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There was also a generous dollop of conspiracy theory. There were posts about the allegedly unnatural death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and the supposed federal invasion orders behind the Jade Helm military exercise. Fake Founding Father quotes mingled with anti-Muslim screeds and paeans to Sam Houston.

And the number of followers steadily crept into the hundreds of thousands.

PM plans new ministerial code after Priti Patel apology (BBC News website)

PorFavor wrote:Seems as if Theresa May has cancelled Tuesday (Politics Live, Guardian).

RogerOThornhill wrote:

PorFavor wrote:Seems as if Theresa May has cancelled Tuesday (Politics Live, Guardian).

Probably just as well - if you're not doing anything, then you're not doing anything wrong...

Morning all...

Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies

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PorFavor wrote:Seems as if Theresa May has cancelled Tuesday (Politics Live, Guardian).

RogerOThornhill wrote:Wasn't Tuesday the day when those sector analysis assessments were due to be released otherwise Govt would be in contempt?

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Who'd have thunk it eh?

PorFavor wrote:

RogerOThornhill wrote:Wasn't Tuesday the day when those sector analysis assessments were due to be released otherwise Govt would be in contempt?

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Who'd have thunk it eh?

Yes. I'm hearing that they need "work" as they're not yet in proper report form. I thought they already were reports. What are they, then? Random doodles on scraps of paper and on the corners of, ahem, tablecloths? Then there's all that vital redaction to be done.




Edited - to tidy up

The heads of the barrister profession on both sides of the Irish border have warned that Brexit is not compatible with the Good Friday Agreement.

Paul McGarry SC, chairman of The Bar of Ireland, and Liam McCollum QC, chairman of The Bar of Northern Ireland, made the remarks at the Annual Bar Conference in London, The Brief reports.

The pair were speaking alongside four other UK legal figures in a panel discussion examining “Brexit and the Bar”.

Mr McGarry told conference delegates that “the Good Friday Agreement and Brexit are incompatible for a number of reasons”.

He said one was the guarantee on free movement in the Good Friday Agreement, which was not compatible with the imposition of a post-Brexit border; another the entitlement of people born in Northern Ireland to Irish citizenship, which would mean a direct route to EU citizenship.

Mr McCollum described it as “an insoluble an issue as you could possibly imagine”, and agreed Brexit would “undermine” the Agreement.

He pointed out that the Agreement could not be amended and would therefore have to be renegotiated.

gilsey wrote:

PorFavor wrote:

RogerOThornhill wrote:Wasn't Tuesday the day when those sector analysis assessments were due to be released otherwise Govt would be in contempt?

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Who'd have thunk it eh?

Yes. I'm hearing that they need "work" as they're not yet in proper report form. I thought they already were reports. What are they, then? Random doodles on scraps of paper and on the corners of, ahem, tablecloths? Then there's all that vital redaction to be done.




Edited - to tidy up

According to @davidallengreen, 58 pieces of paper on a table in Whitehall with the sector titles on, otherwise blank.
Running joke.

gilsey wrote:More on the elephant in the room.
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The heads of the barrister profession on both sides of the Irish border have warned that Brexit is not compatible with the Good Friday Agreement.

Paul McGarry SC, chairman of The Bar of Ireland, and Liam McCollum QC, chairman of The Bar of Northern Ireland, made the remarks at the Annual Bar Conference in London, The Brief reports.

The pair were speaking alongside four other UK legal figures in a panel discussion examining “Brexit and the Bar”.

Mr McGarry told conference delegates that “the Good Friday Agreement and Brexit are incompatible for a number of reasons”.

He said one was the guarantee on free movement in the Good Friday Agreement, which was not compatible with the imposition of a post-Brexit border; another the entitlement of people born in Northern Ireland to Irish citizenship, which would mean a direct route to EU citizenship.

Mr McCollum described it as “an insoluble an issue as you could possibly imagine”, and agreed Brexit would “undermine” the Agreement.

He pointed out that the Agreement could not be amended and would therefore have to be renegotiated.

My bold.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:People did, nobody cared. As with several other things that have come to pass (or will do)

HindleA wrote:https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment ... r-on-53078

The lower benefit cap is still wrecking lives one year on

This is from Channel 4 News’s Michael Crick.

Michael Crick
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@MichaelLCrick

Senior Conservative MP: "Boris is an f****** disgrace & if he had an ounce of integrity - which he doesn't - he'd have walked immediately."
11:36 AM - Nov 7, 2017 (Politics Live, Guardian)

HindleA wrote:http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/ ... in-israel/


Urgent Question on the Secretary of State's meetings in Israel

At about 13.15.

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It makes perfect sense that cabinet has been cancelled today. There is literally nothing for ministers to discuss

PorFavor wrote:

PM plans new ministerial code after Priti Patel apology (BBC News website)

That's some catalogue of transgressions. But it's all ok because Liam Fox says this is the sort of thing he does all the time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41896756

There is a very real danger that the Bank may be playing its part in a self-fulfilling low growth recovery.

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Written Statement by David Davis just out - apparently “it is not the case that 58 sectoral impact assessments exist”. #brexitshambles
12:26 PM - Nov 7, 2017 (Politics Live, Guardian)

Urgent question on Priti Patel

Alistair Burt, the international development minister, is now answering an urgent question from Labour about Priti Patel’s trip to Israel. He said he was answering because Patel was in the air, flying to Africa for a visit.

He said that Patel’s meetings were not “particularly secret”, he said.

The matter was now considered closed, he said. (Politics Live, Guardian)

It is not just pro-Europeans who are demanding swifter publication of the Brexit impact assessments. Interestingly Christopher Chope, Sir Edward Leigh and Peter Bone, who are all hardline Brexiters, all said the government should go further. Chope said that, even if all the material was not ready for publication, some of it could be released now. Leigh said that holding back the information would cause more problems than releasing it. And Bone said that the government should simply hand over all the paperwork to the Brexit committee and let it decide what it publishes.

HindleA wrote:#Robert Hutton



.@Number10press confirms that the Prime Minister learned about Priti Patel's plan to give aid money to the Israeli army from the BBC, today.

SSE and npower in talks to create giant UK energy supplier

New business would combine the two electricity and gas companies’ 13 million customers
(Guardian)

PorFavor wrote:

SSE and npower in talks to create giant UK energy supplier

New business would combine the two electricity and gas companies’ 13 million customers
(Guardian)

This competition lark is working well.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... y-supplier