LOL - thing is Blackie, I don't think ALL men have to like women.
Hell, I DON'T like women sometimes. Women are a lot of things.
But I also will call a spade a spade and you are definitely one of them; your own history shows that much.
The British Election
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LOL - thing is Blackie, I don't think ALL men have to like women.
Hell, I DON'T like women sometimes. Women are a lot of things.
But I also will call a spade a spade and you are definitely one of them; your own history shows that much.
I missed this. How did BoJo handle himself ?? Was he able to articulate his positions effectively??That's it. It's over now for Corbyn...
Boris Johnson wins final debate: Viewers back PM by 52% to 48% after he roasts Jeremy Corbyn for STILL refusing to reveal his solution to Brexit, supporting the IRA and 'backing the overthrow of capitalism' at final clash before election
Boris Johnson was tonight declared the winner of the final election TV showdown after roasting Jeremy Corbyn over Brexit, supporting the IRA, stealth taxes and 'overthrowing capitalism'. A snap YouGov poll found the PM performed better in the primetime BBC One clash by 52 per cent to 48 per cent - mirroring the result of the 2016 Brexit referendum in a result that will delight Tory strategists. During a bruising hour-long session, chaired by Nick Robinson, Mr Johnson urged the public to back him on Brexit so the country can move on. He ridiculed Labour's muddled position of renegotiating with Brussels and holding another referendum, but with Mr Corbyn staying neutral. 'You cannot negotiate a deal if you are neutral on it... it's a failure of leadership on the biggest issue facing this country at the moment,' he said. The veteran left-winger was also pressed over Labour's plans to introduce a four-day week in the NHS, and failed to deny that he wants to 'overthrow capitalism'. But he insisted he was putting forward an 'ambitious' programme that could end child poverty, as he desperately to turn the tide as polls continue to show the Tories ahead. The clash quickly turned nasty, with Mr Johnson getting a round of applause as he accused Mr Corbyn of 'supporting the IRA for four decades'. He also repeatedly swiped that his opponent was 'ignorant' on the benefits of free trade.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-Corbyn-clash-final-election-TV-showdown.html
Interesting results.
Russia WAS behind leaked documents Corbyn used to 'prove' Tories plan to sell off NHS: Reddit bans 61 accounts linked to Labour dossier amid fears Moscow tried to manipulate Election - as PM mocks rival's 'Bermuda Triangle' claims
Reddit said it has banned 61 accounts following an investigation into disinformation which could have been spread to manipulate the election. The bombshell revelations are an embarrassment for the Labour leader who continues to use the dossier as ammunition to blast his Conservative rival. Russia's hand in the release of the dossier was already suspected after analyst Graphika drew parallels with this leak and the Moscow disinformation campaign dubbed 'Secondary Infektion' on Facebook earlier this week. But Mr Corbyn has chosen to ignore these warnings and again last night accused the Prime Minister of putting the NHS on the table in a post-Brexit trade deal. Mr Johnson rubbished his rival's claim as a 'Bermuda Triangle'. The Labour leader's flat refusal to stop parading the documents despite them being tarred by Moscow's fingerprints has further called into question his morals, which are already under scrutiny for the party's raging anti-Semitism crisis and sympathies with the IRA. He last night flourished a second leaked government document during his showdown with the PM, this one relating to the post-Brexit border arrangements on the island of Ireland. Mr Corbyn first flaunted the leaked Department for International Trade papers between UK and US officials at a press conference last month to underscore his claim the NHS would be on the table in a post-Brexit deal.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...remy-Corbyn-leaked-Russia-Reddit-reveals.html
Reddit said it has banned 61 accounts following an investigation into disinformation which could have been spread to manipulate the election. The bombshell revelations are an embarrassment for the Labour leader who continues to use the dossier as ammunition to blast his Conservative rival. Russia's hand in the release of the dossier was already suspected after analyst Graphika drew parallels with this leak and the Moscow disinformation campaign dubbed 'Secondary Infektion' on Facebook earlier this week. But Mr Corbyn has chosen to ignore these warnings and again last night accused the Prime Minister of putting the NHS on the table in a post-Brexit trade deal. Mr Johnson rubbished his rival's claim as a 'Bermuda Triangle'. The Labour leader's flat refusal to stop parading the documents despite them being tarred by Moscow's fingerprints has further called into question his morals, which are already under scrutiny for the party's raging anti-Semitism crisis and sympathies with the IRA. He last night flourished a second leaked government document during his showdown with the PM, this one relating to the post-Brexit border arrangements on the island of Ireland. Mr Corbyn first flaunted the leaked Department for International Trade papers between UK and US officials at a press conference last month to underscore his claim the NHS would be on the table in a post-Brexit deal.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...remy-Corbyn-leaked-Russia-Reddit-reveals.html
Drawing parallels is proof in geometry not p00litics.
Though we do know MAY has already lied about the russians several times in a major way ( the skripals and re gassing syria ), so this is nothing new. We all know Bits are supposed to hate the russians because the queen and her epspawn and oil.
Unlike in britain where they often knight them, pedostiens are VERY ILLEGAL in Russia these days. Also unlike Britain, you won't find them influencing their own elections on state media children's TV shows.
Having said that, good luck with the brexit thing.
Though we do know MAY has already lied about the russians several times in a major way ( the skripals and re gassing syria ), so this is nothing new. We all know Bits are supposed to hate the russians because the queen and her epspawn and oil.
Unlike in britain where they often knight them, pedostiens are VERY ILLEGAL in Russia these days. Also unlike Britain, you won't find them influencing their own elections on state media children's TV shows.
Having said that, good luck with the brexit thing.
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The Conservatives are harnessing the Leave vote far better than Labour are doing with Remainers
Written by Professor Matthew Goodwin
BrexitCentral
6 December 2019
Matthew Goodwin is Professor of Politics at the University of Kent, Senior Visiting Fellow at Chatham House and co-author of National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy. He tweets at @goodwinmj.
Over the past week, the Conservatives averaged a 10-point lead in the opinion polls. The latest polling by Ipsos MORI puts Boris Johnson and his party on 44%, Labour on 32%, the Lib Dems on 13% and Brexit Party on just 2%. Considering that the Conservatives need to have at least a 6-point lead on election day if they are to gain a majority, this is a fairly solid position as the party moves into the final stretch. There are also some pretty good numbers for them in Scotland.
