General Election June 2017

As I understand it, you are fine to vote as if you still lived at your current house. You can do so for 14 days after moving, which means you sneak in by a day.

I registered for a postal vote for the EU Ref. Do I have to re-register for this thing?

I got my postal vote notification card in the mail on Monday (Westminster North). If you don't get one soon, it's probably best to get in touch and make sure you are registered for it.

That would be handy... Looks like registering at the new address is what takes your original address off the register. Think I'm going to have to call a professional.

So the IFS have come out and said Labour's spending plans do add up, be nice to see if the media start reporting this or keep reporting the disproven Tory figure of 45bn funding gap in pledges

CPS says no charges against Tory MPs, surprise, surprise.

I registered for a postal vote for the EU Ref. Do I have to re-register for this thing?

No, being on the electoral register will put you down for all the things.

I've already received my postal vote card, letting me know when I can expect the postal vote itself to arrive.

Is it? I think most legal commentators suggested that this would be the outcome, as the CPS had to prove intent to defraud, which is very, very difficult in a case like this.

Hence the surprise, surprise

or, could it be more machiavellian, or not.

The incredible thing about the CPS decision is that this emphasises how calling a snap election is so damn irresponsible.

Article 50 letter had been delivered, we have 2 years... and Theresa May chose to waste the first couple of months by shutting down government.

As this CPS announcement shows there was no risk to her position, so this is just an attempt at a power grab, and the attempt itself is massively destabilising and will lose us a lot of time to get our negotiating position finalised and matured.

Strong and Stable, David - Strong and Stable trumps finalised and matured.

The tories default/preferred position seems to be leaving with no deal, so kicking the can down the road for a few months doesn't matter to them.

Casebook time

Let's be honest, there's no way a deal would happen in 2 years. It was always going to end in some transitional agreement or some terrible reverting to WTO rules (and I seem to remember the EU previously favoured a transitional agreement). Cutting the negotiating time down may actually increase the chance of ending up with a transitional agreement given there'll be even less negotiating time.

Transitional agreement probably does not equal no rights for EU nationals/no freedom of movement/ getting rid of the EJC/not paying the EU, as the easiest thing to do is to get a Norway deal.

But guess what the leavers were promised...and what May is using to bargain with :/

I like Karen Buck's work. She also voted against the labour whip on brexit.

But how many fox hunters can there be in seats that are marginal,

Sorry I didn't explain myself properly.

It's not that there is a strong risk about losing seats, or that those voters probably wouldn't vote Conservative. My point was the pro-hunt lobby has brought it up now - not the Conservative Party. Yes it's being pushed by a Tory pier, but it's not like TM brought it up on the one show.

IMO it's sabre rattling by a small group to try and get concessions now, that they won't have a shot at once a super majority is achieved.

The Conservatives seem to be making a lot of effort to downplay the Tory element, so I struggle to believe that anyone important pushed this as a story.

Ah - I see what you mean. I had jumped on the bandwagon and assumed that May had bought it up.

IMO it's sabre rattling by a small group to try and get concessions now, that they won't have a shot at once a super majority is achieved.

Looks like they're doing ok at getting it on the agenda again! I've not heard anything about foxes for 15 years, now they're everywhere...
I'd have thought she could afford to just bat them down - it's not like she has a problem with ignoring / alienating much larger groups of people.

She's said they can have a free vote on the reintroduction of fox hunting and she has always been in favour of said sport.

Strong and Stable trumps finalised and matured.

I see what you did there.

Yes it's being pushed by a Tory pier

It does come across as a bit of end-of-the-pier entertainment.

On Fox hunting, a lrtter to the PM: http://louderthanwar.com/fox-hunting-ban-to-be-repealed-still-the-unspeakable-in-pursuit-of-the-uneatable/

interestingly enough if a gang of kids in a sink estate in a British city charged around on their bikes after an urban fox and cornered it and got their dogs to rip it to pieces they would end up in court and the Daily Mail would be tutting about the decline of of civilisation as we know it

Are these photo casebooks lufguss originals? Great work in any case.

They're from this Twitter account:

https://mobile.twitter.com/TMayCasebooks

They're great

Leaked manifesto looks, on the whole, pretty good to me.