O'Kelly Isley III

I need to be honest here and say that whilst I have a strong distaste for the DUP and what they stand for, they have maintained their position, something which I'm sure has surprised and disappointed some proponents of Brexit. By their own lights however, to the DUP Brexit represents a clear and present threat to their raison d'etre, the union, which I think a lot of folk on the mainland overlooked.

I've always described Brexit like the Ealing film comedy 'Passport To Pimlico'. We are now at the scene where everyone, or in this case the Brexiteers, realise that the game is a bogey, closely followed by The End.

Hutton fanboys incoming.......

Yip, but we buy Andrex in the Central Belt.

FTFY

I understand it just fine thanks, and I can do without patronising replies.

Aye, and 'couple of months back' is exactly the point. To quote yourself Granny, you repeatedly (and correctly IMO) asked for tangible evidence of Anti-Semitism within Labour; to my knowledge none has been forthcoming in that intervening period, and there is a limit to the public's credulity when all that is repeatedly presented to them is veiled smears, unattributed quotes, vague remarks and third-hand anecdotal evidence. Berger, Hodge, Mann and the lot of them can fulminate sanctimoniously all they want; until they can produce the goods they should be sidelined by the media.

I'd expect no less, but that doesn't alter my point - people are moving on, everything has a shelf-life.

There's only so long you can peddle the same stuff before the zzzzzz factor kicks in, and we are now in that territory.

It's far, far too late now but from the off Labour should have been declaring that as the Referendum had its origins in internal Tory schisms as opposed to a public clamour, they absolutely reserved the right to determine their own response, as the SNP have effectively done. A position that has subsequently been vindicated by events. But no, because they have a dithering, dogmatic anti-EU p***k at the helm, Labour has allowed itself to be dragged into the same political cul-de-sac as the Tories, whilst matching them step for step in incoherence and infighting. A Brexit for jobs ? Aye, right. Every Brexit is a disaster.

In other matters that looks like a desperate result for Labour in the Newport West by-election; I wonder if Corbyn will ponder the implications for his desired GE.

This guy looks like the child Ron Mael, keyboard player of Sparks, never knew he had.

Flint and her Iike have neither the wit or wisdom to appreciate that what is shortly about to unfold will cast a die for generations to come. Rather than do the right thing and communicate to her electorate that the majority who voted Leave are wrong and more importantly WHY they are wrong she cravenly shits the contract. God help us when the good folk of Doncaster get the idea to restore the Death Penalty, reverse the 1967 Abortion Act or overturn Equality legislation.

Cut the guy a bit of slack - if you are a pompous political no-mark fond of the sound of your own voice and you can't cut it during this cluster f**k then when can you ?

Nominally two parties, but for the last 20 years they have been two cheeks of the same arse. Corbyn and McDonnell could likely alter that, save for the fact that they will not be required to form a majority Labour Government. I wouldn't be contacting Paddy Power anytime soon.

If Remain was not on any second referendum ballot paper then millions should advertise their intention to boycott it in advance.

Aye, good luck to him.

I'm sure the Scottish Government recently produced figures showing that the percentage of Syrian refugees domiciled in Scotland is proportionally much greater than the rest of the UK. And the hypocrisy of the Leave voters is breathtaking; most of these idiots marching yesterday would be the first to complain if the Lidl in Boston started charging more for their vegetables if the cheap foreign labour fucked off, never mind the cash-in-hand Polish plumbers a lot of them will use.

Thank you Granny, I'll sleep tonight, relegation six-pointer with Stenny tomorrow notwithstanding.

Forgive me, Brexit fatigue setting in, but if a deal with a CU staggers through where does this leave trade deals ? Please tell me that we would be bound in a way that debarred the UK from prostrating itself before America. Please....

Permit me a wry smile Ross [emoji6]

One thing's for sure, if anything does kick off in London or elsewhere we'll be relying on social media to find out about it - I doubt the BBC or the Murdoch media will put it above a stray cow on the M5.

I believe Jackie Baillie grew up in South Africa, the rest of them have no excuse other than affectation.

Why exactly would they do this ? To humiliate Corbyn ? Feart of constituents ?

Indeed, and under the Holyrood electoral system I have no problems with a system of balance, it's just that I draw the line at political nutters getting in on the votes of religiously bigoted nutters.