Along with last week’s YouGov MRP poll estimating a 68-seat majority, the current betting odds are 64% for a Conservative majority, 34% for a hung parliament and only a 4% chance of a Labour majority. This means that the chance of a hung parliament is broadly similar to what we had for Brexit and Trump ahead of those shocks in 2016. My line remains: a Conservative majority is still the most likely outcome but a hung parliament is plausible.
One reason why the Conservatives are heading towards a majority is because Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings and their campaign have successfully retained 83% of the Conservative Party’s 2017 voters and 72% of the Leave vote. Both of these numbers have improved considerably since the start of the campaign. Labour, in contrast, is in a weaker position: while the party has gained ground in recent days, it is holding 71% of its 2017 vote, 48% of the Remain vote and 14% of the Leave vote. This reflects how Remain is still fragmented and Corbyn has struggled to win back the full loyalty of the people who turned out for him and/or his party two years ago.
Will Labour pick up some more points in this final week? Quite possibly. Remember: there are still a lot of Liberal Democrats, Greens and Undecided voters up for grabs. And some Lib Dems are already on the move. Go back to the start of the election campaign and 16% of Labour’s 2017 voters had jumped ship to the Lib Dems. But that is now down to 11%. Meanwhile, at the start of the campaign only 7% of 2017 Lib Dems had flipped to Labour. But that’s now up to 22%. Over the past month the share of Remainers going to Labour has jumped by about seven points to reach 48%. There is also still about 13% of voters who are Undecided. Labour has picked up a little bit of momentum but – so far – not enough.
The voting intentions of both Leavers and Remainers are largely unchanged; 72% of Leavers plan on voting Conservative while Remainers break 48% Labour, 21% Lib Dem and 16% Conservative. If Labour are to gain more votes then they could start by searching for votes among those Remainers who are currently sitting with the Lib Dems or the Conservatives, although Corbyn’s ‘neutral’ position on Brexit really will not help with that. I do find the 16-18% of Remainers who are sticking with the Conservatives interesting. As I have pointed out, Conservative Remainers may yet be one of the most important aspects of this election. Despite much talk about our new Brexit identities, political party loyalties and the left-right divide still pack a powerful punch.
Another fascinating aspect is social class; while 40% of upper and middle-class ‘ABC1’ voters plan on voting Conservative and 33% Labour, Johnson and his party now hold a 10-point lead for the Conservatives among the working-class ‘C2DE’ voters; 44% plan on voting Conservative and 34% Labour. That Labour is trailing the Conservatives to this extent amongst the one group that the Labour Party was founded to represent should be a serious cause for concern. If Corbyn loses again next week there will be some tough questions for his party. Much of this marks a continuation of trends in British politics that I pointed to in the book Revolt on the Right.
Finally, this week we saw four Brexit Party MEPs announce their backing for the Conservatives, with Annunziata Rees-Mogg saying “We need a strong Leave-supporting government to deliver the Brexit 17.4 million voted for… The Conservatives are the only option for Brexit supporters and democrats alike”. However, with the proportion of Conservative voters planning on voting for the Brexit Party at only 3%, this may confirm what Conservative voters already believe.
https://brexitcentral.com/the-conse...-better-than-labour-are-doing-with-remainers/
Written by Professor Matthew Goodwin
BrexitCentral
6 December 2019
Matthew Goodwin is Professor of Politics at the University of Kent, Senior Visiting Fellow at Chatham House and co-author of National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy. He tweets at @goodwinmj.
Over the past week, the Conservatives averaged a 10-point lead in the opinion polls. The latest polling by Ipsos MORI puts Boris Johnson and his party on 44%, Labour on 32%, the Lib Dems on 13% and Brexit Party on just 2%. Considering that the Conservatives need to have at least a 6-point lead on election day if they are to gain a majority, this is a fairly solid position as the party moves into the final stretch. There are also some pretty good numbers for them in Scotland.
Along with last week’s YouGov MRP poll estimating a 68-seat majority, the current betting odds are 64% for a Conservative majority, 34% for a hung parliament and only a 4% chance of a Labour majority. This means that the chance of a hung parliament is broadly similar to what we had for Brexit and Trump ahead of those shocks in 2016. My line remains: a Conservative majority is still the most likely outcome but a hung parliament is plausible.
One reason why the Conservatives are heading towards a majority is because Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings and their campaign have successfully retained 83% of the Conservative Party’s 2017 voters and 72% of the Leave vote. Both of these numbers have improved considerably since the start of the campaign. Labour, in contrast, is in a weaker position: while the party has gained ground in recent days, it is holding 71% of its 2017 vote, 48% of the Remain vote and 14% of the Leave vote. This reflects how Remain is still fragmented and Corbyn has struggled to win back the full loyalty of the people who turned out for him and/or his party two years ago.
Will Labour pick up some more points in this final week? Quite possibly. Remember: there are still a lot of Liberal Democrats, Greens and Undecided voters up for grabs. And some Lib Dems are already on the move. Go back to the start of the election campaign and 16% of Labour’s 2017 voters had jumped ship to the Lib Dems. But that is now down to 11%. Meanwhile, at the start of the campaign only 7% of 2017 Lib Dems had flipped to Labour. But that’s now up to 22%. Over the past month the share of Remainers going to Labour has jumped by about seven points to reach 48%. There is also still about 13% of voters who are Undecided. Labour has picked up a little bit of momentum but – so far – not enough.
The voting intentions of both Leavers and Remainers are largely unchanged; 72% of Leavers plan on voting Conservative while Remainers break 48% Labour, 21% Lib Dem and 16% Conservative. If Labour are to gain more votes then they could start by searching for votes among those Remainers who are currently sitting with the Lib Dems or the Conservatives, although Corbyn’s ‘neutral’ position on Brexit really will not help with that. I do find the 16-18% of Remainers who are sticking with the Conservatives interesting. As I have pointed out, Conservative Remainers may yet be one of the most important aspects of this election. Despite much talk about our new Brexit identities, political party loyalties and the left-right divide still pack a powerful punch.
