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My wife's parents were staying with us when the referendum result came out. There were tears.

Random fact about the Royal Family. Prince Andrew's favourite band is late 80's Irish poodlerockers No Sweat

Ross Kemp. Duncan Goodhew. Angry Anderson.

They should phase in independence. Start off with every second Wednesday and gradually increase it to three days a week - see how everyone feels and, if they think they're ready, they could go fully independent for a couple of months. After that, they could decide if the UK is right for them or not.

I reckon Johnson will get re-elected

I reckon Johnson will be gone by the end of the year and Britain will be applying to rejoin the Single Market at some point next year.

Isn't he dead already? He's basically a white balloon of flesh filled with methane.

I reckon he'll be gone in the next 12 months. Like, gone gone. It'll be like the Assumption of Mary, except Johnson will be sucked down to hell through the jacks. He'll enjoy it too, getting sucked down like that, by some horny demon. He'll be back in 100 years, in some other form. Probably...

This election is nonsense and the tactical voting campaign is a symptom of everything that is wrong with an adversarial parliament. A big tent party shouldn't really represent more than 30% of the electorate - otherwise too much power goes to their executives. When you're voting, the political...

It's because these Eton boys treat Westminster as a personal debating club. Johnson has absolutely no morals or ideals. As Pete says, he just wants to win. He couldn't care less what happens to the country.

You said it far more succinctly that I did! Johnson always knew this but he couldn't be the Prime Minister who breaks up the United Kingdom (even though they're not). The official name of the Tories is the Conservative and Unionist Party. It's his own party and the DUP who have been stopping...

I have a theory that it was Boris Johnson who came up with this Athena reference rather than Varadkar. I knew about that Jeremy Vine anecdote and I don't for a minute believe Johnson is a bumbling fool - he knows what he's doing and he's dangerous. I think Johnson is looking for a way to get a...

I get the feeling that some sort of "One Nation" centrist party (a bit like Macron's En Marche) will emerge over the coming couple of months.

It looks like Johnson is snookered. He's going to call for an election on the 14th... wait, no, 15th... wait, no 16th October (the 14th and 15th are a Jewish festival and Jewish can't vote on those days). Because of the Fixed Term Parliament Act (2011) he needs to have a two thirds majority...

It's quite extreme what Boris Johnson is doing. The proroguing of Parliament may seem abstract, and only for a few days, but it's very serious. It sets a precedent. Johnson and his government have tested the waters with this and it means that if it's unchallenged, they could do it again and for...

Johnson is looking to ramp up the nationalism. He will try to rabble rouse the disaffected and get them frothing at the mouth. On the other side, there are thousands of young people who are really, really angry about this. It'll end in fighting.

She can't do that. Magna Carta, Cromwell's parliament and lots of subsequent legislation and procedures means the monarch is a figurehead with minimal powers. I don't there's going to be a polite way out of this.

This is fucked up. If you look at how quickly the civil wars broke out in Rwanda and in the Balkan states in the 1990's, what's happening in Britain is a serious cause of concern.

The letter from Corbyn is significant. Hopefully Jo Swinson comes on board with it. There will be a bit of negotiation and it may end up being a joint Prime Minister or a ceremonial Prime Minister or something along those lines. There are people accusing Corbyn of making a power grab, but the...