Wednesday 30th October 2019

[refitman]

Morning all.

[PaulfromYorkshire]

On Sky, Matt Hanock says new cancer treatments are being rolled out "from Barnsley to Bassetlaw; from Wigan to Warrington."

Kay Burley: "That's not very far, you know."

Hancock: "It's also happening in Cornwall."
From Twitter

[gilsey]

Has everyone seen this?
Some tories want to do Labour's campaigning for them.

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[gilsey]

Amber Rudd standing down.

[gilsey]

Inside Housing.

Grenfell Inquiry: round-up of Sir Martin Moore-Bick’s phase one conclusions

[citizenJA]

Is the number of MPs standing down within a relatively short period of time precedented?

edited trying to correct grammatical error

[citizenJA]

Good morning, everyone.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Amber Rudd standing down.

Yet another #FBPE hero bites the dust.

[citizenJA]

Johnson has about thirty hours to take the UK out of the EU or die in a ditch.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Him pledging that never happened, it has entered the collective memory hole.

[citizenJA]

It's not in any headlines or broadcast on the BBC every hour

[HindleA]

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[AnatolyKasparov]

It's not in any headlines or broadcast on the BBC every hour

Unlike, all too often, what some random "Labour" nobody says.

[HindleA]

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[citizenJA]

The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (Exit Day) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2019

Amendment to the definition of “exit day”
2.—(1) Section 20 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (interpretation) is amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (1), in the definition of “exit day”, for “31 October 2019” substitute “31 January 2020”.
(3) In subsection (2) for “31 October 2019” substitute “31 January 2020”.


James Duddridge
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Exiting the European Union

2.06 p.m. on 30th October 2019

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019 ... tents/made" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[citizenJA]

No ditch, do or die amendment

[AnatolyKasparov]

Something we were told would NEVER happen!

[Willow904]

Is the number of MPs standing down within a relatively short period of time precedented?
edited trying to correct grammatical error

I think if you add the 2017 retirees to the current retirees the total number is pretty average for the end of a 4-5 year parliamentary period. Though I don't know if that necessarily makes the current exodus "normal".

[AnatolyKasparov]

I think there will be a few more late retirements, though as said its not *that* huge in historical terms.

[PorFavor]

Johnson knew of potential conflict of interest, says Arcuri

US businesswoman says Boris Johnson was also aware of her links to Libor-rigger Tom Hayes (Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... fer-arcuri


Edited - to add a J

[PorFavor]

Nicky Morgan will not be standing at the General Election (Sky TV news).

[RogerOThornhill]

Evening all. Back from a tiring day at the coalface library.

Did we all see Steve bell's cartoon that was in the Graun this morning - it's rather good...

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[citizenJA]

Goodnight, everyone.
love,
cJA

[tinyclanger2]

Either I don't understand what's going on, or I don't trust any of them anymore. As far as I can see, backing the GE has just put no deal back on the table.

Again - am I missing something?

[AnatolyKasparov]

It won't be fully off the table until we either leave with a deal or decide to remain.