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This bodes ill for Boris Johnson – politicalbetting.com
This bodes ill for Boris Johnson – politicalbetting.com
Johnson's has no legal recourse if he objects to findingsPrivileges committee says only that it will take further submissions 'into account''If committee decides to criticise Mr Johnson it will not come to final conclusion until it has taken into account further submissions'
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Its decisions can't be questioned by the courts.
I would not rule it out. Hillingdon council (which contains Uxbridge) stayed Tory last year when Boris was still PM despite the Tories losing control of flagship London councils like Westminster, Wandsworth and Barnet to Labour.
Hillingdon also was 56% Leave with the LDs a poor 3rd in Uxbridge in the general election of 2019 on just 6% and Labour are far worse at by elections than the LDs are
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it was exercised by the Crown on the advice of the PM, not by Parliament.
Parliament may delegate powers - but the exercise of delegated powers is very much subject to judicial review.
That seems marginally more likely than their being solidly Conservative.
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That is one reason why people reach for lawyers in these situations, to try to turn it into a more legalistic process, so they can give a pretext for supporters to say some super high standard of law has not occurred, and thus it is unfair. They act like everything must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, they bring in extraneous and abstract legal arguments to distract from basic factual questions, they claim they never got a chance to put their view or were ignored (no matter how much oppoirtunity they had, and whether it is more they were simply disagreed with), adding in a dash of saying it was a long time ago and trivial.
The response of the intransigent is always to delay, obfuscate, and complicate, then complain about the delay and confusion as making things unfair on them - that occurs when investigating parish council conduct or MP conduct.
As TSE notes the committee, evidence and process will thus be denounced. Outriders have been calling it a kangaroo court from the beginning to prepare for that.
"....that occurs when investigating parish council conduct or MP conduct". Or when ex Presidents are facing criminal indictment.
There are issues with the recall process, but it actually has some pretty fair aspects in terms of protecting someone from partisan political punishment or silencing an MP.
1) Even when punished only significant punishment can trigger a recall petition.
2) Even if there is a recall petition you need a significant number of your electorate to force a by-election.
3) Even if that threshold is met, you can stand in the subsequent by-election, so your voters are the ones judging you and can decide the process has been punishment enough if they want.
Christopher Davies was a convicted fraudster and only lost by 4.5% in his recall.
Given I felt at the start Boris wouldn't face a recall petition for his actions it isn't even a case where I simply want him out and work the reasoning to get there.
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The determination there was that prorogation was something done to parliament, not a proceeding of parliament, I believe.
(I have an unreliable letter key between r and t.)
This could be fun.
My instinct says Bozzatron will NOT hold the seat. In fact, I reckon he’d get his sorry arse kicked as every part-time Labour piss artist in west London rolls up to get the vote out against him.
If it comes to it, which is the greater career risk for Boris here? Fighting and losing, or not fighting at all?
I would say, not well enough yet...
If he has to hold several over Boris and Boris's resignation list then hold them all at once in a batch.
I doubt it, personally.
But you are often right on such matters so who knows?
I believe the Americans call that an unindicted co-conspirator.
Your hatred for the monarchy far outweighs any logical arguments that could be made one way or another.
It would work better as a gag from someone who does support the monarchy, since they support the implicit power of the monarch so it might be plausible as a complaint.
Among the 60% of people who knew Johnson was their MP, Johnson led by ~15 pts.
Among the 40% who did not, Johnson led by ~20 pts.
It's not about his local popularity. It's just nonsense polling. Nothing to explain here.
https://twitter.com/Beyond_Topline/status/1666105233020186625
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I just hope that Johnson, if found guilty, resigns and takes a new course in his life
The country is utterly fatigued of his soap opera
Shagger would have called a who governs election on the principle of abolishing the monarchy.
I consider that an absolute win.
Sure, he might lose, but he can still say that was down to how hated Rishi was (if undermining his own legend as being able to win even if others could not).
You'll be telling us next TSE has a mild dislike of Max Verstappen.
