Boris prorogues Parliament and visits the Queen to kickstart election campaign

[Blackleaf]

Believe it when I see it.
Brexit was supposed to happen how many times now? Last was 31 October.
BoJo lied then...
He failed, just like May.

Being constantly in denial of reality is a definite sign of a gradual deterioration in one's mental health. I do recommend a visit to a respected psychiatrist or mental health professional in your local area before it gets worse. Various treatments can be explored in this modern age.

 

[Blackleaf]

Votes Leave are back!

Boris Johnson promises a 'buy British' rule after UK finally leaves the EU and rules out a fuel duty increase to boost businesses after Brexit

The Prime Minister also revealed that he will introduce new state aid rules to help prop up ailing firms, with a blast at EU rules which prevent governments from intervening. Flanked by fellow Vote Leave figures Michael Gove and ex-Labour MP Gisela Stuart at a central London press conference, Mr Johnson said: 'Today we are setting out specific ways in which we will change EU law so we can enjoy the benefits of Brexit without delay. We'll back British businesses, by ensuring the public sector buys British ... and we'll back British industry, by making sure we can intervene when great British businesses are struggling.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...c-sector-homegrown-firms-Brexit-election.html

 

[Serryah]

Being constantly in denial of reality is a definite sign of a gradual deterioration in one's mental health. I do recommend a visit to a respected psychiatrist or mental health professional in your local area before it gets worse. Various treatments can be explored in this modern age.

The only one in denial of reality is you, Blackie.


However, waiting for something to become a reality is a sign of patience and previous experience especially when considering the subject is known to lie. Hence the "I'll believe it when I see it" part of the post.

 

[Blackleaf]

The only one in denial of reality is you, Blackie.

I'm fully aware of the reality of the situation.

 

[Serryah]

I'm fully aware of the reality of the situation.

Great!


So you admit BoJo lied about Brexit. Good for you.


Now we'll see if he wins the election and by how much, and if so, if he can deliver his second "we're leaving" date.

 

[Blackleaf]

Great!
So you admit BoJo lied about Brexit.

Nope.

 

[spaminator]

Boris Johnson replaced by block of ice for TV debate, Conservatives cry foul
Reuters
Published:
November 28, 2019
Updated:
November 28, 2019 5:59 PM EST
An ice sculpture stands in for Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the studio before the start of the Channel 4 News' General Election climate debate at ITN Studios on November 28, 2019 in London. (Kirsty O'Connor /WPA Pool/Getty Images)
LONDON — British broadcaster Channel 4 represented Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a block of melting ice in a prime-time election debate on the environment on Thursday, prompting his Conservative Party to complain this broke impartiality rules.
The commercially funded public-service broadcaster invited leaders of all Britain’s main political parties to take part in the debate before Dec. 12’s election, but both Johnson and the leader of the Brexit Party, Nigel Farage, declined to attend.
The Conservative Party offered former environment minister Michael Gove as a substitute, but the broadcaster said the debate was only intended for party leaders, and that the other political parties would not agree to change the terms.
“This effectively seeks to deprive the Conservative Party of any representation and attendance,” the Conservatives wrote in a letter of complaint to broadcast regulator Ofcom.
British television broadcasters are required to be politically impartial, and face extra balance requirements during election periods. Ofcom can fine broadcasters that do not comply, and as a last resort can cancel a broadcaster’s license.
Story continues below
The Conservatives said Thursday’s disagreement was “part of a wider pattern of bias by Channel 4 in recent months.”
The broadcaster’s head of news and current affairs, Dorothy Byrne, described Johnson as “a known liar” in a major industry speech in August.
On Thursday, the editor of Channel 4’s main news program, Ben de Pear, likened the Conservatives’ approach to the media to that of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly said Britain’s election was parliamentary, not presidential, making it unreasonable for Channel 4 to require Johnson’s appearance as a condition of the Conservatives taking part in the debate.
“Put your leader Boris Johnson alongside the other leaders and stop playing games. Don’t refuse and then threaten our license – it’s a slippery slope,” de Pear said in reply.
News website Buzzfeed quoted an unnamed Conservative Party source as saying the party would call for a review into Channel 4’s operating license, which is due for renewal in 2024, if Johnson returns to power after Dec. 12’s election.
Channel 4 is not the only broadcaster to struggle to book Johnson, whose Conservative Party is leading the opposition Labour Party in opinion polls and keen to avoid any gaffes.
Johnson has so far declined to take part in a half-hour sit-down with BBC interviewer Andrew Neil, who gave tough scrutiny to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday.

