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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.
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
How Brexit Blew Up Britain's Constitution
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday September 04 2019, @10:58AM (8 children)
Wouldn't it be really funny if the UK were instead to petition to become American states? That would be telling the EU to suck it.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @11:41AM (3 children)
But I doubt the EU would be able to understand much of it, what, with the US's dick so deep in the UKs throat.
Then again, a British royal could run for president, and with the US's admiration of the royal family, he could win that easily. (and be better at it than your current nitwit)
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday September 04 2019, @12:01PM (2 children)
The Brits wouldn't need to waste one of their royals on the presidency: They could easily win the presidency running a cucumber sandwich against the current nitwit.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @06:11PM (1 child)
The US tried that. The electorate didn't care for the cucumber sandwich's pantsuit.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday September 04 2019, @07:49PM
No, they ran somebody else who was kinda hated. It's sort of like how now, Boris Johnson would be more likely to lose in an election against somebody nobody's heard of than he would running against Jeremy Corbyn.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by theluggage on Wednesday September 04 2019, @01:24PM
No need - Boris and Donald are already sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G - if we're stuck with no trade deals and in a state of dispute with the EU, he'll sell us to the US for the traditional handful of beads without any inconvenient complications like letting all us Brits come over there and vote for liberals or royalists...
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday September 04 2019, @02:09PM (2 children)
A differenter option:
America could petition to become a Russian possession, and the UI could petition to become a Chinese possession.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @03:35PM
America already voted to trade antifa members fighting for communism for hong kong protestors fighting against communism.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday September 05 2019, @02:27AM
Why would a country with 350 million people with a GDP of $19.4 trillion petition to take orders from a failed state of 120 million with a GDP of $1.5 trillion and whose men drop dead at an avg 66 years old? That's just goofy.
As for the UI becoming a Chinese possession, well, that only happens when you click on the flashing neon yellow malware ad for hot Hong Kong babez on Pornhub.com. Or...so a friend told me once.
Washington DC delenda est.