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  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,426
    williamglenn said:

    https://twitter.com/robdothutton/status/1084899090994003973?s=21

    Well done Jeremy. When keeping your mouth shut is the correct curse of action you can't stop the pompous verbal diarrhoea about lies discredited forty years ago.

    I would say he's he most inept politician ever, but I'm not sure he's even the most inept party leader right now.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    Foxy said:

    https://twitter.com/GuidoFawkes/status/1084900458219610113

    It looks like even the whips are revolting...

    Of all the people to wait this long to quit a whip is surely the most bizarre
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    ydoethur said:

    williamglenn said:

    https://twitter.com/robdothutton/status/1084899090994003973?s=21

    Well done Jeremy. When keeping your mouth shut is the correct curse of action you can't stop the pompous verbal diarrhoea about lies discredited forty years ago.

    I would say he's he most inept politician ever, but I'm not sure he's even the most inept party leader right now.
    The most inept politician likely to become PM? Many inept ones after their become PM of course.
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,042
    NickPalmer said:

    Black_Rook said:

    https://twitter.com/PolhomeEditor/status/1084755578436624384

    Is this actually liable to escalate into some kind of crisis or is it just the media hyperventilating? The idea of Salmond and Sturgeon getting into a full-scale catfight with one another seems somewhat improbable, though then again what do I know?


    I've incidentally always thought it odd that there's an hour of news from 5 to 6, immediately followed by half an hour of news.
    Whatever you do, don't tune in to Sky News or the BBC News Channel!

    Incidentally, I always find it odd when an infinitely long news broadcast has to cut an item short for lack of time.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,426
    kle4 said:

    ydoethur said:

    williamglenn said:

    https://twitter.com/robdothutton/status/1084899090994003973?s=21

    Well done Jeremy. When keeping your mouth shut is the correct curse of action you can't stop the pompous verbal diarrhoea about lies discredited forty years ago.

    I would say he's he most inept politician ever, but I'm not sure he's even the most inept party leader right now.
    The most inept politician likely to become PM? Many inept ones after their become PM of course.
    Ahead of Sajid Javid?
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    ydoethur said:

    kle4 said:

    ydoethur said:

    williamglenn said:

    https://twitter.com/robdothutton/status/1084899090994003973?s=21

    Well done Jeremy. When keeping your mouth shut is the correct curse of action you can't stop the pompous verbal diarrhoea about lies discredited forty years ago.

    I would say he's he most inept politician ever, but I'm not sure he's even the most inept party leader right now.
    The most inept politician likely to become PM? Many inept ones after their become PM of course.
    Ahead of Sajid Javid?
    He won't get the chance. Corbyn might.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,705
    williamglenn said:

    https://twitter.com/robdothutton/status/1084899090994003973?s=21

    Corbyn, I suspect, really does want a No Deal Brexit, and the ERG are doing their utmost to deliver it for him.

    Fortunately for us, they are opposed by Dominic Grieve who appears to be able to run parliamentary rings around them all.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,426
    edited January 2019
    kle4 said:

    ydoethur said:

    kle4 said:

    ydoethur said:

    williamglenn said:

    https://twitter.com/robdothutton/status/1084899090994003973?s=21

    Well done Jeremy. When keeping your mouth shut is the correct curse of action you can't stop the pompous verbal diarrhoea about lies discredited forty years ago.

    I would say he's he most inept politician ever, but I'm not sure he's even the most inept party leader right now.
    The most inept politician likely to become PM? Many inept ones after their become PM of course.
    Ahead of Sajid Javid?
    He won't get the chance. Corbyn might.
    Javid has a better chance than Corbyn.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,426
    edited January 2019
    Benpointer said:

    williamglenn said:

    https://twitter.com/robdothutton/status/1084899090994003973?s=21

    Corbyn, I suspect, really does want a No Deal Brexit, and the ERG are doing their utmost to deliver it for him.

    Fortunately for us, they are opposed by Dominic Grieve who appears to be able to run parliamentary rings around them all.
    That would only be fortunate if he had a constructive alternative to offer (and I say that as a great admirer of Grieve). At the moment, he hasn't..
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    edited January 2019
    Benpointer said:

    williamglenn said:

    https://twitter.com/robdothutton/status/1084899090994003973?s=21

    Corbyn, I suspect, really does want a No Deal Brexit, and the ERG are doing their utmost to deliver it for him.

    Fortunately for us, they are opposed by Dominic Grieve who appears to be able to run parliamentary rings around them all.
    Yes, duplicitous as he is (if Brexit is the biggest mistake we could ever have made he should never in a million years voted to trigger it), and as fanatical as he is, he's proven an effective statesman. Or he will, if he pulls off his dream of remain, even with the ongoing issues that will have. But he also may end up doing more than anyone to cause no deal, if his parliamentary chicanery does not work other than to prevent anything getting passed.
  • kyf_100kyf_100 Posts: 4,951
    solarflare said:

    I'm still wondering if May is just going to do a Douglas Reynholm exit 30 seconds after the vote tomorrow.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxVivkXUfdU

    I mean, not literally, just out of the British political scene.

    Let's face it, that's what Cameron did...
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,621
    Favourite band on Betfair has come down to 200-209 supporters of the Deal which implies a majority of around 205 against.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,257
    Gallowgate said:

    I must say I find Nigel Dodds's voice very relaxing.

    Funny you should say that, because so do I. It's a voice that soothes in the way that, say, 'Devious Dom' Greive's does not - and to show I'm impartial, that Boris Johnson's most certainly does not.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,871
    Gallowgate said:

    I must say I find Nigel Dodds's voice very relaxing.

    Not a sentiment often expressed about Northern Irish unionists.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 51,732
    kinabalu said:

    Gallowgate said:

    I must say I find Nigel Dodds's voice very relaxing.

    Funny you should say that, because so do I. It's a voice that soothes in the way that, say, 'Devious Dom' Greive's does not - and to show I'm impartial, that Boris Johnson's most certainly does not.
    My vote for the worst voice in parliament at the moment goes to Vicky Ford.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,871
    This thread is now OLD
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,742
    Barnesian said:

    Favourite band on Betfair has come down to 200-209 supporters of the Deal which implies a majority of around 205 against.

    326 politics has the majority of 203 against, and this little neat multiple imputation:

    https://twitter.com/326Pols/status/1084854940261064710
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