Yep. But I'd like to take a moment to blame Corbyn.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Laura K’s latest tweet talking about changing the rules “in light of what’s happened to Owen Paterson” 
she doesn’t even bother to hide it anymore.
she doesn’t even bother to hide it anymore.Don't call them scum though guys. Please.
Fecking Boris with his 40 new hospitals line again. This whole process is a joke!
They are worried about a recall petition because that cannot happen unless he is suspended so they are trying to stop that!
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They are worried about a recall petition because that cannot happen unless he is suspended so they are trying to stop that!
And so it goes on and on and on and on...
Tory MP's suspension put on hold
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59154221
Tory MP's suspension put on hold
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59154221
We should protest...oh wait, no, they made that illegal too recently.
We actually live in a banana republic
Even worse - under a monarchy and in a place where it’s too cold to grow bananas.We actually live in a banana republic
Not having a written constitution and instead relying on doing the right thing (aka ”conventions”) was always ripe for abuse. In a way, it’s surprising it survived into the second decade of the 21st century. There have always been ad hoc breaches and misuses but it’s only under the current bunch of crooks that we have seen a general application of the idea that standards, rules and even treaty obligations are for the little people.
This is what happens when the tories get a large majority. Well done everyone.
28 Labour MPs didn’t vote? That would have stopped it? They’re all the same.
That would be 28 the same. So actually nowhere near all.
Is there a list of who abstained?
Edit found it
https://votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Commons/Division/1124#notrecorded
Starmer?... is he still off with covid?
What about wrong daily etc... who was absent and who abstained?
It’s also hilarious that the ‘punishment’ was going to be a suspension from the commons for 30 days. Kind of wish Guy Fawkes was successful.
I am trying as much as possible not to care but it's not working. These guys are fecking unreal. What kind of country is this ffs!
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Just feck off already! Sick of this time and time again.
It’s more they don’t want to make it possible for a recall petition which can only be possible if he was suspended.
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https://www.theguardian.com/comment...erson-keir-starmer?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Presumably, Starmer is still isolating he just wrote this: https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ption-conservative-owen-paterson-keir-starmer
Yeah let’s conflate them altogether because a few labours abstained, that’s completely reasonable.
I wonder how many of the 28 were absent for one reason or another rather than abstaining?
You don't usually abstain in absence, there's the whole proxy vote system.
Remember when Corbyn did stupid things like open his mouth, talk about policies, and oppose the government? Glad that doesn't happen anymore because it was that sort of thing that let the Tories get away with their endless bullshit.
The list i linked only shows no vote recorded... it does not say who was present or not
I was pretty sure starmer wasn't... not sure about wrong daily or others
No proxy in place and those who could were paired with Tories I believe. Tories got rid of the proxy system.
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There is no proxy vote system. There is only one if someone is away for childbirth or child related stuff. There was something in place for the pandemic but that has now expired in July I believe and the Tories (Rees Mogg) didn't want to carry it on.
They didn't abstain, they couldn't vote due to no proxy system in place. The Tories got rid of it.
Well there you go then.
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He can brazenly say this because the thick Tory voters will keep on voting for him and his chums.
It's a weird one as I genuinely think that Brexit voters for example actually cannot now vote against Boris, as it would mean that he wasn't their saviour, that he hasn't taken them to the promised lands of sunlit uplands. It would just mean he is what he is, a self-righteous bigoted piece of shit!
Some of you need to get a life. Worrying about politics. Ha. There's more important things that actually have an impact on our lives to pay attention. Besides, the economy is doing really well so the Tories are obviously doing a good job *sips gruel from plastic bag*
I think there is truth to this theroy; the immovable proportions of both those that will vote Tory and think Brexit is good are pretty much the same.
I think a lot of them can’t vote against anything related to Brexit in general as it would mean admitting they made a mistake and were lied to by their saviour.
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The pairing system predates the pandemic they've been doing it for yonks it was just formalised with the pandemic because it was never a proper arrangement. The whips are supposed to sort it all.
Claudia Webbe being sentenced tomorrow, be surprised if she isn’t jailed.
I kind of agree. BoJo has become the fulfilment, embodiment of their concpiracy theory ("britannia ruled the world when it was not in the eu"). Voting against BoJo must be hard for Brexiteers, probably as hard as for anti-vaxxers getting jabbed.
But aside from that, there was a seperate proxy system initially for MPs giving childbirth but then the pandemic but it was scrapped in May.
Yep she should be. That constituency is the gift that keeps on giving. She was preceded by washing machine salesman Keith Vaz!