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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)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @08:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @08:47PM (#889685)

    Well, it's not certain that an independent Scotland would be better off, and it's not clear that the EU would allow it to join (because of Spain and Catalonia).

    Correct...though you'll never hear the SNP say that out loud when the plebs are listening...they've been trying to imply to them that they've some sort of secret 'understanding' with the EU..

    OTOH, British politicians have not been kind to Scotland over the past couple of decades. (I didn't notice before that.) And it's quite possible that they would be considerably worse without EU supervision.

    Aye, and the fuckwits in the SNP are not doing themselves any favours by collaborating with the anti-Brexit mob down south...incidentally, a lot of who are/were against Scottish Independence, by seeking to overturn a UK wide democratic vote by the use of UK parliamentary 'shenanighans' they've left themselves open for the same procedural dirty tricks to be used against them if/when the next indyref happens (and it's not a given, especially when the English vote in a seriously right wing Tory-UKip-Unionist [read: England, Engurland, Über alles] government when Boris & co force the general election through)....Scotland is fucked...but hey, that's the joys of creating legal/procedural precedents.

    Foolishly, I thought I might actually live to see an independent Scotland, thats why, despite hating the fuckers, I've been voting SNP, their asinine actions here (and some of the other crap they've done while in power...and some of the shit they're planning to inflict on us) have made me seriously reconsider my position on this.