It's 31 October. . .
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Absolutely.
I want photo evidence of his body in a ditch, because that's where he said he'd rather be, than not give the UK Brexit.
I want photo evidence of his body in a ditch, because that's where he said he'd rather be, than not give the UK Brexit.
On a global scale that list would have to be increased by more than a few names.
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The only way Boris is a liar is if he deliberately didn't deliver Brexit tonight.
But, considering you're as bright as a pile of coal at midnight, you can't see that.
Another Brexit Day comes and goes
The Remoaner elites laughing about the fact that we are still in the EU have no idea how nasty they sound.
Another Brexit Day has come and gone. Boris Johnson said we would leave the EU today, ‘do or die’, and yet here we are, still in the EU. And according to Remainers it is all so hilarious. They’re ripping the piss out of the UK’s failure – its third one so far – to leave the EU on a set date. Let’s be clear about what these people are really laughing at, what they are really taking pleasure in. They are revelling in the third stark betrayal of a democratic vote; in the silencing of millions of people; in the disenfranchisement, essentially, of voters they disagree with. Their joy at the uneventful passing of another Brexit Day is really joy that the largest collection of voters in British history is still being defied and demeaned by the powers-that-be.
There is something very strange in the Remoaner chortling at the UK’s ongoing failure to enact the democratic will. Many people of a pro-EU persuasion are using today as an opportunity to have another go at the PM. They’re saying: ‘Boris said we’d be out today. He said he would rather die in a ditch than still be in the EU after 31 October. And yet we haven’t left. What a liar.’ This is mad. The reason today has become No Brexit Yet Again Day is not because Boris lied, but because the Remain establishment continually prevented him from enacting even his super-soft Brexit, or Brexit In Name Only, as many of us prefer to call it. MPs passed laws and campaigners used all manner of dirty legal tricks to ensure that Boris’s deal did not get through parliament and to force him to go back to Brussels and beg for another extension to the Article 50 process (and to our membership of the EU).
So the very same people who tied Boris’s hands, or cheered the tying of Boris’s hands, and who have devoted themselves to ensuring we never leave the EU, are now saying: ‘We haven’t left the EU. How many more Tory lies will people put up with?’ It takes industrial levels of brass neck for the plotters and blockers who spend their every tragic waking hour thwarting Brexit to turn around and say to Boris: ‘You said we’d be out “do or die”!’ It is testament to their profound disconnection from ordinary people that they think we will nod along with their Boris-bashing on Boris’s failed Brexit Day, when of course a great many voters are thinking: ‘Yes, we know we’re not out of the EU. You anti-democrats made damn sure of that.’
Unsurprisingly, the most vocal of the anti-democrats who are opposed to enacting the people’s will – Labour MP David Lammy – is using Non-Brexit Day to gloat about the failure of Brexit more broadly. He says, in reference to earlier dates when the establishment failed to uphold their promise to leave the EU, ‘They told us we would leave on 29 March. We didn’t. They told us we would leave on 12 April. We didn’t. Then they told us we would leave on 31 October. We won’t. Now they say we will leave on 31 January. But our message is clear: Brexit must not happen without a #PeoplesVote.’
Strip away all the pseudo anti-establishment blather in statements like this, and you will see that what Lammy and others are really laughing about is the blocking of a democratic vote, the failure and unwillingness of the political elite to obey the instruction that was clearly, fairly and democratically delivered to it by the people.
So have your fun. Go wild with your hashtags. Make your lame jokes about the lack of riots or protests today. But be aware of this: millions and millions of people look at you and see not clever, funny activists bemoaning Boris’s failure to deliver Brexit on 31 October, but an increasingly distant and harsh elite that is taking pleasure in the destruction of 17.4million votes. If you’re celebrating the non-appearance of Brexit on Brexit Day, then you’re celebrating the silencing of millions of voices who just wanted change and progress in British politics; you’re celebrating the most flagrant denial of democracy in the history of the franchise in this country.
Brendan O’Neill is editor of spiked and host of the spiked podcast, The Brendan O’Neill Show. Subscribe to the podcast here. And find Brendan on Instagram: @burntoakboy
Brendan will be speaking at the sessions ‘What can we learn from the English civil war?’ and ‘Extinction or progress? Visions of the future’ at the Battle of Ideas festival in London this weekend. Get tickets here.
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GEOFF COX
31st October 2019 at 10:07 pm
Whenever I hear/see David Lammy’s name, I am reminded of what someone (I forget who, I’m afraid) said about him:
“David Lammy reminds me of an old style African dictator – a fat man with a big stick”.
MICHAEL LYNCH
31st October 2019 at 9:44 pm
Brass necks, and impeachment, is all they have to offer now, Brendan. The Remain Parliament has made itself the laughing stock of the entire world. They pretend to do democracy but everyone can see through them. I only hope the British people do have the nouse to vote well and remember that first past the post is not proportional.
