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A back down by Boris on his “break international law Bill” ? – politicalbetting.com
A back down by Boris on his “break international law Bill” ? – politicalbetting.com
Boris Johnson has signalled to rebel Tory MPs that he is prepared to compromise over plans to breach international law https://t.co/bsXRXVfPS5
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Which is a bit of a spanner in the works if you want this bill to be law by the 31st of December.
This was always about creating an argument with Labour (which Keir refused to fall into) and the judiciary.
We in the wining party have always been fans of large, generous measures
Heat up banally contentious opinion in a spoon.
Suck it up on to your iphone.
Flex your tweeting bicep as you gibber excitedly in anticipation.
Fire it into the ether and wait for the warm glow of outrage from wokies and approving rts from your fellow 'controversialists'.
The drug is wreaking havoc in Britain's reactionary community.
Strikes me as bit strange that PM with a large majority is too fret (to paraphrase the Blessed Margaret) to fire such nincompoops from his cabinet & entourage.
Is this due to sympathy for fellow serial incompetents?
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On the topic of the compromise if it is along the lines of the Neill amendment is entirely reasonable. It keeps and puts into law the principle that the UK can override as an emergency "backstop" if required, but puts a reasonable check on that so that the elected Commons must vote first and Ministers can't do it on their own. Quite right to compromise here, I said yesterday I expected this would happen.
https://twitter.com/ChrisMusson/status/1305921957137915906?s=20
The reaction of the radical Left to that having driven him to the alt-right.
Mansfield MP attacked programme for MPs created after BLM protests
Blasted 'metropolitan groupthink that is intolerant to any diversity of views'
Parliament has paid Challenge Consultancy £7,000 to design the course "
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8735653/Top-Tory-Ben-Bradley-declares-REFUSE-unconscious-bias-training-MPs.html
JK Rowling has done the same with her feminism.
It's amazing how a mob of people calling you the C-word doesn't win more people round.
Quick look at today's US polling so far.
https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_FL_091520/
The Monmouth Poll has Biden ahead 50-45 but with a 4.7% margin of error it's effectively meaningless.
The Florida Athletic University's poll doesn't show what the headline numbers say:
https://business.fau.edu/news/economics/bepi/2020-09-15-trump-gains-on-biden-in-florida.php
The actual numbers are Biden 49 Trump 46 Undecided 5 but apparently the Undecideds are breaking 4:1 for Trump which produces the 50-50 headline figure. Again, very large MoE at 3.8% with a sample of just 631 voters.
On then to the two CNN state polls and first North Carolina:
http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2020/images/09/15/rel1_nc.pdf
Biden has a 5-point lead among Registered voters and a 3-point lead among Likely voters but again big margins of error - in excess of 4% so Trump could be ahead.
On to Wisconsin and unfortunately I can't access the CNN crosstabs but the 10-point Biden lead (52-42) is probably within MoE so a very good poll for the challenger.
Indeed, all four State polls are decent for Biden for all both Florida and North Carolina remain very close and effectively dead heats on margin of error. Wisconsin is starting to look better for Biden but as always consistency among polls would be helpful.
I think the example was, say you’ll kill one million people, then a bit later say you only want to kill 100,000 so everyone is pleased?
I’ve got a feeling it was the Joker.
How do you ‘compromise’ on breaking the law?
‘All right officer, I will admit I was speeding, but at least I’m not three times over the DUI limit as well as I was last week. Can’t you give me credit for that progress?’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51233734
Perhaps I could change the words..
Some may say that is the definition of "prejudice".
https://twitter.com/bbradley_mans/status/967526680188375040?lang=en
Whereas the Wokeists' historical knowledge is always perfect and without flaw...
https://twitter.com/CucuillinSkyes/status/1302829629816930304
https://twitter.com/MarkBednar/status/1281611428739395586
During the training that is.
Note that the Not-So-Grand Young Duke of York is also well know, though not exactly what you'd call beloved. Except in sense that US prosecutors would LOVE to get their hands on him.
https://youtu.be/T82Osd6GmD8
Sorry ☺
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/trump-says-keeping-us-covid-19-deaths-to-100000-would-be-a-very-good-job
https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1305922113996558336
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/health/coronavirus-covid19/2020/09/15/cannock-chase-hospital-operations-stopped-after-staff-member-tests-positive-for-coronavirus/
I had been thinking the nearest problem spots were Walsall and Burton. Seems I thought wrong.
Though what went wrong (for example) with @TSE and @Morris_Dancer ?
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/15/monmouth-biden-up-5-points-on-trump-in-florida-415199
Perhaps just my innate conservatism (which I like to limit to trivialities) but personally prefer the green-mean Old Look.
Also (and likewise trivial) does anyone else find it odd that each thred is labeled "comments are closed" even when they are not (like right now)?
OR is this just OGH's homage to Boris Johnson?
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1305905537029222400?s=20
I asked a guide in Antigua why there was no mention of the slave trade in her presentation. She explained that most of her customers are American and many just don't want to hear about slavery. She said she was once told by a tourist from the USA that there were no slaves they were indentured servants.
1. Too much white space. I know, I'm fighting a losing battle here, but I keep buying bigger and bigger monitors, because I'm a sentient being who can hack lots of words on a page, and every website keeps thwarting me with increasing acres of white space. (The NatWest banking website, which used to have quite a good main page, is the worst offender, but there are many more.)
2. The comments now load so slowly that it's become unusable (and you can't see them all). So you have to switch to the Vanilla forums site, but that isn't a satisfactory solution. How are new users supposed to find that? They'll give up.
As a long-time Tory hack, the good Doctor knew of which he spoke!
FYI, Noah Webster was ALSO a right-wing hack, in his case for the Federalist Party.
That said, both made signal contributions to their nations and the world, in particular their dictionaries, both of which were great leaps forward for the English language.
Johnson's dictionary was of course first. But Webster's was better.
IF you disagree, stick it in your Funk & Wagnalls!
Unfortunately, it was abolished in 1995 by those namby-pamby, widhy-washy, snowflake, woke, cancel culture loving Conservatives of whom I hear so much.
On the other hand Robert gives a lot of his free time to make this site work for us ungrateful sods so I'll tolerate imperfection if it works for the hosts and eds.
I'm making the mistake of watching something on his "channel".
It's like he's a socially inept 14-year old boy trapped in a 55-year old man's body, and desperate for both approval and attention.
However, note that among our teaming masses & wretched refuge are VERY many who truly care about (and actually know at least some) history - and NOT (always) for (strictly) ideological purposes & motives.
Not a good choice for being around aircraft, what with all the oil and dirt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford,_Cambridge_and_RSA_Examinations
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1305844609910796289?s=20
https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/lords-library/hllsalisburydoctrine.pdf
Essentially, it seems the Lords themselves decide, on the basis that if the government disagrees, it can call an election. But I’ve got a feeling in recent years the Speaker has had a role.