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  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 42,005
    Perhaps the root of the daily life protocols thing.

    https://twitter.com/BingoLittle75/status/1116432437633069058
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,156
    Punters have no clear idea who will win the next general election as virtually every poll predicts yet another hung parliament.

    Indeed the local and Euro elections are more likely to see both main parties facing losses to minor parties and apathy than any mid 1990s surge for Labour as Blair achieved pre 1997
  • TheWhiteRabbitTheWhiteRabbit Posts: 12,454
    Theuniondivvie said:

    Perhaps the root of the daily life protocols thing.

    https://twitter.com/BingoLittle75/status/1116432437633069058

    "Wikipedia founder" though
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 42,005
    TheWhiteRabbit said:

    Theuniondivvie said:

    Perhaps the root of the daily life protocols thing.

    https://twitter.com/BingoLittle75/status/1116432437633069058

    "Wikipedia founder" though
    Jimmy will be ragin'.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    Frankly the polling looks more believable to me now, but level pegging on winning most seats does not seem unreasonable. My main reason, longstanding and even more relevant now, is that in any GE I struggle to believe the Tory vote will be as motivated as the Labour vote, particularly if as seems likely a GE occurs anytime before 2022.

    On Assange, granted it is just a prepared statement, but the Ecuadorian president really did seem pissed off when describing the situation.
    https://twitter.com/Lenin/status/1116271659512684544
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 54,628
    TheWhiteRabbit said:

    Theuniondivvie said:

    Perhaps the root of the daily life protocols thing.

    https://twitter.com/BingoLittle75/status/1116432437633069058

    "Wikipedia founder" though
    Jimmy Wales will be mightily upset at that suggestion!!
  • DruttDrutt Posts: 1,124
    edited April 2019
    ROCKET NEWS: Elon tweets that wind shear is high and unless it drops then the launch is prolly off.

    Another extension, then.



    Edit 1 Wait, am I watching yesterday's tweets overlaid on on today's pics?
    Edit 2 Yes. ROCKETS ARE STILL GO!
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,156
    Theuniondivvie said:

    Perhaps the root of the daily life protocols thing.

    https://twitter.com/BingoLittle75/status/1116432437633069058

    He has effectively imposed an 8 year sentence on himself through choice, had he faced the music he would probably have been out after a year
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    https://twitter.com/davieclegg/status/1116439280510033920
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/1116440109564534785
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,156
    edited April 2019
    Scott_P said:

    https://twitter.com/davieclegg/status/1116439280510033920

    Except in the absence of a No Deal Brexit it is hard to see much polling evidence for Yes getting over 50% and Sturgeon is dithering almost as much as May
  • edmundintokyoedmundintokyo Posts: 17,708
    If there was an election now I think Lab would win it: Assuming they won on a Cameronesque renegotiate+referendum, Remain fans would mostly suck it up and vote for them where it counted, whereas Brexit enthusiasts are seriously miffed at the government so it's hard to see them being tactical.

    However, the problem with the bet is that the Tories are somewhat in control of when the next election happens, and they won't call one unless they either think they'll win it - most likely because they get a new leader - or they completely run out of road.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,293
    Theuniondivvie said:

    Perhaps the root of the daily life protocols thing.

    https://twitter.com/BingoLittle75/status/1116432437633069058

    Dirty ******* :D
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 54,628
    edited April 2019
    Drutt said:

    ROCKET NEWS: Elon tweets that wind shear is high and unless it drops then the launch is prolly off.

    Another extension, then.



    Edit 1 Wait, am I watching yesterday's tweets overlaid on on today's pics?
    Edit 2 Yes. ROCKETS ARE STILL GO!

    Looks like they’re gonna go through the motions again before scrubbing, same as yesterday.

    Launch window is 22:35-00:31GMT, no sign of a countdown clock yet though.

    Edit: The Israelis also came damn close to putting a lander on the moon tonight, great effort from them but sadly the landing was uncontrolled after a systems failure a couple of minutes from touchdown.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,426
    Sandpit said:

    TheWhiteRabbit said:

    Theuniondivvie said:

    Perhaps the root of the daily life protocols thing.

    https://twitter.com/BingoLittle75/status/1116432437633069058

    "Wikipedia founder" though
    Jimmy Wales will be mightily upset at that suggestion!!
    He'll blow something...
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1116443005509087247
  • rpjsrpjs Posts: 3,787
    Sandpit said:

    Drutt said:

    ROCKET NEWS: Elon tweets that wind shear is high and unless it drops then the launch is prolly off.

    Another extension, then.



    Edit 1 Wait, am I watching yesterday's tweets overlaid on on today's pics?
    Edit 2 Yes. ROCKETS ARE STILL GO!

    Looks like they’re gonna go through the motions again before scrubbing, same as yesterday.

    Launch window is 22:35-00:31GMT, no sign of a countdown clock yet though.

    Edit: The Israelis also came damn close to putting a lander on the moon tonight, great effort from them but sadly the landing was uncontrolled after a systems failure a couple of minutes from touchdown.
    https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1116442323477381120
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1116445135120867328
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,133
    TheWhiteRabbit said:

    Theuniondivvie said:

    Perhaps the root of the daily life protocols thing.

    https://twitter.com/BingoLittle75/status/1116432437633069058

    "Wikipedia founder" though
    Somebody needs to do a correction sharpish.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,293
    Scott_P said:

    https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1116443005509087247

    Theresa may regret telling MPs to go away and "reflect" over Easter.

    On reflection they may all decide that times up for Mrs May! :D
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,133
    As slow to the new thread as somebody leaving an embassy after 7 years exile.....
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,133
    GIN1138 said:

    Scott_P said:

    https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1116443005509087247

    Theresa may regret telling MPs to go away and "reflect" over Easter.

    On reflection they may all decide that times up for Mrs May! :D
    The current lot of tories seem as useless as the labour mps in gordo time...they couldnt organize a coup either. There were two things you could count on with the tories, sensible business friendly economic policies and being able to knife a useless leader...they aint much on either front these days .
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,133
    Scott_P said:

    https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1116445135120867328

    Cant be long until there is some conspiracy theory floated that that isnt the real julian.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 51,720
    https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1116424423953903616
  • dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,300
    This might have to explained very carefully to Corbyn and Abbott. https://twitter.com/LordCFalconer/status/1116435813838073856
  • DruttDrutt Posts: 1,124
    Sandpit said:

    Drutt said:

    ROCKET NEWS: Elon tweets that wind shear is high and unless it drops then the launch is prolly off.

