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Yay ! I get a win-win final 🙂

I was doing my O levels that summer, the hall at KES was not a cool place. Who is going to be this year's Dennis Howell ?

Lost a bit of momentum around overs 10-16, probably 14 runs light.

Yorkies despatched, now hope for the Wurzels to join them as losing semi finalists.

Perhaps it is "the wrong kind of heat", to go with our perennial snow problems.

Stay indoors, save lives, protect the NHS.

The UK experiences temperatures normally observed in central Spain, central Spain is at the temperature usually found in the Sahara, and the Indian sub-continent bakes at over 50 degrees C. Nothing to worry about.

Yesterday is history, there are 2500 year old Sumerian engravings that demonstrate how far back in time records began.

Salad

I always used to find an excuse to work in one of the computer rooms on very warm days.

Why not start a thread entitled "Nasty things committed by British people of European heritage" and see what happens.

Regardless of the merits of the football on show, the VAR decision to award France a penalty for handball against Belgium was one of the worst ever made.

Doesn't say a lot for the Legal profession.

Surprised that Kemi Badenoch got further than her.

Being in Lankyshire I feel that rooting for the Yorkies is approaching the territory of hoping for the Skates to avoid defeat.

I didn't know it needed rescuing. What I find amusing is the various "special interest groups", such as farmers and fishermen, effectively coming out with "this is not the Brexit we voted for", but each having different perspectives on what has gone wrong.

Is it in danger of not happening ?

We have a collection of Laws, Statutes, historical precedents, and established behaviours and protocols. Some is written, some interpreted, and some inferred. There is no such thing as "The Constitution of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

We don't have a constitution.

Is this the point where that old chestnut gets rolled out; The majority of votes cast did not go to the party in power, so have we really got the Government people thought they were voting for ?

Once we have become a Republic and removed the Royal Prerogative on Prime Ministerial appointments, then perhaps we can introduce directly elected PMs.

Temporarily top of the table 🙂 Meanwhile, Leicestershire totally taking the piss at Sussex.

If he posted about crimes committed by WASP men then that wouldn't be racist, and shouldn't be on this thread.

Why ? The governing Party's mandate remains valid, and the electorate do not elect the PM, he/she is appointed by the Monarch. Edit: the scenario of a PM resigning on ill health grounds mid-term is exactly what happened in 1923 when Andrew Bonar Law got cancer and was replaced by Stanley Baldwin. Bonar Law himself had become PM the previous year without a GE when he replaced David Lloyd George, who had lost the confidence of his Conservative Party coalition allies. There was also the resignation of Macmillan in 1963, replaced by Alec Douglas-Home without a GE. And of course, the most famous example:- Churchill replacing Chamberlain when he wasn't even leader of a party.

1) "Shrink the State" is standard Tory mantra/dogma. 2) Most of what a Government does during it's term will not have been in it's manifesto. As it is, a manifesto is a combination of aspirations, smokescreens, and bald faced lies.