EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

lawyer or barrister

Barristers are lawyers too!

Is there a better way to phrase it?
'Solicitors or barristers?'

The Lord Chancellor seems OK with it though ...

Any chump can make a fucking latte, mate.

I thought Milliband did really well, made points that Boris had to choose between being either stupid or corrupt in his (lack of) answer.

Any Tory MP who was a lawyer or barrister won't want to support this legislation

I suspect my local MP, who's a QC, will be perfectly content to toe the party line, being an ambitious party loyalist.

The Tories aren't going to lose any of their Brexit supporters over breaking international law, given that all things international are what the Brexiters get in a froth about.

Which MP enjoys seeing their leader belittled and left speechless?

Anyone in the labour party?
#corbynburn
Sorry, 10 months too late

I thought Milliband did really well

Agree, it got people’s attention if it didn’t get the PM’s attention, people are responding positively to Ed.

yeah but, he ate a bacon sandwich. And his dad hated Britain. Rupert Murdoch said so.

we need better press regulation in this country.

UK Government consults 'three legal stooges'.
Looks like some in the legal profession have been leading the way on this.

Boiled frogs innit?

Any Tory MP who was a lawyer or barrister won't want to support this legislation,

Suella Braverman the Attorney General is doing a good job of hiding it in that case. But she is the hardest of batshit mental brexit supporters.

If you fancy a twitter thread on why they might be doing this:
https://twitter.com/seanjonesqc/status/1305787185443082240

If you fancy some cheery thoughts on what this might mean to us:
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2020/09/13/we-have-to-face-the-possibility-that-our-government-is-planning-economic-destruction-for-its-own-political-ends-which-are-the-demise-of-the-state-as-we-know-it/

I can’t agree that Ed Miliband’s speech was a Ciceronian tour de force of rhetorical flair. Rather it resembled a League Two striker rolling the ball joyfully into an empty net. It’s just that compared to the current Prime Minister, it looked like Beckham from the half-way line.

https://twitter.com/CountBinface/status/1305779140545728513?s=19

The goal of the US actors who are backing Brexit via Bannon, Farage etc is for a state with essentially no government, maybe we're the experiment.

I thought Miliband did really well, made points that Boris had to choose between being either stupid or corrupt in his (lack of) answer.

In substance, yes. In style, no. Unfortunately, in rhetoric it's more about the sizzle than the sausage (as some comedian recently said somewhere about stand-up comedy). Miliband pulled just about every wrong register; it was a classic case of playing to your own supporters and throwing in all that silly nonsense like 'I'd happily give way' or 'he's a details man'. He should have stayed serious and grave. He came across as someone who really wanted to perform, and couldn't. Some of it he might have got away with if he'd mastered the basics of public speaking in terms of intonation, timing, and using his voice, but he hasn't. All Johnson had to do was sit there like a slightly deflated tennis ball and look indignant.

I think the best we can hope for is that Trump loses the US election and that the Tories then trammel up the courage to depose Johnson. I'm not holding my breath, but it's the only possibility of getting out of this mess.

there a better way to phrase it?

'Solicitors or barristers

"was a lawyer" should be sufficient

Oh FFS thanks @greentricky I just about had a handle on today

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/reaction-as-covid-testing-centre-makes-way-for-brexit-lorry-park/15/09/

Wow

The same government who refuse to extend the transition period of Brexit due to COVID-19.

It goes from "let them eat sovereignty" to "well, was getting a bit full here anyway, ah well...you win some, you lose some..."

That trade deal with Japan... don’t suppose this came up in the conversation...?
£15bn in. £16bn out.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/15/hitachi-to-pull-plug-on-north-wales-nuclear-power-station

They can’t risk sinking so much investment in somewhere that is so increasingly volatile, and increasingly unlikely to remain the UK we know today in terms of constituent parts.