And people think Trump has personnel problems? Brexit chaos (leader, carry, education)

[PilgrimsProgress]

My UK friend just summarized what's happened so far:


FROM the Telegraph, 4.50 pm
Brexit chaos: How the day unfolded in Westminster

It has been an incredible day in Westminster. Here's a recap of how things unfolded:

- 7.30am: Donald Tusk announces the council will hold an extraordinary summit in Brussels on November 25 to finalise the UK's withdrawal agreement.

- 7.30am: Shailesh Vara quits as Northern Ireland Minister.

- 8.50am: Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab quits.

- 10am: Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey resigns.

- 10.20am: Suella Braverman resigns as a Brexit minister.

- 10.20am: Anne-Marie Trevelyan quits as a parliamentary private secretary in the Department for Education.

- 10.30am: Mrs May begins her address to Parliament

- 12.35: Ranil Jayawardena, Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Ministry of Justice, resigns.

- 1.20pm: European Research Group chairman Jacob Rees-Mogg hands in his letter of no confidence to Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee.

- 1.30pm: Mrs May finishes her statement to the Commons after nearly three hours, and after answering more than 100 questions.

- 1.55pm: Commons Leader and pro-Brexit MP Andrea Leadsom insists she has no plans to quit the Cabinet.

- 2.05pm: Further Tory MPs begin publishing letters of no confidence in Mrs May on Twitter.
- 3pm: Gillingham and Rainham MP Rehman Chishti resigns as Conservative vice-chairman and prime ministerial trade envoy to Pakistan.

Dominic Raab quit after being blindsided by final Brexit deal. He had not been shown it!!

[Dane_in_LA]

2nd-dumbest political stunt in my lifetime. No wonder that the people who engineered the referendum ran away as fast as their legs could carry them.

[annoyingmagpie]

I can see why some wanted Brexit, but it still comes across as very rushed and unplanned to me

[GotHereQuickAsICould]

No one seems to care for May's Brexit plan and her leadership is on the brink of failure.

Folks are resigning left and right and a no deal Brexit appears increasingly likely.

[ChrisC]

Seems a number of people are not interested in autonomy or a national identity. They'd rather be a crouton in a bowl of everything soup.

[greywar]

Seems like folks like the idea of brexit more then the actual reality of it.

[Dane_in_LA]

Originally Posted by ChrisC

Seems a number of people are not interested in autonomy or a national identity. They'd rather be a crouton in a bowl of everything soup.

Wow, a metaphor. That'll do wonders when it comes to redoing, oh, 30+ years or so of established business practices for moving goods and money.

[ChrisC]

Originally Posted by Dane_in_LA

Wow, a metaphor. That'll do wonders when it comes to redoing, oh, 30+ years or so of established business practices for moving goods and money.

I'm sure the folks who tore down the Berlin wall felt the same way. Or those who had to redo 70 years worth of communist USSR business practices.

[Dane_in_LA]

Originally Posted by greywar

Seems like folks like the idea of brexit more then the actual reality of it.

Well, yes. People like the idea of clean streets, as long as they're not being asked to hold a broom.

[Dane_in_LA]

Originally Posted by ChrisC

I'm sure the folks who tore down the Berlin wall felt the same way.

Another analogy? And a bad one, too. Equating Brexit - an idea that's going to make the movement of goods, money and people harder - with tearing down the Berlin wall, an action that made the exact same things easier? Does not compute.