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MrJ is PM
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Grayling gone.
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That speech outside No.10. Absolute pile of steaming manure. Just crossing your fingers and hoping for the best on Halloween is not going to work.
This clown is even more out of his depth than anyone had dared to imagine. It's beyond satire.
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This seems the most likely explanation. This government will not *do* anything, and will blame Brussels/Remoaner parliament for its failure to leave the EU on Halloween. Then de Pfeffel will call a general election, hoping that Leavers will give him a majority...
From twitter:
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@anthonypainter
Why the bloodbath? This is simply an interim Government. Every move Johnson makes for next few weeks is about showing how bold and decisive he is prior to asking Brexit Party leaning, authority loving voters to back him.
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https://twitter.com/DerSPIEGEL/status/1153666137860845568?s=09
Mad in England.
But Der Spiegel makes it a pan-British observation in tweet text.
Scotland has to let England go its own way. For far too long the majority down there haven't got what they voted for with their democracy having to pander to the celtic fringe. ;-)
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18m ago 21:20
Shapps returns to cabinet as transport secretaryChair of -
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SCOTTISH SECRETARY: Alister Jack
Bio: The businessman was elected MP for Dumfries and Galloway in 2017. He founded tent-hire and self-storage companies and is also a dairy farmer.Formerly: Assistant Government whip
Brexit stance: Supports what he calls “a successful Brexit for Scotland”. Wants an end to the backstop proposal.
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...and with that appointment BJ demonstrates why Scotland should and will be independent.
'The Scots' (like the English?) historically have never had exactly the government they voted for but in the past Scotland's 'man in the Cabinet' has always had to reflect the views of the population. Of course we had pre-Holyrood colonialists in the past like Lord Forsyth who sneered at the left leaning voters here and foisted the poll tax on us. This only defeated though with massive civil disobedience. Summary Warrants issued to round up people en masse (Scots legal item to deal with potential for mass lawbreaking here - not in rUK?).
Fast forward to the alternative present that people like David Mundell would like us to believe. To paraphrase..
'Yes... I accept that the majority in Scotland didn't vote for Brexit but Scotland is not a country and the vote was a UK one. The settled will of the Scottish people is to remain in the UK and I will fight against a no-deal Brexit along with the Tory revivalists here. Much better to leave politics to us than an unrepresentative majority of other parties."
Now that argument is dead and BJ has killed it. what he has doen is appoint someone that is opposed to majority of Scots and arguablly the majority of Scots Tories.BJ looks at the country as England with the Union being the celtic fringe. Of course the Leave campaign had a Scottish campaign. This used 'dark money' from Northern Ireland campaign to try and swing the vote here. They failed. The direction of travel is now one way 'up here'.
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I hear that there's an old wall that runs from Bowness in Solway on the west to Wallsend in the east. Maybe it needs a few new bricks on top.
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Or the one near Bo’ness??
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Suggesting that the debate reopens on debatable lands there @arellcat?
At least we'd get a really good s/h bookshop in Scotland with minimal effort, and the ratio of population to land area might even improve on the current UK detail of 10% of population with 25% of land to cycle around
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I'm not convinced that civil disobedience in Scotland brought down the poll tax. I don't think Westminster was bothered about that at all. The big demo in Trafalgar Sq got their attention.
I was sort of there but only because I'd been at Evans in The Cut and wanted to get a Herald in Charing Cross.
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“
Most Britons believe climate change is more important in the long term than Brexit and say it should be a top priority for Boris Johnson’s government, according to an opinion poll.
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If the WM government had given even the faintest of hoots about PollTax protests in Scotland, then they would not have introduced it to England.
They did, and a predictably massive protest in London changed their policy.
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Mate of mine's dad was the top cop on the scene at the London poll tax riot.
It was very nearly something quite different.
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Andrew Gilligan is the PM's new advisor on transport...
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First policy decision is that anyone leading the fantasy cycling games before today’s Izeran stage will automatically be relegated
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“Andrew Gilligan is the PM's new advisor on transport...”
That’ll be interesting!
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Nadine Dorries, the MP who has campaigned for tougher curbs on abortion, became a health minister as Boris Johnson completed his government reshuffle.
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BJ in town apparently. Just seen a big police vehicle presence and several people carriers with blacked out windows go past at very high speed.
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very high speed.
"Blanket 20mph limit"
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The Police motorcycle outriders were absolutely caning it.
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https://twitter.com/KieranPAndrews/status/1155861042272067585
WARNING: Contains multiple breaches of Rule 2.
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Transient PM visits Scotland under armed guard... he is getting it all wrong.
Faslane is hardly a popular facility anywhere. People in rUK didn't want it anywhere near a population centre. The population of Glasgow was judged to be less important than populations elsewhere. That's when we really had influence in the UK (!)
Notice how useless the defence policy is now. WMDs that have no influence on our ability to deter Iran and protect merchant ships. Spending billions of dollars in USA on essentially American arms has no influence on them.
Maybe it's just me but I think our media here is unable to tackle BJ as far too chummy with his old pals.
Frantic media trying to edit out the booing.
https://twitter.com/EdinReporter/status/1155889461991026695?s=19Posted 5 years ago # -
What the papers say in Scotland.
Total fantasyland for most!
https://twitter.com/BBCScotlandNews/status/1156090221374660608?s=19#backdoorboris tag edited out of all BBC sites. Hilarious.
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Was trying (and failing) to read an article on the Austrian Der Standard newspaper which described BJ as "Sprengmeister" - master of explosions.
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He's off to Belfast today. If he wrecks the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement I will be quite upset.
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I went on Twitter and now I want to die.
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Just read the subtitles without the sound on!
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