Is There Any Point In Mrs May Visiting Brussels? (And Mixed Metaphors.)

[Khandro]

Or would the time be more valuably spent preparing for a 'cliff-edge' exit? It seems from the pre-arranged replies to last-night's amendment she is 'up against a brick wall'.
Dominic Raab has said;
"I would rather we got a deal, but it takes 'two to tango' and the 'ball is in the EU’s court'."
Could he have mixed his metaphors even further by adding, 'and the clock is ticking'?

Any more metaphors? (suggestion; 'are we are up the creek'?).

[Khandro]

So to metaphorically encapsulate the status quo; We're up the creek, against a brick wall, the clock is ticking, the two are not tangoing, and the ball is in their court, (but it may be out of bounds),
Ten to make and the match to win
A bumping pitch and a blinding light,
An hour to play, and the last man in.
And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat.
Or the selfish hope of a season's fame,
But his captain's hand on his shoulder smote
"Play up! Play up! And play the game!"

As v_e might say, "Where is Vera Lynn now that we need her?

[gulliver1]

"It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see",

[Zacs-Master]

Time for THAT Sun headline again, methinks.

[ToraToraTora]

you mean "Up yours delours!"

[vetuste_ennemi]

You know how a form of malapropism concerning things you thought you knew get into your head. One of my comprehension malapropisms was that the grievances of the third estate in pre-revolutionary France were called "les cahiers de douleurs". (Turns out when consulting Wiki that they were in fact called "les cahiers de doléances".)

But I love the TTT allusion with its Thatcherite echo: "les cahiers de Delors".

[cassa333]

Yes there is a very good reason for the PM to visit Brussels now.

If she gets no joy then it shows she tried.

If she gets the right concession on the backstop then she is a winner...

If she gets a rubbish Amendment that amounts to nothing then it again shows she tried.

I think at one second to midnight, IF we hold our nerve, they will blink in some way about the backstop.

However May is more likely to blink than anyone. In fact she will flutter her eyelashes the second she walks in.

[Khandro]

A great speech from Nigel, and as one commentator below says; Nobody is laughing at him anymore

[-Talbot-]

There's only one way to end all this... As a British war hero once said (well nearly) the EU don't like it up em

https://twitter.com/MattChorley/status/1090732963543875584?s=20

[Peter Pedant]

// the EU don't like it up em //

the air commodore that said that was in Cynthia Payne 's film Naughty Knights played by Alec McCowan

Bomber Harris was too glum to say that sort of thing in real life

[Peter Pedant]

cahiers de doleances

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahier_de_dol%C3%A9ances

fransh wiki - - I suppose we would say Grand Remonstrance

[Peter Pedant]

sozza but the French were revolting from about 1450

[bentaxle]

She's not played her best cards yet , the crown jewels that should call their bluff

[Khandro]

There really is no excuse for the BBC's insufferable bias. Eschewing Nigel Farage's really great speech (I posted above), and yet showing Verhofstadt's weirdly unfounded rant.
Viewers in the UK are paying £150. a year for this 'unbiased' reporting. but will the Government's watchdog bring then to task?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1080502/BBC-news-live-Nigel-Farage-video-brexit-news-bbc-bias-Guy-Verhofstadt

[naomi24]

BBC bias. No more than I've come to expect.

[jim360]

Be easier to take that seriously if pro-EU observers weren't also complaining of bias in the exact opposite direction.

We've been here before. The BBC is not biased towards the EU or against it. It is impartial to a fault, instead, by trying to take the middle ground on every issue, whether it should or not. Different thing.

[naomi24]

// It [the BBC] is impartial to a fault//

Can't imagine what you've been watching and listening to, Jim. Certainly not the same stuff as me.

[jim360]

More likely it *is* the same stuff, but I have a different perspective. Still, the fact is that you will find pro-EU observers complaining of the reverse problem, ie of the BBC's blatant anti-EU agenda. The only point I'm making is that you and they are both right.

[naomi24]

//I have a different perspective.//

'Different'. That's one way to describe it. ;o)

[Khandro]

jim; //The BBC is not biased towards the EU or against it. It is impartial to a fault,//

I can't believe how you could say that. Isn't the example above alone enough to demonstrate bias - crimes of omission are just as bad as crimes of commission.
Even cabinet ministers have alluded to it in the house; Michael Gove recently said, "..... despite Brexit, as they say on the BBC"

[jim360]

I'm not going to dispute the idea that you can find examples on the BBC of reports that appear to be biased against Brexit. What I'm saying is that at the same time you can easily find just as many examples of BBC reports biased in the other direction.