Tuesday 23 August 2016

Two Months On

And still no Article 50.

Not this year, says Theresa May. So, not without a second referendum, then.

As advocated by Owen Smith, whose programme the Conservatives will gradually adopt, having already adopted Ed Miliband's.

Only Jeremy Corbyn called for Article 50 on the only day that it could reasonably have happened, two months ago tomorrow.

6 comments:

  1. The two qualifications to get on the ballot to lead the Tory party were to be a Remainer and to have supported gay marriage. Not just to win, to get on the ballot. Leadsom failed them both so people weren't even allowed the chance to vote for her. That's what the Tory party is today.

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    1. Same-sex marriage only happened at all because the Tories won the 2010 Election. The Blair and Brown Governments had always specifically ruled it out, and there was no plan to change direction. To this day, Brown has never voted for it. It would never have happened under him. It would never have occurred to him.

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  2. Hurray!! The Human Rights Act to be scrapped as promised in the Tory manifesto.

    Alongside grammar schools this is the first conservative act by any government in decades.

    http://metro.co.uk/2016/08/23/human-rights-act-will-be-scrapped-justice-secretary-insists-6084768/

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    1. Neither of them will get through. I'd be surprised if this ever reached the floor of the House, and we already know that grammar schools won't. May never intended it to. She intended her own party to shoot down the kite. And it did.

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  3. Wait and see. The Justice Secretary wouldn't be publicly reaffirming a manifesto commitment they don't intend to keep.

    Abolition of the Human Rights Act is something Peter Hitchens has fought for for decades.

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    1. He'd be the first to tell you to believe in that, or in anything else, when you saw it, and not one second earlier.

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