    Another extension, then.



    Edit 1 Wait, am I watching yesterday's tweets overlaid on on today's pics?
    Edit 2 Yes. ROCKETS ARE STILL GO!

    Looks like they’re gonna go through the motions again before scrubbing, same as yesterday.

    Launch window is 22:35-00:31GMT, no sign of a countdown clock yet though.

    Edit: The Israelis also came damn close to putting a lander on the moon tonight, great effort from them but sadly the landing was uncontrolled after a systems failure a couple of minutes from touchdown.
    Yes, rotten luck. The failure was the space equivalent of having the computer restart and install all its updates just as you're printing everything for an important meeting in ten minutes.

    Except on land you have to make five minutes of excuses and in space your four-hundred-million shekel spacecraft lawndarts into the Sea of Tranquillity at 300mph.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,217
    Decent ratio for Jezza on his tweet to be fair. Assange sounds like a shitty house guest but Corbyn has struck a chord with his implied concern about what many particularly on the left see as an overmighty US extradition system.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,293
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    GIN1138 said:

    Scott_P said:

    https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1116443005509087247

    Theresa may regret telling MPs to go away and "reflect" over Easter.

    On reflection they may all decide that times up for Mrs May! :D
    The current lot of tories seem as useless as the labour mps in gordo time...they couldnt organize a coup either. There were two things you could count on with the tories, sensible business friendly economic policies and being able to knife a useless leader...they aint much on either front these days .
    Tories have lose their ruthlessness haven't they?

    I blame the Posh Boys! :D
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    edited April 2019
    Good to see Corbyn sticking up for Assange. The first time I've said anything positive about Jezza.
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1116447656346300417
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    https://twitter.com/MattCartoonist/status/1116380453144027136
  • DruttDrutt Posts: 1,124
    dr_spyn said:

    This might have to explained very carefully to Corbyn and Abbott. https://twitter.com/LordCFalconer/status/1116435813838073856

    He'll have to resign for that...
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    AndyJS said:

    Good to see Corbyn sticking up for Assange. The first time I've said anything positive about Jezza.

    Seems like a matter for the courts to me, I don't see what it has to do with politicians at this stage. But Corbyn obviously sees political mileage in blaming the government for the criminal justice system.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 54,628
    Pulpstar said:

    Decent ratio for Jezza on his tweet to be fair. Assange sounds like a shitty house guest but Corbyn has struck a chord with his implied concern about what many particularly on the left see as an overmighty US extradition system.

    Except that the USA wasn't involved in the Assange case until today - everything up until now has been related to his charge of sexual assault in Sweden and of being unlawfully at large in the UK.

    Oh, and Corbyn voted for that overmighty US extradition treaty, when the government of his party proposed it.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    As slow to the new thread as somebody leaving an embassy after 7 years exile.....

    Did you leave the old thread covered in poo?
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,293
    Pulpstar said:

    Decent ratio for Jezza on his tweet to be fair. Assange sounds like a shitty house guest but Corbyn has struck a chord with his implied concern about what many particularly on the left see as an overmighty US extradition system.

    HMG will be hoping Sweden renews their extradition request and the extradition to America can then become someone elses problem! :D
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    17 consecutive leads for the Canadian Conservatives.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_in_the_2019_Canadian_federal_election#Pre-campaign_period
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    Scott_P said:

    https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1116445135120867328

    What is the possible range of sentence here? One toward the upper end of the range seems warranted given the circumstances, though no doubt some people will try to claim the personally inflicted hardships he has suffered to date make that unfair, or the unrelated extradition request make it unfair.
  • solarflaresolarflare Posts: 3,710
    I think its pretty difficult to make any serious prediction for the next GE result without a clear idea of how many seats the new post-Brexit-fragmentation parties end up standing in.

    If we did have nationwide CHUK and Brexit Party candidates and UKIP's still a cohesive (ish) entity then that election could be a very different kettle of fish to Labour v Conservative with Lib Dem trying to get in on the act, but at the moment a lot of the polling for these new parties is a sort of hypothetical, not-entirely-concrete basis.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,217
    Sandpit said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Decent ratio for Jezza on his tweet to be fair. Assange sounds like a shitty house guest but Corbyn has struck a chord with his implied concern about what many particularly on the left see as an overmighty US extradition system.

    Except that the USA wasn't involved in the Assange case until today - everything up until now has been related to his charge of sexual assault in Sweden and of being unlawfully at large in the UK.

    Oh, and Corbyn voted for that overmighty US extradition treaty, when the government of his party proposed it.
    The Swedish details and shit smearing won't be the story when he is in the supermax with Chelsea
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    Pulpstar said:

    Decent ratio for Jezza on his tweet to be fair. Assange sounds like a shitty house guest but Corbyn has struck a chord with his implied concern about what many particularly on the left see as an overmighty US extradition system.

    Oh, I'm sure it will not be an entirely unpopular decision. The americans are after him. That he jumped bail on an extradition to sweden on unrelated matters will be conveniently forgotten by politicians and easily forgotten by the public.
  • rpjsrpjs Posts: 3,787
    Scott_P said:

    https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1116447656346300417

    Doesn’t there need to be another SI to update the exit day in the EUWA at some point before Friday?
  • Danny565Danny565 Posts: 8,091
    edited April 2019
    LMAO at the BBC 10pm news airing a Merseyside vox-pop with an "ordinary local businessman", who tells us that politicians should just pass May's deal, and neglecting to mention that said ordinary local businessman was also....an official Tory candidate at the 2017 election.

    What a joke.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 51,884
    kle4 said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Decent ratio for Jezza on his tweet to be fair. Assange sounds like a shitty house guest but Corbyn has struck a chord with his implied concern about what many particularly on the left see as an overmighty US extradition system.

