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It looks like Rees Mogg won't be granted a vote on the deal today by the speaker. So he will have to bring forward the withdrawal bill, which will be ...
October 21, 2019 at 06:08
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A new extension is required to throw Johnson out of Downing st, without the risk that parliament finds itself not sitting during the period up to the ...
October 21, 2019 at 06:01
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The DUP said they would support another referendum yesterday, it will be close.
October 20, 2019 at 16:56
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Nice, it will really hang Johnson out to dry though and play into Corbyn's hands. Johnson is a blundering oaf, his chutzpah has no legs, or should I s...
October 20, 2019 at 16:16
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I have to agree with your assessment of Johnson getting the deal through or winning an election, although I would erh on the side of only just scrapin...
October 20, 2019 at 16:07
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Yes, but they will not want to be drawn into the internal politics of another country. They will have to tread carefully. Already I hear that Johnson ...
October 20, 2019 at 07:27
Yes, I was saying that you are more than you think, or are conditioned to think. That there is a kind of enquiry through contemplation of self, as wel...
October 20, 2019 at 07:06
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There is a risk, the EU might not grant the extension, or they might say there must be a democratic event, or the meaningful vote must be held first, ...
October 20, 2019 at 06:48
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l can't see a way to avoid it, at least if there is a coalition of the opposition they will enact their plan and the deadlock will be broken by a publ...
October 20, 2019 at 06:42
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Rees Mogg, the leader of the house has said there will be a meaningful vote on Monday, but the speaker may not allow it.
October 19, 2019 at 14:42
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The Letwin amendment has just passed and the government has pulled the meaningful vote, intending to bring it back on Tuesday.
October 19, 2019 at 13:55
I said if there is a God, I did not say if there is a God belief. So you are what you think or know yourself to be and that's all? How wise indeed (no...
October 19, 2019 at 05:51
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That's not quite how I see it, I think there is a high likelihood that the Tory's will win the most seats though. But if they don't have a majority, w...
October 18, 2019 at 20:56
if there is a God, you might be more than you think
October 18, 2019 at 15:16
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Maybe that's why Farage looked so sad this morning, it was as though he had seen a ghost. It won't be getting Brexit done though, unless getting it do...
October 18, 2019 at 14:40
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I would agree with you if the they win the vote tomorrow, although I wouldn't expect such a large majority in the election. However if they lose and i...
October 18, 2019 at 12:43
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Sam Gyima has pointed out an interesting scenario which supports what I was saying about Johnson's primary aim to be to neutralise the Brexit party an...
October 18, 2019 at 10:54
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I'm not saying the bankers caused the crisis, but they were heavily involved from our perspective and left the UK very exposed. I don't want to get in...
October 18, 2019 at 10:02
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I was thinking about what started all this and I put the blame firmly at the door of the Tory heartlands. (I am generalising here) I have noticed for ...
October 18, 2019 at 07:41
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Yes, its very sad. The people who will lose out are the moderate intelligentsia, including the entire establishment, who were overwhelmingly in favour...
October 18, 2019 at 06:52
I find it comforting. I know that there is something, that's good enough for me and if there's one something, then there must be many others, the worl...
October 17, 2019 at 21:35
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I am not so convinced about the numbers in parliament, the DUP's 10 votes are gone and I doubt there will be more than 5 Labour rebels. This deal is f...
October 17, 2019 at 21:14
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Yes, well except for the English, but who cares about them. I'm ok, I will have Scottish citizenship.
October 17, 2019 at 21:04
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Quite a few MP's are saying tonight that cutting off NI permanently like this is the death nail for the Union. There will be no way to stop Scotland f...
October 17, 2019 at 20:54
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Not so fast, a lot of the swing votes were waiting to see what the DUP say. Also what they've agreed over NI is a dog's dinner, we will have to see wh...
October 17, 2019 at 13:26
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Yes the DUP have a siege, or bunker mentality, as was pointed out by an Irish political commentator on R4 yesterday. Once the're dug in they hold thei...
