Westminstenders: Constitutional History

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The Supreme Court case continues
(ruling possible Friday but likely Monday)

The new NI proposal is bollocks and Johnson didn't get why until it was discussed in Europe.

There was a press conference in Luxembourg which looks good for Johnson.

Johnsons approval ratings are up.

And we are making no obvious progress to anything but no deal...

www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2019/09/18/rees-mogg-denies-attempt-to-mislead-queen-over-parliaments-suspension/

Aha, I understand it now, thank you. To quote JRM

Mr Rees-Mogg was also asked if there was a way back for the 21 MPs who lost the Tory whip earlier this month.

He replied: “I think that it is human to err, it is divine to forgive and the Prime Minister is very close to being divine I think.”

Okay.... I've seen folk closer, Jacob!

Party conferences:

•	Labour, 21–25 September, Brighton.
•	Conservatives, 29 September - 2 October, Manchester

. BXP, 27 September, London
. Greens, 4 - 6 October, Newport
. SNP, 13 - 15 October, Aberdeen

(after pretty's previous finger-wagging to me over this, I daren't leave them out !)

Exactly. BJ from his superior position (quasi divine) can forgive the rebels and thanks to his mercy they can rejoin the party...
....On which planet?

Question: why are the party conferences not all in the same week? Considering that the attendants are clearly NOT going to go to 3 or 4 alternative parties, and there’s enough journalists in the country to cover them....plus clearly they book different venues....I don’t understand why they need to stay out for 3 weeks??

Agreed, BCF
it is an especially odd thing for someone who is so publicly RC to say

The illogical witterings of JRM don't matter a jot compared to the serious business of prorogation but as a fellow RC it has piqued my interest, I must say!

Darn it! Bigchoc beat me If Boris is divine, standards are slipping something awful!

and there’s enough journalists in the country to cover them

Well LauraK can do the Tory party on her own.

BJ may provide Divine Comedy, I grant you....

Well, the parties can't compromise on anything, so why expect them to do so on conference dates !

They don't want the dates to clash, or they would have to split the TV & press headlines between them
They each want to milk their conference for maximum (favourable) publicity

The top journos will be tearing around to attend the main / most controversial speeches and ignore the rest of the conferences
The Chief Political Correspondent" of each media organisation would have to attend the main events

The lesser parties would probably get no coverage at all

it is an especially odd thing for someone who is so publicly RC to say

Presumably there is a difference between "publicly" and "really" ?

I refuse to believe any politican is anywhere near divine, or even Her Maj

MarkTwain:

"Politicians and diapers must be changed often and for the same reason."

Party conferences are held over consecutive weeks so they can get coverage in the media with all the journos doing the rounds.

Back in the good old days of three TV channels, in the afternoons you'd have party conference on at least two of them.

There is no order paper. After prorogation there is a Queen’s Speech.

I don't know here, but if it's ruled that the prorogation was illegal and therefore should be unprorogued - can they not go back to pick up the business they were expecting to do? This would at least mean that those bills which fell by the wayside could be resurrected and perhaps completed.

WTF
BXP sank to a new low if that's true

They have been voting on other issues, e.g. /non-binding) vote on an extension for the UK

...And Jakey Rees Smug is as much of a Good Catholic as Vito Corleone.

Is it really the case that the Labour Party conference is a day longer than the Conservative one? Is that because labour decides more at conference or just more attendees?

I loath conference season - I really dislike the whole vainglorious puffery and get utterly fed up with their pointless witterings being on the news every night instead of /stuff that actually matters.

Incidentally, I hope gmail is at least as secure (and that the people using it to conduct official business have set it up to so) as HMGs own IT systems ... including such basics as being able to trust the sender of an email ?

Imagine if all those advisors gmail accounts started receiving instructions from cunningly similar-named accounts for a start ....

#MoggLive: It is human to err, it is divine to forgive

Has Bozo appointed himself a divine emperor already?

DGR
'presumably, there is a difference between publicly and really'

JRM is, publically, a practising Catholic. Whether he practices Christian values in his everyday private and public life is not for me to speculate..

JRM is, publically, a practising Catholic. Whether he practices Christian values in his everyday private and public life is not for me to speculate..

I'd assume he practices the bits he likes ... like most Christians. Or is it "Christians" ?

So, BJ has something of the Divine about him (not!)
Cummings, something of the Night about him
Cameron, something Porcine, around him (yuk!)
JRM, something of a (dusty) haunted 17thC pencil about him,
etc

clearly JRM has said this for a reason, to distract from something?

mother
Shameful, the biggest contingent of UK MEPs abstain over telling a brutal theocratic dictatorship to free an innocent British citizen

• and the other innocent EU citizens

clearly JRM has said this for a reason, to distract from something?

Probably another half-arsed attempt to poison the Googleplex ?