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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @03:51PM (3 children)
I couldn't really parse what you wrote, but I was in the UK at the time, too, and I saw the Brexit Bus most prominently on the television.
Also, anyone with the slightest clue about all the functions that have been centralised in the EU to achieve harmonization and cost savings, everything from flight traffic control to the Europol to medical and food safety and a hundred others, would have instantly realized quitting all those deals and building up the whole thing from scratch for yourself in the name of "sovereignity" would not in a million years save any money. The other option of leaving but still adhearing to those standards set by the EU would be the complete opposite of sovereignity. But then again, it's been clear from the very beginning that the brexiteers are not particularly bright. Too bad the Remain campaign also did the worst possible job of highlighting these facts.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @05:46PM (2 children)
Yes, you seem much more intelligent than the strawmen your news sources apparently made up for you. Brexit bus? No one I heard about cared about a "brexit bus". How about you exit your echo chamber and go talk to real people.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday September 04 2019, @06:43PM (1 child)
The name is not the thing. AFAIK it wasn't called "the BREXIT bus" until it hit court, but it was a real event, and it may an actual false claim that was known to be false at the time it was made by the people making it. (Well, as least the top levels.) The court just decided that lying to the electorate wasn't a crime.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @07:08PM
And no one cared about that non issue