Another fascinating aspect is social class; while 40% of upper and middle-class ‘ABC1’ voters plan on voting Conservative and 33% Labour, Johnson and his party now hold a 10-point lead for the Conservatives among the working-class ‘C2DE’ voters; 44% plan on voting Conservative and 34% Labour. That Labour is trailing the Conservatives to this extent amongst the one group that the Labour Party was founded to represent should be a serious cause for concern. If Corbyn loses again next week there will be some tough questions for his party. Much of this marks a continuation of trends in British politics that I pointed to in the book Revolt on the Right.
Finally, this week we saw four Brexit Party MEPs announce their backing for the Conservatives, with Annunziata Rees-Mogg saying “We need a strong Leave-supporting government to deliver the Brexit 17.4 million voted for… The Conservatives are the only option for Brexit supporters and democrats alike”. However, with the proportion of Conservative voters planning on voting for the Brexit Party at only 3%, this may confirm what Conservative voters already believe.
https://brexitcentral.com/the-conse...-better-than-labour-are-doing-with-remainers/
Jeremy Corbyn is the biggest global threat to Jews, warns Simon Wiesenthal Centre - the world's leading Nazi-hunting organisation - as Boris Johnson urges voters to save Britain from a 'nightmare'
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre warns that Jeremy Corbyn would turn Britain into a 'pariah state' if he wins Thursday's Election. In an astonishing escalation of the row which has ripped Labour apart, the human rights body said: 'No one has done more to mainstream antisemitism into the political and social life of a democracy than the Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour Party. Members and staff who have dared to speak out against the hate were purged, but not those who declared "Heil Hitler" and "F*** the Jews."' Rabbi Marvin Hier, the head of the centre, told this newspaper: 'If it wasn't for Winston Churchill and Britain leading the fight against Nazism in the Second World War who knows if the Allies would have won? Britain was at the forefront of defeating Hitler and now, on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the person who wants to sit in Winston Churchill's chair at No 10 is fostering antisemitism. If Mr Corbyn wins he will make Britain a pariah on the world stage. It will be a disaster for democracy.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...worlds-leading-Nazi-hunting-organisation.html
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre warns that Jeremy Corbyn would turn Britain into a 'pariah state' if he wins Thursday's Election. In an astonishing escalation of the row which has ripped Labour apart, the human rights body said: 'No one has done more to mainstream antisemitism into the political and social life of a democracy than the Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour Party. Members and staff who have dared to speak out against the hate were purged, but not those who declared "Heil Hitler" and "F*** the Jews."' Rabbi Marvin Hier, the head of the centre, told this newspaper: 'If it wasn't for Winston Churchill and Britain leading the fight against Nazism in the Second World War who knows if the Allies would have won? Britain was at the forefront of defeating Hitler and now, on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the person who wants to sit in Winston Churchill's chair at No 10 is fostering antisemitism. If Mr Corbyn wins he will make Britain a pariah on the world stage. It will be a disaster for democracy.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...worlds-leading-Nazi-hunting-organisation.html
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So, wanting to stay in the EU is anti jewish now...go figure.
Churchill – a `founding father’ of the European Union – would vote to Remain
https://europeanmovement.eu/churchill-a-founding-father-of-the-european-union-would-vote-to-remain/
Leaders of the European Union should revive Winston Churchill’s post-war vision for a kind of ‘United States of Europe’, urged EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso this weekend.
https://eu-rope.ideasoneurope.eu/2013/11/10/winston-churchill-a-founder-of-the-european-union/
Founding fathers of the European Union
Winston Churchill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_fathers_of_the_European_Union
LOL its all so confusing...
So many people interfering with everyone else's elections these days.
Churchill – a `founding father’ of the European Union – would vote to Remain
https://europeanmovement.eu/churchill-a-founding-father-of-the-european-union-would-vote-to-remain/
Leaders of the European Union should revive Winston Churchill’s post-war vision for a kind of ‘United States of Europe’, urged EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso this weekend.
https://eu-rope.ideasoneurope.eu/2013/11/10/winston-churchill-a-founder-of-the-european-union/
Founding fathers of the European Union
Winston Churchill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_fathers_of_the_European_Union
LOL its all so confusing...
So many people interfering with everyone else's elections these days.
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No. The Labour Party is a racist, anti-Semitic Party.
Considering Churchill was against Britain being part of a European union, I think he'd be a Brexiteer.
Don't let the nation wake up to a Jeremy Corbyn and Nicola Sturgeon nightmare on Friday the 13th, warns Boris Johnson
By Boris Johnson For The Mail On Sunday
7 December 2019
Very occasionally, a historic Election takes place that changes not just the following few years, but shapes future decades.
In 1906, the Liberal government won a majority and the balance of power crucially tipped towards democracy. In 1945, the Conservative Party had lost its way and the Attlee government created the NHS – one of the great achievements in British politics in the 20th Century.
And in 1979 the Thatcher government dragged Britain out of the nightmare of the 1970s.
Now, in 2019, we face another of these historic Elections. Like 1906, 1945 and 1979, the impact of this Election will be felt for decades to come. But unlike those Elections, in 2019 it is not a single party that has lost its way, but the entire Parliament.
If we don't win, then on Friday 13th the Corbyn-Sturgeon nightmare alliance will become a reality
Three years ago, this country voted to leave the EU with the biggest democratic verdict ever passed down in British politics.
Yet ever since that vote, those MPs who campaigned to Remain in the EU have paid lip service to leaving while doing everything in their power to delay, obstruct, and block Britain's exit.
This election is happening because Parliament refused to honour the will of the British people and respect the democratic result of the referendum.
Let's wake up on Friday 13th and go forwards with a Conservative majority government
We need to break the gridlock in Parliament, end the uncertainty that has held this country back, and get Brexit done to restore trust in democracy in this country.
As in those other historic elections, today we face a simple choice – to move forwards or go back to the past.
The choice is between a working Conservative majority government that will get Brexit done, end the uncertainty and allow Britain to move on.
Or another broken hung Parliament that will mean more of the same arguing, uncertainty, and delay that has left this country in limbo.
