To those despairing today that the UK (especially England) has abandoned its common sense and morality ( Read more... )

Clearly a standard reply, and doesn't answer my questions about the logic of Labour's Brexit proposals or whether any version of Brexit is better than remaining an EU member. It's marginally better than nothing, I suppose. The gist seems to be, "Any deal is better than a May deal, so vote for us!"

From: Gill Furniss (gill.furniss.mp@parliament.uk ( Read more... )

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Blimey, what a week in politics, eh? It's been one of those where, against my better judgement, I found myself glued to the news feeds, waiting to see whatever's going to happen next ( Read more... )

Well, that was exciting. A close result. (I was predicting 52%:48%, but the other way ( Read more... )

Because I feel I've been horribly neglecting LJ recently in favour of The Other Place:

• 13 January at 19:16 - Pleasing co-incidence: Tom Baker filmed 42 stories as the 4th Doctor. Douglas Adams was Doctor Who's script editor for part of that time. ;o)
• 26 January at 20:44 - New office jargon: "Doing an Abrams" - to recycle what someone else already ( Read more... )

So, Scottish Members of Parliament plan to vote against changing the law in England and Wales to match the law in Scotland, because they want Members of the Scottish Parliament to change the law in Scotland so it matches the law in England and Wales (which they could do anyway). And also because English voters have told Scottish MPs they want ( Read more... )

Wow. Astonishing results ( Read more... )

I cannot overstate how happy and relieved I am that Scotland has decided to stay with us in this amazing, mad, beautiful, old Union of ours. Forget what happened back in 1707; the reason we now have a United Kingdom at all is thanks to tonight's result ( Read more... )

...and the Scottish referendum seems to be dominating the news and half of all conversations at the moment.

( So I'll put this under a cut in case you're fed up with it all already. )