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Bobbisox1 | 07:46 Thu 05th Sep 2019 | News
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( Sky News) only there hasn't been a GE decided, no date, Boris wants the 15th October but Corbyn doesn't ?
So what will the 'campaign' contain?
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Good question!
lots of promises that will be broken i assume

I think Labour will go back on their promises to honour the referendum result & will campaign on a Remain & Reform agenda and we will end up with a Labour/LibDem coalition.
It plainly depends when the election comes as to what the campaign will contain, as far as Brexit is concerned.
An election before Oct 31 looks less than likely at the moment.
The opposition parties decided a over week ago that they were not going to push for one.
Then Johnson announced plans to suspend parliament (plans we now know that had been made in the middle of August).
So this “election now” push by the govt is being made because he thinks it would be in his interests. Which it probably would.
No Election, it was voted down by parliament.
^God help us if that happens. Not an honest soul among them.
^That to dave.
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Truth is Labour knows some of their own MPs will be in the dole queue,Corbyn is all bluster,was it not him shouting for a GE?
to Davebro, that would be my worst nightmare
Even the Lords sat till 5am ( bless them ,but it was warm n cosy) and couldn't agree on anything
"the Lords sat till 5am"

Do they get another £300 if they go past midnight?
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Very likely Dave, very likely, £600 for a night shift in a cosy red Chesterfield chair drinking and eating their subsidised food and drink
Well someone has to do it ( sighhhhh)
Last night the Lords had a bill in front of them with over 100 amendments to consider.Hardly a picnic.
Only 5am ? What happened to the proposed filibuster ?

Anyway this highlights yet another bug in the system. Where the Prime Minister is meant to be in charge of a government yet when the majority of MPs turn against the PM and government the PM isn't just controlled they can't even call an election like other civilised countries do. They are just left puppetlike with others pulling the strings. It's an intolerable system. That 5 year fixed term gibberish brought in by the coalition needs slinging ASAP.

I think this "People Power" headlined by The Express needs explaining. I think it's been shown that the people have no legal power to get anything done. The referendum shows that.
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Danny if I was getting paid for just turning up and sleeping most of the time,I'd be happy to tackle as many Bills as I could ,to show my worth
Agree with that OG. Any government that feels it has lost the ability to govern should be able to go back to the electorate without being held hostage by the opposition. Repeal FTPA!
there better not be an election before halloween, I've got an apple riding on this.
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The latest thing to be said ( Sky News) Labour wants a " conditional GE"
What the hell is a Conditional General Election?
I don't know about repealing the FTPA but the 2/3 majority (on the full House) rule has certainly been shown up as a nonsense.* I can't say I blame Labour and the SNP for abstaining, but it's clearly a fundamental flaw that the result of any given vote can be annulled because the opposition chose to abstain.

* Not that it even needed to be shown explicitly. At the time I can't remember what I thought about the 2/3 thing, but as mentioned elsewhere I did some digging and discovered NJ's well-argued critique of it from 2010.
Have you a link Bobbi ?
A possible way forward ?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46393399

"Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seeking to hold an early election on 15 October. He needs two-thirds of MPs to support an early election but his motion to do this has failed to gain enough support.

Theoretically, there is another way he could achieve his goal. A short new law specifying the date of an early general election would require only a simple majority and not need two thirds of MPs."
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I'll take a look but it was a verbal exchange between Sarah Jane Mee and a relatively unknown Tory MP, so there might not be a link Danny

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