howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The PM has told the 1922 committee that she will resign if they vote for her deal but it is up to the Speaker to put it to the vote only if there are substantial charges which I can hardly see the EU agreeing to that.
Brian Dixon
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Another day of getting nearer to getting nowhere but my preferred option of staying in the Customs Union was the nearest to getting a majority. The PM cunningly has not given a date on leaving and despite many of her MPs changing sides to support her deal the DUP are steadfast that they will vote her down if the deal comes back to the Commons.
General Election anyone?
Captain Haddock
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Charlie voted for:
No-deal: Leaving the EU on 12 April without a deal (John Baron's proposal - 160 for, 400 against) and
Standstill arrangement: Seeking a tariff-free trade agreement with the EU that will last for two years, during which time Britain will contribute to the EU budget (Marcus Fysh's proposal - 139 for, 422 against)
and against all the rest.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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So does this mean that JRM just goes back to being a regular backbencher? No need to continually interview him now he has sold out? After all, he is no longer the "Hardline Brexiteer" that made him a household name.
You all know that I am ultra remain, but I have to say, I have far more respect for the likes of Bill Cash, John Redwood etc as at least they hold principled views, no matter how much I disagree. Charlie, JRM and Boris are the worse kind - voting this way and that so long as it advances their own political career. Not a good look.
As for last night, what a mess! Really, what a mess. We now know that a people's vote is the most popular route according to Parliament, but even that does not enjoy a majority. Where on earth next?!
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Meanwhile at Gatwick Airport!
'Businessman detained at Gatwick over anti-Brexit badge'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-47724095"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Heavy handed but with the atmosphere in the country at the moment with people threatening physical violence against anyone that disagrees with them it is understandable. Some sort of businessman that goes around wearing an infantile badge designed to start an argument.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:understandable?
an infantile badge designed to start an argument?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/03/13/john-bercow-faces-backlash-b-brexit-car-sticker/
On the plus side at least it suggests that SB (?) are pro-Brexit?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button- Location: Dover
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Well of course they are! Or at least, having had to postpone their holidays once already due the ban on leave around 29th March, they don't want to have to rearrange them all over again to avoid April. Or May.
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Button- Location: Dover
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By coincidence, see
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47737635 on an ECHR ruling. Two highlights from the article:
- court's ruling means police can preventatively detain people even if they have no specific intelligence linking the individual to crime
- The judgement was significantly influenced by a decision in an unrelated football hooligan case from Denmark, which concluded that police could detain people - and therefore interfere with their right to liberty - if they believed it would prevent someone getting involved in later disorder.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Indeed the officer in question was quite within his/her rights. That said, I'm not sure that the word "bollocks" carries that much of an offense nowadays. Ironically, I have a friend in the Border Force who is also a town councillor. On skittles evenings, if he had imbibed too much during the lunchtime session, he would occasionally venture out in a T-Shirt embazoned with the words "Even God knows you're a c**t".
I wonder whether he would dare wear it when flying abroad for his hols
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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this Brexit thingy is getting worse than a brian rix sketch.
Weird Granny Slater
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Rather worrying if you can now get arrested for sporting a bollocky badge or for painting your face nowhere near a wedding. Leonid Brezhnev certainly would have approved. If this is the kind of defence of liberty that the ECHR guarantees, then we'd best be rid of it.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock wrote:We will leave on 29 March. The rest is noise.
It's Independence Day, and the sun's shining too! Hip hip hooray!
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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They're all coming in on their day off for the next vital vote, no late evening stuff as everything is timed to finish at 1430 hours.
Button- Location: Dover
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Fog in Channel - continent cut off!
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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A plague on ALL their houses.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson