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In his London Playbook briefing this morning Jack Blanchard from Politico Europe suggests that the government may back down on its plans to abandon electronic voting in the Commons. (See 9.35am.) Blanchard writes:

Could some sort of government climbdown yet be on the cards? Word is that [Jacob] Rees-Mogg got a rough ride from MPs on the Tories’ backbench 1922 committee last night, and Playbook notes that certain government officials now seem remarkably keen to, erm, socially distances themselves from this whole plan. “Nobody in government knew about this until it was announced,” one senior government official claimed last night. An opposition staffer reckons Boris Johnson privately told SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford at a meeting of opposition leaders last week that he, too, had not been made aware of the problems with how all this would work. (Politics Live, Guardian - my emphasis)

The Office for National Statistics said there have been 286,759 deaths to date in England and Wales this year - 51,466 more than the five-year average.

Of the deaths registered by 22 May, 43,837 mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate, which was 15.3% of all deaths.

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AnatolyKasparov wrote:So, the "leader of the free world" is a dangerous lunatic.

Who knew?

citizenJA wrote:

AnatolyKasparov wrote:So, the "leader of the free world" is a dangerous lunatic.

Who knew?

What's he done now?
I've not yet looked at the news.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:There might just be enough unhappy Tory MPs for there to be a chance of a rethink here, I would have thought.

Trump has reached the 'mad emperor' stage, and it's terrifying to behold
He incites violence from the safety of a bunker, then orders peaceful people tear-gassed for the sake of a surreal photo op
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citizenJA wrote:

AnatolyKasparov wrote:There might just be enough unhappy Tory MPs for there to be a chance of a rethink here, I would have thought.

you reckon the Tory brand might go off for some MPs and they leave the party?

AnatolyKasparov wrote:And they are forecast to result in some rather strange wet stuff landing on the ground in the next 24 hours.

Willow904 wrote:With only 50 MPs allowed in the Commons before and only 50 MPs being allowed now, getting Johnson's braying mob back does not appear to be the aim of today's lunacy. Which is deeply, deeply worrying as the only logical conclusion is that today was an exercise in attempting to limit parliament and undermine democracy purely to see if they could and it seems they can.