To spend more time with his family perhaps? Or maybe the threat to stand against him by former colleagues?
When it gets personal it gets nasty, and he's not a big lad is he?
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To spend more time with his family perhaps? Or maybe the threat to stand against him by former colleagues?
When it gets personal it gets nasty, and he's not a big lad is he?
The referendum result was then made law by the submission of A50.
Jesus...
Especially as he is one of their own. Cretins is putting it mildly.
Yeah, I hear he misses his cousin a lot.
This is wild. The attorney general suggesting that the government can't force employees to turn over public records? I'm sure the specifics are somewhat different, but generally public records are anything pertaining to government business regardless of whether it's on a government account/device or a personal account/device.
Indeed not, yet they will vote for those policies and this reckless Government. They will stand shoulder to shoulder with Mr. Robinson and his ilk. Whether the Conservatives remain a broad church or not is debatable, but any church so broad it incorporates Tommy Robinson is too broad by a stretch.
He was due to stand down a while ago wasn't he so stayed on extra time to try and get brexit finalised?
its all unravelling pretty quick.
think a lot of Tory supporters will realise soon enough the chaos they are voting for.
Impeachment could actually happen. They certainly have the numbers.
Depends if they try to wriggle out of the law passed last week.
If they do, I see a GNU. If not, an election some time after October 31st.
Totally agree about Robinson, hence why I think it will deter some Tory voters.
The upcoming election wont be about party politics, rather it will be 'presidential' style personality war between BJ Leave/NoDeal vs JC Remain/Deal.
The 'swing' vote accounted for 40% of voters in 2015 election. I suspect that for all these voters, their decision to Remain or Leave the EU will be the contributory factor in they way they 'swing' in next election. Where do Remain Tories go?
Likewise, as has recently been suggested in the media, there will be lots of 'strategic' voting in the upcoming election, where I suspect these 'moderate' tories or labour voters in weak constituencies will vote LibDem. I also think some Tory voters may go towards The Brexit Party. All this splinters the Tory vote.
I feel confident that the Tories will not gain a governing majority nor be able to form a functioning coalition.
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Having written 3 or 4 mathematical models over the last week on it with various variables, I'm not confident. There are so many unknowns right now though.
Tory voters won't be put off by Yaxley-Lennon. They're cnuts.
Libs... Along with a lot of staunch remain labour
I think libs will do very well especially if the remain alliance with the greens holds
Possibly 100 seats between them greens and SNP?
please share the highlights?
Purging remainers out of the tories just means more room for nutters. They will be like US Republicans
It's kind of cute watching Gove argue so passionately when we all know that the government will lose all votes tonight 
Gove tries the renowned 'It's the people who call out racism who are the racists!' approach:
Him quoting the ECHR was a particular highlight in irony.
Clearly setting out their position for when they loose then refuse to publish.
Parliament can't really do anything about it till it's recalled at which point one suspects there will be so many other issues even the government being Heald in contempt of parliament will seem pretty tame
Magic money tree.
Yup that's also what happened in France with LR, the party is now exclusively made of absolute weapons at the top.
Plenty of voters will just see a name next to 'conservative' and vote for them not realising they are a nutter.
I've heard the opposite. Quite nice for a Tory.
Having just seen Rise of the Nazis (covering early 30s) on BBC, I'm concerned.
I wouldn't worry about it, Hitler had a moustache and Robinson doesn't.Having just seen Rise of the Nazis (covering early 30s) on BBC, I'm concerned.
I found that rather galling and laughable that he would sink to bringing it up.
Ayes - 311
Noes - 302
Noes - 302
Have a feeling this is going to have a very big impact.
To be honest 302 is better than I expected. What does anyone other than hard brexiteers have to gain from voting with the government anymore? Can only imagine some actually voted against it on principle. They'll loose the other votes worse than that.
It will be ignored and parliament is closed so nothing they can do (I think)
tl;dr: not enough certainty yet to be either bullish or bearish on GDP. Who would have thought that Corbyn becoming prime minister would cause a big spike in sterling eh? We've not even started campaigning yet.
Slightly more granularity:
- In the event of a 'loose alliance between libs/lab, they may be able to get some sort of government formed.
- Facebook campaigning from the conservatives will not be near as effective as last time. It's not 2016.
- A loose alliance between the brexit party and the conservatives will not be deciding
- The most interesting seats are ones in remain areas that pollsters have predicted as a narrow conservative majority. This GE will not be decided on traditional metrics
- Liquidity could be an issue for the next few weeks
I think they voted along party lines out of general preservation of their party. Regardless of Brexit, this could be very damaging as it is likely to be some fairly plain evidence of the Tories showing absolute contempt for the public and public institutions they’re supposed to be protecting.
Boris Johnson has twice voted in favour of mass retention of people’s communications so I’m sure he was consistent and backed this measure.
Yeah but there's not 302 of them anymore though?
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