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If No. 10 has been briefing against Sunak, then Sunak may be thinking about resigning just to put the heat on Johnson. He's already moved his family out of No 11 so could've well been thinking along those lines before this blew up today. There's still more fines to come, then the Sue Gray report. I still think a lot of the Tory MPs will only act and try and get rid of Johnson if they feel their own seats are at risk. With the Tory party it's always been about holding onto power and who is best positioned to do that. Once they feel Johnson is an electoral liability, only then will they act, the local elections could be the catalyst..

PM says he attended "brief gathering" in Cabinet room for birthday "lasting for less than 10 minutes". Where in the rules did it say you can hold a social gathering as long as it was brief and less than 10 minutes? Where in the rules did it say you could visit a dying relative/friend in hospital as long as it was brief and less than 10 minutes? Where in the rules did it say you could attend the funeral of said dying relative/friend as long as it was brief and less than 10 minutes? And so on. They're laughing at us...

There's going to be lots of takes on this over the coming hours/days, this is Robert Peston's latest and he's right to highlight why it's important that it should matter in a functioning democracy... The police have today concluded that the PM, the Chancellor and the PM?s wife all attended illegal parties, that breached Covid laws written by the PM. This is most serious for Boris Johnson of the three of them, because it was he who told MPs on 8 December that he had been ?repeatedly assured? there were no parties and that no Covid rules were broken. He now has the challenge of his life to prove that he did not wilfully and knowingly mislead MPs - because if he did deliberately mislead MPs then he has no choice but to resign under the code of conduct for ministers, which he signed off and approved in keeping with normal practice on becoming prime minister. This is perhaps the most important test of the robustness and efficacy of the checks and balances in the British constitution of my lifetime. If Tory MPs unthinkingly keep him in office without a proper and public assessment of how parliament was misled, because that is what suits them, and if they blithely ignore the Ministerial Code, then the charge will stick that this or any party with a big majority is simply an elected dictatorship, and the constitution means little or nothing. This is not just a slippery slope. It is the bottom of the slope.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!... *Switches on Sky News...*

Week 29 points... Week 29 table...

Parliament has got Hansard. The EDF has got ianr...:)

Thanks for the correction Ian, passed a couple of weeks ago, didn't spot it in the news at the time but I guess Ukraine has rightly dominated the headlines...

If the questions were the same, it wouldn't be long before the questions had been passed on to all and sundry :) 5 years is the maximum term a Gov can serve, it can still call an election before then if it so wishes subject to conditions in the Fixed Term Parliament Act...

I'm with Bulb and they sent an email confirming when the meter readings were submitted, do you have something similar?...

Man secretly holds US Green Card and should resign shocker...

It doesn't really prove anything when it comes to 'Britishness', more appropriate questions would be ''Are you happy to stand in a Post Office queue for 45 minutes?'' or ''Do you dunk your biscuits in your tea?''...:)

I also got 23, failed on ''What did the Canterbury Tales consist of?'', novels, poems, fables, and something else, but several of them I only got by deduction, had there been no multiple choice I wouldn't have known e.g. ''Who invented radar''...

I think a better way to describe that would be... ''What Brexit does depends on the final deal struck and subsequent post-Brexit policy'' The two go hand in hand...

I liked this response to Frosty's ramblings... If that was a Wikipedia entry, it would have ?citation required? about every seven words. :)

Week 29 fixtures... Friday 8th April Newcastle United v Wolverhampton Wanderers Saturday 9th April Everton v Manchester United Arsenal v Brighton & Hove Albion Southampton v Chelsea Watford v Leeds United Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur Sunday 10th April Brentford v West Ham United Leicester City v Crystal Palace Norwich City v Burnley Manchester City v Liverpool

Week 28 points... Week 28 table...

Understandable that Ukraine dominates the news cycles, but the 'Benefits of Brexit' march on relentlessly. Yesterday there was a Cross Party (Tory majority) Report from the Environment Select Committee on the state of the agricultural sector due to Brexit and Covid. Vacancies in the sector have shot up to half a million which has led to problems with food supplies, crops unharvested/left to rot, and the culling of at least 27,000 healthy pigs. The pig culling is a result of the lack of butchers, and despite filling some vacancies, still well below the levels of when we were in the EU. So far the Gov has failed to compensate pig farmers, and some now fear going out of business. "The evidence we have received leaves us in no doubt that labour shortages, caused by Brexit and accentuated by the pandemic, have badly affected businesses across the food and farming sector. If not resolved swiftly, they threaten to shrink the sector permanently." ?the Govt has not demonstrated a strong understanding of these issues and even on occasion sought to pass the blame onto the sector on the basis of incorrect information about its own immigration system.? As bad as all this is, what's just as dispiriting is Labour/Starmer's reluctance to mention any of this for fear of being seen to criticise Brexit. Although I personally believe that any form of Brexit would've been damaging, there are clearly forms of Brexit that would've been less damaging than the 'oven ready deal' Johnson served up, and that's what Labour/Starmer should do, attack the deal we have and say how it can be bettered in the short term...

Man stops giving away furlough money and becomes unpopular shocker...

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- ''Would be nice for council to plant trees that don?t interfere with existing structures.'' This can be done using root guards, but maybe it's difficult to do in residential streets i.e. needs wider/deeper excavation work. Regular trimming/lopping of trees is also supposed to prevent excessive root growth...the Bonsai principle...but that costs money etc. There's always going to be problems on narrow fronted streets like the OP posted, roots will seek out sources of water e.g. drainage pipes/sewers, maybe we just need to accept that, London as a whole is still one of the greenest cities in the world...

I love the hyperbole word embellishment that EDF threads throw up, from ugly/tacky to beautiful, to holocaust and scurvy. EDF, never change :) TL:DR - The banners are staying, nothing to see here...

Nigello, your OP asks whether advetising on a state school is legal, yet a few posts above you state as fact that ''state bodies (in this case, a school) shouldn't be advertising anything on their property...''. Can we then deduce that since your OP you've found out that it is indeed not legal, or are you mistaking your opinion for a fact?

''Johnson still refusing to say that the law has been broken, despite the Met already issuing the first tranche of fines for...breaking the law.'' As more fines are given, including one to the Gov's former 'Whitehall ethics chief'...you couldn't make it up....Johnson's spokesperson still denying any rules have been broken, meanwhile Rees-Mogg bemoans that the rules that his Gov drew-up and passed in Parliament are wrong and ''inhuman''. This is what shameless gaslighting in real-time looks like...

Fook off back to where you come from, comin' over 'ere and stealing our thread space...

Don't mess with a Mum...https://twitter.com/i/status/1509744933128781824