Let's Get Political!

[horlock07]

No our government are trying to free us from the mistake Poland made. Something the Polish deeply regret.

Polling has shown that 90%+ of the Polish population want to stay in the EU?

[horlock07]

Jacob Rees Mogg lying down on the front benches says it all really. An entitled upper class twat with outdated views who couldn't care less about the masses and has absolutely zero respect for other speakers.

Paint me like one of your French girls Boris....

[pauld]

Polling has shown that 90%+ of the Polish population want to stay in the EU?

The far right never bother with anything as inconvenient as actual facts. They are completely post-truth

[Saxondale]

Post-truth but not 'Fake News'.  Thats different.  Apparently.

[Red Frog]

Or pre-truth, since the whole concept is so alien to them.

[pauld]

The pro-Brexit Telegraph reporting that leading City banks would actually prefer Corbyn to No Deal. Blimey

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/09/03/corbyn-better-no-deal-brexit-say-investment-banks-anti-capitalist/

[horlock07]

The pro-Brexit Telegraph reporting that leading City banks would actually prefer Corbyn to No Deal. Blimey

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/09/03/corbyn-better-no-deal-brexit-say-investment-banks-anti-capitalist/

There is something strange (and worrying for Johnson) going on at the Telegraph. Firstly the leak re Cummings came from a Telegraph hack (who must not be too in fear of towing the previous party line to print it) and now they are reporting this?

[pauld]

There is something strange (and worrying for Johnson) going on at the Telegraph. Firstly the leak re Cummings came from a Telegraph hack (who must not be too in fear of towing the previous party line to print it) and now they are reporting this?

And also today reporting that we are heading into a recession on the back of Brexit, the only good economic news they report is that sterling rallied after the govt was defeated yesterday (after plunging when it became clear Johnson was going headlong for no deal)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/09/04/markets-live-latest-news-pound-euro-ftse-100-sterling/

Very off-message. Cummings will be firing some Telegraph journos/editors today.

[horlock07]

And also today reporting that we are heading into a recession on the back of Brexit, the only good economic news they report is that sterling rallied after the govt was defeated yesterday (after plunging when it became clear Johnson was going headlong for no deal)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/09/04/markets-live-latest-news-pound-euro-ftse-100-sterling/

Very off-message. Cummings will be firing some Telegraph journos/editors today.

From the quotes coming out of many Tory MP's I suspect Cummings may well go the way of Nick Timothy fairly shortly.

[pauld]

From the quotes coming out of many Tory MP's I suspect Cummings may well go the way of Nick Timothy fairly shortly.

Hmm, not sure. While the current situation looks chaotic, I suspect this is all 100% in line with Cummings' script. It's straight out of the Bannon/Trump playbook - create a clear divide between your guy and a divided opposition (including internal opposition), accentuate the divisions, activate your base and win the subsequent election on the back of "outsider against the elite" (which will be every bit as ludicrous for the millionaire Old Etonian Johnson as it was for the billionaire Trump, but it worked). Those Tory MPs rumbling about Cummings are just more grist to his narrative of "People vs MPs". The question is whether the hard Brexiteers can hang on long enough to get to an election

[Arriba]

Watching pmq's. Boris hasn't answered a single question put to him yet from Corbyn. Just comes back with insults and completely avoids giving an answer. It's utterly pathetic

[horlock07]

Watching pmq's. Boris hasn't answered a single question put to him yet from Corbyn. Just comes back with insults and completely avoids giving an answer. It's utterly pathetic

Johnsons approach does seem to just ignore the question and be a prick!

[Pax Romana]

The pro-Brexit Telegraph reporting that leading City banks would actually prefer Corbyn to No Deal. Blimey

Blimey indeed.  Do you know whether they specified what they meant by "prefer Corbyn"?

Corbyn at the head of an unassailable Labour majority all backing him? That's a tough choice.

Corbyn as pm in a coalition government with enough LD mps to rein in his excesses?  I can see the (relative) attraction.
 

[Saxondale]

Johnsons approach does seem to just ignore the question and be a prick!

Shouting 'call an election you great big girls blouse' is so stateman like.  Fuck me it's not primary school you rude arrogant prick.

[Arriba]

And I thought May was weak. He is so out of his depth as Prime minister it's laughable. I'm actually enjoying this. All hot air and bluster. He has nothing to him apart from that. Simply cannot answer anything with a coherent response of any relevance.  

Many of the public will be conned later though with the promises to increase police, schools, nhs etc, which is infact partly replacing the damage they've caused since 2010.