DOMINIC STRAITON
31st October 2019 at 7:56 pm
Boris might win an election but Brexit is just the start of a process to wrest power from the forces of a (literally)bankrupt “globalism” . Its going to be far harder than an election. At stake is the very notion of freedom.
JAMES KNIGHT
31st October 2019 at 5:52 pm
Remoaners wanted to put Johnson in prison for taking the UK out of the EU which is exactly what people voted for. And of course the EU granted another long extension, as we always knew they would. Twice they have now been exposed in a massive bluff.
The upcoming election will afford the opportunity to give those smug and smarmy Remoaners a reality check.
JERRY OWEN
31st October 2019 at 5:07 pm
Cameron gave us the referendum and promised to honour the result , he didn’t. May said a hundred times or more that ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’ we didn’t get a ‘no deal’. Boris said we would be out by the 31st ‘deal or no deal’ we are not.
He’s not even had the decency to die in a ditch !
The stark conclusion is that the tory party has had a series of liars as leaders.
Can any ‘leaver’ in their right mind vote tory again ? Vote for the Brexit Party.
We need to smash the two party non democratic state, sure it’ll take time and we may not reap the benefits ourselves ( hopefully later generations will ), but we have to start somewhere now is the ideal time with the ideal goal.
This is a battle as big as getting the vote or trades unions being recognized, in fact even bigger. History will view this as a seismic battle we must continue not to give in.
The arch war criminal Blair made an interesting point the other day in an interview about not wanting labour to agree to a GE. He made the point that there are many people that although not wanting to leave the EU, would rather suffer Brexit than suffer a Corbyn government.
Quite how that would affect polling remains to be seen.
Everything is to play for, tactical voting is not something I have ever subscribed to, I have always been of the belief that even if your candidate has no chance of winning if he is the candidate you support then support them you should out of principle.
From little acorns … as they say.
WINSTON STANLEY
31st October 2019 at 4:32 pm
Yep, groundhog day yet again. The party politicians need to meet the ppl, accept democracy and move on. To mix pop references, as the Ancient One told Dr Strange, the first lesson is that, “it is not about you”. I seriously doubt that this Westminster lot will ever learn that lesson.
FORLORN DREAM
31st October 2019 at 3:57 pm
They want to wear us down but this will never happen.
I think we should have a Brexit anthem. I’d like to propose, Something Inside So Strong by Labi Siffre.
VEN OODS
31st October 2019 at 4:25 pm
Or, for a Remain anthem, The Enema Variations?
JANE 70
31st October 2019 at 4:37 pm
Good one! I thought ‘Let’s go round again’ by the Average White Band.
The group’s name would probably lead to ‘cancellation’ though, indicating as it does unearned white privilege.
Or, my favourite-Hotel Remainia -‘ You can check out, but you can never leave’.
VEN OODS
31st October 2019 at 3:55 pm
I can’t say I’ve encountered any laughing or gloating (probably just sighs of – temporary – relief).
But I definitely did notice the illogical burblings about Boris’s ‘lies’, from the very people who scuppered his attempts to do Brexit.
I’m beginning to understand Trump’s point about ‘fake nooz’.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/10/31/another-brexit-day-comes-and-goes/
The Remoaner elites laughing about the fact that we are still in the EU have no idea how nasty they sound.
Another Brexit Day has come and gone. Boris Johnson said we would leave the EU today, ‘do or die’, and yet here we are, still in the EU. And according to Remainers it is all so hilarious. They’re ripping the piss out of the UK’s failure – its third one so far – to leave the EU on a set date. Let’s be clear about what these people are really laughing at, what they are really taking pleasure in. They are revelling in the third stark betrayal of a democratic vote; in the silencing of millions of people; in the disenfranchisement, essentially, of voters they disagree with. Their joy at the uneventful passing of another Brexit Day is really joy that the largest collection of voters in British history is still being defied and demeaned by the powers-that-be.
There is something very strange in the Remoaner chortling at the UK’s ongoing failure to enact the democratic will. Many people of a pro-EU persuasion are using today as an opportunity to have another go at the PM. They’re saying: ‘Boris said we’d be out today. He said he would rather die in a ditch than still be in the EU after 31 October. And yet we haven’t left. What a liar.’ This is mad. The reason today has become No Brexit Yet Again Day is not because Boris lied, but because the Remain establishment continually prevented him from enacting even his super-soft Brexit, or Brexit In Name Only, as many of us prefer to call it. MPs passed laws and campaigners used all manner of dirty legal tricks to ensure that Boris’s deal did not get through parliament and to force him to go back to Brussels and beg for another extension to the Article 50 process (and to our membership of the EU).
So the very same people who tied Boris’s hands, or cheered the tying of Boris’s hands, and who have devoted themselves to ensuring we never leave the EU, are now saying: ‘We haven’t left the EU. How many more Tory lies will people put up with?’ It takes industrial levels of brass neck for the plotters and blockers who spend their every tragic waking hour thwarting Brexit to turn around and say to Boris: ‘You said we’d be out “do or die”!’ It is testament to their profound disconnection from ordinary people that they think we will nod along with their Boris-bashing on Boris’s failed Brexit Day, when of course a great many voters are thinking: ‘Yes, we know we’re not out of the EU. You anti-democrats made damn sure of that.’
