Button
- Location: Dover
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Jan Higgins wrote:Politicians apparent contempt for the electorate is probably the only reason the Brexit Party and the Lib Dems did so well in the recent European Elections.
Um, one could argue that, by advocating remain, the Lib Dems are contemptuous of the majority of the EU Referendum electorate who expressed their preference to leave.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
button,more remain partys than leave at the moment, labour sitting on the fence as per normal.
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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So, all of a sudden it becomes obvious Boris has no intention of leaving on 31 October. I knew he wouldn't.
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,256
We're you supposed to add a link to your last post or are we playing guess the headline?
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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It's clear he's trying to wind the EU up into not giving us anything, while at the same time provoking Parliament to ensure it blocks no deal. That leads to the GE that he is looking for, and an inevitable delay.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Neil Moors wrote:It's clear he's trying to wind the EU up into not giving us anything, while at the same time provoking Parliament to ensure it blocks no deal. That leads to the GE that he is looking for, and an inevitable delay.
That in no way proves "Boris has no intention of leaving on 31 October".
If he does call a General Election and gets in with sufficient majority he can get his no deal.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Quite right, doesn't prove a thing. Just my theory.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,056
Sitting in Black Douglas coffee house Deal.
Table to left ranting about something reported in Guardian the Trump has said.
Table to right ranting about something reported in the Guardian that Boris has said.
Delicious!
Quicker these DFLs 'go home' the better.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Minister for the Union...
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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- Posts: 23,940
zoo keeper at monkey world.
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,063
Leader puts cart before horse in quest for conservative values:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51691434'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Well, I have heard it said that he has a huge majority.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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And much more fun than visiting whining northerners who find their new build at Riverside Meadows is suffering from rising damp.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Button wrote:Well, I have heard it said that he has a huge majority.
Must have had a successful election then Button?
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Do nothing and nothing happens.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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I am full of sympathy for those flooded out of their little terraced properties that were built years and years ago and those who never ever thought their homes were at risk.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
I wonder if the present cummings fiasco and Boris down to 4 points lead
Will affect him long term
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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The more people see Boris under scrutiny the more people are turning against him
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,870
The only reason Boris is PM is because at the last election the contest was mainly about Brexit and Labour, with leftist Corbyn as their leader, failed to adequately oppose him. How long Boris will last who knows.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Jan, on that I think we agree
He doesn't look good when questioned
And there are differing camps getting ready to move him on
I think on the other side it's up to national Labour to decide which direction it goes next
Getting involved in grass roots is important to build upon.
They can't blame Brexit next time round
Thus my fear
They will plod along to next election and expect everyone to vote against govt, and instead vote for them
There 25 years off that happening
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
I like what Labour is doing at the moment - giving the PM and his hopeless Cabinet enough time and space to mess everything up.
From a Labour perspective, it seems problematic to me that they'll parachute somebody in to fight the next election when they've finished the internal pfaff, and that individual will have only a few months to build their identity and reputation. I'd like to see someone in place long in advance who can start challenging from the local perspective.
