UK Politics Thread (Part 1)

I dont think Labour have actually published any policy info have they? Not that I’d ever vote for them. A labour vote here puts a Tory in the seat.

I think Boris will be gone by the Summer. They need a fall guy for the pandemic and Brexit and Boris is perfect. A bumbling buffoon they could influence and was blinded by his ambition to jave the job title.

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How would I know? :laughing:

I was brought up in Labour strongholds where they just mindlessly vote labour. Cringeworthy loyalty without question is maybe why we are where we are.

Wow, thats some claim, that Bozo will be gone by the summer; I am intrigued, just who would they wheel out?

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These are the current odds for the next Conservative leader:

As you can see, it’s a far from inspiring list.

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I ‘liked it’ but I dont like it, get me. We’re fckd but you and I knew that anyway. There is not one fit for the office.

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Tom Tugendhat is obviously not a real name.

I say make Johnny Mercer PM that sounds like a jolly decent type of name and very British,what could possibly go wrong.
Just off to Google him in case that’s a made up name as well.

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Johnny Mercer’s voting record.
I would use the shocked emojii but I wasn’t.

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Sir Charles Walker has just been calling for heads to roll on Radio 4.

Could this be the start of the backbench revolt? :thinking:

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What was the reasoning?

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He claims the Cabinet knew midweek that they would have to “cancel Christmas” but didn’t want to make the announcement until the last possible minute.

Have a listen to The World This Weekend on BBC Sounds. He’s quite scathing of the government. The interview with Walker starts 19:33 into the programme, although it’s worth listening to the whole thing.

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Italy, Belgium, and Netherlands cutting flights already - and some open concerns about land transit remaining open.

Somehow, I don’t think the European Parliament is going to be overly concerned about rushing through an agreement for an open border with the UK this coming week.

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I do think there’s a good chance of an extension though. Say to 15 January. A date I’ve chosen purely because it’s my birthday.

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Maybe, but to be hard-nosed about it, why? If the border closes temporarily due to covid, the EU is already facing most of the costs that it would bear from no-deal. The urgency to an extension so that trade is not massively disrupted on January 1 is gone. If France blocks trains, as is apparently under discussion, the disruption is already more significant than no-deal, and with no prospect of it being resolved before January 1, or realistically, January 15.

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I think mostly so that the bureaucrats on both sides don’t have to be bothered with this over Christmas!

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Well, yes, and legislators. Why have a panicked session to rush through something to keep a border closed in practice open in theory? European Parliament was already disgruntled at having a potentially inadequate period of time to review, the Commission no longer has a compelling argument for necessity.

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Isn’t this mostly about passenger flights/trains? Not about goods, is it?

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Just ignoring you.

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I think the French measure about trains is not much more than rumour at this point anyway.

Just saw Austria has announced a travel ban.

So what does this have to do with a Brexit deal and the possible disruptions of a no deal? The worries aren’t really about travel primarily.

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Good question. Dunno. Some talk of Sunak. With regard to Boris he’s been moaning about the salary being insufficient plus I can honestly see the Tory’s turning on him once Brexit is done and virus is pretty much under control. I’ll çaveat summer as it depends on those 2 things.

Brexit will not be done and neither will covid by the summer, just my perception. I feel Bozo stays the term and goes by a failed re-election. Sunak fuck me!