If there is a Conservative majority on Friday 13th, we will go forward and get Brexit done on January 31. Next year will be a year of investment and growth.
It will be the year that we put a broken Parliament and its arguments over Brexit behind us. We will get Parliament working on the people's priorities – urgent investment in the NHS, urgent action on the cost of living and urgent action on violent crime.
These are the issues that I want to focus on as Prime Minister. Like you, I want all the talk about Brexit to end.
Instead, I want to spend my time recruiting 50,000 more nurses and 20,000 more police. I want to spend my time tackling GP appointment waiting times.
I want to be in Parliament pushing through tougher sentences for violent and sex offenders and cracking down on early release.
I want to get wages rising by investing in our services, in apprenticeships and in infrastructure – and we'll double investment in basic science research to seek breakthroughs in areas like clean energy. I want to pass a law urgently that guarantees more money for the NHS every year above the rate of inflation.
I want to spend my time working with our brilliant security services to strengthen our defences against terrorism. Crucially, I want to put in place our Australian-style points-based immigration system.
If the SNP and Liberal Democrats win just six more seats each, Jeremy Corbyn (pictured in Wales today) will become Prime Minister
This will allow us to make it easier for the brightest talent from around the world to come here. But it will put in place tough new checks to ensure that lower-skilled migrants only enter the UK if there is a specific shortage of workers and that their stay will only be temporary.
Everyone who comes to the UK will contribute to our NHS from day one – that is only fair. And we can do all this – but only if we get a working majority Conservative government on December 12.
We only need to win nine more seats to get a Government that ends the uncertainty and gridlock and focuses on the issues that matter to you. But if we don't win, then on Friday 13th the Corbyn-Sturgeon nightmare alliance will become a reality.
Jeremy Corbyn would be Prime Minister, propped up by Nicola Sturgeon's SNP, the Liberal Democrats and other minor parties.
It is closer than many people think – if the SNP and Liberal Democrats win just six more seats each, Jeremy Corbyn will become Prime Minister.
Let's not go back into a Parliamentary Groundhog Day nightmare with Jeremy Corbyn propped up by Nicola Sturgeon. Pictured: Boris Johnson in Cheshire today
And this would mean another broken hung Parliament, with every day next year a Groundhog Day in Parliament. We would be straight back to MPs screaming at each other every day about the referendum, arguing over political process and arcane constitutional traditions while the NHS, crime and our schools would all be ignored.
Next year would be the year of politicians arguing over two more chaotic referendums – one on Brexit and one on Scotland. And Mr Corbyn has said that in this second EU referendum, he will change the rules and give millions of foreign nationals the right to vote on the UK's membership of the EU.
Imagine the appalling division this will cause – millions will rightly say it was a rigged vote, and there will be a bitterness that lasts decades. Faith in our democratic system will collapse.
And nothing else will get done as the whole of politics will do nothing apart from organising referendums for years, even decades, to come. This would be a total nightmare. Even if he muddled his way through Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn's policies would take us back to square one.
Massive spending, massive borrowing, massive taxes and a four-day week. Imagine what Corbyn's four-day week will do to public services. What will happen to NHS and A&E waiting times when the four-day week kicks in? What will happen to GP appointments?
And on top of that, Corbyn's immigration policy will put even more pressure on the NHS and our other public services.
He does not just want to keep free movement with the EU – where even murderers have free movement rights – he also wants to extend it to the whole world so anyone from anywhere can come here any time they like. And there would be nothing you could do about it.
In this historic Election, it is my hope that the British people will do what they did in the three most important Elections of the 20th Century.
I would urge you to vote, as the British always do when faced with a historic choice, to go forward. In doing so, you, the public, will ensure that in 2020 politicians focus all the energies of our country on improving our services and making our country fairer.
I, of course, respect the views of the millions who voted Remain in 2016 but I also strongly believe that politicians promised to respect that referendum result and they must, therefore, respect it.
Nothing could do more damage to our democracy than for Parliament to break the promises made because politicians don't agree with the voters.
If you agree with me, then please talk about this choice to your friends and family over the next few days. Make sure they understand what is at stake.
Let's wake up on Friday 13th and go forwards with a Conservative majority government. Let's not go back into a Parliamentary Groundhog Day nightmare with Jeremy Corbyn propped up by Nicola Sturgeon.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-Jeremy-Corbyn-Nicola-Sturgeon-nightmare.html
By Boris Johnson For The Mail On Sunday
7 December 2019
Very occasionally, a historic Election takes place that changes not just the following few years, but shapes future decades.
In 1906, the Liberal government won a majority and the balance of power crucially tipped towards democracy. In 1945, the Conservative Party had lost its way and the Attlee government created the NHS – one of the great achievements in British politics in the 20th Century.
And in 1979 the Thatcher government dragged Britain out of the nightmare of the 1970s.
Now, in 2019, we face another of these historic Elections. Like 1906, 1945 and 1979, the impact of this Election will be felt for decades to come. But unlike those Elections, in 2019 it is not a single party that has lost its way, but the entire Parliament.
If we don't win, then on Friday 13th the Corbyn-Sturgeon nightmare alliance will become a reality
Three years ago, this country voted to leave the EU with the biggest democratic verdict ever passed down in British politics.
Yet ever since that vote, those MPs who campaigned to Remain in the EU have paid lip service to leaving while doing everything in their power to delay, obstruct, and block Britain's exit.
This election is happening because Parliament refused to honour the will of the British people and respect the democratic result of the referendum.
Let's wake up on Friday 13th and go forwards with a Conservative majority government
We need to break the gridlock in Parliament, end the uncertainty that has held this country back, and get Brexit done to restore trust in democracy in this country.
As in those other historic elections, today we face a simple choice – to move forwards or go back to the past.
The choice is between a working Conservative majority government that will get Brexit done, end the uncertainty and allow Britain to move on.
Or another broken hung Parliament that will mean more of the same arguing, uncertainty, and delay that has left this country in limbo.
If there is a Conservative majority on Friday 13th, we will go forward and get Brexit done on January 31. Next year will be a year of investment and growth.
