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Boris Johnson vows to rule out any Brexit delays by LAW as he tells his army of new MPs they have just 18 months to show first-time Tory voters that 'we WILL repay their trust'
The 109 new Tory MPs with Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Numbered from 1-11 are Sara Britcliffe, Jonathan Gullis, Chris Loder, Imran Ahmad Khan, Aaron Bell, Mark Fletcher, Elliot Colburn, Lee Anderson, Antony Higginbotham, Dehenna Davison and Virginia Crosbie
Boris Johnson sent an emphatic signal to Brussels last night that he will not countenance any further delays to Brexit.
Downing Street said the withdrawal legislation is being amended to rule out any extension of the transition period beyond December 2020.
Officials also moved to scotch speculation that Mr Johnson could embrace a softer Brexit in the wake of his election landslide.
His official spokesman said he would insist on a 'Canada-style free trade agreement with no political alignment' – abandoning the closer ties planned by Theresa May.
And parliament will lose its veto over the negotiating mandate Mr Johnson will take into next year's trade talks.
It comes after the Prime Minister posed with 109 newly-elected Conservative MPs in Parliament as the surging Tories flexed their muscles and the Prime Minister started to shape his new administration.
Downing Street source said the Withdrawal Agreement Bill would 'legally prohibit the Government from agreeing any extension' to the transition, which takes effect once the exit legislation is passed.
It means that the transition period – during which free movement and EU laws continue to operate – will definitely end in December 2020.
The move is designed to show Brussels that the PM will not soften his stance when trade talks begin next year.
Michel Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator, has warned that securing a complete deal by next December is unrealistic. EU sources yesterday said only a 'bare bones' agreement could be nailed down by then – leaving some sectors facing 'partial No Deal' terms.
As Mr Johnson told Conservative MPs: 'Let the healing fountain of Brexit juices start – let people come together':
Government sources confirmed the Commons will be asked to vote through the first stage of the Brexit legislation on Friday;
Nicky Morgan agreed to take a peerage to stay on in Cabinet as Culture Secretary weeks after announcing she was quitting parliament;
Mr Johnson welcomed 109 new Tory MPs to the Commons;
Shares on the FTSE 100 index surged by more than 2 per cent as markets welcomed the stability brought by the new Government;
Tory sources said Thursday's Queen's Speech will 'protect and enhance' employment rights after Britain leaves the EU;
Labour infighting intensified with Emily Thornberry announcing she was suing former minister Caroline Flint over claims she called Leave supporters 'stupid';
Bank of England governor Mark Carney said the chances of No Deal had fallen.
The latest moves are designed to end speculation in Brussels that, cushioned by his 80-seat majority, Mr Johnson will now turn his back on Eurosceptic MPs and adopt a softer approach to Brexit.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...atum-Transition-period-end-December-2020.html
The 109 new Tory MPs with Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Numbered from 1-11 are Sara Britcliffe, Jonathan Gullis, Chris Loder, Imran Ahmad Khan, Aaron Bell, Mark Fletcher, Elliot Colburn, Lee Anderson, Antony Higginbotham, Dehenna Davison and Virginia Crosbie
Boris Johnson sent an emphatic signal to Brussels last night that he will not countenance any further delays to Brexit.
Downing Street said the withdrawal legislation is being amended to rule out any extension of the transition period beyond December 2020.
Officials also moved to scotch speculation that Mr Johnson could embrace a softer Brexit in the wake of his election landslide.
His official spokesman said he would insist on a 'Canada-style free trade agreement with no political alignment' – abandoning the closer ties planned by Theresa May.
And parliament will lose its veto over the negotiating mandate Mr Johnson will take into next year's trade talks.
It comes after the Prime Minister posed with 109 newly-elected Conservative MPs in Parliament as the surging Tories flexed their muscles and the Prime Minister started to shape his new administration.
Downing Street source said the Withdrawal Agreement Bill would 'legally prohibit the Government from agreeing any extension' to the transition, which takes effect once the exit legislation is passed.
It means that the transition period – during which free movement and EU laws continue to operate – will definitely end in December 2020.
