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Friday 24th May 2019

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Morning.
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Euro election results just in from Twitter.

Major gains for Brexit, Libs, Greens and Nats while the ruling Labour Party suffer huge losses.
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Good morfternoon.

I'm half-expecting Theresa May to come to the podium and say something completely different to what everyone thought had been agreed.

Oh, and here she is.
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Re Sky's comments,the personality thing obfuscates,there were some excellent progressive stuff now reversed.There is absolutely no debate in my mind which party is for betterment.
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I don't recognise the Libdem's as anything but the flexible non friends they've always been
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Got an email from the Labour party within a minute of May's announcement.
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I've just received an e-mail from Labour, part of which is reproduced below -

"Theresa May has just announced her resignation as Prime Minister.

Her time has finally run out. A General Election could happen any moment now. The Tories have their billionaire donors to help them cling on to power, but we have you." (my bold)

We're doomed, then.
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"Give us your ****ing money"
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How do they know I'm,or indeed any of us are not billionaires,my level of income makes diddly squat difference as to my beliefs or which party.
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HindleA wrote:How do they know I'm,or indeed any of us are not billionaires.
Rumbled . . .
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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Euro election results just in from Twitter.

Major gains for Brexit, Libs, Greens and Nats while the ruling Labour Party suffer huge losses.
I've seen some turnout figures which I assumed were genuine, though.
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PorFavor wrote:I've just received an e-mail from Labour, part of which is reproduced below -

"Theresa May has just announced her resignation as Prime Minister.

Her time has finally run out. A General Election could happen any moment now. The Tories have their billionaire donors to help them cling on to power, but we have you." (my bold)

We're doomed, then.
'GE could happen at any moment' is no more than the theoretical possibility it's been for the last 2 years. IMO.

Tories pool of billionaire donors should be shrinking a bit, you'd think.
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PorFavor wrote:
HindleA wrote:How do they know I'm,or indeed any of us are not billionaires.
Rumbled . . .
On the basis that, if you were a billionaire, you'd have donated £!m last week. Obvs.
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Woman told to pay towards inquest into daughter's death in care
representation is invariably provided for staff and institutions but legal aid funding is often denied to families. In this case, the mother had been given exceptional case funding by the Legal Aid Agency but told she still had to cover 25% of the fees.
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I don't know, I pop out to do the shopping and miss all the fun...

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Anyway, that's as it is. We have to be honest about her record. There will now be a lot of attempts to try to provide a sympathetic assessment of her time in office, because it goes against the grain. They're wrong. She was truly terrible.
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This guy nailed it.


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For fuck sake. She cried because she’s no longer Prime Minister. Where were her tears for Grenfell? For the Windrush deportations? For members of the LGBT+ community that she deported to their deaths? For the homeless? For the queues at food banks? For those killed by austerity?
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And quoting Nicolas Winton was well out of order.
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I'm unmoved by Theresa May showing emotion about herself.
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@gilsey

Whoops!
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PorFavor wrote:I've just received an e-mail from Labour, part of which is reproduced below -

"Theresa May has just announced her resignation as Prime Minister.

Her time has finally run out. A General Election could happen any moment now. The Tories have their billionaire donors to help them cling on to power, but we have you." (my bold)

We're doomed, then.
My membership has just lapsed. I just didn't have the money at the time to renew. I do intend to re-join when I can afford it, but the membership fee keeps going up every year while our income doesn't.
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Harriet Harman

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She leaves UK more divided and unequal but when a dedicated public servant leaves, look at achievements not just failings. Esp when they are a woman in what’s still a man’s world. So I acknowledge PM brought in imp new laws on equ pay, human trafficking & dv.

11:33 AM - May 24, 2019 · Camberwell, London (Politics Live, Guardian)

Oh, do leave off.
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Sky's Beth Rigby reporting that she's just heard that a new Prime Minister will be selected pre- Parliamentary Recess in July (of this year, presumably).
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Good afternoon, everyone.
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I've had sporadic Internet connectivity recently and have missed some news.
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gilsey wrote:
PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Euro election results just in from Twitter.

Major gains for Brexit, Libs, Greens and Nats while the ruling Labour Party suffer huge losses.
I've seen some turnout figures which I assumed were genuine, though.
Which overall show that predictions of a bumper turnout for these elections were somewhat wide of the mark.

(generally speaking up a few points on 2014 in clear remain areas, static elsewhere)
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...May stunned colleagues in the week of the election by promising to introduce “a requirement to vote on whether to hold a second referendum” so vehemently opposed by almost all her own party. It prompted yet another cabinet resignation, that of Andrea Leadsom....

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... to-her-lap" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Almost all Tory MPs don't want to vote on having a second referendum? Is this correct? Tory MPs don't want to hold a second referendum?
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I'm concerned about that because they'll be no second referendum without a majority of MPs voting to have one.

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Nothing will get passed without a majority
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Not all Tory MPs are opposed to another referendum, but most are and many of them are very opposed indeed.

It could yet happen, but only when there is literally no other alternative.
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citizenJA wrote:I've had sporadic Internet connectivity recently and have missed some news.
So I checked your symptoms on NHS Online and it turns out you have 'Network Connectivity Problems'
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PorFavor wrote:Sky's Beth Rigby reporting that she's just heard that a new Prime Minister will be selected pre- Parliamentary Recess in July (of this year, presumably).
It's already been pointed out that anyone who wants it, clearly doesn't have the strategic nous to make a success of it.
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The jurymen crazily in leadership bid (6,4).
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:Not all Tory MPs are opposed to another referendum, but most are and many of them are very opposed indeed.

It could yet happen, but only when there is literally no other alternative.
By which time we'll be catatonic with boredom.

The sheer extent of Westminster navel-gazing last night and today is revolting.

BBC managed to find a suitable vox pop for the 1pm news. 'I'm gutted - lovely lady'
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:
(generally speaking up a few points on 2014 in clear remain areas, static elsewhere)
I feared it would be lower so that's ok by me.
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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:The jurymen crazily in leadership bid (6,4).
He could well be the least worst option...
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Arlene Foster's statement could have just said "So long and thanks for all the cash..."
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gilsey wrote: BBC managed to find a suitable vox pop for the 1pm news. 'I'm gutted - lovely lady'
That was in her constituency wasn't it? They at least do seem fairly well disposed to her.......
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Well, if you can't deliver good results for your supporters in your own constituency (when you are Prime Minister of the whole country), it would be very surprising.
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I think the word here is "triggered"...gotta love the first reply though...

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Many, many squirrels
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Seems to be OK now?
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Yes, it does.
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Bank holidays always seem to sneak up on me
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Top North East candidate for Brexit Party lives in…. France

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/ ... _ICCpUDlWw
According to the Evening Chronicle he was born in Edinburgh and lives between London and France, frequently working overseas.

But he says he’s “visited the region many times over the years and feels Scots and people from the North East have a lot in common.”

Last year he wrote a piece in The Scotsman discussing the benefits of friction-free trading.
Ah, now I'm sure there's a policy for that...nope, can't quite remember...help me out somebody...
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Verily, a thousand times "Yuk".
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Goodnight, everyone.
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I would have used a different word ending in "uck".

She was a massive failure even by her own limited terms.

She's not the worst Prime Minister in my lifetime (hello Mr Shed) but she's certainly the least human.

Her list of "successes" in her resignation speech is totally overwhelmed by her list of failures, ignorance, stupidity, misplaced loyalty, ah what's the point. I'm glad she's no longer "leading". Good riddance.
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Ed Miliband's new Twitter handle...

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