The Nth Monitor

from the BBC's rundown, it looks like it is the conservatives who vote for their leader, who will then become interim PM until the next general election, right?

So... the public have no say until September?

Zak

@DanPantry MPs vote until there's only 2 candidates left, then it goes to a general-party ballot.

Dan Pantry

Basically.. let's elect Theresa May and she won't enact Article 50 because she voted Remain

Zak

And then lets' not forget what Gove has done in his short time as Justice Secretary.

Dan Pantry

11:36 AM

#politicianbowl confirmed

Zak

@DanPantry Maybe. She's been quite deliberately neutral this whole time.

Whether she actually triggers it is going to depend on the political situation

Which is, to put it mildly, F****** crazy at the moment

Dan Pantry

+1. It's sinking faster than the titanic.

Zak

I don't think it's that clear. Maybe "tearing itself apart from internal stresses, with bits going in unpredictable directions"

Dan Pantry

the entire of the EU is a political mess ATM

Zak

I'm not sure what's going to happen tomorrow, let alone in the 2 months it'll take to elect a new PM.

Dan Pantry

11:42 AM

UK wants to leave the EU, scotland wants to leave teh UK if they leave teh EU. spain doesn't want scotland to join the EU because Catalonia, the tories can't decide who gets the speaking stick

it's very reminiscient of GoT

skiwi

@DanPantry He drove UK off a cliff and then jumped out

Zak

@skiwi ~~Jumped~~ Stabbed in the back and pushed over with everyone else.

skiwi

@Zak I saw his face and I was disgusted already

Dan Pantry

He's the British Donald Trump

but with slightly better hair

There's actually a photo near where I live of him on the Wrecking ball from Miley Cyrus's song

completely naked

"do you want to vote for this? vote remain"

Note that Cardiff voted majority remain. I suspect that photo was due to it.

I'll see if I can get a photo of it on the way home if I remember

skiwi

@Zak Stabbed?

Dan Pantry

11:49 AM

@skiwi With a knife

skiwi

I have a feeling the Queen or her mother could die from a heart attack because of all this BS going on

Zak

@skiwi 2 days ago, Michael Gove was publicly supporting Boris Johnson's (assumed) bid for Prime Minister.

skiwi

@Zak Uh ok that's a pretty major backstab

Zak

Then Rupert Murdoch wrote some supportive stuff on Gove and 2 days later, Gove is announcing his own bid for PM.

Dan Pantry

@skiwi actually the queen wanted to leave the EU soooooo

skiwi

11:51 AM

@DanPantry Oh ok... missed that, then she might actually be happy

Zak

@DanPantry *allegedly*

@skiwi The Queen's been through 12 Prime Ministers, 12 US Presidents, 7 Archbishops and 7 Popes. I'm pretty sure she's used to BS by this point.

skiwi

I think I can finally explain that I don't need to watch Game of Thrones to my friends

> Queen elected as Prime Minister

wat ^^ reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/4qkpve/…

> Which means she holds the same view as the leader of the opposition but for opposite reasons, but her party’s view of this view is the opposite of the opposition’s.

Zak

12:10 PM

> So, let me get this straight… the leader of the opposition campaigned to stay but secretly wanted to leave, so his party held a non-binding vote to shame him into resigning so someone else could lead the campaign to ignore the result of the non-binding referendum which many people now think was just angry people trying to shame politicians into seeing they’d all done nothing to help them.

Meanwhile, the man who campaigned to leave because he hoped losing would help him win the leadership of his party, accidentally won and ruined any chance of leading because the man who thought he couldn…

That's brilliant. Like something straight out of a Yes Minister sketch.

Yes Minister — Why Britain Joined the European Union

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skiwi

That's British humor right there?

Dan Pantry

lmfao @Zak

Zak

@DanPantry Yes Minister is exceptional satire. Except it's all based on actual government records.

i-wouldn-t-write-thick-it-now-politics-already-feels-fictional

Great Article. Ignore the anti-AdBlock thing.

Dan Pantry

ffs.

tfw your colleague assigns you a ticket in the helpdesk system

that's due in 1 hour

and you have already got to work overtime

and it was opened 3 days ago and sat in their queue

....

Zak

12:32 PM

Nigel Farage! "There can be compromises with the EU, including on a possible British contribution to the EU budget"

skiwi

LOOOL

You've got to be kidding me

skiwi

12:45 PM

I still don't see the UK leaving though

Zak

I can see it leaving. But every day that goes by I gain a little more hope that enough reality will settle in for enough people that the inertia towards "leave" can be overcome.

skiwi

I do think they need to hold another referendum and Remain has to win

I'm not sure, could the EU else kick UK out on basis of ignoring human rights?

Zak

@skiwi Not without changing EU treaties

@skiwi But, you know, there's "The Law" and then there's political reality.

skiwi

I don't think the EU will be very nice to the UK if they manage to stay in though

Dan Pantry

@Zak nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnailed it

@skiwi they won't be if they leave, it's a lose/lose.

skiwi