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Boris Johnson Loses Majority in Parliament after Defection, Could Call Early Elections

posted by martyb on Wednesday September 04 2019, @04:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the Ruh-Roh!-What-happens-now? dept.

takyon writes:

Boris Johnson loses Parliamentary majority, faces Brexit showdown

Britain's Parliament returns from its summer recess and is facing a titanic showdown over Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plans to leave the European Union. Here's what we know:

● Johnson has lost his majority in Parliament, with the defection of Conservative Phillip Lee to the Liberal Democrats.

● The opposition, including members of Johnson's party, is seeking to pass legislation to delay Brexit.

● Johnson has said that if his foes succeed he will call early elections.

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List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by length of tenure

#54: George Canning, 119 days (1827)
#55: Boris Johnson, 40 days (Incumbent) (2019)

See also: Brexit: Tory MP defects ahead of crucial no-deal vote
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Wednesday September 04 2019, @09:56AM (3 children)

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Wednesday September 04 2019, @09:56AM (#889465) Journal

    They did and do have a plan and it is progressing:

    - Con the public into voting for a soft Brexit, with impossible promises of pots of gold and return to empire and magical ice-cream farting unicorns for everyone.
    - Shift the goalposts towards an ever harder brexit. Condition your supporters into rejecting all rational debate and instead seeing everything in terms of conflict and treachery, label any and all criticism as "Project Fear".
    - Crash out no-deal and make shitloads of money from the wholesale rape and pillage of the UK, it's economy, institutions and people.
    - Watch Britain burn on TV while sipping champagne off the coast of Monaco.

    There was never a plan for a deal. No deal is and always was the plan.

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday September 04 2019, @11:56AM (2 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Wednesday September 04 2019, @11:56AM (#889490)

    Another part of the plan, and the reason the DUP are in the government, is that they want to go back to the "Good Old Days" of a militarized Northern Ireland, complete with random bus bombings and indiscriminate murders. Indeed, I can't help but wonder whether there are people in the government secretly hoping to attack and annex Ireland again in a stupid attempt to restart the British Empire.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @06:15PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @06:15PM (#889615)

      that seems like it would be bad for business.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @06:37PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @06:37PM (#889630)

      As the Brits say, "Not bloody likely."