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oh and to add I know that a second vote sounds fine but I think we need to be very cautious about this. There are a number of pro-retainers who are very reluctant to There is no electoral mandate There is no guarantee of a parliamentary majority There is no consensus on the questions There is no gua...

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Hi all Well the UK is in a pretty pickle isn't it? We have no functioning Government, who seem to be doing all they can to cling onto power with no concern for the wider impact. We have an opposition that has its own splits but at the same time is impotent unless they can woo a group of archaic loon...

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Now we know it's possible to revoke article 50, is their a danger that this open new ways for leaving 'without a deal'? One of the arguments at against was that preparations wouldn't be ready by 31st March, but presumably the Govt. could just revoke article 50, and restart process when preparations...

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This will be my last post on this subject today so not to be too annoying I am interested din the response of the EU and how they play it now. Clearly a no deal scenario is not in their best interests either and I think both sides should be working towards avoiding this completely. Saying this it is...

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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:I love SkysGoneOut's reviews. You just need to know his clearly stated political stance and they make perfect sense

I fully accept that but it doesn't mean it should go unchallenged. I am happy for it to come back to me too

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As an addition to my earlier post. I did forget one important thing that does unite a lot of MPs - probably a majority - and that is opposition to no deal If the Benn amendment passes (and it has support of Labour front bench) then I think that pushes us in my view to another referendum of deal vs r...

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Me again, Have not posted much anywhere recently but getting back in to the swing a bit I would like to comment on this from SGO last night on QT and take issue with some points. For Labour we had Angela Rayner. Angela didn't just stick to the party line but went much further in expressing her obvio...

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Hi again everybody Just some reflections.....I can see there is some choreography now that May's deal is the deal and there will be no changes. It has not got support. I have tried to identify two main thrusts and some of the consequences for discussion Labour Plan May comes back before Xmas and put...

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Thanks AK Was thinking of you when watching chess WC the other week I think some of these political games are a bit like chess and trying to think moves ahead and forcing your opponent down one path or another whilst defending your own. Sometimes it is difficult for us to guess what moves are right ...

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I apologise for returning to the board and giving my view - if unwelcome I apologise Don't be soft. Edited to add- I've seen a lot of criticism of Labour's position on the timing of a no confidence vote in other places, but all but none here. Hi Adam, Thank you. Most of the citicism on here is fair...

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Morning Best wishes to RoT I apologise for returning to the board and giving my view - if unwelcome I apologise I return to the comment I made last night about wanting to see some concrete critique of the position taking by the Labour leadership and how things would have been materially improved by ...

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I don't really care about the ERG and their carry on What I do care about is that we have a PM who has lost control of the HoC and cannot command a majority on the biggest decision in recent years. This is down to her inept approach to the negotiations and seeming inability to relate to people. She ...

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Evening Terribly result for May really as she will now be a lame duck and has had to promise to go to win. She also saw it as appropriate to bring back some people under investigation for serious harassment which should lead to strong condemnation on its own and lead to her being treated with contem...

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The Government won everything tonight...they haven't yet been defeated on this This is not des to the Labour front bench position - it is due to the Tories and a few consistent Labour rebels There are not enough Tories who really think Brexit is important enough to vote for what the believe - after ...

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4danglier on the Live thread -- I watched a fair chunk of the debate yesterday, including Sir Bill Cash and Sir Edward Leigh. It seems the brexiteers’ argument rests solely on the pov that, when the HoC voted 6 to 1 to hold the referendum, MPs delegated responsibility completely and definitively to...

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@PoliticoTeacher 26s27 seconds ago More House of Lords amendment 51, which would have kept us in the EEA, is defeated by 327 to 126. #EUWithdrawalBill Thankfully that one is out of the way. A few Labour front bench resigned, presumably to vote for this amendment. Out of the way? You're hopeful. I s...

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The first part of my post gives the steer there - a tweet of hers every bit as bad as the LFI one. Last I looked, it hadn't been deleted either :twisted: As far as LF is concerned, Luke the Nuke has been unusually quiet in the past 24 hours........ Evening all He has been sliming about under on the...

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HindleA wrote:I am waffling,semi awake/asleep I wouldn't take that much notice.

Too late!

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Have to say I think that Chris Mullin didn't really strike the right tone today. The latest Stephen Bush piece in the Staggers is closer to where I am tbh. (yes, the usual suspects are weaponising this - totally predictably and depressingly. But the disquiet over Corbyn's response to AS goes wider ...

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@HSOM I do understand and agree with what you're saying. The problem is when the hostility those on the left have towards the state of Israel seeps out in attitudes to Jewish people in general. And I've seen this happen first hand, with unpleasant consequences for all those touched by it. I readily...

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Again I am stepping on dangerous ground here - forgive me but i want to raise this as an important point One of the tenets of anti-semitism in the past has been the idea of the rapacious Jew having hands on all the wealth and controlling Governments This is manifestly nonsense and is based up charac...

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Good morning all Good posts this morning I dread to step into the anti-semitism discussion again but will add something to my previous comments on the subject. We have to accept that the nature of racism and how it is represented over time can change. The anti-semitism now that we see in the left is...

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Good Morning

Nice to see the BBC/Marr (and Oakeshott) acting on behalf of Cambridge Analytica this morning

What an absolute disgrace they are

All my lifee I have supported the BBC - now I couldn't care less.

