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The Brexit Thread
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Dave
Honorary Master
Yes, because a Spectator columnist should be believed above the words actually uttered by Churchill...
You know what they say about opinions?
Dave
Honorary Master
You do realise that Bojo doesn’t have the power to call an early election, don’t you?
Maybe have a look at the Fixed Term Parliament Act and see who does have that power.
Vox Populi Vox Dei
High Tory
You don't know who Andrew Roberts is then do you? Hilarious.
Vox Populi Vox Dei
High Tory
The 21 Tories who will have the whip removed and be banned from standing in the next general election - the usual suspects...with a few added on. Mostly in safe seats and thus need to be replaced by true Brexiteers!!! I remember when Rory Stewart was being excitedly touted by leftie media types as the next Tory leader. Oops.
Dave
Honorary Master
I know he isn’t Winston Churchill and never interviewed Churchill before writing his book.
Dave
Honorary Master
You’re showing ignorance of the system again.
OrbitalDawn
Ulysses Everett McGill
This is spot on.
Your fawning over this puff of wind is risible. This was during a debate and he was called out on it here.
Recap of Boris Johnson's first day in parliament as Prime Minister:
○ First Prime Minister ever to lose their first parliamentary vote (328-301)
○ Loses control of the parliamentary order paper.
○ Roundly battered from all sides, with Ken Clarke, Jeremy Corbyn, and Ian Blackford of the SNP getting particularly hard hits in.
○ Scottish court presented with evidence that Johnson and Cummings were secretly plotting to shut down parliament as they lied to the public that they had no such plans.
○ A Tory MP gets up and crosses the chamber in the middle of Johnson's speech!
○ Johnson's pick as Leader of the Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg roundly condemned for his arrogant and contemptuous behaviour.
○ Apparently drunk Dominic Cummings yells a load of rattled gibberish at Jeremy Corbyn in a parliamentary corridor.
○ Johnson trying to call a snap election amidst the chaos, but highly unlikely to be able to deliver it unless he takes No Deal By Default off the table first.
○ Throws Ken Clarke, Philip Hammond (Tory Chancellor until a few weeks ago), Winston Churchill's grandson, and 18 others out of the Tory party!
○ Tory-DUP majority collapses from +1 to -43.
He's only been in the job a few weeks and he's making rigidly inflexible, profoundly incompetent, and miles out of her depth Theresa May look like a pillar of strength and stability in comparison!
○ First Prime Minister ever to lose their first parliamentary vote (328-301)
○ Loses control of the parliamentary order paper.
○ Roundly battered from all sides, with Ken Clarke, Jeremy Corbyn, and Ian Blackford of the SNP getting particularly hard hits in.
○ Scottish court presented with evidence that Johnson and Cummings were secretly plotting to shut down parliament as they lied to the public that they had no such plans.
○ A Tory MP gets up and crosses the chamber in the middle of Johnson's speech!
○ Johnson's pick as Leader of the Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg roundly condemned for his arrogant and contemptuous behaviour.
○ Apparently drunk Dominic Cummings yells a load of rattled gibberish at Jeremy Corbyn in a parliamentary corridor.
○ Johnson trying to call a snap election amidst the chaos, but highly unlikely to be able to deliver it unless he takes No Deal By Default off the table first.
○ Throws Ken Clarke, Philip Hammond (Tory Chancellor until a few weeks ago), Winston Churchill's grandson, and 18 others out of the Tory party!
○ Tory-DUP majority collapses from +1 to -43.
He's only been in the job a few weeks and he's making rigidly inflexible, profoundly incompetent, and miles out of her depth Theresa May look like a pillar of strength and stability in comparison!
NarrowBandFtw
Honorary Master
I'm sure he lost a lot of sleep over comments from commies ...
pre-planned and staged as hell, meh
When those worthy of your contempt moan about your contempt, it really rolls like water off a duck's back I imagine.
Which merely serves to demonstrate the complete and utter ineptitude of the pathetic parliament, still not coming to terms with the simple fact that nobody in the UK, not BJ, not parliament, not even the f-ing Queen can take "no deal by default" off the table.
It is the legislative effect of how Article 50 works, keep faffing around and it happens, guaranteed. Unless the EU does you a favour and extends it yet again.
Far from it, he is exposing how rigidly inflexible, profoundly incompetent and miles out of their depth the members of parliament are. May was placating this pathetic circus, an approach that ensures failure, never placate a pathetic circus!
Aquila ka Hecate
Executive Member
I'm kind of missing the claims that BoJo is playing 99D chess.
NarrowBandFtw
Honorary Master
Cute, except even a beginner chess player would quickly have figured out by now you don't announce your every move in advance and let your opponent mop the floor with you.
The UK parliament has yet to figure it out, BoJo, or whoever has his ear, at least seem to know that much.
Aquila ka Hecate
Executive Member
The Ignorant Man's representative leader in the UK is having a slightly harder time of it than his counterpart in the US had.
This could be due to the 2 point lead in average IQ points the British have over the United States.
Vox Populi Vox Dei
High Tory
Remind which party has a clear and decisive lead in the polls again? Here I'll even help you...
Opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election - Wikipedia
JRM was roundly condemned by people who already hate Mogg so is not a serious criticism. Lots of Brexiteers loved his defence!
As I said earlier, huge number of Conservatives support Boris' move to deselect the Brexit wreckers, it shows that he is serious and strong. It is correct to punish people who are opposing your government's flagship policy. Certainly, his deselection will gain more followers from the nascent Brexit Party. Quite the opposite to Theresa May, he is not dithering and making bold moves!
It's hilarious from the leftie media how much crying there is over Churchill's son being deselected. An MP of no great distinction living off his grandfather's legacy...thought the left opposed that kind of thing...
Vox Populi Vox Dei
High Tory
Pro Brexit peers preparing to filibuster the bill.
rietrot
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Opponents of 'no-deal' Brexit defeat PM Johnson, who promises an election
British lawmakers defeated Boris Johnson in parliament on Tuesday in a bid to prevent him taking Britain out of the EU without a divorce agreement, prompting the prime minister to announce that he would immediately push for a snap election.
www.reuters.com
Okay this seems like a reasonable unbiased breakdown.
So they want Borris to ask the EU for another extention.
Hopefully that fails, but what would really restore my faith in the EU would be if they then tell Borris to fsckoff amd do a hard Brexit anyway.
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Hehe, we are back to believing polls.
NarrowBandFtw
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aye, but they never will, the EU has proven time and again it is fearful of hard brexit, just a pity that nobody bothered to try and leverage that to date
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