bickster Posted October 24, 2019 Moderator Share Posted October 24, 2019 3 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: Future historians will doubtless be puzzled why a government would set out its legislative agenda and then immediately attempt to secure a general election. Future HIstorians will have been puzzled by the whole last 4 years, this is merely a little silver ball on a 7 tier iced sponge of madness 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Gary Gibbon has said that the latest Government strategy is to 'go on strike' if the motion for the election isn't passed on Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted October 24, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted October 24, 2019 Government by tantrum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 24, 2019 Moderator Share Posted October 24, 2019 15 minutes ago, snowychap said: Gary Gibbon has said that the latest Government strategy is to 'go on strike' if the motion for the election isn't passed on Monday. How on earth would that work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrusr Posted October 24, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted October 24, 2019 4 minutes ago, bickster said: How on earth would that work? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 8 minutes ago, bickster said: How on earth would that work? I imagine they'd just table 'general debates' all the time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 19 minutes ago, bickster said: How on earth would that work? So, the bare minimum and a motion for a GE every day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chrisp65 Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 How on earth would we react to Tory strikes? Though to be honest a Tory strike is probably to be encouraged. I’d chip in a tin of Happy Shopper soup if it helped keep them out a few more days. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 Economics deep thinker Sajid Javid has ‘paused’ the contract to mint 10 million 50p’s celebrating leaving the EU. If the contract is scrapped, the cancellation fee is apparently £11.5 Million Stating the obvious, he’d be paying £1.15 for every Brexit 50p But we don’t need any economic impact statements, we can do this on feels. FT Quote The Financial Times reported that the contract has a cancellation fee of £11.5m 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhatAboutTheFinish Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 18 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Economics deep thinker Sajid Javid has ‘paused’ the contract to mint 10 million 50p’s celebrating leaving the EU. If the contract is scrapped, the cancellation fee is apparently £11.5 Million Stating the obvious, he’d be paying £1.15 for every Brexit 50p But we don’t need any economic impact statements, we can do this on feels. FT This may sound like a stupid question but don't the government own the Royal Mint...who I assume are producing these 50p's? So is the story that the government have to pay themselves a cancellation fee? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 3 minutes ago, WhatAboutTheFinish said: This may sound like a stupid question but don't the government own the Royal Mint...who I assume are producing these 50p's? So is the story that the government have to pay themselves a cancellation fee? In the good old days, yes. It’s now called Royal Mint Ltd and en route to full privatisation. No longer part of the executive, its now a privatised company wholly owned by the government and has to make a profit, often by doing outside work and by tendering for work. The red tories started the process when they were saving the world back in 2009. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 From The Grauniad's live blog: Quote Labour’s Stephen Doughty intervenes to say there are rumours that Johnson will not even stand as an MP at the election in his constituency, Uxbridge and South Ruislip (where he had a majority of 5,034 at the last election). Johnson may stand in Sevenoaks (where there was a Tory majority of 21,917 in 2017) or East Yorkshire (where it was 15,006), Doughty says. Johnson shakes his head but does not intervene. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 You couldn't make it up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 On 26/10/2019 at 16:29, chrisp65 said: Economics deep thinker Sajid Javid has ‘paused’ the contract to mint 10 million 50p’s celebrating leaving the EU. If the contract is scrapped, the cancellation fee is apparently £11.5 Million Stating the obvious, he’d be paying £1.15 for every Brexit 50p But we don’t need any economic impact statements, we can do this on feels. FT Incredible. Could just give them to a charity or good cause who would immediately put them in the bank where they could take them out of circulation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 8 minutes ago, Genie said: Incredible. Could just give them to a charity or good cause who would immediately put them in the bank where they could take them out of circulation. Glue them together in threes and sell them for 1 euro each. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted October 28, 2019 Moderator Share Posted October 28, 2019 1 hour ago, chrisp65 said: Glue them together in threes and use fishing catapults to launch them at the Tory benches. FTFY 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted October 29, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted October 29, 2019 I don’t really understand the point of the FTPA if a one-line bill can be introduced to call an election. I know that in the case such a bill could and likely would be amended, but if the government had a working majority then that wouldn’t be an issue. Anyone care to explain please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 There seems to be a lot of regret around the FTPA from the same MPs who created it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, fightoffyour said: I don’t really understand the point of the FTPA if a one-line bill can be introduced to call an election. I know that in the case such a bill could and likely would be amended, but if the government had a working majority then that wouldn’t be an issue. Anyone care to explain please? It was to remove the possibility of one of the (probably junior) parties in a coaltion Government using the threat of collapsing it as leverage to get what they wanted. If coalitions are going to be the way it is going forward then something like it is probably needed. Just not this short-sighted bit of nonsense. Edited October 29, 2019 by ml1dch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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