On Brexit Buzzword Bingo
Jun. 29th, 2016 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I was corresponding with a USian colleague about the impact of Brexit on our business and offered him some Brexit Buzzwords that he could drop in to conversations in the US so as to appear knowledgable and on the ball.
I offer 15 of them below. Feel free to add your own
I offer 15 of them below. Feel free to add your own
- Article 50 (has not been invoked)
- Corbynista (#JezzWeCan - equivalent to #FeelTheBern)
- £350 million
- Cornwall (voted for Brexit, would like the UK goverment to guarrantee its EU funding)
- Sewell Convention (the memorandum that lays out the process for changing the devolution settlement for Scotland)
- Dundalk - Newry crossing - (the bit of the Northern Ireland / Republic of Ireland border with the most traffic - if I recall correctly this is where a senior IRA commander had a farm that literally straddled the border.)
- Wiff Waff is Coming Home.
- "Actually I've got €50 onTeresa May becoming PM"
- The pound, oh my god, the pound.
- Kubler Ross Grief Cycle
- "Nicola Sturgeon is perhaps the most astute politician in the UK."
- #IndyRef2
- "Actually I've got €50 on Tom Watson becoming Labour Leader."
- Guardian reading metropolitian liberal elite (you say that as if it's a bad thing)
- Unwritten constitution.
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Date: 2016-06-29 03:23 pm (UTC)From this article and memory.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36654418
Corbyn can be challenged and may not even make it on to the ballot
20% of Labour MP's and MEP (about 50) need to back one candidate and notify the NEC. This tiggers a leadership election.
Legal opinion differs on whether Corbyn would need to be nominated in order to appear on the ballot or not. The NEC has to decide this and the Labour Party is probably a "club or private members' organisation" so the rules' committee is not subject to judicial oversite. It's a big call for the NEC.
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Date: 2016-06-29 03:41 pm (UTC)They don't need it, and if they do just remove him in that way they'll have hell to pay with the members, they need to either have the fight or decide it's not worth it and split.
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Date: 2016-06-29 03:45 pm (UTC)