dobmisterdobster Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 7 minutes ago, Cade said: Boris has repeatedly refused to confirm that he's going to fight for that same seat. He may parachute himself into one of the ultra-safe home counties seats. He has already been reselected and wont have time to find a new seat. He should be fine. Its not like he's pushing for a disruptive No Deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobboM Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 2 minutes ago, dobmisterdobster said: He has already been reselected and wont have time to find a new seat. He should be fine. Its not like he's pushing for a disruptive No Deal. Yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusk_Till_Dawn Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 24 minutes ago, jumpship said: I reckon it will be a Tory landslide... labour will be crushed, lib dems will gain a little In Scotland it will be a SNP landslide, tories distantly 2nd.. labour crushed. I don’t see where the Tory appeal comes from though. They are awful. Corbyn is also a complete dick. This is worse than X Factor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumpship Posted October 29, 2019 Author Share Posted October 29, 2019 Just now, Dusk_Till_Dawn said: I don’t see where the Tory appeal comes from though. They are awful. Corbyn is also a complete dick. This is worse than X Factor. Because they are going to give England what they voted... Brexit... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costanza Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 29 minutes ago, Victorian said: The election campaign (mostly the media coverage) will be a rancid mess. A horror show. Yup. More lies, rewriting of history and dodgy foreign interference. The media as during the referendum, will be hopeless at taking these chancers to task. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/general-election-date-brexit-boris-johnson-mps-vote-a9176856.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumpship Posted October 29, 2019 Author Share Posted October 29, 2019 Can some run a kickback poll on voting intentions. For some reason I can't find the options to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri Alban Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 No deal this Christmas Independence for the New Year! Scots free to negotiate with absolutely everyone. Prediction 51 SNP MPs 1 labour 1 Tory 6 Libdems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri Alban Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 So! This fixed term? Is it now 2 years? Tories do not seem to like the will of the people. 3 elections in 4 years should be the main attack from the other parties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri Alban Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 (edited) NIESR Boris brexit prediction, will cost the UK £90b by 2029. Edited October 30, 2019 by ri Alban Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlimOzturk Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, ri Alban said: NIESR Boris brexit prediction, will cost the UK £90b by 2029. Hardly something to shout and scream in pleasure about. People are going to suffer as a result of this, not the way i want to achieve scottish independence. The Hard Nats, Scottish independence at all cost are as as bad as any brexiteer. The distain for their fellow brit is almost nigel farage level of distain for his follow European. Edited October 30, 2019 by AlimOzturk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri Alban Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 3 hours ago, AlimOzturk said: Hardly something to shout and scream in pleasure about. People are going to suffer as a result of this, not the way i want to achieve scottish independence. The Hard Nats, Scottish independence at all cost are as as bad as any brexiteer. The distain for their fellow brit is almost nigel farage level of distain for his follow European. More the scaremongering, but wire in with your assumptions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 12 hours ago, ri Alban said: No deal this Christmas Independence for the New Year! Scots free to negotiate with absolutely everyone. Prediction 51 SNP MPs 1 labour 1 Tory 6 Libdems The Scottish Tories have nothin to lose so expect they focus on a no deal / hard brexit to appeal to the million in Scotland who voted to leave . Not me though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjcc Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 4 minutes ago, JamesM48 said: The Scottish Tories have nothin to lose so expect they focus on a no deal / hard brexit to appeal to the million in Scotland who voted to leave . Not me though Aberdeen South’s Ross Thomson has a lot to lose. His ability to grope blokes junk in the Westminster bars for instance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dobmisterdobster Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 6 minutes ago, JamesM48 said: The Scottish Tories have nothin to lose so expect they focus on a no deal / hard brexit to appeal to the million in Scotland who voted to leave . Not me though The Tories aren't going for a hard Brexit. They should run a purely pro-union campaign to hold on to their seats in the North East and Border. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 56 minutes ago, gjcc said: Aberdeen South’s Ross Thomson has a lot to lose. His ability to grope blokes junk in the Westminster bars for instance. Yes cant stand the man. He regularly makes a tit of himself on Twitter and is trolled all the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjcc Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 3 minutes ago, JamesM48 said: Yes cant stand the man. He regularly makes a tit of himself on Twitter and is trolled all the time Saw his post on Facebook earlier stating he was standing for re-election as “champion of Aberdeen’s people” Doesn’t that he voted against his constituents EU wishes 11 times in the commons. Sadly some folk will be swayed by the indi/Union argument rather than having their constituents troubles tended to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 1 minute ago, gjcc said: Saw his post on Facebook earlier stating he was standing for re-election as “champion of Aberdeen’s people” Doesn’t that he voted against his constituents EU wishes 11 times in the commons. Sadly some folk will be swayed by the indi/Union argument rather than having their constituents troubles tended to. Yeah he regularly tweets utter garbage on his Twitter. Crawls up his English task masters arses. If