Chuka Can't: The IG Thread

[Patrick Thistle]

Oh we've all replied to that one

[Diable Rouge]

Their former Polish Foreign Minister candidate is under fire for his conservative Catholicism:

http://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1121058464397189121

[ursus arctos]

Why do all of the reactionary Poles in the UK go into politics?

[Nefertiti2]

`but the antipopes formed an opposition alternative to the church, It's not as if Monaghan has funded an alternative Vatican in Ann Arbor and started offering pineapple toppings for the host.

[ursus arctos]

No, Monaghan is more into old school intrigue, with the target in his case being a progressive non-Italian

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/_tony_c_/status/1121480190838890497

[DCI Harry Batt]

How odd. Why would they expect anything other than exactly that from Richard?

[johnr]

How odd. Why would they expect anything other than exactly that from Richard?

Is this you, TT? https://twitter.com/k_w_a_k/status/1...684937216?s=19

[Nefertiti2]

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Amid the confusion, the fudge and the procrastination surrounding Brexit, The Independent has achieved rare brand distinction as the title that is unashamedly aligned with a People’s Vote.

It made the news this month as a cross-party group of MPs, including Chuka Umunna and Caroline Lucas, held up the Indy’s eagle-branded “Final Say” petition boxes outside Number 10 as they delivered more than 1 million signatures supporting a second referendum.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Is this you, TT? https://twitter.com/k_w_a_k/status/1...684937216?s=19

Might be, who's asking?

[johnr]

Well, I read the comments, then clicked on the link, and there was a similar comment. The question was a bit rhetorical though, I don't want to stalk you .

[DCI Harry Batt]

Two completely unrelated people, who are definitely not one and the same person oh no indeed not, having the same thought at the same time and expressing it in the same way. Total, 100% coincidence. No question.

Yes.

[Nefertiti2]

I think what probably happened was this KWAK bloke read your comment on OTF and decided to copy it. I know you are a man of originality and integrity and therefore wouldn't be plagiarising KWAKBloke on here.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Oh that's been going on as long as Catholicism. 800 years ago there were Popes and Anti-popes, who set themselves up in Avignon.

well for a while, the actual pope lived in Avignon, and the anti-popes hung out in Rome. And then the Pope went back to Rome, but the French weren't too happy and set up their own pope. but their heart wasn't in it. Avignon is nice. The freaky thing about the "bridge" is that it's only the first 20% of the original. The other end of it is a Tower that is an awful lot further away than you'd imagine. (920 metres away)

[DCI Harry Batt]

I misunderstood. Or rather, I didn't read Tony's tweet properly. It was published, and then removed. In some ways that's weirder. Ah well.

[Nocturnal Submission]

I misunderstood. Or rather, I didn't read Tony's tweet properly. It was published, and then removed. In some ways that's weirder. Ah well.

Hey, TonTon. Did you see that our old MP Roger Casale has joined ChUK, along with a handful of other ex-MPs, including Stephen Dorrell?

[Lang Spoon]

Stephen Dorrell. Wasn't he the Culture Sec that never watched films? (Which pretty much shows him as a wrong un)

[Nocturnal Submission]

Possibly. I can't honestly remember anything he did. Was he Health Secretary at one point? All I know about him was that he was on the Left of the Conservative Party, young when first elected and someone who, in stark contrast to most of those in Cabinets with him, came over as fairly normal and reasonable.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Hey, TonTon. Did you see that our old MP Roger Casale has joined ChUK, along with a handful of other ex-MPs, including Stephen Dorrell?

I missed that. What an arsehole.

[Diable Rouge]

http://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1121815281033187330TWEET

Electoral Calculus:
Labour 284
Tories 260
SNP 51
Lib Dem 29
NI 18
Plaid Cymru 3
Change UK 2 (!)
Brexit 1
Green 1

[DCI Harry Batt]

Which 2, do you reckon?

[Diable Rouge]

Which 2, do you reckon?

You'd know the UK constituencies better than I would - Allen, perhaps?

[DCI Harry Batt]

I think they have zero chance in all eleven they have currently. Allen might be a bit less unlikely than some others I guess.

[Lang Spoon]

The Nats will never win 51 seats. The Unionist rabble are too tactically aware.

[DCI Harry Batt]

So now they've decided that "no deal" needs to be on the ballot