It will be the year that we put a broken Parliament and its arguments over Brexit behind us. We will get Parliament working on the people's priorities – urgent investment in the NHS, urgent action on the cost of living and urgent action on violent crime.
These are the issues that I want to focus on as Prime Minister. Like you, I want all the talk about Brexit to end.
Instead, I want to spend my time recruiting 50,000 more nurses and 20,000 more police. I want to spend my time tackling GP appointment waiting times.
I want to be in Parliament pushing through tougher sentences for violent and sex offenders and cracking down on early release.
I want to get wages rising by investing in our services, in apprenticeships and in infrastructure – and we'll double investment in basic science research to seek breakthroughs in areas like clean energy. I want to pass a law urgently that guarantees more money for the NHS every year above the rate of inflation.
I want to spend my time working with our brilliant security services to strengthen our defences against terrorism. Crucially, I want to put in place our Australian-style points-based immigration system.
If the SNP and Liberal Democrats win just six more seats each, Jeremy Corbyn (pictured in Wales today) will become Prime Minister
This will allow us to make it easier for the brightest talent from around the world to come here. But it will put in place tough new checks to ensure that lower-skilled migrants only enter the UK if there is a specific shortage of workers and that their stay will only be temporary.
Everyone who comes to the UK will contribute to our NHS from day one – that is only fair. And we can do all this – but only if we get a working majority Conservative government on December 12.
We only need to win nine more seats to get a Government that ends the uncertainty and gridlock and focuses on the issues that matter to you. But if we don't win, then on Friday 13th the Corbyn-Sturgeon nightmare alliance will become a reality.
Jeremy Corbyn would be Prime Minister, propped up by Nicola Sturgeon's SNP, the Liberal Democrats and other minor parties.
It is closer than many people think – if the SNP and Liberal Democrats win just six more seats each, Jeremy Corbyn will become Prime Minister.
Let's not go back into a Parliamentary Groundhog Day nightmare with Jeremy Corbyn propped up by Nicola Sturgeon. Pictured: Boris Johnson in Cheshire today
And this would mean another broken hung Parliament, with every day next year a Groundhog Day in Parliament. We would be straight back to MPs screaming at each other every day about the referendum, arguing over political process and arcane constitutional traditions while the NHS, crime and our schools would all be ignored.
Next year would be the year of politicians arguing over two more chaotic referendums – one on Brexit and one on Scotland. And Mr Corbyn has said that in this second EU referendum, he will change the rules and give millions of foreign nationals the right to vote on the UK's membership of the EU.
Imagine the appalling division this will cause – millions will rightly say it was a rigged vote, and there will be a bitterness that lasts decades. Faith in our democratic system will collapse.
And nothing else will get done as the whole of politics will do nothing apart from organising referendums for years, even decades, to come. This would be a total nightmare. Even if he muddled his way through Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn's policies would take us back to square one.
Massive spending, massive borrowing, massive taxes and a four-day week. Imagine what Corbyn's four-day week will do to public services. What will happen to NHS and A&E waiting times when the four-day week kicks in? What will happen to GP appointments?
And on top of that, Corbyn's immigration policy will put even more pressure on the NHS and our other public services.
He does not just want to keep free movement with the EU – where even murderers have free movement rights – he also wants to extend it to the whole world so anyone from anywhere can come here any time they like. And there would be nothing you could do about it.
In this historic Election, it is my hope that the British people will do what they did in the three most important Elections of the 20th Century.
I would urge you to vote, as the British always do when faced with a historic choice, to go forward. In doing so, you, the public, will ensure that in 2020 politicians focus all the energies of our country on improving our services and making our country fairer.
I, of course, respect the views of the millions who voted Remain in 2016 but I also strongly believe that politicians promised to respect that referendum result and they must, therefore, respect it.
Nothing could do more damage to our democracy than for Parliament to break the promises made because politicians don't agree with the voters.
If you agree with me, then please talk about this choice to your friends and family over the next few days. Make sure they understand what is at stake.
Let's wake up on Friday 13th and go forwards with a Conservative majority government. Let's not go back into a Parliamentary Groundhog Day nightmare with Jeremy Corbyn propped up by Nicola Sturgeon.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-Jeremy-Corbyn-Nicola-Sturgeon-nightmare.html
I think in the end the UK has the same issue Canada did.
No party leader is worth voting for and no matter what, the UK is fuked with who they elect.
No party leader is worth voting for and no matter what, the UK is fuked with who they elect.
If you're an anti-Semitic, anti-British, terrorist-loving Marxist then you'd want a Labour Government.
If you're an illiberal anti-democrat then your party is the Liberal Democrats.
If you're a hard-working patriot who wants Brexit, then you go for the Conservatives.
Corbyn is a jerk.
BoJo is a liar and a jerk.
Don't know SFA about LibDem leader so... they're a nobody.
Again, no party is worth voting for as all the leaders suck. Sadly, idiots like you will vote for stupid.
The Liberal Democrats' candidate in Newcastle, Ali Avaei, has been found to be the son of the representative of Ali Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader. He’s also the nephew of justice minister in Iran. There have been rumours about these links. Meanwhile, we talk about Jo Swinson and her leadership but also Hugh Grant campaigning for both Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party and also the Lib Dems.
Reddit claim that Russian groups are behind the leaked NHS documents that Corbyn has been using against Boris Johnson to pretend that the UK is selling the NHS to Donald Trump in trade talks. With days to go to the general election, will the public opinion change?
I've been told that Russia is in favour of Brexit. Apparently not.
When the UK is out, that's when we can believe BoJo got it done and didn't lie - again.
ROD LIDDLE My open letter to Jeremy Corbyn who hates anything which defends Western values of freedom
COMMENT
Rod Liddle
4 Dec 2019
The Sun
THE leaders of the free world have been gathering in Britain for a meeting of Nato member states.
This is the military alliance that has kept us safe for 70 years. A far more important contributor to peace in Europe than the European Union.
Jeremy Corbyn hates Nato and anything that defends the West - or has he changed his mind now? Let's ask him...
It was our bulwark against the Soviet Union. It is the one organisation dedicated to preserving liberal democracy.
Guess who hates it?
Yep, Magic Grandpa, Jeremy Corbyn. Much as he hates anything which defends Western values of freedom.
