Let's Get Political!

[horlock07]

‘Sky's economics editor Ed Conway said the documents do not, at first reading, "contain any smoking guns".’

Damp squid? (sic)

Alternatively Norman Smith at the BBC suggests there is a lot more of note here than just the NHS, citing American demands to have changes in employment law, they also want changes to food labelling. They would also prefer a no-deal outcome.

[Flashheart]

Alternatively Norman Smith at the BBC suggests there is a lot more of note here than just the NHS, citing American demands to have changes in employment law, they also want changes to food labelling.

Taking back control!

[pauld]

‘Sky's economics editor Ed Conway said the documents do not, at first reading, "contain any smoking guns".’

Damp squid? (sic)

*Squib. And no, it isn't. This is the future - a devastated NHS, existing pretty much in name only, wide open to US pharma and other business interests, as will all of UK life be, employment law, banking regulations, the whole nine yards. The Americans know we have to sigh a trade deal with them post Brexit and we are desperate. They hold all the cards and will royally bend our negotiators over a table. After 2020, only the wealthy will be able to afford to fall ill

[Batch]

*Squib.

He said "(sic)", Paul, you pendant (sic)

[Audrey]

I’ve a spare room and a small holiday let if anybody wants to escape.

[pauld]

He said "(sic)", Paul, you pendant (sic)

I'm sic that I missed that.

[Flashheart]

Oddly enough, these unredacted documents have been available on reddit since October.

Some journalists are using this as though it somehow devalues the content of the documents - the same journalists that should have been publishing the documents themselves.

[Flashheart]

Increasingly looking as though BJ won't be doing an interview with Andrew Neil.

[horlock07]

Oddly enough, these unredacted documents have been available on reddit since October.

Some journalists are using this as though it somehow devalues the content of the documents - the same journalists that should have been publishing the documents themselves.

I'm more worried about Laura K, she has been spinning so violently today I gear she may be sick.

[Flashheart]

I'm more worried about Laura K, she has been spinning so violently today I gear she may be sick.

The NHS issue clearly rattled her.

Apparently, Corbyn was told that an interview with Neil and Boris had been arranged, which turned out to be false. (Another 'mistake').

[horlock07]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/general-election-tory-candidate-suspended-islamophobia-racism-flora-scarabello-a9220406.html

So just to clarify, is this worse than saying that 'Islam is the problem' and that Islamophobia is the 'natural response' to Islam?

[Bedford Red]

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1199813298222510081

Tories projected to get a 68 seat majority, picking up Labour seats in the Midlands and North of England.

Polls can be wrong, as we all know, but this has got a depressing feel about it, with just over 2 weeks to go.

[Ardiles]

Too depressing for words.

[Reg Smeeton]

Too depressing for words.

Nah... this is depressing

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-0

[pauld]

Nah... this is depressing

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-0

The one exacerbates the other