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  • MysticroseMysticrose Posts: 4,688
    Just about to reply to Byronic but if all the Johnson cheerleaders are left with is to deride Corbyn for holding off until the A50 extension Act is passed ... wow that tells you how deeply desperate they are.
  • Nigelb said:

    My Resignation


    I am writing to resign my membership of the party with immediate effect

    Yesterday, the party took leave of its senses with Boris’s performance at the dispatch box all bluster and no answers, Jacob Rees Mogg in an act of crass stupidity lounging across the green benches and providing gold dust for a GE campaign to our opponents, not least of which the Sots, who lost no time on capitalising by it headlining the photograph in most Scots papers.

    However, worst of all how on earth can Boris justify withdrawing the whip from 21 dedicated conservatives, most of whom voted for Theresa’s deal while the ERG MP’s, who must carry a large part of the blame for where we are, are lauded and indeed behind this act of wanton revenge . How can our party withdraw the whip from Ken Clarke and send him onto the opposition benches, it is just so unacceptable and sickening.

    In all of this though, we cannot understand how we have allowed the poisonous Dominic Cummings into No 10. He is turning our party into the Nigel Farage tribute act and it is so depressing

    I will not be joining another party but shed a tear for my once great party and only hope I may one day see the One Nation Conservative party again but at my age (76) I will not hold my breath.

    Yours sincerely

    How many times have you resigned now?

    You said you had a few weeks ago when Richard Nabavi and David Herdson did.

    Maybe we'll see a third resignation in mid October when it looks like No Deal is imminent following the EU council meeting.
    Simply and uncharitably incorrect.
    The Casino Royale's of this world are the typically unpleasant "face" of the Conservative Party now. It is Conservative in name only. The Brexit Party Lite, or Bluekip it is, certainly for the time being, until the entryists and fuckwits have sucked the lifeblood out of it and gone home to their war comics and secret dungeon porn
    I think you are misunderstanding Casino Royale who as far as I can tell is just deeply upset about what is happening to Party and Country.
    Thank you, yes I am. Appreciate that.
  • Nigelb said:

    My Resignation


    I am writing to resign my membership of the party with immediate effect

    Yesterday, the party took leave of its senses with Boris’s performance at the dispatch box all bluster and no answers, Jacob Rees Mogg in an act of crass stupidity lounging across the green benches and providing gold dust for a GE campaign to our opponents, not least of which the Sots, who lost no time on capitalising by it headlining the photograph in most Scots papers.

    However, worst of all how on earth can Boris justify withdrawing the whip from 21 dedicated conservatives, most of whom voted for Theresa’s deal while the ERG MP’s, who must carry a large part of the blame for where we are, are lauded and indeed behind this act of wanton revenge . How can our party withdraw the whip from Ken Clarke and send him onto the opposition benches, it is just so unacceptable and sickening.

    In all of this though, we cannot understand how we have allowed the poisonous Dominic Cummings into No 10. He is turning our party into the Nigel Farage tribute act and it is so depressing

    I will not be joining another party but shed a tear for my once great party and only hope I may one day see the One Nation Conservative party again but at my age (76) I will not hold my breath.

    Yours sincerely

    How many times have you resigned now?

    You said you had a few weeks ago when Richard Nabavi and David Herdson did.

    Maybe we'll see a third resignation in mid October when it looks like No Deal is imminent following the EU council meeting.
    Simply and uncharitably incorrect.
    The Casino Royale's of this world are the typically unpleasant "face" of the Conservative Party now. It is Conservative in name only. The Brexit Party Lite, or Bluekip it is, certainly for the time being, until the entryists and fuckwits have sucked the lifeblood out of it and gone home to their war comics and secret dungeon porn
    I don't support Boris or his BXP lite moves, dickhead.

    Like I've consistently said you're the biggest twat on this site by far - even when I agree with you you're a complete prick.
  • Foxy said:

    Ishmael_Z said:

    Will we get pmq today?

    I will have my popcorn ready.

    The car crash of Bozo Johnson is compelling yet painful to watch. What were the Tories thinking when choosing a man who make Corbyn look Prime Ministerial?
    The Clown even manages to make Richard Leonard look like minister material. Quite an achievement.
  • Foxy said:

    Scenario:

    Boris has the Lords blocking Benn's Surrender Law in his back pocket. He can go into the prorogation period. He can come out of it still with My Deal or No Deal as the options. And no election until after 31st October.

