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Since the Conservative Party introduced its new leadership roles while William Hague was in charge the procedure for getting rid of the incumbent has only been used once. That was, of course, the ousting of Iain Duncan Smith in October 2003.
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So unfortunately does not die Brexit.
It's all timing.
"This will be a good basis for negotiations. Here's your political declaration about an Association Agreement. See you on the other side."
30 letters, big deal.
45 letters, oh fuck.
I suspect it is closer to the former.
The problem is the Tory MPs are now split between Hard and Soft, and to oust May you really need a viable candidate who might appeal to both. This doesn’t look possible.
No less eight than eight polls wholly or partly about Brexit have been conducted since the Cabinet gathered at Chequers last Friday week (6 July). Both the statement about Brexit that was issued at the end of that meeting and the white paper published the subsequent Thursday have received a critical response in some quarters, including not least amongst many who campaigned to Leave. But how have the public have reacted?
Here are four key points that now seem clear.
1.The Chequers agreement is relatively unpopular among Leave voters.
2.The Chequers agreement has undermined confidence in the government’s handling of Brexit – and especially so among leave voters
3.Chequers has undermined the association in voters’ minds between the Conservatives and a hard Brexit.
4.Voters have not changed their minds about the merits of Remain vs. Leave or a hard versus a soft Brexit.
https://whatukthinks.org/eu/why-chequers-has-gone-wrong-for-theresa-may/
But here I am to speak what I do know
You all did love her once, not without really good polling data:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for her?
She swallowed all their amendments to Chequers whole !
They need to enjoy their holidays.
Tweets like this are infuriating:
https://twitter.com/mikeysmith/status/1019203955300159488
What's Soames being Churchill's grandson got to do with anything at all.
Would be polite to do so.
And how many want an election anytime soon ?
The SNP have incorporated some amendments too so it's not all gone the ERGs way
Unless it's a reference to his avoirdupois...
I am not sure that his comments carry more weight just because his grandad helped to save civilisation. We continue to have too many politicos and other elites who prosper and are assisted in advancing because of who their dad or grandad or more was. Perhaps if the remain campaign had not been led by the son of a former foreign secretary but by someone who had come from nowt and all that......
Every party has infringed EC rules at some point - some technical some more serious. No one is suggesting the results of previous general elections be set aside because of those. Some might even say that in a democracy you should be free to spend your cash as you wish to fund campaigns as you wish not have them restricted by unelected officials...
Someone like Neil O'Brien, for example.
(*OK. Not most. But not sure it helps
For a firm that likes inverted commas so very much, surprised the top story on the BBC News page is lacking them.
- Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947
REMAIN "spent" more money than LEAVE.
REMAIN spent "more money than LEAVE".
REMAIN spent "more" money than LEAVE.
I thought not. It's not a story the ERG would tell you.
In truth, Soames' supposed gravitas comes from nothing more than the weight of his ancestry.
https://twitter.com/pickardje/status/1019105258562359296?s=21
TSE: No.
Darth Gideon: I thought not. It's not a story the LibDems would tell you. It's a Blogging legend. Darth Smithson was a Daft Lord of the Sith who lived many years ago. He was so powerful and so wise that he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create... AV threads. He had such a knowledge of the Daft Side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying from boredom on Thursday Nights.
TSE: He could do that? He could actually save people from boring themselves to death?
Darth Gideon: The Daft Side of the Force is a pathway to many policy platforms some consider to be unelectable.
TSE: What happened to him?
Darth Gideon: He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, and then one night, his apprentice wiped his servers' hard drives while he slept. It's ironic that he could save others from obscurity, but not himself.
TSE: Is it possible to learn this power?
Darth Gideon: Not from a LibDem...
No 10 has gone completely bonkers in suggesting bringing forward the recess, irrespective or not, that the request had come from some labour MP's. I hope they have the sense to withdraw the motion before they receive total humiliation by a comprehensive rejection across the house.
We have seen the ERG group actively trash business including some of our biggest employers and the remainers using every trick in the book to reverse the referendum including today's incandescent rage over Vote Leave overspending
I have no idea where this goes but any attempt to crash us onto the rocks by the philosophy of ERG or to manufacture a second referendum by remainers needs to be comprehensively rejected by MP's
Parliament must accept the damage this is doing to our reputation World wide and how we are belittling ourselves. Parliament as a whole has to get a grip
I am wholly ashamed of the politicians that are supposed to be acting in the Country's best interests
A plague on all their houses.
Or is it just that reading about the story on here, I only hear from brexiteers?
What I wrote was this:
‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.’
- Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947
...... with brains.
It would also explain why the PM wants a recess now! Fearing something nasty in the Sundays?
I always find Hockenheim a bit tricky to remember. It's fairly tight and twisty. Between the top two, I'd guess Mercedes, but I'd perhaps be more tempted by Red Bull.
Ah, but I'm realising that vote Leave decided to jump the gun and get their side of the story out before the report was properly released/ready. Clever.
Don't get me wrong, it always seemed incredible that an inquiry wouldn't talk to both sides.
I do think the EC should have called that a lie the day it was said though.
REMAIN "spent more money than LEAVE".
REMAIN "spent" more money than LEAVE.
REMAIN spent "more money than LEAVE".
REMAIN spent "more" money than LEAVE.
REMAIN spent more money than "LEAVE".
“The party and its officers cooperated fully throughout the
investigation. However, this is an experienced party that failed to
meet the basic requirements of the law, and cases like this undermine voters’ confidence in our political finance system. This is why we have applied the highest financial penalty available to us.
“This also highlights why we have been calling on the UK government to make higher sanctioning powers available to us. With millions of pounds being spent by large parties looking to form national governments, a fine of £20,000 is no longer a strong enough deterrent to ensure the rules are properly followed.”
What is needed is to give constituents more power over their MPs, so that MPs have to develop a closer relationship with their voters, and then perhaps we can move away from MPs being reliant on their party label to get hem elected into safe seats. Introducing a powerful recall mechanism would be one way to do this. Then MPs might have the confidence to assert their constituents will over the PM.
Haven't decided which way to plump, yet.
There is nothing that is completely absent of all bias as all organisations are made up of human beings, but there are three institutions that we in Britain should genuinely be proud of their fundamental fairness; the judiciary, the civil service and the BBC. Sadly all three have been viciously attacked by the brexit militias. It tells you all you need to know about those that wrap themselves in the union flag.