This is some Galaxy Brain shit right here, I’ve got to say.
Unfortunately the BBC is with them, so there’s that… Twitter is your best option.
Lisa O’Carroll above + some other tweets I posted will keep you informed.
LBC digital radio with J. O’Brian is were I listen to most of it.
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Yeah I don’t agree with the Corbyn stuff tbh.
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MPs continue to rebuke the PM’s prorogation plans on Twitter.
Rachael Maskell MP
(@RachaelMaskell)
Proroguing Parliament to avoid scrutiny of the PM’s disastrous no deal plan is a slip towards autocracy and a dangerous precedent to set. I will work with my colleagues across the house to oppose this callous course of action. #peoplesparliament https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/269157
August 28, 2019
Clive Efford
(@CliveEfford)
I signed the #ChurchHouseDeclaration opposing Boris Johnson shutting down parliament so he can force our country into a No Deal Brexit. There is nothing patriotic about knowingly doing harm to my country and my constituents and I will do everything I can to stop him! pic.twitter.com/6iZM5LlgOy
August 28, 2019
(((Alex Sobel MP)))
(@alexsobel)
Parliament is here to legislate, debate and have a deliberative democracy. This petition is growing fast but will it be debated before Boris Johnson closes down the debating chambers. Sign it if you’re as disgusted as me at his attempt to shut Parliament https://t.co/iwF76VSqk4
August 28, 2019
My colleague Polly Toynbee has written a column about the possible consequences of today’s events, and predicts an impending civil war.
She writes:
This aggressive provocation of parliament widens the great Brexit divide into a civil war state of mind. This is the battleground Johnson seeks – himself as roguish, freewheeling representative of the people’s will, defender of the referendum versus the Westminster establishment and the elite, as represented by MPs elected to parliament. Explosive, dangerous, unresolvable, David Cameron’s reckless, Tory-pleasing referendum cut right through the constitution, and now it lies badly damaged.
This assault on parliament is galvanising those soft Tory opponents who were prevaricating, the ones who preferred to wait until late October to give Johnson a chance to strike a new EU deal. Now, say Dominic Grieve and others, they all realise the one week before prorogation must be used to legislate against a no-deal Brexit. There is just time, there are manoeuvres, from seizing the timetable to a humble address and other ingenious devices murmured sotto voce lest the government hear their plans. It can be done, must be done, double quick, it’s too late to wait until they return in October.
The war for public hearts and minds has hardly begun. Which side will people lean, towards a sense their constitution and their parliament has been outraged by a revolutionary rightwinger? Or will they go with Johnson as the true representative of the people, leading angry Brexiters to their hearts’ desire? He has the advantage of the great claque of the 80% Tory press urging him on. This is only step one of Johnson’s “by any means necessary” threat. Expect more such “means” yet to come.
Link to full piece below.
A civil war state of mind now threatens our democracy | Polly Toynbee
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This is going to get one of those really cool parliament names like “The Long Parliament” or “The Rump Parliament” right? Wait, maybe no so cool because you had a civil war after that didn’t you.
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Can Parliament just no-confidence the Johnson government by a majority vote, or is there some procedural problem with doing that before they get pierogied?
Now’s the time to bet hard on no Brexit before 1 November. Boris is bluffing here, he’s begging the opposition to come together and do something to stop a no deal Brexit so he can save face and go into a GE as the guy who really tried to give the Brexitards what they voted for, honest, but the mean remoaners and their anti-democratic scheming managed to stop him.
He’ll find a way to wriggle out of this. Annoyingly, he’ll then win the subsequent GE pretty handily when he teams up with Farage. Brexit NOT to happen on or before 31 Oct is currently 2.06 on Betfair. Lump on! Then use your winnings to plan your escape from this stupid fucking country.
You guys have my permission to borrow Parliament Funkadelic I’m pretty sure it’s mothballed at this point.
Yes. I’ve stopped trying to predict things, as who knows, but my best idiot guess is that this is precisely what Boris wants. He gets a no confidence vote against him when parliament opens next week, and then is able to fight an election saying “look, these people are trying to stop me do what you want, vote for me to save Brexit!”
This is pretty much it. I don’t believe he’s a malignant person at all, but he’s disinclined to stand up to the deplorables among his own party membership because he relies on their grass roots support (canvassing, campaigning etc).
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The way this is going I might end up in favour of an actual civil war, with HM’s head coming off in the end, (metaphorically).
It’s hard to think of European countries who come out of that period smelling of roses, isn’t it?
One of them close to you even sent Germany a message of condolence on the news of Hitler’s death.