Let's be frank. If he stood in front of Downing Street and spoke in Esperanto about the wonders of tourism to Chernobyl you'd think it was a good speech.
Huge boos are the main thing I'm taking from it
Isn't that also basically a tradition now? People gather nearby to boo, I don't think that speaks much to anything.
The thing is surely this. Labour aren't going to get any better under Corbyn, are they? They will continue to roll along the bottom.
So in many ways, the LibDems are unlikely now to slip back.
It's all down to Boris. If, as most of us on here think, Boris bombs then the beneficiaries of that will be the LibDems and BXP. If Boris pulls off the unexpected then the BXP will tank but I don't think the LibDems would.
So, regardless of the fact that I'm a LibDem member there are very sound reasons for backing the LibDems to do well.
The tactics could be better, but the subject is the most important ever.
We’re already committed to zero emissions. What more do they want?
Zero productivity
Year 1. Re-education camps, enforced veganism, a green dictatorship with capital punishment for anyone who disagrees. They should do a deal with Priti Patel. She likes capital punishment and I am not sure she is much concerned whose head is in the noose.
WTF does battery technology have to do with Brexit?
Not Brexit but the future of our car industry. Without it, you might as well say goodbye to the electric Automotive industry. Even Germany is well behind China, S Korea , Taiwan and Japan.
WTF does battery technology have to do with Brexit?
Isn't one of the complaints that Brexit is distracting government from everything else?
Not really. People say it, but ultimately sorting Brexit out one way or another will have a huge impact upon pretty much everything else. So it is expected and not unreasonable to hear what else he wants to do or other areas, but it is pretty meaningless until we see if he can deliver on the main part of his offer.
The tactics could be better, but the subject is the most important ever.
We’re already committed to zero emissions. What more do they want?
Zero productivity
Year 1. Re-education camps, enforced veganism, a green dictatorship with capital punishment for anyone who disagrees. They should do a deal with Priti Patel. She likes capital punishment and I am not sure she is much concerned whose head is in the noose.
We have green councillors wanting to draw up a local Climate Jury.
As I said the other day, you are quite forward with your attacks on changes to the constitution when you do not agree with them but quite happy to see our constitutional arrangements thrown out simply because you agree with the aims.
I think the Royal Prerogative powers should be done away with wholesale. But that should be done by means of proper debate and primary legislation, not back of a fag packet stuff just to meet your own agenda.
I'm merely saying what I think they will try, and pointing out that there are potentially options other than a VONC (which isn't guaranteed to work anyway). It's not a course I'm advocating; I advocate ratifying the Withdrawal Agreement.
Still I find your suggestion that parliament isn't sovereign over the Executive rather puzzling.
Apologies. You seemed pretty strident the other day in your belief that Parliament should be allowed to ignore the current law and just make stuff up without primary legislation.
Mr. Observer, the ridiculous Boris becoming PM doesn't erase the last three years of May's incompetence and MPs, mostly pro-EU, opposing a deal and then complaining we might leave without a deal.
WTF does battery technology have to do with Brexit?
Dyson is a Leave supporter and is working on battery technology.
He makes fans too but that’s also irrelevant.
Oh I didnt say it was not irrelevant, but you asked what it had to do with Brexit, so I sought such connections as existed. I thought it w as aword association game.
Mr. Observer, the ridiculous Boris becoming PM doesn't erase the last three years of May's incompetence and MPs, mostly pro-EU, opposing a deal and then complaining we might leave without a deal.
Indeed so. Though the latest phase is always going to be more pressing, and that is about him and his promises. His very difficult, possibly even contradictory promises.
I wonder what's the earliest we can reasonably consider he has been given a chance to see if he can square that circle and whether he has succeeded. I wish the clown well.
Mr. Observer, the ridiculous Boris becoming PM doesn't erase the last three years of May's incompetence and MPs, mostly pro-EU, opposing a deal and then complaining we might leave without a deal.
The Prime Minister has told us he will get a new deal. But if it comes to No Deal, he has told us, that will be fine as well. It is now time for him to deliver. He will be responsible for all that happens from now on - as he himself has said.
As I said the other day, you are quite forward with your attacks on changes to the constitution when you do not agree with them but quite happy to see our constitutional arrangements thrown out simply because you agree with the aims.
