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Agreement is finally in Number 10's grasp.

The text that's taken months of officials' blood, sweat and tears has been agreed, at least at a technical level.

Now a paper's being drafted to present to the Cabinet tomorrow ready for the government's hoped-for next step - political approval from Theresa May's team, even though many of them have deep reservations.

Remember in the last 24 hours some of them have been warning privately that what's on the table is just not acceptable, and will never get through Parliament. Some even believe the prime minister ought to walk away.

But the government machine is now cranking into action. With a text ready, their long-planned rollout can begin.
The BBC's chief political correspondent Vicki Young said some ministers had "deep concerns" about the shape of the likely agreement, which critics say could leave the UK trapped in a customs agreement with the EU.

She said they would have to decide whether they could support it, and if not, whether to resign from cabinet.

Leading Brexiteers have already condemned the draft agreement, Boris Johnson saying it would see the UK remain in the customs union and "large parts" of the single market.

He told the BBC it was "utterly unacceptable to anyone who believes in democracy". "Am I going to vote against it. The answer is yes," he added.

And Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said "given the shambolic nature of the negotiations, this is unlikely to be the good deal for the country".

'Failure to deliver'
Both the UK and EU want to schedule a special summit of European leaders at the end of November to sign off the reportedly 500 page withdrawal deal and the much shorter outline declaration of their future relationship.

Brussels has insisted it would only agree to put the wheels in motion for the summit if agreement can be reached on the issue of the Irish border.

Ambassadors from the remaining 27 EU states will meet in Brussels on Wednesday.

If a deal is agreed with the EU, Mrs May then needs to persuade her party - and the rest of Parliament - to support it in a key Commons vote.

Conservative Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg said if details of the text reported by Irish broadcaster RTE were true, the UK would become a "vassal state" with Northern Ireland "being ruled from Dublin".

Such an agreement "failed to deliver on Brexit" and the cabinet should reject it, he told the BBC.

"I think what we know of this deal is deeply unsatisfactory," he said. "There seems to be growing opposition to these very poor proposals."

Meanwhile, following pressure from all sides of the Commons, ministers have agreed to provide MPs with a legal assessment of the implications for the UK of the Irish backstop and other controversial aspects of any deal.

Cabinet Office minister David Lidington said Attorney General Geoffrey Cox would make a statement to MPs and take questions ahead of the final vote on any Brexit deal.

MPs, he said, would get to see "a full reasoned position statement laying out the government's both political and also legal position on the proposed withdrawal agreement".

The Democratic Unionists' Westminster leader Nigel Dodds said he was pleased Parliament had "asserted its will" as it was imperative that all parties to the deal were clear in what way and for how long it would "legally bind" the UK.

Chequers minus it is. Whatever happened to no deal being better than a bad deal.

We should have been far more aggressive in negotiations with Brussels. They all but stated immediately after the referendum that they were going to bumrape us for having the temerity to leave, so we should have told them that unless and until they got serious, we'd basically go full on tax haven mode and steal all their big companies - and funnel money and support to Eurosceptics in Italy, Spain, Greece, Poland, and Hungary.

 

[LetterlandMafia]

Well shit.

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Weird how slow it is to onset. He's had symptoms for well over a week at this stage but only now is he in a bad enough state to require hospitalisation. Are serious diseases usually like this? I just sort of figured they would have you within a few days to a week at most.

Keep an eye on the Lefties. Archive the worst shit they say

I decided to take a peek out of pure masochism. Have a guess how this man reacted to the news. Bonus points if you can guess the contents of his bio.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

Weird how slow it is to onset. He's had symptoms for well over a week at this stage but only now is he in a bad enough state to require hospitalisation. Are serious diseases usually like this. I just sort of figured it would have you within a few days to a week at most.

You could see he was still looking very rough, the fact he was on day 10 and still showing symptoms was what prompted it all. The fact he's gone from (presumably) a private room to an ICU is the worrying development. It means he either needs more intervention or needs more consistent monitoring.

Either way, it's not good.

 

[Coccxys]

Weird how slow it is to onset. He's had symptoms for well over a week at this stage but only now is he in a bad enough state to require hospitalisation. Are serious diseases usually like this? I just sort of figured they would have you within a few days to a week at most.

From what I can tell is it is a slow damage that is causes which brings pneumonia on slowly. Likely he was getting to the struggling to finish a sentence phase last night so went for a Chevy x-ray/CT to check the prognosis and the results plus a bit of progression mean it's not to icu. From what I can find out he is only on a CPAP machine which is the best case scenario.

 

[RandomTwitterGuy]

If he dies it is his own dam fault.

He claimed it was nothing burger and running around shaking hands and licking doorknobs.

 

[Coccxys]

LibDems once again proving their class.

