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That's for emergencies if she's caught short. .

Totally agree. About time we reached the 21st century, or even the second half of the 20th. .

Please keep a sense of proportion. My post was nothing to do with the welfare of the Queen and everything to do with the welfare of our constitution. It was a warning against the dangerous precedent that Johnson is creating. The rules, whether legislated or born of long experience and...

Of course she is, it's a monarchical necessity. .

There is no service manual since Panasonic supply no spares and have a policy of repair by replacement of the whole unit. You can replace the bearings since they are almost all standard items with part numbers on them and available from bearings suppliers. There's no possibility that clearance...

Certainly not treasonous, but it's not hysterical to observe that he is perverting the constitution by his misuse of the prorogue. He has used the Queen for a political purpose which is quite improper, so as I posted, she should have resisted that abuse by restricting the prorogue to a...

Nonsense, as I posted 7 to 10 days is normal, nearly five weeks is far from any normality and totally unnecessary for a Queen's speech. The only hysteria is in your Brexit defensiveness. .

The Queen missed something. A prorogue normally lasts for 7 to 10 days maximum, only a little longer if a public holidays intervenes. So while she is expected to follow convention by granting a prorogue, she certainly didn't need to seriously break with convention by granting the...

He reminds me of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, they are very alike. Both impeccably polite and pleasantly spoken, while being highly dangerous extremists who know no limits to their actions to get what they want. .

That's in normal times. After the savage 2008 recession, nearly a decade of austerity, so many people losing their homes, the decline in the NHS and three years of Brexit chaos, these are not remotely normal times. Any outcome is possible. Just look at what happened in Theresa May's GE when...

Wrong, you seem to have a short memory. See this post above. .

Nonsense, there's no change. The EU were asking Theresa May to come up with concrete proposals and they also said the same to each of our negotiators. That's long been the EU position. They've consistently said they won't materially change the deal but will look at alternatives on the...

It's not from Corbyn so none of this applies. It's a call for action by Momentum, a left wing organisation that happens to back Corbyn and Labour, but it's not run by either. Information link .

Only for a specific purpose in a single term, as you know. .

As you've shown, Boris Johnson is by nature a Remainer who has never believed in Brexit. He hung back from declaring his position until Cameron declared for Remain, and then chose Leave. His sole aim was to position himself as Cameron's rival for PM. It was personal ambition before all else...

I do love autocorrect for what it does to other's posts! :D .

For much of the country this August has been a letdown. Sitting in a caravan contemplating the leaden grey sky and driving rain outside, win win isn't what they'll be thinking. .

No it's not the trend overall, these divisions occur during times of peace when people and nations feel safer. But the world hasn't lost its taste for war and it's always war and the threat of war that unites eventually, unity triumphing. You'll become right the day we end all wars, but that...

The last sentence is right, but the prelude certainly wasn't. You and I have both posted 500 times in this thread June 2019 to date, I've raised far less subjects than you, and I'm in here less time. I leave the bulk of brexit matters to others to argue ad nauseaum. .

It may well be, the fat lady hasn't sung yet. If parliament succeeds in blocking BJ's move by some devious means, any number of things could happen, including rescinding article 50. And that could lead anywhere, including a second referendum. This whole matter isn't over by a long chalk...