I think the Royal Prerogative powers should be done away with wholesale. But that should be done by means of proper debate and primary legislation, not back of a fag packet stuff just to meet your own agenda.
I'm merely saying what I think they will try, and pointing out that there are potentially options other than a VONC (which isn't guaranteed to work anyway). It's not a course I'm advocating; I advocate ratifying the Withdrawal Agreement.
Still I find your suggestion that parliament isn't sovereign over the Executive rather puzzling.
Apologies. You seemed pretty strident the other day in your belief that Parliament should be allowed to ignore the current law and just make stuff up without primary legislation.
I assume it would require primary legislation, unless there's some other obscure route. As we've seen, that is possible, if the Speaker is helpful, which I think he would be.
The thing is surely this. Labour aren't going to get any better under Corbyn, are they? They will continue to roll along the bottom.
So in many ways, the LibDems are unlikely now to slip back.
It's all down to Boris. If, as most of us on here think, Boris bombs then the beneficiaries of that will be the LibDems and BXP. If Boris pulls off the unexpected then the BXP will tank but I don't think the LibDems would.
So, regardless of the fact that I'm a LibDem member there are very sound reasons for backing the LibDems to do well.
As a Remain voting Tory one of (many) things putting me off voting Lib Dem is the malign presence of JC. Much as Boris wouldn't be my choice of PM he's still infinitely preferable to Corbyn. It's a real concern that a vote for the Libs could help Labour somehow.
Assuming that Lab voters feel the same way re Boris it has to depress the Lib Dem vote.
Yes I think this is true. Spoke to my tory mum yesterday who voted LD for first time ever in euros, her reaction to Boris was "could be worse, could be Corbyn". Likewise I'm a LD member but will be voting Labour because I have to vote one of the big two in my semi marginal seat, and I would rather take my chances with Corbyn than Boris.
So while I think Lib Dems will do very well in seats where they have a chance, I can't see them or BXP maintaining such high numbers come election day.
I think they will do better in the Tory marginals principally because Conservatives seem less likely to vote tactically. Which isn't great news for Boris and is probably making Dave and George wonder why they bothered.
The attacks on Jo Swinson and the latest speculations about her seat, which she holds with a 10% margin are a clear sign that the two main parties are rattled by both her and the LibDem surge.
Fabulous. She's more than capable of standing up for herself.
LibDems are surging.
The snowflake generation don't like it when their own are critiqued. I think its fair enough that people discuss ability to hold seats on a political betting site, particularly given the volatility in Scotland
Of course of course but I think it's interesting because people seem to be really waking up to the LibDem surge.
I think Jo Swinson is fabulous. Underestimate this lady at your peril.
LOL, it is unbelievable on here, week to week it moves from one donkey to the next. Great mutterings of wonder and hopes dashed time after time. Swinson is at best average, she may get a few sympathy votes initially but will not be long till the lying Lib Dems will be propping up the losers table
Well I think your extreme antipathy is because you're sexist. And, besides, comments like 'the lying Lib Dems' and 'propping up the losers table' are more suited to the comments section of Guido Fawkes.
If you'd like to explain why Jo Swinson isn't so great in your eyes, apart from the fact that she's a woman, kindly do.
For a start , her voting record is appalling, nothing liberal or democratic about it. Voted for every nasty Tory policy , every warmongering policy and then the moron has the effrontery to state that she will never allow Scotland a referendum because she is a thick unionist twunk scared they will lose next vote. So as bad , nasty and evil as your worst Tory with no understanding of democracy. In general a real nasty hypocritical piece of work.
Let's be frank. If he stood in front of Downing Street and spoke in Esperanto about the wonders of tourism to Chernobyl you'd think it was a good speech.
Huge boos are the main thing I'm taking from it
If he spoke as a modern day hybrid of the best of Churchill, Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln you'd be denouncing it.
I'm not a hyperpartisan. I traditionally support the Tories but I opposed May before she became PM and was sad to be proven right that she was going to be an unmitigated disaster. I also opposed IDS and didn't particularly like Howard or Hague either.
The only Tory leader I've actually liked in my adult lifetime before now was Cameron.
Boris's next task will be to take a look at the nuclear codes.
Isn't one of the first jobs to hand write a letter to the commanders of the Nuclear subs instructing them what to do in the event of the political establishment being nuked?
Meanwhile they are unable to stop a speedboat stealing a British tanker, you could not make it up.