October 17, 2019 at 08:52
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Not easily, there is the ERG( the hard brexiters in the Conservative party) who were following the lead of the DUP, so they will give less support now...
October 17, 2019 at 08:49
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Yes, without the DUP they don't have the votes. Johnson has 48hrs to bring them round, but they are the most Stubborn political grouping ever known, s...
October 17, 2019 at 07:42
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Norman Smith (BBC correspondent) has just said that the problem is that the Stormont vote on rolling over the arrangements with the EU or customs, eve...
October 17, 2019 at 07:39
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Surprise surprise, all bets are off. Now it's the struggle over the Benn act.
October 17, 2019 at 07:18
This is speculation, I think you are speculating in the right direction, but none of it can be confirmed. Particularly the bit in bold, we really can'...
October 17, 2019 at 07:16
I wasn't referring to Christianity, but even there, there is a large body of spiritual teaching and it's not all about worship. In reference to Easter...
October 17, 2019 at 07:09
You're babbling at bit here. But seriously, are you really yourself in the world? Or are you simply a culturally conditioned persona, believing a coll...
October 17, 2019 at 07:03
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it looks as though everyone is hanging on the word of the DUP tonight. If the DUP say yes, the ERG, some Tory rebels, some Labour rebels will follow a...
October 16, 2019 at 21:25
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Interestingly the deal he is bringing back is essentially the same deal which was about to be agreed in December 2018. When Theresa May told the EU ne...
October 16, 2019 at 15:51
I wasn't thinking of faith at all. In my mystical practice there is no faith, belief, or worship. Rather it is a process like yoga of being myself, wh...
October 16, 2019 at 15:42
I don't disagree with what you are trying to say about information, but I want to make a semantic distinction, as it is conflating two different kinds...
October 16, 2019 at 06:22
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Yes, I see that, but I also see the pips squeaking in both directions for the Labour rebels. I don't think it can be assumed that Johnson will sway th...
October 16, 2019 at 06:00
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Thanks, I am a bit dyslexic, so occasionally get into a rut like that. I find it hard to believe that is how to spell lose, but it must be right, I've...
October 16, 2019 at 05:40
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It might be that he has turned the ERG, but I don't think he will turn the Spartans, or all the Labour rebels and the 21 rebel Tory's are not buying i...
October 15, 2019 at 21:29
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Yes, which is what he's lining up Super Saturday for. The big show down in Parliament with thousands of protesters from both sides clashing on the str...
October 15, 2019 at 21:19
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Michel Barnier has given Johnson an ultimatum, to provide a full legal text to the EU by midnight tonight(15/10/2019). Which boils down to accepting a...
October 15, 2019 at 11:07
I don't see a difference between eastern and western Gods, but rather the cultural interpretation and narrative by which they are referred to. But I w...
October 15, 2019 at 06:30
Information is subject, not object. We exist in an object.
October 15, 2019 at 06:13
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I would concede that it is debatable whether a no deal Brexit is putting the country in peril. I could point out how it would be if you like, but I wi...
October 15, 2019 at 05:59
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Quite, the pantomime antics of yesterday were a sight to behold. With widow Twanky guffawing at the despatch box to howls of laughter. It was more lik...
October 15, 2019 at 05:33
I don't know if what I'm suggesting can help in the dilemma necessarily. But for me it allowed me to progress past the intellectual realisation of 'I ...
October 14, 2019 at 08:17
You have come up with some interesting thoughts on 'God' and 'no God'. But from the position of someone who has given this a lot of thought in the pas...
October 14, 2019 at 07:06
Trump is not worried about the Islamic State prisoners being held by the Kurds, being released now. Because he says they will go back Europe where the...
October 10, 2019 at 10:08
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The New Boris Empire, lol Just heard that there is a group of 60 Tory MPs saying they won't campaign on a no deal Brexit in a general election, includ...
October 09, 2019 at 14:52