http://torontosun.com/news/world/bo...k-of-ice-for-tv-debate-conservatives-cry-foul

 

[Blackleaf]

Boris Johnson replaced by block of ice for TV debate, Conservatives cry foul
Reuters
Published:
November 28, 2019
Updated:
November 28, 2019 5:59 PM EST
An ice sculpture stands in for Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the studio before the start of the Channel 4 News' General Election climate debate at ITN Studios on November 28, 2019 in London. (Kirsty O'Connor /WPA Pool/Getty Images)
LONDON — British broadcaster Channel 4 represented Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a block of melting ice in a prime-time election debate on the environment on Thursday, prompting his Conservative Party to complain this broke impartiality rules.
The commercially funded public-service broadcaster invited leaders of all Britain’s main political parties to take part in the debate before Dec. 12’s election, but both Johnson and the leader of the Brexit Party, Nigel Farage, declined to attend.
The Conservative Party offered former environment minister Michael Gove as a substitute, but the broadcaster said the debate was only intended for party leaders, and that the other political parties would not agree to change the terms.
“This effectively seeks to deprive the Conservative Party of any representation and attendance,” the Conservatives wrote in a letter of complaint to broadcast regulator Ofcom.
British television broadcasters are required to be politically impartial, and face extra balance requirements during election periods. Ofcom can fine broadcasters that do not comply, and as a last resort can cancel a broadcaster’s license.
Story continues below
The Conservatives said Thursday’s disagreement was “part of a wider pattern of bias by Channel 4 in recent months.”
The broadcaster’s head of news and current affairs, Dorothy Byrne, described Johnson as “a known liar” in a major industry speech in August.
On Thursday, the editor of Channel 4’s main news program, Ben de Pear, likened the Conservatives’ approach to the media to that of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly said Britain’s election was parliamentary, not presidential, making it unreasonable for Channel 4 to require Johnson’s appearance as a condition of the Conservatives taking part in the debate.
“Put your leader Boris Johnson alongside the other leaders and stop playing games. Don’t refuse and then threaten our license – it’s a slippery slope,” de Pear said in reply.
News website Buzzfeed quoted an unnamed Conservative Party source as saying the party would call for a review into Channel 4’s operating license, which is due for renewal in 2024, if Johnson returns to power after Dec. 12’s election.
Channel 4 is not the only broadcaster to struggle to book Johnson, whose Conservative Party is leading the opposition Labour Party in opinion polls and keen to avoid any gaffes.
Johnson has so far declined to take part in a half-hour sit-down with BBC interviewer Andrew Neil, who gave tough scrutiny to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday.

http://torontosun.com/news/world/bo...k-of-ice-for-tv-debate-conservatives-cry-foul

A childish stance by the rabidly left-wing Channel 4 News that hardly anybody watches.

 

[Serryah]

Nope.

But he did.


Brexit was to happen October 31 or he'd rather be dead in a ditch.


Is he dead in a ditch?

 

[Serryah]

Boris Johnson replaced by block of ice for TV debate, Conservatives cry foul
Reuters
Published:
November 28, 2019
Updated:
November 28, 2019 5:59 PM EST
An ice sculpture stands in for Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the studio before the start of the Channel 4 News' General Election climate debate at ITN Studios on November 28, 2019 in London. (Kirsty O'Connor /WPA Pool/Getty Images)
LONDON — British broadcaster Channel 4 represented Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a block of melting ice in a prime-time election debate on the environment on Thursday, prompting his Conservative Party to complain this broke impartiality rules.
The commercially funded public-service broadcaster invited leaders of all Britain’s main political parties to take part in the debate before Dec. 12’s election, but both Johnson and the leader of the Brexit Party, Nigel Farage, declined to attend.
The Conservative Party offered former environment minister Michael Gove as a substitute, but the broadcaster said the debate was only intended for party leaders, and that the other political parties would not agree to change the terms.
“This effectively seeks to deprive the Conservative Party of any representation and attendance,” the Conservatives wrote in a letter of complaint to broadcast regulator Ofcom.
British television broadcasters are required to be politically impartial, and face extra balance requirements during election periods. Ofcom can fine broadcasters that do not comply, and as a last resort can cancel a broadcaster’s license.
Story continues below
The Conservatives said Thursday’s disagreement was “part of a wider pattern of bias by Channel 4 in recent months.”
The broadcaster’s head of news and current affairs, Dorothy Byrne, described Johnson as “a known liar” in a major industry speech in August.
On Thursday, the editor of Channel 4’s main news program, Ben de Pear, likened the Conservatives’ approach to the media to that of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly said Britain’s election was parliamentary, not presidential, making it unreasonable for Channel 4 to require Johnson’s appearance as a condition of the Conservatives taking part in the debate.
“Put your leader Boris Johnson alongside the other leaders and stop playing games. Don’t refuse and then threaten our license – it’s a slippery slope,” de Pear said in reply.
News website Buzzfeed quoted an unnamed Conservative Party source as saying the party would call for a review into Channel 4’s operating license, which is due for renewal in 2024, if Johnson returns to power after Dec. 12’s election.
Channel 4 is not the only broadcaster to struggle to book Johnson, whose Conservative Party is leading the opposition Labour Party in opinion polls and keen to avoid any gaffes.
Johnson has so far declined to take part in a half-hour sit-down with BBC interviewer Andrew Neil, who gave tough scrutiny to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday.

