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17th June 2019, 11:55 AM | #2721 |
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17th June 2019, 12:48 PM | #2722 |
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Boris seems to have decided that actually answering questions is beneath him, of course that didn't work so well for May at the last GE.
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17th June 2019, 02:55 PM | #2723 |
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Boris is being clever (Well his team are) He is prone to saying the wrong thing and making a fool of himself.
By keeping his head down he can only do his campaign some good, plus he is so far ahead he doesn't need to do anything at the moment. What his team need to do is persuade some of the MPs supporting him to vote for Javid and make sure it's him that Boris is up against when the party members get to vote. there is no way the majority of Tory party members will vote for the son of a Pakistani Muslim immigrant over an old Etonian. |
17th June 2019, 03:00 PM | #2724 |
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Amazing to think a politician can get elected by saying little as he possibly can. By offering nothing, justifying nothing, being nothing.
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17th June 2019, 03:19 PM | #2726 |
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17th June 2019, 04:12 PM | #2728 |
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Fair enough I thought he meant just the MPs.
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17th June 2019, 05:40 PM | #2729 |
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17th June 2019, 06:03 PM | #2730 |
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Here in the USofA, we elected* a non-politician who produced an absolute torrent of words which mostly meant absolutely nothing.
*"Elected" can be interesting. Trump won the presidency via the Electoral College, despite losing the popular vote. BoJo may become PM by getting a majority of a few thousand Tories. Which is worse? Then again, that's only happening for Boris because May resigned. If Trump resigns, Pence becomes Pres automatically, because he was voted for by a few hundred delegates at a convention. |
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17th June 2019, 09:58 PM | #2731 |
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17th June 2019, 10:01 PM | #2732 |
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The motion was to require the PM to ask for an extension and revoke article 50 if he didn't get one, if the no deal Brexit became imminent.
PM could always just wait and let no deal happen due to inaction. Theresa May could do so, if she defied the parliamentary vote that instructed her to do so. That would be the end of her career, possibly freedom, probably the Tory party and who knows what else, but it was within her power to do so. McHrozni |
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18th June 2019, 12:19 AM | #2733 |
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I think that the Conservative Party leadership changes this dynamic significantly. Almost all of the candidates are committed to leaving on 31 October, some say they would look for a deal beforehand and others have no-deal and Plan A. A number have mentioned proroguing parliament as a means of achieving it.
No-deal seems to have 35%-40% support overall and 70%+ support withing the Conservative Party. IMO crashing out with a no deal wouldn't negatively impact the new leader's career, standing within the party or electoral prospects (any losses due to moderate Tories voting LibDem would be replaced by UKIP/Brexit Party returns). |
18th June 2019, 12:27 AM | #2734 |
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Of course it does. There is no legal requirement to do anything right now, a new PM is able to use dirty tricks to get the no deal through.
I reckon the no deal will retain up to 25% support in the long run, but it will shittle down from the 35-40% support you mention as reality bites. It's important to keep reminding everyone they voted for this: (it should be fine with rules 4 and 5) And not the "it's still not as bad as the Blitz in all aspects" they'll be getting. McHrozni |
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18th June 2019, 01:16 AM | #2735 |
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Who's going to to the reminding ?
The Murdoch-owned outlets sure as heck aren't going to, neither are The Torygraphy, Daily Fail or the Daily Express which leaves the Grauniad, Mirror and Independent/I which are read by about seven people who are in any case implacably opposed to Brexit. The BBC and other media outlets are obliged to present a "balanced" view which means that pro-Brexit propaganda will be given at least equal weight to the truth. I wish I shared your optimism, but I think that a continual message of "it's all the EU's fault" will find a lot of traction and harden opinions, given that the alternative would be for people to admit they made the wrong decision. Potayto / potahto |
18th June 2019, 01:47 AM | #2736 |
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Look, here's the thing - Brexiteers promised, over and over again, EU will agree to British demands because "EU needs the UK more than UK needs the EU", therefore EU will yield if enough pressure is applied.
This is a matter of public record and the reasoning behind the no deal brinkmanship. Once it is proven to be false, if you claim "it's all EU fault", you're already admitting you were completely wrong. No amount of pressure forced the EU to yield, even though you promised it. From such small openings minds are changed. Not quickly and not all minds mind you, I reckon 15-25% will remain convinced it's the EU's fault because they refused to yield before the obvious UK invincible supremacy and choose to make the poor little bullied UK into roadkill, but enough will change their minds to make a few real changes in the UK reality. It may take a couple of years in a no deal scenario and I agree the first couple of months, possibly years, may well be horrific. Just keep reminding everyone what they voted for at Brexit. Flyers under door reminding everyone what the promises of Brexit really were sound like a good start.
