[Arrowhead]

What it does do is clear the way for a future Labour government, having aligned the UK closely with EU standards in its first term, to begin a process that will eventually see the UK's EU membership restored, most probably in a second Labour term of government.

Agree with everything in your excellent post bar this bit - I suspect the timeline regarding the restoration of our EU membership will be much more drawn out than that. I suspect we're entering an era of Labour dead-batting the issue for a generation, probably until a) the polling regarding the matter has unequivocally shifted, and/or b) a huge demographic shift has occurred, leaving the so-called "Brexit Boomers" eclipsed in terms of raw numbers.

We'll get there in the end, but I don't see anything happening until near the end of the following decade, and perhaps longer.

[Abernathy]

For clarity, my intended meaning was that Labour can begin a process in the second term of a future Labour government that will in time result in reinstating the UK’s EU membership, not that the UK would actually re-join the EU at that time. So I very much agree with you.

[davidjay]

This just might be the most important PMQs of his career. I do hope he doesn't have a Westland moment.

[Bones McCoy]

This just might be the most important PMQs of his career. I do hope he doesn't have a Westland moment.

This might be a good one to not dwell on Johnson's problems, which are already perfect public knowledge.

A bit less Cromwell

You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go

A bit more Buonaparte

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

[Youngian]

Britain-Trump Corbyn is not going anywhere. I’m ok with that as this country won’t be taken seriously whoever succeeds him.

[zuriblue]

Abers do you mind if I purloin your post?

[Abernathy]

Not at all.

[Abernathy]

Some zingers from Keir today . On the remaining Johnson cabinet members “a Z-list of nodding dogs” and “the charge of the lightweight brigade”.

[mattomac]

Johnson lost it completely, Nice nod by Starmer to THT.

[Bones McCoy]

This just might be the most important PMQs of his career. I do hope he doesn't have a Westland moment.

This might be a good one to not dwell on Johnson's problems, which are already perfect public knowledge.

A bit less Cromwell

You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go

A bit more Buonaparte

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Have to admit, I couldn't have called that wronger.

[davidjay]

The boy done good.

[Crabcakes]

Cleared by Durham police.

You can probably hear the howls of the Corbinystas from space

[davidjay]

Cleared by Durham constabulary, because they're Marxists and he's a Tory.

It's been a really shit week for Tories and Jezzites alike.

[Arrowhead]

It's been a really shit week for Tories and Jezzites alike.

Different cheeks of the same arse nowadays.

Angela Rayner has been cleared as well, which could be even more significant in the long term.

[Oboogie]

I wonder how Swawkbox and GBNews will explain what happened to Starmer's superinjunction preventing the reporting of his fine, which they said was issued last week?

[mattomac]

They don’t respond to old news… They pretend they never wrote it.

The usual twatteriti on the right are struggling, it’s not been their week has it.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

A deep and lasting silence...

It would be nice if the Durham 'bules prosecuted the complainants for wasting police time.

Mind you, the Durham Constabberley does enough of that by itself.

I don't like them...

[Boiler]

Cleared by Durham police.

You can probably hear the howls of the Corbinystas from space

Oh, so that's what the noise was that I could hear whilst hanging out my washing!

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

[Boiler]

The BBC, in an effort to be "balanced", has opened a SYB on this.

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