he loses his seat Ill be a happy man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjcc Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 3 minutes ago, JamesM48 said: Yeah he regularly tweets utter garbage on his Twitter. Crawls up his English task masters arses. If he loses his seat Ill be a happy man. I think it was around a 4.5k majority over SNP last time round, not a huge ask. But if people who defect from him vote labour instead he could keep his place as Labour were a fair few thousand behind in 3rd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redjambo Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 9 minutes ago, gjcc said: I think it was around a 4.5k majority over SNP last time round, not a huge ask. But if people who defect from him vote labour instead he could keep his place as Labour were a fair few thousand behind in 3rd. The most recent Aberdeen local by-election result showed that Labour might take a real doing up there - it could well be a straight fight between the Tories and the SNP. https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/elections-and-voting/local-government-elections-2019/bridge-don-election-results Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 1 hour ago, dobmisterdobster said: The Tories aren't going for a hard Brexit. They should run a purely pro-union campaign to hold on to their seats in the North East and Border. If Johnson gets a majority watch his deal get elbowed. Hes a charlatan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cade Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Scottish Tories are now just a single issue protest party. They know damn fine that they cannot possibly defend their London head office and the mess their government(s) have made over the last ten years, so they just ignore it. "Indy Never" is their one and only policy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamb0_1874 Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 23 hours ago, Victorian said: The election campaign (mostly the media coverage) will be a rancid mess. A horror show. Is that not just British politics though, a horror show full of rancid people in it for their own good all under the guise of doing it for the people they are meant to represent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamb0_1874 Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 On 29/10/2019 at 12:05, Cade said: .........and what happens when this GE returns another hung parliament or a fragile coalition/minority government? I think we just continue to thrash around in circles like we have been doing for the past three years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamb0_1874 Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 16 hours ago, ri Alban said: No deal this Christmas Independence for the New Year! Scots free to negotiate with absolutely everyone. Was that not what was said about Brexit? Leave the EU and be free to negotiate with everybody? So its a negative to do it currently but a massive positive when an independent country!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri Alban Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 So Boris, pick a ditch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real Maroonblood Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 2 hours ago, ri Alban said: So Boris, pick a ditch. We’d be so lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Z Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cade Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 (edited) So how are the Brexit Party/UKIP/Britain First/EDL/Football Lad's Alliance/Wetherspoon's riots going so far? Edited October 31, 2019 by Cade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey1874 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Boris saying its January do or die now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey J J Jr Shabadoo Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 6 hours ago, ri Alban said: So Boris, pick a ditch. He should be made to dig the ditch first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maroonlegions Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 3 hours ago, Justin Z said: RIP Seems Boris election campaign got of to a great start. NHS safe in this clowns hands eh, like the fire service that was blamed for the Grenfell tower fire. He was the one that shut fire stations and made spending cuts. THe below was tweeted by a MP. Lib Dem parliamentary candidate for South Cambridgeshire, Ian Sollom, said on Twitter: "Appears Boris Johnson has been booed out of Addenbrookes Hospital on a visit to Cambridge today. "Appears Boris Johnson has been booed out of Addenbrookes Hospital on a visit to Cambridge today". "Cambs has second biggest overspend in England, our residents are being put at risk by this Government's underfunding, with chronic understaffing hitting care hard". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brighton Jambo Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 4 minutes ago, maroonlegions said: Seems Boris election campaign got of to a great start. NHS safe in this clowns hands eh, like the fire service that was blamed for the Grenfell tower fire. He was the one that shut fire stations and made spending cuts. THe below was tweeted by a MP. Lib Dem parliamentary candidate for South Cambridgeshire, Ian Sollom, said on Twitter: "Appears Boris Johnson has been booed out of Addenbrookes Hospital on a visit to Cambridge today. "Appears Boris Johnson has been booed out of Addenbrookes Hospital on a visit to Cambridge today". "Cambs has second biggest overspend in England, our residents are being put at risk by this Government's underfunding, with chronic understaffing hitting care hard". And yet today’s survation poll shows he is more trusted with NHS than Corbyn. When you going to apologise to that other poster for saying that was ‘utter shite’ when he posted it. Yeah I know you won’t as not your style to ever admit you were wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brighton Jambo Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 1 hour ago, Mikey1874 said: Boris saying its January do or die now. You would think he would gave learned his lesson! Less of the dramatic statements that leave him with egg on face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjcc Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Harder to dig a ditch in January I imagine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey1874 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 58 minutes ago, Brighton Jambo said: And yet today’s survation poll