I found that very strange so looked it up. The definition that I found given by Collins is "A filibuster is a long slow speech made to use up time so that a vote cannot be taken and a law cannot be passed." See:-https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/filibuster

This matches my own understanding perfectly and was not done by any MP in the run up to the 2019 election. Can you post a link please.

You expect me to explain what it is that I cannot understand? Not logical!

I wasn't angry with those brave MPs who argued for a confirmatory second vote. I was proud of them and so too was everyone else I spoke to, other than the hard-line Eurosceptics who were afraid they would lose the prize they thought their tactics was about to deliver.

It was Brexit weariness and the failure of the HoC to grasp the nettle and oust Johnson after he was slapped down by the Supreme Court that led to the debacle that we are now witnessing.

The "oven ready deal" whose ingredients are half rotten and have little nutrition. So bad that we are still trying to repair it.

I don't expect MPs to behave dishonestly. Should they do so they ought be shown the door immediately.

Coalitions can work well. It just requires goodwill and honesty. In the system I am suggesting, one where the MPs are the Kings and privacy protected, that ought to be attainable.

MPs from both sides often get along much better than appears to be the case. They have to put on the theatrics in our current system which demands confrontation.

I would rather have intelligent debate and cooperation than theatrical confrontation.

Onto more serious things, Sunak appears to have got a large part of the NI protocol sorted, which was another complete fck-up that forms part of BJ's 'legacy'.

Edited by Forest Hillbilly (28 Feb 2023 5.41am)

I found that very strange so looked it up. The definition that I found given by Collins is "A filibuster is a long slow speech made to use up time so that a vote cannot be taken and a law cannot be passed." See:-https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/filibuster

This matches my own understanding perfectly and was not done by any MP in the run up to the 2019 election. Can you post a link please.

You expect me to explain what it is that I cannot understand? Not logical!

I wasn't angry with those brave MPs who argued for a confirmatory second vote. I was proud of them and so too was everyone else I spoke to, other than the hard-line Eurosceptics who were afraid they would lose the prize they thought their tactics was about to deliver.

It was Brexit weariness and the failure of the HoC to grasp the nettle and oust Johnson after he was slapped down by the Supreme Court that led to the debacle that we are now witnessing.

The "oven ready deal" whose ingredients are half rotten and have little nutrition. So bad that we are still trying to repair it.

I don't expect MPs to behave dishonestly. Should they do so they ought be shown the door immediately.

Coalitions can work well. It just requires goodwill and honesty. In the system I am suggesting, one where the MPs are the Kings and privacy protected, that ought to be attainable.

MPs from both sides often get along much better than appears to be the case. They have to put on the theatrics in our current system which demands confrontation.

I would rather have intelligent debate and cooperation than theatrical confrontation.

A confirmatory second vote ? hilarious. Why not just keep people voting until you get the result you want ?
Onto more serious things, Sunak appears to have got a large part of the NI protocol sorted, which was another complete fck-up that forms part of BJ's 'legacy'.
And Eurovision 2023. I thought that we were out of that circus with Brexit, but it seems Liverpool are hosting this year ?

I'm tingling with excitement just waiting for the words to come ,..."Britannia,..Nil Points"

Edited by Forest Hillbilly (28 Feb 2023 5.41am)

A confirmatory second vote ? hilarious. Why not just keep people voting until you get the result you want ?
Onto more serious things, Sunak appears to have got a large part of the NI protocol sorted, which was another complete fck-up that forms part of BJ's 'legacy'.
And Eurovision 2023. I thought that we were out of that circus with Brexit, but it seems Liverpool are hosting this year ?

I'm tingling with excitement just waiting for the words to come ,..."Britannia,..Nil Points"

Edited by Forest Hillbilly (28 Feb 2023 5.41am)

Its good that the mood music has changed with the EU, despite all the grandstanding though this is not much more than an easing of the border rules.

If any country has a democratic deficit it must be Northern Ireland.

All these tory knobs from Westminster, even King Charles and Queen Van Leyden of the EU decide their fate without them even being there.

Now probably a minority, the DUP will though have a chance to reject it, the rest of NI citizens not at all, but its a sort of 'well we had better consult you' basis.

The DUP will be ground down and there will be economic sweeteners no doubt.

A big plus the side-lining of the odious Johnson.

Northern Ireland voted to stay in the EU of course.

But then that's what they actually voted for.