Brexit discussion thread IX (Please read OP before posting)

Just seen on the news that Greenpeace are protesting across the Mall outside the Palace. They tried to blockade BJ's car going into Buckingham Palace.

It failed spectacularly because half of the the human protest banner had to be broken up in half by the Police.

Stop moaning ffs wrote: »

It seems Johnson is going to be doing ‘shuttle diplomacy’ and visiting all the EU capitals. They have learned absolutely nothing.

P.R. move. Boris just wants to be able to say that he tried talking some sense to the EU before swinging the no-deal hammer. He also gets a whistlestop Summer holiday around Europe.

VinLieger wrote: »

100 quid bet he would wear his TA uniform, that deffinitely wont fit, to his first meeting with the EU

if there are war medals in the family - you just know he's wearing them!

Stop moaning ffs wrote: »

There’s two of them. There every day shouting. One pro brexit. One anti brexit.

Both bonkers

They aren't any less bonkers than some of the characters that inhabit the building. For example, if you google 'mad tory mps' the first result is the wiki page of Michael Fabricant. Mogg, Francois and Cawzynski mustn't be far behind.

When will he announce cabinet posts?

FrancieBrady wrote: »

When will he announce cabinet posts?

I believe there was a tweet yesterday that said he would have meetings at 5pm to let cabinet ministers go and then from 7pm he will start hiring.

For Forks Sake wrote: »

I see Dominic Cummings has been brought in as an advisor to Boris.

Cummings is not rated as a policy adviser, and has exactly zero experience in public service administration or policy delivery. But he's a first-class campaigner.

What this appointment signals is that Johnson expects, and probably desires, an early election, and that it will be on the issue of Brexit.

The long boos coming from the crowd is endless outside the gates of Downing Street.

He says he will have the UK leave the EU with a new deal. He also said that the British people have had enough.

He also said this "Never mind the backstop. The buck stops here".

That's stomach churning stuff to hear but not surprising given his personality.

Money for 20k new police and 20 hospital upgrades is coming from where exactly?

Peregrinus wrote: »

Cummings is not rated as a policy adviser, and has exactly zero experience in public service administration or policy delivery. But he's a first-class campaigner.

What this appointment signals is that Johnson expects, and probably desires, an early election, and that it will be on the issue of Brexit.

All the twittering noises so far point to Johnson lining up strong pro-Brexiters and bezzy mates owed favours, for his cabinet; with an intention to purge Whitehall of talent deemed to have 'insufficient beliefs', Trump administration-style. Any current talent is fast becoming ex-talent before getting the push, e.g. Hammond.

But then I read an interesting theory, under which Johnson, whispered in the ear by Cummins, is appointing such a bunch of miscreants and sociopaths to cabinet, as to scare the Tories enough to make him lose a VONC in September: that would effectively allow him to trigger an early GE by proxy (since he promised not to call an early GE during the leadership race), as the lost VONC would force the GE out of his hands.

Cue Johnson given free reign to bin his cabinet for a more respectable one, and campaign for the GE as fighting for the people, whose will is being thwarted by self-interested MPs.