Brexit, for once some facts.
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Prison seems unlikely for a first offence, especially as it's more akin to a civil than criminal one. But what alternative?
There's a Community order, picking up litter, cleaning off grafiti etc.
Or maybe a mischievous bench could decide on an ASBO, banning him from going within 100 yards of the Houses of Parliament.
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the DM wil say that Bojo is the real enemy of the people if he lets Corbyn into No10 or bring May's deal back.
And bringing back May's deal with very minor tweaking like a backstop time limit is now looking ever more likely.
It'll be interesting to see if the DM and/or the ERG attempt to dress that up as acceptable.
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Bojo planned to spend £100 millions on advertising for no deal brexit.
what will become of his ad campaign now that the law makes it a total waste of money?
what will become of his ad campaign now that the law makes it a total waste of money?
Would Gove be the successor, temporary or otherwise, if BJ were unable to continue (e.g. illness)? He isn't deputy PM (no-one is, I think) and, even if he were, that would not make his succession automatic.
It will maybe go ahead cleverly disguised, but in truth helping his GE campaign without going onto the GE expenditure books.
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No succession necessary if he's only temporarily covering in the post. Johnson wouldn't be kept out of parliament permanently by the Speaker. The usual form is that an apology is issued by the offender, enabling return to the benches. By that time the extension request crisis would have passed, having been resolved in some way or other.
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Wow, think how many bridges you could have failed to build for that! (Not quite two.)
Or bought 900 secondhand, unusable water cannon.
Or a contracted for a tenth of a fleet of rubbish buses.
But on what basis would it be Gove covering (as I said, temporarily or permanently)? Why not one of the others?
the problem is he goes to jail for defying the law, so what? If he gets brexit done?
Vote down the Queen's speech?
Yes, it could be any, but Gove was a leading campaigner for Brexit and in support of Johnson's No Deal, so most likely as deputy in my view.
It would be up to Johnson since it's solely the PM's choice. The last deputy PM was Nick Clegg, chosen by Cameron.
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But being DPM does NOT automatically mean that person will take over in the case of some sort of incapacity.
And if BJ were unable to decide in advance, would he still be able to decide?
I'm not sure that's clear. I see nothing to stop him taking a break and appointing a deputy PM in his short absence, able to request the extension. Then no law is broken.
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I'm speaking of the deputy appointed and then temporary cover for absence. It's often been the case in the past. I mentioned Clegg, but I remember John Prescott was deputy PM to Tony Blair for ten years, acting for him in many absences.
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