The move is designed to show Brussels that the PM will not soften his stance when trade talks begin next year.
Michel Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator, has warned that securing a complete deal by next December is unrealistic. EU sources yesterday said only a 'bare bones' agreement could be nailed down by then – leaving some sectors facing 'partial No Deal' terms.
As Mr Johnson told Conservative MPs: 'Let the healing fountain of Brexit juices start – let people come together':
Government sources confirmed the Commons will be asked to vote through the first stage of the Brexit legislation on Friday;
Nicky Morgan agreed to take a peerage to stay on in Cabinet as Culture Secretary weeks after announcing she was quitting parliament;
Mr Johnson welcomed 109 new Tory MPs to the Commons;
Shares on the FTSE 100 index surged by more than 2 per cent as markets welcomed the stability brought by the new Government;
Tory sources said Thursday's Queen's Speech will 'protect and enhance' employment rights after Britain leaves the EU;
Labour infighting intensified with Emily Thornberry announcing she was suing former minister Caroline Flint over claims she called Leave supporters 'stupid';
Bank of England governor Mark Carney said the chances of No Deal had fallen.
The latest moves are designed to end speculation in Brussels that, cushioned by his 80-seat majority, Mr Johnson will now turn his back on Eurosceptic MPs and adopt a softer approach to Brexit.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...atum-Transition-period-end-December-2020.html
Labour MPs Turn On Each Other After Election Defeat.
The last few days have seen Labour members not accepting the general election result, and now funding others to blame for Corbyn’s defeat. Boris Johnson and the Conservative government are preparing for the new parliament to get Brexit done. Meanwhile, Labour are too busy targeting the BBC, Laura Kuenssberg, and now this YouTube channel for apparently influencing the public. Now, we have to prepare for the upcoming labour leadership election, with Remainer side and the Cornynista side warming up to back candidates such as Rebecca Long-Bailey, Angela Rayner and Lisa Nandy.
Lying Remainer shitweasel is destroyed by the BBC's Andrew Neil after claiming that Boris does not have a mandate for Brexit:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2-9Qnd-Lbm4&feature=youtu.be
Labour MPs attack Corbyn as the new Parliament meets for the first time...
'The problem was you': Furious Labour MPs tear into Jeremy Corbyn over the party's election humiliation as he tries to blame Brexit and the media for catastrophic loss to Boris Johnson's Tories
Labour MPs vented their election humiliation fury on lame duck leader Jeremy Corbyn tonight as he faced them for the first time since their crushing defeat by Boris Johnson's Tories.
All 202 of its remaining MPs confronted the outgoing opposition leader as he addressed them in Parliament tonight as it returned for the first time since their harrowing Thursday night loss.
Rebellious MPs dismissed his claims that the defeat - the party's worst since 1935 - was down to Brexit and media hostility.
Only a handful of ultra loyalists attempted to defend the party leader, who has already announced he will quit in the new year.
Mr Corbyn apologised to the fractious meeting, which was attended by several potential successors and many vocal critics.
Leeds West MP Rachel Reeves tore into him at the meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) saying the problem 'was you' and the 'economically illiterate' manifesto.
Speaking to reporters later outside she added: 'I said to Jeremy you can make all the excuses in the world... but the big drag on support in the election was him and his leadership.'
It came after Jeremy Corbyn was cornered by one of his former MPs today who tore into him after seeing him casually posing for selfies in Parliament despite overseeing Labour's catastrophic election humiliation.
Ex-Wakefield MP Mary Creagh said she confronted the outgoing Labour leader and told to 'apologise for what he'd done', after spotting him in parliament while in the building to clear out her office.
She described giving him the 'hairdryer' after spotting him in Portcullis House posing for selfies with young people, she told the Times, telling him 'he shouldn't be having his photo taken with young people because he had betrayed their future'.
Speaking to Channel 4, she added: 'We have in Jeremy a man without honour and without shame - and a type of preening narcissism that means he thinks he's still got something left to offer the Labour movement.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...eremy-Corbyn-partys-election-humiliation.html
'The problem was you': Furious Labour MPs tear into Jeremy Corbyn over the party's election humiliation as he tries to blame Brexit and the media for catastrophic loss to Boris Johnson's Tories
Labour MPs vented their election humiliation fury on lame duck leader Jeremy Corbyn tonight as he faced them for the first time since their crushing defeat by Boris Johnson's Tories.