    Oh, I'm sure it will not be an entirely unpopular decision. The americans are after him. That he jumped bail on an extradition to sweden on unrelated matters will be conveniently forgotten by politicians and easily forgotten by the public.
    Assange took refuge in the embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault case that has since been dropped.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47891737
  • brendan16brendan16 Posts: 2,315
    AndyJS said:

    17 consecutive leads for the Canadian Conservatives.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_in_the_2019_Canadian_federal_election#Pre-campaign_period

    Just as we appear to drop Brexit it looks like a very UK friendly Canadian Tory government may be elected by the year end. Scheer and co even back Canzuk in principle - a free trade plus freedom of movement deal with the UK, Australia and NZ. Well it does get cold in Ottawa!
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 54,628
    edited April 2019
    kle4 said:

    Scott_P said:

    https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1116445135120867328

    What is the possible range of sentence here? One toward the upper end of the range seems warranted given the circumstances, though no doubt some people will try to claim the personally inflicted hardships he has suffered to date make that unfair, or the unrelated extradition request make it unfair.
    He’s facing a year for jumping bail, plus however long the extradition warrants take to get finally decided and appealed, probably all the way to the Supreme Court and Home Secretary. No judge is going to bail him in the meantime, for obvious reasons. Three more years in the British big house, maybe, if he’s lucky.

    He’ll be in the “proper” prison too, not the white-collar open prison. He’s a Grade A escape risk, having the means and ability to get out if there was an opportunity to be taken.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    Danny565 said:

    LMAO at the BBC 10pm news airing a vox-pop with an "ordinary local businessman", who informs us that politicians should just "get behind May's deal", and neglecting to mention that said ordinary local businessman was also....an official Tory candidate at the 2017 election.

    What a joke.

    Probably trying to make it up to Tories who have complained about various 'ordinary' people interviewed on various matters who turn out to be official campaigners for some Labour policy or whatever. They moan about that all the time, I cannot say I've bothered to check how often the complaint is true.
    rpjs said:

    Scott_P said:

    https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1116447656346300417

    Doesn’t there need to be another SI to update the exit day in the EUWA at some point before Friday?
    I think someone said Lords amendments to Cooper-Letwin meant that was not necessary.
  • RogerRoger Posts: 19,914
    Pulpstar said:

    Decent ratio for Jezza on his tweet to be fair. Assange sounds like a shitty house guest but Corbyn has struck a chord with his implied concern about what many particularly on the left see as an overmighty US extradition system.

    A journalist blowing the whistle on illegal assassinations by the US military is quite a powerful argument. Corbyn's growing on me
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,217
    kle4 said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Decent ratio for Jezza on his tweet to be fair. Assange sounds like a shitty house guest but Corbyn has struck a chord with his implied concern about what many particularly on the left see as an overmighty US extradition system.

    Oh, I'm sure it will not be an entirely unpopular decision. The americans are after him. That he jumped bail on an extradition to sweden on unrelated matters will be conveniently forgotten by politicians and easily forgotten by the public.
    A very thick decision, he should have headed to Sweden to face justice then probably got the first plane to Moscow on release (If you're in a position like Snowden or Assange, Putin is probably about your best bet!)
    Smaller countries like Ecuador will always swing between pro US and anti US Governments so eventually your luck will run out.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,293
    AndyJS said:

    17 consecutive leads for the Canadian Conservatives.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_in_the_2019_Canadian_federal_election#Pre-campaign_period

    More than we'll be able to say about UK the Conservative Party anytime soon...
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    Sunil_Prasannan said:

    kle4 said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Decent ratio for Jezza on his tweet to be fair. Assange sounds like a shitty house guest but Corbyn has struck a chord with his implied concern about what many particularly on the left see as an overmighty US extradition system.

    Oh, I'm sure it will not be an entirely unpopular decision. The americans are after him. That he jumped bail on an extradition to sweden on unrelated matters will be conveniently forgotten by politicians and easily forgotten by the public.
    Assange took refuge in the embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault case that has since been dropped.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47891737
    What's your point? Unless and until Sweden restarts things most people will be focusing on the extradition possibilities, as Labour indeed did.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,133
    edited April 2019
    Roger said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Decent ratio for Jezza on his tweet to be fair. Assange sounds like a shitty house guest but Corbyn has struck a chord with his implied concern about what many particularly on the left see as an overmighty US extradition system.

    A journalist blowing the whistle on illegal assassinations by the US military is quite a powerful argument. Corbyn's growing on me
    You not in the slightest concerned that Jules appears to be very closely linked to Putin and all the info that was hacked was passed to him in order to aid Trump campaign against Clinton?
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    GIN1138 said:

    AndyJS said:

    17 consecutive leads for the Canadian Conservatives.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_in_the_2019_Canadian_federal_election#Pre-campaign_period

    More than we'll be able to say about UK the Conservative Party anytime soon...
    It's still very difficult to say which of the main two parties will get most votes at both the local elections and the Euro elections, which makes those elections all the more interesting.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,293
    edited April 2019
    Roger said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Decent ratio for Jezza on his tweet to be fair. Assange sounds like a shitty house guest but Corbyn has struck a chord with his implied concern about what many particularly on the left see as an overmighty US extradition system.

    A journalist blowing the whistle on illegal assassinations by the US military is quite a powerful argument. Corbyn's growing on me
    I'd have thought you'd be against Assange just on principle that he's supposedly been smearing shit on walls in the Ecuadorian Embassy...

    I mean talk about common as muck... :D
  • Danny565Danny565 Posts: 8,091
    edited April 2019
    kle4 said:

    Danny565 said:

    LMAO at the BBC 10pm news airing a vox-pop with an "ordinary local businessman", who informs us that politicians should just "get behind May's deal", and neglecting to mention that said ordinary local businessman was also....an official Tory candidate at the 2017 election.

    What a joke.

