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Not a slippery slope thing I think; parliament is after all the legislature and the government the executive. It is the function of government to execute on the basis of instructions receiv ...

This week parliament has again the chance to implement Dominic Grieve's amendment to allow itself to perform it's constitutional right to instruct the government in the event of a no deal Brexit. Last ...

Absolutely true that the whole thing is resting on a wish and a prayer at the moment - but at least it's a start and Trump must be given credit for that. He has succeeded where Obama and others have f ...

Will do Sky. Smile

We had a big outcry in the press here Sky against the use of girls on the grid lines of F1 races and between rounds in boxing matches. The argument was that it was objectification of women and was unp ...

In this instance Sky, Farage was speaking generally about the world situation and making the point that everywhere politicians, and the institutions upon which our laws and agreements are based, are ...

Nigel Farage, for many years the biggest proponent of the drive to leave the EU said in a recent interview with Robert Peston that freemarket capitalism was effectively dead at the hands of a limited ...

For anyone who likes a good horror movie, the recently released Hereditary is making some pretty big waves. Billed as 'this generations Exorcist', the trailer certainly has a very unsettling edge to ...

Andrew Neil pretty much summed it all up in his comment on The Week yesterday by saying that the Commons has essentially split into two waring factions while the government does anything and everythin ...

Yesterday celebrity gameshow hostess Amanda Holden is splashed on the front cover of The Sun in a bikini holding up the football World Cup in celebration of the current competition taking place in Rus ...

I'm with all the comments on this one. It ain't gonna change the world -but it's good fun pop corn stuff! Very Happy

Yes Luke! I saw that one at work and had a chuckle. Good post!

It transpires that Theresa May's promise of a meaningful vote made behind closed doors to her (remainer) rebel MP's in order to get them to vote against a meaningful vote a couple of days ago had no m ...

Yes it's interesting that. We in the UK are always under the impression that ours is a secret vote - but a few elections ago I noticed that the woman who recorded my presence also noted against it the ...

There are many types of force that are not 'violence' as such, and the State will always have recourse to these before physical violence/coercion is utilised; but when the chips are down I'm thinking ...

Turnout was pretty high - around seventy plus percent, which is a good bit higher than normally achieved in general elections. No - voting is not mandatory; the idea has been mooted [I think Aus has a ...

Yesterday's proposed amendment to the Withdrawal Bill - that the UK remain in the EEA post Brexit - was voted down in the House as MP's decided to support the government rather than the pro remaining ...

That is one of the points being made Sky; if the EU know that the final deal will be subject to veto by the house, it will make them drive for a different end result than if they think the government ...

[Big deep breath]

Ok peter - stop whining and get your shit together![slap's self on back]

What this is all about - today in parliament I mean - is that the Governments Withdrawal Bill has retur ...

Don't fret yourself Cail - they're big boys. they can take it. Wink