I don't think you get my point.
If wages where better, then they might get some better candidates (especially labour).

I don't care for Harriet Harman however I was more interested in the constitutional issue rather than the individual when I posted the link.

For some voters having their MP as speaker is a good thing. However Harman's own local party are not happy because they want an MP that plays an active role in party politics and so the role of speaker actually disenfranchises the voters.

I wonder how the voters of Buckinghamshire feel about Bercow. None of the other major parties stood against him so his re-election was almost automatic since he took the job.

The Speakers role is important but on reflection I would not like my MP to do it.

Edited by Badger11 (21 Sep 2019 7.34am)

One more point

Spot on. I have been waiting for the "blame Brexit" brigade to start. TC has been going down the pan for years with other Travel Agents.

no you'd still get the same old corrupt useless MPs we have now, they'd just cost more!

Westminster voting intention
... if held after the deadline for Brexit has been extended beyond 31 Oct:

LAB: 25% (-3)
CON: 22% (-4)
LDEM: 21% (+1)
BREX: 20% (+3)
GRN: 5% (+1)

via @ComRes, 18 - 19 Sep
Chgs. w/ 06 Sep (same Q)

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The above suggests to me that 31st Oct is do or die for Boris. If there's another extension it'll massively count against them in a GE, and if there isn't another extension, and we leave then the Brexit Party is effectively dead, a veritable dream for the party.

Of course there could also be a deal on or prior to that date too, which is probably still a much more likely outcome than people tend to believe even this late in the day.

On a lighter note
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It has nothing whatsoever to do with "the votes of 17.4 million people". It has only to do with the supremacy of Parliament over the executive. The only way for Johnson to react with him retaining any kind of credibility is to immediately resign.

This was a devastating judgement expressed in the clearest possible terms.

A great day for British democracy.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

All getting very exciting now isn't it?!

Which direction will this farce learch towards next i wonder?

Lets hope there's a deal otherwise how long before riots start?

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Come off it. You do know that originally it was listed as a 'Brexit' related manner and only later changed to make out that it was purely about a point of Parliamentary procedure?

And you are going to get your way. My prediction is that Johnson will now have to leave office, by way of a vote of confidence. Your beloved Parliament will then go straight for a second referendum rather than a GE with Remain on the ballot paper.

Turnout, on the back of a boycott, will be less than 50%, Remain will win by less than 17.4 million votes but with a significantly higher margin of victory than 52% which will be touted as the democratic comfort blanket you all so desperately crave. But that will have been made by the same fraud who clothed a certain Emperor. But we all see what we want to see, right?

What comes next, I am not sure. But one thing I can guarantee you is this. Brexit does not go away. It dominates any and everything.

And offers some future bright young thing a perfectly valid reason to tell 17.4 million people that they are perfectly justified in not bothering with the ballot box ever again.

Be so so careful in terms of what you wish for.

Edited by Matov (24 Sep 2019 11.17am)

Edited by Matov (24 Sep 2019 11.21am)

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Wow...Pot / Kettle

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