    Probably trying to make it up to Tories who have complained about various 'ordinary' people interviewed on various matters who turn out to be official campaigners for some Labour policy or whatever. They moan about that all the time, I cannot say I've bothered to check how often the complaint is true.
    I mean, sure, journalists can't be expected to trawl through every tweet someone has ever made to check they're not biased towards one party. But in the case of "local businessman" Tony Caldeira, it would've taken the BBC's researchers about 5 seconds:

    https://twitter.com/tony4ww/with_replies?lang=en
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    edited April 2019
    GIN1138 said:

    AndyJS said:

    17 consecutive leads for the Canadian Conservatives.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_in_the_2019_Canadian_federal_election#Pre-campaign_period

    More than we'll be able to say about UK the Conservative Party anytime soon...
    Probably not, but they had 17 consectuive leads or at least ties which ended less than a month ago, and 11 consecutive leads in that time. Things change quickly, especially when you consider it is not as though the Tories were in a comfortable place from mid january to mid march 2019.
  • AxiomaticAxiomatic Posts: 21
    With Corbyn's latest remarks on Assange, adopting the SWP position, and deeply antagonising our major ally, this mild centrist is provoked to ask: what does Corbyn have to do to get "dealt with" by MI6?

    If there is a clear and present danger to the UK, it is not Brexit (which I dislike intensely), it is Corbyn. It is therefore the job of the Deep State to remove him from the picture. The fact Corbyn sails towards power tells us that 1. the idea of a Deep State is a myth, and 2. MI6 must be staffed by inept and cowardly idiots who couldn't assassinate a chicken stuck in a shoebox.

  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Danny565 said:

    LMAO at the BBC 10pm news airing a Merseyside vox-pop with an "ordinary local businessman", who tells us that politicians should just pass May's deal, and neglecting to mention that said ordinary local businessman was also....an official Tory candidate at the 2017 election.

    What a joke.

    A Tory candidate in Knowsley, Labour's safest seat? I thought they didn't exist.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,293
    edited April 2019
    AndyJS said:

    GIN1138 said:

    AndyJS said:

    17 consecutive leads for the Canadian Conservatives.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_in_the_2019_Canadian_federal_election#Pre-campaign_period

    More than we'll be able to say about UK the Conservative Party anytime soon...
    It's still very difficult to say which of the main two parties will get most votes at both the local elections and the Euro elections, which makes those elections all the more interesting.
    Locals will be a very strong Labour win (10%+) Con in freefall.

    EU elections much more difficult to predict but Con will face an absolute pummeling whatever else happens...
  • CyclefreeCyclefree Posts: 25,318
    edmundintokyo said:

    If there was an election now I think Lab would win it: Assuming they won on a Cameronesque renegotiate+referendum, Remain fans would mostly suck it up and vote for them where it counted, whereas Brexit enthusiasts are seriously miffed at the government so it's hard to see them being tactical.

    However, the problem with the bet is that the Tories are somewhat in control of when the next election happens, and they won't call one unless they either think they'll win it - most likely because they get a new leader - or they completely run out of road.

    Huge assumption there - that the EU would renegotiate and that Labour would offer a referendum with Remain as a choice.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    edited April 2019
    I feel like the only person who doesn't care if Assange is extradited or not. Seems like quite a few people out there are eager to use him as a proxy to express their dislike of american policy and that's the only thing that matters. It just doesn't seem like a political issue to me until the court process plays out and it lands on the Home Secretary of the day's desk. Granted there's interesting speculation based on who that might be, but it's all a bit jumping the gun
    Axiomatic said:

    With Corbyn's latest remarks on Assange, adopting the SWP position, and deeply antagonising our major ally, this mild centrist is provoked to ask: what does Corbyn have to do to get "dealt with" by MI6?

    If there is a clear and present danger to the UK, it is not Brexit (which I dislike intensely), it is Corbyn. It is therefore the job of the Deep State to remove him from the picture. The fact Corbyn sails towards power tells us that 1. the idea of a Deep State is a myth, and 2. MI6 must be staffed by inept and cowardly idiots who couldn't assassinate a chicken stuck in a shoebox.

    The deep state is a myth, but I would be wary of even in jest talking of politicians being 'dealt with'.
  • RogerRoger Posts: 19,914
    GIN1138 said:

    Roger said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Decent ratio for Jezza on his tweet to be fair. Assange sounds like a shitty house guest but Corbyn has struck a chord with his implied concern about what many particularly on the left see as an overmighty US extradition system.

    A journalist blowing the whistle on illegal assassinations by the US military is quite a powerful argument. Corbyn's growing on me
    I'd have thought you'd be against Assange just on principle that he's supposedly been smearing shit on walls in the Ecuadorian Embassy...

    I mean talk about common as muck... :D
    That made me laugh! Nothing wrong with being shallow.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,737
    GIN1138 said:

    AndyJS said:

    17 consecutive leads for the Canadian Conservatives.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_in_the_2019_Canadian_federal_election#Pre-campaign_period

    More than we'll be able to say about UK the Conservative Party anytime soon...
    On that subject:

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1116452301806481410?s=19
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    edited April 2019
    Cyclefree said:

    edmundintokyo said:

    If there was an election now I think Lab would win it: Assuming they won on a Cameronesque renegotiate+referendum, Remain fans would mostly suck it up and vote for them where it counted, whereas Brexit enthusiasts are seriously miffed at the government so it's hard to see them being tactical.

    However, the problem with the bet is that the Tories are somewhat in control of when the next election happens, and they won't call one unless they either think they'll win it - most likely because they get a new leader - or they completely run out of road.

    Huge assumption there - that the EU would renegotiate and that Labour would offer a referendum with Remain as a choice.
    Of course they would offer it with remain as a choice. The whole point of a referendum is to remain. It's about people having changed their minds and all that.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,293
    Axiomatic said:

    With Corbyn's latest remarks on Assange, adopting the SWP position, and deeply antagonising our major ally, this mild centrist is provoked to ask: what does Corbyn have to do to get "dealt with" by MI6?

    If there is a clear and present danger to the UK, it is not Brexit (which I dislike intensely), it is Corbyn. It is therefore the job of the Deep State to remove him from the picture. The fact Corbyn sails towards power tells us that 1. the idea of a Deep State is a myth, and 2. MI6 must be staffed by inept and cowardly idiots who couldn't assassinate a chicken stuck in a shoebox.