All 202 of its remaining MPs confronted the outgoing opposition leader as he addressed them in Parliament tonight as it returned for the first time since their harrowing Thursday night loss.
Rebellious MPs dismissed his claims that the defeat - the party's worst since 1935 - was down to Brexit and media hostility.
Only a handful of ultra loyalists attempted to defend the party leader, who has already announced he will quit in the new year.
Mr Corbyn apologised to the fractious meeting, which was attended by several potential successors and many vocal critics.
Leeds West MP Rachel Reeves tore into him at the meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) saying the problem 'was you' and the 'economically illiterate' manifesto.
Speaking to reporters later outside she added: 'I said to Jeremy you can make all the excuses in the world... but the big drag on support in the election was him and his leadership.'
It came after Jeremy Corbyn was cornered by one of his former MPs today who tore into him after seeing him casually posing for selfies in Parliament despite overseeing Labour's catastrophic election humiliation.
Ex-Wakefield MP Mary Creagh said she confronted the outgoing Labour leader and told to 'apologise for what he'd done', after spotting him in parliament while in the building to clear out her office.
She described giving him the 'hairdryer' after spotting him in Portcullis House posing for selfies with young people, she told the Times, telling him 'he shouldn't be having his photo taken with young people because he had betrayed their future'.
Speaking to Channel 4, she added: 'We have in Jeremy a man without honour and without shame - and a type of preening narcissism that means he thinks he's still got something left to offer the Labour movement.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...eremy-Corbyn-partys-election-humiliation.html
Boris Johnson is cheered into Commons chamber - next to a grim-faced Corbyn: Jubilant PM welcomes his 'Blue Army' of MPs and taunts Labour by leading a pantomime-style chorus of 'let's get Brexit done!'
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn came face to face today for the first time since the Tory election triumph - with the PM taunting that Parliament is 'vastly improved'.
As Parliament officially reconvened after the bombshell result, Mr Johnson was cheered to the rafters by his newly-swelled gang of MPs.
By contrast, Mr Corbyn was jeered as he entered - having been humiliated by voters last Thursday.
The two leaders endured an awkward walk side-by-side through Central Lobby to the Lords, where the Queen's instruction for Parliament to start sitting was read out.
Neither seemed to make any attempt to strike up conversation, after making clear their contempt for each other during the brutal campaign.
When they returned, Lindsay Hoyle was formally confirmed in the Speaker's chair without a vote.
And an elated Mr Johnson then said that 'democracy' had taken charge and the House could finally 'get Brexit done'
'I think this Parliament is a vast improvement on its predecessor,' he said.
'This Parliament is not going to waste the time of the nation in deadlock and delay.'
As he repeated the mantra of 'get Brexit done' that helped secure his stunning poll victory, Tory MPs chanted along with him.
In his own downbeat speech, Mr Corbyn said his job was still to hold the government to 'account'.
'The PM made many many promises and he must take responsibility to live up to them,' he said.
'He will be judged on whether he keeps these promises by the communities he made them to.'
The Father of the House, Sir Peter Bottomley, presided over the process.
He assumed the mantle of the MP with longest continuous service due to left-wing firebrand Dennis Skinner being humiliatingly ousted in Bolsover as the Tories smashed Labour's 'Red Wall' of northern heartlands.
MPs will start being sworn in this afternoon - a process that will take two days.
Earlier, Mr Johnson gathered his new 'people's Cabinet' after sending an emphatic message to Brussels that he will not countenance any further delays to Brexit.
The PM and his top team met in Downing Street after it was revealed that withdrawal legislation is being amended to rule out any extension of the transition period beyond December 2020.
Mr Johnson said the Tory victory in the election was 'seismic' and he was determined to lead a 'people's government'.
'The voters of this country have changed this government and our party for the better, and we must repay their trust now to change our country for the better,' he said.
He added: 'You ain't seen nothing yet.'
