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You never finally know if you've got a majority in parliament until you've had a vote.
The Queen invites someone to form a government on the assumption they've got a majority.
So how does the Queen assume someone has a majority before they've had a vote?

Because the Queen assumes that a party leader carries the votes of their own party. And that may turn out to be wrong, but she assumes it to begin with.
The Queen doesn't start prodnosing this or that particular MP. "Have you got so and so's support? He's been saying things in the newspapers."
The Queen doesn't work like that.
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Because I was right again. All you've done is waste three years going round in a circle to come back to where you started, having achieved absolutely nothing.
You're having exactly the same conversation you were having three years ago. You haven't done anything. You haven't moved one single step from where you were.
We went all through this. This no deal crap. We went through all this, and we showed why it couldn't be done.

Because of grown up stuff like the Good Friday Agreement.
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Nobody is going to leave the European Union before the end of fucking October
Long before the end of October the government will have lost its fucking majority.
When the government has lost its majority there will be a fucking election.
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And where were, then? We were talking about the decline of the BBC as a serious news organisation.

We're always talking about the decline of the BBC.
The latest BBC posture is that the absence of a withdrawal agreement equals a no deal Brexit.

The BBC has become a kind of Brexit Inquisition, where the idea we might stay in the European Union is treated as a heresy.
For the last three years I've been saying we're not going to end up leaving the European Union.
And for those three years the BBC has been insisting with almost religious devotion that yes we are.
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