    :open_mouth:
  • AxiomaticAxiomatic Posts: 21
    GIN1138 said:

    AndyJS said:

    GIN1138 said:

    AndyJS said:

    17 consecutive leads for the Canadian Conservatives.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_in_the_2019_Canadian_federal_election#Pre-campaign_period

    More than we'll be able to say about UK the Conservative Party anytime soon...
    It's still very difficult to say which of the main two parties will get most votes at both the local elections and the Euro elections, which makes those elections all the more interesting.
    Locals will be a very strong Labour win (10%+) Con in freefall.

    EU elections much more difficult to predict but Con will face an absolute pummeling whatever else happens...
    My local semi-rural Conservative area is the same from what I am hearing. Everyone is going to vote for Brexit parties, or they will abstain.
    I think the Tories face total annihilation. It will be a complete humiliation and politically shocking. Theresa May will be forced out shortly after? I think probably yes.
  • Ishmael_ZIshmael_Z Posts: 8,981
    Axiomatic said:

    With Corbyn's latest remarks on Assange, adopting the SWP position, and deeply antagonising our major ally, this mild centrist is provoked to ask: what does Corbyn have to do to get "dealt with" by MI6?

    If there is a clear and present danger to the UK, it is not Brexit (which I dislike intensely), it is Corbyn. It is therefore the job of the Deep State to remove him from the picture. The fact Corbyn sails towards power tells us that 1. the idea of a Deep State is a myth, and 2. MI6 must be staffed by inept and cowardly idiots who couldn't assassinate a chicken stuck in a shoebox.

    MI5, unless they take him out on an overseas wreath - laying jaunt.

    And just be patient.
  • CyclefreeCyclefree Posts: 25,318
    Pulpstar said:

    Decent ratio for Jezza on his tweet to be fair. Assange sounds like a shitty house guest but Corbyn has struck a chord with his implied concern about what many particularly on the left see as an overmighty US extradition system.

    AndyJS said:

    Good to see Corbyn sticking up for Assange. The first time I've said anything positive about Jezza.

    Save that we established on the previous thread that Corbyn voted for the Extradition Act which implemented the US-UK extradition treaty. There were lots of people campaigning against it precisely because of its overmighty reach but Corbyn was not one of them.
  • MikeSmithsonMikeSmithson Posts: 7,382
    Roger said:

    GIN1138 said:

    Roger said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Decent ratio for Jezza on his tweet to be fair. Assange sounds like a shitty house guest but Corbyn has struck a chord with his implied concern about what many particularly on the left see as an overmighty US extradition system.

    A journalist blowing the whistle on illegal assassinations by the US military is quite a powerful argument. Corbyn's growing on me
    I'd have thought you'd be against Assange just on principle that he's supposedly been smearing shit on walls in the Ecuadorian Embassy...

    I mean talk about common as muck... :D
    That made me laugh! Nothing wrong with being shallow.
    Come on. Cut the crap guys
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    AndyJS said:

    Danny565 said:

    LMAO at the BBC 10pm news airing a Merseyside vox-pop with an "ordinary local businessman", who tells us that politicians should just pass May's deal, and neglecting to mention that said ordinary local businessman was also....an official Tory candidate at the 2017 election.

    What a joke.

    A Tory candidate in Knowsley, Labour's safest seat? I thought they didn't exist.
    Hey, they have lept to second place in the seat now, so it is practically a target seat.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,737
    Cyclefree said:

    edmundintokyo said:

    If there was an election now I think Lab would win it: Assuming they won on a Cameronesque renegotiate+referendum, Remain fans would mostly suck it up and vote for them where it counted, whereas Brexit enthusiasts are seriously miffed at the government so it's hard to see them being tactical.

    However, the problem with the bet is that the Tories are somewhat in control of when the next election happens, and they won't call one unless they either think they'll win it - most likely because they get a new leader - or they completely run out of road.

    Huge assumption there - that the EU would renegotiate and that Labour would offer a referendum with Remain as a choice.
    The WA is closed, but a different PD is very likely under Labour.

    Indeed with CU, and close alignment locked into consumer, environmental and workers rights I could live with it. Clearly inferior to full membership, but streets ahead of Boris Britain.
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    edited April 2019
    Newsnight:

    Baroness Kennedy (Labour): difficult to know whether Assange can get a fair trial in the US.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,217
    Axiomatic said:

    With Corbyn's latest remarks on Assange, adopting the SWP position, and deeply antagonising our major ally, this mild centrist is provoked to ask: what does Corbyn have to do to get "dealt with" by MI6?

    If there is a clear and present danger to the UK, it is not Brexit (which I dislike intensely), it is Corbyn. It is therefore the job of the Deep State to remove him from the picture. The fact Corbyn sails towards power tells us that 1. the idea of a Deep State is a myth, and 2. MI6 must be staffed by inept and cowardly idiots who couldn't assassinate a chicken stuck in a shoebox.

    I think if Labour win the most seats, a confirmatory referendum on Corbyn will be in order.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,737
    MikeSmithson said:

    Roger said:

    GIN1138 said:

    Roger said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Decent ratio for Jezza on his tweet to be fair. Assange sounds like a shitty house guest but Corbyn has struck a chord with his implied concern about what many particularly on the left see as an overmighty US extradition system.

    A journalist blowing the whistle on illegal assassinations by the US military is quite a powerful argument. Corbyn's growing on me
    I'd have thought you'd be against Assange just on principle that he's supposedly been smearing shit on walls in the Ecuadorian Embassy...

    I mean talk about common as muck... :D
    That made me laugh! Nothing wrong with being shallow.
    Come on. Cut the crap guys
    Yeah, leave the stool pigeon alone.
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 26,624
    Axiomatic said:

    GIN1138 said:

    AndyJS said:

    GIN1138 said:

    AndyJS said:

    17 consecutive leads for the Canadian Conservatives.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_in_the_2019_Canadian_federal_election#Pre-campaign_period

    More than we'll be able to say about UK the Conservative Party anytime soon...
    It's still very difficult to say which of the main two parties will get most votes at both the local elections and the Euro elections, which makes those elections all the more interesting.
    Locals will be a very strong Labour win (10%+) Con in freefall.

