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Re: In a flash, Boris Johnson s working majority in Britain s Parliament is now just one seat

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Sat, 03 Aug 19 2:14 AM | 28 view(s)
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It's a very weird and complicated situation. The majority of MPs are remainers, but the majority of the country are leavers. If the PM calls an election, many folks will lose their job.

Who knows what sort of result four-party politics will deliver?

In Brecon and Radnor there was a majority for the Brexit-supporting parties, but they split the vote three ways, whereas the Leave-supporting Liberals managed to bag most of their people because the Labour party is weak locally. So they won. But this sort of scenario will play out differently in every constituency.

I don't know how you govern with a one seat majority.

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In a flash, Boris Johnson’s working majority in Britain’s Parliament is now just one seat
By: clo in ALEA
Fri, 02 Aug 19 9:21 PM 		Msg. 31122 of 54959

In a flash, Boris Johnson’s working majority in Britain’s Parliament is now just one seat

By William Booth August 2 at 12:50 PM

LONDON — It was just a one-off race out in a small district in Wales, where sheep outnumber voters, an off-year by-election to replace a Conservative Party lawmaker who was sacked by petition for cheating on his expense account. Normally, it would be back-page news.

But the Conservative Party candidate lost Thursday night — and a member of the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrat party won — and suddenly Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s working majority in Parliament has been reduced to a single seat.

The government Johnson inherited from his ousted predecessor, Theresa May, was already dependent on the support of 10 lawmakers from Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party to get its wafer-thin majority.

The Conservatives could lose their one-seat advantages by defection, resignation, scandal or death. There have been five by-election contests since the 2017 general elections — two lawmakers faced recall petitions, two resigned from office and one died.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-a-flash-boris-johnsons-working-majority-in-britains-parliament-is-now-just-one-seat/2019/08/02/8caaa2f6-b50c-11e9-acc8-1d847bacca73_story.html?utm_term=.5545567bd2fc

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