Who is running this country?

The whole problem is parliament don’t trust the Tories they have been trying to push for no deal the whole time. Parliament have agreed in principle but want to debate the deal offered and they don’t think 2 days was enough.
Now Boris has come back and offered a GE “or else” or else what!

This IS about Brexit backers loosing a lot of money

I’d like an election so that remainers and brexiters can put aside their red/blue/yellow bias for once and vote for whichever party promises to do what they want.

Timing is crucial and if BJ can wangle it, he'll drag us out by default in the interim between the deadline and the election.
Latest move is that eu may grant an extension until 15 or 30 November.
How ironic! What a reaction there will be in Scotland if we're dragged out on St Andrew's Day!

Who is running this country? I don't know if anyone else has said it, but my answer is No One. We're floating around like a boat without a rudder.

maddyone Totally agree, but it is mainly those who voted remain that do not want an election?

I don’t know why there’s all this to do about BJ being desperate to leave without a deal. He’s just presented a deal to Parliament. What part of that is too difficult to understand? It’s the remainers who are causing Parliament to be stymied. We need a General Election to resolve this. If as remainers claim, most people want to remain in the EU, then a party that will keep us in the EU will be elected, or at least a party who will give us another referendum. If on the other hand, most people want to leave the EU, they will return Johnson’s government. It’s really not difficult to understand this.

Bercow and Cummings are both leaving at the end of the month. People like Aaron Banks seem to be running the country. Poor us.

Regardless of wether we like Bercow or not he is due to stand down at the end of the month, the mood parliament is in you can expect someone else of the same ilk to be elected. Or in the current circumstances Bercow may well be persuaded to stay on for a while.
The Tories seem to be determined almost desperate to provoke a no deal exit at any cost, I ask one question.

How much money do their city backers stand to loose if a deal is confirmed, sterling has already strengthened, the margin calls must be hurting already!.

You are quite wrong about Bercow Selsey99 and unnecessarily rude to me. He has a very wide knowledge of procedure in the HoC, but the clerks who occupy the seats directly in front of him are there to advise the speaker on procedural matters and you often see him conferring with them. They're hardly likely to all four get things wrong are they? When he is keeping the house in order he is doing his job. I can't think of another person who could have kept the House in order so successfully in the past 3 years.

The reason some MPs get so cross with him is precisely because he's sticking to the rules.

selsey that, I'm sad to say, was a whole lot of unfounded and unjustified gibberish!

Thank God (if she exists). Love that after all this time the ‘right on’ saying is still around with the feministas Dinahmo - such a 70’s cliche!

Thank God (if she exists) for Bercow.

Now that he's no longer the power behind the throne Alistair Campbell comes over as a sensible man and no longer a bully.

Nor did he have the Russian connection

Alistair Campbell didn't have the contempt for Parliament that Cummings has.

Alistair Campbell & Dominic Cummings. Peas in the same pod. The power behind ‘the throne’?

I thought it was to my post of 17:57:20 maddyone which I thought was a fair enough response

That was to Carly.

I’ve never heard such complete and utter twaddle.

I can see them but can't hear them, railman

perhaps just as well.

Oh dear Carly, swallowed it hook, line and sinker haven’t you?

I thought Bercow was following the rules, even if some of them are rather ancient.

I have visions of him poring through ancient books and scrolls every night, with Sally complaining that his dinner's getting cold and she feels neglected.

whoever is Pm will not be able to have any deal to enable us to leave the EU because the remainers will ensure we do not, so what the Pm says or does will be instantly rejected . When the Pm said i have a new deal that Eu has accepted before it had been shown or discussed the remainers said we will not accept it!!!.

maddyone Yes, it's very possible that the Russians are directing what Boris is doing just as they are directing what Trump is doing in the USA (through the billions of $$ he borrowed from Russian banks when US banks refused to bail him out of impending bankrupcy yet again). Boris is a weak man with no morals that I've ever seen a trace of - could be bribery; could be blackmail; or simply the manipulation of his fragile toddler ego ("So you've always wanted to be Prime Minister? Then, just do as I say ... ")

railman

Excellent!!

Oh yes, please do, Selsey99.