    EU elections much more difficult to predict but Con will face an absolute pummeling whatever else happens...
    My local semi-rural Conservative area is the same from what I am hearing. Everyone is going to vote for Brexit parties, or they will abstain.
    I think the Tories face total annihilation. It will be a complete humiliation and politically shocking. Theresa May will be forced out shortly after? I think probably yes.
    And then what ?

    Until the WA is passed we stay in the EU.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    Cyclefree said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Decent ratio for Jezza on his tweet to be fair. Assange sounds like a shitty house guest but Corbyn has struck a chord with his implied concern about what many particularly on the left see as an overmighty US extradition system.

    AndyJS said:

    Good to see Corbyn sticking up for Assange. The first time I've said anything positive about Jezza.

    Save that we established on the previous thread that Corbyn voted for the Extradition Act which implemented the US-UK extradition treaty. There were lots of people campaigning against it precisely because of its overmighty reach but Corbyn was not one of them.
    It will be very interesting if that point can be made to stick. It does seem hard to object to the principle of the apparently over generous to the US extradition treaty if he supported it himself. Did he not know what he was doing? Even if we believe that, he was far from shy from speaking his mind and voting his own way if he disagreed with his party, so when he votes for something one has to assume he backed it, not that he was just being a loyal soldier.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,293
    MikeSmithson said:

    Roger said:

    GIN1138 said:

    Roger said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Decent ratio for Jezza on his tweet to be fair. Assange sounds like a shitty house guest but Corbyn has struck a chord with his implied concern about what many particularly on the left see as an overmighty US extradition system.

    A journalist blowing the whistle on illegal assassinations by the US military is quite a powerful argument. Corbyn's growing on me
    I'd have thought you'd be against Assange just on principle that he's supposedly been smearing shit on walls in the Ecuadorian Embassy...

    I mean talk about common as muck... :D
    That made me laugh! Nothing wrong with being shallow.
    Come on. Cut the crap guys
    ;)
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    New party registered with the Electoral Commission, Progressive People's Party - a better name than ChangeUK?
  • AxiomaticAxiomatic Posts: 21
    kle4 said:

    I feel like the only person who doesn't care if Assange is extradited or not. Seems like quite a few people out there are eager to use him as a proxy to express their dislike of american policy and that's the only thing that matters. It just doesn't seem like a political issue to me until the court process plays out and it lands on the Home Secretary of the day's desk. Granted there's interesting speculation based on who that might be, but it's all a bit jumping the gun

    Axiomatic said:

    With Corbyn's latest remarks on Assange, adopting the SWP position, and deeply antagonising our major ally, this mild centrist is provoked to ask: what does Corbyn have to do to get "dealt with" by MI6?

    If there is a clear and present danger to the UK, it is not Brexit (which I dislike intensely), it is Corbyn. It is therefore the job of the Deep State to remove him from the picture. The fact Corbyn sails towards power tells us that 1. the idea of a Deep State is a myth, and 2. MI6 must be staffed by inept and cowardly idiots who couldn't assassinate a chicken stuck in a shoebox.

    The deep state is a myth, but I would be wary of even in jest talking of politicians being 'dealt with'.
    I thought it was obvious i was parodying the paranoid views of the Corbynite left, which believes that there is some massive conspiracy to do him down, up to and including threats to his life. Evidently this is not the case or he would have been despatched months ago by a 007 hit squad, infecting him with some weird fungal disease, presumably picked up from his allotment

    i am sorry if I alarmed anyone!!

    The advance of Corbyn could be seen as a tribute to British democracy, I suppose. although I confess I am looking in the Silver Linings Playbook here.



  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    Axiomatic said:

    kle4 said:

    I feel like the only person who doesn't care if Assange is extradited or not. Seems like quite a few people out there are eager to use him as a proxy to express their dislike of american policy and that's the only thing that matters. It just doesn't seem like a political issue to me until the court process plays out and it lands on the Home Secretary of the day's desk. Granted there's interesting speculation based on who that might be, but it's all a bit jumping the gun

    Axiomatic said:

    With Corbyn's latest remarks on Assange, adopting the SWP position, and deeply antagonising our major ally, this mild centrist is provoked to ask: what does Corbyn have to do to get "dealt with" by MI6?

    If there is a clear and present danger to the UK, it is not Brexit (which I dislike intensely), it is Corbyn. It is therefore the job of the Deep State to remove him from the picture. The fact Corbyn sails towards power tells us that 1. the idea of a Deep State is a myth, and 2. MI6 must be staffed by inept and cowardly idiots who couldn't assassinate a chicken stuck in a shoebox.

    The deep state is a myth, but I would be wary of even in jest talking of politicians being 'dealt with'.
    I thought it was obvious i was parodying the paranoid views of the Corbynite left,


    That's why I said 'even in jest' - too close to some real beliefs out there!
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1116455237886328832
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,737
    AndyJS said:

    Newsnight:

    Baroness Kennedy (Labour): difficult to know whether Assange can get a fair trial in the US.

    I think that a genuine issue, and by the look of him his mental and physical condition has deteriated to the point that he needs medical and psychological assessment first.

    Sure he blew the whistle on some dodgy atrocities, but he also leaked a lot of other stuff that was quite malicious concerning our intelligence gathering.
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Scott_P said:

    https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1116455237886328832

    I thought it was 5 years max?
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 54,628
    Danny565 said:

    kle4 said:

    Danny565 said:

    LMAO at the BBC 10pm news airing a vox-pop with an "ordinary local businessman", who informs us that politicians should just "get behind May's deal", and neglecting to mention that said ordinary local businessman was also....an official Tory candidate at the 2017 election.

    What a joke.

    Probably trying to make it up to Tories who have complained about various 'ordinary' people interviewed on various matters who turn out to be official campaigners for some Labour policy or whatever. They moan about that all the time, I cannot say I've bothered to check how often the complaint is true.
    I mean, sure, journalists can't be expected to trawl through every tweet someone has ever made to check they're not biased towards one party. But in the case of "local businessman" Tony Caldeira, it would've taken the BBC's researchers about 5 seconds:

    https://twitter.com/tony4ww/with_replies?lang=en
    But journalists are quite happy to trawl through every Tweet of a young actress who just got her big break taken away:
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6911599/Emmerdale-EXCLUSIVE-Shila-Iqbal-FIRED-using-N-word.html

    And much more seriously, of the woman who's just been elected chairperson of the Students' Union. MI5 will have a large file on her.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2019/04/10/new-nus-president-has-said-thatshe-wanted-oppress-white-people/
  • CyclefreeCyclefree Posts: 25,318
    Roger said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Decent ratio for Jezza on his tweet to be fair. Assange sounds like a shitty house guest but Corbyn has struck a chord with his implied concern about what many particularly on the left see as an overmighty US extradition system.

