UK General Discussion: 2017 and onwards, Mayhem

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https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/990698488710225921?s=20

Concerned about her replacement
_{Please don’t be Gove, please don’t be Gove}

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https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/990883273860673542?s=20

Freedom Decision.

Historic, as far as I know, Javid will be the first non-white holder of one of the Great Offices of State (PM, Foreign, Home and Chancellor)

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Alex Salmond, former First Minister of Scotland has been arrested.
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/alex-salmond-former-snp-leader-arrested-and-charged-11616043

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Update on the Salmond case.
Edinburgh Sheriff Court has released the charge sheet:


The BBC has a decent summary up: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-46984747

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We can't really rule anything out, and that's part of the problem. No one has a clue what's going, including and especially the people making the decisions.

A serious question that has to be asked is how quickly can we 'recover' from a No Deal situation i.e. revert to pre-existing customs procedures?

As quickly as you can hold a second referendum.

(Unless the No Deal is bad enough that a cross-party consensus emerges for rejoining CU/SM - i.e. Norway - but I'm not sure we should wish for that to happen.)

There is not going to be a second referendum in the near future. Neither the Tories nor Labor under Corbyn have interest to do so. The Tories are too divided and the Brexit hardliners would break up the govt. Maybe Labor would support one, if a Blair-style leader was still around.

If a Blair Type was still the leader , Labour would lead by 15-20 points in the polls

Preach it. I dream of the day a politician of the likes Chuka Umunna, Yvette Cooper, Hilary Benn take the reins of the party. Naturally I find myself a Lib-Dem/Tory swing voter, but if one of those guys took the reins, I'd be open to defecting for an election or two.