Thread by @modernhomesla

Humor
w sharp tongue
thoughtful mind,
always appreciated.

British PM promised in early Sept that he would be “dead in a ditch” before he would agree to extend his country’s membership of the European Union beyond Oct 31st.
irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan…

That means, surely, that as of 11pm Brussels time on Thursday, Johnson is the first self-acknowledged member of the undead to occupy 10 Downing Street.
irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan…

Brexit

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1-31-20!🤦‍♂️

BoJo has joined undead.
irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan…

🤣🤣🤓

Queen Elizabeth
only has 2 birthdays;
post-Brexit Britain
has nine – so far.

The date w destiny
has turned out
2B whole box of dates.

W Brexit,
a deadline is
a line that is drawn forever

and then dies away.

🤣🤣

Fintan O'Toole
not big fan of
#BREXIT

Brexit was hurtling
ever faster fwd,
towards a known +
supposedly unbreakable appt w fate.

Not just known
but chosen.👈

It was entirely matter 4 British
2 start timer,
2 say 2 their imagined destiny,
as in an old-fashioned romantic movie:
let’s make date 2 meet under clock

"Even if Brexit were a good idea, it was obviously an immense task. Each of the 730 available days mattered, + 1 might have expected British hearts 2 beat faster as each 1 of them was marked off on the calendar."

🤣🤣🔥🤣🔥🤣🤣
irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan…

"But there was instead a strange meandering, every movement towards a feasible agreement followed by a looping back into previously discarded impossibilities."
-----
*Loop,
as in loopy-loop.

baqq in the que.
baqq.

#Backstop
Failure May
Failure U.K.

irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan…

Paul ded

"Having created the monster, [Johnson] could pose as the Van Helsing of Brexit, the one man who could track it down to its lair and put a stake through its heart so it could never again suck the lifeblood out of British politics and society."
irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan…

“Get Brexit Done”,
the slogan endlessly repeated by
Johnson
(presumably it tested well
in the focus groups),
pretty much boils down to:
let’s get this horrible thing
over with.
It is a long way
from the sunny uplands.
-----
Sher is, punkins.
irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan…

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯👇
Even if w/drawal agree is passed,
the much more complicated
trade negotiations begin.
More profoundly,
all the reasons why
Britain joined the EU
in the 1st place

🤦‍♂️🤓
These folks not subtle
nor smart.

TY @fotoole
irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan…

Brexit has a way of defying linear time.

There is no last ditch,
just an endless series
of looping paths
that will meander
across the landscape
unless + until
the whole thing is ditched.

Amen.
@fotoole
Nice Op Ed
Very well spoken.
🙌
irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan…