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With the first round of the Brexit talks apparently marked by the David Davis agreeing to the EU’s negotiating timetable and this afternoon the DUP raising doubts about whether they will support the Tories we are entering uncharted territory.
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The longer she stays the more likely it is Corbyn becomes PM.
I bet the party would take back Dave and George in a heartbeat.
Diane Abbot , Returning Officer
[Edit: pipped at the post! And I was trying to cover all possibilities]
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This is the very same Laura K who predicted that a deal would be clinched on the afternoon of June 13 – a week ago...
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Queen's speech to be delayed for up to a week because new version has to be written after deal with DUP done - expected late tmrw afternoon
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Perhaps DUP wanted more money than Philip Hammond was willing to provide ?
The Tories might not want to be held to ransom even for a short period and decide to continue as a minority. Not as if the numbers make it viable for Labour to form a government.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jun/20/serpentine-pavilion-2017-francis-kere
https://twitter.com/TSEofPB/status/873978710038388737
Theresa May will be gone by the Tory party conference in October and be replaced by someone who can unite the party. As a total wildcard, Johnny Mercer the ex Army Captain might be a popular choice, if he decided to stand. Probbably better than Bojo or Hammond or any of the current frontrunners.
Enjoy!
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/grenfell-tower-ministers-were-warned-of-a-tower-block-tragedy-if-no-sprinklers-fitted-a3568526.html
Sprinkler might not have stopped the fire going up the cladding but regarding the sprinkler recommendations the article says:
After further correspondence, then government minister Liberal Democrat Stephen Williams, replied: "I have neither seen nor heard anything that would suggest that consideration of these specific potential changes is urgent and I am not willing to disrupt the work of this department by asking that these matters are brought forward."
The group replied: "We're at a loss to understand, how you had concluded that credible and independent evidence which had life safety implications, was NOT considered to be urgent.
"As a consequence the group wishes to point out to you that should a major fire tragedy, with loss of life, occur between now and 2017, in for example, a residential care facility or a purpose built block of flats, where the matters which had been raised here, were found to be contributory to the outcome, then the group would be bound to bring this to others' attention."
https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/vb.6622931938/10154956153516939/?type=2&theater
Clegg:
“It would have been in a Quad meeting, so either Cameron or Osborne. One of them – I honestly can’t remember whom – looked genuinely nonplussed and said, ‘I don’t understand why you keep going on about the need for more social housing – it just creates Labour voters.’ They genuinely saw housing as a petri dish for voters. It was unbelievable,” he said.
Shocking, talk about party before country.
Cameron: 10,703,754
May: 13,667,213
So Johnny Mercer becomes Con leader and PM from the backbenches.
Then what? Will people stand for a PM they've never heard of? There would have to be an immediate election to give people their say surely?
It is precisely the sort of cold political calculation Osborne would calculate in his head.
May is indeed crap. Cameron was clearly even worse.
Indeed Cameron was so crap he even got 1.5 million less votes than Corbyn. That is how atrociously bad your heroes were.
In December 2015, the all-party group wrote to the former Conservative minister James Wharton, and warned about the risk of fires spreading on the outside of buildings with cladding.
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Johnny Mercer, nice chap though he is, is a "one trick pony." He never takes part in debates in the HoC's unless it is about defence. Also he is a very poor speaker. Sadly, I wish it was otherwise.
Their Editor would know a bit more, having been the Chancellor responsible for Austerity.
Nicola binning Named Person, or Patrick whining that the Tories voted with the SNP on air duty
I did say that picking Farron was a mistake last time. The Lib Dems should go for Lamb.
Strong and stable with Theresa May. Oh yes.
Grand Cayman is a bit awkward and wants you to live there for 9 years first. I haven't looked into getting Barbados citizenship, but for the price of my London flat, I can have a 4-bedroom house with a pool and sea views. A £600k property would cost £18k in transaction costs to buy versus £38k in London just on the stamp duty.
It's not worth what it costs to live here.
Both Lamb and Cable are from the SDP wing of the party but I would have thought the majority of their members come from the old Liberal wing. Former leader Charles Kennedy also came from the SDP.
The argument for leaving the single market is often focused around the need to end the free movement of people. However, we argue, and many experts agree, that changes to our immigration system can be made while keeping us inside it.
Clegg is a liar
We should know not to expect the truth from Leavers, particularly when the lies are written on public service vehicles.