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? NEW: A new plan tonight to offer Boris Johnson the pre-Christmas election he craves. ?
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That Labour haven't spotted this route is weird - we've all been talking about it on here for weeks.
I think they have.
"No, Penfold, we have merely broken the Impasse that might allow us to break the Impasse that is causing the Impasse"*
"Ooh, crikey Dangermouse"
* election, parliament, Brexit
We will see if they are as wrong as they were in 2017 or not at 10pm on GE day.
And the LDs are not offering a sensible way out of the mess they helped to create with that lamentable piece of legislation.
Enough game playing. Just vote for an election - and fight it when it happens.
We need to draw a line under this parliament once and for all.
https://twitter.com/thesundaytimes/status/1188198248546291714
I am not saying that it can't be changed. But it would be better to move it to a Sunday than a different weekday if change is really necessary (which I don't believe it is)
Never learns.
I also called they would propose free uni and it would be incredibly popular.
This time i am very surprised if they dont propose drug reform, most probably things like medical marijuana.
My posts consistently warn against taking anything for granted
Quick calculation not sure, unless a load of Labour vote for it, that it will get through.
Twice as many people now think it would have been better never to have held a referendum on Brexit than believe it was a good idea, according to the latest Opinium poll for the Observer.
Asked to consider the difficulties the government has had in reaching an agreement, 57% of UK adults surveyed said that they believed it would have been better not to have had a public vote in June 2016.
This compares with 29% of voters who believe it was right to hold the referendum on whether the UK should stay in or leave the EU.
The findings reflect a growing sense of public weariness about arguments over Brexit, which have paralysed British politics and divided the country. People who voted to remain in the EU are overwhelmingly of the view that the referendum should not have taken place, with 87% agreeing and only 7% saying it was a good idea.
Those who voted to leave, however, still have a majority view – although a decreasing one – that it was right to have put the question to the people; 57% of this group said that they believed it was the correct decision, against 32% who now think the reverse.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/26/opinium-poll-observer-uk-voters-regret-brexit-referendum-conservative-lead-over-labour
Lots of PB Tories were predicting Labour wipeout and Tory landslide.
Same poster making same type of comments now.
IMO they should be cautious in order to avoid disappointment
It is an indication that Brexit will continue to be a sore point no matter what happens.
Otherwise they are going to be horribly cornered by the opposition parties and in a very dark place
Thank God Jezza didnt propose that then.
The conservstives cannot count on a majority but it is just possible
The Lib Dems are going to do very well at labour and some conservatives expense
I live in a bubble in Remainer-central, so can't say anything off anecdotal reports as no one will admit to voting to leave round here, but I do wonder if most people really care that much about Brexit. Voters' views reflect what's on the news - in a GE campaign there will be discussion of stuff other than Brexit, so how will the main parties' policies on other issues go down (if they even have any)?
There's been 100,000s of voters added to the electoral roll that have disproportionately come from the 3 million EU citizens who weren't eligible to vote in general elections.
How may have acquired citizenship? Genuine question.
He wants an election badly.
Alastair also did a piece on why the electorate may have changed since 2016 and why reweighting back to 52:48 maybe wrong.
http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2019/09/06/the-remainers-of-the-day-why-are-pollsters-consistently-finding-more-remainers-than-you-would-expect/
We have had the Tory loyalists and partisans on here for weeks going "You're all frit. We want an election. Bring it on". Boris has had several goes at getting an election.
He will look a right idiot if the LDs/SNP offer him one and he goes "Err... no!"
https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1188150296209436673?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed&ref_url=http://vote-2012.proboards.com/thread/1181/opinium?page=66
https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/1188145386218754049
I really think a December election is coming
Lol! 'SNP split' is third fav go to headline after 'SNP accused' and 'SNP a cult'.
How nice of them
As such, I may as well make another prediction which will blow up in my face: both the Tories and Labour are going to do better than polls currently predict. I'll say something like 42% for the Tories, 37% for Labour.
It's going to be Clinton/Trump all over again: people thought those two being so unpopular meant third parties would surge, but, in the end, so many people thought one of the two options was so grotesque that they ended up going with someone they thought was only mildly grotesque.
England produced their greatest ever performance today, even better than 2003.
Though when we lose to Wales next week we'd have preferred to have been destroyed 76 nil by the All Blacks.
However, it will be a manifesto commitment
Following complaints made to the IRB about the All Blacks being allowed to motivate themselves by performing the 'Haka' before their games, other nations were asked to suggest pre-match rituals of their own. The IRB Committee has now agreed to the following pre-match displays:
1.. The England team will chat about the weather, wave hankies in the air and attach bells to their ankles before moaning about how they invented the game and gave it to the world, and how it's not fair that everyone still thinks New Zealand are the best team in the world.
2. The Scotland team will chant "You lookin' at me Jimmy?" before smashing an Iron Bru bottle over their opponents' heads.
3.. The Ireland team will split into two, with the Southern half performing a Riverdance, while the Northerners march the Traditional route from their dressing room to the pitch, via their opponents dressing room.
4.. Argentina will unexpectedly invade a small part of opposition territory, claim it as their own "Las In-Goals-Areas" and then be forcibly removed by the match stewards.
5.. Two members of the South African team will claim to be more important than the other 13 whom they will imprison between the posts whilst they claim the rest of the pitch for themselves.
6.. The Americans will not attend until almost full time. In future years they will amend the records to show that they were in fact the most important team in the tournament and Hollywood will make a film called 'Saving No.8 Lyle'.
7.. Five of the Canadian team will sing La Marseillaise and hold the rest of the team to ransom.
8.. The Italian team will arrive in Armani gear, sexually harass the female stewards and then run away.
9.. The Spanish will sneak into the other half of the pitch, mow it and then claim that it was all in line with European "grass quotas". They will then curl up under the posts and have a kip until half time, when their appeal for compensation against the UK Government will be heard.
10.. The Japanese will attempt to strengthen their team by offering good salaries to the key opposition players and then run around the pitch at high speed in a highly efficient manner before buying the ground (with a subsidy from the UK Government).
11.. The French will declare they have new scientific evidence that the opposition are in fact all mad. They will then park lorries across the halfway line, let sheep loose in the opposition half (much to the delight of the WELSH) and burn the officials.
12.. The Australians will have a barbie before negotiating lucrative singing and TV contracts in the UK. They will then invite all their mates to come and live with them in Shepherds Bush."
13.. Unfortunately the Committee were unable to accept the Welsh suggestion following representations from the RSPCA.