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  • Brexit
    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 them, it will be going into the lions den for most of them. Corbyn will be impressing it on them that if they hold their nerve just a little longer Boris will crash and burn and 5 years of socialism will be instigated, they can make the necessary reforms that they all want and we still may leave the EU. Or they sell their souls for a bargain basement Trump deal and poverty stricken gnashing of teeth in their constituency's for a decade. What would you choose.
    Also I expect some Tory rebels to continue to rebel, as it has now gone beyond the pale and this would not be the end of the shenanigans, but merely the start of a decade of them.

    There is talk this morning of a massive bung for the DUP. Someone should have told him that you don't play fast and loose/lose with the DUP and get away with it. Also there is a get out clause for many MPs, they will back the deal if there is a second referendum tacked on.
  • Brexit
    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 checked it. Please do correct me when it happens.
  • Brexit
    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 it at the moment. There is suspicion going round that it is a trick, another trap. That if Parliament doesn't endorse the deal Johnson will call a confidence vote, or take it as one, in the government, which he will loose and trigger an election. Or that if they vote it through, the Benn act falls and Johnson doesn't need to request an extension, leaving the only option for the opposition a confidence vote and the triggering of a general election before the end of the month.
  • Brexit
    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 streets outside. The people against parliament.
  • Brexit
    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 customs border down the Irish Sea. He is finished now, there is no way back from this.

    Coincidentally a report came out this morning that Johnson acted recklessly with over 50 million pounds of public money on the garden bridge project ( the Boris Bridge) while he was London Mayor.
  • An Estimate for no ‘God’
    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 was not referring to Gods, I was referring to the spiritual texts and ideology taught in those religions.

    The idea being that one can answer the questions about Gods through spiritual, or mystical practice, while you cannot answer them through intellectual reasoning on its own.

    For example spiritual and mystical practices involve the principle of self reorientation, in which the self ( the part of you which does the thinking, this is an oversimplification) forms a kind of narrative between the body and mind through a reorientation of the person and the person's sense of identity and presence in the world.

    The idea being that the mind is informed by the body( the world) and that without the body, the mind would be empty, so everything in the mind is derived from the body and so the body is the source of the information in the mind and all the mind needs to do to understand the body is sort and integrate that information in the right way.

    This is a different approach to understanding, than the approach of reason in isolation.
  • An Estimate for no ‘God’
    Information is subject, not object. We exist in an object.
  • Brexit
    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 will mention the break up of the Union for now and leave it at that. Remember that in many ways our public services are already teetering on the edge and the large number of people who are a couple of wage checks away from repossession, or homelessness.

    I agree with your assessment of the Brexiter credo, however I would put that down to the editors of the Sun and the Daily Mail. Along with a rump of toffs in the Tory party. So it is not really a valid credo, rather the result of scaremongering and an outdated bulldog spirit sentiment. As for the motivation of the toffs, I think sir Bill Cash illustrates the problem. As far as he is concerned the German government has a stranglehold over any decision made in the EU parliament and it is only allowed through once hard nosed, hardline German power brokers give it the nod and that our sovereignty is at peril if we remain in the EU.

    I would suggest that the numbers of Brexiters who still hold to this credo has eroded over the summer and it does not need to erode much to have lost its mandate.

    In addition I just wanted to mention the democratic principle you mention. I agree with your point, but in my opinion there is a mis understanding of democracy in the minds of the people you refer to. I think I have already pointed this out a few posts back, but I will repeat it, as it is an important issue in the division which has developed in the country.

    There is a sacred principle in the minds of the people in our country, the principle of democracy. Which they are taught about in school and that the UK is the last bastion, the defender of democracy due to our history etc. But many of the people who hold this view, as I have done myself, don't realise the inadequacies of democracy and that in this country it is exercised, fundamentally, as a system of representative parliament with an executive which is accountable to that parliament, which is regularly changed by a democratic process.

    The way in which the democratic principle is exercised in this system is the way in which the executive is changed, or endorsed at regular intervals by a public vote.