    A journalist blowing the whistle on illegal assassinations by the US military is quite a powerful argument. Corbyn's growing on me

    So you’re willing to overlook the rape allegations against Assange, his refusal to answer questions from the Swedish authorities or the plight of the women allegedly assaulted by him.

    One should no longer be surprised at the way that some people utterly disregard alleged crimes against women when the alleged perpetrator is a favourite of theirs. Disgusted certainly - but not surprised.


    Do a little more research on Assange, his willingness to co-operate with the Russian authorities, with Holocaust deniers, his claims that he is facing a Jewish conspiracy against him (no I don’t understand what he’s on about either), the reasons why Trump was praising him at one point. He’s not quite the hero you or Corbyn imagine.
  • edmundintokyoedmundintokyo Posts: 17,708
    Cyclefree said:

    edmundintokyo said:

    If there was an election now I think Lab would win it: Assuming they won on a Cameronesque renegotiate+referendum, Remain fans would mostly suck it up and vote for them where it counted, whereas Brexit enthusiasts are seriously miffed at the government so it's hard to see them being tactical.

    However, the problem with the bet is that the Tories are somewhat in control of when the next election happens, and they won't call one unless they either think they'll win it - most likely because they get a new leader - or they completely run out of road.

    Huge assumption there - that the EU would renegotiate and that Labour would offer a referendum with Remain as a choice.
    I didn't say the EU would renegotiate, I said Labour would run on renegotiating.
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    As a legal observation, the charges Assange is facing in Sweden would probably not count as rape in most countries, (while not wishing to minimise the alleged offences themselves).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Swedish_sexual_assault_allegations
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,821
    edited April 2019
    AndyJS said:

    Newsnight:

    Baroness Kennedy (Labour): difficult to know whether Assange can get a fair trial in the US.

    She's probably right. I do wonder though whether she was as concerned about whether the NatWest Three - extradited under the Labour government's Extradition Act 2003 which presumably will apply in Assange's case - could get a fair trial in the US.
  • CyclefreeCyclefree Posts: 25,318
    kle4 said:

    Cyclefree said:

    edmundintokyo said:

    If there was an election now I think Lab would win it: Assuming they won on a Cameronesque renegotiate+referendum, Remain fans would mostly suck it up and vote for them where it counted, whereas Brexit enthusiasts are seriously miffed at the government so it's hard to see them being tactical.

    However, the problem with the bet is that the Tories are somewhat in control of when the next election happens, and they won't call one unless they either think they'll win it - most likely because they get a new leader - or they completely run out of road.

    Huge assumption there - that the EU would renegotiate and that Labour would offer a referendum with Remain as a choice.
    Of course they would offer it with remain as a choice. The whole point of a referendum is to remain. It's about people having changed their minds and all that.
    You seem very certain. i have only ever heard Labour talk about a “confirmatory referendum” which sounds like weasel words to me.
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    HYUFD said:

    Punters have no clear idea who will win the next general election as virtually every poll predicts yet another hung parliament.

    Indeed the local and Euro elections are more likely to see both main parties facing losses to minor parties and apathy than any mid 1990s surge for Labour as Blair achieved pre 1997

    Lay hung parliament is the bet, if previous hypothetical long term polls are any guide
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    AndyJS said:

    As a legal observation, the charges Assange is facing in Sweden would probably not count as rape in most countries, (while not wishing to minimise the alleged offences themselves).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Swedish_sexual_assault_allegations

    Sounds like minimising it to me else why is it relevant? It apparently met whatever legal tests were necessary here to justify extradition to face questioning about it, so what does it matter if in most countries the allegations would not count as rape?
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 54,628
    Foxy said:

    Cyclefree said:

    edmundintokyo said:

    If there was an election now I think Lab would win it: Assuming they won on a Cameronesque renegotiate+referendum, Remain fans would mostly suck it up and vote for them where it counted, whereas Brexit enthusiasts are seriously miffed at the government so it's hard to see them being tactical.

    However, the problem with the bet is that the Tories are somewhat in control of when the next election happens, and they won't call one unless they either think they'll win it - most likely because they get a new leader - or they completely run out of road.

    Huge assumption there - that the EU would renegotiate and that Labour would offer a referendum with Remain as a choice.
    The WA is closed, but a different PD is very likely under Labour.

    Indeed with CU, and close alignment locked into consumer, environmental and workers rights I could live with it. Clearly inferior to full membership, but streets ahead of Boris Britain.
    But the WA is a legally binding Treaty, and the PD is meaningless political bollocks. At the insistance of the EU, who have all put their requests in the first document and all the British requests in the second.

    Could someone in favour of a CU arrangement please state why it's a positively good idea.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,217
    Cyclefree said:

    Roger said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Decent ratio for Jezza on his tweet to be fair. Assange sounds like a shitty house guest but Corbyn has struck a chord with his implied concern about what many particularly on the left see as an overmighty US extradition system.

    A journalist blowing the whistle on illegal assassinations by the US military is quite a powerful argument. Corbyn's growing on me

    So you’re willing to overlook the rape allegations against Assange, his refusal to answer questions from the Swedish authorities or the plight of the women allegedly assaulted by him.

    One should no longer be surprised at the way that some people utterly disregard alleged crimes against women when the alleged perpetrator is a favourite of theirs. Disgusted certainly - but not surprised.


    Do a little more research on Assange, his willingness to co-operate with the Russian authorities, with Holocaust deniers, his claims that he is facing a Jewish conspiracy against him (no I don’t understand what he’s on about either), the reasons why Trump was praising him at one point. He’s not quite the hero you or Corbyn imagine.
    If Sweden still wanted to prosecute him, they could do so. They would be ahead of the US in the extradition queue
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    Cyclefree said:

    kle4 said:

    Cyclefree said:

    edmundintokyo said:

    If there was an election now I think Lab would win it: Assuming they won on a Cameronesque renegotiate+referendum, Remain fans would mostly suck it up and vote for them where it counted, whereas Brexit enthusiasts are seriously miffed at the government so it's hard to see them being tactical.