Unsurprisingly, the most vocal of the anti-democrats who are opposed to enacting the people’s will – Labour MP David Lammy – is using Non-Brexit Day to gloat about the failure of Brexit more broadly. He says, in reference to earlier dates when the establishment failed to uphold their promise to leave the EU, ‘They told us we would leave on 29 March. We didn’t. They told us we would leave on 12 April. We didn’t. Then they told us we would leave on 31 October. We won’t. Now they say we will leave on 31 January. But our message is clear: Brexit must not happen without a #PeoplesVote.’
Strip away all the pseudo anti-establishment blather in statements like this, and you will see that what Lammy and others are really laughing about is the blocking of a democratic vote, the failure and unwillingness of the political elite to obey the instruction that was clearly, fairly and democratically delivered to it by the people.
So have your fun. Go wild with your hashtags. Make your lame jokes about the lack of riots or protests today. But be aware of this: millions and millions of people look at you and see not clever, funny activists bemoaning Boris’s failure to deliver Brexit on 31 October, but an increasingly distant and harsh elite that is taking pleasure in the destruction of 17.4million votes. If you’re celebrating the non-appearance of Brexit on Brexit Day, then you’re celebrating the silencing of millions of voices who just wanted change and progress in British politics; you’re celebrating the most flagrant denial of democracy in the history of the franchise in this country.
Brendan O’Neill is editor of spiked and host of the spiked podcast, The Brendan O’Neill Show. Subscribe to the podcast here. And find Brendan on Instagram: @burntoakboy
Brendan will be speaking at the sessions ‘What can we learn from the English civil war?’ and ‘Extinction or progress? Visions of the future’ at the Battle of Ideas festival in London this weekend. Get tickets here.
Comments
GEOFF COX
31st October 2019 at 10:07 pm
Whenever I hear/see David Lammy’s name, I am reminded of what someone (I forget who, I’m afraid) said about him:
“David Lammy reminds me of an old style African dictator – a fat man with a big stick”.
MICHAEL LYNCH
31st October 2019 at 9:44 pm
Brass necks, and impeachment, is all they have to offer now, Brendan. The Remain Parliament has made itself the laughing stock of the entire world. They pretend to do democracy but everyone can see through them. I only hope the British people do have the nouse to vote well and remember that first past the post is not proportional.
DOMINIC STRAITON
31st October 2019 at 7:56 pm
Boris might win an election but Brexit is just the start of a process to wrest power from the forces of a (literally)bankrupt “globalism” . Its going to be far harder than an election. At stake is the very notion of freedom.
JAMES KNIGHT
31st October 2019 at 5:52 pm
Remoaners wanted to put Johnson in prison for taking the UK out of the EU which is exactly what people voted for. And of course the EU granted another long extension, as we always knew they would. Twice they have now been exposed in a massive bluff.
The upcoming election will afford the opportunity to give those smug and smarmy Remoaners a reality check.
JERRY OWEN
31st October 2019 at 5:07 pm
Cameron gave us the referendum and promised to honour the result , he didn’t. May said a hundred times or more that ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’ we didn’t get a ‘no deal’. Boris said we would be out by the 31st ‘deal or no deal’ we are not.
He’s not even had the decency to die in a ditch !
The stark conclusion is that the tory party has had a series of liars as leaders.
Can any ‘leaver’ in their right mind vote tory again ? Vote for the Brexit Party.
We need to smash the two party non democratic state, sure it’ll take time and we may not reap the benefits ourselves ( hopefully later generations will ), but we have to start somewhere now is the ideal time with the ideal goal.
This is a battle as big as getting the vote or trades unions being recognized, in fact even bigger. History will view this as a seismic battle we must continue not to give in.
The arch war criminal Blair made an interesting point the other day in an interview about not wanting labour to agree to a GE. He made the point that there are many people that although not wanting to leave the EU, would rather suffer Brexit than suffer a Corbyn government.
Quite how that would affect polling remains to be seen.
Everything is to play for, tactical voting is not something I have ever subscribed to, I have always been of the belief that even if your candidate has no chance of winning if he is the candidate you support then support them you should out of principle.
From little acorns … as they say.
WINSTON STANLEY
31st October 2019 at 4:32 pm
Yep, groundhog day yet again. The party politicians need to meet the ppl, accept democracy and move on. To mix pop references, as the Ancient One told Dr Strange, the first lesson is that, “it is not about you”. I seriously doubt that this Westminster lot will ever learn that lesson.
FORLORN DREAM
31st October 2019 at 3:57 pm
They want to wear us down but this will never happen.
