Government Watch - 2

It is in hansard - answering a question from Ann Clwyd MP

Thanks, Jess.
Did you see the deputy speaker trying very hard to keep control when Boris was obviously lying about it.
I know she has to be impartial, but I assume the speaker can rebuke him for misleading the house tomorrow.

Why was Bercow not in charge today.... of all days ????

No one in Parliament because they are going into a short recess I think.

Perhaps Speaker Bercow had already taken off too. I wouldn't begrudge him. He is inhuman during long debates. Not going to the loo must be his superpower.

Last night MPs debated Transport in the North. The debate saw passionate speeches from Northern MPs, but Chris Grayling, the Transport Secretary, was nowhere to be seen. Why am I not surprised.

@Dunt
“Extraordinary. May now has a Foreign Secretary, and an international development secretary conducting an independent foreign policy”

New Statesman

“This Cabinet has normalised complete bloody incompetence”

Boris needs the stocks or something similar. He is still trying to justify his stupid thoughtlessness.

Ducking stool. If he drowns, he lied. If he floats, he lied.

Bercow was in the chair in Parliament at lunch time when they were discussing Priti Patel's faux pas.

Shame she wasn't there though, she was apparently on a plane!

@Dunt

Deception everywhere. Patel, Johnson and Davis in the last 24 hrs. Points to something truly rotten in Westminster

Boris needs to resign now.

twitter.com/HadiNili/status/928343627616718850

He has made it worse for Nazanin Zaghari.

What he said was all recorded and he needs to retract it and say he was the one who misunderstood and so made a wrong comment - he thinks we are all fools.

Bonnie Greer's tweet was the best!

He should go. He has harmed the safety of a British citizen which is totally contrary to what he is in position to do so he has failed. After Prexit I cannot see her having the power to do it though. What a mess.

If he had any humanity in him, he would resign anyway. May shouldn't need to sack him.

www.theweek.co.uk/uk/89615/johnson-under-renewed-pressure-over-zaghari-ratcliffe-gaffe

The family have asked the foreign office to tell Iran that Johnson was lying.

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2017/11/09/venn-diagrams-for-our-times-the-unholy-mess-were-all-in/

Anyone want to join in the discussion/argument?

His barely suppressed arrogance in parliament, would not allow him to give a fulsome apology thereby reinforcing his original statement. The idiots a bloody menace.

Another misjudgement by Maybot. Just as she rushed in with A50, thus resulting in the chaos we are watching over Brexit , so she is rushing into law the date we actually leave. I’m not clear how this sits with transition for a start. Oh dear will no one save us from this troublesome government?

It'll be because of the EU's Tax Avoidance Directive. It comes into force 1st Jan 2019 and, as I understand it, must be implemented by member states from the start of their 2019 tax year. Ours starts 5th April 2019 so if we've left by then it doesn't have to be implemented. Itvwould explain why she rushed into A50, too. It is clear who is pulling her strings; they've been doing it right from the start.

Though, as dj notes, where would it leave May's transition idea?

Sorry, ww. A misattribution. It was you who mentioned transition.

Becoming more and more like a dictatorship and using the excuse of the small referendum majority as giving permission for them to do as they wish.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/richard-ratcliffe/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe_b_18512176.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-boris-johnson

Richard Ratcliffe talking about his wife and what is happening, asking for you to sign the petition to free Nazanin.

www.change.org/p/free-nazanin-ratcliffe

Over a million signatures on it now.

Despite Theresa May using the Daily Telegraph to send out her message that she will not "tolerate" attempts to block Brexit, on Question Time last night the Telegraph columnist (Charles Moore) condemned the Government as weak and frightened and TM was trying to govern by fear which is a sign of failure.

I don't like to say it, but May is sounding more and more as if she doesn't have family. She sounds like the worst sort of headmistress. I can see all the family/pupils sniggering at her behind her back.