Corbyn was pro-Soviet Union and insisted they had no intention of waging war against the West. He was, as ever, wrong. The USSR had drawn up plans to do just that.
He criticised Nato at every opportunity and is on record as saying he wished it did not exist.
That’s just one of the reasons why this man would be an utterly disastrous Prime Minister for Great Britain. He hates all our allies.
Corbyn has taken part in a bunch of debates. But he has rarely been faced with the really difficult questions about things he has said in the past.
And things in which I suspect he still believes.
Or maybe he has changed his mind now and thinks he was wrong in the past.
The only way to find out is to ask him, I suppose — so here’s my open letter to the leader of the Labour Party.
Dear Jezza
I WONDER if you could clear up a few issues for me as I am deciding which way to vote next week. Such as:
Do you still wish that Nato didn’t exist?
Do you think that the UK should be in a military alliance with our closest allies, the USA? Or do you think we should be in an alliance with “progressive” countries?
Do you still think that Cuba is a wonderful country, run by wonderful people, which is why you celebrate its revolution every year? Or do you accept that it is a dynastic totalitarian communist basket case which lacks freedom of speech and lacks democracy?
Do you still think you were right to commemorate the deaths of IRA terrorists who murdered innocent British citizens?
Do you agree with your best mate, the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, that IRA terrorists should be honoured?
Do you think it was right of you to have paid the bail fees for a suspected IRA member facing terrorism charges?
Do you still support the Socialist regime in Venezuela which has caused riots and starvation and brought the country close to civil war?
Do you still think the genocidal Islamist terrorist organisation Hamas is “working for peace”? And do you still consider Hamas your “friends”?
Do you still approve of those behind terrorist attacks against our democratic ally Israel?
Are you still a supporter of the anti-Jewish Islamist organisation Interpal, designated a terrorist organisation by the USA?
Regarding your comments on the horrific 9/11 terror attacks against New York and Washington. You told the House of Commons, “What goes around comes around”, meaning that the USA deserved to be attacked. Do you stand by that assessment?
Is there any foreign country or terrorist organisation which is hostile to the UK with which you DON’T have sympathy?
That’ll do for now. Answers on a postcard by Saturday morning please. As you were, Grandpa.
Rod Liddle
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10485...hing-which-defends-western-values-of-freedom/
COMMENT
Rod Liddle
4 Dec 2019
The Sun
THE leaders of the free world have been gathering in Britain for a meeting of Nato member states.
This is the military alliance that has kept us safe for 70 years. A far more important contributor to peace in Europe than the European Union.
Jeremy Corbyn hates Nato and anything that defends the West - or has he changed his mind now? Let's ask him...
It was our bulwark against the Soviet Union. It is the one organisation dedicated to preserving liberal democracy.
Guess who hates it?
Yep, Magic Grandpa, Jeremy Corbyn. Much as he hates anything which defends Western values of freedom.
Corbyn was pro-Soviet Union and insisted they had no intention of waging war against the West. He was, as ever, wrong. The USSR had drawn up plans to do just that.
He criticised Nato at every opportunity and is on record as saying he wished it did not exist.
That’s just one of the reasons why this man would be an utterly disastrous Prime Minister for Great Britain. He hates all our allies.
Corbyn has taken part in a bunch of debates. But he has rarely been faced with the really difficult questions about things he has said in the past.
And things in which I suspect he still believes.
Or maybe he has changed his mind now and thinks he was wrong in the past.
The only way to find out is to ask him, I suppose — so here’s my open letter to the leader of the Labour Party.
Dear Jezza
I WONDER if you could clear up a few issues for me as I am deciding which way to vote next week. Such as:
Do you still wish that Nato didn’t exist?
Do you think that the UK should be in a military alliance with our closest allies, the USA? Or do you think we should be in an alliance with “progressive” countries?
Do you still think that Cuba is a wonderful country, run by wonderful people, which is why you celebrate its revolution every year? Or do you accept that it is a dynastic totalitarian communist basket case which lacks freedom of speech and lacks democracy?
Do you still think you were right to commemorate the deaths of IRA terrorists who murdered innocent British citizens?
Do you agree with your best mate, the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, that IRA terrorists should be honoured?
Do you think it was right of you to have paid the bail fees for a suspected IRA member facing terrorism charges?
Do you still support the Socialist regime in Venezuela which has caused riots and starvation and brought the country close to civil war?
Do you still think the genocidal Islamist terrorist organisation Hamas is “working for peace”? And do you still consider Hamas your “friends”?
Do you still approve of those behind terrorist attacks against our democratic ally Israel?
Are you still a supporter of the anti-Jewish Islamist organisation Interpal, designated a terrorist organisation by the USA?
Regarding your comments on the horrific 9/11 terror attacks against New York and Washington. You told the House of Commons, “What goes around comes around”, meaning that the USA deserved to be attacked. Do you stand by that assessment?
Is there any foreign country or terrorist organisation which is hostile to the UK with which you DON’T have sympathy?
That’ll do for now. Answers on a postcard by Saturday morning please. As you were, Grandpa.
Rod Liddle
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10485...hing-which-defends-western-values-of-freedom/
TONY PARSONS Use your vote wisely and keep worthless git Jeremy Corbyn out of No10
COMMENT
Tony Parsons
8 Dec 2019
The Sun On Sunday
JEREMY CORBYN is a historically unique Labour leader because he is so manifestly unfit to lead this country.
The New Statesman, a Labour-supporting magazine for all of its 106-year history, has taken the unprecedented step of declaring that this Labour leader should not be let anywhere near 10 Downing Street.
Use your vote to keep worthless git Jeremy Corbyn out of No10, says Tony Parsons Credit: EPA
The New Statesman has two objections against Corbyn.
“His reluctance to apologise for the anti-Semitism in Labour and to take a stance on Brexit, the biggest issue facing the country, make him unfit to be Prime Minister,” declares its editorial.
But this is being far too easy on the Marxist muppet. Corbyn would bankrupt the nation. Corbyn despises this country. Corbyn has spent a career licking the boots of terrorists. Corbyn never met a hate preacher he didn’t like.
