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Oct 2019
5:02pm, 28 Oct 2019
5,734 posts
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jda
There was never a realistic question of taking up Bonson's offer of ramming through the WA in a few days followed by an election. But Labour have no reasonable excuse for opposing the LibDem proposal (or the govt's equivalent if they propose something virtually identical).
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Oct 2019
5:30pm, 28 Oct 2019
16,186 posts
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Stander
Labour - in trying to be all things to all men, are actually ending up as being nothing to nobody.
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Oct 2019
5:54pm, 28 Oct 2019
5,735 posts
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jda
For once I'm not going to even try to find anything to criticise in Stander's post. "Taking no deal off the table" in the current circumstances is vacuous sloganeering.
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Oct 2019
6:41pm, 28 Oct 2019
2,894 posts
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FenlandRunner
Ok, I think Corbyn has a plan and is sticking to it.
Unless something is in law, and then Boris may try and break it, why not wait until everything is enshrined legally.
The tactic of proving beyond doubt that Boris and his cronies are untrustworthy has got to have some mileage?
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Oct 2019
6:45pm, 28 Oct 2019
2,895 posts
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FenlandRunner
...and if Corbyn is right that Boris and his cronies have pissed down the drain over £100 million on the advertising for an exit on 31st October, that is scandalous.
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Oct 2019
6:46pm, 28 Oct 2019
2,896 posts
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FenlandRunner
But on the other hand, that £100 million is bound to have been trousered by his mates, so fully understandable #not
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Oct 2019
6:56pm, 28 Oct 2019
5,737 posts
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jda
But there really isn't a credible way to get no deal off the table permanently. Well, it would take something like a general version of the Benn act that kicked in three weeks before every exit date. And even then it could be repealed by a future Tory govt if they had a majority. It's complete nonsense to make up something like this as a last-minute excuse to duck a GE after he's spent the last 3 years demanding one at every opportunity.
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Oct 2019
7:21pm, 28 Oct 2019
2,897 posts
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FenlandRunner
Get past 31st October and if a GE isn't called then, I will agree. But until then I don't trust Boris.
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Oct 2019
7:23pm, 28 Oct 2019
5,738 posts
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jda
I don't understand your point. Brexit day is 31 Jan 2020. 31 Oct is Halloween.
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Oct 2019
7:26pm, 28 Oct 2019
2,898 posts
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FenlandRunner
Boris is King of the dodgy wheezies. Until we get to the 1st November I won't believe he can't engineer some technicality.
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