Mr Johnson carried out a few tweaks to his Cabinet last night, appointing Simon Hart to fill the gap at Welsh Secretary and elevating Nicky Morgan to the Lords so she could continue as Culture Secretary despite standing down from the Commons.
However, a much deeper overhaul of the government is being plotted for February, with suggestions a third of senior ministerial posts could be axed to streamline decision-making.
The premier told ministers they should have 'no embarrassment about saying we are a people's government and this is a people's Cabinet'.
The meeting came after Mr Johnson moved to scotch speculation that he could embrace a softer Brexit in the wake of his election landslide.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...eered-Commons-chamber-Parliament-returns.html
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn came face to face today for the first time since the Tory election triumph - with the PM taunting that Parliament is 'vastly improved'.
As Parliament officially reconvened after the bombshell result, Mr Johnson was cheered to the rafters by his newly-swelled gang of MPs.
By contrast, Mr Corbyn was jeered as he entered - having been humiliated by voters last Thursday.
The two leaders endured an awkward walk side-by-side through Central Lobby to the Lords, where the Queen's instruction for Parliament to start sitting was read out.
Neither seemed to make any attempt to strike up conversation, after making clear their contempt for each other during the brutal campaign.
When they returned, Lindsay Hoyle was formally confirmed in the Speaker's chair without a vote.
And an elated Mr Johnson then said that 'democracy' had taken charge and the House could finally 'get Brexit done'
'I think this Parliament is a vast improvement on its predecessor,' he said.
'This Parliament is not going to waste the time of the nation in deadlock and delay.'
As he repeated the mantra of 'get Brexit done' that helped secure his stunning poll victory, Tory MPs chanted along with him.
In his own downbeat speech, Mr Corbyn said his job was still to hold the government to 'account'.
'The PM made many many promises and he must take responsibility to live up to them,' he said.
'He will be judged on whether he keeps these promises by the communities he made them to.'
The Father of the House, Sir Peter Bottomley, presided over the process.
He assumed the mantle of the MP with longest continuous service due to left-wing firebrand Dennis Skinner being humiliatingly ousted in Bolsover as the Tories smashed Labour's 'Red Wall' of northern heartlands.
MPs will start being sworn in this afternoon - a process that will take two days.
Earlier, Mr Johnson gathered his new 'people's Cabinet' after sending an emphatic message to Brussels that he will not countenance any further delays to Brexit.
The PM and his top team met in Downing Street after it was revealed that withdrawal legislation is being amended to rule out any extension of the transition period beyond December 2020.
Mr Johnson said the Tory victory in the election was 'seismic' and he was determined to lead a 'people's government'.
'The voters of this country have changed this government and our party for the better, and we must repay their trust now to change our country for the better,' he said.
He added: 'You ain't seen nothing yet.'
Mr Johnson carried out a few tweaks to his Cabinet last night, appointing Simon Hart to fill the gap at Welsh Secretary and elevating Nicky Morgan to the Lords so she could continue as Culture Secretary despite standing down from the Commons.
However, a much deeper overhaul of the government is being plotted for February, with suggestions a third of senior ministerial posts could be axed to streamline decision-making.
The premier told ministers they should have 'no embarrassment about saying we are a people's government and this is a people's Cabinet'.
The meeting came after Mr Johnson moved to scotch speculation that he could embrace a softer Brexit in the wake of his election landslide.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...eered-Commons-chamber-Parliament-returns.html
I think Britain could leave the orbit of the EU with a deal which, although not complete, gives adequate protection to the economies of both parties. It could then be added to, and elaborated, over subsequent years.
All that is necessary is for EU leaders and mandarins to believe that Boris means business. They may suspect he is bluffing, but they can't be certain. For the first time in a long time, the Prime Minister of Great Britain is going to be taken seriously.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7803327/STEPHEN-GLOVER-Prime-Minster-EU-seriously.html
All that is necessary is for EU leaders and mandarins to believe that Boris means business. They may suspect he is bluffing, but they can't be certain. For the first time in a long time, the Prime Minister of Great Britain is going to be taken seriously.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7803327/STEPHEN-GLOVER-Prime-Minster-EU-seriously.html
Strong identities that stand in opposition to "English" or "British" flock to the Labour Party.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LMhnxT8i-0A&t=1s
Boris Prepares To Give The EU An Absolute Haymaker!
