I'm not insinuating anything. I am categorically stating that we are in a very sorry condition as a country, if the government is seriously considering having to deploy troops on the streets, in peacetime, in response to a situation all of our own making.
Only if you use it to show a trend, which i didn't. Wait, did we vote to put it up our arse, or down our throat? i dont want people trying to do both, that would be a right mess.
well that would be a 7% away from the 55% i believe in for a constitutional change like this. If leave got over 55% we would leave then remain would need over 55% to rejoin. that's my belief on how the system should work anyway. big, expensive, very hard to reverse change requiring a clear majority. For this particular vote though idk. entire things a mess and i cant see a good democratic way out of it where somebody doesnt feel cheated.
I actually know someone who looks a bit like that. Not me though I look like this (taken in Portugal about 10 years ago) And yes they used to sing the Matt Le Tiss song to me (Big nose, he's got..........):
For the life of Me I am struggling with the whole thing. Surely Mays deal is a compromise?? I know the Ni issue is a worry but surely this can be negotiated and sorted?
I am standing on the rails of the fish pond in the middle of the Belem gardens (Jardim de Belem) in front of the monastery. My favourite area of Lisbon. Great little cafe that serves restaurant quality food about 2 minutes walk from there in the direction of the top right of the picture. The Tagus is about 1 minute walk (3 minutes allowing for crossing the road) directly behind the photographer/camera. So nope it isn't a cemetery. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&om=0&ll=38.69740100000001,-9.201328999999987&spn=0.008206,0.019956&z=16&mid=1SLSQIuNkugpcNaKQQxEdfzle9AU
Small world! We stayed just round the corner from there a few years ago, at the Hotel Jéronimos, and we walked around the Botanical Gardens a few times during our stay, including having a picnic by that very fish pond. There were swallows picking up flies from the surface of the pond, which I’ve never seen before.
The thing that annoys me the most about Brexit is the “we voted out” as mentioned by Impsaint a page or so back, or the “significant majority” that gets referred to. I asked my kids to cut the cake in half. It was close to half each, not quite, but close enough for neither to think they had a significant gain This is how I see the Brexit result. About half each.
Did they still argue which side they wanted? Mine would, they can see a difference in size no matter how small......quite often even when there is no difference.
Nick Boles yesterday saying he would resign the whip and vote against a "no deal", so not standing down and running in a by election. Nick Boles in a leaflet sent to his constituents where a question was "How do we know you won't betray us" (this was not Brexit focused, just a general why should we vote for you) and his reply talks about publishing expenses and then: “I think MPs elected for one party should have to stand down and call a by election if they defect to another party.” https://order-order.com/2018/12/19/boles-promised-call-election-defected/
He clearly isn't going to defect to another party. The conservative party manifesto promised a deal in the election so he's not betraying the people that elected him by defying the whip and voting against a no deal.
