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FPT:
The party is in disarray, their target seats have been trashed, & they have immolated themselves for the greater glory of Jo Swinson with their stupid Remain Alliance.
Adam Price will be first leader out the door on Dec 12th.
I expect his LibDem friends on pb.com will offer him a consolation shovel for his dungheap.
Perhaps the BBC should invite the likes of Ken Clarke and Norman Lamb, rather than the usual mob that spend all their time spinning and accusing others of this, that and the other.
https://twitter.com/REWearmouth/status/1189282586469818369
Plus its not like most LDs want to remember those days anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkc0RZ8Ym1Y
Bring it on - let's put Labour back in their box and get Brexit done!
What a slogan....given to Lab on a Christmas platter
AFAICS the main change is that Bozo wanted to go to the country with his deal either delivered or obviously blocked, whereas he has been manoeuvred into going when his deal actually got the votes for at least its second reading. Makes people v parliament a tad more difficult, but probably not a huge difference.
https://commonsvotes.digiminster.com/Divisions/Details/734?byMember=false#notrecorded
- Remembrance Day. Someone will try to trip up Jezza and it might backfire.
- NATO summit. Trump risk for Boris but based on the telegraph article he’s going to use it to say “the NHS is not for sale”.
- OBR report. Has to be a major story. There’s probably a BoE forecast due too.
- GDP numbers?
- EU summit?
- What else?
1. Two year parliaments. Another Americanism coming over here.
2. Another election on the old boundaries. The folk at the boundary commission must be close to jumping off the window ledge.
So it turns out Hillary Benn may have saved Boris and the Conservative Party through his attempts to snooker them. Delicious poetic irony if so!
Pathetic editorial from the Guardian. In fairness I suspect that this isn't exactly what they think. But focusing everything on Boris, not a parliament that keeps saying 'no' or a leader of the opposition with the worst ratings ever? A great newspaper is on the slide.
In 2015 the graun gave Ed Miliband the benefit of the doubt, not because it was a natural Labour paper but because he was closest to its soft liberal outlook. They're clearly scared of momentum.
Few voters know the details of parliamentary votes so they will tend to believe what they want to.
I suspect Labour have been the losers from the delay.
https://twitter.com/owensmith_mp/status/1189285858307985409?s=21
LAB = 😀
A Gillian Duffy moment for the PM, or a scandal to hit either of them, or if Nige doesn't put his back into it, and it's over.
Boris is weak on the private schools. What has he got? 1. They save the country billions of pounds. 2. Labour's opposition to them is old-fashioned. I wonder how those will play.
Corbyn is not a strong leader but he is more at home than Michael Foot was speaking with ordinary people. This is going to be a two-party race.
Polling from 2016-17:
Besides, Brexit was never just about Brexit, it's about the culture war as a whole. And knowing that the people they hate will cry and whine if Boris is elected gives Brexity types a powerful incentive to put a cross in his box no matter what their feelings about his Deal...
https://commonsvotes.digiminster.com/Divisions/Details/733