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Yes but this time they are going to stab the Tory Party and The Brexit Party in the front. I can live with that Yes

No it absolutely isn’t. People have a choice of who to vote for. Nobody forces them to choose any party.

Lord give me strength. The locals don’t want fracking just so they can have the road unblocked. Idiotic

People will go to jail for this. Even latest events are probably resulting in massive profits for traders timing their shorting the pound in an optimum way.... And that kind of thing could have been going on for the last three years.

25% drop in sterling!!!!

It could be set up in the space of a week. Hard border does not mean a full physical border. It means the introduction, for starters, of a customs/police presence on major crossing points to check freight/livestock/produce. No doubt that could be bolstered by staff from other EU countries if they wanted. As an additional measure U.K.-origin livestock and produce could be prohibited from use/sale in Ireland or from onward travel to the EU without prior checks, basically nullifying any attempt to bring stuff in on back roads. There is a lot they can do. And very quickly. They’re better prepared than we are. For people it is an open border because of a longstanding U.K./Ireland agreement on freedom of movement..

Computer stuff. Dev ops, data centres, clouds, software. Big multi-national.

schoolmate’s dad had an old pub built in 18th century. The cellar and attic rooms were very creepy and oppressive, and legend had it both haunted. My mate locked me in the cellar once and turned off the light. Even with the light on it felt like you were being watched by something. One of the worst experiences of my life. Horrendous.

Important to not back down on this. I’ve already seen the argument from people who have been quite steadfast until now that we should accept something not quite hard Brexit just to appease these headcases. Im not backing down. It’s no Brexit, or my max compromise is Brexit on EEA terms. Nothing less. He’s set up to fail on purpose. Then they will gun for the EU and try and win an election off the back off that. And when they win that election the new enemies are going to be anybody who doesn’t agree with them, and any democratic institution that tries to hold them back. Stand firm. They don’t have any realistic endgame.

What I’ve seen recently when interviewing graduates is universities have upped their game in the transferable skills arena. Certainly the grads coming off certain courses at our two local unis are very well rounded skills-wise.

Yes to an amnesty. It makes sense. It puts people who will potentially make good residents and eventually citizens on the radar. Do I believe it will happen, or at least happen in any sensible or reasoned way? Nope

Joking aside, I think we know that the likes of G4S will be supplying subservient employees who will masquerade as police, and be answerable not to the public but to politicians. There is always a subtext

Patel is home sec and is charged with adding 20,000 police officers. That is epic trolling of the electorate, and Patel

Why not? We had a great time. Nobody was hurt. Motorists in those days didn’t hate cyclists

Because leave is stupid, anybody with their noggin screwed on should reject it. We have not seen one solid genuine argument that supports the leave case. Even the ideas of sovereignty and control being returned are illusory as Leave elements are systematically attacking all the democratic institutions that translate the voice of the electorate into sovereign representation.

It’s not ludicrous at all. Leave didn’t do anywhere near as well as they expected at the EU elections So if you take away the 40,000 Ukip entryists then Johnson got 52k votes and Hunt 46k votes 52-46 is not far from the referendum result.

I think it has diminished, but it’s just that the pro-leave vote is getting concentrated towards the Brexit party. Kind of in the same way remain voters are gravitating to LibDems, Greens and the nationalist parties.

Johnson, on the eve of his decision to back leave, penned two articles for his newspaper column. One convincingly pro leave, the other convincingly pro remain. He basically flipped a coin and picked one, it was published and that was effectively his announcement on which campaign he was going to back. He’s a maverick. If he can be PM for 5 or 10 years by cancelling Brexit he will do it. He Is amoral, has no beliefs, and has no strong ethics of any kind. He does the opposite of what people want him to, almost just for fun. He wants to be on the good side of history, not the bad.

Because Brexit isn’t happening. They all know it. Most of them will be on mainland Europe with their trotters up.

We used to cycle on roads from about age 7-8 and after passing the cycling proficiency test we were allowed to cycle to school. On weekends we’d cycle halfway across the county and back, on main roads and country lanes. In those days if a bobby saw you cycling on the footpath they’d stop you and tell you to get on the road. What has changed?

They will have a chance. It depends how successfully the very real accusations on student loans can be made to stick in an election campaign. The obvious out for the LibDems is the following: 1. We made a mistake, sorry 2. We will reduce student fees to a more manageable amount 3. We will convert existing loans into a favourable graduate tax, or finance some kind of debt jubilee 4. We will cancel Brexit Hey presto, 70% or more of the under-35 vote captured

It’s on a blummin’ tape in the public domain. As clear as day Johnson conspiring to have somebody beaten up. He was never going to do the beating himself. It’s irrelevant in terms of judgement of Johnson’s character whether the contract beating took place. In fact he’s lucky it didn’t because he wouldn’t be PM now.

The main impact will be to make Brexit opposition stronger. You need a real enemy to galvanise opposition and now we have one.

It will just cement opposition. The ship has been seized opportunistically, precisely because we are now so weak, and Iran knows that Johnson is so inept he won’t be able to cope with the situation. Its the worst time for them. They’ve cut and cut at the armed forces, and now they are going to reap the consequences.

We could well lose that seat. There’s no way we should be prioritising military spending if we have a no deal Brexit. I fail to see how we could continue to fund Trident and an effective expeditionary force if our country is breaking up and our services are melting down. This is exactly the wrong time to get involved in another war. We can’t afford it.