I think we should have a Brexit anthem. I’d like to propose, Something Inside So Strong by Labi Siffre.
VEN OODS
31st October 2019 at 4:25 pm
Or, for a Remain anthem, The Enema Variations?
JANE 70
31st October 2019 at 4:37 pm
Good one! I thought ‘Let’s go round again’ by the Average White Band.
The group’s name would probably lead to ‘cancellation’ though, indicating as it does unearned white privilege.
Or, my favourite-Hotel Remainia -‘ You can check out, but you can never leave’.
VEN OODS
31st October 2019 at 3:55 pm
I can’t say I’ve encountered any laughing or gloating (probably just sighs of – temporary – relief).
But I definitely did notice the illogical burblings about Boris’s ‘lies’, from the very people who scuppered his attempts to do Brexit.
I’m beginning to understand Trump’s point about ‘fake nooz’.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/10/31/another-brexit-day-comes-and-goes/
Here's the quotes. . .
Boris Johnson's quotes in full
“We are getting ready to come out on October the 31st...Do or die, come what may” (25 June, TalkRadio interview)
“Kick the can again and we kick the bucket, my friends, that's the sad reality" (27 June, Tory leadership hustings)
“We are going to fulfil the repeated promises of Parliament to the people and come out of the EU on October 31, no ifs or buts” (25 July, first speech as Prime Minister)
“There are no circumstances in which I will ask Brussels to delay. We are leaving on 31 October, no ifs or buts” (2 September, speaking in Downing Street)
“I am confident of getting a deal. We will leave on 31 October in all circumstances. There will be no further pointless delay.” (3 September, speech in Commons)
“I’d rather be dead in a ditch” (5 September, asked to promise he would not request a delay to Brexit)
“I will not negotiate a delay with the EU and neither does the law compel me to do so” (19 October, speech in Commons)
A liar and a con artist. I'm only surprised he didn't promise Mexico would pay for it.
I don't really think of you as a liar, Blackshirt. I just pity you as another poor, stupid lager lout led down the garden path by yet another upper-class con man.
How completely and utterly stupid an individual can be just defies all reason. It's astounding. I've seen higher intelligence and better reasoning in a fire extinguisher.
Slug slime will probably be better able to tell the difference between a lie and a promise that doesn't materialise thanks to the undemocratic actions of a bunch of Remainer carpet beetles.
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If Churchill was as vacillating and ineffective as BoreJo, and your grandfather's generation as stupidly credulous as yours, you'd all be speaking German.
It's a question of character, Blackshirt. His and yours. You both firmly and repeatedly, and voluntarily, laid down a specific date.
And failed.
The two PMs have something in common: battling anti-democratic fascists.
And, like Churchill, Boris will win.
And now you're back whimpering "But. . . but. . . it wasn't his FAULT!"
No wonder your once great empire is a silly little island.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Jeremy Corbyn would have us believe Britain is a Dickensian wasteland
By Richard Littlejohn for the Daily Mail
31 Oct 2019
The first General Election I covered was in February 1974, in Lincoln. Labour’s candidate was a young woman called Margaret Jackson, who looked a bit like Princess Anne.
She was trying to unseat the incumbent MP, Dick Taverne, who had resigned from Labour and was standing as an independent. The election had been called by Tory Prime Minister Ted Heath in the middle of a bitter, prolonged miners’ strike, which had brought widespread power cuts and forced industry on to a three-day week.
Heath’s campaign pitch was simple: Who runs Britain — the Government or the National Union of Mineworkers?
Corbyn and Labour are peddling the politics of resentment, painting a Fantasy Island vision of Britain as a Dickensian wasteland, full of cartoon Conservative villains in top hats, lighting big cigars with wads of £50 notes and pitchforking babies, while they deliberately poison the rivers and set fire to schools and hospitals
Corbyn and Labour are peddling the politics of resentment, painting a Fantasy Island vision of Britain as a Dickensian wasteland, full of cartoon Conservative villains in top hats, lighting big cigars with wads of £50 notes and pitchforking babies, while they deliberately poison the rivers and set fire to schools and hospitals
He didn’t get the answer he wanted. The Tories lost their majority. Heath tried to form a coalition with the Liberals, who had more than doubled their vote. But they wouldn’t play ball.
Heath also assumed he could rely on the Ulster Unionists. He was gravely mistaken. Labour’s Harold Wilson formed a minority government, which staggered on for a few months before being forced to go back to the country in October to seek a fresh mandate.
Wilson’s manifesto contained a pledge to hold a referendum on Britain’s membership of what was then called the Common Market, the issue which caused Taverne to resign from Labour in protest at the party’s growing anti-Europeanism. There’s nothing new in the world.
