Is Brexit actually going to happen?

[8ball]

During elections there is always an increased risk of invasion because there's no one to order the army to fight.

Are they like those security bots that just sit dormant until enters the passcode?

 

[SpackleFrog]

It would only be allowed in the case of a GE, 2nd ref or other such board-changing game move.

Why would it be allowed then?

 

[SpackleFrog]

The other thing I'm trying to get my head around is the timing of the General Election Corbyn is still saying he's going for.

If/when May loses the vote next Tuesday, even if Labour call and win a VoNC immediately, they still need to wait 14 days to see if the government can win another confidence vote, which takes us up to 29 January before a GE could be called (this is the earliest, and that depends on the VoNC being called immediately May loses).

That leaves just two months before Brexit day, during which time the election must be held, a new government formed and whatever legislation is necessary being passed by the new HoC.

When May called a GE in 2017, there was a period of just over seven weeks between calling the election (18 April) and it being held (8 June), so it seems there's very little time for this General Election tactic of Corbyn's to work, even if he can command a clear majority rather than having to form some sort of coalition.

Thoughts?

I'm not saying it isn't a bit speculative but we have to remember the fight to get an election would continue after March (I know you think it's fantasy but I'm fairly confident Brexit would be cancelled by then) and that may be in his mind.

I'm not sure it's quite the issue you think it is though because the 14 day window is for any govt to show it has the confidence of the house and I don't rate May or Corbyn's chances of doing that.

The Cooper/Morgan axis might though.

 

[SpackleFrog]

Gordon Brown remained PM for about a week after his GE defeat, until he realised he couldn't form a government, then asked Brenda to invite Disco Dave to have a go.

That would be handy as no incoming PM would have to humiliate themselves

 

[killer b]

The Cooper/Morgan axis might though.

Ah, the centrist wank fantasy of a Cooper-led government of all the talents.

 

[Crispy]

Why would it be allowed then?

That's what they've said

Article 50 extension would need major shift in UK politics, say EU officials

 

[killer b]

That's what they've said

Article 50 extension would need major shift in UK politics, say EU officials

This is what they've said, but I'm not sure how solid anything one party in the middle of a negotiation of this sort says is. Plenty of things that definitely weren't going to happen have happened already - no reason to believe there aren't other circumstances where an extension would be granted.

 

[Wookey]

I don't think you're in any position to lecture Wilf on politics or on language.

I'm a linguistics graduate, qualified secondary English teacher, a TEFL teacher and a professional writer of 25 years. So I am in a very strong position to correct Wilf on his erroneous vocabulary, actually.

 

[Wilf]

I'm a linguistics graduate, qualified secondary English teacher, a TEFL teacher and a professional writer of 25 years. So I am in a very strong position to correct Wilf on his erroneous vocabulary, actually.

'Must do better'.

 

[butchersapron]

'Must do better'.

Listen to the experts pleb. Then we'd have none of this bother in the first place.

 

[Wookey]

'Must do better'.

Lol, see me!

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

I'm a linguistics graduate, qualified secondary English teacher, a TEFL teacher and a professional writer of 25 years. So I am in a very strong position to correct Wilf on his erroneous vocabulary, actually.

Access to google puts us all in a similarly strong position, check this out:

 

[brogdale]

I'm a linguistics graduate, qualified secondary English teacher, a TEFL teacher and a professional writer of 25 years. So I am in a very strong position to correct Wilf on his erroneous vocabulary, actually.

'kinnel

 

[Mr Moose]

'Must do better'.

‘Must do fewer’.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm a linguistics graduate, qualified secondary English teacher, a TEFL teacher and a professional writer of 25 years. So I am in a very strong position to correct Wilf on his erroneous vocabulary, actually.

No you're not, the evidence points to you correcting people for money. So why are you behaving so amateurishly?

 

[Pickman's model]

Access to google puts us all in a similarly strong position, check this out:

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Yeh I'm not sure I believe Wookey's claims either

 

[Wookey]

Access to google puts us all in a similarly strong position, check this out:

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I love that you made such an effort to catch me out! Bravo.

 

[Wookey]

Yeh I'm not sure I believe Wookey's claims either

Totally see why, it just looks too good to be true, doesn't it?!

Anyway, back to Brexit, boys, I've done enough boasting.

 

[seventh bullet]

I'm a linguistics graduate, qualified secondary English teacher, a TEFL teacher and a professional writer of 25 years. So I am in a very strong position to correct Wilf on his erroneous vocabulary, actually.

This kind of crap always comes out eventually with the m/c, doesn't it?

 

[DexterTCN]

...Plenty of things that definitely weren't going to happen have happened already...

Yup. They were all said by brexiters though.

Everything they said would happen isn't happening.

Everything they said wouldn't happen is happening.

 

[butchersapron]

He like the nursery rhymes this one .

 

[Wookey]

This kind of crap always comes out eventually with the m/c, doesn't it?

This kind of crap always comes out eventually from low achievers, doesn't it?

 

[seventh bullet]

Wow.

 

[danny la rouge]

This kind of crap always comes out eventually from low achievers, doesn't it?

Jesus.

 

[brogdale]

This kind of crap always comes out eventually from low achievers, doesn't it?

Obverse of m/c being low achievers.

Hmmm

 

[DotCommunist]

Another one for the placard there wookey. Vote remain you untermensch

 

[seventh bullet]

The class sneering and dismissal or even glee at inequality and its effects is something you get used to. It's also what partly made me into a communist.

 

[Wookey]

Wow.

Couldn't resist the bitch, I've actually have no idea what you have or haven't achieved. I only know what I've achieved from a deprived w/c childhood, so touch that matey and I'm gonna come after you I'm afraid.

 

[seventh bullet]

No. You can't row back from the above crap.

 

[rekil]

There'll be an I was born working class but made something of myself along in a minute.

e2a aw too late.