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Striked me that nothing is

artappraiser — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 05:33:29 +0000

In reply to Boris Johnson To Call For Snap Election After Conservatives Suffer Key Parliamentary Defeat

Strikes me that nothing is new here, as inflammatory advocacy and polemics in "journalism" is long the tradition of our motherland, they never bothered to even try for objectivity:

No.
They aren't heroes or enemies of the people.
They are members of the independent judiciary and not a political plaything. pic.twitter.com/tGxnnAzfNw
— Summary Justice (@JusticeSummary) September 11, 2019

The readers are supposed to be the judges. How is that working out for them with the new information systems that are available?

a little more clarity on "The

artappraiser — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 02:06:44 +0000

In reply to John Bercow “couldn’t give a

a little more clarity on "The Black Rod" thing:

The Lords Commissioners arrive in the House of Lords. There are normally five of them, however, Baroness Smith & Lord Newby have boycotted the ceremony.

The Commissioners send Black Rod to the House of Commons to summon MPs. pic.twitter.com/JNbolVGhRV
— Charlie Proctor (@MonarchyUK) September 10, 2019

It's all kicking off in the Commons as Bercow refuses demand from Black Rod to attend Lords for proroguing ceremony.

Bercow: "This is not a standard or normal prorogation" pic.twitter.com/AsDsMDeEoN
— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) September 10, 2019

John Bercow caves in and goes to the House of Lords with Black Rod.

Opposition MPs chant “shame on you” at Conservative MPs.

It is like a The Parliament of a war torn country #Prorogation pic.twitter.com/M0knK4QSjC
— Charlie Proctor (@MonarchyUK) September 10, 2019

John Bercow “couldn’t give a

artappraiser — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 02:01:43 +0000

In reply to Boris Johnson To Call For Snap Election After Conservatives Suffer Key Parliamentary Defeat

John Bercow “couldn’t give a flying flamingo” what your view is pic.twitter.com/pqv4mYvQ7r
— Charlie Proctor (@MonarchyUK) September 10, 2019

BREAKING: Speaker John Bercow is refusing Black Rod’s orders! Wow! Extraordinary! #Prorogation pic.twitter.com/XU7YBZcVKL
— Charlie Proctor (@MonarchyUK) September 10, 2019

The Duke of Wellington has

artappraiser — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 01:54:07 +0000

In reply to Boris Johnson To Call For Snap Election After Conservatives Suffer Key Parliamentary Defeat

The Duke of Wellington has resigned from Boris Johnson's Conservatives.
No seriously. The 9th Duke is now list as non-affiliated. He was a Tory hereditary peer but quit last Wednesday, the HoL press office tell me.
— Joy Lo Dico (@joy_lo_dico) September 9, 2019

(Joy's a Brit journalist, writes for FT and others)

PM Johnson loses another

artappraiser — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 05:24:05 +0000

In reply to Boris Johnson To Call For Snap Election After Conservatives Suffer Key Parliamentary Defeat

PM Johnson loses another cabinet member. Apparently, conservatives in Britain do not allow themselves to be cowed like Republicans in the US. https://t.co/pu6AcGtCNj
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) September 7, 2019

p.s. comes to mind the common

artappraiser — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 13:52:58 +0000

In reply to To me, it is clearly the

p.s. comes to mind the common description of Boris as more of an intentional chaos monkey, as in the quote I cited above, along the lines of the Putin online troll plot. With Trump this is more questionable as to the intentional (though someone like Bannon saw him as an ideal agent) because it's all about the narcissism. It's still hard for me to tell whether Boris is about Boris or about bigger aims,but that's because I just don't know enough about his history.

To me, it is clearly the

artappraiser — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 13:45:06 +0000

In reply to Thanks for resurrecting that

To me, it is clearly the future, a total re-alignment of party and ideologies. I thought long ago that too many were in denial of this in the U.S. It was already starting to become very clear to me with advent of both neo-conservative and neo-liberal movements in the Bush years.Just in seeing the anger of traditional liberals and lefties towards neo-liberals at places like TPM Cafe, you just could see coalition trouble. Now we've got things like all these Never Trumpers, throw in the growing number of elected Republicans dropping out of running again as they have decided they just can't take the chaos anymore.

The thing with the UK is that Brexit is pushing people to move rather than stay with the nonsensical status quo anymore. Yeah, it's been head spinning. But we'd probably see similar if there was an impeachment trial of Trump? Something big, a major chaos event, has to happen to get party regulars "woke", and realize "hey this is not really my party anymore."

Thanks for resurrecting that

Michael Wolraich — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 18:39:22 +0000

In reply to whole shebang has me

Thanks for resurrecting that quote. When I wrote it, I wasn't even thinking about the UK, which still retained some degree of parliamentary normality. The last month has been head-spinning.

whole shebang has me

artappraiser — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 22:14:52 +0000

In reply to Boris Johnson To Call For Snap Election After Conservatives Suffer Key Parliamentary Defeat

whole shebang has me recalling this 2017 news thread, AMERICA'S NEW, COMBUSTIBLE FOUR-PARTY SYSTEM in particular this comment by Wolraich:

Fwiw, this 4-way schism is bigger than Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, bigger than the Hamptons and Appalachia, bigger than our whole screwed up, self-obsessed country. A number European countries literally have four (or more) parties, and the left-wing and right-wing coalitions threaten to eclipse the centrists. It's not some temporary aberration that will subside in a couple years. These divisions have been growing across the Western world for decades and show no signs of abating.

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by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 08/21/2017 - 11:05pm

My speech in the European

artappraiser — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 21:55:46 +0000

In reply to Boris Johnson To Call For Snap Election After Conservatives Suffer Key Parliamentary Defeat

My speech in the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill. https://t.co/a314jFv2C9 via @YouTube
— Nicholas Soames (@NSoames) September 4, 2019