New PMs formerly said very little when arriving in Downing Street - indeed Macmillan said nothing at all whilst Douglas-Home and Wilson said but a few words. They did, however, broadcast to the nation later in the evening. That was the better approach in my view.
The attacks on Jo Swinson and the latest speculations about her seat, which she holds with a 10% margin are a clear sign that the two main parties are rattled by both her and the LibDem surge.
Fabulous. She's more than capable of standing up for herself.
LibDems are surging.
The snowflake generation don't like it when their own are critiqued. I think its fair enough that people discuss ability to hold seats on a political betting site, particularly given the volatility in Scotland
Of course of course but I think it's interesting because people seem to be really waking up to the LibDem surge.
I think Jo Swinson is fabulous. Underestimate this lady at your peril.
LOL, it is unbelievable on here, week to week it moves from one donkey to the next. Great mutterings of wonder and hopes dashed time after time. Swinson is at best average, she may get a few sympathy votes initially but will not be long till the lying Lib Dems will be propping up the losers table
Well I think your extreme antipathy is because you're sexist. And, besides, comments like 'the lying Lib Dems' and 'propping up the losers table' are more suited to the comments section of Guido Fawkes.
If you'd like to explain why Jo Swinson isn't so great in your eyes, apart from the fact that she's a woman, kindly do.
[Swinson] has the effrontery to state that she will never allow Scotland a referendum because she is a thick unionist twunk scared they will lose next vote.
She said that?! My word, that was unwisely blunt and self critical of her!
He can give good one-liners but as an orator he's goddam awful.
True, but thankfully being an orator isn’t so important nowadays - although the skill to marshal and distil an argument down to a few carefully chosen words is useful in other contexts.
I am more worried by his laziness, offensiveness, carelessness and lack of moral compass.
Boris's next task will be to take a look at the nuclear codes.
Isn't one of the first jobs to hand write a letter to the commanders of the Nuclear subs instructing them what to do in the event of the political establishment being nuked?
Meanwhile they are unable to stop a speedboat stealing a British tanker, you could not make it up.
Small problems can sometimes be harder to solve than big problems.
The tactics could be better, but the subject is the most important ever.
But there is no Climate Emergency, Climate Breakdown, crisis or any other doomsday cult rubbish.
Those who deny the evidence are the doomsday cultists.
I am very aware of the evidence. I have thoroughly read over the IPCC report both the policy makers report and the technical report. The words emergency, crisis or breakdown are not present anywhere.
If all the world's major economies were planning a transition to 100% renewable power, starting right now, you'd be right.
They are not, which is injecting a certain urgency into matters.
Shockingly incoherent, contradictory, rambling, and disingenuous but...but...he is right that the country voted to leave the EU and we haven't left and that needs to be addressed.
That it will come at a huge price for the people who voted leave or remain is sadly not something that can be helped.
The attacks on Jo Swinson and the latest speculations about her seat, which she holds with a 10% margin are a clear sign that the two main parties are rattled by both her and the LibDem surge.
Fabulous. She's more than capable of standing up for herself.
LibDems are surging.
The snowflake generation don't like it when their own are critiqued. I think its fair enough that people discuss ability to hold seats on a political betting site, particularly given the volatility in Scotland
Of course of course but I think it's interesting because people seem to be really waking up to the LibDem surge.
I think Jo Swinson is fabulous. Underestimate this lady at your peril.
LOL, it is unbelievable on here, week to week it moves from one donkey to the next. Great mutterings of wonder and hopes dashed time after time. Swinson is at best average, she may get a few sympathy votes initially but will not be long till the lying Lib Dems will be propping up the losers table
Well I think your extreme antipathy is because you're sexist. And, besides, comments like 'the lying Lib Dems' and 'propping up the losers table' are more suited to the comments section of Guido Fawkes.
If you'd like to explain why Jo Swinson isn't so great in your eyes, apart from the fact that she's a woman, kindly do.
For a start , her voting record is appalling, nothing liberal or democratic about it. Voted for every nasty Tory policy , every warmongering policy and then the moron has the effrontery to state that she will never allow Scotland a referendum because she is a thick unionist twunk scared they will lose next vote. So as bad , nasty and evil as your worst Tory with no understanding of democracy. In general a real nasty hypocritical piece of work.
