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Don't think it had much of a prayer anyway, TBH. I agree with Red: it will be rejected again but this time by a marginally less embarrassing margin. My back of a fag packet calculations still have it failing by 100-120 votes.

I'll take that as a no.

I used scare quotes around “better educated” for a reason, matey. Do I really need to explain it? I mean, I will if you really need me to. I’ll even try my best not to be a condescending twat while doing it. But, seriously, is it necessary?

Yeah, no great surprise. One of the downsides to Dave and Gideon’s modernising efforts is the inclusion and elevation of MPs like Wollaston and Allen – witless, sappy, virtue-signalling no marks so desperate to be liked and so bereft of basic conservative values that they would blend in...

If it's any consolation, I doubt Labour is the only party that will suffer a depletion of numbers. I'd bet at least 5 English pounds that several Tory MPs (Soubry, Wollaston, Grieve and Boles are my picks) will go the same way.

There is no legal or procedural requirement for them to resign as MPs. Doing so would necessitate by-elections in their constituencies, but it's ultimately at the MPs' discretion. They can stay in their seats for the rest of this parliamentary term if they wish. A bit ludicrous, IMO, but there...

100% agree. All Remoaners, though, so I won't be holding my breath.

Interesting.

Well, they haven't done much with it all, but it's held my interest nonetheless. Slow-burning but engaging detective story and outstanding acting by Ali, Dorff and McNairy especially. Works for me. Last week's episode was the best of the series.

One of my closest friends voted Remain. He has a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. His reason for voting Remain? His wife told him to. What he knows about the EU could be written on the back of a stamp – if he desired to remain in anything, it was balls deep in his missus 3-4 times per...

:bg: And still people claim, ad nauseam, that Leave voters didn't know what they were voting for!

That's great! I was thinking only the other day that what Netflix sorely lacks is comic book adaptations about superheroes.

^ I didn't feel Season 3 until the third episode, but I think it's probably my favourite. Much better than Season 2 and at least on par with Season 1. But I think your gut feeling is correct: one of the most appealing things about Fargo is how different it is to every other drama on US TV, and...

Season 2 was a mess and suffered from some dreadful miscasting (Vince Vaughn as a gangster, Taylor Kitsch as a repressed homosexual, David Morse as a hippie!), so it's nice to see that Season 3 has avoided that. The opening two episodes were very solid. They bordered on dull a few times, but...

I should make clear that this argument is based on an assumption that is possibly wrong but probably isn't. I have, of course, assumed that the government would need parliamentary approval before revoking Article 50. The ECJ recently ruled that Britain has the power to revoke Article 50 but...

It is not within the government’s power to take No Deal off the table. No Deal is the legal/procedural default position as per Article 50 and the European Union Withdrawal Act 2018. Parliament has two options if it wishes to avoid No Deal. The first is to give approval for unilaterally revoking...

He can be a weapons grade numptie on this subject, but he’s probably not a bad egg overall. Perhaps it’s the half bottle of Baron de Sigognac talking, but I fancy trialling the idea of not being a sarcastic c*** every time he posts something objectionable about Brexit. So, my question to him...

There were half-a-dozen or so posts about possible ways forward, the legal/procedural dimension of extending or nixing the Article 50 process, and the wording of any 2nd referendum question. It was quite a nice change from 'wiseacre' comments and shopworn "this is fine" memes, which makes the...

Uncle Jeremy is currently refusing to attend talks with the government unless May takes “No Deal” off the table, which she can’t do because it’s the default position enshrined in law. If parliamentary procedure is followed (admittedly a big “if” with Bercow in position), the only way to avoid...