PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

which was basically the budget proposal afaict

To recap correctly(?) Johnson said he didn't want an election but has spent most of today buck-buckawing at Corbyn and calling him a big girl's blouse for resisting the offer of a GE without ruling out No Deal.

Is there no Baby Boris Balloon already? I guess he'd love it tho.

Dominic’s cumming, the prime minister is going

And Parliament really is Sovereign

The court of session in Edinburgh has rejected an attempt to prevent Boris Johnson’s prorogation of the House of Commons.

Lord Doherty, the judge who heard the case, said the decision could not be measured against legal standards as it was matter of high policy and political judgment, and was therefore for politicians to settle.

lazy fucker

ahem. Cuminic Dommings

— 📻 Hildegard von Bangin (@nailheadparty) September 3, 2019

does BJ have the numbers (simple majority) for an election ?

I have the NOES at 307 (LAB 247; SNP 35; LD 15; CTIGUK 5; PC 4; GRN 1)

Needs 2/3rds majority for an election

"More than 100,000 people have applied to register to vote in the past 48 hours, with young people making up the bulk of the surge."

and most of them are in the 25-34 age group according to gov.uk figures and as someone said many of them might be students who reportedly like to commit electoral fraud for the lols by voting twice

needs 2/3rds majority for an election under FTPA - can he not bolt something on to a piece of legislation which says 'notwithstanding the provisions of the FTPA, we will have an election on 15/10'

still don't think he has the numbers

let’s hope so xp

braver than the troops imo

Apparently he said it was "absolutely clear" that the UK would get a new deal from Brussels, with the backstop removed.

Boris Johnson forgot about his government’s spending round and tried to leave the chamber at the end of PMQs. Matt Hancock pointed it out and told him to go back

— Henry Zeffman (@hzeffman) September 4, 2019

I’ve seen the register to vote link doing the rounds among young labourites, they’re definitely getting the word out

Am on a bus in Berlin listening to Germans say “Boris Johnson” and chuckling

are they saying chonson or yonson?

329-300 on second reading

My understanding is that the strong view of Starmer, McDonnell and virtually all factions of PLP is that there shouldn’t be an election before November.

Am told Starmer told PLP: “we need to implement the bIll too- which necessarily means going beyond October.”

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) September 4, 2019

Did another tory rebel? Xp

am imagining the grumpy scenes btwn boris and cummings rn and it's a fantastically enjoyable train of thought, would recommend!

how interesting that BoJo apparently got zero media blowback for that "big girl's blouse" crack

guardian mentioned it

Lol John woodcock voted for the motion instead of abstaining like he did yesterday. Caroline Nokes abstained

Big girls blouse crack probably the only thing he's done this week to advance his cause tbh

He's lost another MP, Caroline Spelman.

whoops

Has she had the whip withdrawn?

she doesn't get kicked out, today's vote was NOT being treated as a confidence vote. poor excuse for a rebel.

what happens when the boss takes your whip

The boss can’t tell you what to do but if there’s an election called you don’t get to stand as a conservative mp again - which means certain loss & no access to party activists or funding

More trouble for Boris. Lots of Tory backbenchers in a 1922 Committee meeting with the PM now just cheered Edward Leigh and Damian Green for speaking up for the 21 rebels, and booed Dan Kawczynski for attacking them.

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) September 4, 2019

IDS on his seat. Hope someone mentions his nose picking

Love too hear a member of Parliament talk about “virtue signalling”

Tbf you rarely see pols indulging in gestural bullshit

xp

roughly "i think the member for Uxbridge is shouting at me. the last time he shouted at somebody the police had to be called"

I'm lying here watching far more of this rubbish than I'd be able to cope with normally

Skinnock gang going hard for their amendment which will pretty clearly not pass

will no-one think of the politically homeless

Some horrendous contributions before the division there

I'm pretty sure it's not just fear of their own Leave-voting constituents but more importantly a way of them continuing to undermine the leadership by any means possible

Voting on the Skinnock amendment now

It'll lose by hundreds imo

HOLY SHIT

do we think that one ramification of all this may be to make the reheated may deal palatable enough to pass post-EU conference ?

Shenanigans

what?

Skinnock amendment may have passed on a technicality - no tellers

I've been listening but am in a state of complete disbelief!

chess is now 6D apparently

6d shenanigans

love the Lords/Commons duo vision screens. I don't have fucking clue what's going on like!

fs