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Another MP stepping down but this time a Labour MP and because he's 78 and wants some drat rest https://twitter.com/TheSimonGilbert/status/1171030490200985601
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The DUP are still going to vote down any deal that they don't like. They didn't vanish in a puff of smoke when the tory majority collapsed, so I'm not sure how this gambit is expected to work.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:The DUP are still going to vote down any deal that they don't like. They didn't vanish in a puff of smoke when the tory majority collapsed, so I'm not sure how this gambit is expected to work. All the better to be no confidenced with.
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Sep 9, 2019 16:48
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Hell of a risk given how much these things can be self-fulfilling prophecies. Hmm. Massive risk, uncertain payoff...Dominic Cummings?
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Sep 9, 2019 16:50
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Tesseraction posted:Another MP stepping down but this time a Labour MP and because he's 78 and wants some drat rest oh Geoff Robbo is gone too? loving good, he was a poo poo MP, he lives in Surrey for gently caress's sake
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Sep 9, 2019 16:51
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escapegoat posted:Is there anything that prevents him running for another party in a safe seat, renouncing membership on election, then remaining as speaker? His family. He already promised them to step down at the end of the 2015-2020 parliament, but stayed on at the 2017 election to see Brexit through. As it's clear Brexit will still be happening in 3020, this is a good point to step down.
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escapegoat posted:Is there anything that prevents him running for another party in a safe seat, renouncing membership on election, then remaining as speaker? you may not have noticed but Bercow is extremely anti this kind of rules-lawyering also "I'll replace your very popular constituency MP but I won't actually be able to represent you at all in Parliament" is, er, not the best election campaign slogan
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Sep 9, 2019 16:54
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Bercow is cool and everything but this is starting to feel conspicuously lengthy.
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Sep 9, 2019 17:00
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Bercow owned and I hope whoever replaces him is as good at ratfucking the tories
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Sep 9, 2019 17:02
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Sep 9, 2019 17:03
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Apaprently pfeffel did hint at the backstop becoming standard this morning: https://twitter.com/GeorgeWParker/status/1171089035902758912
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Sep 9, 2019 17:04
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xtothez posted:His family. He already promised them to step down at the end of the 2015-2020 parliament, but stayed on at the 2017 election to see Brexit through. It also nicely fucks the Tories because (assuming Labour win, or at least the Tories lose, the next election) they lose the ability to nominate a Tory speaker for the next Parliament (the Speaker is usually drawn from the opposition).
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Sep 9, 2019 17:05
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It just occurred to me that the Tory conference will be during porogation and will be absolutely F U C K I N G L E G E N D A R Y.
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Sep 9, 2019 17:05
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madey posted:Bercow is cool and everything but this is starting to feel conspicuously lengthy. Grieve up to something now tho and tories coming back in Here we go
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Sep 9, 2019 17:07
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As an aside I found out this past week that one branch of my family were from Cork and only left due to the Potato Famine, later ending up in Canada.
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Sep 9, 2019 17:07
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https://twitter.com/alexwickham/status/1171084067049226240?s=21 Oh dear.
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Sep 9, 2019 17:08
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As a more pertinent aside. Is it me or are there a fuckload more spiders around this year?
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Sep 9, 2019 17:09
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Haha, what a photo.
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Sep 9, 2019 17:09
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lmaooooo bercow entering full troll mode
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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escapegoat posted:Is there anything that prevents him running for another party in a safe seat, renouncing membership on election, then remaining as speaker? I believe he can't actually represent a party while he's the speaker. So he'd presumably have to run as independent.
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Sep 9, 2019 17:13
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Tesseraction posted:Apaprently pfeffel did hint at the backstop becoming standard this morning: The backstop's permanent though, by definition! There's no unilateral way out of it, that's the whole point. If the UK can just get out of it without agreeing a new arrangement then it's not a backstop even if that's what he's still calling it
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Sep 9, 2019 17:13
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Tesseraction posted:As a more pertinent aside. Is it me or are there a fuckload more spiders around this year? I used to sit outside to smoke and my chair was right next to a huge bush that I've seen spiders weave and grow and weave and grow. Since I have stopped smoking/don't smoke as much, I haven't seen many spiders this year. My vaguely stopping smoking has killed all the spiders in my garden.
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Sep 9, 2019 17:13
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Holy poo poo Bercow just ripped into whoever that was, even by Bercow standards.
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Sep 9, 2019 17:14
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I'm watching Parliament Live and have SwearyBercow Twitter open at the same time. The pinned tweet says: Sweary Bercow @BercowSweary · Mar 27 THE HONOURABLE MEMBER CAN CHUNTER FROM A SEDENTARY POSITION IF HE LIKES BUT LET ME INFORM HIM THAT I WILL PUT MY loving SIZE TEN RIGHT IN HIS loving HOOP IF HE DOESN'T SHUT THE gently caress UP and Bercow has just yelled "THE HONOURABLE MEMBER CAN CHUNTER FROM A SEDENTARY POSITION IF HE LIKES" twice irl.
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Sep 9, 2019 17:14
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Tesseraction posted:As a more pertinent aside. Is it me or are there a fuckload more spiders around this year? I haven't seen many spiders in the flat at least, there's been a couple but most of them I see are happy enough to stay outside where they loving belong. Though there have been multiple instances of me leaving for work and walking into a web over the porch.
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Hobo posted:Holy poo poo Bercow just ripped into whoever that was, even by Bercow standards. it was peter boner and someone from the government
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Sep 9, 2019 17:16
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7clLMLbcg4
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Sep 9, 2019 17:18
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Tesseraction posted:As an aside I found out this past week that one branch of my family were from Cork and only left due to the Potato Famine, later ending up in Canada. Hey cousin let's go
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Sep 9, 2019 17:18
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OwlFancier posted:I think trying that had something to do with the civil war. Actually, Prime Ministers are an 18th century thing originating precisely because of the gradual loss of power of the monarchy. The equivalent would be direct rule by Her Maj in her own right 
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suck my woke dick posted:it was peter boner and someone from the government heh, you said boner
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Sep 9, 2019 17:19
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Manly idleness lol.
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Sep 9, 2019 17:24
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lol that was savage.
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Sep 9, 2019 17:24
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Grieve is not happy with the government lol.
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Dead Goon posted:We were basically allowed to roam the school and drop into different classrooms that had things going on. Remember at the end of term in German we got to vote to watch something, either Sister Act or Red Dwarf. Some lassie tried the "if you don't vote how I like I'll get my brother to beat you up", which is probably the most passionate anyone has ever been about that poo poo film. Anyway, Sister Act won and I just slept for a double period, and somehow still never got beaten up. School was such fun.
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feedmegin posted:Actually, Prime Ministers are an 18th century thing originating precisely because of the gradual loss of power of the monarchy. The equivalent would be direct rule by Her Maj in her own right I blame American media. Or the British public's famed wrongness about everything.
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Sep 9, 2019 17:28
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Jfc. The fact that these people are actually voted for by members of the public.
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Sep 9, 2019 17:30
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Grieve is saying the government is conspiring to shut down parliament, with premeditation, for the purposes of upending parliamentary sovereignty.
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Tesseraction posted:As a more pertinent aside. Is it me or are there a fuckload more spiders around this year?   It's been a good year for bugs in general weather wise so spiders are doing well too
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The prime minister does not have the capacity to answer questions as to his motive because he doesn't understand how serious they are 
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