You get what you f-ing deserve, Europe!
Boris puts No Deal back on the table as a newly-supine EU cowers before Britain.
The Brexit Parliament Begins!
This is the parliament we should have had three years ago.
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Boris Johnson: Perhaps my campaign was ‘clunking’. But sometimes, clunking is what you need
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister and former Spectator editor
21 December 2019
The Spectator
You may wonder why I am up at 4.45 a.m. writing this diary when I have a country to run, Queen’s speech to prepare, vast mandate to deliver, and so on. The answer is simple. It is a question of obligation. When I bumped into the editor (at Sajid Javid’s 50th birthday party) a couple of nights ago, he explained — with a slightly glassy expression — that he had taken a gamble. He had already printed the cover of the Christmas treble issue, he said. I know all about the Xmas cover. It is lavish, laminated, and on much thicker stock than the normal cover. It costs a bomb. Once you have printed it, you can’t change it. ‘Your name is on it,’ said Fraser. What could I say? I became editor 20 years ago. I owe this magazine. If the editor is going to be so kind as to co-opt me as a contributor, my duty is to oblige.
Fraser has given me the chance to acknowledge some other massive debts. Let’s hear it first for the thousands of activists — of all parties — who have just allowed our democracy to function. No PM really wants an election; and I certainly didn’t want one in December. But we had no choice; and — thank heavens — the activists understood that. For the last six weeks they have traipsed good-humouredly through rain and wind. With freezing fingers they have rung bells and pushed bumf through the furry fringes of letter boxes — never knowing whether a dog’s jaws are on the other side. Many have put up with undeserved abuse. They have been egged, trolled, spat at, and screamed at. They have seen their expensive Corex boards repeatedly torn down and defaced. Much has been made, in parliament, of the need for a kinder, gentler ‘tone’ in politics. Amen to that, and let’s make sure we all take it out on the campaign trail.
I also want to pay tribute to the handful of superb Conservative colleagues who lost their seats — mainly because of unexpected falls in the Labour vote. One way or another, I am sure that they will all be back. We also lost some first-rate Labour MPs, such as Caroline Flint. On the whole, though, this new parliament that meets on Tuesday is a vast and exciting improvement. It is younger, more female, more ethnically diverse, more LGBT, and, of course, quite a lot more Tory.
As for my own campaign thanks, you will read elsewhere of the heroics of the campaign director, the strategists, thinkers and others. Perhaps I should mention especially the media team, who had to explain such mysteries as why I chose to shut myself in a giant fridge and what exactly I was thinking when I confiscated a TV reporter’s mobile live on air; and the ‘Ops’ team. The ‘Ops’ team basically manage your life. They tell you when to get up, what to wear, where to stand, and they organise brilliantly vivid metaphors for the political points you are trying to make. In the space of 24 hours they had me driving a JCB through a Styrofoam wall to symbolise breaking the parliamentary deadlock; delivering milk on the doorstep, to denote delivery of our domestic agenda; baking an oven-ready pie to show that we have a ready-made withdrawal agreement with the EU; and working in a wonderful Welsh wrapping-paper factory — to show that we could get it ‘wrapped up’ by Christmas (more or less). Some said these metaphors were clunking, but in a general election campaign, clunking is what you need.
All these debts of gratitude are dwarfed, of course, by the colossal obligation that we in this new government have towards you — the people of the UK; and I am thinking particularly of those of you who have only hesitantly lent us your support. For the millions who voted in 2016 to remain in the EU, but who have just voted to get Brexit done, we must develop a new and warm pro-Europeanism. It is good and sensible to achieve close relations with the EU. We can do that, and heal our country’s divisions. For the millions of Labour voters who have lent us your votes — we will work flat out not just to GBD, but to deliver on all the key priorities of the British people. It is now imperative to invest in the NHS, in schools, in safer streets, in housing. We must tackle everything from social care to homelessness. All these projects are part of a vast interlocking programme to unite and level up the whole UK, and to unleash its potential. I know these slogans sound trite at the end of a campaign. But I — we — mean them wholeheartedly. As the dawn breaks, I am full of a surging confidence that we can do it. We have the energy, the ideas, the mandate, and we have some time; and since time is a wasting asset I want you to know that even as you munch your mince pies, we are engaged full tilt on a programme of change for the better. Merry Christmas!
