Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,656
A wet day in Dover no wonder nobody wanted to talk about Brexit, I know I would have probably said the same. Could the reporter not found a single person who would talk to him in the dry like a cafe or pub, but maybe they would not fit his agenda.
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,205
He says he spent 2 hrs trying to get people to talk about brexit and only got 2 remainers to talk!
Me thinks he's not being entirely truthful!
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
All the remainers would be indoors in wet weather, polishing their keyboard warrior skills.
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 2,900
Having skimmed this morning's papers, I find myself agreeing with Kimmie: leaving the letter unsigned was not something I'd thought of. Very clever, bit like putting a blind eye to one's telescope.
And as the Honourable Lady said (
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2019-10-19/debates/48144FF8-0E08-455A-8175-1EB64918D29E/EuropeanUnion(Withdrawal)Acts): "When this House voted overwhelmingly to give the choice of our membership of the EU to the British people, did we really mean it? When we voted to trigger article 50, did we really mean it? When the two main parties represented in this House stood on manifestos in the 2017 general election to deliver Brexit, did we really mean it? I think there can be only one answer to that: yes, we did mean it; yes, we keep faith with the British people; yes, we want to deliver Brexit."
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,656
Button wrote:
When the two main parties represented in this House stood on manifestos in the 2017 general election to deliver Brexit, did we really mean it? I think there can be only one answer to that: yes, we did mean it; yes, we keep faith with the British people; yes, we want to deliver Brexit."
What that Honourable Lady really meant was.......But if we are to be entirely honest that yes was only if we have to, the truth is we will do all we can to stop the exit.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,841
Pablo wrote:All the remainers would be indoors in wet weather, polishing their keyboard warrior skills.
Isn't it unwise, P, and not a little dramatically ironic, to level an accusation of keyboard warriordom from behind a keyboard? And, to be fair, many remainers were in Westminster yesterday, if only to assist in kicking a dented can further down a lengthening road.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
its getting to stupid for words now. either we get out with a good deal or don't bother at all and revoke article 50 altogether.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,470
The year is 2192. The British Prime Minister visits Brussels to ask for an extension of the Brexit deadline. No one remembers where this tradition originated, but every year it attracts many tourists from all over the world.
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'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,205
Shouldn't that read: "Visits their capital city and asks the supreme leader"
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Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,225
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,981
What a shambles .Going round and round the Mulberry bush.You couldn’t make it up.The Speaker is so biased .Time he went.Some good MP now shooting him down well done that chap,The Speaker makes it up me thinks .
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,656
The Speaker appears to be so biased towards anything that halts or slows anything to do with Brexit.
This whole fiasco could have been sorted by now one way or the other if he had refused even half of the amendments some of which were simply to cause further problems.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,656
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50128740
"But Tory MP and Brexiteer Sir Bernard Jenkin appeared to accused Mr Bercow of bias, saying it was "remarkable" how often the Speaker "pleased one lot and not the other".
"It is most unusual for a Speaker so often to prevent the government having a debate on the matters which the government wish put before the House," he added.
Fellow Tory David T C Davies said: "The only consistency one can find in your rulings is that they always seem to favour one side of the argument and never the government."
But Mr Bercow disagreed, adding: "The consistent thread is I try to do what I think is right by the House of Commons.".....
.......He should have added and the Remain MPs, and of cause he disagreed he thinks he is perfect.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,981
Jan I got so fed up with the Speaker I went up the road to clear my head.A little man so pompous .Mind you his wife is Labour .
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,841
Point of order! Might I remind honourable members that the administrations that've repeatedly failed to deliver our EU exit have all been Tory. First Cameron slunk off with his tail between his legs after a surprise whipping; then Mrs Strong-and-Stable, realising with horror that the thing might actually happen, plunged us into an utterly superfluous election in order to wobble her majority and thus make sure that it didn't, not only by accepting a dog's turd of a WA, which keeps us in thrall to the EU with zero say, but by giving ample opportunity to any chancer from any party or none who wanted to delay or stop the whole thing; then Johnson took the turd, sprayed some deodoriser on it, and hoped we'd mistake it for a bunch of roses. Now (late of the Conservative Party) Mr Letwin's galliard is just the newest entry in the top ten of high-stepping, can-kicking dance tunes. Goddamn it, the Speaker's a Tory, too! There's either some serious incompetence among those privately-educated, high-nosed high-achievers, or some darkly impressive choreography.
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Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Do nothing and nothing happens.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
biased hardly, more a defender of the bullyed.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,981
Take your blinkers off Brian
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 2,900
In the interests of balance, shall we hear from t'Labour Party on Brexit?
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
no blinkers here sue, just saying as I see.