Westminstenders: Penny dropping time

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Johnson already seems to be hinting at protections for workers rights and the environment that he promised are to be dropped.

Along with enshrining Brexit in law to the end of Dec 2020 thus creating another Brexit no deal date. This time without any safety net in parliament.

"won't Johnson be more liberal than he suggested" they cry

About that...

Wonder how many Australian-based points you get for being a Charcutier Extraordinaire or Grosse Speckmeister who can wrangle streaky bacon and chipolatas without a safety harness?

As I said in my post, the scholarship was Eton, not Oxford

My mistake, but my point still stands - would he have got to Eton if his education had been a primary continually in special measures?

@CrissmussMockers that is the fucking funniest thing I have read all day. Thank you!

Glad Tidings to all.

Swearing in now. Much made of how this parliament is girlier, blacker and gayer than ever, but the Bible-swearers are still well over 90%

PMK. No cats nearby to photograph.

If parliament wants to vote for an extension, it votes for an extension. If there's a law that says they can't, they vote to repeal it.

There need to be the numbers to vote for this, and if the Tory MPs stay loyal to Johnson, there won't be.

PMK

I've never really understood double pork tbh...

Double gammon ? I'm gonna start calling them brexiteers

Bible-swearers are just as likely to be female or black as male or white
Quite a number of gay people manage to god-bother without expecting eternal damnation

I've never really understood double pork tbh..

From stories of Camerons Uni days, it seems to be a Tory thing.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall

This sight is quite literally the first thing which greets you as walk out of the Westminster tube exit to the Palace.

It’s completely shocking.
Yet I fear we’ve become used to it.

This is the bit of Westminster you won’t see on TV today, amidst all the splendour.

Quite literally on the Palace’s doorstep, reality of life meeting the unreality on the inside.
SW1 is deeply weird.

Quite a number of gay people manage to god-bother without expecting eternal damnation

The sad news about Rev. Richard Coles partner (husband ?) today being a sad underscore to that.

DW and I have an infinitely long table for our perfect dinner party. Rev. Coles would be assured a place ...

Ah, that rich mc elite in London

Very sad news about david coles.
Only 42 :(

Quite literally on the Palace’s doorstep, reality of life meeting the unreality on the inside.

At it's heart, the empire is rotten. Something US servicemen noticed (and had to be reminded not to rub in our faces) when they were unlucky enough to be stationed here ...

Of course girls, gays and Ghanaians can be god-botherers. They can also be athiests, but seems everyone's scared of one small and ever decreasing segment of the electorate.

And the way they say, "Her heirs and sucessors according to law," with a comma where there isn't one, suggests they don't have a clue what it means.

Not swearing loyalty to Queenie personally but to the law of the land.

The future is bleak.

BigChocFrenzy
"Ah, that rich mc elite in London."

Yes.
Indeed.

Not swearing loyalty to Queenie personally but to the law of the land

Because even Queenie - dear Queenie - herself is subject to the law of the land. As SCOTUK reminded us recently.

Until September, I imagine there was a file on the "E" drive about how to get rid of the Monarchy. Now totally redundant, since it's been established the Monarchy has no power whatsoever. None. Nada. Poor ol' Liz couldn't light a fag with the "powers" the Monarch has.

Future scholars can feel free to use my suggestion that the abdication of "Eddie eight" (as no one in the Royal family every called him) marked the watershed where the Monarchy was discretely removed from it's final role in constitutional affairs as a set question in their history texts. Obviously for fee-paying students, since history won't be on the agenda in the new state run youth transition centres.

Not swearing loyalty to Queenie personally but to the law of the land
A nuance understood by naturalised citizens (it's the same wording)

You're still a teed Cendrillon, but your dossier-keeping skills are impressive, I'll give you that

It’s called, er, having a memory. It wasn’t that long ago!

Not swearing loyalty to Queenie personally but to the law of the land

If this is the case, wouldn't it give Sinn Fein a get out clause? Too late now with the current Parliament, but they could take their seats and make as much mischief as possible for Johnson.

Don't knock it!...

Having dossiers on desenters things could come in very handy in the new Albion...