Westminstenders: From Uxbridge to...?

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Speaker Bercow is gone.

Speculation that Johnson is parachuting into Rutland.

Rumours that the Brexit Party won't contest the election.

A new speaker to be elected on Monday.

Parliament to dissolve next week.

Brexit? Oh we've forgotten that until Friday 13th...

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PMK

Am I correct in thinking that the main opposition parties generally don't put up candidates in the speaker's constituency? My Labour MP is one of the favourites for the speaker's role, and the constituency is a Lab-Con marginal, so I'm just wondering what's likely to happen. Would the Conservatives be expected not to put anyone up against the speaker (and would they still go along with that if it could potentially cost them a seat)?

It’s tradition that the Speaker’s seat is unopposed. I don’t think anyone can stop that happening although I seem to remember Johnson threatened Bercow with it.

Hoooo

We never get many so I shall soon begin the annual haribo fest

That's just what DW has said to me - packets of the bloody stuff, which I don't even really like, but, hey, it's sugar and I have no willpower

I'm 3 bags down already...:)

I'm going to miss Bercow. If the next speaker puts a stop to twaterry will he or she be treated in the same way by leavers? You'd think he'd prevented brexit all by himself the way that some people go on about him. We need someone no nonsense to keep parliament in line.

Who are the candidates and what are the odds ?

Irish Times view on UK GE:

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/editorial/the-irish-times-view-on-election-strategies-brexit-weighs-heavily-in-ireland-and-britain-1.4066861

Ideally, the main political parties would spell out the consequences of Brexit, along with their plans to proceed and what these would mean.

More likely, the campaign will lapse into shallow sloganeering about getting Brexit done, or a jobs-friendly Brexit, or whatever.

The basic dishonesty of Brexit
– the myth that it can somehow lead to a more prosperous future –
has never been squarely addressed.

The Conservative party appears to be driven by a core group of ideological Brexiteers,
while Labour has tied itself in knots over Brexit.

Forecasting elections is always risky and, in this environment, is impossible.
Many argue the apparent clarity of Johnson’s message could win the day
but a society split on its future direction could return another divided parliament.

A rather lovely chart - words Bercow has used that no other speaker has used.
I’m intrigued by “testicle”.

*no other speaker has used in 100 years. (Still intrigued by testicle.)

Kangaroo testicles to be precise

I think it was something to do with a gangrenous testicle. A euphemism for dropping a bollock or balls not dropped or something similar. Hopefully someone else will remember more clearly.

Don't suppose other speakers have used Kangaroo come to that

I had to look up auspices and in doing so this appeared below it in my search and amused me:
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Words Related to unoriginal*
copied, cribbed, plagiarized. artificial, bogus, factitious, fake, false, imitation, man-made, mock, sham, simulated, substitute, synthetic. duplicated, photocopied, reduplicated, reproduced, transcribed. backup. counterfeit, deceptive, forged, fraudulent, misleading

Remind you of anyone? Or their "new" deal?

I love learning new words. I will endeavour to use auspices in everyday speech with the children this week. I'm perimenopausal and words often vanish between thoughts and my mouth never to be found again in relation to what I was saying so maybe more words will help. I used to love reading the dictionary as a teen

Meezer mat marking.

The fact that Bercow was the single most effective anti-Tory campaigner in the House is rather embarrassing to the person who is technically meant to be doing that job!

If it wasn't for Bercow speaking for the House, there wouldn't be a House, Cendrillion.

There is a difference between Parliament and Government, something you seem to have forgotten.

@mathanxiety something all rabid leavers/tories seem to forget....

Friday papers:

So the UK is already Puerto Rico, to judge from the Torygraph headline.

You're looking in the wrong direction for the money trail, ListeningQuietly. It runs from Wichita, Kansas, via George Mason University to the UK.

We have 2 inches of snow here and no sign of trick or treaters, sadly. I will just have to eat the contents of the candy bucket myself

It is so cold and snowy that dc are thinking of staying at home and handing out candy.
I know to expect a long winter but snow starting in October just seems a bit much!

On a brighter note will look out for this LBD Xmas book for DH.

Antionette Sandbach has joined the Lib Dems

Woohooo still in the EU!

This is the exact moment we were supposed to leave the European Union ... reader, we didn't

enjoy, my fellow EU citizens