re football - ds's comments from twitter that England have either misunderstood what leaving the EU meant or have to hurry home to join the shadow cabinet, mane me laugh.
As I understand it, Parliament has to vote before and probably after the trigger. Unless there has been a GE, that means most MPs voting against their beliefs to make the UK leave. It isn't just the leader - MPs especially in Leave areas could lose their seats. They will need political cover (narrowness of margin, way other countries need larger majorities for such questions, lies told etc etc), and as Herbs says many must want to - it is purely a political problem. David Lammy and others are already sewing fig leaves. The Sun today published a list of ways its readers will be worse off to cries of "Why didn't you tell us before?". I dunno, maybe it is a lost cause but I agree with Herbs, we could just not do it. Neither Gove nor Johnson turned up for the debate today, which says a lot. The racism this has unleashed - shame on them.
Rose, so pleased you had such a lovely time. Sounds like a lot of fun. They were talking about years abroad at the open day on Saturday - said they will have to arrange them individually (as they do with USA, Australia, Hong Kong etc).
I saw that thread, GGG, words fail me.