http://torontosun.com/news/world/bo...k-of-ice-for-tv-debate-conservatives-cry-foul

Childish and stupid.


But also kind'a funny.

 

[Blackleaf]

Coffee House

Channel 4’s climate change debate was a sham

Brendan O'Neill

Brendan O'Neill
29 November 2019
The Spectator

I’ve seen some mad political debates in my time, but none as bonkers as last night’s climate debate on Channel 4. It summed up beautifully how unhinged climate-change alarmism has become.

It wasn’t a debate at all, in fact. Everyone in the studio agreed that the end of the world is nigh, that mankind is polluting himself out of existence and that if we don’t take action right now against plastic straws and cotton buds — seriously — then our kids will inherit a barren planet.

It was less a political debate and more a self-help group for politicians in the grip of apocalyptic dread. It was a public display of chattering-class hysteria and it clarified precisely nothing about the serious political issues facing the UK.

Channel 4, being the most PC, eco-aware, arch-Remain broadcaster, set the scene with a ridiculously emotionalist short film before the discussion started.

We saw piles of rubbish in some unnamed Third World country. We saw floods. We saw bushfires in Australia and then — really tugging at the heartstrings now — an injured koala bear. The koala bear was rescued but then it died. You did this, you stupid, polluting inhabitant of an industrialised society — that’s what C4 was essentially saying to the great unwashed of the UK.

The short film provided an unwitting insight into the cultish ethos that now surrounds the eco-debate. The idea that fire and floods are some kind of punishment for humankind’s hubristic behaviour is straight out of the Old Testament. The only thing that was missing was plagues of locusts.

The non-debate swiftly descended into diktats from our eco-politicians about the sacrifices we must all make if we want to push back the apocalypse.

Nicola Sturgeon boasted about having banned cotton buds in Scotland. The Scots were also the first to ban plastic straws, she said. Such historic achievements! Jo Swinson got emotional over the fact her young kid has never seen a hedgehog (or a squirrel, I presume…). There’s a political vision you never thought you’d encounter: ‘See more hedgehogs — vote Lib Dem.’

Because Swinson can’t go more than five minutes without slagging off Brexit, she also described Brexit as a ‘climate crime’. Yep, Brexit is so evil it is now facilitating the end of planetary life as we know it, by removing the UK from climate debates in the EU.

Everyone promised to make sacrifices. Adam Price of Plaid Cymru said he would put his one-year-old in washable nappies and start riding a bike to work. Australia’s koala population can rest easy. Jeremy Corbyn says he already does his bit — he’s always turning off the heat in his home. He said he has a ‘miserable’ attitude to heaters.

‘Miserable’ summed the whole thing up. This was eco-miserabilism writ large. It was an orgy of downbeat, doom-laden, anti-progress blathering. Where were the arguments for going nuclear? For investing more in genetic modification? Nowhere.

We had a glimpse of the censorious streak in environmentalism, too. Heaven help anyone who criticises any of this eco-guff. Sian Berry of the Green party said we have to do what the science tells us to do, rather than what is ‘politically expedient’.

This strikes me as pretty anti-democratic. Science doesn’t tell us to do anything. All science can do is study and report on the natural world. It is down to politicians — and, more importantly, the people who elect them — to decide what to do in society. When Berry and others say we must obey the science, they are really treating science as a God-like force that instructs us all to live smaller, meeker lives.

Unable, unsurprisingly, to win the argument for economic restraint in the democratic sphere, the political class prefers to marshal the allegedly unquestionable power of science to make us change our ways.

It was a sad and unwittingly comical spectacle. Politicians coming together to try to outdo each other in the eco-signalling stakes. What we really need in the green discussion is an injection of reason. The world isn’t coming to an end, mankind is not a destructive force and our key priority should be liberating humanity from poverty, not weeping over a koala bear. If someone had said that, it would have been a proper debate.

