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When I was a child, we used to visit my maternal grandparents most Sundays. I learned my love of card games and Scrabble there, including the importance of seating: my grandpa would cheat to ensure my grandma won (she was a shocking loser and he knew which side his bread was buttered). Sunday tea was an institution, my grandma slipping Ben her fat golden Labrador little treats from her plate when she thought no one was looking.
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Let's not forget they had the Lib Dems to take care of them for the first five. When finally set free, they implode over Europe.
Who knew!
However, where it comes down to what has to be negotiated, that's where Alastair has forgotten that JRM and co do not want a deal. They may not have the votes in the party to outright back that, but they have enough to stop anything else from being tried.
It's no deal or remain I think.
Gareth Southgate needs to start a Calm and Sensible Gradualist Party. He'd sweep to power.
I said Friday this plan wouldn't survive first contact with
the enemythe EU. It can only count as a plan if it was firmly "Take it or leave it". May couldn't remotely convey that required level of gritty determination. The EU would just take all on offer and extend their list of demands.....It would have been better if the referendum had gone firmly the other way, or if Theresa May had got the decisive mandate she asked for, which would have given her the authority to do a deal and see off both the ultra-Brexiteers and the continuity Remainers with whom they are in an unholy alliance. And it would probably saved the Labour Party too.
Voters voted for chaos, they are getting what they wanted.
Remoaner or Mogglodyte, they all now inhabit fictional universes that exist almost entirely in their own minds.
It'ss not leaver obsessives by the way. It's their own party members and activists. They will need them in 2022 for the next election. And a leader that can function effectively on TV.
That should concentrate minds.
We had intended you to be
The next Prime Minister but three:
The stocks were sold; the Press was squared:
The Middle Class was quite prepared.
But as it is! . . . My language fails!
Go out and govern New South Wales!"
He's much weaker on explaining the delay in his decision on quitting. He congratulated May on at least reaching a Cabinet decision after acknowledging his side did not have the numbers...then over the weekend he decided he could not, after all, back it.
Interesting closer though, talking about the largest and most effective diplomatic network of any country in Europe 'a continent which we will never leave. I know remainers and leavers at times incorrectly equate the EU with Europe, but I'm curious why he felt the final words in his letter should be emphasising that we will never leave the continent no matter what.
Do you or do you not trust Theresa May to get the best possible deal in negotiations with the EU?
Do 22% (-32)
Do not 64% (+31)
Don't know 14% (+1)
(Changes from March 2017)
Whether actual votes are still needed in parliament is almost immaterial - government will collapse trying to negotiate or implement anything.
By 49% to 25% Tory members think 'no deal' Brexit would be good for Britain.
Hard to see how May can lead the Tories at the next general election so divorced from her own members and also explains why Mogg is Tory members' preferred candidate to succeed May in the same poll
https://mobile.twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/status/1016313194627981312
Why are our journalists crying about this one tweet? At most, at least find Americans other than one NYT journalist and Dean Howard to quote. It’s been hours yet I’m still seeing this one tweet quoted on my timeline now....
Back it now. The problem is, of course, that crashing out the EU in nine months time with limited preparation for No Deal will likely be unpleasant. Even going to WTO in an orderly fashion now requires the help of the EU.
https://twitter.com/reuters/status/1016375591313068032?s=21
https://twitter.com/david_cameron/status/595112367358406656?s=21
The Leavers will be invigorated by an establishment takeover, and even if they lose narrowly, they will demand another one within a few hours, and certainly before anything else is decided. That's how the system works now, isn't it?
If leave win, it will be ignored again. Russian influence, they're too thick to vote, and it's all wrong cos I think differently.
We need to leave, in fact as well as in name. If after considered opinion over a few years, we change our minds, so be it.
To make a mockery of democracy will create a schism that will last a generation.
'Government’s campaign for 12 ears of quality education for every girl, and much more besides. '
How can Brexit be dead when the PM, the Leader of the Opposition and the likely next Tory leader are all fully behind Brexit?
The only senior UK wide party leader with more than 1 seat who opposes Brexit, wants a second EU referendum or even wants to stay in the single market is Vince Cable with just 12 MPs
I think you're right. Killing a democratic vote because you don't like it will destabilise the country. Why bother with ballots anymore?
The only way out of the schism is more votes...
"I think we need a referendum on what type of leaving."
What is defined a leaving? Surely making our own rules on trade agreements and control of borders is the bare minimum. Given that, we can happily discuss the minutiae.