Newenglanddeac
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Aside from Puerto Rico, Americans suck at protesting.
We really do. The women’s march following Trump’s election has been the only bright spot.
Conservatives get a crazy leader, and about 40 days into, enough of them defect in an effort to limit the damage Johnson can do. https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/03/europe/brexit-vote-boris-johnson-intl-gbr/index.html
If only we had conservatives like that.
In an extraordinary purge, the 21 Conservative lawmakers who voted in favor of the measure were booted out of the parliamentary party. Kenneth Clarke, who has been a Conservative lawmaker for 49 years, told the BBC he was sanguine about the decision. Clarke said his party had been taken over by extremists: "Anyone who who comes up to me and tells me I'm not a Conservative is taking an odd political view. It's the Brexit Party rebadged."
Other prominent lawmakers to be fired included former finance minister Philip Hammond, and the grandson of Winston Churchill, Nicholas Soames. "I knew what I was doing," Soames told the Newsnight program. The move detonated the Conservative Party's parliamentary majority, which dropped to zero earlier in the day when an MP defected to a rival party in dramatic fashion.
This is the most dramatic example yet of independent judges, through the mechanism of judicial review, stopping the government in its tracks because what it has done is unlawful.
Be you ever so mighty, the law is above you - even if you are the prime minister.
What a stupid mess.
I can't see where this possibly ends up - the Tories are split and they will never have a large enough majority to overcome their "European Research Group" arm that wants a hard Brexit to push through a deal. Labour is split because the leader of Labour is eurosceptic and likely cannot build a coalition to become Prime Minister anyways.
Honestly, this is just going to get extended and extended and extended until one faction or the other (no deal, deal or hard brexit) gets an outright majority in parliament. Right now, the path to that looks nearly impossible. It could be another 5 years before this resolved in any way.
VAD, until Brexit actually happens has anything changed?