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14 council by-elections tonight. Nine Tory defences, four Labour, one Lib Dem.
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I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
Le Royame-Uni = Elizabeth Taylor?
https://twitter.com/UKDefJournal/status/905808075722039297
Scotland = Husband no 1
Ireland = Husband no 2
India = Husband no 3
...
The EU = Husband no 9
The only exceptions - predictably - were CNN and MsNBC who said he didn't bring 'empathy'. The folks don't need empathy, they need money.
Perhaps he could build a sea wall and the hurricane will pay for it?
EU = profligate gold-digger.
https://twitter.com/foxinsoxuk/status/905891651201245190
"The wrath of a hurricane can ruin delicate pieces of liquid history," Gungle said. "Hurricanes Andrew, Katrina and Sandy ruined tens of millions of dollars worth of fine wine."
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1BI2A8
The AV threads, on the other hand....
And, maybe, the enraging Leavers thing....
L'Union Européenne = Elizabeth Taylor
Le Royaume-Uni = Richard Burton
This is the story of Hennessy, who spent three years at school in London and was detained on his way back to Europe.
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-41195589/migrant-crisis-i-feel-like-a-dead-person
Theresa May has been accused of “rigging” Parliament to defy the result of the general election and give Tory MPs majority control over all legislation.
In what Labour called “an unprecedented power grab”, the Government is trying to give itself the power to dominate every bill committee from now until 2022.
A controversial new motion tabled by Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom seeks to ensure that Conservatives have a majority on all standing committees that are the powerhouses of all prospective laws.
The Tories lost their majority in the election after Labour’s ‘Corbyn surge’, but the attempted reform would give unprecedented power to a minority government for the first time.
The motion, which has been seen by HuffPost UK but is not formally published until Friday, would mean the PM could control her legislative agenda even without the aid of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
With May already under fire over plans to use the EU (Withdrawal) Bill to give ministers sweeping powers beyond the scrutiny of MPs and peers, the latest move has sparked a furious backlash from Labour.
The motion, tabled by Leadsom on Thursday for a vote next Tuesday, states that Commons rules will be changed so that “where a committee has an odd number of members, the Government shall have a majority”.
And “where a committee has an even number of members, the number of Government and Opposition members shall be equal, but this instruction shall not apply to the nomination of any public bill committee [which hammers out the guts of legislation]”.
The move effectively creates a back-door way around the Committee of Selection, the body that is the traditional way of choosing MPs for each standing and select committee.
It also ensures that the Tories will have a majority to rule on Statutory Instruments included in the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, and avoid attempts to amend their Brexit plans.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/theresa-may-rigging-parliament-committee-of-selection-standing-committees_uk_59b1a514e4b0dfaafcf68a04?8bo
https://twitter.com/johnredwood/status/905373104423276544
Can't see Dominic Grieve, Ken Clarke, nor Anna Soubry voting for this, so we need only four other Tory MPs to back democracy.
REMAIN 48%
The people voted for Brexit and then for the present Commons. Live with it.
The Tories did not get a majority of seats in June. That's kind of the point.
Though actually corbyn would probably use the executive powers wisely. He has a natural sympathy for grass roots democracy, that May simply cannot tolerate.
And at the 2017 GE leaving the single market too.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-monica-poletti/eu-referendum-conservative-voters_b_17924942.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-politics&ir=UK+Politics&-ukBrexit+Briefing+09717
https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/905911364375506949
LEAVE 52%
REMAIN 48%
I want to be the country's first Directly Elected Dictator, I will ask the people to give me those powers, then, and only then, will I assert those powers.
Mrs May is usurping power without a mandate to do so, where was this in her manifesto?