU as being in.

Corbyn: Well, it’s a view - we have a different view. #Ridge pic.twitter.com/w9Ydo4lJ3d

— Ben (@Jamin2g) November 18, 2018

David Delusional Davis

David Davis - tipped as a successor to Theresa May - tonight: "This is the moment of truth ... Cabinet and all Conservative MPs should stand up, be counted and say no to this capitulation." #BrexitDeal https://t.co/3H01SZ7g09

— Christopher Hope (@christopherhope) November 13, 2018

Whilst Davis may well be right about May's plan, and whilst it is also quite possible she will fail and be kicked out of office, his belief (or rather his media chum's belief) that he will be leader is a bit of a stretch!

Labour Backs Tory Budget

Shadow Chancellor @johnmcdonnellMP tells @BBCr4today he won't oppose Tory promise of £2.7 billion income tax cut as it will inject demand into economy. Labour backing tax cuts as Tories pledge to end austerity. Interesting times

— Nick Robinson (@bbcnickrobinson) October 30, 2018

It should also be remembered that labour are backing Brexit, which means there is no Opposition party at the moment!

Cri de Coeur - Liz Truss Take Note!

In order for the UK to face down the darkness of the ongoing Brexit "negotiations" with a degree of calmness and fortitude, it needs a leader/government that displays leadership, fortitude and competence!

We changed Prime Minister when facing a Nazi invasion, now we can't even change Speaker!

The Duplicitous DUP

This is extraordinary. In the event the DUP vote down the budget: “No10 sources also insisted the move would be a clear breach of the Tory-DUP confidence and supply agreement – meaning Ulster would also have to pay back its £1bn bonus from the government.” https://t.co/cgQiIiunRV

— Labour Whips (@labourwhips) October 11, 2018

Sadly, because of Theresa May's disastrous decision to call and election and then botch it, the country is being run by government propped up by the DUP (who demanded £1BN for their support).

Now that things are hotting up wrt Brexit, the DUP is relishing its position of "power broker", or more accurately in this case "power destroyer", and is threatening to vote against the Budget if their Brexit "red lines" are crossed.

The DUP claim to want to be treated as the same as the rest of the UK. This is all very well, noble and commendable. However, when it comes to other laws (eg abortion) the DUP are "strangely" reluctant to follow the UK's lead.

Inevitably, as could have been predicted when the confidence and supply deal was brokered by May, this particular house of cards looks like it is about to come crashing down to earth.

As and when it does, I will be most fascinated to see how May gets the £1BN back!

Tories Whipping Labour MPs

Such is the bizarre state of British politics, that we have finally crossed through the looking glass, and are now in a world where Tory ministers are in talks with aaround 25 Labour MPs to secure Theresa May's widely despised Chequers Brexit deal.

Seemingly the Government’s whips’ office has spent recent months making contact with the MPs, as a back-up option for when May’s Brexit deal is put to a vote in Parliament in early December.

Methinks certain Tories will not be best pleased by this!

Not In The National Interest To Have General Eelection Yet

"It is not in the national interest to have a general election" - PM Theresa May tells @BBCBreakfast https://t.co/CNATObuLrV pic.twitter.com/2t9s6sKejY

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) October 2, 2018

She is correct.

However, neither is in the national interest that she continues to be Prime Minister once the Brexit deal has been done, or walked away from.

Hammond Is Financially Illiterate

As per The Spectator:

"There are some in the cabinet who still loathe Brexit and regard Chequers as the UK’s opening offer. Philip Hammond, the Chancellor, is expected to push to stay in the customs union and makes no attempt to disguise his concerns about Brexit. 

In cabinet meetings this week, he complained that a restaurant in his Surrey constituency can’t hire enough staff to wait all the tables — proof, he said, that the UK needed low-skilled immigration. 

But as one exasperated cabinet minister put it to me afterwards, it didn’t seem to have occurred to the Chancellor that maybe the restaurant should just pay its staff more. And that the balance of power between workers and low-wage businesses might be precisely why so many voted for Brexit in the first place."

Philip, economies are not just supply sided they are also demand driven. Market forces will sort out the imbalance of low skilled EU workers, one way or another! 

Labour's Cunning Plan!

New Labour policy.
Labour MPs will vote down May deal, cos it fails six tests, push for GE, fail to get one, and then campaign for a public vote in which the choice is solely between the May deal that Labour has already rejected and no deal/Armageddon.
What an offer.

— Patrick Wintour (@patrickwintour) September 24, 2018

Wargames

NEW Extraordinary reports of open plotting against the PM at a meeting of the European Research Group of Tory MPs today. One source says there were 50 Tory MPs in the room "just discussing the matter openly"and "wargaming" how to get rid of the Prime Minister.

— Christopher Hope (@christopherhope) September 11, 2018

Wargames are all well and good in a room filled with your chums, but they tend to go off piste when the "game" element is removed!

Hammond Is a Loose Cannon

Philip Hammond’s letter warning of no deal Brexit risk was NOT cleared by Downing Street.

No 10 & Raab are furious, Telegraph understands.

Govt source: ‘This was a deliberate intervention by Philip, he knew exactly what he was doing.’

— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) August 23, 2018

The PPS's Are Revolting

BREAKING Scott Mann MP becomes the seventh member of the Government to quit over Theresa May's Chequers deal in the nine days since it was published https://t.co/OlFSrZONjb

— Christopher Hope (@christopherhope) July 16, 2018

Chequers May Be May's Poll Tax Moment

EXCLUSIVE: @BrandonLewis and @GavinBarwell hosting conference call today with senior Tory regional and area grassroots representatives to gauge anger at Chequers on the doorstep and among the grassroots https://t.co/r4wnIHpULl

— Mark Wallace (@wallaceme) July 15, 2018

Sheepdog Deployed At Chequers

Best news so far - the #chequers sheepdog is still there, undoubtedly the star of our coverage in Feb pic.twitter.com/urRdXZ7rO9

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) July 6, 2018

November Election?

Source better than Peston. May is going to put final deal to the country by calling a November election for Thursday the 15th. This will be the defining agreement on leaving deal. Both sides Brexiteers and Remainers in the cabinet approve of the deal as 29th March is in UK Law

— Purpleline (@purpleline) July 4, 2018

Boris Has Forced May To Shoot Hammond's Fox

Bercow Talks Bollocks

Bercow Says "Bollocks to Brexit"https://t.co/LrqOAeFvHG pic.twitter.com/GnEe73O3V6

— Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) March 13, 2018

Miliband Nails It - For Once!

What an absolutely ludicrous, incompetent, absurd, make it up as you go along, couldn’t run a piss up in a brewery bunch of jokers there are running the government at the most critical time in a generation for the country.

— Ed Miliband (@Ed_Miliband) December 5, 2017

Had he written and spoken half as elegantly when he was leading Labour, they might have won the election all those years ago!