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Only LGM Can Win Here
So, LGM turns 20 today, and they’re so desperate for your cash that they’ve asked all the bloggers emertus (emerti bloggers? Blogger emerti? Attorneys general?) to contribute. Not once, but twice. You’ll have to forgive me, as this is blatantly self-indulgent. I met Rob, Scott, and Dave in grad school at the University of Washington’s Department of Political Science. I was a couple years ahead of them, graduating in 2000, at which point on a bit of a lark I left for Europe.
The British Twenty-fifth Amendment
Spoiler alert: there isn’t one. In the event of the incapacitation of the executive, there is no constitutional “Plan-B”. I was told that the Cabinet Manual might cover it, which is perhaps the closest that the British have to an operations manual for the government. However, a skim of its 11 chapters and 100+ pages did not reveal the secret.
Mandatory Brexit "Super Saturday" Post
DUP leader Arlene Foster and deputy leader Nigel Dodds speaking on Thursday. Credit: BBC via Belfast Telegraph. A couple nights ago, Boris Johnson negotiated a new withdrawal agreement with the European Union. One thing needs to be made clear — this is not a trade deal, this is not a final arrangement, it’s simply the framework for an initial divorce agreement. And it may pass. Or not.
British Politics: Options, Strategies, and Bull-headed Stupidity . . . In other words, an average Monday in 2019.
(Photo credit: Victoria Jones/PA via AP) Yesterday afternoon, the news that an emergency cabinet meeting scheduled for 5PM (of this nascent government) and then a PM announcement in front of No. 10 for 6PM caught our attention.
Destroying British Democracy to Save Democracy, or Something.
Given there is no majority in the House of Commons for a no-deal Brexit, and while Boris Johnson might be many things, he does appear to possess the ability to count, he’s decided to go all-in and request that Parliament be prorogued.
The British Hard Left Embraces . . . Tulsi Gabbard?
A member of the Cult of Corbyn in good standing (involved in the local Momentum exec) this past weekend surprised me by coming out in favour of Tulsi Gabbard, which led to the following hilarious exchange (names obscured to protect the guilty): The contributor obscured in red is the member who authored the rambling motion on Venezuela that I discussed here.
The Immutability of the Corbyn Leadership
In every sense of the word. Skimming the comments to my post on Monday, I came across this (apologies to the OP; I didn’t copy the name), which touches on a conversation I’ve been having on and off with several people in the local party. Dr B, could you comment on the likelihood or Corbyn resigning, or what it would take to have a leadership challenge?
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