Strip out your personal attacks and basically you are left with the fact there that you don't like her because she has the audacity to be a female Scottish LibDem and you are a Scottish nationalist. Of course she has voted for a number of centrist policies and often in a pragmatic way.
Unlike you I'm not that swivel-eyed. I can see good in some SNP MPs and MSPs and in policies.
Park your partisan hatred. It's typified too many of your nation and too many in your party for far too long.
The attacks on Jo Swinson and the latest speculations about her seat, which she holds with a 10% margin are a clear sign that the two main parties are rattled by both her and the LibDem surge.
Fabulous. She's more than capable of standing up for herself.
LibDems are surging.
The snowflake generation don't like it when their own are critiqued. I think its fair enough that people discuss ability to hold seats on a political betting site, particularly given the volatility in Scotland
Of course of course but I think it's interesting because people seem to be really waking up to the LibDem surge.
I think Jo Swinson is fabulous. Underestimate this lady at your peril.
LOL, it is unbelievable on here, week to week it moves from one donkey to the next. Great mutterings of wonder and hopes dashed time after time. Swinson is at best average, she may get a few sympathy votes initially but will not be long till the lying Lib Dems will be propping up the losers table
Well I think your extreme antipathy is because you're sexist. And, besides, comments like 'the lying Lib Dems' and 'propping up the losers table' are more suited to the comments section of Guido Fawkes.
If you'd like to explain why Jo Swinson isn't so great in your eyes, apart from the fact that she's a woman, kindly do.
[Swinson] has the effrontery to state that she will never allow Scotland a referendum because she is a thick unionist twunk scared they will lose next vote.
She said that?! My word, that was unwisely blunt and self critical of her!
He can give good one-liners but as an orator he's goddam awful.
True, but thankfully being an orator isn’t so important nowadays - although the skill to marshal and distil an argument down to a few carefully chosen words is useful in other contexts.
I am more worried by his laziness, offensiveness, carelessness and lack of moral compass.
Boris's next task will be to take a look at the nuclear codes.
Isn't one of the first jobs to hand write a letter to the commanders of the Nuclear subs instructing them what to do in the event of the political establishment being nuked?
Meanwhile they are unable to stop a speedboat stealing a British tanker, you could not make it up.
The problem is that there are hundreds of tankers, and lots of speedboats.
He can give good one-liners but as an orator he's goddam awful.
True, but thankfully being an orator isn’t so important nowadays - although the skill to marshal and distil an argument down to a few carefully chosen words is useful in other contexts.
I am more worried by his laziness, offensiveness, carelessness and lack of moral compass.
Which is why I presume he made a point of repeatedly saying the work would begin NOW, to dispel the impression that he is the kind of lazy, vain man who would spend his first day in office staring into his mirror trying out new faux-churchillian remarks.
Good strong, positive and optimistic speech from Boris on day 1 of his premiership not just commitment to deliver Brexit on October 31st Deal or No Deal but covering issues from social care to animal welfare and education too
The attacks on Jo Swinson and the latest speculations about her seat, which she holds with a 10% margin are a clear sign that the two main parties are rattled by both her and the LibDem surge.
Fabulous. She's more than capable of standing up for herself.
LibDems are surging.
The snowflake generation don't like it when their own are critiqued. I think its fair enough that people discuss ability to hold seats on a political betting site, particularly given the volatility in Scotland
Of course of course but I think it's interesting because people seem to be really waking up to the LibDem surge.
I think Jo Swinson is fabulous. Underestimate this lady at your peril.
LOL, it is unbelievable on here, week to week it moves from one donkey to the next. Great mutterings of wonder and hopes dashed time after time. Swinson is at best average, she may get a few sympathy votes initially but will not be long till the lying Lib Dems will be propping up the losers table
Well I think your extreme antipathy is because you're sexist. And, besides, comments like 'the lying Lib Dems' and 'propping up the losers table' are more suited to the comments section of Guido Fawkes.
If you'd like to explain why Jo Swinson isn't so great in your eyes, apart from the fact that she's a woman, kindly do.
That's not fair. Malcolmg may be scathing with female politicians like Swinson, May and Ruth Davidson but he is equally scathing of male ones too. Gender is not an issue. If he only attacked one genders politicians that would be sexist but Malcolm is an equal opportunities critic. Quite right too!