 

[Slimy Time]

Would be a shame if he did pass, not only because of his recent familial circumstances but because for one we had a decent prime minister. Don't think Raab is up to the task.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Raab has been named successor.

Bare in mind, Raab was quite happy for a No Deal Brexit to go through and planned accordingly. BoJo's more of a bang the table till it works sort.

So these mongs desperate for the virus to cancel brexit would get a rude wake up on that. The UK's handling the virus well without the EU's tender, loving embrace on every aspect. Or, yknow, when the Germans and French aren't stopping vital medical supplies legit bought by the Italians going to Italy.

It seems rather precautionary acts to send BoJo to hospital, but he's on day 10 of this thing while everyone else in government, Hancock, Dorries, Whitty, Cummings etc etc have all had it, and shaken it off within a week.

Meanwhile, in irrelevent news. Sir Keir Stammer's busy building his utterly meaningless Shadow Cabinet.

Fun appointments include a Shadow Chancellor nobody's heard of and has been MP for all of ten minutes.


And David. Fuckin Lammy as Shadow Justice Secretary.

David Lammy.

Oh and Ed Miliband's Business, Energy and Industrial Security.


Curiously, Keir's appointing "Shadow" members to posts that don't apparently exist. Things like. "Young Voter Engagement" and "Employment Rights and Protections".

I'm not in the mood for their childishness today, to be honest. I see the leftie twats I got on my FB list act up they're getting both barrels.

I've not seen any on Faceache but I've gone looking for it on twatter. I should not have.

I'm trying to think of a PM who died in office. I think the last one was Lord Palmerston.

 

[zap2theextreme]

Bong Big Ben for Bojo's Burial!

 

[CWCissey]

Lord Palmerston

Pitt The Elder!

 

[AJneedsElocution]

Fuck me this is grim ,i have zero faith in Raab filling in,hes a fucking lemon


The cabinet needs to convene and make Hancock defacto leader in all aspects of the fight against corona-chan and just leave Raab to fufill the other dutys of PM (security ect)

 

[RisingPhoenix]

Already seen some responses on twitter that make me consider if humanity was a mistake.

Apparently Boris was having breathing issues, but not bad enough to need a ventilator. So hopefully it's less dire and more precautionary in case his health takes another dip. Though honestly from the few clips of him since getting the coff, he's looked *bad* - I don't think I've ever seen sunken eyes as gray as Boris has - but I guess he didn't feel he could really stop to rest in his situation.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

Already seen some responses on twitter that make me consider if humanity was a mistake.

Apparently Boris was having breathing issues, but not bad enough to need a ventilator. So hopefully it's less dire and more precautionary in case his health takes another dip. Though honestly from the few clips of him since getting the coff, he's looked *bad* - I don't think I've ever seen sunken eyes as gray as Boris has - but I guess he didn't feel he could really stop to rest in his situation.

Boris is now in intensive care.

I hope he recovers, it'd be really sad for his unborn child to grow up without a father.

 

[Coccxys]

Apparently this is a reasonably common progression for this virus. Mild symptoms for a couple of weeks then surprise cytokine storm and rapid worsening. People requiring invasive ventilation from this shit (media say he doesn't but who knows?) in the UK are currently having a 49.1% fatality rate so coin toss. I hope this isn't the case for Boris and if it is that he kicks its ass.

 

[martin123]

Well shit.

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Ah, so there is a silver lining to the chinese virus

 

[Sanshain]

If he dies but Corbyn survives without even contracting it, the salt will last for generations.

 

[Slimy Time]

If he dies but Corbyn survives without even contracting it, the salt will last for generations.

Especially when the guy has been photographed ignoring self-isolation rules a few times. He's photographed in parliament, at one of the coffee shops, sitting directly opposite people, with the rest of that part of parliament absolutely barren.

I'm expecting both salt and "kinder, gentler politics" to be displayed if Boris dies.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

Raab last night saying how BoJo's condition has "worsened".

EDIT: He apparently needed about 4 litres of oxygen last night, which is far less than the 15 typically seen for corona-chan patients, so it might be more underlying infections and conditions hitting him? Maybe?

 

[Marissa Moira]

If Boris dies they won't even wait for the body to be warm to demand that that Britain should return to underneath comforting boot of the EU.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

According to Gove. BoJo's on Oxygen, not a ventilator and he is in the ICU so there's people around him and can give proper and quick attention should his condition change.

 

[Goodbye Horses]

EDIT: He apparently needed about 4 litres of oxygen last night, which is far less than the 15 typically seen for corona-chan patients, so it might be more underlying infections and conditions hitting him? Maybe?

Being an obese, inbred, coke-head with a history of pneumonia isn't going to help.