Theresa May's speech today

[DimPrawn]

She is being generous to the sclerotic EU, as she leads the Great British nation into the sunlit uplands of the jam powered Empire 2.0 economy.

I shouldn't chuckle at your nonsense it only encourages you....

[northernladyuk]

I shouldn't chuckle at your nonsense it only encourages you....

That was a direct quotation from Rees Mogg's nanny.

[BlasterBates]

Michael Heseltine slams May's speech:

Heseltine scathes May's speech

oh dear,

[jamesbrown]

Michael Heseltine slams May's speech:

Heseltine scathes May's speech

oh dear,

Indeed, the ultimate litmus test for Tory brexit positioning.



Slow news day at the Grauniad.



In other news, Wollaston and friends predictably backing away from voting with The Absolute Boy for a CU, I see. What did I say last week about a "probing amendment"?

[BlasterBates]

The latest phrase I'm hearing a lot of is "Brexit in name only".

Nigel Farage gets agitated

[darmstadt]

Not too far from what is actually happening: https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...for-the-uk.pdf

[darmstadt]

May told Marr she had decided to be “straight with people”. She added: “It was a vision that was ambitious but was also practically based and therefore a credible vision.”

So she hasn't been straight with the people until now

[jamesbrown]

The latest phrase I'm hearing a lot of is "Brexit in name only".

Nigel Farage gets agitated

I’ll just leave this here.

[malvolio]

So she hasn't been straight with the people until now

I believe she has; the rest of the Cabinet though? What's she's trying to do it get them all on one message. Good luck with that...

As for Heseltine - nobody listens to him any more, he's even more deranged than Clarke.

[AtW]

I believe she has

You mean like when she said that she won't call new election and then called it?

She clearly planned it when she first gave date for Article 50, then invoked it in clear desire to then call election - she blatantly lied, no other explanation to that.