    At no point is the public asked for their view on any particular issue and carrying out a referendum is a different exercise to our decomcracy, it is legally, only an advisory exercise and a difficult way in which to conduct constitutional change. I lay the blame and cause of all this turmoil over the last few years at the door of David Cameron's government and the folly they entered into in this exercise.
  • Brexit
    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 like a braying donkey than a prime Minister delivering his Queens speech.
  • An Estimate for no ‘God’
    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 don't know'.

    I followed the thought process of realising that I am a body as well as a mind and that that body might also be God and I am unwittingly being God carrying out my purpose. There are many ways in which such insights can be approached, used and developed into schools of thought and practice. Personally I contemplate insights from studying eastern religions and my personal journey in creative ways.

    I would say though that in this process the existence, or not of God, tends to become irrelevant.
  • An Estimate for no ‘God’
    ‘God’ cannot be shown or known, so ‘God’ is but wished for and hoped for, which is called ‘faith’, in short. ‘No God’ is also an unknown. The positions are not necessarily equiprobable.
    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 past, I would say you can't achieve anything definitive with these thoughts. You will always end up with a don't know, anything other than that achieved through logic, would be deluding yourself. I realised a long time ago that if one is to answer this question a different approach to thinking on its own is required.

    Has it occurred to you that you are not just a mind, you have a body to? And the important thing about your body is that it is independent of your mind, your reasoning. So you are a reasoning being, but you are also an agent operating, interacting in a place of existence. An interaction which can continue almost entirely in the absence of your thinking and experiencing 'realities', which you thinking is only aware of remotely, through your senses etc. An interaction which may be very different, or more subtle than your mind is aware of.

    This realisation gives one an extra tool, besides one's thinking alone.
  • Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)
    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 they came from and blow themselves up there so Americans dont need to worry now, because Europe will take the flack and we know what he thinks about Europe these days.
  • Brexit
    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, including I think 5 cabinet resignations being threatened.
  • Brexit
    No. to the extent that there was a promise to respect the result, not respecting the result is breaking the promise. That would be a good thing, but it would be breaking the promise. Let's not resort to gobbledygook
    Yes, I don't deny that, however what was the promise to do? Let's say Johnson declared war on Let's say Luxembourg today, I wouldn't put it past him. Giving the reason that this is how to respect the will of the people, there is no other way to do it because Luxembourg was planning, indeed collaborating to thwart the will of the people, right from the beginning. The ends don't justify the means. Lord Sumption said following the Supreme Court judgement,"the ends don't justify the means, if they were to, that would be tyranny".

    Presumably the promise was for parliament to carry out the will of the people with due care to the country and if unknowingly carrying it out were to put the country in peril, to refrain from doing that and to find another solution.

    I would suggest that Parliament's duty is firstly to the Crown and secondly to the people and that parliament would hold an oath to the Crown to have a duty of care to the country, first and foremost.
  • Brexit
    I don't think that screwing the promise of the first referendum is betraying the promise. Rather it would be Parliament, or the government accepting that there isn't a way of leaving without causing damage to the country, be it an economic catastrophe, or a fracturing of the Good Friday agreement and that parliament has a duty of care to the wellbeing of the country. It would be acting in the country's best interest by cancelling Brexit, or coming to a soft Brexit accommodation.
  • Brexit
    My suggestion would be that the government should revoke and have a border Pole in Northern Ireland. Then try and work something out after they have decided what they want to do.
  • Brexit
    Yes, the EU has rejected the proposals, it was widely understood that they were never going to be sufficient, but rather a "sham"(according to Cummings). You suggest if Johnson were to negotiate with no deal on the table, there might be some leverage. But I disagree, this is because the EU's red lines are and never were negotiable. They said that right after the referendum, and it ought to have been obvious to Brit's that it would be so ( although I can't say that I had that understanding myself). It is, certainly in hindsight, if not before, a tragic misunderstanding of how the EU is constituted, or what sort of an agreement that was being entered into in this case. The entire notion that some sort of negotiating leverage was an important means to getting a good deal was entirely for the domestic audience in the UK, or more pertinently, the Tory party talking to its own navel.

