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View becky's Profile becky Flag over the moon 25 Jun 19 7.53am Send a Private Message to becky Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add becky as a friend

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

Don't you need approval from a large percentage of MPs to call an early election?

I can't see the turkeys voting for Christmas

Besides the fact that it takes 6 weeks to call a GE, and they will all be on their summer holidays by then.....back in mid October.

 


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View davenotamonkey's Profile davenotamonkey Flag 25 Jun 19 10.24am Send a Private Message to davenotamonkey Add davenotamonkey as a friend

Originally posted by Spiderman

And they would probably get arrested for trespass.

They'd be at work, to be honest.

 

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View Stirlingsays's Profile Stirlingsays Flag 25 Jun 19 10.53am Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

Don't you need approval from a large percentage of MPs to call an early election?

I can't see the turkeys voting for Christmas

I should imagine Corbyn would be up for it as he says little else.

And a good number of pro leaving MPs would probably agree.

 


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View davenotamonkey's Profile davenotamonkey Flag 25 Jun 19 10.58am Send a Private Message to davenotamonkey Add davenotamonkey as a friend

Originally posted by Maine Eagle

What a f*cking coward.

Acting like a little girl.

Cannot handle tough questions and awkward situations, yes wants to be prime minister. f*cking joke.

Newsflash, Laime Eagle. He will take part in 16 hustings of the electorate that have the final say on who will be leader of the party. He's under no obligation to prostate himself on TV to a frankly hostile broadcaster and very likely partisan activist audience.

He can do that when he goes to the people in a General Election. This is not a General Election.

Can't help all the "right people" have the knives out for Boris, both on here and in the press. There will be a huge amount of scrutiny and muck-raking (note the same level of scrutiny applied to Hunt? Me neither). You all all terrified. Good. Not particularly a Boris fan, but the alternative is much worse.

 

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View davenotamonkey's Profile davenotamonkey Flag 25 Jun 19 11.04am Send a Private Message to davenotamonkey Add davenotamonkey as a friend

Originally posted by becky

Besides the fact that it takes 6 weeks to call a GE, and they will all be on their summer holidays by then.....back in mid October.

Exactly. Which is why the need to call a Vote Of No Confidence as soon as Boris takes power.... and also why they are wrangling over the start date of summer recess.

Summer + Conference recess takes us to early October (shocking, seriously, that the house does not operate for that huge stretch of time)

VONC = 2 weeks
General Election = 6 weeks

So if there is a VONC in early October, Boris would do well (in my opinion) to lose it, trigger a GE and have us leave while parliament is dissolved.

If the Remainers want to play dirty devious tricks to trample over constitutional norm and break their manifesto contract with the electorate, then I have few qualms about "my side" now getting their hands dirty.

Who am I kidding anyway, Hunt will be PM - the house never loses after all.

 

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View Mapletree's Profile Mapletree Flag Croydon 25 Jun 19 11.45am Send a Private Message to Mapletree Add Mapletree as a friend

[quote=davenotamonkey;3449965

He's under no obligation to prostate himself on TV to a frankly hostile broadcaster and very likely partisan activist audience.

I should sincerely hope he doesn't

That's the last thing I want to see

 

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View Sportyteacher's Profile Sportyteacher Flag London 25 Jun 19 11.47am Send a Private Message to Sportyteacher Add Sportyteacher as a friend

Boris Johnson refused 26 times to answer a question about when the picture of him with girlfriend Carrie Symonds was taken:

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He'll be challenged upon far more pressing issues than this where he'll be required to give straight answers.

 

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View becky's Profile becky Flag over the moon 25 Jun 19 11.54am Send a Private Message to becky Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add becky as a friend

Originally posted by davenotamonkey

Exactly. Which is why the need to call a Vote Of No Confidence as soon as Boris takes power.... and also why they are wrangling over the start date of summer recess.

Summer + Conference recess takes us to early October (shocking, seriously, that the house does not operate for that huge stretch of time)

VONC = 2 weeks
General Election = 6 weeks

So if there is a VONC in early October, Boris would do well (in my opinion) to lose it, trigger a GE and have us leave while parliament is dissolved.

If the Remainers want to play dirty devious tricks to trample over constitutional norm and break their manifesto contract with the electorate, then I have few qualms about "my side" now getting their hands dirty.

Who am I kidding anyway, Hunt will be PM - the house never loses after all.

You would, surely, not be able to have a VONC in Parliament whilst it is dissolved for the summer recess? Let alone be able to call a GE, which is what I have been saying for some time - it would be quite possible to get a no deal exit by default.

 


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View Stirlingsays's Profile Stirlingsays Flag 25 Jun 19 11.59am Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

As long as we end up with a leader who's taking us in a frigging direction.....instead of this constant fence sitting.

I don't want to be taking the leave/remain question into the new year.

If there are to be no 'dirty tricks'....which I'm not sure would be that easy..... or a GE then I don't see how that happens with this set of MPs.

Edited by Stirlingsays (25 Jun 2019 12.00pm)

 


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View davenotamonkey's Profile davenotamonkey Flag 25 Jun 19 12.01pm Send a Private Message to davenotamonkey Add davenotamonkey as a friend

Originally posted by becky

You would, surely, not be able to have a VONC in Parliament whilst it is dissolved for the summer recess? Let alone be able to call a GE, which is what I have been saying for some time - it would be quite possible to get a no deal exit by default.

I think(!) this is what I mean as well Becky... there's perhaps some more clarity here (see the tweet itself for the full thread):

Edited by davenotamonkey (25 Jun 2019 12.03pm)

 

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View Stirlingsays's Profile Stirlingsays Flag 25 Jun 19 12.07pm Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

As for the Boris, 'row through the wall' nonsense......it's just another view of the gutter that the mainstream media class sit in.

Surely the debate should be on policy.

 


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View Midlands Eagle's Profile Midlands Eagle Flag 25 Jun 19 1.04pm Send a Private Message to Midlands Eagle Add Midlands Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Sportyteacher

Boris Johnson refused 26 times to answer a question about when the picture of him with girlfriend Carrie Symonds was taken:

What sort of idiot asks the same question that many times

 

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