Seriously?
Hrad Brexiteers are like ironic conceptual performance artists
This is a lovely thread which is still being updated as I type. I’ve helpfully bolded the best bits.
If Mark Francois didn’t exist we’d have to invent him.
https://twitter.com/tpgcolson/status/1115571908165152769
Mark Francois is talking about how he used to be a platoon commander
One interesting thing about this meeting of ardent Brexiteers: Boris Johnson seems to have become instantly unpopular for supporting May’s deal. Francois making multiple jokes about his Eton background which are going down well with the audience.
Mark Francois says Olly Robbins is “a senior civil servant who has never accepted the result of the referendum.”
Mark Francois: "The British House of Commons has never surrendered in its history and I believe it never will."
Mark Francois calls himself and opponents of May’s deal the "Spartan phalanx."
Francois: “The PM is in effect already a lame duck … Many Tory MPs are now so angry the letters are flowing into Graham Brady. More and more MPs are asking for a informal indicative vote of confidence in the PM which she would lose.”
Francois says EU elections will produce large contingent of Brexiteer MEPs “the likes of which the European parliament has never seen.”
“The thought of Nigel Farage and 40 fellow members of the brexit party is hardly going to warm the cockles of the federalists.”
Mark Francois: "My message to the EU: If you try to hold us in, you will be facing perfidious Albion on speed."
https://twitter.com/tpgcolson/status/1115580477094748161
Andrew Bridgen: “It’s hard to believe we used to run a quarter of the globe from Westminster.”
"We used to have a five-star Michelin restaurant in Westminster. Now we accept our laws in pre-packaged deals from Bruseels ready to put in the microwave."
Andrew Bridgen recounts a draft tweet his staff managed to prevent him from sending yesterday: “It would appear the Maybot has gone haywire and no one can find the off switch.”
Bridgen says if UK signs Withdrawal Agreement, “Spain will want Gibraltar … and the Republic of Ireland will probably want Northern Ireland.”
Bridgen: “We’re on the turkey farm, and for the first time in 46 the gate is open. But it appears the turkeys want to get a Withdrawal Agreement with the turkey farmer before they leave.”
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I’d love to see Martina Anderson take into that clown with a cricket bat
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I wish we had patriots like them in Eire instead of the sleveen slaves to the Eurocrats we produce
We have one, but he’s in the TUV
Not in Eire, mind you I’d love to see Seamie’s reaction to being called such
Here’s one for you bud although I don’t think it’s a real person, unless it’s one of the Galway Nazi crowd.
No…
‘Brexit-voting woman’: she voted for Brexit.
‘Brexit referendum-voting woman’: she voted in said referendum.
The blurb omits the relevant hyphen.
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But a dog with a mallet up its hole knew what was what.
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You would hope so… Absent hyphen was hardly obscurantist.
if a hyphen or lack of confused me, you’re hardly helping matters using words like that
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Is it not the most precise term in context?
Hang on a sec until I google it
*edit… not a fucking clue
I think you will find it is…
He’s telling you to stop being a gomey prick.
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so the absence of the word of is obscurantist here
you’re a man of the people.
Yes, to be fair, I was typing too quickly and ended up with a typo. But I see you did not notice until my renovatory edit…