The 1974 election had been called by Tory Prime Minister Ted Heath (pictured) in the middle of a bitter, prolonged miners’ strike, which had brought widespread power cuts and forced industry on to a three-day week
The 1974 election had been called by Tory Prime Minister Ted Heath (pictured) in the middle of a bitter, prolonged miners’ strike, which had brought widespread power cuts and forced industry on to a three-day week
Richard (Dick) Taverne, now Baron Taverne of Pimlico, is pictured being carried high by supporters as he arrives at the House of Commons to take up his seat. One lesson I took from 1974 is that when it comes to elections, nobody knows anything
Richard (Dick) Taverne, now Baron Taverne of Pimlico, is pictured being carried high by supporters as he arrives at the House of Commons to take up his seat. One lesson I took from 1974 is that when it comes to elections, nobody knows anything
In the event, Margaret Jackson failed to beat Taverne in February but did manage to win the seat, narrowly, in the October.
One lesson I took from 1974 is that when it comes to elections, nobody knows anything.
Heath had been expected to win comfortably in February, but the electorate had other ideas.
At the time, his critics all said he was mad to call an election in winter. Where have we heard that recently? Yet the experts were wrong, as they frequently are. Turnout was an impressive 78 per cent.
Another thing I learned was that it’s never a good idea to call an election on a single issue.
So Boris Johnson is wise not to base his whole pitch on a ‘Parliament versus the People’ message, important though that is. Voters quickly tire of the same old slogan being hammered out day after day during a long campaign.
So Boris Johnson is wise not to base his whole pitch on a ‘Parliament versus the People’ message, important though that is
So Boris Johnson is wise not to base his whole pitch on a ‘Parliament versus the People’ message, important though that is
Yes, it’s vital to get Brexit done. But only so that we can move on with our lives, after the paralysis of the past three-and-a-half years. That’s why Boris is concentrating on his plans to invest heavily in the NHS, schools and the police.
Ted Heath is the Tories’ Ghost of Christmas Past. His monomania about the miners cost his party power. Johnson can’t afford to make that mistake by constantly banging on about Europe. He has to broaden his appeal. Fortunately, Boris is already demonstrating he understands that.
Yesterday he turned up in a white coat at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge to affirm his support for the health service.
It seems to be working, judging by this newspaper’s poll showing Boris is trusted more than Jeremy Corbyn to care for the NHS.
Labour can’t be allowed to get away with their preposterous claim that, if the Tories win, they will sell off the health service to the Americans. Corbyn was at it again yesterday, alleging Johnson intends to hand over the NHS to Donald Trump. Does anyone seriously believe that is going to happen?
Jeremy Corbyn pulls a face as he waits to deliver a speech at a media event in London, Britain, 31 October, 2019. I burst out laughing watching Corbyn’s campaign launch. The ridiculous class war rhetoric only went to prove that he has learned nothing since 1974
Jeremy Corbyn pulls a face as he waits to deliver a speech at a media event in London, Britain, 31 October, 2019. I burst out laughing watching Corbyn’s campaign launch. The ridiculous class war rhetoric only went to prove that he has learned nothing since 1974
Corbyn and Labour are peddling the politics of resentment, painting a Fantasy Island vision of Britain as a Dickensian wasteland, full of cartoon Conservative villains in top hats, lighting big cigars with wads of £50 notes and pitchforking babies, while they deliberately poison the rivers and set fire to schools and hospitals
Corbyn and Labour are peddling the politics of resentment, painting a Fantasy Island vision of Britain as a Dickensian wasteland, full of cartoon Conservative villains in top hats, lighting big cigars with wads of £50 notes and pitchforking babies, while they deliberately poison the rivers and set fire to schools and hospitals
I burst out laughing watching Corbyn’s campaign launch. The ridiculous class war rhetoric only went to prove that he has learned nothing since 1974.
Corbyn and Labour are peddling the politics of resentment, painting a Fantasy Island vision of Britain as a Dickensian wasteland, full of cartoon Conservative villains in top hats, lighting big cigars with wads of £50 notes and pitchforking babies, while they deliberately poison the rivers and set fire to schools and hospitals.
Labour’s manifesto is like something from a Momentum version of the Beano. Soak the rich, stop the cuts, for the many not the few. Someone change the record. I can’t take six weeks of this drivel.
Who would have thought that as recently as Monday, Corbyn was doing everything he could to avoid an election? Certainly, his cynical message may resonate with some gullible punters. But I’d like to think most people are bright enough to see through the hype and the hypocrisy.
And there are none so hypocritical as most of those Labour MPs cheering Corbyn on, not least his sidelined deputy Tom Watson.
There was the Nonce Finder General sitting in the front row, along with other so-called ‘moderates’, all now prepared to swallow their principles to put a terrorist-loving, anti-Semite, Marxist throwback in 10 Downing Street.
They should be ashamed of themselves. But then again, Labour principles have always been a flexible commodity. Margaret Jackson, when I first encountered her, was a hard-Left anti-European.