Taking a wild swing, Jo Swinson is a Scot who does not belong to the SNP.
Wild indeed, there are plenty duff women in SNP as well as men. It is her voting record and her pathetic statement that she will never allow the people of Scotland to decide whether they want or don't want to be independent. So anti democracy , against the poor , a war monger, what is there to like.
The tactics could be better, but the subject is the most important ever.
But there is no Climate Emergency, Climate Breakdown, crisis or any other doomsday cult rubbish.
Those who deny the evidence are the doomsday cultists.
I am very aware of the evidence. I have thoroughly read over the IPCC report both the policy makers report and the technical report. The words emergency, crisis or breakdown are not present anywhere.
If all the world's major economies were planning a transition to 100% renewable power, starting right now, you'd be right.
They are not, which is injecting a certain urgency into matters.
So why don't they protest in the countries that aren't?
The nutjobs will have loved it. Not a speech to convert the doubters.
It was impressively divisive and merely demonstrated that when he talks of uniting Britain what he actually means is uniting the Conservative party. He may succeed in that by driving all sensible Tories away.
The nutjobs will have loved it. Not a speech to convert the doubters.
It was impressively divisive and merely demonstrated that when he talks of uniting Britain what he actually means is uniting the Conservative party. He may succeed in that by driving all sensible Tories away.
He can give good one-liners but as an orator he's goddam awful.
True, but thankfully being an orator isn’t so important nowadays - although the skill to marshal and distil an argument down to a few carefully chosen words is useful in other contexts.
I am more worried by his laziness, offensiveness, carelessness and lack of moral compass.
Which is why I presume he made a point of repeatedly saying the work would begin NOW, to dispel the impression that he is the kind of lazy, vain man who would spend his first day in office staring into his mirror trying out new faux-churchillian remarks.
Indeed. And given his long record of avoiding any accountability for his mistakes, there was some comfort in his recognising this weakness and committing to take personal responsibility - even if these prove the usual hollow words they can be throw back at him.
MrsT devalued these speeches when she promised to deliver harmony.
Good strong, positive and optimistic speech from Boris on day 1 of his premiership not just commitment to deliver Brexit on October 31st Deal or No Deal but covering issues from social care to animal welfare and education
"Let's care for our animals."
Er, that's it.
Typical Boris. And I'll bet you now that if he unexpectedly sticks around long enough you too will see through this kind of vacuous throwaway remark. He fools people with this sort of rhetoric but eventually they start to see through the magician's sleight of hand.
He's the song and dance man who trips the light fantastic. A political lightweight.
The nutjobs will have loved it. Not a speech to convert the doubters.
It was impressively divisive and merely demonstrated that when he talks of uniting Britain what he actually means is uniting the Conservative party. He may succeed in that by driving all sensible Tories away.
Not as divisive as you and Meeks calling people who disagree with you loons or nutjobs.
The attacks on Jo Swinson and the latest speculations about her seat, which she holds with a 10% margin are a clear sign that the two main parties are rattled by both her and the LibDem surge.
Fabulous. She's more than capable of standing up for herself.
LibDems are surging.
The snowflake generation don't like it when their own are critiqued. I think its fair enough that people discuss ability to hold seats on a political betting site, particularly given the volatility in Scotland
Of course of course but I think it's interesting because people seem to be really waking up to the LibDem surge.
I think Jo Swinson is fabulous. Underestimate this lady at your peril.
LOL, it is unbelievable on here, week to week it moves from one donkey to the next. Great mutterings of wonder and hopes dashed time after time. Swinson is at best average, she may get a few sympathy votes initially but will not be long till the lying Lib Dems will be propping up the losers table
Well I think your extreme antipathy is because you're sexist. And, besides, comments like 'the lying Lib Dems' and 'propping up the losers table' are more suited to the comments section of Guido Fawkes.
If you'd like to explain why Jo Swinson isn't so great in your eyes, apart from the fact that she's a woman, kindly do.
For a start , her voting record is appalling, nothing liberal or democratic about it. Voted for every nasty Tory policy , every warmongering policy and then the moron has the effrontery to state that she will never allow Scotland a referendum because she is a thick unionist twunk scared they will lose next vote. So as bad , nasty and evil as your worst Tory with no understanding of democracy. In general a real nasty hypocritical piece of work.
