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Jul 10, 2018 22:03:20 GMT
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Post by donavan on Jul 10, 2018 22:03:20 GMT
Mayday Mayday !!!
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Jul 20, 2018 9:56:07 GMT
Post by dlgladwin on Jul 20, 2018 9:56:07 GMT
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Nov 24, 2018 20:21:48 GMT
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Post by donavan on Nov 24, 2018 20:21:48 GMT
Pantomime season is coming. And guess who'll pay for It?
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Nov 25, 2018 19:34:49 GMT
Post by miles on Nov 25, 2018 19:34:49 GMT
Okay May drew her line in the sand. There are skeptics, this from Matthew d'Ancona"
"But this is an ex-deal. The only reason it is sitting on its perch is because it has been nailed there.
It is dead because it simply cannot survive the ‘meaningful vote' in the House of Commons expected on 10 December It is dead because – barring a truly dramatic realignment of parliamentary opinion – it simply cannot survive the “meaningful vote” in the House of Commons expected on 10 December.
Julian Smith, the government chief whip – who looks like a dentist who positively enjoys giving his patients insufficient Novocaine – is now May’s most important cabinet colleague by far. In the next fortnight he and his team must use every conceivable inducement and threat to reach the magic total of 320 votes: knighthoods, peerages, gongs and legislative time will be offered to waverers. Those MPs who oppose the deal will be asked whether their families would really enjoy reading about their sexual indiscretions in the newspapers. Most of this nasty work will be carried out by intermediaries (even whips need plausible deniability). But any and every tactic available to the government will be used; this is life and death, and no time for political squeamishness.
But I still don’t see how Smith does it. Some MPs, strapped to the dentist’s chair, will indeed give in when he holds the drill in front of their eyes and asks: “Is your vote safe?” But I have yet to be convinced that he can get from around 260 (if you assume, generously, the support for the deal of 15 Labour rebels) to 320."
First question is will May survive until xmas?
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Nov 25, 2018 19:50:35 GMT
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Post by donavan on Nov 25, 2018 19:50:35 GMT
Trouble is if it all turns to shit there could be a General Election and MP's could lose their seat and with that their power and salary + perks. Always sharpens the mind.
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Dec 11, 2018 19:39:03 GMT
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Post by donavan on Dec 11, 2018 19:39:03 GMT
You couldn't make it up.
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Dec 22, 2018 14:16:18 GMT
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Post by donavan on Dec 22, 2018 14:16:18 GMT
Stupid woman. Stupid people. Considering May is one of the people Corbyn was referring to I guess he did say stupid woman in a round-about way. And she is, so what's the problem. Simples.
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Jan 15, 2019 20:18:57 GMT
Post by miles on Jan 15, 2019 20:18:57 GMT
Theresa May has sustained the heaviest parliamentary defeat of any British prime minister in the democratic era after MPs rejected her Brexit deal by a resounding majority of 230.
The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, immediately moved to sieze the initiative, tabling a vote of no confidence in the government.
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Jan 15, 2019 23:11:50 GMT
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Post by donavan on Jan 15, 2019 23:11:50 GMT
Which he will lose. So sick of listening to May banging on about democracy and how we need to deliver Brexit and carry out the will of the people. There was nothing democratic about the lies that were told in the campaign for Brexit and silence about the mess that would follow. And the lack of infomation from the REMAIN camp was staggering. But I still think if we had another referendum LEAVE would win again by a bigger margin. Then we would be back here again. There's no end to it. Thanks Dave.
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Jan 31, 2019 19:34:24 GMT
Post by miles on Jan 31, 2019 19:34:24 GMT
Emergency “trauma packs” flown into the UK during terrorist attacks are being stockpiled in Britain by the pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson over concerns of a risk to life from border delays in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
Shit's getting real. This is starting to remind me of Thelma and Louise. I hope the brakes are put on this time.
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Feb 1, 2019 0:28:50 GMT
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Post by donavan on Feb 1, 2019 0:28:50 GMT
Mad World. Only one sure outcome to all of this. The likes of me will pay for it whatever happens. Same old same old. Will we ever learn?......... Probably not.
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Post by longinglook on Mar 17, 2019 19:55:13 GMT
HA HA
"LEAVER: I want an omelette.
