Brexit Is Teaching Britain A Lesson In Humility; Boris Johnson finalizes EU Exit Deal!
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How would Jeremy Corbyn campaign against Boris Johnson and Jo Swinson in a snap election? That’s the question that keeps plenty of Labour MPs in constituencies on both sides of the Brexit divide awake at night, and with the odds of an autumn poll rising by the day, they have been urged to spend the summer break in electioneering mode. Corbyn himself will be in Tory marginals next week.
In an email this afternoon, the Parliamentary Labour Party have been warned: “It is impossible to ignore, this summer could be the start of a long campaign towards an Autumn General Election. It is vital that we take this opportunity to campaign in our local communities and engage with local residents about the issues facing our country.” Labour’s centrally-organised summer campaign has four objectives: engaging voters on local issues, drawing attention to Boris Johnson’s premiership and the failings of the Conservatives in government, highlighting Labour’s own policy offer, and growing the party membership.
Critics of the leadership grumble that none of those four objectives are achievable with Labour outflanked on Brexit by the Lib Dems - or, in some constituencies, cast as wanting to frustrate Brexit by Nigel Farage and the Conservatives - and rows over anti-Semitism dominating the headlines.
The campaign material they have been encouraged to order, however, at least suggests the party will take a more straightforward line on Brexit of the kind advocated by shadow cabinet ministers such as Keir Starmer and John McDonnell. One of the six pledges that will appear on its literature - unveiled by Corbyn at a rally in Parliament Square last night - makes explicit reference to only one half of the party’s chewy new policy on Brexit: its commitment to campaign for Remain against a “bad Tory deal”. In his first encounter with Johnson in the Commons, Corbyn used the same language, and didn’t mention Labour’s commitment to renegotiating a Brexit deal in the event that it entered government.
In other leaflets, Boris Johnson appears alongside Donald Trump - with a vote for Labour sold as the only vote that can stop his “disastrous Brexit”. The language and the framing reflects a school of thought that has been prevalent in some Labour circles, including figures in and around the leadership, since the prospect of a Johnson premiership became an inevitability: that the risk of facilitating a no-deal Brexit and five years of Johnson at No 10 will encourage voters who backed the Lib Dems and Greens in the local and European elections to return to Labour at a general one.
That optimistic line is now the party’s official squeeze message - and we can expect to hear much more of it from Corbyn and the shadow cabinet in the coming weeks.
This implies they had any....to begin with
It seems now they’d rather burn the whole thing down than have share it with others.
DrBanneker
Space is the Place
Now that Boris has ruled out the Irish backstop the EU is going to have to just kick them in the ass it looks like. UK dudes are online really acting like Boris acting hard is going to cause the EU to fold.
The pound is pretty much at a 2 year low against the euro and dollar. Boris is a complete clown. Initially i was hoping that Hunt wouldve been the better option because the guy has intelligence and political nous, but at the moment in time Boris is probably the best outcome. We'll have to endure 3-4 months of humiliation/no deal, but should be a general election in the very near future to get these morons out of office. Labour wont be close to getting seats to get the majority, neither will the tories, but if Corbyn is smart he should try to align with the Lib dems. I think the Dems have already agreed some sort off alliance with the Welsh party, SNP would fall in line if it means Tories/Brexit party are knocked out
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If our government was handled this way with the shyt talking and "oohs, ahhs" in the background like this I bet we'd have 70% voter turnout.
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If our government was handled this way with the shyt talking and "oohs, ahhs" in the background like this I bet we'd have 70% voter turnout.
The rapping on the table.
37s
The speaker "order, order".
It's comedy gold.
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oh and
Trajan
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I was listening to a right wing radio show....some brehs think Boris is a "loose cannon" so the EU will take him seriously
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How the UK lost the Brexit battle
I was listening to a right wing radio show....some brehs think Boris is a "loose cannon" so the EU will take him seriously
@88m3 @thatrapsfan @jj23 @FAH1223 @DrBanneker @Robbie3000
Enjoy
How the UK lost the Brexit battle
post BoJo poll