Undue nastiness will damage your own cause. Surely you are capable of learning at least that one little thing from the steady demise of Labour?
I'm a happy soul and don't take life very seriously. Perhaps that's why I see virtue in Boris.
He might well fail but at least it won't be the miserable, paranoid, incurious and dreary failure of a May or a Brown.
Have to say he can speak a lot better than ever Brown or May could. They just made you want to throw yourself under a bus, at least you want to listen to him even if you know he is fibbing.
Yes just got back from my hour running the country and the economy and Union are still intact and we are still heading for Brexit, so I am now quite happy to hand over to Boris
Using a wheeze roughly similar to the Cooper-Boles Bill and taking back control. With the help of a sympathetic Speaker and with a large majority in both Houses they can make the rules up.
Okay, so let's say they pass a bill insisting Boris goes back and negotiates an extension. He doesn't. What then? (Not rhetorical by the way, I really don't know).
My suggestion would be that they appoint someone else (Larry the Cat is the example I've used in the past, as he's a safe pair of paws and acceptable to all sides) to be Her Majesty's High Representative for Article 50 Extension, and pass an Act of Parliament to give this person the necessary powers.
As I said the other day, you are quite forward with your attacks on changes to the constitution when you do not agree with them but quite happy to see our constitutional arrangements thrown out simply because you agree with the aims.
I think the Royal Prerogative powers should be done away with wholesale. But that should be done by means of proper debate and primary legislation, not back of a fag packet stuff just to meet your own agenda.
I dont believe that advice was ever made public so we do not know how much flexibility there might be for the PM to be awkward. He may have far less room to do as he wishes than people are generally assuming, especially if he wants to stay within our constitutional arrangements.
Let's be frank. If he stood in front of Downing Street and spoke in Esperanto about the wonders of tourism to Chernobyl you'd think it was a good speech.
Huge boos are the main thing I'm taking from it
Maggie Thatcher always got huge boos from the left but win 3 general elections and was the best PM of my lifetime
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A good speech but maybe a little bit long.
We applaud your ambitions to honour the result of the 2016 referendum.
We hope Amber Rudd can remain doing her excellent work at the DWP.
We are glad that you are pro the UK union and hope you continue to fight the scourge of national-separatism.
And most of all we wish you well.
Mr and Ms Brisk
He can give good one-liners but as an orator he's goddam awful.
I wonder what's the earliest we can reasonably consider he has been given a chance to see if he can square that circle and whether he has succeeded. I wish the clown well.
I'm a happy soul and don't take life very seriously. Perhaps that's why I see virtue in Boris.
He might well fail but at least it won't be the miserable, paranoid, incurious and dreary failure of a May or a Brown.
Completely.
Awful nonsense of incoherent rantings. He comes across sometimes as really quite deranged.
He says no one has succeeded in betting against Britain.
Err, has he not heard of George Soros?
I'm not a hyperpartisan. I traditionally support the Tories but I opposed May before she became PM and was sad to be proven right that she was going to be an unmitigated disaster. I also opposed IDS and didn't particularly like Howard or Hague either.
The only Tory leader I've actually liked in my adult lifetime before now was Cameron.
I am more worried by his laziness, offensiveness, carelessness and lack of moral compass.
They are not, which is injecting a certain urgency into matters.
That it will come at a huge price for the people who voted leave or remain is sadly not something that can be helped.
Unlike you I'm not that swivel-eyed. I can see good in some SNP MPs and MSPs and in policies.
Park your partisan hatred. It's typified too many of your nation and too many in your party for far too long.
And we don't have very many deployable ships.
Sometime I think we really deserve our annihilation.
I'd take amusing failure with a hint of Bertie Woosterism over Corbyn's amusing failure (which would include the rounding up of Jews).
MrsT devalued these speeches when she promised to deliver harmony.
Er, that's it.
Typical Boris. And I'll bet you now that if he unexpectedly sticks around long enough you too will see through this kind of vacuous throwaway remark. He fools people with this sort of rhetoric but eventually they start to see through the magician's sleight of hand.
He's the song and dance man who trips the light fantastic. A political lightweight.
Which is going to be a source of considerable amusement.
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I dont believe that advice was ever made public so we do not know how much flexibility there might be for the PM to be awkward. He may have far less room to do as he wishes than people are generally assuming, especially if he wants to stay within our constitutional arrangements.