Commuter Cannon Fodder

The hapless commuters who are trying to get to work everyday, despite the best efforts of Southern and the unions, are being used as cannon fodder by the government in their war against the rail unions.

At some stage this will backfire!

Mr Johnson Goes To Washington

Boris Johnson is off to the USA to meet with Team Trump. I wonder what they'll talk about. pic.twitter.com/3bRZz40LKl

— Mark Sparrow (@Markgsparrow) January 8, 2017

Theresa May Has Shot The Supreme Court's Fox

Theresa May secures Article 50 victory in the Commons as Parliament passes amended Brexit motion by 448 to 75.

Ironically the Supreme Court will resume today, without any mention of the fact that their deliberations are now completely irrelevant.

As I have been saying all along, this hearing is a waste of time!

Theresa May Uses Supreme Court Hearing As A Distraction

She's also making the @UKSupremeCourt look stupid. As someone told me: an umpire in a game that no-one's playing. https://t.co/diVSjJ9d8h

— Secret Ledger (@secret_ledger) December 7, 2016

Barnier Sets Brexit Deadline

Apparently, the UK will conclude its Brexit negotiations by October 2018.

That is according to Michel Barnier, IF negotiations start in March 2017!

Judging by the snail's pace at which the government is going with this, that's a very big

IF!!

Supreme Court Live Feed of Brexit Hearing

Those of you who want to watch the Supreme Court hearing of the A50 Brexit challenge may do so via this link:

Court 1 Supreme Court

This is of course an utter waste of time and money, and an unnecessary delay. Theresa May should invoke Article 50 by writing to the EU, once she has done that the decision the by Supreme Court will be irrelevant.

Richmond Park Factoids

1 The Tories didn't field a candidate.

2 Goldsmith lost because people voted against him and his triggering of an unnecessary by-election.