    I agree that Johnson is weakened by him not delivering his promise and that the Brexit party will wipe the floor with him in the election. He knows this and will now have to neutralise the Brexit party by running on a no deal ticket in the election. The problem is I don't think Brexit party support will trust him and he will loose his moderate support. I can't see him winning a majority.
  • Brexit
    I was thinking of a Halloween party, as Halloween is looming over the horizon. I wish I were manufacturing rubber pitch forks, I'd make a killing. Suppose we'll have to settle for tridents and pointy tails.
  • Brexit
    The blame game has started. Downing Street briefed this morning that in a phone call with Angela Merkel lastnight, she had said that a deal was overwhelmingly unlikely. So No10 says it's pulling the talks due to EU intransigence. It's emerged that No10 threatened to pull security arrangements with the EU lastnight, thus undermining NATO.

    There are firey exchanges in parliament. There is a major leak from No10 this morning assumed to be from Cummings to James Forsyth of the Spectator magazine, ranting about the betrayal and claiming that they will bypass the Benn Act and are going to push through a no deal. It is a good read.
    Here it is,
    https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/how-number-10-view-the-state-of-the-negotiations/
  • Brexit
    Yes I agree about the airbrushing of history, my family comes from Huddersfield by the way, so Yorkshire a region with its own traditions and history. Going back to identity though, we don't have an equivalent to the Eisteddfod, and we can't shut the knobs out, because they come from England (actually I suspect France with William the conqueror). So we're stuck with them.
  • Brexit
    My reading of what Johnson is up to with the Benn act is that he will capitulate and ask for the extension when it is clear that he won't get his deal with the EU. He is keeping up the pretence of defying the law in an attempt to put pressure on the EU to compromise.

    When he asks for the extension there is going to be an almighty push to put the blame on everyone else trying to thwart Brexit, the will of the people. The idea being that it will build up a head of steam and give him a majority in the looming general election. When he gets this majority he will carry on from where he left off, but with an offer which he can get through Parliament. Thus giving the EU a way out through some fudge over the Irish Border, then we will get the Canada plus deal.

    The problem as I see it is that he will split the leave vote in the general election, by running on a negotiated deal ticket, to try and get the moderate vote. Surely he can't still be facing both ways this far down the line. People will smell a rat and won't trust him anymore.
  • Boris Johnson (All General Boris Conversations Here)
    Eton is the finishing school for Tory Prime Ministers. It's just like a Victorian museum, you expect Phileus Fogg, or Jacob Rees Mogg to walk round the corner at anytime. Plus it's a five minute walk from Windsor castle and many Royals went to school there.
  • Brexit
    I respect the Welsh for their insistence on keeping their culture alive. Here in England, I don't know what our culture is, as to a large extent it is defined by the notion of a United Kingdom and Commonwealth and as a mixing bowl for all the cultures found in the different regions of that. So now that those other regions have left or may soon leave, what are we left with? Even our language is not ours anymore, it is owned by the whole world.

    What would we call our country, Great England? Or maybe Boris Isles, which might be appropriate.

    I will coin my phrase again,

    Remember Remember the 1st of November.
  • Brexit
    Yes, and growing. But the centuries of serfdom take a hell of a time to get over.
    I don't disagree, but do you realise there are millions of serfs in England to, just on this side of the border rather than that?

    In my world, places where I have lived, or that I know of have been " gentrified", which is a polite way of saying the privelidged, private school educated, self appointed important people, knobs(for want of a better word) have moved in. They have decimated many a nice old fashioned village, or town. Only the desirable ones of course. A classic example you may know of as it's right on the Welsh border, is Haye on Wye. When I used to visit as young boy it was untouched( well relatively, as there was a draw for secondhand book collectors, as I was). But over the last 30 years it has become gentrified, to the extent that every other shop has been set up by moneyed people playing at being cool and stylish, living the dream( country living magazine style). You trip over them in the streets and in the skinny latte, coffee houses. ( I know there is still a strong local community there, but it has been pushed to the sidelines and into the shadows.)

    This split, them and us divide in our society, our country has been going on overtly since people (some poeple, the privelidged of course) found they had wealth, new money and started spilling out of their middle class enclaves in the Home Counties where their privelidge, their important private schools and routes ( a nod and a wink) into all the privelidged and important jobs, was confined. Now they spill out into every quaint, beautiful, desirable place in the country and pollute it with big black four wheel drive vehicles, with their sharp elbows buy up all the best property's, and make everywhere look like a country living magazine cover.

