O'Kelly Isley III

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.

Er, not quite; there is a large grouping in Scotland, many of whom haven't a pot to piss in, who willingly vote for people like Annie Wells in a grotesque effort to preserve their heritage and cultural history, or whatever extreme Protestant bigotry is masquerading as these days. And Brexit itself has thrown up the wonderful irony of the full Pape Rees-Mogg hiding behind the Orange sashes of the DUP - it's a strange world, politics.

'Rickets and whippets' ? That's well out of order and I invite you to retract it.

Not as crazy as it sounds; remember the reaction of Johnson and Gove the day after the Referendum ? They looked as if they had shat themselves. Now that the carnage likely to ensue in the wake of No Deal or a Hard Brexit is better known the ERG may well act like those hyenas on Attenborough's shows who attack the lion then totally shite it when the reality dawns, all the while baying loudly as they retreat. None more so than the Grand Hyena Baker earlier this evening.

I'm just looking forward to no longer seeing her and her wimpy-looking husband emerge from church every Sunday. Maybe they should have opted for a right good ride once in a while and we'd have avoided this fiasco.

As Private Eye recently alluded, Cheques At The Border.

Johnson would be fried in oil by Barnier and Co, and anyone else with basic levels of competence.

After almost three years of omnishambles that 52/48 margin is well past its sell-by date and is almost certainly in need of refreshing via a second referendum - if there was any honesty in Westminster it. would deserve a serious hearing. There's a real danger in all of this that people fatigued by the whole thing accept a pish outcome on a weary 'Ach, that's no' bad' basis. Wrong call !

The SNP would be entering a GE with a leader who has been the only credible witness in the unfolding Brexit debacle; people may like or dislike her but Sturgeon has retained a consistent, coherent line on how Scotland stands to be affected. Secondly, the Unionist canard of 2014 about being 'better together' offering the insurance of continued EU membership should be shouted from every rooftop until Ruth Davidson's ears are bleeding. Thirdly, as Renton says above now is not the time for electoral self-indulgence in Scotland; as a former Labour voter I have absolutely NO intention of tactical voting and I would encourage others in a similar position to hold the line. The retired English gammons in Moray, the Unionist Orange boneheads and the queer folk in the Borders are lost causes but that should leave more than enough electoral clout to provide a strong and clear SNP mandate, provided the gloves are well and truly taken off.

Well, well, who'd have thunk it ?

So it's all about preserving the party as opposed to doing the right thing. Fine, but I can think of at least one global institution, religious in nature, which is currently reaping a whirlwind for that. There is also a rather condescending assumption that the Labour vote is a lumpen mass incapable of appreciating and responding to evidence-based information, and God knows there is bit more of that than June 2016. Who knows, there may even have been some Leave voters marching through central London yesterday !