{"id":62241,"date":"2019-01-31T23:37:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T23:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=62241"},"modified":"2019-02-01T00:03:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T00:03:56","slug":"umpires-brexit-and-the-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=62241","title":{"rendered":"Umpires, Brexit, and the State of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — the UK looks to be teetering over the White Cliffs of Dover, with 22 miles of channel separating them from the rest of Europe — and a hard border with \u00c9ire ]
\n.<\/p>\n

There are few more tumultuous games on earth than the British House of Commons<\/strong>, with its two sides<\/strong> lobbying and lobbing insults at one another, while the no-side-works-for-me cross-benchers<\/strong> face the no-side-I’ve-retired-from-the-fray Speaker<\/strong> across the length of the chamber, no doubt relishing the spectacle but, in the Speaker<\/strong>‘s case, regulating it with roars of “Order, order!!!”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And fray it is, glorious in its freedom, so wild as to demand frequent pruning — the Speaker<\/strong>, in the New Yorker<\/em>‘s words, “presides over whatever fare — technical, listless, boorish, crazed — is unfolding in the chamber at a given moment. The House may be full with paper-waving cries of “Foul!” “Fiend!” Recant!” or even these days, I suppose, “Repent” — we do live, after all, in a remorselessly secular age..<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

But then..<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pattern recognition: there seems to be a pattern of Speakers <\/strong>disinviting Donald Trump<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n
  • NYorker<\/strong>, Is the Speaker of the House of Commons Trying to Stop Brexit?<\/a>\n
  • WaPo<\/strong>, Sorry, judges, we umpires do more than call balls<\/a>\n
  • WHOtv<\/strong>, Speaker Pelosi Tells President Trump State of the Union Won\u2019t Happen<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Dates and Times:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  • te [re-invited] State of the Union<\/a><\/strong> is scheduled for 6.00pm Pacific, Tuesday, February 5\n
  • the Superbowl<\/a><\/strong> is 3.30pm Eastern, Sunday, February 3rd\n
  • Brexit<\/a><\/strong> will occur in un-negotiated form if nothing stops it, at 11pm GMT, Friday, March 29.\n

    <\/p>\n

  • One way or another, fun times ahead..<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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