REMAINER: Right. It’s just we haven’t got any eggs.
LEAVER: Yes, we have. There they are. [HE POINTS AT A CAKE]
REMAINER: They’re in the cake.
LEAVER: Yes, get them out of the cake, please.
REMAINER: But we voted in 1974 to put them into a cake.
LEAVER: Yes, but that cake has got icing on it. Nobody said there was going to be icing on it.
REMAINER: Icing is good.
LEAVER: And there are raisins in it. I don’t like raisins. Nobody mentioned raisins. I demand another vote.
DAVID CAMERON ENTERS.
DAVID CAMERON: OK.
DAVID CAMERON SCARPERS.
LEAVER: Right, where’s my omelette?
REMAINER: I told you, the eggs are in the cake.
LEAVER: Well, get them out.
EU: It’s our cake.
JEREMY CORBYN: Yes, get them out now.
REMAINER: I have absolutely no idea how to get them out. Don’t you know how to get them out?
LEAVER: Yes! You just get them out and then you make an omelette.
REMAINER: But how?! Didn’t you give this any thought?
LEAVER: Saboteur! You’re talking eggs down. We could make omelettes before the eggs went into the cake, so there’s no reason why we can’t make them now.
THERESA MAY: It’s OK, I can do it.
REMAINER: How?
THERESA MAY: There was a vote to remove the eggs from the cake, and so the eggs will be removed from the cake.
REMAINER: Yeah, but…
LEAVER: Hang on, if we take the eggs out of the cake, does that mean we don’t have any cake? I didn’t say I didn’t want the cake, just the bits I don’t like.
EU: It’s our cake.
REMAINER: But you can’t take the eggs out of the cake and then still have a cake.
LEAVER: You can. I saw the latest Bake Off and you can definitely make cakes without eggs in them. It’s just that they’re horrible.
REMAINER: Fine. Take the eggs out. See what happens.
LEAVER: It’s not my responsibility to take the eggs out. Get on with it.
REMAINER: Why should I have to come up with some long-winded incredibly difficult chemical process to extract eggs that have bonded at the molecular level to the cake, while somehow still having the cake?
LEAVER: You lost, get over it.
THERESA MAY: By the way, I’ve started the clock on this.
REMAINER: So I assume you have a plan?
THERESA MAY: Actually, back in a bit. Just having another election.
REMAINER: Jeremy, are you going to sort this out?
JEREMY CORBYN: Yes. No. Maybe.
EU: It’s our cake.
LEAVER: Where’s my omelette? I voted for an omelette.
REMAINER: This is ridiculous. This is never going to work. We should have another vote, or at least stop what we’re doing until we know how to get the eggs out of the cake while keeping the bits of the cake that we all like.
LEAVER/MAY/CORBYN: WE HAD A VOTE. STOP SABOTAGING THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. EGGSIT MEANS EGGSIT.
REMAINER: Fine, I’m moving to France. The cakes are nicer there.
LEAVER: You can’t. We’ve taken your freedom of movement."
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Mar 18, 2019 19:03:47 GMT
Post by miles on Mar 18, 2019 19:03:47 GMT
My favorite bit.
REMAINER: Why should I have to come up with some long-winded incredibly difficult chemical process to extract eggs that have bonded at the molecular level to the cake, while somehow still having the cake?
LEAVER: You lost, get over it.
Actually this is exactly the same argument the MAGATS make when you point out the facts, like kids in cages, stealing the tax revenue for the uber-rich (and then saying we can't afford Medicare and Social Security,) dumping pollution in the rivers and air, and ripping up all our treaties with the sane world. If you tell them they shouldn't stick their hand in the garbage disposal when it is running, they want to do it just to "own the libs," and "Freedom!"
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Mar 20, 2019 18:22:27 GMT
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Post by donavan on Mar 20, 2019 18:22:27 GMT
When I see the grown-ups shouting childishly at each other in the House of Commons it makes me hate the fucking lot of them.
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Mar 21, 2019 17:53:00 GMT
Post by miles on Mar 21, 2019 17:53:00 GMT
When I see the grown-ups shouting childishly at each other in the House of Commons it makes me hate the fucking lot of them. I see children acting more like adults these days than their elders.
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