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

Supreme court rules Boris Johnson's prorogation was 'unlawful' :D

I'm a couple of minutes behind, this is like reading goal spoilers on a football thread!

i genuinely did not expect that outcome.

that's a big-ass spider brooch

That was quite the highlight.

11-0 :)

Beautiful

john bercow set to go out with a bang then

waddup

I look forward to hearing all about how the elitist, anti-democratic Supreme Court is in fact beholden to Brussels.

oh you will be hearing about that

'unlawful, void and of no effect' for new thread title

right up there with morrissey being branded 'devious, truculent and unreliable' by the judge in the dispute between him and the rest of the smiths

Boris' record as PM takes some beating tbh.

In 1975, Plaid Cymru campaigned against the EC, arguing that an overreliance on EU aid simply confirmed Wales’ position as a dependent periphery, and that regional aid policies were simply designed to reconcile places like Wales to their subordinate position and to open up Wales to foreign capital.

In 2016, many nationalists interpreted the leave vote as representing an existential threat to Wales itself, similar to the trauma of the failed 1979 referendum vote. In response, Plaid have now transformed into an ultra remainer party, even calling for article 50 to be revoked. Indeed, their old socialist leader, Leanne Wood, was deposed last year, allegedly for her principled stance that Plaid Cymru in Westminster should not collaborate with pro remain Tories.

Plaid’s strategy is somewhat bizarre given that poll after poll suggests that significant numbers of Plaid Cymru voters voted to leave. Plaid’s cognitive dissonance over the EU’s silence in the face of Spanish repression of their Catalan allies is a sight to behold, and they similarly stubbornly refuse to engage with those who point to the treatment of the peripheral states by the EU- clear evidence that the same fate would undoubtedly await an independent Wales within the EU.

https://medium.com/@DrDanEvans/some-brief-thoughts-on-wales-and-brexit-184ef9ed7059

So Parliament has not been prorogued.

'unlawful, void and of no effect' for new thread title

cosign

Boris' record as PM takes some beating tbh.

it's Boris Johnson's two month anniversary as prime minister today and in that time he's lost six parliamentary votes in six days, reduced his majority from 1 to minus 43, and has now had the highest court in the land declare his tantrum illegal. what an inspiration

— Katie Spalding (@supermathskid) September 24, 2019

de pfeffel void and of no effect

can this be appealed to Brussels?

https://terrigen-cdn-dev.marvel.com/content/prod/1x/10_3.jpg

grieve for pm now surely

that grey blur suddenly seems quite the player

fuck off soubz

What’s she saying

calling for a national unity government!

playing the (s)hits!

Her and her whopping 0% involved of course?

Is it VONC time now?

u, a miserable goose: HONK
me, an enlightened ILX politics poster: VONC!

banter timeline heuristic: parliament is reconvened ASAP, everyone sits down for the first order of business, bercow shouts ORDAAAH nd the long-suffering not-yet-repaired roof falls in on one and all

we can but hope

Will Boris come out of his burrow?

you laugh but the people are fed up of waiting for the roof to fall in and just want to get on with it

nothing doing until after the Tory conference surely?

Corbyn: Boris, consider your position!

Labour conference going nuts.

So pleased with this verdict.

what a time to be alive

lol

The calling of a Queen's Speech and prorogation is the worst political decision ever. Dominic Cummings must go.

— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) September 24, 2019

the replies to that are pure cancer obv

u, a miserable goose: HONK
me, an enlightened ILX politics poster: VONC!

― stoffle (||||||||), Tuesday, September 24, 2019 12:10 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao

i'd forgotten farage doesn't consider cummings a thoroughbred "old fighter" of the beerhall putsch brexit campaign!

I was reading someone from barrister twitter predicting outcome this last week, but wasn't convinced in the slightest.

the unwritten constitution is good again

Fragage and Conmings please fite to the mutual death

https://i.imgur.com/PN3Efv1.png?1

+4 WIS when worn.

I see Tim Shipman arguing that this means...judges should be elected? Totally normal take from the Times’s chief political correspondent!

Cummings haaaaaaaates Farage, let them gift one another like the slappy little boys they are.

Got to say I've always found the phrase 'banter heuristic' annoying but I get it now.

Note to commentators: saying Johnson would resign "in normal circumstances..." or "in any other profession..." or similar is *letting him off the hook*. You are creating the exceptional circumstances that let him slip away! Don't do that! Expect him to resign!

— Will Wiles (@WillWiles) September 24, 2019

I saw Ali Milani at a panel at the weekend and he is the perfect candidate to unseat Johnson. If we get that far...