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/12...king-but-sometimes-clunking-is-what-you-need/
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister and former Spectator editor
21 December 2019
The Spectator
You may wonder why I am up at 4.45 a.m. writing this diary when I have a country to run, Queen’s speech to prepare, vast mandate to deliver, and so on. The answer is simple. It is a question of obligation. When I bumped into the editor (at Sajid Javid’s 50th birthday party) a couple of nights ago, he explained — with a slightly glassy expression — that he had taken a gamble. He had already printed the cover of the Christmas treble issue, he said. I know all about the Xmas cover. It is lavish, laminated, and on much thicker stock than the normal cover. It costs a bomb. Once you have printed it, you can’t change it. ‘Your name is on it,’ said Fraser. What could I say? I became editor 20 years ago. I owe this magazine. If the editor is going to be so kind as to co-opt me as a contributor, my duty is to oblige.
Fraser has given me the chance to acknowledge some other massive debts. Let’s hear it first for the thousands of activists — of all parties — who have just allowed our democracy to function. No PM really wants an election; and I certainly didn’t want one in December. But we had no choice; and — thank heavens — the activists understood that. For the last six weeks they have traipsed good-humouredly through rain and wind. With freezing fingers they have rung bells and pushed bumf through the furry fringes of letter boxes — never knowing whether a dog’s jaws are on the other side. Many have put up with undeserved abuse. They have been egged, trolled, spat at, and screamed at. They have seen their expensive Corex boards repeatedly torn down and defaced. Much has been made, in parliament, of the need for a kinder, gentler ‘tone’ in politics. Amen to that, and let’s make sure we all take it out on the campaign trail.
I also want to pay tribute to the handful of superb Conservative colleagues who lost their seats — mainly because of unexpected falls in the Labour vote. One way or another, I am sure that they will all be back. We also lost some first-rate Labour MPs, such as Caroline Flint. On the whole, though, this new parliament that meets on Tuesday is a vast and exciting improvement. It is younger, more female, more ethnically diverse, more LGBT, and, of course, quite a lot more Tory.
As for my own campaign thanks, you will read elsewhere of the heroics of the campaign director, the strategists, thinkers and others. Perhaps I should mention especially the media team, who had to explain such mysteries as why I chose to shut myself in a giant fridge and what exactly I was thinking when I confiscated a TV reporter’s mobile live on air; and the ‘Ops’ team. The ‘Ops’ team basically manage your life. They tell you when to get up, what to wear, where to stand, and they organise brilliantly vivid metaphors for the political points you are trying to make. In the space of 24 hours they had me driving a JCB through a Styrofoam wall to symbolise breaking the parliamentary deadlock; delivering milk on the doorstep, to denote delivery of our domestic agenda; baking an oven-ready pie to show that we have a ready-made withdrawal agreement with the EU; and working in a wonderful Welsh wrapping-paper factory — to show that we could get it ‘wrapped up’ by Christmas (more or less). Some said these metaphors were clunking, but in a general election campaign, clunking is what you need.
All these debts of gratitude are dwarfed, of course, by the colossal obligation that we in this new government have towards you — the people of the UK; and I am thinking particularly of those of you who have only hesitantly lent us your support. For the millions who voted in 2016 to remain in the EU, but who have just voted to get Brexit done, we must develop a new and warm pro-Europeanism. It is good and sensible to achieve close relations with the EU. We can do that, and heal our country’s divisions. For the millions of Labour voters who have lent us your votes — we will work flat out not just to GBD, but to deliver on all the key priorities of the British people. It is now imperative to invest in the NHS, in schools, in safer streets, in housing. We must tackle everything from social care to homelessness. All these projects are part of a vast interlocking programme to unite and level up the whole UK, and to unleash its potential. I know these slogans sound trite at the end of a campaign. But I — we — mean them wholeheartedly. As the dawn breaks, I am full of a surging confidence that we can do it. We have the energy, the ideas, the mandate, and we have some time; and since time is a wasting asset I want you to know that even as you munch your mince pies, we are engaged full tilt on a programme of change for the better. Merry Christmas!