    However, the problem with the bet is that the Tories are somewhat in control of when the next election happens, and they won't call one unless they either think they'll win it - most likely because they get a new leader - or they completely run out of road.

    Huge assumption there - that the EU would renegotiate and that Labour would offer a referendum with Remain as a choice.
    Of course they would offer it with remain as a choice. The whole point of a referendum is to remain. It's about people having changed their minds and all that.
    You seem very certain. i have only ever heard Labour talk about a “confirmatory referendum” which sounds like weasel words to me.
    Oh, of that I have no doubt. Some on here who didn't want remain to be an option tried consoling themselves that an ordinary reading of those words could not possibly mean one of the options was remain. But my certainty is just a matter of the politics of it, whatever words they use - I could believe Corbyn and some others in the leadership clique would be satisfied with a confirmatory referendum without remain satisfying things, depending on what they were confirming, but for so many of the MPs and members the point is to remain, and given the extension and revoke now being so openly popular, I just don't see how, if Labour get the chance to dictate the choice, that remain is not included as an option.

    People forget Corbyn has been leader for quite some time now, and he is more canny and flexible than people think he is - after this much aggravation and annoyance he wouldn't give up his chance at power by half arsing it with a confirmatory referendum if he needed to keep the members happy with a remain option.
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 26,624
    Sandpit said:

    Foxy said:

    Cyclefree said:

    edmundintokyo said:

    If there was an election now I think Lab would win it: Assuming they won on a Cameronesque renegotiate+referendum, Remain fans would mostly suck it up and vote for them where it counted, whereas Brexit enthusiasts are seriously miffed at the government so it's hard to see them being tactical.

    However, the problem with the bet is that the Tories are somewhat in control of when the next election happens, and they won't call one unless they either think they'll win it - most likely because they get a new leader - or they completely run out of road.

    Huge assumption there - that the EU would renegotiate and that Labour would offer a referendum with Remain as a choice.
    The WA is closed, but a different PD is very likely under Labour.

    Indeed with CU, and close alignment locked into consumer, environmental and workers rights I could live with it. Clearly inferior to full membership, but streets ahead of Boris Britain.
    But the WA is a legally binding Treaty, and the PD is meaningless political bollocks. At the insistance of the EU, who have all put their requests in the first document and all the British requests in the second.

    Could someone in favour of a CU arrangement please state why it's a positively good idea.
    Because its better than not leaving at all ?

    And after two years of Liam Fox's incompetence the notion of an independent trade policy has been rather tarnished.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 54,628
    rpjs said:

    Sandpit said:

    Drutt said:

    ROCKET NEWS: Elon tweets that wind shear is high and unless it drops then the launch is prolly off.

    Another extension, then.



    Edit 1 Wait, am I watching yesterday's tweets overlaid on on today's pics?
    Edit 2 Yes. ROCKETS ARE STILL GO!

    Looks like they’re gonna go through the motions again before scrubbing, same as yesterday.

    Launch window is 22:35-00:31GMT, no sign of a countdown clock yet though.

    Edit: The Israelis also came damn close to putting a lander on the moon tonight, great effort from them but sadly the landing was uncontrolled after a systems failure a couple of minutes from touchdown.
    https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1116442323477381120
    Looks like we could be on for tonight, launch window opens in 45 minutes and fuelling underway.
  • edmundintokyoedmundintokyo Posts: 17,708
    Cyclefree said:


    You seem very certain. i have only ever heard Labour talk about a “confirmatory referendum” which sounds like weasel words to me.

    Sure, Corbyn is currently being weaselly. But if you had an election, and he didn't offer Remain supporters a referendum, they wouldn't vote for him. A referendum keeps the party together, and only loses some of his leave supporters. Renegotiation+referendum is the obvious play given a split party - that's why Cameron went with it.
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,038
    Sandpit said:

    Foxy said:

    Cyclefree said:

    edmundintokyo said:

    If there was an election now I think Lab would win it: Assuming they won on a Cameronesque renegotiate+referendum, Remain fans would mostly suck it up and vote for them where it counted, whereas Brexit enthusiasts are seriously miffed at the government so it's hard to see them being tactical.

    However, the problem with the bet is that the Tories are somewhat in control of when the next election happens, and they won't call one unless they either think they'll win it - most likely because they get a new leader - or they completely run out of road.

    Huge assumption there - that the EU would renegotiate and that Labour would offer a referendum with Remain as a choice.
    The WA is closed, but a different PD is very likely under Labour.

    Indeed with CU, and close alignment locked into consumer, environmental and workers rights I could live with it. Clearly inferior to full membership, but streets ahead of Boris Britain.
    But the WA is a legally binding Treaty, and the PD is meaningless political bollocks. At the insistance of the EU, who have all put their requests in the first document and all the British requests in the second.

    Could someone in favour of a CU arrangement please state why it's a positively good idea.
    Because it would damage the Conservatives.
  • AxiomaticAxiomatic Posts: 21
    AndyJS said:

    Scott_P said:

    https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1116455237886328832

    I thought it was 5 years max?
    I really dont like Assange at alll, but 7 years in (self imposed) house arrest, followed by a year in British jails (for jumping his bail), followed by decades in US prisons, does seem excesssive, and more importantly counter productive. Who benefits from this level of punishment? To me he already looks mad, sad, and old. He looks like a man broken by his own stupidity.

    Is there conclusive proof that Wikileaks led to the deaths of western agents? I confess i cant remember. But if there isn't then this is too much?
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 51,884
    Foxy said:

    GIN1138 said:

    AndyJS said:

    17 consecutive leads for the Canadian Conservatives.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_in_the_2019_Canadian_federal_election#Pre-campaign_period

    More than we'll be able to say about UK the Conservative Party anytime soon...
    On that subject:

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1116452301806481410?s=19
    Broken, sleazy Tories on the slide!
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