EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

What is their view on the anti-semitism issue?

Johnson only has a 5k majority. Wouldn't it be good if the Lib Dems and Greens didn't put up a candidate in Uxbridge and he lost his seat.

No because then he'd be PM but not an MP. Worst of both worlds.

PM has to be an MP I believe.

I don't think that is correct.

There is no legislation that created the office of PM and therefore there are no rules as to who can hold the post.

Douglas-Home became PM in '63 when he was a Lord. A safe Tory seat was rapidly vacated so he could become an MP but it wasn't strictly required.

if the Lib Dems and Greens didn't put up a candidate and Labour reciprocated in some marginals

Boris to 'address the nation' at 6pm.

Election incoming...

Dirty, dirty, academics.

Experts, eh? We've had enough of....etc....

Boris to 'address the nation' at 6pm.

Election incoming...

Or a putsch.

No election

Well that was even more utterly pointless than I thought it'd be.

Stage management

Essentially saying that Corbyn plans to stop Brexit, and rebel tories are siding with him to stop us leaving. He threw them under the bus, but gave Labour and them an easy out in that they can now position themselves as anti-no-deal.

I don't understand why he did that? I don't understand what that speech did for him?

I can only assume he had a different speech, or more to it, but something in the published bill made him think again.

It was going to be a speech to introduce Churchill, the dog he just adopted, but Churchill (nee Spot) wouldn’t go anywhere near him.

So...force through a deal last minute is the play then?

But the EU already said they won't ditch backstop. Is BJ going to drop red lines? Or a last minute force of WA but that has backstop?

Mystery intensifies.

No, because Douglas-Home was a member of the House of Lords. Johnson would need to be elevated to a peerage, but basically he’d be toast if he lost his Parliamentary seat.

I think he wants to push the narrative that he was pushed into a GE because it’ll go down better with voters.

Every night for the last 3 years I have gone to sleep thinking it’s the maddest day in British politics and things can’t get any worse.
Surely, surely, surely this is as mad as it gets.

I was listening to the John Major interview on radio 4 a while back, the one when he first floated the idea of joining in legal action against Johnson to stop him proroguing parliament. To my surprise I found myself longing for the days when politicians were so boring that in order to make them seem funny latex characature puppets had to be made of them. Fuck knows what spitting image would have to do to make the current pm seem more ridiculous than is already.

Wait you mean we haven’t just been watching three years of Spitting Image and this shit is real?

Fuck

Douglas-Home was a Lord when he became PM but he wasn't while he ran for MP which seems similar to me to Johnson loosing his seat while PM and having to find another. I suppose Douglas-Home wasn't rejected by the (local) electorate in the same way.

Surely, surely, surely this is as mad as it gets.

The week has barely begun, these are just little rumblings. Gird your loins, it's going to get wild

even happy shopper war criminal tony blair is gritting his teeth and coming out to bat for corbo, albeit hypothetically, on c4 news.

cunt.

You can’t be nominated as a candidate to be an MP whilst you are a serving member of the House of Lords.