If Jeremy Corbyn gets elected on Thursday then, in the words of The Carpenters, it will be yesterday once more — and a return to the ravages of gormless Socialism, red in tooth and claw, unseen since the Seventies.
We have forgotten what mass unemployment is like in this country. We have forgotten what soaring inflation is like. We have forgotten what it is like to endure endless strikes. Corbyn would bring it all back — and worse.
For Jeremy Corbyn has no love for this country. He has no affection for our people, our history or our flag.
Personally, I couldn’t give a flying fig if Corbyn watches the Queen’s speech on Christmas Day.
But it does bother me that he always takes the side of this country’s enemies.
It concerns me that his “friends” include terrorists such as Hamas, Hezbollah and the IRA. It disturbs me like hell that Corbyn can even find excuses for Russian thugs conducting their murderous business on British soil.
Jeremy Corbyn despises the nation he seeks to lead. And that scares me most of all.
MARXIST MORON
Thursday will dawn cold, dark and with the possibility of snow. This close to Christmas, nobody feels like going to a polling booth. But this close to a terrorist-sympathising Marxist moron seizing power, we can’t afford NOT to vote.
There are real problems that the incoming government will need to address on day one.
Yes, our departure from the European Union is absolutely crucial. But no matter how much we may despise the unelected fat cats in Brussels, the nations of Europe will always be our neighbours and should always be our friends.
Jeremy Corbyn despises the nation he seeks to lead Credit: AFP or licensors
Leaving the EU while maintaining good trading relations with it is no easy day at the office.
And the new PM will have far more than Brexit to deal with. The housing crisis has made owning your own home an impossible dream for the younger generation.
The pressures on our schools, roads and NHS are at breaking point. The working man and woman pay too much tax. Serious crime is rising. Climate change is real.
All this is waiting in our new Prime Minister’s inbox.
TENTH-RATE LITTLE MAN
Jeremy Corbyn — a stupid, tenth-rate little man with stale, left-wing clichés where his brain should be — is clearly not up to the job.
He is an economic cretin who would empty your pockets. He is a spineless hypocrite on Brexit. He has enabled racism to enter the bloodstream of the Labour Party. And he hates the wicked West.
“What goes around comes around,” Corbyn sneered when almost 3,000 people were murdered on 9/11.
Every time there is a terrorist attack, Corbyn finds a way of saying that we had it coming.
On Thursday, YOUR vote can keep the worthless old git and his deranged supporters from power.
This country deserves better than Jeremy Corbyn.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10505973/jeremy-corbyn-worthless-git-election/
COMMENT
Tony Parsons
8 Dec 2019
The Sun On Sunday
JEREMY CORBYN is a historically unique Labour leader because he is so manifestly unfit to lead this country.
The New Statesman, a Labour-supporting magazine for all of its 106-year history, has taken the unprecedented step of declaring that this Labour leader should not be let anywhere near 10 Downing Street.
Use your vote to keep worthless git Jeremy Corbyn out of No10, says Tony Parsons Credit: EPA
The New Statesman has two objections against Corbyn.
“His reluctance to apologise for the anti-Semitism in Labour and to take a stance on Brexit, the biggest issue facing the country, make him unfit to be Prime Minister,” declares its editorial.
But this is being far too easy on the Marxist muppet. Corbyn would bankrupt the nation. Corbyn despises this country. Corbyn has spent a career licking the boots of terrorists. Corbyn never met a hate preacher he didn’t like.
If Jeremy Corbyn gets elected on Thursday then, in the words of The Carpenters, it will be yesterday once more — and a return to the ravages of gormless Socialism, red in tooth and claw, unseen since the Seventies.
We have forgotten what mass unemployment is like in this country. We have forgotten what soaring inflation is like. We have forgotten what it is like to endure endless strikes. Corbyn would bring it all back — and worse.
For Jeremy Corbyn has no love for this country. He has no affection for our people, our history or our flag.
Personally, I couldn’t give a flying fig if Corbyn watches the Queen’s speech on Christmas Day.
But it does bother me that he always takes the side of this country’s enemies.
It concerns me that his “friends” include terrorists such as Hamas, Hezbollah and the IRA. It disturbs me like hell that Corbyn can even find excuses for Russian thugs conducting their murderous business on British soil.
Jeremy Corbyn despises the nation he seeks to lead. And that scares me most of all.
MARXIST MORON
Thursday will dawn cold, dark and with the possibility of snow. This close to Christmas, nobody feels like going to a polling booth. But this close to a terrorist-sympathising Marxist moron seizing power, we can’t afford NOT to vote.
There are real problems that the incoming government will need to address on day one.
Yes, our departure from the European Union is absolutely crucial. But no matter how much we may despise the unelected fat cats in Brussels, the nations of Europe will always be our neighbours and should always be our friends.
Jeremy Corbyn despises the nation he seeks to lead Credit: AFP or licensors
Leaving the EU while maintaining good trading relations with it is no easy day at the office.
And the new PM will have far more than Brexit to deal with. The housing crisis has made owning your own home an impossible dream for the younger generation.
The pressures on our schools, roads and NHS are at breaking point. The working man and woman pay too much tax. Serious crime is rising. Climate change is real.
All this is waiting in our new Prime Minister’s inbox.
TENTH-RATE LITTLE MAN
Jeremy Corbyn — a stupid, tenth-rate little man with stale, left-wing clichés where his brain should be — is clearly not up to the job.
He is an economic cretin who would empty your pockets. He is a spineless hypocrite on Brexit. He has enabled racism to enter the bloodstream of the Labour Party. And he hates the wicked West.
“What goes around comes around,” Corbyn sneered when almost 3,000 people were murdered on 9/11.
Every time there is a terrorist attack, Corbyn finds a way of saying that we had it coming.
On Thursday, YOUR vote can keep the worthless old git and his deranged supporters from power.
This country deserves better than Jeremy Corbyn.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10505973/jeremy-corbyn-worthless-git-election/
Boris was right to rebuke ITV’s cheap journalism
Showing the PM sad photos of a poorly child isn’t journalism – it’s a cynical emotional stunt.