Labour principles have always been a flexible commodity. Margaret Jackson, when I first encountered her, was a hard-Left anti-European. She grew up to become Margaret Beckett (pictured), one of the most prominent campaigners for Remain and the so-called People’s Vote
Labour principles have always been a flexible commodity. Margaret Jackson, when I first encountered her, was a hard-Left anti-European. She grew up to become Margaret Beckett (pictured), one of the most prominent campaigners for Remain and the so-called People’s Vote
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She grew up to become Margaret Beckett, one of the most prominent campaigners for Remain and the so-called People’s Vote. She also signed Corbyn’s nomination papers for the leadership, something she now admits makes her a ‘moron’.
Yet, like her colleagues, she will be urging us to make Corbyn Prime Minister. Corbyn himself is a lifelong opponent of the EU, but is promising a second referendum if Labour wins. How can anyone trust any of these people? You can’t believe a word they say.
The ecstatic reception accorded to Corbyn at yesterday’s launch reminded me of the 1987 General Election, when I spent a month on Neil Kinnock’s campaign bus.
These events are echo chambers, for the few not the many. Travelling with Kinnock, watching the Labour faithful lauding him behind closed doors, you could easily convince yourself that he was heading for a landslide victory.
Some of the Press pack had been suckered into believing it, too, even putting hard cash on a Labour triumph. Indeed, Kinnock managed to convince himself that taking possession of the keys to No 10 was a mere formality.
On the night of the election, I stood outside his agent’s bungalow in Wales and watched Newsnight’s Vincent Hanna march up to the front door bearing news of a BBC exit poll declaring Kinnock the winner. It was greeted with loud cheering inside.
Lovely, tidy, smashing.
A couple of hours later, Kinnochio was crestfallen as the grim reality dawned. Labour had been crushed and Mrs Thatcher won her third consecutive victory, with a majority of 102.
Just as I learned in 1974 that nobody knows anything, 1987 taught me not to make predictions. The outcome is complicated this time by the popularity of smaller parties and the potential volatility of the electorate.
If there’s any justice, if democracy means anything, Boris should be returned with a decent working majority. The recalcitrant Remainers from all parties who have spent the past three-and-a-half years trying to overturn the result of the referendum ought by rights to be flushed down the toilet of history.
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The Grieves, Hammonds Soubrys, Umunnas warrant a humiliating, ignominious career-ending defenestration.
Swinson’s Lib Dems are a rabble with a single message, Stop Brexit. Half of them weren’t even Lib Dems until a couple of months ago. They’re not a serious, grown-up party of government, merely reverting to their historic role as a receptacle for disgruntled losers.
The Brexit Party deserve better than to be marginalised. After all, it’s thanks to them that the appalling Theresa May was toppled and Boris has managed to secure a Brexit deal, however imperfect. If I thought Farage could form a government, I’d have no hesitation voting for the Brexit Party
The Brexit Party deserve better than to be marginalised. After all, it’s thanks to them that the appalling Theresa May was toppled and Boris has managed to secure a Brexit deal, however imperfect. If I thought Farage could form a government, I’d have no hesitation voting for the Brexit Party
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The Brexit Party deserve better than to be marginalised. After all, it’s thanks to them that the appalling Theresa May was toppled and Boris has managed to secure a Brexit deal, however imperfect.
Why should the Tories, who contrived to botch Brexit until Johnson took over, benefit from the Faragistas’ hard work? If I thought Farage could form a government, I’d have no hesitation voting for the Brexit Party. But that ain’t gonna happen.
If any kind of Brexit is to become a reality, Boris is the only show in town. Farage is wisely offering the Tories an olive branch. Let’s hope they’re bright enough to take Donald Trump’s advice.
The alternative, a Back To The Future Corbyn government, is too horrible to contemplate. If Corbyn wins, the strike-torn, bankrupt days of 1974 will start to look like a brand new bright tomorrow.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...byn-believe-Britain-Dickensian-wasteland.html
By Richard Littlejohn for the Daily Mail
31 Oct 2019
The first General Election I covered was in February 1974, in Lincoln. Labour’s candidate was a young woman called Margaret Jackson, who looked a bit like Princess Anne.
She was trying to unseat the incumbent MP, Dick Taverne, who had resigned from Labour and was standing as an independent. The election had been called by Tory Prime Minister Ted Heath in the middle of a bitter, prolonged miners’ strike, which had brought widespread power cuts and forced industry on to a three-day week.
Heath’s campaign pitch was simple: Who runs Britain — the Government or the National Union of Mineworkers?
Corbyn and Labour are peddling the politics of resentment, painting a Fantasy Island vision of Britain as a Dickensian wasteland, full of cartoon Conservative villains in top hats, lighting big cigars with wads of £50 notes and pitchforking babies, while they deliberately poison the rivers and set fire to schools and hospitals
Corbyn and Labour are peddling the politics of resentment, painting a Fantasy Island vision of Britain as a Dickensian wasteland, full of cartoon Conservative villains in top hats, lighting big cigars with wads of £50 notes and pitchforking babies, while they deliberately poison the rivers and set fire to schools and hospitals
He didn’t get the answer he wanted. The Tories lost their majority. Heath tried to form a coalition with the Liberals, who had more than doubled their vote. But they wouldn’t play ball.
