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While watching the Supreme Court verdict yesterday morning I wondered quite how the strident pro-Brexit tabloids would cover it. We all remember the very powerful Daily Mail front page after the first Gina Miller case in the High Court and I was expecting something along the same lines.
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This has got to be put to the people in general election
If we take your statement as true though there is no way it could be happening without either 120 odd Tory rebellions (more when May was in charge), or maybe the Lib Dems and SNP going through the voting lobby multiple times with fake moustaches and comedy glasses.
The other possibility is that it is actually Labour MPs who have been doing the bulk of the work in opposing and defeating the government. I think Corbyn, actually some votes ago, overtook Thatcher as the LOTO with the most government defeats. Although I'm not 100% sure how far back that went, WW2 maybe.
You can not like Labour, that is fair enough. I don't see the point in claiming easily disprovable nonsense though. I don't like the Conservatives but I don't claim their 4th in the polling. As much as I'd like them to be 4th in the polling someone would just come along and prove me wrong because it is clearly not true.
(How many PBers know who Dick Emery was, without googling?)
A bullying POTUS facing impeachment.
Spain digging up the stinking corpse of Franco.
A Prime Minister who thinks he is above the law being investigated for not being able to keep his pants on, and using taxpayers’ cash to treat his girlfriend.
A vulnerable Swedish teenager having a very public mental breakdown, live on all global media.
The Dutch government losing its parliamentary majority.
The monarch’s pervie second son promoting himself as “Pitch@Palace” (boke).
That must have been the perfect day to bury bad news (come back Jo Moore, all is forgiven). What did I miss?
NI bus manufacturer Wrightbus going into administration.
Thomas Cook still bust, repratriation effort going well but pressure on auditors and directors over conduct in the run-up to the collapse.
Efforts by US democrats to impeach Trump, because Joe Biden’s son did some allegedly dodgy stuff in Ukraine - or something like that.
Our own @Tissue_Price has been selected to fight a marginal seat when the election comes about.
Duchess of Sussex will be really upset because no-one is talking about her.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qVpS4kJ8ZOg
Unlike the deeply unfunny tabloid effort, it’s up there with the magnificent punnage of @ydoethur .
Made me laugh.
Or was your comment a pun too ?
(Is this PB or Slashdot this morning?)
Stallman might be upset if you call it open source.
And this tells me that I'm getting old - and so is t'Internet and t'web. We're seeing a second generation born of people who have lived whilst the web has existed in a popular, commercial sense. Their world growing up is massively different to the one I grew up in - and much of that is down to the web.
Ooh, I am awful.
The first is that delivering the referendum result justifies almost any sort of rough move, however questionable. The second is that the cunning and gamesmanship of the No 10 team is of a higher order than anyone else’s and enables them to act with appropriate ruthlessness. A ruthlessness that eluded, say, Theresa May or others for whose intelligence or ability they have little regard.
The Supreme Court ruling shows how unwise both ideas are.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/supreme-court-ruling-this-is-a-car-crash-not-just-a-bump-in-the-road-fpnjxf635
Grieve is an arse but on this hes probably right, and unlike Rees-Mogg his success rate shows he has brains at least
Now we know...
When there were only 3 channels, few video recorders, and no t'internet, people would watch any old rot. Though in those days news and current affairs were very well done. People had longer attention spans then, and channel hopping was less common without a remote control. You actually had to get off the sofa to change channel.
I want Labour to submit the extension request prior to going in to a GE.
Lab and LD's should be praying for Johnson to stay in post.
So, are political geeks also general geeks given several of us apparently got the joke?
If it's a misprint it shows a Labour conference bounce.
The adage that "there is no such thing as bad publicity" is being tested to destruction by current politics.
Personally I shall await the result in US&R with interest. That is, of course, if the current Member has not been found in contempt of Parliament and excluded.
Beckett is one of the idiots who put Corbyn on the short list.
But it'd be nice of Conservative MPs to provide the nation with its first female Labour PM
I hadn’t realised he was born during the First World War (!)
Some minor changes since then.
Typo by Britain Elects - should be 24/Sep
I'm not entirely sure you can trust the voting share leads either, but definitely don't trust the subsidiaries unless you've read the whole thing.
From polling it would seem that a majority of the public support the establishment being taken on as they continue their efforts to stop Brexit.
It may be a simplistic view but it does seem to be one shared by more than those on the other side who refuse to accept that the actions of remainers have created the ruptures in our democratic institutions and processes.
You only need to ask yourself would this be happening if remainers had supported May's deal...and the answer of course is no.
Major wanted a longer GE campaign, thinking that he could regain some ground against New Labour. He may have been right.
It was in the context of a GE, not a mechanism to prevent parliamentary scrutiny of a minority government amidst the biggest political crisis of the post war period.
Though deeply objectionable, and worth scrutiny, it’s actual effect would very probably not have been of sufficient significance to meet the test of significance (the court’s test isn’t a single one, but imposes several hurdles before any remedy might be considered).
And in any event, there would have been no appropriate remedy.
The 1948 Attlee prorogation is more interesting. I think it likely would have passed scrutiny, but others don’t.
The fact that only two prorogations in the past seventy years might even possibly have faced a challenge emphasises the court’s point about exceptional circumstances.
And the most powerful of them all
Maybe Farage called this one right compared to the twitter trolls?
His choices are affecting the specific events that are occurring, but for the tories the problem is they will not win an election without brexiting and cannot Brexit without an election.
Boris is considered the best chance to prevent the former, but his success rate overcoming remainers is not looking good. Either way him going doesnt seem as though it will help them much.
For the country the problem is theres no grouping with sufficient support to run the country and it looks like no election will be permitted to try to change that for several months. Again, Boris going doesnt change thst much.
Unlike Corbyn and Labour who will be searching for the whisky and mess revolver.
As there's nothing happening today he'll probably attack the lies and toxic actions of a Prime Minister who should have resigned a long time ago. Tony Blair. Only by attacking the evil Tory Blair can Labour persuade middle ground punters that True Socialism is nearly here, and thus win a glorious 704 seat (Jennie Formby is counting the votes) majority at the election
But even Nostradamus would have given up on this one.
(OK, shit is getting weird, there's *some* risk of that happening, but not much.)
He cannot stop the Commons doing whatever it wants anymore, he cannot take action other than resignation. But that's such a nuclear option.
Seriously, what can he try next? He and the Tories will be petrified of that BXP rating, even attacking the judges is not getting the share down, what more can he do?