General Election - 4th July 2024

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

They won't as they would have to take the following oath
MPs take the oath by holding the sacred text in their uplifted hand and saying the words of the oath: I swear by Almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors, according to law.

Maybe that path should be changed?

 

[KS55]

They won't as they would have to take the following oath
MPs take the oath by holding the sacred text in their uplifted hand and saying the words of the oath: I swear by Almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors, according to law.

MPs who are republicans usually take the oath with their fingers obviously crossed behind their backs.
In any case the GFA requires them to obey the law while working democratically to change it. Fair enough, but they can’t pick and choose and the law requires the oath.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Reform and Greens getting the same number of seats should mean the same amount of media time moving forward.

Hopefully Labour fix the glaring problems with the national broadcaster in this sense. It's the only reason reform got to 4 seats.

Looking at the bbc website I’m not convinced they will….

 

[bluethrunthru]

Fuck off - and when you get there fuck off some more

 

[MCFC1993]

Liz Truss blaming the tories poor performance on inheriting a big mess.from.Labour 14 years ago ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Instead of 14 years, she wants to go back about 14 months, then a few months more and look at the **** who broke the economy.

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

SNP completely delusional…..**** is still banging on about independence despite the electorate telling him to fuck the fuck off…..ridiculous

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Most of my childhood was babbacombe / oddicombe beach during the summer after we moved here when I was a toddler. 20 years after you though by the sounds of time

Beautiful area of the country back then, but once we moved north, it was Newquay and Perrenporth for our hols. The long drive was only made bearable by promising that when we stopped to eat we would eat at places we couldn’t normally eat at home, like KFC! Today, it’d be like stopping at Nando’s as a treat!!!

Life always seemed a lot simpler when we had nowt and a seaside hotel with a ping pong table was considered luxury because you knew you’d be stuck inside out of the rain at least a few days!!

 

[Vic]

Yup. I worked on an industry body with the civil servants dealing with bank regulation. I was not impressed by them at all. I employed an ex treasury guy. He was very good, but that is why he left the CS in frustration.
PS He was an Oxford graduate. While there he had an, er, relationship with a fellow student by the name of Edwina Cohen. Yep, Currie.

Gosh, a rarity. Someone who slept with a woman who slept with a Prime Minister who wasn't Boris Johnson.

 

[KS55]

Maybe that path should be changed?

The one great advantage of a written constitution is that loyalty is expressed to a specific physical document and the ideas therein. So in the US oaths are to the constitution, not the president.

 

[Gray]

SNP completely delusional…..**** is still banging on about independence despite the electorate telling him to fuck the fuck off…..ridiculous

Shown to be as sleazy as every other party. If they got independence who would pay for the things that are currently subsidised by the tax payers of England.