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Arn said:
I?ve just sat and watched the UK parliament on TV for 4 hours until 1.37am in the morning and it may have been one of the most incredible, fascinating things I?ve seen.

The new Prime Minister who for some reason is desperate to leave the EU without a deal has had 6 votes since being installed as PM. He has lost all 6.

A law has been passed forcing him to request an extension to the withdrawal process. He has said he will not honour that law.

He has tried to call an election which would shut down parliament thus allowing the UK to slide out with no deal. This has been rejected twice.

He has lost a vote requiring him to publish papers relating to the planning for what may happen if no deal is reached. Leaks suggest massive economic and societal damage so the government has kept them secret.

And now he has just used a mechanism - prorogation- to shut down parliament for the longest time it will have been shut down in decades. (And is being accused of lying to the Queen for his reasons for doing so, which leaked communications suggest to be true and have also been required to be published by a vote of the house)

And to top it all the (allegedly impartial) speaker of the house gave a speech condemning all of these actions.

Incredible stuff.
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And the courts have now concluded that the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, acted unlawfully and lied to the Queen about his reasons to shut down Parliament, and as the prorogation was unlawful, parliament is still in session and will reconvene business immediately.

The British Prime Minister is now technically a convicted liar  :o
 
Hey Arn, Canada will accept NI and Scotland as the 11th and 12th provinces. You already have the same queen as us anyway. :P
 
California is doing some really cool progressive things in state government. From classifying Uber drivers as employees to making it legal for College Athletes to profit off their likeness and now Public Banking.

And the thing about public banking that I especially like is that if people out there really think private banks do a better job of looking after your financial interests then people are free to use them instead. Too often the modern political debate is reduced to something as simplistic and false as social democracy vs. unfettered free market capitalism but I genuinely don't know many people who want to ban the concept of private industry while private industry spends billions trying to kill public competition.
 
I had a weird dream, where I met relatives that I knew were really old. I remembered a name and googled it, turns out it existed in the 13th or 14th century. It was a church like building, there were two knights without armour, and they were happy to see me. I asked them what the name of the place was, they smiled and said "the hall of the wise", then I woke up. They looked so happy to see me, weird.
 
I've recently been seeing several ads saying "Are you interested in living and working in Canada?" and inviting me along to an information day in Birmingham or Dublin.

There must be a catch?

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With a record low of -37 degrees and average Januay temperature of -8 I can't see why they'd be having to convince people to move there
 
I inadvertently got into a Facebook argument with a bunch of Americans over the fact that I don't have to pay for an ambulance should I need to call one LOL. Good lord, what have I done?
 
Arn said:
I've recently been seeing several ads saying "Are you interested in living and working in Canada?" and inviting me along to an information day in Birmingham or Dublin.

There must be a catch?

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With a record low of -37 degrees and average Januay temperature of -8 I can't see why they'd be having to convince people to move there
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Where in Canada? It's a big place  ;)
 
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