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The Sunday Times reports cabinet ministers are seeking legal advice on whether A50 can be revoked without primary legislation. @GoodLawProject already has litigation before the Court of Session in Scotland which will answer that question. /1
That case returns from the CJEU to Scotland on Thursday. The Inner House will be invited to make directions for a speedy resolution of the question. We invite @DLidington, this time, to work with not against us in clarifying this further question of great national importance. /2
This is what we sought from the Scottish Courts - it is the 'how' that remains to be resolved. Please support the vital (and unfunded) work done by @GoodLawProject here: crowdjustice.com/case/we-cant-r… /ENDS
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Wrong on virtually every count.

And only one of us is a convicted criminal, an anti-semite, "Brocialist", deliberately hiding his funders, who has written for the UCL Conservative Newsletter, has a dodgy PhD, and thinks table salt is a chemical weapon.
That would be you, Bastani, you weapon. Meanwhile, put your socks on.
Is this true, @AaronBastani, did you leave the Labour Party because your chosen Blairite lost out in the Labour leadership to his brother? leninology.co.uk/2010/12/more-t…
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There's a perfectly sensible case for a Party leader making policy from on high. But it's pretty grim watching smart folk on the Left demean themselves trying to pretend that's not what Corbyn is doing.
Question for all those folks insisting member-led democracy was served because delegates got to vote on a motion: why didn't they get to vote on whether Labour should commit to a referendum given how over 100 constituencies and at least three quarters of members wanted one?
It's a free country. Subscribe to whatever delusion makes you happy. Just don't expect anyone whose head is screwed on such that their nose and toes point in the same direction to join you in it.
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Only 29% of judges in England and Wales are women. Fewer than 1% are "black or black British".
theguardian.com/law/2019/jan/0…
Of the 1,360 odd *salaried* (ie full-time, permanent) judges in England and Wales the number who are "black or black British" is 7. That's right, about half of one percent.
Source here (Table 1.1). judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl…
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Regarding that legal advice the government don't want anyone else to see:

The documents were requested, by parliament, using a procedure called a "humble address". This is a request to the Queen to ask gov to produce documents. 1/
The gov have so far refused. Which means they are defying the Queen! And, of course, they are defying parliament. Which looks a lot like dictatorship. Reclaiming sovereignty? Not so much. 2/
The documents appear to have been leaked to The Sunday Times, so journalists there have seen legal advice denied to our elected representatives. /3
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This all started because the #MetPolice & #LBRUT couldn't do their day jobs properly & decided to take the law into their own hands. It started as a small cover up 12 years ago but has turned into British State Persecution.

#Skynews #BBCNews #DailyMail #Guardian #Euronews
My company was raided. It should have been a straightforward matter. But the #MetPolice & #LBRUT forgot to seize my computer & came back to do a 2nd raid. The search warrant didn't permit a second entry, however, #LBRUT entered unlawfully

#Guardian #Telegraph #DailyMail #GMB #UK
Complaints were then made to my MP #VinceCable. He liaised with the #Metpolice & #LBRUT. And then weeks later, the search warrant was completely changed & was passed off as the search warrant executed on the day of the raids.

#DailyPolitics #Libdems #Conservatives #labour #bbcdp
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From what we've gathered now, the people who revealed everything about Yongguk / Longguo incriminated themselves by doing that knowing not a lot of you would care about what they did, but I don't think we should be letting them get away with their own part of the situation either
Hear me out - ones behind the attack on Longguo / Yongguk are his former sasaengs. The evidence they posted of him, some of it is solid, some of it is shaky, some of it are straight up lies but that's not what I'll be talking about here. Instead, let's focus on them for a second.
The chat Honeycat revealed basically confirms all of them were stalking Longguo / Yongguk during his personal time too, and they threatened him about appearing in public with other people without a mask, and seems one of those kind of outings caused all of this mess.
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Senior sources say UK prime minister May has secured private #Brexit concessions from Brussels that will allow her to keep the whole of Britain in a customs union, avoiding a hard border in Northern Ireland thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/r…
EU concession 1: The EU will write an all-UK customs deal into the legally binding withdrawal agreement so an EU-designed “backstop” treating Northern Ireland differently from the UK mainland is not required
EU concession 2: There will be an “exit clause” to convince Eurosceptics the UK will not be under the EU's customs regime for ever
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“SHE CAME TO THE US BECAUSE

the gang told her if she didn’t pay the extortion money they demanded, they would kill her and her young daughter, and make her watch them kill her daughter

THIS WAS NOT THE WORST STORY.”

A harrowing

♦️Project Corazon♦️

tale from #L4GG’s @mgremb:
Even worse was a mom who came to the US with her daughter “Celia” (not her real name). Her other daughter had been kidnapped by the gang a month ago and never seen again. The gang said Celia was “next,” and threatened to kill the rest of the family, so they left.
It’s taken me a while to write about the time I spent with the Dilley Pro Bono Project at the immigrant family detention center. It’s difficult to put into words the jarring mix of hopefulness and fear, the moms waiting for news and the laughter, crying and sniffles of children.
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Update on the court challenge against Bill 5 cuts to council: Hearing is Friday. The city has filed its application asking that the election as it was on July 30 and those nominations be reinstated and the legislation struck down. Toronto District School Board is also intervening
The city will argue that the legislation violates unwritten constitutional principles, such as democracy, as indicated in their legal advice to council: thestar.com/news/toronto-e…. Others representing candidates, volunteers, community organizations will make same case
Though some have claimed the legal advice to council was that the case was hopeless, that's inaccurate. I've read the legal advice and city lawyers agree with scholars on the best legal argument. but also correctly note it is largely uncharted.
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