Heath also assumed he could rely on the Ulster Unionists. He was gravely mistaken. Labour’s Harold Wilson formed a minority government, which staggered on for a few months before being forced to go back to the country in October to seek a fresh mandate.
Wilson’s manifesto contained a pledge to hold a referendum on Britain’s membership of what was then called the Common Market, the issue which caused Taverne to resign from Labour in protest at the party’s growing anti-Europeanism. There’s nothing new in the world.
The 1974 election had been called by Tory Prime Minister Ted Heath (pictured) in the middle of a bitter, prolonged miners’ strike, which had brought widespread power cuts and forced industry on to a three-day week
The 1974 election had been called by Tory Prime Minister Ted Heath (pictured) in the middle of a bitter, prolonged miners’ strike, which had brought widespread power cuts and forced industry on to a three-day week
Richard (Dick) Taverne, now Baron Taverne of Pimlico, is pictured being carried high by supporters as he arrives at the House of Commons to take up his seat. One lesson I took from 1974 is that when it comes to elections, nobody knows anything
Richard (Dick) Taverne, now Baron Taverne of Pimlico, is pictured being carried high by supporters as he arrives at the House of Commons to take up his seat. One lesson I took from 1974 is that when it comes to elections, nobody knows anything
In the event, Margaret Jackson failed to beat Taverne in February but did manage to win the seat, narrowly, in the October.
One lesson I took from 1974 is that when it comes to elections, nobody knows anything.
Heath had been expected to win comfortably in February, but the electorate had other ideas.
At the time, his critics all said he was mad to call an election in winter. Where have we heard that recently? Yet the experts were wrong, as they frequently are. Turnout was an impressive 78 per cent.
Another thing I learned was that it’s never a good idea to call an election on a single issue.
So Boris Johnson is wise not to base his whole pitch on a ‘Parliament versus the People’ message, important though that is. Voters quickly tire of the same old slogan being hammered out day after day during a long campaign.
So Boris Johnson is wise not to base his whole pitch on a ‘Parliament versus the People’ message, important though that is
So Boris Johnson is wise not to base his whole pitch on a ‘Parliament versus the People’ message, important though that is
Yes, it’s vital to get Brexit done. But only so that we can move on with our lives, after the paralysis of the past three-and-a-half years. That’s why Boris is concentrating on his plans to invest heavily in the NHS, schools and the police.
Ted Heath is the Tories’ Ghost of Christmas Past. His monomania about the miners cost his party power. Johnson can’t afford to make that mistake by constantly banging on about Europe. He has to broaden his appeal. Fortunately, Boris is already demonstrating he understands that.
Yesterday he turned up in a white coat at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge to affirm his support for the health service.
It seems to be working, judging by this newspaper’s poll showing Boris is trusted more than Jeremy Corbyn to care for the NHS.
Labour can’t be allowed to get away with their preposterous claim that, if the Tories win, they will sell off the health service to the Americans. Corbyn was at it again yesterday, alleging Johnson intends to hand over the NHS to Donald Trump. Does anyone seriously believe that is going to happen?
Jeremy Corbyn pulls a face as he waits to deliver a speech at a media event in London, Britain, 31 October, 2019. I burst out laughing watching Corbyn’s campaign launch. The ridiculous class war rhetoric only went to prove that he has learned nothing since 1974
Jeremy Corbyn pulls a face as he waits to deliver a speech at a media event in London, Britain, 31 October, 2019. I burst out laughing watching Corbyn’s campaign launch. The ridiculous class war rhetoric only went to prove that he has learned nothing since 1974
Corbyn and Labour are peddling the politics of resentment, painting a Fantasy Island vision of Britain as a Dickensian wasteland, full of cartoon Conservative villains in top hats, lighting big cigars with wads of £50 notes and pitchforking babies, while they deliberately poison the rivers and set fire to schools and hospitals
Corbyn and Labour are peddling the politics of resentment, painting a Fantasy Island vision of Britain as a Dickensian wasteland, full of cartoon Conservative villains in top hats, lighting big cigars with wads of £50 notes and pitchforking babies, while they deliberately poison the rivers and set fire to schools and hospitals
I burst out laughing watching Corbyn’s campaign launch. The ridiculous class war rhetoric only went to prove that he has learned nothing since 1974.
Corbyn and Labour are peddling the politics of resentment, painting a Fantasy Island vision of Britain as a Dickensian wasteland, full of cartoon Conservative villains in top hats, lighting big cigars with wads of £50 notes and pitchforking babies, while they deliberately poison the rivers and set fire to schools and hospitals.
Labour’s manifesto is like something from a Momentum version of the Beano. Soak the rich, stop the cuts, for the many not the few. Someone change the record. I can’t take six weeks of this drivel.