    Where as there is an equal, infact larger, phenomena of regions and towns becoming deprived, wealth drained away, work going in the direction of short term contracts and zero hour contracts. Dying High streets, filled with chicken cafes, porn shops, betting shops and discount retailers. These are the towns where sizeable numbers of immigrants have been put, adding to the feelings of discontent due to the deprivation, with one of demographic fears too.

    Weirdly not only do these left behind deprived populations feel they want to hit back at the establishment with a leave vote. But the privelidged interlopers on mass want to leave as well. But their reasons are predominantly to increase unregulated capitalism, along with some myth that the Germans are going to suck us into some kind of superstate, which they are in charge of. To become a German colony.

    And so we have Brexit.
  • Brexit
    Interesting, as Wales as a whole voted to leave the EU. But lastnight Plied Cymru's Adam Price was speaking of an independent Wales in the EU.
  • Boris Johnson (All General Boris Conversations Here)
    And yet the current Tory Chancellor, Sajid Javid, has the nerve to declare at the Tory party conference, "It's clear it's the Conservatives who are the real party of labour - we are the workers' party".
    I can't imagine who would believe the pledges of the Tory party now, they have no credibility left. It will go down as the worst Tory conference in history I think, they really have lost the plot.
  • What Hong Kong isn't doing that they should be doing.
    If the rebellious crowd keeps going on, sooner or later the Red army will restore law and order and lock up the most recalcitrant elements in countryside re-education camps, of which China undoubtedly has ample left from the Cultural Revolution

    The camps are full of muslims right now and they're building lots more. Sounds like paranoia at the top to me.
  • Brexit
    The government had sought to prevent these documents being released to the media, and it will raise questions over the contradiction between the prime minister’s public and private stances.'

    It's what I was saying a couple of posts back, Johnson is facing both ways, one way for the hard brexiters in his party and the Brexit party, the other way to his moderate and remain conservative supporters. He can often be heard saying the opposite to what he said a moment earlier, or saying something which means exactly the opposite of what he's doing.

    It has been coined "double speak" ( like doublethink in George Orwell's Animal Farm). The problem with it is, that his leave supporters, know it but don't care because they're in on the roose. The people on the remain side, see it, but when they call it out it is denied, or ignored. And the worst thing is the leave supporting newspapers print his rhetoric aimed at leavers and are read by a large swathe of less knowledgeable leave voters, who follow slogans, rather like the Trump base. But they don't realise what he's up to, or that he is continually contradicting himself and lying. This constituency is considered to be the Labour leave areas in the north of England, who Johnson wants to poach from Corbyn. I noticed that some EU politicians were commenting on it lastnight and this morning, it is why they think Johnson is disingenuous and playing to a UK audience in preparation for an election.
  • Brexit
    I would say that those who don't care about our union are a minority. The Lib Dems hold a legitimate position. Is there much of a Welsh independence sentiment in your area?
  • Brexit
    I've just heard an electoral analyst on LBC, stating that the leave vote is split between the Conservative party and the Brexit party, which is a "fight to the death". Whereas the remain vote is mainly divided between Labour and Lib Dems. Who may well cooperate, at some point.

