Westminstenders: Tory Natural Selection

[RedToothBrush]

Here we go again...

[prettybird]

Dh is an avid Brexitcaster

[DGRossetti]

I heard Justine Greening on an Brexitcast describe the Tory leadership campaign as the Doncaster Races Meets Game of Thrones

with more tits (credit to Angela Barnes, Mock the Week ...)

[BigChocFrenzy]

Kenny Farquharson@KennyFarq

BREAKING:
Scottish Labour executive committee confirms new party policy on Brexit.

Backs confirmatory vote, with party campaigning for Remain.

[tobee]

Brexitcast is good, as having access advantage, even if you take possible bias into account. If find Remainiacs too annoying to listen to. The libdem presenter (forgot her name ) often makes mistakes. It's too long as well.

[JustAnotherPoster00]

Welsh Labour have done exactly the same thing BCF which I'm extremely pleased about means I can go back to voting for them and not plaid :)

[1tisILeClerc]

In the Independent:
Leadsom saying she smoked weed at uni and separately Cameron was behind the 'hostile environment' and it wasn't just that loveable 'Treesa'.

[1tisILeClerc]

In this era of 'baring your soul' I would like to declare that the strongest I have smoked were a few of those sweet 'cigarette' sticks. White sugar and ????? what the heck they were made of. Moved on to 'bazooka joe' ? cos they had cool stuff to collect.

[Piggywaspushed]

I genuinely used to smoke cinnamon sticks when I was 11....

[Cailleach1]

oh gosh, Rockall. The thing is... the UK said 'that is our rock now, got it?' in 1955, and Ireland didn't and never has recognises that claim. It is an uninhabitable rock and Iceland and The Faroes (via Denmark) also contest the claim.

It sounds political.

Sou

[OhLookHeKickedTheBall]

Thanks red

[BigChocFrenzy]

Rockall / Fishing Limits

There is NO legal 12 mile exclusion zone around uninhabited islands
- hence none around Rockall.

UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
PART VIII REGIME OF ISLANDS Article 121 Regime of islands

https://www.un.org/depts/los/conventionagreements/texts/unclos/uncloss_e.pdf

"Rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own shall have no exclusive economic zone or continental shelf."

[Cailleach1]

It isn't Rockall itself which is the issue for all 4. There is a mineral rich plateau around it.

Seemingly Ireland and the UK agreed something about the plateau and Iceland and the Faroes objected to that agreement.

From wiki, Despite its long history of human habitation into the 20th century, Iceland considers St. Kilda to be "a minuscule, effectively uninhabited, islet, categorized under article 121(3) of the Law of the Sea Convention". Furthermore, St. Kilda lies outside the British territorial sea limit. Therefore, it is not an "equitable basepoint for an equidistant line".[13]

Brexit, meet Rockall.

[BollocksToBrexit]

My cat doesn't appear in photos. There's just a vaguely cat shaped void.

[Iambuffy]

Pmk

[WhatWouldScoobyDoo]

Hazard . I hope the test results are helpful.

[Iambuffy]

hazard 💐

[woman19]

hazard

@Kevin Schofield
David Gauke, who 3 times voted for Theresa May’s Brexit deal which would have taken the UK out of the EU on March 29, facing a no confidence vote for “wilful obstruction” of the referendum result. We are through the looking glass, enjoy the ride.

@DavidGauke
I was young and foolish. It was a mistake. I regret it. I didn’t know I was going into public life. I didn’t even enjoy lemsip very much.



Who hasn't dabbled in cold cures in their mis spent youth.

Voting to support government WA, is beyond the pale though.

Bananas.

[ContinuityError]

Gee’s Linctus was my cough medicine of choice growing up.

Sadly unavailable now (nothing to do with it containing tincture of opium of course).

[Oakenbeach]

I'm in contact with TiP via FB and BigChoc is via email

TiP should just come back (if she wants to that is).... I can assure you, it’s not hard

[boatyardblues]

Evening all. I still can’t keep up withypu, you’re still the best, the cats are awesome yadda yadda... WILL THIS CLUSTERFUCK NEVER END??

[mathanxiety]

www.thejournal.ie/rockall-explainer-3333490-Apr2017/

An overview of Rockall and the arguments about fishing and mineral rights.

In essence, Ireland’s main concern was about ensuring that ownership of Rockall did not translate to rights to rights to nearby resources.

In that sense, the UN’s Convention on the Law of the Sea from 1982 helped Ireland’s case.

It stated that: “Rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own shall have no exclusive economic zone or continental shelf.”

Cue of course attempts to prove that Rockall is inhabitable by gung-ho/SAS types, ignoring the meaning of the term 'to sustain'.

Iceland has yet to provide its arguments to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

(Very apt comment in the Comments section: "What would we do with it if we got it? Sell it off for peanuts to oil companies for no gain to the Irish people like we always do.")

[ComeAndDance]

PMK

[boatyardblues]

Gee’s Linctus was my cough medicine of choice growing up.

Oh happy days! What’s not to love about licorice flavoured cough syrup with morphine in it? The closest I’ve come since is Danziger Goldwasser, a licorice liquer with flakes of gold leaf in it.

[mathanxiety]

Wrt the Gove/cocaine thing - there is an upcoming book about him. By taking the bull by the horns he is giving Tory rank and file pearl clutchers a chance to digest the news before they get a chance to vote, and if they buy the book the revelation won't be a shocker.

It is now officially old news. A week is a long time in politics. However, I suspect it will be used against him if he ever becomes PM or holds ministerial office in any area where drugs are part of the remit.

It's also quite handy timing for Rory Stewart, whose opium smoking looks very quaint and has faded into the background.

[Iambuffy]

Remember when gripe water had alcohol in it?

Bloody lovely stuff.