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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
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @11:29AM
Yet guess what happens when that argument is made regarding the FUD campaign the self-same motley crew of anti-brexiteers mounted wearing their 'better together' hats during the Scottish Independence referendum and the outright lies they told to swing that vote? (e.g. The relevant biggie here being the only way Scotland would be able to stay in the EU was to vote to No and keep the UK alive..)
tossers, the lot of them.
The problem with a general election now, as is obvious by the way Labour are running scared and don't want it, is that it will return a seriously right of centre government to the UK, and that will be taken as a mandate for all the fun things that the powers behind the Boris muppet have in store for us all. Personally, I think we're fucked whatever happens now, I just curse the fact that the Irish side of my family stopped registering their births back there, so the Irish passport is out of the question.