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So let me just catch up on the latest master strategy from the people who brought you leaving on Oct 31st and the Benn Act Loophole.
The Johnson offer to Labour to get them to vote for an election today is to offer them the chance to back his Brexit deal in the Commons beforehand.
That's it. That's the master tactic for today's round of what-the-fuck-are-you-doing?
If you took these people to a restaurant they'd try to eat the food through their arsehole.
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Ian Dunt
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Right. It's going to be the longest day of parliamentary drama you have ever experienced. And it kicks off now.
The Speaker, John Bercow, is currently deciding what to do about the election for the new Speaker, given it is now ramming right up against the election debate.
Basically it comes down to: Do they hold the Speaker's election before or after the election? Bercow said he was standing down on October 31st. But some want him to hold out for after the election.
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Ian Dunt
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Quick word for the parliament that is about to end: It has been a very good parliament, historically good. In fraught circumstances, under fierce populist attack, it held the government to account and prevented some catastrophic outcomes.
It's had independent minded MPs, many of them having to leave their party, stand by their principles, in the toughest possible conditions.
The government hated it. Many government MPs hated it. But they hated it because it was doing what it was supposed to do: Holding them to account.
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Ian Dunt
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Sorry, but I don't believe Mogg or Johnson's commitments not to bring the Brexit deal back to the Commons before it's dissolved for the election.
I don't want to sound all WHY ARE THE LYING POLITICIANS LYING. Politicians usually avoid lying. But this govt is deeply, almost genetically, incapable of being honest and not playing silly little games.
Yes, they'd be unlikely to win a programme motion on it, but it's not impossible. The margins are tight and MPs are volatile. If I was an opposition party, I'd fight hard on the dates issue.
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Sebastian Payne
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How does Boris Johnson's No10 brief out/say one thing and often ends up doing another?

e.g. We're going to dodge the Benn Act vs. we'll ultimately send the extension letter. We're going to leave on Oct 31 vs. we'll obey the law.

Welcome to the tale of two Downing Streets.
#2: The first Downing Street is the one led by Dominic Cummings and the Vote Leave team. They're pugilistic, determined and strong communications. They're spinning the narrative we're leaving come what may on October 31. They're in part responsible for the Tories' strong polling.
#3: The Vote Leave No10 gang are campaigners within government - focused on selling a tough Brexit message to the electorate and ensuring Leave voters have no doubt Boris is on their side - to squeeze the Farage vote. It appears effective, but not always connected with reality.
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Good morning and welcome to another #Brexit thread

I'll be attempting to cover the events that are happening both in the Commons and in the Lords today so this is going to be a long one

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So first things first, hello to all my new followers and here's a quick breakdown of what's happening today, and a quick precis of how business in each House is carried out and why really arcane things seem to happen that bear little-to-no relationship to reality

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In the Lords the Opposition and Crossbench peers have laid a motion that will allow them the time to scrutinise the Bill that's about to be debated in the Commons. They want to debate this Bill on Friday at the latest. More on that later

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Recently Ellie Reeves #Labour MP was reportedly facing a vote of "No Confidence" and "Deselection" @elliereeves received a lot of support from Jess Phillips, Tom Watson etc. No motion was tabled with her CLP so the furore over a pregnant Labour MP being deselected was nonsense.
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2/8 Having an #objective, #rational, #ScientificSocialist, #Dialectical, & #Materialist viewpoint allows us to accurately see & evaluate & analyze #Truth & #Reality as they truly materially exist in this universe.
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Let’s add a little context to the discussion of voting security in the US. To do that, I’m going to do something Computer Scientists are bad at - I’m going to talk about history. Specifically, let’s look at the Help America #Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002. 1/
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