{"id":178180,"date":"2019-02-14T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/14\/she-could-f-up-a-2-car-funeral\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T00:26:00","slug":"she-could-f-up-a-2-car-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/14\/she-could-f-up-a-2-car-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"She Could F%$# Up a 2 Car Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I am referring, of course to Theresa May, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-47245992\">just lost <b>ANOTHER<\/b> crucial Brexit vote in Parliament<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>Her level of incompetence is such that it invokes that old punch line, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.homebuilt.org\/cmdrdata\/jokes\/06\/0253.html\">You don&#8217;t come here for the hunting, do you?<\/a>&#8221;&nbsp; (Yes, I am suggesting that she might be failing on purpose. )<\/p>\n<p>The vote was non-binding, but it wasn&#8217;t even close:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Prime Minister Theresa May has suffered another Commons defeat after MPs voted down her approach to Brexit talks.<\/p>\n<p>MPs voted by 303 to 258 &#8211; a majority of 45 &#8211; against a motion endorsing the government&#8217;s negotiating strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat has no legal force and Downing Street said it would not change the PM&#8217;s approach to talks with the EU.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The voting figures showed it was not just hardline Brexiteers that failed to support the government &#8211; a number of Tory Remainers also declined to vote, as more than a fifth of the party in the Commons failed to back the government.<\/p>\n<p>Five Conservative MPs &#8211; Brexiteers Peter Bone, Sir Christopher Chope, Philip Hollobone, and Anne Marie Morris, and the pro-Remain Sarah Wollaston &#8211; even voted with Labour against the motion.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems that every time that Donald Trump does some remarkably stupid sh%$, Theresa May thinks, &#8220;Here, hold my beer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am referring, of course to Theresa May, who just lost ANOTHER crucial Brexit vote in Parliament. Her level of incompetence is such that it invokes that old punch line, &#8220;You don&#8217;t come here for the hunting, do you?&#8221;&nbsp; (Yes, I am suggesting that she might be failing on purpose. ) The vote was non-binding, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[627,371,588,394,417,449,374,406,403],"class_list":["post-178180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-brexit","tag-europe","tag-fail","tag-foreign-relations","tag-international-commerce","tag-legislation","tag-politics","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}