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While calling one is the sensible thing to do and essential it really needs to be delayed until Parliament returns after the Party Conferences when the chance of an election before October 31st has past...
Chikhura Sachkhere 1 - Aberdeen 1
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The Tories were divided in Major's day. Didn't let Smith, Blair etc off the hook from providing strong opposition. Which was not just opposing everything for opposing's sake.
Heck, there wouldn't have been a 2017 election as she wouldn't have had a lead in the polls.
On the other hand with another leader the ERG wouldn't have rebelled so much so the chances are we would have left the EU on the 31st March so things aren't all bad...
Now we just need Varadkar, Barnier and Juncker [when he sobers up] to feel the same and we can get somewhere.
Boris is currently screwed if we don't leave on October 31st - and the time to do that via an election has probably already passed...
And you don't have to wait long. Parliament is only back for (I think) 3 days in the time frame that provides an October election...
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From where I'm sitting though, Labour have sharpened up considerably since the early Corbyn days.
I watched the Major/Blair PMQs in my teenage years. Major used to win all the time - the public cared not a jot.
Yet you say you wish fervently that Corbyn would shape up and bring this Tory government down.
This does not scan. Not without a convoluted insincere explanation anyway.
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows, a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.”
I know the feeling.
I've long said that Brexit has made most people on here, on both sides, insane.
FFIW I agree with Chloe, Labour's unwillingness to embrace the referendum result has ended up with parliament getting a bit messy.
And most of the above is blue-on-blue violence... sure, Labour has voted against Tory legislation (with some rebellions of their own) and called for people to resign, but there is little feeling of them making rather than merely enjoying the weather.
If you really want to stop Boris the best way s to force him to commit to a route and come up against his October deadline.
When no deal is no longer something that can be defended as something we have to say to get a good deal but the actual explicit plan then Tory MPs who oppose no deal will have a choice to make.
Much like the early failed 2nd ref motion designed to attack Labour it will provide a propaganda victory to the side they apparently are against.
Either we remain or the UK ends and they deal with the weakened rump English state as they feel fit until we are trusted to join as a new state. You’ve lost. You just don’t realise it yet.
If on the other extreme it turns out to be a disaster the Conservatives and Johnson will carry the can and so they should.
Only recently has our policy gone to 2nd referendum for any brexit.
Europa League second qualifying round 1st leg
Chikhura Sachkhere 1 - Aberdeen 1
With that away goal I think I can now play the secret song-
https://youtu.be/yplpOHHKaC0
What exactly is it? I don't know, silly to speculate, but watch this space.
Think back to Blair and the Iraq war. The opposition was more gung ho than the Labour Party and so should have borne some of the blame, but most of it was down to Blair and the government because they call the shots.
Probably the most effective grouping in the Referendum campaign was Labour Leave.
Varadkar is one of 27 but he is the one that matters. If he blinks, the 27 blink, since this who thing is them standing in solidarity with Ireland. If Ireland says "we have an alternative we would prefer" then then other 26 aren't going to veto that.
We are no more going to be a new state of the EU than Pakistan is going to be a new state of India, or Alberta a new state of the USA. You're delusional.
I’m sure Grieve and Bercow will be spending a few hours of their summer holiday coming up with a plan.
You pretty soon come the Government of course, and then the Official Oppsition.
Voters are quite a long way down, but not blameless.
It would be ultimately ironic if the ERG are his undoing...
Presumably Boles as a recent Conservative will be delighted with this? Presumably he's not using Thatcherite as an insult?
Bozo would have won that and he would have been taking that as a mandate for his Brexit plan .
I like the Lib Dems and Swinson but her idea was grandstanding and self defeating .
I heard today that Cummings thinks they are a bunch of tosspots...
And it would mean we are NOT about to enter a new Golden Age.
Don't know who to believe now - you or Boris Johnson.
It matters not a whit of course if he gets the substantive stuff wrong, but there's a degree of comfort that he's up for the job.
Steve Baker is no loss as a minister. (Probably be no loss to sweeping-up either)
The press keep pushing this apparent mix of Remain or Leave to dupe the public . The cabinet is all signed up to no deal .
He needs to chill a bit . He is though quite a polite guy and doesn’t make we want to punch the tv like Francois .
There’s pisspoor mobile coverage.
I see Cyclefree’s article is not particularly popular with either Borisites or Corbynites, but is seems a fair assessment to me.
The spectacle of Corbyn sitting on his hands for three years as far as Brexit is concerned has not been an edifying one.
(Whole thing is really quite funny. Enjoy your holiday though rather than worrying about pizza.)
edit: sorry can't use meme - a good word, but not one to be used
If I was going to guess at a snap election result I would imagine something similar to now, but with a few less tories and Labour net, and a few more lib dems and SNP net.
In other news, it is so hot in Paris that even the wind is hot and doesn't cool you down. It's unbearable.
Whereas he comes across as a particularly stroppy teenager.