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With TMay herself now joining those attacking BoJo for his Burka comments the big danger he faces is not being able to get enough fellow CON MPs to support him in the first rounds of voting to get on the ballot.
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It is a great fat dead cat on the Brexit table, and shifts the discussion to non EU immigration, which to the average punter matters a lot more than EU migration.
Cynical and divisive, but quite possibly popular.
But, Boris took a swipe at people that was unreasonable (I hate to be in the position of bleeding hearted liberal)
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2016/08/31/majority-public-backs-burka-ban/
I doubt Boris' comments will damage him that much
Boris, for me, is a bit like Corbyn. I do see elements about him which I can see why people like him, but I do not understand why so many do, and why he gets as much of a pass about either certain views that would not be acceptable in others, or expressing said views in a way others would not be able to get away with.
I'm with those thinking his odds should be shortening - I think his behaviour before he quit was pretty lousy, and his explanation of his resignation was lame, and he's so obvious and cynical in his actions now...but it could well work.
Others need to step up, hopefully in better ways.
But, others see him differently.
But where he is wrong, very wrong, is that there are some women who for whatever reason want to wear it. And he had been nasty and bullying in insulting them.
That is rude and horrible to those women who have done nothing other than choose a mode of clothing.
In Britain.
"It is the Will of Allah (SWT) that we are all born stark raving naked!"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/07/us/elections/results-ohio-special-house-election-district-12.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPGb4STRfKw
Glenavy ward connects West Belfast to Lough Neagh. You can see these on my sectarian headcount interesting maps based on the 2001 Census.
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/images/maps/map12.htm
Up to 3 million are estimated to have died even in the Bangladesh Liberation War
I had been assuming that whoever wanted ot hbe next was going to wait for BINO to happen next year then step in with a hearty "Thank You" to May for a hard job well done but now we needed a steely Leaver to navigate us through the choppy waters of BINO.
I stopped listening to Ken L years ago...
I stopped listening to Ken L years ago...
Partition was only undertaken to avoid an inevitable Indian Civil War
Would a poll of PBers on a second referendum be a good idea?
Possible questions.
1. How did you vote in the 2017 Referendum? Leave or Remain?
2. Do you support a 2nd referendum?
3. If there was a 2nd referendum, with the following questions, how would you vote? (AV type vote with a first and second preference option).
a) Support the Leave Deal negotiated by the government?
b) Support No Deal
c) Support Remain.
I might email Mike and suggest this.
I picked the Bangladesh Liberation War as the closest possible comparison albeit on a lesser scale than an Indian Civil War
1) Personally I didn't vote any way in the 2017 referendum, I must have missed that one
2) Yes, sort of (depends on the question maybe)
3) Probably a) c)
https://twitter.com/alliehbnews/status/1026939183905034243?s=21
The War was caused directly by the crazy idea of partitioning India into two states, where the eastern zone of the Muslim State (what we know today as Bangladesh) is culturally rather different from (western) Pakistan. For example, the Muslim Bengalis wear Hindu garb like Saris and write their language from left to right, like their Hindu neighbouring states.
2. Yes
3. c), a)
Edit: Re 3. a) I'm assuming something similar to Chequers get agreed - at present the government has not negotiated a deal, of course.
But anyone in support of a different deal should definitely have already moved in order to give time to negotiate the deal they want. Boris waiting until September or October means he has a lot more pressure to deliver something, and quickly, whereas 'reluctantly' allowing a bad deal to go through, but then presenting as the champion of harder Brexiters who will set us on the right path of divergence during and after transition would be easier for him, less pressure to immediately deliver.
Night all.
1. 2016 I was Remain.
2. Yes.
3. Probably a). Then c).
May stands ultimately for nothing and nobody but keeping herself in power. So why should anyone stand for her? Who has she not attacked, insulted or betrayed?
https://twitter.com/foxinsoxuk/status/1026716729454546944?s=19
With Corbyn, despite the base adoring him, perhaps LDs think he would be replaced by an improvement.
For fear of finding something worse."