Let's Get Political!

[Mister Lorenzo]

The UK is fked.

Both the major parties offering idiot binge spending as their election pledges.

[Reg Smeeton]

I presume you aren't voting for Boris then

It's estimated that Brexit so far has cost £2 Billion.... that's waste on things like Grayling's non existent boats, melted down 50ps and an ad campaign for an event which never happened. Although not only Johnson's lies caused this waste, he bears a large responsibility.

This before we get the hard Brexit which will cost £ billions more....

[Mister Lorenzo]

It looks as though the Spectator thinks it's a bad idea!

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/11/a-british-broadband-corporation-is-labours-worst-idea-yet/

[pauld]

Just lies to get votes.

4 day working week
free internet
free double glazing and new heating system
removal of the 2 child limit to benefits
free prescriptions


I wonder what will be next?

Will lie down in front of bulldozers to stop 3rd runway at Heathrow
Out by 31st October
Definitely won't prorogue parliament
Didn't have affair with Petronella Wyatt
Sacked from the Times for making up quotes from sources
Lied to Max Hastings when he worked at the Telegraph
Claimed Turkey was joining the EU (and then lied about having said it in the first place - lying about lying)
£350m a week for the NHS
Lied about his coke habit
Made up completely false story about EU regulations on condom sizes (again while he was at the Telegraph)
Lied about not knowing the Leave campaign he headed was breaking electoral law
We will leave the EU as one whole nation
Lied to Northern Irish manufacturers about customs forms under his deal

That's just (a small sample of) Johnson's lies, Gove has got an equally extensive list as has Liam Fox, David Davis, Raab and the rest. Don't think accusations of lying is a strong suit for Tories, tbh.

[horlock07]

Just lies to get votes.

4 day working week
free internet
free double glazing and new heating system
removal of the 2 child limit to benefits
free prescriptions


I wonder what will be next?

Who knows maybe...

1. Parliament voted to approve the Brexit deal
2. He's building 40 new hospitals
3. Labour want to ban Ofsted
4. Labour will have no controls on immigration
5. Labour will allow a Scottish independence referendum in 2020
6. Labour voted against tax cuts for workers

And these were just the lies crammed into the campaign launch speech?

[horlock07]

In other news, the Bus of Lies is back. "The lies on the bus go round and round, round and round....."

[Flashheart]

It looks as though the Spectator thinks it's a bad idea!

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/11/a-british-broadband-corporation-is-labours-worst-idea-yet/

A Torygraph journalist rubbishes a Labour policy?

Whatever next?

[pauld]

https://boris-johnson-lies.com

Fact checking website about Johnson's lies. Written by a Tory journalist.

[horlock07]

Interesting research on the potential costs/savings of re nationalisations.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nationalise-royal-mail-energy-water-savings-bills-national-grid-a9203636.html

[jayohaitchenn]

It looks as though the Spectator thinks it's a bad idea!

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/11/a-british-broadband-corporation-is-labours-worst-idea-yet/

A blog owned by a pair of billionaire sociopaths think a social policy is bad? Well I never!

[Ardiles]

https://boris-johnson-lies.com

Fact checking website about Johnson's lies. Written by a Tory journalist.

This is brilliant.  And even better, it works equally well with 'lies' as a noun or a verb.

[jayohaitchenn]

Here's a left leaning economist who thinks it's a good idea...

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2019/11/15/why-labours-right-to-be-talking-nationalisation/

[Flashheart]

Here's a left leaning economist who thinks it's a good idea...

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2019/11/15/why-labours-right-to-be-talking-nationalisation/

Who'da thunk it?

It's almost as though people are likely to form opinions on specific policies according to how they fit in with their own political worldview. Every day's a learning experience.

[jayohaitchenn]

Mental, isn't it?

[horlock07]

He really is useless

https://twitter.com/DancingTheMind/status/1195288360723595269