Further to my post this morning on whether No Deal will win by time-out, and the inability of a no-confidence vote to stop the government putting in a Statutory Instrument to delay Brexit, another option is a direct Parliamentary vote for an early election, which requires a two-thirds majority in Parliament. But I’m not sure […]
So this is how it seems things stand to me. I’m not sure this is all completely right, so feel free to correct me, or take issue with any of it. (I don’t claim to be an expert on British Parliamentary procedure.) The media, I note, have failed to do any serious research on this […]
Imagine being so stupid that you get outwitted by Theresa May and her con game. Imagine being as stupid as the Tory MP (Esther McVey?), who said that May’s deal is worse than remain, but she was still going to vote for it now. Social media
Would anyone say, of the Christchurch killings, ‘Oh, that’s just part and parcel of living in a big city?’ Of course they wouldn’t. That would be an an outrage. So why is it all right for Sadiq Khan to say it of London terrorist attacks? Social media
I have been worried about John Bercow for a long time. He was placed at the heart of Parliament by Labour and some Tory elitists precisely because he was a weapon for them. The power an activist Speaker wields, especially in a Parliament which doesn’t have a large majority, and especially when Parliament is full […]
Bloke on the M4 in the comments at Tim Worstall’s blog: I want a delay because every day, every vote, the Conservatives are going to lose people who will never return. 2 years would be perfect. Give Farage a nice bit of breathing space to destroy Conservative councils up and down England and Wales. Really […]
John Duckett in the comments: Parliament rules because we give it consent through the electoral process. We gave quite clear instructions that the UK was to leave the EU. If they cannot or will not comply with those instructions then we must withdraw our consent to be governed by them. I am not advocating violence, […]
The vote to cancel No Deal changes nothing. It’s not binding. All it has done is revealed those MPs who have betrayed us. A nice little list of people who will be shortly be discovering some additional uses for piano wire.* Here is the traitor’s list: Guto Bebb Aberconwy Richard Benyon Newbury Nick Boles Grantham […]
Theresa May has no right to be anywhere near the Houses of Parliament, let alone to be pretending she is our leader. Most Conservative MPs, including most of those who make up the government, have no right to be there. The same applies to most Labour MPs. Not only have they tried to overturn the […]
If someone really is prepared to remove X from a contract then X gets crossed out. But if that person spends weeks and weeks resisting X’s removal, then it’s there for a reason. Even if that person says they’re not really that serious about X. If X stays in despite numerous attempts to get X […]
You might have thought that Tim Newman had said all their is to say about poyamory, but then he just comes up with another great fisking: >We’re both nervous and don’t know what to expect. I’ve pushed Brad to “go first” in dating and sexually exploring other women. He’s been on two dates so far, […]
Here’s an awful possibility: suppose the Tory Remainers join forces with Labour? They get the no confidence motion passed first, with Labour’s help. There’s then two weeks in which any grouping has the chance to form a government. The Tory Remainers, along with TIG, then vote for a new coalition government made up of Labour […]
The Telegraph reports: a bill to change the day of our EU exit and bind the Government into a permanent customs union If I had any cartooning skill then right now I’d be drawing a cartoon of Parliament trying to force the UK into a customs union, while the ERG are about to yank the […]
Watch this clip of Will Self and Mark Francois. (Or don’t watch it. I won’t blame you if you just read a book instead.) Mark Francois: “A slur on 17.4m people…you should apologise on national TV….outrageous thing to say” Author @wself “You seem to find a lot of things outrageous…What I said was every racist […]
The Guardian: Tories are prejudiced against Islam, says council candidate Why is Islam a protected religion? Would there be any controversy if a political party didn’t like scientologists? Wouldn’t it in fact be a scandal if that political party was selecting scientologists? And why should a political party with a certain set of beliefs be […]
Quite a few of my readers don’t like social media, and don’t use it. Lucky buggers. One of the idiot things you miss out on is surveys. What happens is Mr Flat Earth does a poll, saying ‘Do you believe the Earth is flat or spherical?’ Mr Flat Earth’s followers, 99% of whom believe in […]
I don’t think this is something is has been noticed much, but one of the key reasons why claims about anthropogenic climate change have been able to thrive despite a lack of serious underlying evidence is similar to one of the key reasons as to why alternative medicine has been able to thrive despite a […]
Seriously, how much of a fool would you have to be to sign a contract offered to you by the EU? After all the thuggish behaviour we’ve seen them engage in? Now that it’s clear that they don’t represent the other 27 EU countries? Now that it’s clear that they’re an oligarchy who are only […]
The Guardian has been going on again about the recent Brexit boogieman of ‘chlorinated chicken’ from the US: All of which brings us to our second glimpse of the kind of deal a post-Brexit UK might expect from the US. On Thursday Lighthizer released Washington’s “negotiating objectives”, starting with “comprehensive market access for US agricultural […]
For centuries Britain was a place of continual wars between all sorts of tribes and factions. Fighting and rebellions were commonplace. Heads were regularly displaced from bodies. You hardly need me to give examples. It’s only in the last few hundred years that internal peace settled over the land, and that was mainly due to […]