Among REMAIN voters, Labour's 48-20 lead is now 50-19 so hardly any move.
It's the 2016 LEAVE voters who have abandoned the Conservatives for Labour and Reform so I would expect bigger swings from Conservative to Labour in seats with higher numbers of 2016 Leave voters. That will help the Conservatives slightly as those are the seats with the bigger Conservative majorities but even so...
The current split is 60% Rejoin, 40% Stay Out.
Crunch the above numbers and you get Labour at 43% and the Conservatives at 28% which isn't far off the headline VI figures. Labour have half the "rejoiners" and a third of the "stay outers" but the former are a much bigger cohort now than the latter.
You are only a Conservative in that you normally won't vote Labour
The Tories began as the party which most supported a strong Crown under Charles II as a counterbalance to Parliament's power. In the Exclusion crisis the Tories were also reluctant to give Parliament the power to remove the Duke of York as Heir to the throne unlike the Whigs who supported his exclusion via Parliament from the line of succession.
No thanks.
Right now the monarch will acquiesce to all sorts of bullshit.
Come the next election, notice that the polls are still grisly for Rishi. Offer to stand somewhere ubersafe so that he can save the party and country again. After all, he thinks he's Churchill and he was MP for five different constituencies over his career.
Tell that to the local party who I assisted in every election from 1965 apart from 1997 and 2001
Tell that to the late Lord Wyn Roberts and David Jones who I acted as their driver throughout several campaigns
The truth is you are a far right evangelical little englander with very little in common with very many conservatives
Now we're seeing the same effect on the right, from people who seem to think that the Peter Simple column in the old Telegraph was news not satire. I'm confident in predicting the same outcome.
Today's Conservative Party is a coalition of 18th century Whigs, 19th century Liberals and Tories to defeat Labour socialism.
In the 18th century before the rise of Labour you would still have been a Whig not a Tory
However, when the Tories hesitated about the Protestant succession in 1714, they were locked out of power for more than 50 years and essentially disappeared until being refounded in the 1780s by Pitt the Younger after the loss of the North American colonies.
The extinction of the modern Tories is a consummation devoutly to be wished.
A load of chinless wonders mithering the country with their shitty, basic bitch PR. I can completely understand why you are sick
of it all.
Maybe King Andrew is the answer?
https://www.building.co.uk/cost-data/cost-comparison-the-pros-and-cons-of-volumetric-construction-in-housing/5123530.article
If you get down to the end there is a costed example of the breakdown of build costs associated with a 47 storey tower. The cost of building it is £4k/sqm. This excludes fees, VAT, demolitions, site clearance, external works, incoming utilities, section 106/278 payments, carbon offset payments. And obvs, the cost of the land.
The example is for student accommodation with a high standard of fit out but it is broadly comparable to market housing.
Johnson, of course, is not the average Con. Whether that works in his favour or the very reverse is a question we may have answered soon.
The fact remains they lost Westminster, Barnet and Wandsworth to Labour while at the same time losing heavily in Kingston, Richmond and Bromley but doing okay in Sutton against the LDs.
That's the thing with local elections and there may be clues for GE predictions - look at where the Conservative local vote has held up as distinct from where it collapsed.
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Almost a dozen? It would have been easier to type 11. ETA 11 was used in the headline so this is "inelegant variation".
New 4/5 bed detacheds are currently being built and sold by both Persimmon and Redrow in Shaftesbury for approx £4k per m2 but that clearly covers all the ancilliary costs you list above, plus the plot, plus a tidy profit no doubt.
They must be building them for <£2k per m2. Flats should be cheaper - much less actual building per m2.
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Best to ignore your wishes as they are based simply on being contrary and have no basis in logic.
Pretending to be mad that a figurehead monarch did not act when you want a non figurehead elected head of state is, however, just plain silly. I'm beginning to suspect it isn't a weak joke but considered to be some kind of serious gotcha, which is much worse. Even if it 'succeeds' in getting people to respond it's a weak troll.