Queen Approves Boris Johnson's Plan To Suspend Parliament -- Makes A No-Deal Brexit More Likely -- August 28, 2019

Link here.

Tea leaves:

• the queen is getting tired of waiting .... how long has this been going on? Five years?
• the queen wants to get Great Britain out in front of the "recession that is just around the corner"
• dithering is worse than even a "bad" Brexit deal; a non-deal is better than continued dithering; UK corporations unable to plan
• how many deadlines does one need?
• if the UK doesn't get it cone, the US will be seen either as a "banana republic" or another Italy

When was the last "suspension"?

This tradition was again carried out at the most recent dissolution, in May 2017. The last dissolution of Parliament was on 3 May 2017, to make way for the general election to be held on 8 June 2017. It dissolved after a two-thirds majority vote by the House of Commons, as required by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act.

To answer the other question:

Brexit (a portmanteau of "British" and "exit") is the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU). 

Following a referendum held on 23 June 2016 in which 51.9 percent of those voting supported leaving the EU, the Government invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, starting a two-year process which was due to conclude with the UK's exit on 29 March 2019.

That deadline has since been extended to 31 October 2019.

June 23, 2016: more than three years ago. This is something from a Charles Dickens' novel.

Summers, and especially the months of July and August, have always been slow, dull, boring ... but that all changed when Trump was elected president. LOL.

By the way, did anyone note the timing of this announcement by the Queen?

Let's do the timeline:

• Sunday, August 28, 2019: G-7 summit attendees start to fly in to Paris
• Monday morning, August 29, 2019: media talks about how Trump is ruining the process
• Monday afternoon, August 29, 2019: Trump having some interesting meetings and sidebars with G-7 summit attendees; ignores the party crasher from Iran
• Tuesday morning: President Trump tweets some great deals coming out of his private discussions from the G-7 summit
• Tuesday afternoon: the US media starts to talk about how great Trump did at the summit
• Tuesday tea (Greenwich standard time): the Queen is briefed by Boris regarding the G-7 conference
• Tuesday night (Greenwich standard time): the Queen's office prepares a memo for the Queen to sign
• Wednesday morning: the announcement that the Queen approves of Boris' plan to suspend Parliament
• Wednesday afternoon, scheduled: a congratulatory call from Trump to Boris

What could possibly be more apt than "Killer Queen"?  Just like Marie Antoinette. She's a killer. Dynamite with a laser beam. Guaranteed to blow your mind.

Killer Queen, Queen