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Interesting post, McHrozni, but I'd bet this latest scandal is more to do with his inability to keep it in his trousers. I think it was Max Hastings (his boss for several years) who described Johnson as having the morals of an alley cat. There can't be many world leaders whose wiki entry gives their number of children as "5 or 6".
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Expecting us to know some minor detail about something more relevant to your (shorter) history than our (much longer) one is like us expecting you to know some minor detail about the Battle of Towton. |
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This is a problem. It's not something that can be solved by just recalling the MPs and leaving it at that. UK is ruled by precendens, there is no precendens for this situation. The judges must do it right. McHrozni |
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If the new scandal is Boris spending public money to ferry his spare girlfriend around and giving her access she shouldn't have I doubt it will even phase his supporters. His promiscuity and self serving dishonesty have been public knowledge for decades. The message for future politicians is that any behaviour however abhorent can be balanced by being slightly self depreciating, in a suitably patronising way, on HigNfY. It even worked for Rees-Mogg and when I look at him I almost believe David Icke.
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The second factor is that USA only has two viable parties, but UK has several - three nation-wide (Tory, Labor, LibDem) and several more local ones (DUP, SNP, Cymru, SinnFenn). It's not that Tories are fundamentally better people than Republicans, no. The nature of the British democracy is such that the country is inherently more resillient to such abuses of power. McHrozni |
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The easy way out is judge PM did not lie to the queen, thus avoding the question altogether. However since most debate was alledgedly not whether or not the claim is factual but how to deal with it that doesn't seem to be all that likely. McHrozni |
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Whether it deserves all the hype is a question we won't know the answer to until we find out what it is, but it's definitely not just that he gave his girlfriend money from the public purse. |
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Supreme Court ruling tomorrow at 1030 apparently.
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On the attempt to remove Watson. Today Lansman (who put forward the motion to abolish Watson's role) tweeted
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On Channel 4 News Boris claimed that once out of the EU we can ban the sale of shark fin soup.
Shark finning was banned in the EU years ago, but the trade in shark fins cannot be banned due to WTO rules, not because of the EU. |
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Why would he stop lying now when it got him into Downing Street ? |
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It seems like a solid line of reasoning to me. McHrozni |
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Into the Sun. McHrozni |
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All 11 Supreme Court judges find against Boris. Which git wanted to sideline the ECJ?
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Via David Allen Green twitter : The prorogation was unlawful. Unanimous decisions. Waiting to see now if we get a declaration or a notice. I.e will CS hand this back to politicians to sort out or will they decide an acttion themselves?
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Edit: Summary of the judgement: https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/do...92-summary.pdf Full judgement: https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/do...2-judgment.pdf |
Suspension was ruled unlawful. Chopping block sales skyrocket (alledgedly).
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Anyone notice the "Boris the Spider" motif on her top?
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This prorogation has been a phenomenal own goal. First it galvanized the opposition to do something (the law requiring PM to ask for an extension) and only after that happened, the prorogation was also declared null and void.
Not only BJ now has to deal with Parliament, the very reason he pushed for prorogation in the first place has been eviscerated by a timely legal action. He may face another trial for misconduct in publci office and has absolutely nothing to show for it. Except for a legal precendens on how not to act as PM that will be taught in British constitutional law class until the end of time, or at least a couple of centuries. It's a claim to (in)fame, so he has that going for him, which is nice. McHrozni |
On top of that, European Leaders must ask themselves: what is the point of talking to him anymore?
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As an aside, anyone else noticed the similarity between Aaron Banks and Herbert Lom's Inspector Dreyfus?
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