Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

"is becoming a has been"??????
surely you either are or you aren't :-)

Theresa May will trigger Brexit negotiations without Commons vote



By Steven Swinford, Deputy Political Editor
27 August 2016 • 8:13am




Theresa May will not hold a parliamentary vote on Brexit before opening negotiations to formally trigger Britain's withdrawal from the European Union, The Telegraph has learned.

Opponents of Brexit claim that because the EU referendum result is advisory it must be approved by a vote in the Commons before Article 50 - the formal mechanism to leave the EU - is triggered

However, in a move which will cheer Eurosceptics, The Telegraph has learned that Mrs May will invoke Article 50 without a vote in Parliament

It had been suggested - by Tony Blair, the former Labour Prime Minister, and Owen Smith, the Labour leadership candidate, among others - that Remain-supporting MPs could use a Parliamentary vote to stop Brexit.

But sources say that because Mrs May believes that “Brexit means Brexit” she will not offer opponents the opportunity to stall Britain's withdrawal from the EU.

A Downing Street source said: “The Prime Minister has been absolutely clear that the British public have voted and now she will get on with delivering Brexit.”

Mrs May has consulted Government lawyers who have told the Prime Minister she has the executive power to invoke Article 50 and begin the formal process of exiting the European Union without a vote in Parliament.

Her decision will come as a blow to Remain campaigners, who had been hoping to use Parliament to delay or halt Brexit entirely.



More:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/26/theresa-may-will-trigger-brexit-negotiations-without-commons-vot/

Cynic
Farage is on the cusp

Hardly.

He still commands a huge number of followers, and I suspect could come roaring back if he felt the need.

For an unknown in American politics, he made a big splash.

HAHA!!..I hope no one took my post 73223 as gospel??????

Only part of it could be correct...LOL!

MaxK there is many in British politics who are envious and afraid of
Nigel Farage's oratory skills and forthright truthfullness, that's why the
media and the establishment attempted to shut Nigel Farage out of the
referendum debates.

That's why even now you get fools like Haystack and cynic being critical
and derogatory.

He is an excellent rabble rouser.

why is one a fool for calling farage a knobhead - and also explaining why i thought him so
i could easily level the same at you for being so naive as to be taken in by the man and his populist rhetoric and being blind to his latest blatant blunder

They don't have anything else granny.

Lets face it, Haystack was a dave supporter whilst pretending to be an exiteer.

And c...well, I'm not at all sure what he stands for.

Just in from t'Interweb.....

Concerning the Virgin train thingy, was Corbyn sitting on the floor or was he lying?

must one be specifically in one camp or another?
is one not allowed to agree or disagree with whoever?

ok, so you are a neutral...fair enough, we now know where you stand.

How can anyone be described as naive for believing what someone says,
when its something that I believe in and do by my actions?

As to your(cynic) limp claim that Nigel Farage's sharing the stage with D.Trump
was a blatant blunder.

In what way is it a blunder by Nigel Farage, he's free to do what he wishes now
he's stepping down from being the UKIP leader, and its only in YOUR eyes that
its a blunder anyway, and of course the liberal loony lefties..PLONKER!

You may think that Farage is the greatest, but UKIP is only on 13% in the polls. They only managed 12.7% in the GE. That's around 1 in 7 people. There are plenty of UKIP supporters who do not like Farage. So Farage might have 1 in 10 or worse who support him. That's even worse than Corbyn

of course it's a blunder if farage has any pretensions to public life or office in uk at all .... just as no doubt you condemned obama for saying his piece about the referendum and the importance of uk voting to remain

you really are as bigoted and intolerant and set in your ways as fred, condemning anyone (eg me or hays) for having the temerity to disagree with you

Manuel,

Condemning you?

Don't have any need to do so.

You damn yourself by your own postings.

Now, what was the virtue I was going to praise you for?

Are you two(cynic/Haystack right in the head...You both talk as if Nigel Farage,
as if he's imminently running for high office.

And to say "There are plenty of UKIP supporters who do not like Farage" is
just a stupid comment..People voted for UKIP BECAUSE of Nigel Farage.

And to say UKIP only had 13%, that was more then the LibDems, Greens, etc
maybe they should all give up as well and just leave the field open for just
the Tory's...

Man in bath with two cobra snakes kisses one, thereby making the other one jealous and so it goes to give him a bite!



Surely the stupid guy must have known the other snake would get jealous? You can't make this stuff up for some people, can you?

Ah well.

(FFS!)

fred
when you remember to lighten up, you can actually be quite droll

There are plenty in the hierarchy of UKIP who don't like Farage as well. Farage was so popular that he couldn't even win a seat himself.