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/12...king-but-sometimes-clunking-is-what-you-need/
The Department for Exiting the EU (DexEU) has been responsible for negotiating the government's Brexit deal.
But it has long been suspected that future negotiations would be run from No 10 - and it now seems that is true.
The department is closing on the day the UK leaves the EU - 31 January 2020.
It remains to be seen what will happen to Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-50849167
But it has long been suspected that future negotiations would be run from No 10 - and it now seems that is true.
The department is closing on the day the UK leaves the EU - 31 January 2020.
It remains to be seen what will happen to Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-50849167
Following a tough previous week, the Boris Johnson government are back on good form by announcing that they could privatise the BBC to abolish the TV licence and move it to a subscription based service. Other reforms and shake ups include the House of Lords and the Supreme Court, both of which tried to stop Brexit. Meanwhile, the EU are divided when it comes to the budget between France and Germany with Macron criticising Merkel.
Lord Adonis loathes the ‘red wall’
The Remoaner peer accuses former Labour voters in the Midlands and north of England of being Powellite racists.
NEIL DAVENPORT
3rd June 2020
Spiked
It has been constantly claimed that the ‘fury’ against Dominic Cummings is only to do with him breaking the lockdown rules. He is the government adviser who helped draft rules that everyone else has to abide by. As armchair anarchists like to rehearse, Cummings once again demonstrates how ‘there is one rule for them and another for the rest of us’. It is said to be the root source of ‘public fury’, even though plenty of people have been sneaking out to commons and beaches during lockdown.
Another unelected public figure and fellow baldie, Lord Andrew Adonis, provides us with obvious reasons for all the bile and anger against Cummings. And it really does not have much to do with road trips, wonky eyesight or Barnard Castle.
Writing in the New European, Adonis makes clear what the ‘fury’ is really about: Brexit. Or rather, the failure of Third Way architects such as Adonis and others to stop Brexit altogether. ‘If Cummings implodes’, he writes, ‘let me chance my arm and say there is a serious possibility that Brexit comes back into play’. At least Adonis is honest – perhaps too honest for rearguard Remainers – about the real forces behind the witch-hunt against Cummings. But his belief that Brexit can be reversed at this stage is as delusional as a spurned lover who believes a text from an ex means a reconciliation is on the cards.
If all this wasn’t gauche enough, Adonis helpfully reminds us why the Labour Party were so thoroughly routed in the last General Election. He claims that Brexit ‘is the most dangerous right-wing project in Britain since Enoch Powell unleashed his anti-immigrant and anti-European tirades in the late 1960s’. He fails to mention that key Labour figures, such as Michael Foot and Barbara Castle, once joined forces with Enoch Powell in 1973 to campaign against Britain’s membership of the then European Economic Community (EEC). For left Eurosceptics, retaining parliamentary and popular sovereignty was so important that working alongside a reactionary such as Powell was considered a price worth paying.
But Adonis has something to say about Labour voters and ‘Powellism’, too. He claims that another Europhile, Roy Jenkins, told him how powerful a hold Enoch Powell had ‘over what we now call the working-class “red wall” in the Midlands and the north’. Learning nothing from the causes of Labour’s last election disaster, Adonis doubles down on the slander that northern Labour voters are a mass of bigoted racists.
It’s ironic that Adonis raises the bogeyman of Enoch Powell, since elite Remainers share a similar hostility to the working class as Powell did in his day. One of Powell’s concerns about non-white immigration was that he believed that Britain’s ‘white natives’ would automatically pogrom at the sight of black people.
Elite Remainers share with Powell a similar patrician loathing towards the supposedly gormless ‘working-class red wall voters in the Midlands and the north’. For middle-class liberals, British society has to be rescued from the unthinking voting actions of the uneducated throng, preferably with Lord Adonis or the European Commission making laws on everybody else’s behalf. They see Brexit as a disaster because it was voted for by the wrong people to enable the worst sort of people greater say on how the country is run.
