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and, of course, how could i forget Jason Donovan CD exports to North Korea, enthusiasm, belief and optimism.

Peter Sissons (77) making headlines for the last time https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49908660 ETA - beaten to it!

well that was a pile of sh!t. It was like Tory bingo. Buses for everyone, NHS, get brexit done, new deal or no deal, send Corbyn into space, some road improvements that he can't remember, mini fusion reactors, car batteries, drug gangs, great education, tax cuts, monorails connecting the west midlands. Communist Corbyn and have a pop at the London mayor. Absolutely nothing of substance there at all.

Wid not.

It’s looking dull now anyway

This has already got the feel of the Dunfermline match at the back.

Just wear a pair of sunglasses and part your hair to the other side and they’ll never recognise you.

Comparing the use of language from a few users on a Scottish football fans forum that no one else sees to the language used by the Prime Minister and his team and aped by thousands resulting in attacks on female MPs and their offices is a completely valid point. Keep posting that kind of shite. You’re doing well.

Think that loophole has been debunked a few times. This from David Allen Green “The Padfield case of 1968 is one of the leading UK constitutional law cases The mundane facts were about milk production The principle is that it is not open to any minister to (not) do a thing if that means an Act of Parliament is frustrated or circumvented Here, the Benn Act”

I believe the judges were asking about other legislation that has suffered due to the closure of parliament. I’d heard that a domestic abuse paper has been binned but hadn’t been aware that there was a fisheries act that has also been stopped. Apparently because of this the fishing industry is fucked if we go no deal as there’s no time to get it back after the break. At last, some good news!

Jo Maugham tweeting that the No deal legislation may be flawed and Johnson/Cummings may have a way around it!

Aye, she was having a dig at the guy for saying the french courts might not have been up to standard.

Not too bad so far. As someone pointed out early on, Norwich was a remain city. 1 definite gammon candidate though.

Nice little 2 min explanation of some of the issues faced by the Supreme Court next week.

Be interesting to see what if any connections there are between the Johnston and Trump campaigns. Our PM is now playing to the hard core support which will only break down if he softens. All this “I’ll break the law to get Brexit through”, the sacking of “softer” Tories, “dead in a ditch”, blame or parliament and threat of Corbyn all seem remarkably similar tactics to Trump. Substitute Fox News for BBC news and you’ve got a broadcaster barely challenging your comments. His core support will lap it up and it will take a huge concerted effort from his opponents to keep him out in an election. This is English nationalism at an extreme level.

Apart from Diana and Jeffrey Epstein, no, no one.

a bit economical with the truth there Malky - the £1 billion per month cost claim has been fact checked. That figure is only compared to leaving the EU with no deal and we refuse to pay the "divorce bill" but the governemt has said time and again that it is trying to leave with a deal and therfore there would be no additional cost to the end of 2020 as the agreed financial settlement already includes these payments. In addition, the figure you've used (originally quoted by Raab) is a gross figure ahead of our refunds - which would account for about a quarter.

EU won't put in a border. UK government will end up putting the border in the Irish Sea, they won't really give a stuff about the DUP once a GE is called and the combined Tory/Brexit Party coalition rides in.

To be fair, that’s the headline the often rubbished BBC online news site have gone with. “Further improvement in Scotland's public finances” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-49413345

Stunning - thanks for that articulate rebuttal.

Think it's already been changed - it'll be 57 by 2028 to tie in with the change to 67 for the State Pension. Pretty sure I read somewhere a while back that they were looking to tie in access to any private/workplace pension to 10 years below the State Pension age at some point.

I must've missed the bit where the SNP voting for the WA would have meant a soft Brexit. How on earth can no custom union, no single market and no freedom of movement = a soft Brexit? The Tory red lines mean there can't be a soft Brexit - it might well be a "softer" Brexit than a no deal departure but to say we've missed out on a soft Brexit because the SNP voted against the WA is ludicrous imo.

Trying to feel sorry for farmers but...f**k ‘em https://www.edp24.co.uk/business/farming/farmers-for-a-people-s-vote-launches-no-deal-brexit-report-1-6216731

We can't extend A50 - we have to go to the EU and ask if they could extend it for us and give them a valid reason (eg a General Election). After a VONC, (if Johnson steps down) someone would have to be appointed a "leader" or spokesman on behalf of Parliament - (acting temp PM) in order to approach the EU with enough of a mandate to get the extension and once agreed, dissolve Parliament. Johnson could do this himself but won't want to be seen to be the one to delay Brexit any further and risk seats going to the Brexit Party at the GE. Agree that Corbyn is also looking to save seats in Scotland by mentioning that he wouldn't/couldn't flat out stop an indyref2 but would be against it.

Corbyn offering himself as a leader post VONC, on a time limited basis, in order to avoid a no deal Brexit and call a GE. Letter to leaders of the other parties and some senior backbenchers. Will the Libs and others go for it?