badgerx16

A stupid money-making idea imported from the States. You send your children around the neighbourhood, in the dark, demanding sweets from strangers. If any of them come to our front door I open it whilst holding one of our lurchers, who tend to be very noisy and bouncy if someone comes to the door. I tell them that the treat is that I will give them a head start to get back out of our gate, the trick is that I may be lying.

Where is he in the right ? He's wrong on how the PM is installed after a GE.

R.E.M.

Wrong - the Prime Minister is appointed by the Queen, on the advice of the Privy Council and at Her prerogative, as being the person most likely to command a majority in the House of Commons, usually the leader of the majority party. Therefore, by voting for a particular candidate in your constituency, you are endorsing that party's leader as a potential PM. If, however, the leader of a majority party in a GE loses his/her seat, then a nominee from that party's MPs would be selected. The only 'recent' exception was Churchill in 1940, who was nominated by Lord Halifax and endorsed by Chamberlain despite not being the leader of the Conservatives.

I beg to differ; Blair and Cameron were leaders of their parties during General Elections, and therefore whichever won a majority in the Commons would become PM. Anybody voting Labour in the upcoming election is endorsing Corbyn as PM, similarly voting Conservative is support for Boris. A hung Parliament, with a resulting coalition, is where the fun starts. Boris is currently an unelected PM, as May was before her GE, and as was Gordon Brown.

Happy Independence D..........oh ! Anybody found out which ditch Boris is lying in ?

Why bother, they are amusing enough with the dross they post, especially GM's predictions. Mystic Meg he ain't.

After Thatcher and May who knows, maybe third time lucky.

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Any chance that you might retract your insinuations in the light of what really occurred ?

So, in the unlikely event of a Labour or LibDem majority in the GE, you'll bite your lip, accept the result, and stay shtum for 5 years ?

How would you have set up a team so low in confidence, ( let alone ability ), when playing a team including Aguero, Walker, Gabriel Jesus, Bernardo Silva, Otamendi, Foden, and Mahrez ? If that's their reserve line up I fear for Saturday's match.

A reserve line up that includes Aguero, Walker, Gabriel Jesus, Bernardo Silva, Otamendi, Foden, and Mahrez.

Which do you think is worse; our defensive coaching or our goalkeeping coaching ?

Has JWP touched the ball ?

Hung Parliament more likely. Does this now mean that the current Parliament finishes on Nov 5th ?

New Zealand's a bit far !

The last game City played at home in the Carabao Cup they won 9-0. ( vs Burton )

Before becoming an MP Clegg was an MEP, and prior to that worked for the EU, particularly as a policy advisor and the head of their negotiating team at the WTO.

Duckie probably thinks women shouldn't be in Parliament anyway. ( Other than Maggie T of course, who he probably thinks had bigger balls than most of her Cabinet ).

One day, you might get a prediction correct, but your track record is not impressive.

Woody Johnson, the US ambassador to the UK; Asked if healthcare would be part of the deal, he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: "I think probably the entire economy, in a trade deal all things that are traded will be on the table."

Did we make an appearance on MOTD ?

"The Christmas you get, you deserve".