Brexit, for once some facts.
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Sorry Dan. I wasn't ignoring you.
Just struggled to find a response that mattered.
I just decided to do this.
I'm not ignoring you. But you mean little.
Not on. A personal scale of course
We do have a disgusting Government!
And Warships too, as soon as we can get tugs to get them there in that warm water.
From the Telegraph
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Boris Johnson set to defy the law rather than ask for Brexit delay
The Prime Minister said he “will not” carry out Parliament’s instructions to seek an Article 50 extension if he fails to agree a new deal, adding he was only bound “in theory” by a law passed on Friday.
Mr Johnson also ruled out the option of resigning to avoid asking for an extension, saying he would be staying in office to deliver Brexit and defeat Jeremy Corbyn.
Then send someone actually in authority and arrest him
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Boris Johnson set to defy the law rather than ask for Brexit delay
The Prime Minister said he “will not” carry out Parliament’s instructions to seek an Article 50 extension if he fails to agree a new deal, adding he was only bound “in theory” by a law passed on Friday.
Mr Johnson also ruled out the option of resigning to avoid asking for an extension, saying he would be staying in office to deliver Brexit and defeat Jeremy Corbyn.
Then send someone actually in authority and arrest him
Is it an offence for which a person can be arrested? Does the arresting officer have to be a constable in uniform? So many questions.
Partial answers here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_privilege
It looks as if he could at the very least be suspended or ejected
This is curious
Prize for the first journalist to ask
@BorisJohnson
what his girlfriend was doing attending this Conservative Friends of Russia launch with the Russian Ambassador at the Russian Embassy in August 2012. Why did he hire CFOR founder
@matthew_elliott
for Cabinet & Vote Leave CEO ?
Conservative "Friends of Russia" what the hell is going on? and Mathew Elliott was it's founder? and of course vote leave CEO?
Nothing to see here move along eh?
Prize for the first journalist to ask
@BorisJohnson
what his girlfriend was doing attending this Conservative Friends of Russia launch with the Russian Ambassador at the Russian Embassy in August 2012. Why did he hire CFOR founder
@matthew_elliott
for Cabinet & Vote Leave CEO ?
Conservative "Friends of Russia" what the hell is going on? and Mathew Elliott was it's founder? and of course vote leave CEO?
Nothing to see here move along eh?
I wonder if he will find some way to temporarily stand down until a GE is called. Then re-emerge to fight it as the man who is true to his word by not having asked the EU for a Brexit extension.
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I've just watched it on iplayer.....The cowboys were the best bit.
It is nothing to do with you, but crap scheduling. We actually like to watch our local news before switching over to Newsnight. Hence we almost always miss the first few minutes.
I'd not be surprised to find quite a few making the same decision.
(Mind, when I lived nearer London, we had a choice of the London news which wouldn't mention anything near us for months at a time, or the Norwich program where they didn't seem to know they covered us. So the local program was almost entirely without interest. At least in Wales we get covered quite regularly.)
Anyway, simply because you had mentioned it, I actually went back to watch again and ran the beginning. Only on a tablet so not the best way to view. Yes, I liked.
Just saw this - and I thought JLC had retired years ago!
Exclusive: John le Carré's new novel set amid 'lunatic' Brexit intrigue
Agent Running in the Field, due out next month, reflects ‘the divisions in Britain, and between Britain and Europe’.
Just as intrigue over Brexit is expected to reach peak intensity next month, Britain’s master spy novelist John le Carré will be releasing a new novel, set in 2018, where the UK is ruled by “a minority Tory cabinet of 10th-raters”, and the country’s new prime minister Boris Johnson is at that point merely “a pig-ignorant foreign secretary”.
An early extract from Le Carré’s 25th novel, Agent Running in the Field, is published in Saturday’s Guardian. It shows Nat, a 47-year-old member of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI5), revealing his career choices to his daughter. As she picks away at his beliefs, Nat admits to serious reservations about the idea of England “as the mother of all democracies”, describing the country as in freefall, with “a minority Tory cabinet of 10th-raters … Labour no better. The sheer bloody lunacy of Brexit.”
Le Carré’s editor at Viking, Mary Mount, said that the novelist “doesn’t pull his punches” when it comes to Johnson.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/07/exclusive-john-le-carre-new-novel-brexit-intrigue-agent-running-in-the-field
Exclusive: John le Carré's new novel set amid 'lunatic' Brexit intrigue
Agent Running in the Field, due out next month, reflects ‘the divisions in Britain, and between Britain and Europe’.
Just as intrigue over Brexit is expected to reach peak intensity next month, Britain’s master spy novelist John le Carré will be releasing a new novel, set in 2018, where the UK is ruled by “a minority Tory cabinet of 10th-raters”, and the country’s new prime minister Boris Johnson is at that point merely “a pig-ignorant foreign secretary”.
An early extract from Le Carré’s 25th novel, Agent Running in the Field, is published in Saturday’s Guardian. It shows Nat, a 47-year-old member of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI5), revealing his career choices to his daughter. As she picks away at his beliefs, Nat admits to serious reservations about the idea of England “as the mother of all democracies”, describing the country as in freefall, with “a minority Tory cabinet of 10th-raters … Labour no better. The sheer bloody lunacy of Brexit.”
Le Carré’s editor at Viking, Mary Mount, said that the novelist “doesn’t pull his punches” when it comes to Johnson.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/07/exclusive-john-le-carre-new-novel-brexit-intrigue-agent-running-in-the-field