Hard Brexit

The UK went to Brussels for negotiations and after a lot of waffle agreed to the timetable the EU set out.

Footage of the UK delegation

Davis confirmed that his 'government' were still determined to run the UK economy off a cliff by exiting the single-market & the customs union.

After nearly a full year of fucking about before actually sitting down, the next meeting will be in mid-July and, since the witless wonder clinging to power triggered article 50 & then called an election, the 2 year window is shrinking at an alarming rate!

BBC bods on why U-Turn Theresa lost

10 Reasons why it backfired.

Weak & Wobbly continues

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Theresa Maybot is still squatting in No. 10 and sort of pretending that the election didn't happen. She did go to the 1922 Committee and take the blame (well it was her decision & fuck-up). She managed to survive without being asked to quit. Just.

In the meantime she's a prisoner of her party & her cabinet: can't even fire her chancellor & had to bring little shitehawk, Gove back.

The talks with the deplorable DUP continue.

EU/Brexit
With all this confusion, the clock on Brexit is still ticking (after Shithead triggered Article 50 & then called an election). The EU side are getting increasingly annoyed & frustrated as U-Turn Theresa tries to form her "Coalition of Chaos".

David Davis has admitted that talks, scheduled to start on the 19th, might be delayed.

Senior EU officials are briefing that the British don't seem to have a scooby about what they want (maybe a product of Mad-dog May losing the election) and when they actually intend to talk.

The odds of a cliff-edge exit are shortening by the day.😟

I don't frigging believe it!

2016
Bruce states that the printroom has to be manned meaning that I don't do grad photo packing over the summer & Phil has to hire a series of temps to do it.

2017
14/06 Bruce says he's taking Thursday off and says if I go over to PandIS or take the day off too, it doesn't matter if the printroom is unmanned!

FFS!

Arise Lord Buckethead

There's a long tradition of 'eccentric' candidates in elections but this was the greatest yet!

Here's his manifesto.

And here he is with the weak & wobbly PM at the count in Maidenhead.

Wheat

So do you still thin that trampling some wheat is the worst thing you've ever done?

Dear Theresa May ...

Dear Theresa May.

This.

Regards.

Great Britain.

Hahahahaha!

So Maybot's gamble spectacularly backfired/blew up in her face!

It was a disastrous night for Maybot after the worst campaign in living memory has left her looking weaker and wobblier than when she started.

Maybot is now fatally damaged. The U-turn on a poll has left her without the mandate she claimed she wanted. Instead she's relying on some really unsavoury religious nutjobs (and former terrrorists) from Northern Island to prop up her 'government'. #StrongAndStableMyArse

On the other hand, it was a brilliant night for Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party as young people who often don't vote turned out in record numbers. Perhaps the referendum made them see the point of voting, perhaps they liked the manifesto and decided to vote FOR something, rejecting the right-wing press' bile. For Jeremy Corbyn to succeed despite the vilification, smears ans outright lies from the likes of the Daily Seig Heil, Bum etc was remarkable.

In comparison Maybot was terrible: from repeating slogans to evading questions to making u-turns on policies in her (uncosted) manifesto, her campaign was a shambles. Corbyn has been through 2 leadership elections while May was crowned leader. The difference showed. Her decision to duck out of the Cambridge debate made her look frit and Labour exploited it to the full.

I also hope that this election will be the end of the BBC's weird, almost fetishistic, obsession with UKIP. Particularly on #r4today.

The EU will be laughing all the way to the negotiating table. 

No more cracking cheese for me lad.