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The Economist (September 28)

2019/ 09/ 30 by jd in Global News

“This was the worst week in Mr Johnson’s extraordinarily bad two months in office. The unelected prime minister has lost every vote he has faced, squandered his majority and fired a score of MPs from his Conservative Party. Following the court’s ruling, he was dragged back from a UN summit in New York to face the music in Westminster, where MPs now have ample time to grill him”

 

The Economist (August 31)

2019/ 09/ 01 by jd in Global News

“The sense of inevitability about no-deal, cultivated by the hardliners advising Mr Johnson, is bogus. The EU is against such an outcome; most Britons oppose it; Parliament has already voted against the idea. Those MPs determined to stop no-deal have been divided and unfocused. When they return to work next week after their uneasy summer recess, they will have a fleeting chance to avert this unwanted national calamity. Mr Johnson’s actions this week have made clear why they must seize it.”

 

The Independent (May 24)

2019/ 05/ 26 by jd in Global News

“One of May’s finest attributes has been the heartening way that, on several occasions, she’s decided to go over the heads of the MPs who have rejected her, so she can appeal to the public and be rejected by them as well…. So successful has Theresa May been, that having been 20 points ahead in the polls in 2017, her party now looks likely to win one quarter of the votes of a party boasting they’ll make us poorer until 2050.”

 

New Zealand Herald (April 10)

2019/ 04/ 11 by jd in Global News

New Zealand just experienced “a sickening demonstration of the killing power of semi-automatic weapons in the wrong hands.” This entirely justifies “Parliament’s haste in outlawing military style semi-automatic weapons…. All MPs except one are now doing what previous governments now know they should have done.”

 

BBC (March 29)

2019/ 03/ 30 by jd in Global News

“It is certainly the case that not all of our MPs, still less our citizens, would have been reaching eagerly for the bell ropes, had this been Brexit day, as scheduled. Particularly in Scotland.” Instead, “on this non-Brexit day, we might consider the more fundamental issues which have brought us to this impasse,” especially the UK Government’s miscalculation that “the EU would back down at the last moment, as is customarily the case.” Though “the EU has capitulated in the past to dissenting member states, “the UK is on the way out” and “its clout, consequently, is reduced.”

 

The Times (January 15)

2019/ 01/ 15 by jd in Global News

“Tonight the House of Commons will finally get the opportunity to pass judgment on Theresa May’s Brexit plan….  But with Brexiteer MPs implacably opposed and Labour also intent on voting down the plan, it looks certain to be heavily defeated. The critical question is what happens then.”

 

Reuters (December 18)

2018/ 12/ 20 by jd in Global News

“British business has issued a stark warning to MPs that they risk plunging an ill-prepared economy into chaos unless they stop playing politics at Westminster…. As ministers agreed to a dramatic escalation of preparations for a no-deal Brexit, including putting 3,500 armed forces personnel on standby, the leaders of the UK’s five leading employers’ groups said the country was nowhere near ready.”

 

The Independent (September 14)

2011/ 09/ 15 by jd in Global News

In Britain, the Boundary Commission has proposed cutting the number of members of parliament (MPs) by 50. The Independent believes “fewer MPs is a good thing.” If approved, the plan to move from 650 MPs to 600 would provide annual cost savings of approximately £12 million “a saving worth making in an age of austerity not expected to be over by the time the measures take effect in 2015.”

In Britain, the Boundary Commission has proposed cutting the number of members of parliament (MPs) by 50. The Independent believes “fewer MPs is a good thing.” If approved, the plan to move from 650 MPs to 600 would provide annual cost savings of approximately £12 million “a saving worth making in an age of austerity not expected to be over by the time the measures take effect in 2015.”

 

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