    Instead, Boris has offered Corbyn a chance to put the decision to the people before the end of October - with a general election. But with No Deal still an option (as it would be anyway, because if he gets a majority, he repeals Benn.*)

    Pop quiz: what do you do, Jeremy?

    *subject to the caveat of the Remainer Lords then playing silly buggers trying to keep Benn alive.

    Upon proroguation aren't all bills underway in the Lords automatically passed?
    Now you are getting into the Civil War territory - abolish the House of Lords !

    Not, all such Bills fall.
  • kamskikamski Posts: 6,545

    Remember comrades, if it wasn't for us Labour Leavers, the Tories wouldn't be in this mess.

    Please form an orderly queue to buy me and BJO a pint...

    So, so far we've got a mini-Trump as Prime Minister, and the most rightwing Cabinet since at least the second world war - the only comrades who are going to buy you a pint are the ones in the Brexit Party
  • kamskikamski Posts: 6,545

    More rebels will need to be deselected tomorrow, I reckon.

    (By 'rebels', I of course mean loyal Conservatives with many years of service to the party and country).

    Doesn't matter how many years of service to the party and country you have if you vote against on a confidence matter does it?
    so Johnson has resigned then?
  • nunuonenunuone Posts: 1,138
    dr_spyn said:

    Starmer:

    Starmer says by email there is a General Election.

    https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1169147170039259136

    Yes, but not today. Later this week.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 81,212

    Foxy said:

    Scenario:

    Boris has the Lords blocking Benn's Surrender Law in his back pocket. He can go into the prorogation period. He can come out of it still with My Deal or No Deal as the options. And no election until after 31st October.

    Instead, Boris has offered Corbyn a chance to put the decision to the people before the end of October - with a general election. But with No Deal still an option (as it would be anyway, because if he gets a majority, he repeals Benn.*)

    Pop quiz: what do you do, Jeremy?

    *subject to the caveat of the Remainer Lords then playing silly buggers trying to keep Benn alive.

    Upon proroguation aren't all bills underway in the Lords automatically passed?
    Now you are getting into the Civil War territory - abolish the House of Lords !

    Not, all such Bills fall.
    There are provisions in the bill to revive it immediately post prorogation.
    It would be interesting to see how that might pan out, but I expect it to scrape through before the deadline.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 81,212

    Nigelb said:

    My Resignation


    I am writing to resign my membership of the party with immediate effect

    Yesterday, the party took leave of its senses with Boris’s performance at the dispatch box all bluster and no answers, Jacob Rees Mogg in an act of crass stupidity lounging across the green benches and providing gold dust for a GE campaign to our opponents, not least of which the Sots, who lost no time on capitalising by it headlining the photograph in most Scots papers.

    However, worst of all how on earth can Boris justify withdrawing the whip from 21 dedicated conservatives, most of whom voted for Theresa’s deal while the ERG MP’s, who must carry a large part of the blame for where we are, are lauded and indeed behind this act of wanton revenge . How can our party withdraw the whip from Ken Clarke and send him onto the opposition benches, it is just so unacceptable and sickening.

    In all of this though, we cannot understand how we have allowed the poisonous Dominic Cummings into No 10. He is turning our party into the Nigel Farage tribute act and it is so depressing

    I will not be joining another party but shed a tear for my once great party and only hope I may one day see the One Nation Conservative party again but at my age (76) I will not hold my breath.

    Yours sincerely

    How many times have you resigned now?

    You said you had a few weeks ago when Richard Nabavi and David Herdson did.

    Maybe we'll see a third resignation in mid October when it looks like No Deal is imminent following the EU council meeting.
    Simply and uncharitably incorrect.
    The Casino Royale's of this world are the typically unpleasant "face" of the Conservative Party now. It is Conservative in name only. The Brexit Party Lite, or Bluekip it is, certainly for the time being, until the entryists and fuckwits have sucked the lifeblood out of it and gone home to their war comics and secret dungeon porn
    I think you are misunderstanding Casino Royale who as far as I can tell is just deeply upset about what is happening to Party and Country.
    Thank you, yes I am. Appreciate that.
    We have our disagreements, and sometimes you are plain rude (something I am not entirely immune to myself...), but I agree with Gardenwalker.
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