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Sometimes you need the perspective of somebody with a bit of distance on the issue.

Question is will JC take the bait? Can he actually decline? Interesting to see that amongst all the outrage from the usual suspects there is that not much noise about calling a vote of no confidence. Maybe that will change in the next 48 hours especially if the chatter about Johnson having one or two more surprises to spring are true.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

I've written in it, which is more than your sorry arse has done.

Once again, I've answered this.....larger companies will adjust to whatever the new dynamics are.

This country will continue to do well economically after an adjustment period....regardless of the EU position. If we have 'no deal'.....which I doubt....it will ultimately be a more competitive trading environment for them.

That partly explains your hatred for the US on these boards because you hate it that the UK will continue to be a coveted market regardless of the spectre of the EU.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Me being "beaten" is of no consequence. It happens about 25% of the time on the bowling green. Democracy won't be beaten. 3 years is but a blink of an eye for our democracy.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Let's see shall we.

Under your hypothetical "question", you are missing the small nugget that Corbyn would already have an ACT OF PARLIAMENT that encodes this very policy, in law, in black and white, with Royal Assent granted. Corbyn would have in fact won the vote 494-122 to put this on the statute books.

Now, to come back to your question. If the MPs felt so strongly about this "controversial policy", perhaps they shouldn't have voted in full knowledge that this is a permitted, viable and legal outcome of that act. It would sound to me then, that MPs "didn't know what they were voting for" (oh, the irony) when the bill was presented for:

- a first reading
- the second reading (and all debates therein)
- committee stage (and all amendment debates therein)
- report stage
- and third reading (again, with all the extensive debates)
(in addition to any ping-pong to the upper house).

If that were the case, in your hypothetical question, then I would have little sympathy with myself, or those MPs moaning that it is "THE END OF DEMOCRASSY!!z! ZOMG!!" when the HOC overwhelmingly voted for the bill to become law.

But then, I imagine I have a somewhat skewed take on the whole democracy thing, being a thick, racist "Brexs***ter".

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I hate dictators and Bojo is doing his utmost to become one.

Well, we had treaty after treaty signed by Prime Ministers on EU unions which never had majority support from the wider public as when we had an actual vote....which had been denied for forty years....The establishment signing these treaties lost.

And since the same establishment has been fighting that vote to leave ever since.

Yet Johnson is the dictator?.....He's ensuring we leave with the only method the gravy train parliament left him with.

Edited by Stirlingsays (28 Aug 2019 10.17pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)