Don't be too certain just yet. The election bill can now be amended. So it may include votes for EU nationals, 16-17 yr olds; and be on Dec 9th, which...
Finally a decision from the EU on a Jan 31st extension. Hopefully now Corbyn will have to man up. If he keeps looking like he's running from a Decembe...
I agree that election by the members means the likes of Boris will win vs Jeremy Hunt any time - a populist who simplifiies things will get his priori...
The likes of Maggie Thatcher and Tony Blair always had large enough majorities to allow them to disregard the 'extremists' in their own parties. Since...
I agree it won't all be sorted for years yet, and there will certainly be an outcry against the continuing payments the UK has to make in the transiti...
The problem for the Tories if they delay is the bill getting amended. There is very close to a majority for adding a customs union to it - all opposit...
It's a problem caused by the hung Parliament we now have. A minority govt has elected a new leader and the Fixed Term Parliament law prevents him from...
That won't stop Boris saying it has in the election campaign. And if he gets a majority it's certain to go through the rest of the parliamentary stage...
I agree with you that the EU have behaved impeccably. I didn't accuse them of deliberately delaying, I said the ERG will think they are, and that's on...
From the Guardian article noted above: "But Downing Street is braced for potential defeat on the so-called programme motion setting out the timetable,...
I know that is true for the simplistic Farage supporters, but I'd have thought that ERG MPs would have more sense. One of the benefits of leaving is s...
Yes but as I understand it, that 'no deal' is no trade deal - not no withdrawal deal, which is what we are threatened with now. I think 'no trade deal...
Surely we have to assume that the implementation period will be extended. It was originally 21 months from the end of March 19, and that looked tight....
My feeling is that an amendment tacking on a confirmatory referendum wont pass. No Tories will vote for it, so everyone else would have to, and I'm su...
If Boris gets his deal through, as I now think is likely if MPs get to look at its detail and are reassured that the govt don't plan a race to the bot...
UK politics must be a laughing stock worldwide by now! The EU are going to hold off granting the extention to the last minute - but grant it they will...
Another hung parliament sounds like a neverending nightmare! Maybe if the polls predict one during the campaign voters would vote tactically to preven...
I think Farrage over-estimates how much of his support is no-deal-of-any-sort voters, and how many just supported him because they thought Boris would...
I think as long as the vote is close - say no more than 10 in it, then Boris can request an extention to hold an election. Most Labour MPs won't back ...
I think the Tories will back Boris rather than the DUP. The dreaded backstop is gone, and that was the main stumbling block for the ERG. Teresa May's ...
Deal agreed: Well, that's it. Boris has won. The DUP are now expendable. The Tory rebels on both wings will all now come back in-line, thus healing th...
The problem with this strategy is that the EU will not agree a deal if they even suspect it wont go through parliament. And I think the DUP view is cr...
It does look like going down to the wire - as the ERG always said it would. However, their view was that the EU would give ground in the final hours. ...
The idea that a no-deal exit would put the country in peril is maybe putting it a bit strong? My reading of the Brexiteer credo is that leaving is not...
Well it's already looking like the EU arent going to bend to Boris's will. It must be time for J R Mogg to pipe up about the Benn act which prevents n...
I've heard that the answer could be yes, he will ask the EU for an extension, but he will also 'bribe' the Poles to veto the EU proposal to grant one ...
The question of whether or not Brexit has been settled is going to be criticial in the election. Because it's effectively an issue of nationalism it h...
I don't see what you mean about Boris having to hold the Tory party together. Surely he has already split it by ejecting those last few Remainers. It ...
I think you've answered your own question - chicanery. No deal will be blamed on the EU for being intransigent despite the UK 'working flat out' to ge...
Yes the party matters as a means to elect MPs and get a government, but when the voters courted by populists vote they vote for the figurehead, not th...
Boris's strategy - and Cummings' is simple. To be the man who despite all the remoaners and cowards achieved Brexit. Ideally he wants to stick to his ...
Well I'm surprised by that, but really pleased. It prioritises parliament's right and abilty to hold the govt to account. The next question is whether...
Agreed. Corbyn has yet again sat on the fence. He seems to want to please all of the Labour membership all of the time rather than Lead. One of the cr...
This is the most appalling truth about populism. Trump knows that his supporters don't follow politics, so he can contradict what he said last week an...
I agree with all you say. The mistake was in part Cameron's for calling the referendum and not realising that the result could cause all sorts of prob...
Listening to the statements from both lawyers yesterday I learned that the defence parliament has to the PM's seemingly limitless power to prorogue it...
I don't know the US scene, but isnt Trump the guarantor of all the male white-collar industrial jobs that globalism and immigration threaten? Hence tr...
This is the rise of populism in the UK. Very sad. Nietzsche spoke of 'slave morality', which unlike 'master morality' is not driven by lofty aims and ...
It will be interesting to see what transpires in the Supreme Court. At the heart of the case seems to be the dividing line between the court's jurisdi...
I think the link between ethics and aesthetics is real, and it's not about one being the source of the other, it's that both come from the same deeper...
If you suffer from depression (as I have), it will have a cause. Try actually listening to those professionals who you admit know more than you do, yo...
Re the egg-smell and the rock. Smells are perceptions of vapours, which consist of atoms and molecules just as rocks do. The smell is a sense percepti...
Agreed (from my UK perspective). I think generally patriotism is based on pride in your country's culture and achievements. Nationalism is based on a ...
For me it's curiosity. If you have a brain capable of conceiving beyond the chaos and mundanities of everyday life you wonder about how and why things...
It isn't 'bad'. There are bad things in it, and good things. Lots of both. Infact the world looks rather like the bizarre and chaotic mixture of good ...
What do you mean by "true" giving. You seem to be separating giving: into ordinary giving - ie a Christmas present; and "true" giving, which is at som...
I'm not sure what you mean in the 3rd sentence.. What I'm saying about arms and legs is not that we have a right to them, but that it is meaningless t...
No - unless your heart beating is somehow connected to your thoughts! We are still alive and aware of our environment. Our awareness is not created by...
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