    The important observation he made was that on the leave side there are a lot of seats which are marginal between the Lib Dems and Conservative, which could swing in the Lib Dem's favour if Johnson starts to loose support. Whereas the majority of Labour marginal seats are between Labour and the Conservatives, with some Brexit party. Labour and Lib Dems are predominantly in different areas of the country and don't overlap much. So if Lib Dems do well, it will mainly be at the expense of the Conservative party.
  • Brexit
    They will even support the NHS in theory, if they think it is a winning strategy
    They don't have to support the NHS, just say they will and their base believes it. Everyone else is highly sceptical, there is a feeling going around that they can't be trusted on anything. Johnson's splash the cash announcements in his speech yesterday, had a hollow sound to them. He's trying to appeal to the Labour heartlands in the north who voted leave. I doubt if they will fall for it, although they may still support him, or more likely the Brexit party. They are in deprived areas often where there are a lot of immigrants, they will become more deprived after Brexit, they know it and will still vote to leave. Talk about stubborn. Labour will campaign hard in these areas, sincerely promising to help with socialist policies, which they will implement and will work. I wonder if it will have any impact.
  • Brexit
    The government's (Johnson's) eagerly anticipated proposals to the EU have been published. It's a great big slice of fudge. As I was beginning to suspect, his team and strategy is limp, limping along. It confirms that the plan all along was to secure a general election, unfortunately for him he is going to become cornered now into adopting no deal as his policy, which will divide his party further. There is some murmuring about bringing back the May deal again and holding a gun to their heads, but I can't see how they can achieve that with such a limp and it would destroy his party if it is passed.

    It's beginning to look like a crash and burn.
  • Brexit
    I think I am doing something akin to discussing a game of chess without actually moving the chess pieces on the board. When I read your posts, it all makes sense, but I have notions and suspect notions in the minds of the group running Downing Street which differ. I suppose I have a different view of the primary motivation within that group. Although having just listened to Johnson's speech at the party conference, I am beginning to think that it is more chaotic, naive and short sighted than I had been thinking.
    I suppose what I mean by saving the party is that where the fatal split will be is the focus. I think this split would cleft the party in two with hardened leavers and supporters who are sympathetic to the lurch to the right and populism, but who may have been quite ambivalent on the issue of Brexit (before the referendum) on one side and an equal group of staunch remainers and supporters who are sympathetic with preserving a one nation broad church of a party, who were quite ambivalent about Brexit ( before the referendum)on the other side. At the moment the party is leaking support to the Brexit party on one side and the Lib Dems on the other.

    The fear being (justified or not) that the party is loosing support to the Brexit party and that is why Theresa May and now Boris Johnson have had to tow a more right wing approach than they would naturally adopt and why the leadership has been replaced by hard brexiters. As this becomes more extreme, as it appears to be doing, the members and supporters on the other side of the divide will be looking on in horror and wondering what happened to their party. They might be seriously considering changing their allegiance to the Lib Dems.

    Add to this schizophrenia the body blow of the referendum result and the rise of a truly socialist opposition and it seems to me that the leadership is struggling to hold the party together, while becoming paranoid of a socialist government. An illustration of this is the way that May and Johnson are repeatedly seen facing both ways at once talking to the two opposing constituencies in their own party. Developing strategies and policies which are shoring up the splits. This is why Johnson appears to both really really want to get a deal, and simultaneously gunning for no deal.

    There is one thing however which all sides of the party and their support is united on, which is that they really really don't want to let a socialist party to get into government. I noticed in his speech some serious attacks on Corbyn, for example, if he got into government, he would close down all private schools, abolish ofstead, disband the army and a string of other dubious claims and slurs.

    However he failed to make the expected ultimatum to the EU and was quite subdued in his bravado on the Brexit issue.
  • Brexit
    I agree, your assessment is pretty much what I had been thinking of when thinking of reform of our system.
  • Brexit
    There is one thing that our democracy gives us which is an improvement on the alternatives, which is the ability for the electorate to remove the government every 5 years if required. And to be able to put another government, selected through democratic processes in their place.

    Can you suggest a better system?
  • Brexit
    he just needs someone to blame if things go wrong.
    l don't disagree with your assement, I would add though, as before, the importance of keeping the Conservative party together in his motives. This is very important because it is the only way of preventing Corbyn getting into No10 and no one should underestimate how bad that would be in the eyes of supporters of the Conservatives. I put it to you that in their eyes this is far worse than Brexit being cancelled, or a soft Brexit. I admit that the Conservatives are doomed in either case, but they are clutching at straws and their focus at this point is in fighting off the Brexit party, who will decimate his support if Brexit is delayed again, cancelled, or a soft deal is agreed, again, letting Corbyn in. The Conservatives would far rather wreck the country and the union wherever the blame lands, than enable Corbyn to get his hands on No10, although they will try to blame someone else if they can.

