There is a bit of discussion today around when the Government will end the current parliamentary session, and there's just been a point of order raised in the Commons about it, namely whether it is true that they are seeking to run it to October 31st. The significance being that the confidence and supply arrangement expires at the end of the session and needs to be renewed for a new session.
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Originally posted by Reginald Christ
Oh Christ, I can see and hear the awful, twee, Halloween-themed graphics that fucking Newsnight and every other British news outlet are going to use for that now.
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- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
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Tangentially, visual metaphors are a real bugbear of mine. I don't mind the odd one, but news reports, particularly Brexit news reports, are absolutely addicted to them. We have have weather themed openings or endings ("stormy," "sunny, "damp" etc.), the ones hung onto the activities of a nearby pigeon/squirrel/cat etc. caught on camera, costumes of protesters, passing traffic and on and on and on.
"It was another stormy day in Parliament (shot of dark clouds overhead) as MPs scurried around the corridors of the Palace of Westminster (shot of squirrels in Victoria Tower Gardens) in the wake of the latest news from Brussels. Confidence might be in short supply inside Parliament (shot of woman with "Leave Now - Set Britain Free!" placard) but in the world outside...
Does my head in!
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Originally posted by Sean of the Shed View PostThis should become as normal as calling Neil Warnock Colin Wanker
https://twitter.com/NoRemainNoGain/status/1116046872660140032?s=19
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Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission View PostTangentially, visual metaphors are a real bugbear of mine. I don't mind the odd one, but news reports, particularly Brexit news reports, are absolutely addicted to them. We have have weather themed openings or endings ("stormy," "sunny, "damp" etc.), the ones hung onto the activities of a nearby pigeon/squirrel/cat etc. caught on camera, costumes of protesters, passing traffic and on and on and on.
"It was another stormy day in Parliament (shot of dark clouds overhead) as MPs scurried around the corridors of the Palace of Westminster (shot of squirrels in Victoria Tower Gardens) in the wake of the latest news from Brussels. Confidence might be in short supply inside Parliament (shot of woman with "Leave Now - Set Britain Free!" placard) but in the world outside...
Does my head in!
Anyway, back on topic, May's responses to MP's questions on the delay really are becoming a stuck record. They just need to vote for her deal apparently. We really do have another six months of purgatory.
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- Mar 2008
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Not Bill 'Ignorant' Etheridge? Good to see the big man back. At the 2014 count, I had a nice chat with his Mum, who handed round a tin of buns topped with lurid purple-yellow icing. After a couple of E(U) numbers we were running around like hyperactive toddlers
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So, um, has parliament actually passed whatever needs passing to extend the deadline to 31st Oct? Because last time it wasn't as automatic as the EU offering it and then it was law. Not that it's likely to fail, there were only 60-pdd votes against the extension to today, but, you know...
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I was wondering about that too. From what I recall, the Cooper amendment theoretically means the extension term needs to be approved, doesn't it. I think the government said they could change the exit date without parliament, but that's a separate issue.
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Parliament doesn't sit on Fridays, does it? So it's already shut for Easter. In which case, if there is something not done that needed to be, Britain could be under 10 hours from an accidental (on purpose?) No Deal exit.
However, this implies that the Cooper bill is sufficient to make the new extension law.Last edited by Janik; 12-04-2019, 13:26. Reason: took too long to press Reply and ursus had answered it
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The BBC. After an MP was murdered, credible far right murder plot against another was recently iuncovered and the Finsbury Park Mosque killer had made threats against Jeremy Corbyn the state broadcaster appears to find nothing unproblematic about inviting the leader of a New Party on the air to make threats against MP's and retweeting them without editorial intervention or commentary.
https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1116646709138870274
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Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View PostThe BBC. After an MP was murdered, credible far right murder plot against another was recently iuncovered and the Finsbury Park Mosque killer had made threats against Jeremy Corbyn the state broadcaster appears to find nothing unproblematic about inviting the leader of a New Party on the air to make threats against MP's and retweeting them without editorial intervention or commentary.
https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1116646709138870274
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- Mar 2008
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View Post
The only demographic benefitting from the Brit Commonwealth is paperweight boxers from West Belfast, who get to beat up Micronesian guys of a generally lower standard than they meet representing Ireland in the Euro Championships
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Nah. You've got to say something at some point. The Spectator is a rag that likes to pretend that it is serious. The thing is always letting things slide, and not saying anything hasn't got us anywhere in the past, and to be honest, it just enables the UK political bubble to forget that we're actually more than an abstract concept.
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- Mar 2008
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- Blueberry vodka Jaffa cake on marzipan base
If the Spec, Torygraph etc are increasingly comical (agreed) that's more of a reason to swerve them. Rather than protesting in the vain hope they'll wise up. Partic in response to that article- author seems like an overeducated simpleton even by their standards
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Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of the past, etc ...
http://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1118480874893381632
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