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This is all very reminiscent of the French strategy with the Maginot Line, they weren't prepared for their opponents to go around them. https://t.co/cugJm1Vsfn
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Edit: QTWTAIN.
Of course, it's far more likely that it will be terrible for the UK but manageable for the rest of the EU.
It reminds me a bit of the Top Gear police cars. Specifically, Hammond's not-very-long stinger.
A great feat of strategic positioning and control at No. 10 ? It doesn't look like it.
Says he's undecided how to vote today but it's another MP for Boris to sweat over.
I feel it is my duty to educate PBers on history during my stints as guest editor.
The WWI piece contains a pun on the name of Ferdinand Foch, 'supporters of Foch's strategy, let us call them Fochers'
He is so stupid, and pig headed, he might just pull defeat from victory's jaws, by agreeing to a GE before Brexit/the extension is dealt with
"Time Business
2:30pm
Oral questions
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (including Topical Questions)
Ten Minute Rule Motion
Clean Air
Legislation
Census (Return Particulars and Removal of Penalties) Bill [Lords]: proceedings in Committee and remaining stages
Adjournment
Implications for the sheep industry of the UK leaving the EU without a deal"
https://www.parliament.uk/business/commons/
How's the Greek sunshine btw?
No deal can be a problem but one we are prepared to live with to gain the benefits of freedom and the ability to set our own laws, customs and have our own courts interpret them.
On the other hand the EU and Ireland especially gain no benefits from no deal. They suffer the consequences but only we reap the rewards.
The fact that you still fail to recognise there are any rewards to Brexit is why you are struggling with this misapprehension.
They've limited their options by not picking Mitchell Marsh.
The problem with Mitchell Marsh is he ain't good enough.
On Thursday I go to fabled Mycenae. Then home. Ah well.
If Boris goes into the election saying he will not extend under any circumstances and if he wins a majority then he can either repeal the legislation or whip his MPs to reject the extension.
Marsh, Cummins, Lyon, Starc, Hazlewood 5 man bowling attack
Each city-based side will first have the chance to select one England player based in their catchment area.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/49551497
I am just so excited, I can't wait.....sarcasm alert.
And where does prorogation fit in all this. Why burn all that political capital, provoke counter mobilisation, involve the monarchy, look undemocratic if just one week later you are then disolving rather than prorouging ? I just don't see a coherent narrative.
EDIT: the problem is the Lords.
Can you believe a few days ago some numpty was offering his Old Trafford tickets and the rest of his Headingley tickets for a fiver?
Why would you have an innings without completing an over? Or are they going to make it a T20 with 5 balls instead of 6 per over?
That's just close enough to being a T20 without actually being one. Seems really dumb to me.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/id-quit-if-china-would-let-me-says-hong-kong-chief-carrie-lam-pqsh77zgz
You may get your wish
https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1168820812381638657?s=20
Unknown text by John Locke reveals roots of 'foundational democratic ideas'
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/03/unknown-text-by-john-locke-reveals-roots-of-foundational-democratic-ideas
Harris, Warner, Smith, Labuschagne, Head (c), Wade (w), Marsh, Cummins, Lyon, Starc, Hazlewood is how I'd roll.
You should put more trust in @ydoethur who made this entirely clear years ago.
That said one of the locals thinks the Aussies are going to use more concussion substitutes than there are days play.
This pitch is quite bouncy.
Re-reading the anti-No Deal legislation the legislation can be voided by a vote of the Commons, the Lords get a debate but no vote.
Under subsection (1) [in case of a deal] or subsection (2) [in case of no deal] the Commons must approve a motion saying they agree to a deal, or agree to no deal, but the Lords simply must either conclude a debate or simply not conclude a debate within 2 days.
So what's to prevent the legislation passing, then we have an election, then Boris whips his new majority to back a deal [or no deal] and then there's no extension.
It will be the election result that matters, not this legislation. The legislation is meaningless if Boris has a majority. Seems an odd hill to die on.
A couple of years ago I went to the end of Winter festival in Bangkok; “Oon Ai Rak Klay Kwam Nao”, or “Warm Love to Temper the Cold”. Was in February. Temperature was round about then 30 mark (C). Had been as low as 22 or so.
Coleman, 23, had been charged with missing three drugs tests and was facing an automatic one-year ban.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/49558809
Hmmmm...there is a fantastic interview on the intewebs with Victor Conte (the man behind doping lots of the top athletes in the 2000s). He explains how if one was wanting to dope, how one would play the MIA system, and those that regularly miss tests over their career should be very suspicious of.
Northern Superchargers based at Headingley, Leeds
Birmingham Phoenix based at Edgbaston, Birmingham
Trent Rockets based at Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Welsh Fire based at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff
London Spirit based at Lord's, London
Oval Invincibles based at The Oval, London
Southern Brave based at Ageas Bowl, Southampton
These sound like Quiddich teams.
Really both sides have painted themselves in to corners and need a fudge of some sort to be able to climb down and move on.
Let them eat The Project.
1. By not caving on the backstop they avoid the cost of undermining the Single Market.
2. They allow the UK to be a pitied abject example who will come crawling back.
I'm not a fan of the rebranding of Warwickshire to Birmingham but the "Birmingham Bears" is clearly the brand to go with.
What a twat
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2019/09/02/proponents-of-the-new-bill-to-stop-no-deal-face-a-significant-dilemma-over-queens-consent/
I'd have thought the "easier" alternative would be the VoNC.
Leaving Stokes or Bairstow stranded at the end of the innings is a much higer price to pay for this strategy.
However that is what they want .
As I said yesterday Corbyn and Labour's position was not clear on GE.
But who knows?
So far as optics are concerned the upside is that they appear dynamic, have a plan, and are promising closure. Which doesn't guarantee success but gives them a fighting chance, at least.