    Imo the only way he can succeed in holding the Conservative party together and fend off Corbyn, is to get a no deal, or a hard Deal Brexit by 31st of October. The only way he can do that is to hoodwink the soft brexiters in his own party and the Labour Party. Until either he can force through a no deal, or hold a metaphorical gun to the heads of a large number of MPs and get them to vote a hard deal through before 31st October.

    There is a second way, which as you say, is that if he is removed by parliament and fails. He will then try to pit the people against parliament in a general election and if he wins, he will try it all again. But I doubt this would work due to the rise of the Brexit party by that point. Perhaps if some sort of pact with the Brexit party were secured he could win, but that is looking a long way into the future.

    Just to add, as I understand it, if Johnson resigns, or refuses to ask the EU for an extension, the Supreme Court will issue an injunction very quickly requiring him to go and ask, and/or instruct another person to do so in his stead by order of the court. Which would be acceptable to the EU. As has been stated by the EU, they are negotiating with her Majesty's Government, they care not who the Prime minister is, or whom her Majesty sends in his stead.
  • Brexit
    Yesterday at the Conservative party conference, James Cleverly, Conservative party chairman said that there could be civil disobedience and rioting if Brexit is not done by 31st October. While in the Yellow Hammer report ( commissioned by the government to identify what the risks of a no deal Brexit are), if there is a no deal Brexit there is a risk of civil disobedience and rioting.

    So the government is leading us down a road in which either way we will have civil disobedience and rioting. Of course they would say that there is an alternative, to agree a deal, but it is well known that there is no deal and they won't bring back the May deal. There is talk today of the outline of a deal being published, but everyone ( who's not a leaver) knows it's a sham.

    It looks to me that Johnson's strategy is to be all things to all people. To face both ways promising what the hard Brexiters and the Brexit party want, that his policy is no deal and it's going to happen come what may, do or die. While at the same time promising the more moderate Conservatives and Labour leavers that he is on the verge of agreeing a deal, he really wants a deal and threatening a no deal is the best way to get a deal, the EU always compromises at the very last minute.

    He needs to bring everyone with him right to the very last day and hold a metaphorical gun to their heads. To either agree a deal, a deal which few will actually support, or push them of a cliff, which will take everyone else over with them. This also gives him the opportunity with Cummings to conduct some chicanery in the chaos at the point of the acute crisis he will create.

    The problem he has is that if he commits one way, or the other, he looses the support who want to go the other way and he would be finished and Corbyn would get in ( a worse outcome than Hell itself to all Conservatives). So he has to hold them in a close hug, or clench with a gun to everyone's head until a second before midnight on 31st of October. Once this point has passed then he can resurrect the Conservative party out of the flames, as any opposition would have been neutralised, it would have no purpose any more. Boris would be proclaimed a hero, all hail Boris, all hail the Emperor.

    He has saved the country from the tyranny of a Corbyn government.
  • Brexit
    Farage is not much of a threat at the moment. It's more of a protest movement. From my side as a remainer, he is useful because he can split the leave vote. Although if he forges some sort of alliance with the Conservative party, he could swing the vote in their favour. I expect all sorts of shenanigans during the election campaign.

    At the moment Conservatives are saying that would never happen, but I am suspicious that there are deals going on in secret. It is high risk because if it happens it will almost certainly have a devastatinga effect on the Conservative party. So Johnson will have to choose between a hard Brexit selling the soul of his party to the Brexit party and all the consequences of that. Or try and drain support from the Brexit party and save the Conservative party (if that's even possible), although it would probably mean loosing Brexit and could let Corbyn in.

    Either way, it's a loose loose for Johnson.
  • Brexit
    It looks a though there's going to be a no confidence vote in Parliament next week and an attempt to install a caretaker government. Fasten your seatbelts and get ready for a rollercoaster ride, right into a general election.
  • Brexit
    It does look like we're getting the Boris Party, a fully fledged Machiavellian tyrant. Heading at full speed for a no idea Brexit (no deal Brexit), and a Trump deal. Fasten your seat belts.

    The trouble is it is very high risk and he is a flawed character, the phrase on my lips today is,
    Beware the ides of March.