#376

All of the cyclists, rowers, sailers and horse ones go without saying as colossal tories

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#377

Get The Tories Out

#378

no more heroes

#379

CoJack - £3 corbyn supporter

Michael Johnson - spends all day on twitter threads arguing AOC’s cause

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#380

Who?

#381

George Eustice

#382

No eustice
No peace

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#383

Professional cycling is just a really fast or long version of a paper round isn’t it? And paper rounds are for trainee tories.

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#384

His surname is like justice but with the start replaced by EU.

Coincidence???

#385

Shocked that a former UKIP MP would behave like this.

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#387

Sally Gunnell: Brexit
Roger Black: Brexit in name only
Colin Jackson: Remain
Steve Ovett: Lexit
Torvill: Remain
Dean: Brexit
Adam Peaty: Red white and blue Brexit
Sir Chris Hoy: Bran Flexit

#388

Phelps - MAGA

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#389

has any outlet covered TIG abstaining

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#390

Eustice Huthard Brexit

#391

What does it actually mean that he’s resigning? Leaving the conservatives? Leaving a government post? Quitting as an mp?

#392

Resigning from the government, but not as a conservative MP.

#393

Yeah I got that, but what does that actually mean

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#394

More saliently, resigning as a farming minister. No way you want to be in that hot seat when the music stops.

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#395

He’s no longer a minister (part of the government), but a backbencher instead. This means:

  • he won’t be responsible for a specific part of the UK’s policy / needs any longer.
  • he’s not bound by the convention of collective responsibility - i.e. the government is supposed to speak with a single voice on all matters of policy (which is why the media get all excited when one minister contradicts another).
  • he’ll get paid less - ministers get an additional salary on top of their MP salary.
  • he’ll have to sit a couple of benches further back in the Commons.

He should still do all the normal stuff that any MP does - constituency work, turn up to debates/votes where necessary, ask questions etc.

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#396

Yeah wonder how many people are looking at their specific portfolios a bit more closely and thinking… ‘hmmmmm yeah maybe I fancy a change’ … Or ‘woah, just I’ve found some principles I never knew I had!!’