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http://openeurope.org.uk/daily-shakeup/john-major-opportunities-of-brexit-are-inflated/
Will his team still exist, though? Diehard Kippers will presumably not be working with him, and Kipper-inclined ex-Tory activists will probably drift back to the Tories. I'd have thought he be in some trouble in a three-way contest.
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We will always have access to the single market, just not be a member
Okay, okay. We might still have the same 'access' as Fiji or whoever - I'm just amazed that that is itself is now regarded as a cause for celebration.
And USA
It would also be funny if Carswell quit UKIP and lost them the £300k a year claimed in Short Money, but he's too honest to do that without resigning his seat - which is probably one by-election too many for his constituents.
Meanwhile, Nigel's enjoying life in Washington hobnobbing with the President - something the govt really need to keep a close eye on.
He'd make a super Speaker.
Gerald Kaufman is the 24th sitting Labour MP to have died since April 2000; in the same period 1 Con, 1 LibDem, 1 UUP and 1 Ind MP have died
"JPMorgan software does in seconds what took lawyers 360,000 hours
A new era of automation is now in overdrive as cheap computing power converges with fears of losing customers to startups"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/jp-morgan-software-lawyers-coin-contract-intelligence-parsing-financial-deals-seconds-legal-working-a7603256.html
One day I hope the rest of the UK as was comes to the same view.
Eurosceptics were in a similar position in 1976, and have campaigned doggedly for the last 40 years to get to where we are now. You can do the same, of course you might be getting on a bit by then, but you cant have everything, and you will still have more than 99% of the world does, even after BrExit.
https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/836564251791749120
Well not half as ridiculous as those two being entrusted with whether or not we change the way we are governed
We can go back and forth with anecdotes like this all day.
Given that the UK imports around 2 billion eggs per year I think that stopping us from eating them would be the very last suggestion we would hear from the EU!
Someone here must have been an agent before and can probably quote the relevant law.
Hmm. Ok, there is some overlap, I suppose.
On this very site I have seen people wanting to remain because they liked being served by nice Italian boys in expensive London restaurants and having cosy chats with German tennis players in the south of France.
Fortunately, that's quite unlikely
It is electronic mail
https://twitter.com/lisafleisher/status/836571804231684096
It would make a great betting market. Anyone care to price up these options for the winner of his seat (or successor seat), on the basis of the bet being void if he doesn't stand?
- Carswell standing as a Kipper
- Carswell standing as a Tory
- Carswell as Speaker
- Carswell as an independent or for any other party
- Someone other than Carswell
The grey area might be someone who sets up and publishes a national newspaper, purely as a front to a political party but without any involvement of the party.
As with most of these things, every reasonable loophole in electoral law has been pushed, to the point where I believe agents have gone for a stay in the big house before.
He probably ought to sit tight at least a week. UKIP could go through several iterations and leaders by then.
Mind, I’ve seen boxes of frogs which were sane compared with Bob Spink.
Edit. Bob ‘Ukipped' in 2008.
Could anyone 'NICE' be a leader of UKIP?
I suspect that the UK already views Irish support for the Eurozone as being at about 90%
And some former Labour folks might have found UKIP a temporary stepping-stone to get across to the Tories too. I haven't met so many of them, fair to say.
Compare that to The Libdems with 84,000 & still rising.
In the vast majority of constituencies up and down the country the UKIP vote rise was almost exactly the Lib Dem vote fall. Politics geeks like ourselves can be too obsessed over the minutiae of what parties represent when in reality what people vote for when they vote "Lib Dem/UKIP" is normally essentially no more complicated than "none of the above".
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