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Sympathy for Theresa May has risen over the past few months, but only slightly. 56% of Brits now say they have felt sympathy for her at some point (up 7% from September), but 37% say they never have https://t.co/DOSE0MCAhV pic.twitter.com/AA2wdR8uD6
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Corbyn wheeling out his heavy artillery. Stopping No Deal is obviously soooooo important to him.
Yeah.
He is not good at politics
I think I have already seen a hard hitting leave poster on this against Corbyn
I demand a judge-led inquiry.
re lab reacting to a GE by offering a referendum in the manifesto.
I did dismiss your post (a GE offering a ref? Why not just say what you want and do it? Brenda from bristol reaction.. etc)
But thinking more about it... Labour could use Brexit as a bribe for their real agenda quite successfully.....
Something like: Vote Lab and we'll hold an immediate referendum, offering;
A ) No Deal Brexit. Extend A50 for 12 months & throw £100bn at no deal preps
B ) Remain. Spend the £100bn on social housing / social care / Laboury stuff.
Money from borrowing and moderate tax increases.
Corbyn will implement the result, as advised by the British people.
Could work to unite lab factions & win back the WWC Brexit heartlands?
Nevertheless you could see it all on her face as he outlined her failings as a leader.
We have trapped a tin-eared automaton with a stunted imagination loop and malfunctioning empathy circuit with skillfully navigating the single most complex political maze in my life time.
It will demand great agility, flexibility and humanity to resolve this situation satisfactorily. May has none.
To make things worse, Parliament is actively trying to box her in, to ensure she has no possible escape route that doesn't end in disaster.
In all honestly, I find locking May in an impossible task, to which she is almost pathologically unsuited, by appealing to her vast reserves of bloody-minded stubbornness, is an act of the most delightfully amusing cruelty.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
"We really must stay in touch" = "If you call me again I'm blocking your number and calling the police"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/18/theresa-may-do-anything-for-love-brexit
Just had a tweet from the Daily Post (North Wales news) that the Scottish labour party have been called out for releasing a promotional video featuring scenes filmed in ..........Wales
The video for social media shows Richard Leonard discussing labour's vision for Scotland
It says 'our Country is run by an elite few. It belongs to all of us. Watch and share the three minute 'Vision for Scotland' promotion featuring clips of Scottish scenery, families and businesses'
At 1.25 mins in the camera pans out to a striking shot of a mountain range ........ Tryfan in the Snowdonia National Park
Scotland has magnificient mountains and scenery - maybe next time film in Scotland
It was in contrast to Gove who put on a bravura performance excoriating Labour which delighted Tory MPs but didn't help gain cooperation to sort out the mess.
Apparently they'll be here in 2 years time and be £50k !!
I'm using ~1.264 USD to GBP for year end conversions but it seemingly works the other way round with cars.
Are we ripped off or is there some whopping tariff on US cars ?
https://twitter.com/theneweuropean/status/1086197493380104192?s=21
A few months ago I wrote to the editor of the Spectator to point out to him that there was a fairly easy way of getting round the paywall for the online version of the magazine. I was secretly hoping the magazine might offer me a free subscription for a short time in return, but they didn't. If I hadn't pointed out the mistake I'd still be able to read it for free today. He did reply to thank me personally though, which was nice.
I think at this stage a Remain v Deal referendum is the most likely option to get to the 320 mark needed for a majority once a few Tory Deal backers switch to it to avoid No Deal, such a referendum could go either way
Now he's ridiculing anybody suggests one isn't.
https://twitter.com/channel4news/status/1086278152534413312?s=21
Article in one of the Irish papers with direct attack on Ireland and the EU over the looming economic catastrophe and they must do a deal with UK. Germany beginning to panic with recession looming and thousands of unsaleable cars.
Italy demanding today the EU negotiate the deal. As the clocks run down economic and political forces will collide and of course we can run the clock down to the 29th March as we can the day before revoke A50, and there is nothing the EU can do about that
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/01/18/leave-or-remain-voters-do-not-want-compromise/
https://twitter.com/ukip/status/1086194874347671558?s=21
The blame lies with ultra brexiteers and remainers fighting to the cost of our economy
Only light snow, the sort of snow that sees Southern softies declare a state of emergency.
The TM deal leaves us powerless, it is better to be in the EU shaping and scrutinising the development of the single market than impotent and tenuously connected with no say. The PM wasted an extra month to arrive at this cliff edge. I pity the poor souls who are going to be shunted out of work and into lower paid jobs because of other peoples obsession with the EU.
For one thing, completely contradicting her previous position is embarassing. For another, it'll alienate her from her previous allies, the people who agree with her argument that her deal is the only deal around (apart from those- and I'm afraid you appear to be falling into this category- who are happy to perform whatever cognitive handbrake turns are required to track her current position). For a third, and perhaps most important, it means that in the likely event that the backstop doesn't get taken out of the WA, she'll have undermined her own main argument for the deal when it comes back up to vote again.
I think causing her that much trouble represents smart politics from the opposition, doesn't it?
There will be votes on Corbyn's planned permanent Customs Union and also on permanent Single Market and Customs Union. If neither get a majority then there will be a vote on a Remain v Deal referendum which could well then get a majority and May could then say it was imposed on her by Parliament and she reluctantly must bow to their will and then get out on the campaign trail for Brexit with her Deal
But I fear you are wrong. I fear many lab voted leave simply to slap the faces of Cammo and Ossie and their austerity project, voted leave merely because remain belonged to the political establishment that these voters think never listens to them, the picture also skewed because some lab voters in these labour areas not voting in 2016 and people there who don’t normally participate voting instead,
So when Corb and Labour back peoples vote these labour leave areas aren’t going Tory. They were never really that bought Into leave, that giving them a choice between leave or a Labour government these voters will chose the Labour government.
I think polling evidence suggests this
I think I've felt a degree of sympathy for most PMs at times. Certainly Maggie, Major, Blair, Cameron - perhaps Callaghan (I got the impression he expected more of himself, although I was quite young at the time) and certainly not Brown though (well perhaps a hint when he was cornered by the lady that cornered him).
Apart from Brown it's only the deeply odd or ludicrously self-indulgent politicians that I can't imagine having any empathy and thus potentially sympathising with them, Derek Hatton, Prescott, Anna Soubry, Paul Boateng (the most despicable man in British politics, ever), and no doubt a handful of others.
@AmpfieldAndy Anthony Eden - huge sympathy for where he found himself. The US really did act quite poorly in my view - perhaps predictably so, but nonetheless he was unlucky to ruin into that.
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- P. Dorey (2008). The Labour Party and Constitutional Reform: A History of Constitutional Conservatism.
"Allowing people into the UK parliament who did not finish first in their constituency was described by David Cameron as creating a "Parliament full of second-choices who no one really wanted but didn't really object to either.""
- David Cameron. "Why keeping first past the post is vital for democracy." Daily Telegraph. 30 Apr 2011
"Winston Churchill criticised the electoral outcomes of the alternative vote as "determined by the most worthless votes given for the most worthless candidates.""
- Larry Johnston (2011). Politics: An Introduction to the Modern Democratic State.
I personally think he should get a gong or something - I've not really ever agreed with him, but he has been an important figure, and has brought about substantial change democratically.
Not jumping up and down to ennoble him, but fair's fair.