Who would have thought that as recently as Monday, Corbyn was doing everything he could to avoid an election? Certainly, his cynical message may resonate with some gullible punters. But I’d like to think most people are bright enough to see through the hype and the hypocrisy.
And there are none so hypocritical as most of those Labour MPs cheering Corbyn on, not least his sidelined deputy Tom Watson.
There was the Nonce Finder General sitting in the front row, along with other so-called ‘moderates’, all now prepared to swallow their principles to put a terrorist-loving, anti-Semite, Marxist throwback in 10 Downing Street.
They should be ashamed of themselves. But then again, Labour principles have always been a flexible commodity. Margaret Jackson, when I first encountered her, was a hard-Left anti-European.
Labour principles have always been a flexible commodity. Margaret Jackson, when I first encountered her, was a hard-Left anti-European. She grew up to become Margaret Beckett (pictured), one of the most prominent campaigners for Remain and the so-called People’s Vote
Labour principles have always been a flexible commodity. Margaret Jackson, when I first encountered her, was a hard-Left anti-European. She grew up to become Margaret Beckett (pictured), one of the most prominent campaigners for Remain and the so-called People’s Vote
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She grew up to become Margaret Beckett, one of the most prominent campaigners for Remain and the so-called People’s Vote. She also signed Corbyn’s nomination papers for the leadership, something she now admits makes her a ‘moron’.
Yet, like her colleagues, she will be urging us to make Corbyn Prime Minister. Corbyn himself is a lifelong opponent of the EU, but is promising a second referendum if Labour wins. How can anyone trust any of these people? You can’t believe a word they say.
The ecstatic reception accorded to Corbyn at yesterday’s launch reminded me of the 1987 General Election, when I spent a month on Neil Kinnock’s campaign bus.
These events are echo chambers, for the few not the many. Travelling with Kinnock, watching the Labour faithful lauding him behind closed doors, you could easily convince yourself that he was heading for a landslide victory.
Some of the Press pack had been suckered into believing it, too, even putting hard cash on a Labour triumph. Indeed, Kinnock managed to convince himself that taking possession of the keys to No 10 was a mere formality.
On the night of the election, I stood outside his agent’s bungalow in Wales and watched Newsnight’s Vincent Hanna march up to the front door bearing news of a BBC exit poll declaring Kinnock the winner. It was greeted with loud cheering inside.
Lovely, tidy, smashing.
A couple of hours later, Kinnochio was crestfallen as the grim reality dawned. Labour had been crushed and Mrs Thatcher won her third consecutive victory, with a majority of 102.
Just as I learned in 1974 that nobody knows anything, 1987 taught me not to make predictions. The outcome is complicated this time by the popularity of smaller parties and the potential volatility of the electorate.
If there’s any justice, if democracy means anything, Boris should be returned with a decent working majority. The recalcitrant Remainers from all parties who have spent the past three-and-a-half years trying to overturn the result of the referendum ought by rights to be flushed down the toilet of history.
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The Grieves, Hammonds Soubrys, Umunnas warrant a humiliating, ignominious career-ending defenestration.
Swinson’s Lib Dems are a rabble with a single message, Stop Brexit. Half of them weren’t even Lib Dems until a couple of months ago. They’re not a serious, grown-up party of government, merely reverting to their historic role as a receptacle for disgruntled losers.
The Brexit Party deserve better than to be marginalised. After all, it’s thanks to them that the appalling Theresa May was toppled and Boris has managed to secure a Brexit deal, however imperfect. If I thought Farage could form a government, I’d have no hesitation voting for the Brexit Party
The Brexit Party deserve better than to be marginalised. After all, it’s thanks to them that the appalling Theresa May was toppled and Boris has managed to secure a Brexit deal, however imperfect. If I thought Farage could form a government, I’d have no hesitation voting for the Brexit Party
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The Brexit Party deserve better than to be marginalised. After all, it’s thanks to them that the appalling Theresa May was toppled and Boris has managed to secure a Brexit deal, however imperfect.
Why should the Tories, who contrived to botch Brexit until Johnson took over, benefit from the Faragistas’ hard work? If I thought Farage could form a government, I’d have no hesitation voting for the Brexit Party. But that ain’t gonna happen.
If any kind of Brexit is to become a reality, Boris is the only show in town. Farage is wisely offering the Tories an olive branch. Let’s hope they’re bright enough to take Donald Trump’s advice.
The alternative, a Back To The Future Corbyn government, is too horrible to contemplate. If Corbyn wins, the strike-torn, bankrupt days of 1974 will start to look like a brand new bright tomorrow.
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Exactly.
He didn't deliver Brexit tonight, deliberately, tonight.
Thus, he's a liar.
Make allll the excuses you want, Blackie. You cannot blame the Remainers on this latest stop of Brexit. This is ALL on BoJo and his being a chickenshyte.
I feel our pain. Fact is the bureaucracy have taken over and nothing happens anymore that isn't to their benefit. Our next big fight is to get out of the UN.