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/11/channel-4s-climate-change-debate-was-a-sham/

Why did Boris Johnson refuse to attend tonight’s Channel 4 leaders’ debate on the climate? His party has gone to war with the broadcaster, writing to Ofcom before the programme even started to complain about the way the prime Minister had been ’empty-chaired’, a slowly-melting ice sculpture replacing him (and another for Nigel Farage). According to the letter, signed by Tory spinner Lee Cain, the rationale for turning down the invitation was that Channel 4 has marked itself out as being anti-Tory with a ‘wider pattern of bias’, including the channel’s head of news and current affairs Dorothy Byrne ‘making highly personal and unpleasant attacks on the Prime Minister at the Edinburgh Television Festival in August’.

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/...-channel-4-over-climate-debate-ice-sculpture/

 

[Blackleaf]

TONY PARSONS Labour saying they’ll respect the referendum vote and deliver Brexit? Leave it out

COMMENT
Tony Parsons
30 Nov 2019
The Sun

IN the 11 days before the General Election, this panicked Labour Party are going to lie through their weasel teeth that they really respect the biggest vote for anything in British history.

Just watch Labour pretend to love Leave!

Corbyn's policies that seemed so wonderfully woke in an Islington patisserie — no immigration controls, tax everybody until they squeak — have gone down like a tide of toxic waste out in the real world Credit: EPA

This campaign has been a disaster for Jeremy Corbyn and all his *middle-class Marxist comrades.

Policies that seemed so wonderfully woke in an Islington patisserie — no immigration controls, tax everybody until they squeak — have gone down like a tide of toxic waste out in the real world.

Labour thought they could do it without the working class. They were WRONG. All those Labour toffs thought they could live without all of us thick, ignorant peasants who dared to disobey the establishment and vote for Brexit.

Emily Thornberry — Lady Nugee, who chuckled at seeing the flag of St George! — was wrong. Sir Keir Starmer, so passionate in his adoration of Brussels, was wrong.

Corbyn — a man without a patriotic bone in his withered old carcass — was wrong. Labour’s total contempt for the working class, who they were founded to represent, has them stumbling towards defeat.

RETHINKING STRATEGY

So Labour are rethinking their General Election strategy.

In Leave-voting areas, Labour will get down on their knees and beg the working class to come home.

Even an unequivocal Remainer like Ed Miliband is pretending he has always fought for a Brexit deal.

No, Ed — you fought to keep us in a single market and a customs union. You fought for a Brexit that was unworthy of the name.

You fought for a deal that was worse than staying in the EU.

Labour should really stop fibbing to the British people.

The modern Labour Party has no love, affection or understanding of the working class. It is the Tories who now represent the values of the working man and woman — their patriotism, their belief in democracy, their belief in family and hard work.

In working-class communities, Labour are ludicrously flexing their non-existent Leave credentials — which is both bitterly ironic and horribly hypocritical.

PUERILE CLASS WAR

Ask all the decent Labour MPs who have suffered torrents of abuse from Labour’s online thugs for *daring to suggest that the Referendum result, and democracy itself, should be respected.

Labour are the Remain party who are too pathetically gutless to admit it. But this election is not simply about Brexit.

Infinitely more important than our relationship with the European Union is stopping an economically moronic, terrorist sympathiser like Corbyn from getting anywhere near 10 Downing Street.

Emily Thornberry — Lady Nugee, who chuckled at seeing the flag of St George! — was wrong

I have only ever been a member of one political party — Labour.

It was the party of my family, my neighbourhood and my class.

That party no longer exists.

Corbyn and his Marxist muppets have ruined Labour with their sickening Jew-baiting racism, their puerile class war, their total lack of understanding of even basic *economics.

Do not let them ruin the country.

Do not believe the lies that they are going to tell you over the next 11 days.

And if you are working class, never believe for a single second that this pathetic excuse for a *Labour Party is on your side.

Labour have thrown in their lot with privately educated revolutionaries who would rather wave a Palestinian flag than the Union Jack.

And it is only now they are starting to regret it.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10459054/labour-respect-brexit-referendum-vote-leave-it-out/

 

[Blackleaf]

Boris To Trigger No Deal Brexit If EU Don’t Offer Trade Deal

As we get closer to the 2019 general Election Day, all party leaders try to clarify their Brexit position. Boris Johnson has clarified that after passing his Brexit deal, the UK will focus on negotiating a Canada style trade deal with the EU and if that fails, he will not extend the transition period beyond December 2020. Meanwhile, there are talks of the Tories and the Brexit Party splitting the Leave vote in seats such as Hartlepool where Richard Tice is standing. The EU officials seem to be concerned about the possibility of a Conservative majority government.