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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:One for HowSilly

ooo thanks Paul

Loved that place....would go back in a shot if I was back in the UK

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The OPCW's independent findings need to be accepted by everyone who has signed up to them, or it becomes pointless and powerless. This story is much bigger than the UK government. If anything, I suspect the Tories would like this whole story to go away, because if Russia disengages from world bodie...

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Oh and this: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/the-latest-russia-wont-accept-watchdogs-ex-spy-findings/ar-BBKvMBf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; A senior Russian Foreign Ministry official says that Russia won't recognize results of an investigation being conducted by th...

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AK

Hope you holding up ok after your recent sad news

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Spy poisoning: police say investigation could last until summer (Guardian) Super. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/20/spy-poisoning-police-focusing-on-skripals-movements Ermmmm....I thought it had all been sorted and it was Putin and the Russian Government Or could it be that Boris John...

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Hi all Just back for the UK If you forgive me I would like to return to the Sainsbury poisonings (now the furore is dying down a bit) and make some comments from my background of an industrial chemist. Another chemist with a similar background has been a bit of a twitter celebrity with his comments ...

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May has said it highly likely the Russian state was responsible. Based on her own assertion, the government's connections to the Russian state therefore need to be scrutinised. McDonnell accepting her assertion helps Labour to keep pressure on politically on issues that would have been important wh...

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I am pretty sure that there is a strong link to Russia but that is based on circumstantial evidence That is not the claim the Government is making and their more specific assertion s have not been tested All I can say is what I have heard from the Government and commentators on the chemistry side do...

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Good morning Willow, can you point me to the evidence so I can see where Putin ordered this, the provenance is clearly Russian and that the Russians have an active CW program as claimed by Johnson Scientists will have drawn some conclusions but they will have been through other hands and other inter...

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There are a number of questions that could be asked to expose the Government's rhetoric but none of them are asked

I am not convinced they know much more than us....they seem to be hiding behind the spooks

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Morning Worst thing you can throw at Corbyn on is that he is naive and makes some unhelpful statements but when you look in more detail he has a point To be honest pretty much all the media opinion I have seen is pretty shit, especially on the chemistry part May is exploiting this as she should do ...

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Morning Worst thing you can throw at Corbyn on is that he is naive and makes some unhelpful statements but when you look in more detail he has a point To be honest pretty much all the media opinion I have seen is pretty shit, especially on the chemistry part May is exploiting this as she should do b...

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Back to this poisoning thing - the likelihood is clearly a Russian connection and probably some link to their Government although we enter the murky world of intelligence and then the even murkier world of Russian politics/oligarchs. All evidence is circumstantial and we have to have confidence in o...

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HindleA wrote:Eph is watching,everybody "behave".

erm.....who is the one most likely to be 'misbehaving'?

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HowSillly 4.16 Have you seen the toxicity of these things? They shouldn't have got anywhere near hospital if they had been exposed in a targeted assassination attempt Saying that we do not know the details but that hasn't stopped some people pronouncing with absolute certainty what was used and who...

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Thank you Willow, I was hoping someone would respond on the reliability of Mr Murray's arguments. Not that impressed with some of the arguments made though In the world of chemical synthesis these are relatively simple molecules and chemists handle toxic materials all the time - these are extremely...

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Thank you Willow, I was hoping someone would respond on the reliability of Mr Murray's arguments. Not that impressed with some of the arguments made though In the world of chemical synthesis these are relatively simple molecules and chemists handle toxic materials all the time - these are extremely...

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Hmmm not convinced that you would use a nerve agent for this type of effect....the toxicity of these is very high and there is no safe dose. Suddenly the journalists and politicians become expert on subjects they have not studied for years.... It is much much more than likely that you know more abo...

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Afternoon Sorry to hear AKs news. My condolences I am a little bit perplexed at the claims this nerve agent could only have come from Russia These type of compounds are relatively easy to prepare if you have access to the necessary starting materials. If the structure is known any half decent organ...

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Do we need cast iron proof to stamp down on dodgy Russian oligarch money coming into the country? Do we need cast iron proof to be wary of being too dependent on Russian gas? Do we need cast iron proof to implement the magnitsky amendment? The answer is no. We could and should be doing these things...

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Afternoon Sorry to hear AKs news. My condolences I am a little bit perplexed at the claims this nerve agent could only have come from Russia These type of compounds are relatively easy to prepare if you have access to the necessary starting materials. If the structure is known any half decent organi...

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Good morning The whole situation everywhere is quite depressing A narcissistic fool in the White House A narcissistic thug in the Kremlin A UK Government devoid of any form of competence but safe in position due to a bribed DUP and craven backbenches The whole political discourse has descended into ...

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If Paul is about, I just wondered if he had been keeping an eye on the football tonight - I think Wolves have just squeaked past Leeds on aggregate this season......

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Morning all I see IDS has been talking nonsense again Are some people really stupid His latest contention is that Barnier is causing 'lots of anger in Europe' over the Irish border as they seem to think that the sequencing is so unfair to the UK as it is inextricably linked to a future trade deal Th...

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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Lidington doesn't actually specifically say "cameras count as physical infrastructure" does he?

no, exactly

But I think the EU will probably look for more definition!

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The EU will want these words and definitions in a legally bing agreement The Tories have been pretty slippery on this (understandably why) but the WA will tie them in......tight! Once the WA agreement is in place it will be more and more difficult for them as their solutions will have something to t...

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