Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Tamas]

Noboy is effin' calling out Johnson or in fact the opposition, on why on Earth would he be recalling the WA bill when the EU has granted the extension that gives all the time in the world to debate it. A debate the opposition was allegedly keen on, since they didn't block the second reading, only the timetable.

This shit will keep going until one of the protests end in bloodshed, which will scare the MPs to accept whichever deal will be on the table at the time (I'd say late Spring 2020).

[Richard Hakluyt]

Looks like we will have an election https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50221856

Here's hoping for a decisive defeat for the tories and the end of Johnson's tenure.

[Sheilbh]

My hostage to fortune:
No Tory majority
No viable Tory coalition
No Labour majority
No viable Corbyn-led Labour coalition (maybe a rainbow coalition without Corbyn)
Broadly the same distribution in Parliament with a more Lib Dems and SNP


Edit: Oh, and fivethirtyeight prediction continues to be hilariously, wildly wrong.

[Tamas]

Yeah, Corbyn folding means nothing happens but campaigning until election day, after which we end up with another hung Parliament.

The date having been 13th of December already, everyone declares that nothing can be decided until Christmas, so they go home. Reconvening I guess the second week of January, Johnson will form a majority government of 2, 15 of which are moderate Torys never to support any of Cummings' ideas. There will be 2 runs at the WA between the return and the 25th of Jan, at which point a further expansion will be asked for.

[Valmy]

The question is are you better off now than you were back in 1922? Isn't it time to vote for the Liberals again?

[Habbaku]

The time is always right to vote Liberals.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Results for 2017 for the constituency I live in :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000885

Not a very exciting contest 

[Sheilbh]

Same:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000615

Wouldn't be surprised if the Lib Dems or Greens did well. And also don't even know if Harriet is running again.

If not I have a little experience with the local Labour Party and there'll be one hell of a Momentum/non-Momentum fight for the nomination.

[Syt]

"Workers Revolutionary Party" - Tyr has a party?

[Richard Hakluyt]

Harman wants to be speaker though; not sure if that changes things.

[Sheilbh]

Oh, of course!

If she wins the Labour Party passed a motion (proposed by current Labour member and former Trotskyite candidate for the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition) that Labour will run a candidate against Harman. So I imagine most other parties would too?

[Richard Hakluyt]

If her own party does that then I can hardly see the others holding back 

[The Brain]

The UK isn't done parading its retardedness in front of the world and flinging poop? Why do you think that making the Brexit process nedlessly drawn out is a good thing?

[ulmont]

The UK isn't done parading its retardedness in front of the world and flinging poop? Why do you think that making the Brexit process nedlessly drawn out is a good thing?

It's not needless.  The fundamental problem - and I really don't know how this can be solved - is that neither the British public nor Parliament have a real majority for anything.

...normally this would just lead to the status quo, but David Cameron and Teresa May already fucked that up.

[Josquius]

The time is always right to vote Liberals.

Not if you live in a tory/some other non-fascist party marginal.