The antisemitism stuff and Corbyn’s fence-sitting over Brexit since then have really done damage to the party. Momentum are his own little personality cult, but the wider electorate have definitely cooled on him since 2017.

He’d lose. The Tory-leaning press have been doing a number on him practically since he was elected as Labour leader, and his prevarication over Brexit and the allegations of antisemitism within the party haven’t done him any favours. Going into an election now would suit the Tories more than Labour.

Under the Fixed Terms Parliament Act, we don’t need to have another general election until 2022. I’m thinking about paying my local offie (liquor store) rent to save on the hassle from moving between there and the house.

The Leave campaign went hard for Indian/Pakistani voters, telling them that fewer EU immigrants might mean more visas from the subcontinent. Not that they said the same thing to their white voters, though. What can’t be denied, however, is that a hefty portion of Leave voters had immigration as a driving concern.

Fun fact: EU nationals can apply for settled status in the UK via a smartphone app. The iPhone version won’t be available until October.

I have a feeling you and I would have been friends.

OK, first: it’s not my country. I live here, and I had to pay a fuck-ton of money and take a goddamn test to get my residency permit, so I may or may not know more than the average native about how the government works. Fun fact: as a citizen of a Commonwealth country, I do actually have the right to vote.

Fixed Term Parliament Act. No general election unless two-thirds of the Commons agrees before 2022.

There’s a reason that the opposing benches are two sword-lengths apart. They’ve learned their lesson.

If Boris can’t command a majority and loses a vote of confidence, he can be turfed out; but that then means that the onus to form a government falls to Jeremy Corbyn. And I don’t see the Tory-leaning press wearing that situation for longer than it takes to change their soiled drawers.

We can’t have an impromptu election. Thanks to Nick Clegg’s poisoned coalition with David Cameron, we now have the Fixed Term Parliament Act, which means it will take a two-thirds majority of the House of Commons to call an election before 2022, even if the Blonde Boor is not able to do much more than order sandwiches…

Did you vote in the referendum, or at least look at the analysis after the vote? Immigration was the strongest reason given for people who voted Leave. Granted, not all of them were thinking specifically about POC, but you can’t deny the strong undercurrent of bigotry and xenophobia that provided their motivation.

You don’t want that. I was going through my “can Goth be hip-hop?” clothing phase. It was a bit messy.

Omigod, try to book them for a Sikh wedding! Those things are epic. And not just because of the bottle of whisky at every table, the dhol drums, the Bollywood-style dancing, in the aisles. There might even be horseback or elephant groom arrivals to the venue, and much feasting of food that these mayosapiens would be…

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She tried. Turns out that she needed to put in the withdrawal papers in April. So she can’t even slink off properly.

An old drinking buddy on mine happened to have a PhD in theology. He used to invite door-knockers in and offer them a cup of tea and a chat.

When KFC here in the UK ran out of chicken, some people were threatening to riot. Others were calling 999 to report an emergency.

Same age difference between me and MrExpat, only with the sexes reversed.

There have been cases of African swine fever in Europe too. Bulgaria seems to be worst affected right now. Russia just passed an import ban an all of their pigs and pork products.