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Boris showing no sign of resigning.

How soon will Cummings be chucked under a bus, or will he manage to chuck Boris under it first?

JonMad wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 1:24 pm Sounds like he wants to prorogue again, for 6 days.

Where was that reported, Jon?

Jobbo wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 1:26 pm Boris showing no sign of resigning.

How soon will Cummings be chucked under a bus, or will he manage to chuck Boris under it first?

I was talking about that earlier, someone going to take the fall for this surely?

Jobbo/GG - how often does the Supreme Court come back with a unanimous decision, and is it usual to have 11 Judges sitting?

11 judges sitting in the Supreme Court is most unusual; that is the maximum number which can possibly sit. Generally it is 5.

I don't really have a feel for exactly how often they come back with a unanimous verdict, but with 11 of them it's less likely that you'll get unanimity than with 5. Certainly a lot of the leading cases I studied at law school weren't unanimous with 5 judges (back when it was the House of Lords).

ETA, after canvassing a colleague's view on the proportion of unanimous verdicts - we think under 50% are unanimous. Probably biased by the number of cases involving Lord Denning who was a bit of a maverick. But we did agree that it's also an unusually quick judgment.

When was the last time 11 sat? What was that case and verdict?

The first time may also have been the last time: Miller. That wasn't unanimous.

ETA: that's the previous Miller case about whether Parliament had to authorise the Art.50 notification, heard in December 2016.

Interesting, thanks Jobbo.

IanF wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 2:13 pm Interesting, thanks Jobbo.

+1

GG. wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 1:34 pm

JonMad wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 1:24 pm Sounds like he wants to prorogue again, for 6 days.

Where was that reported, Jon?

Some sky chap on twitter quoting him.

Current entertainment:

Beany wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 3:12 pm Current entertainment:

Prorogue-predicament.jpeg

The incorrect perspective in the first of those drawings is making my stabbing hand itch

AG in the poo aka fall guy.

ETA - https://news.sky.com/story/exclusive-pm ... l-11818599

IanF wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 4:06 pm AG in the poo aka fall guy.

ETA - https://news.sky.com/story/exclusive-pm ... l-11818599

What's the betting that Cummings leaked that himself? First under the bus.

Gauke has said he’ll back BoJo in confidence vote, so highly likely BoJo will remain PM until after Brexit or extension. Labour need him gone to have a chance of winning a GE, so we're back where we started.

How’s Brexit going?

Richard wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:15 pm How’s Brexit going?

Easiest deal in history mate.

Nice!

Pretty good speech from Corbyn with some funnies too.