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« Reply #50 on: September 11, 2019, 10:59:55 AM »
"Fluid, confusing issue with very little precedent" is Brexit to a tee.
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« Reply #51 on: September 15, 2019, 11:11:16 AM »
The real concern about Corbyn is possible capital flight, but as he's very unlikely to win a majority and will rely on Lib Dem and/or SNP support, Citibank now think that would be better for the UK than a No Deal Brexit.

(The Telegraph story is behind a paywall, so I won't like it here)
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« Reply #52 on: September 16, 2019, 09:34:21 AM »
He's not exactly delivered in opposition...
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« Reply #53 on: September 19, 2019, 11:55:03 AM »
The Tory conference is going to be very interesting for the local constabulary, that is for sure.
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« Reply #54 on: September 20, 2019, 02:27:59 PM »
Some people felt May's deal wasn't "proper Brexit".
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« Reply #55 on: September 20, 2019, 03:11:31 PM »
Another thing of interest: a motion has been tabled to the Labour NEC to abolish the position of Deputy Leader...
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« Reply #56 on: September 22, 2019, 02:52:10 AM »
Mike Hill (Hartlepool) has been suspended from Labour over an allegation of sexual harrassment.
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« Reply #57 on: September 22, 2019, 04:05:22 PM »
Labour's policy is now to effectively abolish private schools.
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« Reply #58 on: September 22, 2019, 04:18:31 PM »
Eton would likely survive; the smaller schools would likely go and you'd have to find places for them in the state sector.
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« Reply #59 on: September 23, 2019, 05:38:38 AM »
Thomas Cook has gone bust, partly down to Brexit, although the problems had been there for years.
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« Reply #60 on: September 24, 2019, 04:46:29 AM »
That was comprehensively damning for Boris Johnson and the Government.
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« Reply #61 on: September 24, 2019, 04:56:33 AM »
Labour are in Conference in Brighton. What on Earth this does to the Tory conference in  Manchester next week is unclear - voting by proxy is only allowed for serious illness or maternity, I believe.
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« Reply #62 on: September 26, 2019, 08:29:55 AM »
Quote from: Filuwaúrdjan on September 25, 2019, 04:44:17 PM
A few less whisky-breakfasts would do our politics the world of good right now, I think.

An outright ban of alcohol in the Commons even more.
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« Reply #63 on: September 27, 2019, 04:09:12 PM »
Boris Johnson referred to police watchdog over Jennifer Arcuri links
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« Reply #64 on: October 01, 2019, 03:10:17 PM »
It's a shame portal guns aren't real and we can't get a Jeremy Corbyn from an alternative timeline.
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« Reply #65 on: October 02, 2019, 03:58:04 PM »
It's for the political group that the Tories are in there. Not quite the same thing.
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« Reply #66 on: October 07, 2019, 08:38:21 AM »
Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow) has been suspended from Labour over a sexual harassment allegation.
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« Reply #67 on: October 08, 2019, 03:22:12 PM »
if Boris asks for an extension, he'll claim Remainers forced him to do so.
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« Reply #68 on: October 10, 2019, 01:57:44 PM »
"Third way centrism" only failed because of a conservative instigated recession.
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« Reply #69 on: October 19, 2019, 02:48:11 PM »
I don't think Boris would like our prisons very much.
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« Reply #70 on: October 19, 2019, 02:51:15 PM »
Quote from: Filuwaúrdjan on October 19, 2019, 12:52:00 PM
Quote from: Mangez des pommes ! on October 19, 2019, 12:26:46 PM
Seems like Parliament just won't let BoJo win Cool

By this point no one* is going to win in a way that they would have defined a win themselves not that long ago. On today's numbers, though, the deal ought to get through safely enough early next week, so long as the government doesn't do anything extraordinarily stupid in the mean time.

*Except for the E.U. as an institution: after all the principle modifications that Johnson made to May's deal were to remove the negotiating gains that May made against the initial E.U. position - hysterical.

This government does extraordinarily stupid a lot of the time. Could be some interesting amendments to the WA bill out there and some came pretty close to passing in the past.
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« Reply #71 on: October 20, 2019, 09:55:08 AM »
Quote from: cp on October 20, 2019, 03:16:17 AM

The numbers would be very tight, and as of writing I think it would probably fail to pass, but that's not the only dynamic at work. There will be multiple opportunities to amend the Withdrawal Act, by the Commons and the Lords, any one of which could produce an amendment that one or another side of the debate find intolerable. An amendment for permanent UK-wide customs union failed only by 2 votes back in April.


Indeed - and some of those who voted against it then arguably only did so as they were in government.
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« Reply #72 on: October 21, 2019, 04:22:54 PM »
There's no guarantee it will pass the Commons before 31 October... and the Lords will have their say too.
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« Reply #73 on: October 22, 2019, 04:26:31 PM »
Tusk has said he's recommending a 31 January 2020 extension and will do the approval by written procedure.
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« Reply #74 on: October 24, 2019, 03:27:06 PM »
Quote from: Justice Blair on October 23, 2019, 03:25:25 PM
The govt have a majority for their domestic legislation & have passed non Brexit bills.


Only relatively uncontroversial ones.
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