Brendan O'Neill
EDITOR
9th December 2019
Spiked
Boris Johnson was absolutely right to refuse to look at that photo of a four-year-old boy sleeping on a hospital floor. Why? Because the ITV reporter who was shoving the photo in Boris’s face was engaging in the most cynical, cheap and emotionalist form of journalism imaginable. His aim wasn’t to question the PM, far less to enlighten ITV viewers about the Tories’ policies on the NHS. No, it was to create a viral image of an uncaring politician that the time-rich Twitterati could then rage and splutter about. It wasn’t Boris who behaved insultingly – it was the stardom-chasing journalist and the online luvvies who have lapped up his showdown with the PM.
The photo shows a kid called Jack Williment-Barr asleep on the floor of a hospital in Leeds, despite having suspected pneumonia. That is a distressing situation. No poorly child – or poorly adult, for that matter – should be left on a hospital floor. The photo, first published in the Daily Mirror, has gone viral, and is being cited across the internet as proof that callous cuts made by the Tories are having a negative impact on people’s lives. Today, ITV News’ Joe Pike tried to show the photo to Boris. Boris initially refused to look at it; he then took Pike’s phone off him and put it in his pocket.
I can’t have been the only person who let out a little cheer when this happened. No, not because I think it is okay that a hospital bed could not be found for a sick young child, but because this was such a cynical journalistic stunt. It was an emotionalist gotcha. Pike’s mind seemed to be less on getting some facts and information that he might then communicate to his viewers, and more on getting as many likes, retweets and media mentions as possible by humiliating a PM with a sad photo. He succeeded. The increasingly desperate Corbynista wing of public life in particular has used this hollow confrontation to say, in Jeremy Corbyn’s morally infantile words, that Boris ‘just doesn’t care’.
Grow up. For a start, Boris very quickly retrieved the reporter’s phone from his pocket, looked at the photo, and described it as ‘terrible’. He even apologised to the boy’s family and ‘all those who have terrible experiences in the NHS’. What’s more, this attempt to create an emotionalist spectacle, in this case by pushing heartstring-tugging photos in politicians’ faces in order to elicit a rash or sad response, is insulting to viewers and voters. It is apolitical and ahistorical. Apolitical because it substitutes soppy gotchas for serious political discussion; and ahistorical because the idea that terrible things only started happening in the NHS because of the current Tory government’s cuts overlooks the fact that the health system has been shoddy for decades. Anyone who has seen an elderly relative left on a trolley in a corridor or waited for hours in grotty, dispiriting waiting rooms will know that the NHS has had problems forever, under governments of every stripe.
Media coverage of this election is becoming irritating and patronising. Journalists seem to think it is their role to shame or harry or humiliate politicians. It isn’t. It is to question them and hold them to account – vigorously, yes – and provide viewers or readers with as much info as possible. Appealing to viewers on the basis of cheap emotion is an abdication of journalistic responsibility. I suspect quite a few ITV viewers approved of Boris’s instinctive and temporary refusal to play this low game.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/12/09/boris-was-right-to-rebuke-itvs-cheap-journalism/
Showing the PM sad photos of a poorly child isn’t journalism – it’s a cynical emotional stunt.
Brendan O'Neill
EDITOR
9th December 2019
Spiked
Boris Johnson was absolutely right to refuse to look at that photo of a four-year-old boy sleeping on a hospital floor. Why? Because the ITV reporter who was shoving the photo in Boris’s face was engaging in the most cynical, cheap and emotionalist form of journalism imaginable. His aim wasn’t to question the PM, far less to enlighten ITV viewers about the Tories’ policies on the NHS. No, it was to create a viral image of an uncaring politician that the time-rich Twitterati could then rage and splutter about. It wasn’t Boris who behaved insultingly – it was the stardom-chasing journalist and the online luvvies who have lapped up his showdown with the PM.
The photo shows a kid called Jack Williment-Barr asleep on the floor of a hospital in Leeds, despite having suspected pneumonia. That is a distressing situation. No poorly child – or poorly adult, for that matter – should be left on a hospital floor. The photo, first published in the Daily Mirror, has gone viral, and is being cited across the internet as proof that callous cuts made by the Tories are having a negative impact on people’s lives. Today, ITV News’ Joe Pike tried to show the photo to Boris. Boris initially refused to look at it; he then took Pike’s phone off him and put it in his pocket.
I can’t have been the only person who let out a little cheer when this happened. No, not because I think it is okay that a hospital bed could not be found for a sick young child, but because this was such a cynical journalistic stunt. It was an emotionalist gotcha. Pike’s mind seemed to be less on getting some facts and information that he might then communicate to his viewers, and more on getting as many likes, retweets and media mentions as possible by humiliating a PM with a sad photo. He succeeded. The increasingly desperate Corbynista wing of public life in particular has used this hollow confrontation to say, in Jeremy Corbyn’s morally infantile words, that Boris ‘just doesn’t care’.
Grow up. For a start, Boris very quickly retrieved the reporter’s phone from his pocket, looked at the photo, and described it as ‘terrible’. He even apologised to the boy’s family and ‘all those who have terrible experiences in the NHS’. What’s more, this attempt to create an emotionalist spectacle, in this case by pushing heartstring-tugging photos in politicians’ faces in order to elicit a rash or sad response, is insulting to viewers and voters. It is apolitical and ahistorical. Apolitical because it substitutes soppy gotchas for serious political discussion; and ahistorical because the idea that terrible things only started happening in the NHS because of the current Tory government’s cuts overlooks the fact that the health system has been shoddy for decades. Anyone who has seen an elderly relative left on a trolley in a corridor or waited for hours in grotty, dispiriting waiting rooms will know that the NHS has had problems forever, under governments of every stripe.
Media coverage of this election is becoming irritating and patronising. Journalists seem to think it is their role to shame or harry or humiliate politicians. It isn’t. It is to question them and hold them to account – vigorously, yes – and provide viewers or readers with as much info as possible. Appealing to viewers on the basis of cheap emotion is an abdication of journalistic responsibility. I suspect quite a few ITV viewers approved of Boris’s instinctive and temporary refusal to play this low game.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/12/09/boris-was-right-to-rebuke-itvs-cheap-journalism/
