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I'm aware of all that of course, but please remember that for 2017 Labour was predicted to do very badly, but in the event confounded everyone, including me. That of course included my own almost always Tory constituency suddenly getting an extreme swing to a record Labour win for a new...

I was speaking nationally of course, marginals can be different. .

There's never been a level playing field and we've never converged. For example with the EU working time directive average, we negotiated 48 hours for the UK while the mainland EU countries mainly accepted 35 hours. .

Ah, the Dreadful Unlikely Party. .

But voting Labour would be a tactical vote, helping to prevent a Tory win while very unlikely to give Labour an overall majority. At best Labour could only get into power with others helping while restraining them. .

See the first paragraph of my post just above yours! .

They were indeed much deeper, commencing to my knowledge with a case of appalling service for a customer on their doorstep in Loughborough who had bought a pair of Sparta e-bikes from them. That was the first of a pattern over the years of taking on many makes, then abruptly dropping them and...

You were already in from a while ago, riding on Woodcroft Road: Map Link .

The newspapers really are nuts. Given the likely temperatures in December, how could unheated garages without toilet facilities become polling stations from 7am to 10 pm? Householders would graphically tell the authorities what to do with such a suggestion. No doubt the schools and other...

I wasn't being speculative of course, I merely stated what I was sure was the legal position of the request made, and that the EU would definitely accept it. Thus it proved to be. And as I've just said, BJ could not challenge the Speaker. Since he would only be challenging from a position of...

Sorry Danidl, but you're really tying yourself into knots. BJ could not issue a legal challenge based on usurping his PM function for the simple reason that the request for an extension was parliament's legal requirement of him. Such a challenge would be thrown out instantly since Johnson...

Thanks Zlatan. The principle appears good but I wonder at the robustness of tubes in the combustion chamber directing micro jets of fuel to combustion points. They specifically mention very large diesels like those in ships and they certainly have huge potential to be cleaner than their...

You should look back at my posts. I've never spoken of whether we accept an offered extension or not, only that the EU would decide whether it accepted Johnson's request or not. The Scottish court is entirely irrelevant to that since they have no jurisdiction whatsoever over the EU. The EU...

You're still on this! :D That court is irrelevant and has been ever since the EU accepted Johnson's missive as I said they would. They know it and it's probably why they deferred their judgement. It doesn't matter what they find, if the EU grant an extension as they will, it's fait accompli...

No point with those two. My solution was hypothetical, the sort of thing that two intelligent people concerned with the good of the country might adopt. The current two are only concerned with their political idealism and personal status. .

Yes I'm quite sure. Stopping Brexit would of course upset those who voted to leave, but only a minority would want to demonstrate and that wouldn't last so peace would quickly return. As ever it's how something is done that counts. The announcement that the current Brexit was being abandoned...

Indeed, it's not just Nissan, a No Deal departure means the loss of virtually all car production in the UK, not to mention a substantial slice of the rest of our manufacturing. .

If anyone is being thick here it's you Zlatan, not OG. When something is causing violence and the country to be bitterly divided, the answer is to stop that something, just as OG says. And that something is Brexit. .

Thanks for the info. I never watch that sort of TV so not surprising I hadn't seen them other than second hand. .

Agreed, which is why the next best thing is to alternate between what we've got now so each moderates the other. There was a time when we had that. Having two forms of Tory party is no substitute as 1997 to 2010 showed. .