shows he is more trusted with NHS than Corbyn. When you going to apologise to that other poster for saying that was ‘utter shite’ when he posted it. Yeah I know you won’t as not your style to ever admit you were wrong. So privatisation of the NHS (accelerated in England since 2010, another LibDem achievement) is what people want. Good stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brighton Jambo Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 34 minutes ago, Mikey1874 said: So privatisation of the NHS (accelerated in England since 2010, another LibDem achievement) is what people want. Good stuff. Welk according to that survation poll seemingly so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DETTY29 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Thought Corbyn gave a very good speech but will always be stigmatised by the press as an personal anti semite who cheered when the IRA killed anyone. Truth or well, lies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey1874 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 1 hour ago, Brighton Jambo said: Welk according to that survation poll seemingly so. I think it reflects just how unpopular Corbyn is. Quite a remarkable result. Jeremy will charm people during the election campaign though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJGJ Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 7 minutes ago, Mikey1874 said: I think it reflects just how unpopular Corbyn is. Quite a remarkable result. Jeremy will charm people during the election campaign though. Simply put he is the Craig Levein of the Labour party You want him to succeed but you know it's just not going to work and he'll never be the winner you want He'll be gone by Christmas Labours only chance is to announce they will hold a second referendum if they win Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brighton Jambo Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 29 minutes ago, Mikey1874 said: I think it reflects just how unpopular Corbyn is. Quite a remarkable result. Jeremy will charm people during the election campaign though. I agree though this time he isn’t up against May. Johnson can give as good as he gets and has way more ammunition on Corbyn than may did. If corbyn resigned tomorrow and Kier Starmer took over and announced that if in power they will immediately have a second referendum they would have a 20/30 seat majority locked up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cade Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 22 minutes ago, CJGJ said: Simply put he is the Craig Levein of the Labour party You want him to succeed but you know it's just not going to work and he'll never be the winner you want He'll be gone by Christmas Labours only chance is to announce they will hold a second referendum if they win They already have. They'll try to make a new deal, then have a confirmation referendum with "deal" and "remain" on the ticket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annushorribilis III Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 4 hours ago, maroonlegions said: Seems Boris election campaign got of to a great start. NHS safe in this clowns hands eh, like the fire service that was blamed for the Grenfell tower fire. He was the one that shut fire stations and made spending cuts. THe below was tweeted by a MP. Lib Dem parliamentary candidate for South Cambridgeshire, Ian Sollom, said on Twitter: "Appears Boris Johnson has been booed out of Addenbrookes Hospital on a visit to Cambridge today. "Appears Boris Johnson has been booed out of Addenbrookes Hospital on a visit to Cambridge today". "Cambs has second biggest overspend in England, our residents are being put at risk by this Government's underfunding, with chronic understaffing hitting care hard". The medical student who kebabed BJ today and the hecklers as he leaves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey J J Jr Shabadoo Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 Has Boris' body been found yet? Nothing on the news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pans Jambo Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 21 hours ago, CJGJ said: Simply put he is the Craig Levein of the Labour party You want him to succeed but you know it's just not going to work and he'll never be the winner you want He'll be gone by Christmas Labours only chance is to announce they will hold a second referendum if they win Craig Levein of the Labour Party Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey1874 Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 Farage certainly set out a clear position today. And says he will make clear the faults of the deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cade Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 From an un-named senior Tory: ‘Even if Boris's policy was no deal Farage would still oppose and say it's not Brexit because it didn't ban Pizzerias or stop EU nationals managing premiership football teams’ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cade Posted November 5, 2019 Share Posted November 5, 2019 Boris reneges on promise to let the Commons vote on extending the transition period. Jan 1st 2021 means we either have every deal done or WTO terms. Boris clearly planning for no deal in 2021 even if his deal passes. *for clarity, it's been widely touted that a transitional period would need to be two years or more to get everything done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cade Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 President Trump has refused to appoint or re-appoint any justices to the WTO court. This means that it is now unable to arbitrate on any trade disputes. This means unless you are protected by a formal trade deal, you are at the mercy of any larger trading partner. Such as the UK being at the mercy of whatever the EU wants. So the Hard Brexit WTO fantasy is already a nightmare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri Alban Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 49 minutes ago, Cade said: President Trump has refused to appoint or re-appoint any justices to the WTO court. This means that it is now unable to arbitrate on any trade disputes. This means unless you are protected by a formal trade deal, you are at the mercy of any larger trading partner. Such as the UK being at the mercy of whatever the EU wants. So the Hard Brexit WTO fantasy is already a nightmare. Ripped apart from the USA and the EU. Karma is a Bitch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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