The Remainer Alliance is far more reactionary than a well-connected elitist such as Cummings or an old Etonian like Boris Johnson. Elite Remainers are hysterically hostile to the mass electorate having a final say on laws that affect them. They see Cummings, wrongly as it happens, as the scourge who let the masses back in to spoil their dinner parties. And Lord Adonis’s soul-baring missive confirms that.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/03/lord-adonis-loathes-the-red-wall/
Lord Adonis loathes the ‘red wall’
The Remoaner peer accuses former Labour voters in the Midlands and north of England of being Powellite racists.
NEIL DAVENPORT
3rd June 2020
Spiked
It has been constantly claimed that the ‘fury’ against Dominic Cummings is only to do with him breaking the lockdown rules. He is the government adviser who helped draft rules that everyone else has to abide by. As armchair anarchists like to rehearse, Cummings once again demonstrates how ‘there is one rule for them and another for the rest of us’. It is said to be the root source of ‘public fury’, even though plenty of people have been sneaking out to commons and beaches during lockdown.
Another unelected public figure and fellow baldie, Lord Andrew Adonis, provides us with obvious reasons for all the bile and anger against Cummings. And it really does not have much to do with road trips, wonky eyesight or Barnard Castle.
Writing in the New European, Adonis makes clear what the ‘fury’ is really about: Brexit. Or rather, the failure of Third Way architects such as Adonis and others to stop Brexit altogether. ‘If Cummings implodes’, he writes, ‘let me chance my arm and say there is a serious possibility that Brexit comes back into play’. At least Adonis is honest – perhaps too honest for rearguard Remainers – about the real forces behind the witch-hunt against Cummings. But his belief that Brexit can be reversed at this stage is as delusional as a spurned lover who believes a text from an ex means a reconciliation is on the cards.
If all this wasn’t gauche enough, Adonis helpfully reminds us why the Labour Party were so thoroughly routed in the last General Election. He claims that Brexit ‘is the most dangerous right-wing project in Britain since Enoch Powell unleashed his anti-immigrant and anti-European tirades in the late 1960s’. He fails to mention that key Labour figures, such as Michael Foot and Barbara Castle, once joined forces with Enoch Powell in 1973 to campaign against Britain’s membership of the then European Economic Community (EEC). For left Eurosceptics, retaining parliamentary and popular sovereignty was so important that working alongside a reactionary such as Powell was considered a price worth paying.
But Adonis has something to say about Labour voters and ‘Powellism’, too. He claims that another Europhile, Roy Jenkins, told him how powerful a hold Enoch Powell had ‘over what we now call the working-class “red wall” in the Midlands and the north’. Learning nothing from the causes of Labour’s last election disaster, Adonis doubles down on the slander that northern Labour voters are a mass of bigoted racists.
It’s ironic that Adonis raises the bogeyman of Enoch Powell, since elite Remainers share a similar hostility to the working class as Powell did in his day. One of Powell’s concerns about non-white immigration was that he believed that Britain’s ‘white natives’ would automatically pogrom at the sight of black people.
Elite Remainers share with Powell a similar patrician loathing towards the supposedly gormless ‘working-class red wall voters in the Midlands and the north’. For middle-class liberals, British society has to be rescued from the unthinking voting actions of the uneducated throng, preferably with Lord Adonis or the European Commission making laws on everybody else’s behalf. They see Brexit as a disaster because it was voted for by the wrong people to enable the worst sort of people greater say on how the country is run.
The Remainer Alliance is far more reactionary than a well-connected elitist such as Cummings or an old Etonian like Boris Johnson. Elite Remainers are hysterically hostile to the mass electorate having a final say on laws that affect them. They see Cummings, wrongly as it happens, as the scourge who let the masses back in to spoil their dinner parties. And Lord Adonis’s soul-baring missive confirms that.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/03/lord-adonis-loathes-the-red-wall/
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THEY WILL THROW BRITAIN OUT OF THE E.U.
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