Very kind of you.
I won't be making any more fuss about off topicness.
A bit of a waste of time, as are some 'sorries'.
An apology is empty and meaningless if the action is repeated.
Why do you call it an intervention in politics? Why not say it is a decision based on constitutional principles? — Benkei
The most important task is to decide as quickly as we can how we are going to move forward on Brexit. It’s not true, which is being repeated over and over again by ministers, that everybody who’s involved in parliament is just trying to stop Brexit, defy the people … I voted for Brexit three times with a deal on these three preliminary points. I think the best thing to do is to produce a majority in parliament on a cross-party basis – — Ken Clarke
and we know what that lead to. — S
Unfortunately for him, this course results in him undermining the constitution, parliament and the Crown, which will reflect very badly on him and his government. Also it will strengthen the opposition in Parliament. — Punshhh
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I don't know what his long time aims are, or his party, as he is surrounded by chaos and it is accepted that the strategy is in the hands of a shady unelected advisor Dominic Cummings. Who is a clever strategist who is well aware of how populism works at this time. — Punshhh
Why do you call it an intervention in politics? Why not say it is a decision based on constitutional principles?
The UK's Supreme Court is just 10 years old, and the courts have, historically, not intervened in politics to this extent.
Yes the two aims are intertwined. I have long been of the opinion that he would prefer to go for a softer Brexit deal if his party was happy and the Brexit party wouldn't punish them at the ballot box. Firstly because he wasn't a brexiter until the referendum campaign and so is not himself a rabid leaver. Secondly he's intelligent enough to realise that a no deal Brexit will be hugely damaging, or at least a great risk and that he as prime minister would be in the firing line and fire fighting in crisis mode for months or years.Boris's strategy - and Cummings' is simple. To be the man who despite all the remoaners and cowards achieved Brexit.
I don't want to underplay the size of his ego/egomania. But party really does matter, because the support for the Conservatives is being squeezed in a few ways. To be in government requires a large number of MPs behind you and in our electoral system for those MPs to become elected comes down to votes on the ground, which are not easy to secure. And don't underestimate the fear amongst the party of a Corbyn government.I don't think he's much interested in the Tory party as a historical institution, but only as a party in his own image - just like Trump and the Republicans. All the older generation who care about the party's past have gone from the Cabinet, replaced by young hard-liners who will follow his will. Populism is about individual demagogues. The disillisioned Brexit voters trust leaders, not parties..
I don't want to underplay the size of his ego/egomania. But party really does matter, because the support for the Conservatives is being squeezed in a few ways. To be in government requires a large number of MPs behind you and in our electoral system for those MPs to become elected comes down to votes on the ground, which are not easy to secure. And don't underestimate the fear amongst the party of a Corbyn government. — Punshhh
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