 

[Blackleaf]

Lefty Channel 4 News asked a group of Northern English traditional Labour voters who they'll be voting for in the election. Smugly expecting them to say they'll vote for Corbyn's Labour Remainers, they actually all said they are voting for Boris's Tory Brexiteers. Channel 4 News then tried to persuade them to change their minds - and failed.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ngwhUqIU5P8&t=3s

 

[spaminator]

 

[spaminator]

'POOR KID': Johnson ripped for response to photo of sick child treated on floor
Reuters
Published:
December 9, 2019
Updated:
December 9, 2019 12:58 PM EST
British Prime Minister and Conservative leader Boris Johnson poses holding a fish during a general election campaign visit to Grimsby Fish Market on December 9, 2019 in Grimsby. (Ben Stansall WPA Pool/Getty Images)
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson came under fire on Monday for his response to being shown a photo of a sick child lying on a hospital floor ahead of the Dec. 12 election.
Johnson’s Conservatives lead the opposition Labour Party in opinion polls, with Brexit and the future of the country’s public health service the two most prominent campaign issues.
During an interview, an ITV reporter repeatedly tried to show Johnson a picture on his phone of the 4-year-old boy lying on a pile of coats, which featured on the front page of the Labour-supporting Daily Mirror.
The newspaper said the boy had suspected pneumonia and had to be treated on the floor because there were no beds available.
Johnson initially avoided looking at the phone, and instead began describing his investment plans for the National Health Service (NHS) while saying he had not had a chance to see the photo.
Story continues below
The reporter said Johnson then took his phone and put it in his pocket.
When challenged, Johnson took the phone out, looked at it and said: “It is a terrible, terrible photo, and I apologize obviously to the family and all those who have terrible experiences in the NHS, but what we are doing is supporting the NHS.
“On the whole I think patients in the NHS have a much, much better experience than this poor kid has had,” he added, before saying: “I am sorry to have taken your phone.”
Opposition parties were quick to share the footage on social media, saying it showed Johnson had no empathy for patients.
Health minister Matt Hancock later made an unscheduled visit to the hospital in the central English city of Leeds, saying he had been “horrified” by the picture.
Asked if he had come because the Conservatives were panicked by the possible impact of the photo on the campaign, Hancock said: “No, what people want to see is the substance of increased investment…making sure we are dealing with the problems.”
BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg said on Twitter that Hancock was greeted by a group of protesting Labour activists, one of whom had punched his adviser.
Separately, during a campaign visit near the northeastern city of Sunderland, a target for the Conservatives, Johnson was taken to task by a voter who challenged his party over a spoof website meant to distract voters from Labour’s policy program.
Timed to coincide with the launch of Labour’s manifesto last month, the website, http://www.labourmanifesto.co.uk, accuses the party of having “no plan for Brexit,” proposing higher taxes and planning two more referendums.
Asked if it was fear of Labour that made his party set up the website, Johnson said: “I’m afraid the short answer to that question is that I haven’t got the foggiest idea.”

http://labourmanifesto.co.uk
http://mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-puts-reporters-phone-21057982
http://torontosun.com/news/world/po...ponse-to-photo-of-sick-child-treated-on-floor

 

[Danbones]

I have had the same thing happen to me here in Canada.

I even brought a blanket and pillow because I knew, even with kidney stones I was going to have to wait HOURS in emerge, and I was right - it took over 8 hours lying on the floor in the waiting room hallway before I was seen.
( They were so big, the lady Dr said I am now in the 9 lb baby club.)

The last time I was at emerge after a really bad fall, I was in that hallway on my coat for three hours between being seen by a Doctor and getting a diagnosis back.

 

[Blackleaf]

So, we're nearly there. Early tomorrow afternoon I'll be making my way to St William of York RC Primary School on the way to work to vote for the Conservative candidate for Bolton South East Johno Lee. An Afghanistan War veteran, he only has one leg.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Hands up?

Who isn't sick to death of British idiocy?

 

[Blackleaf]

Hands up?
Who isn't sick to death of British idiocy?

What a shame, for you, that your opinion has no bearing on tomorrow's election.

I just hope the British people do the sensible thing and elect a Conservative government tomorrow and keep out the Marxist and racist and anti-British Labour Party and the horrors that would wait us should they come to power.