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18th June 2019, 02:10 AM | #2737 |
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I wish I shared your opinion of the electorate, that they are willing to review their opinions in light of new information - I simply don't think that this is the case.
IMO the vast majority of Brexiteers are now emotionally invested in their decision in a big way. They've been called idiots and bigots by me, and people like me, for three years now and there's absolutely no way that they're now going to say "Gosh, those Remainers were right all along, I was a mug to be convinced by the lies". Instead they're going to do what people do - double down and get further entrenched in their views. To be honest, if the boot were on the other foot, I'm not sure that the situation wouldn't be reversed. I'm heavily emotionally invested in the Remain cause. In the unlikely event that a consistent and coherent case could be made for Brexit, it's likely that I would find some way to disregard it. |
18th June 2019, 02:18 AM | #2738 |
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Indeed, a majority of them will remain convinced. But not all, nowhere near that - I reckon about 15-25%, probably about 20%, of the electorate will remain convinced "it would be even worse without Brexit". Most of the rest will be in the "I don't know" category, claiming they never were for Brexit at all. Humans cope in different ways and there are lots of ways to deny you were wrong. Believing the opposite in spite of evidence is just the one that recieves the most attention.
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18th June 2019, 04:44 AM | #2739 |
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New Zealand has an option to become a state of Australia.
This could be deemed NZentrance. Australia despises New Zealand for a range of reasons, defence, and so on, and is expelling New Zealanders with no cause, requires passports and no criminal convictions for New Zealanders to visit. All above needs fact checking but is roughly correct. Human nature dictates that Britons will be treated appallingly by Europe after Brexit. It is incomprehensible that this death wish is so close to fruition. |
18th June 2019, 04:51 AM | #2740 |
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Apparently full destruction of everything is acceptable...
Tory members happy to trash UK economy, break up union, and destroy their own party to get Brexit, poll finds |
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18th June 2019, 04:58 AM | #2741 |
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Hm. How has their membership fluctuated recently?
Have a significant number of people quit and/or enrolled in the party in the past couple of years? That could explain a lot, the insane moving in and the sane out. Also, 100,000 members seems bit small for one of two major parties of the UK. I'd expect their numbers to be around a million or so at least. Funny, that. McHrozni |
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18th June 2019, 05:09 AM | #2742 |
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They'd accept a seriously damaged economy, the breakup of the United Kingdom and the end of the Conservative party to get England (and Wales, I suppose) out of the EU. The only thing they could not tolerate would be if a Labour government got in as a result.
These people are insane. But they'll keep waving their union jacks even as they destroy the union, just to get their precious blue passports. |
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18th June 2019, 05:38 AM | #2744 |
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The numbers are in steady, gradual decline since the early 90's.
There was a steep drop (by more than half) in the late 80's https://www.spectator.co.uk/2013/09/...-of-the-party/ |
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18th June 2019, 06:10 AM | #2746 |
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That poll was of tory party members, who are by and large insane anyway.
The fact that nearly 30% don't think Brexit-whatever-the-cost is a Good Idea I (personally) think is a nice surprise. I thought it would be a lot lower than that. |
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Breaking: Raab resigns from Tory leadership race in protest against his manifesto which he has spent weeks promoting.
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18th June 2019, 02:22 PM | #2749 |
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18th June 2019, 04:30 PM | #2752 |
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Don't forget the 6 million who signed the petition for a second referendum. The Conservative memberships bears little or no resemblance to the demographics of the electorate at large and the likely winner is a man who will cheerfully bypass parliament to ram through a deal no one wants.
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18th June 2019, 10:51 PM | #2753 |
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I'm thinking more in the past three years or so, the graph doesn't resolve well enough to see.
I'm asking because the people most likely to leave are be the people most displeased by party policy. Party policy of the past three years has been Brexit, come hell or high water. Conservative party members who disagree may have left the party by the thousands, leaving the retarded inside to vote for disaster to secure the glorious future of Brexit. McHrozni |
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18th June 2019, 11:11 PM | #2754 |
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This is the best I can do.....
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If only that were true, but the vast majority of Conservative members and a clear majority of Conservative supporters (as well as Brexit Party and a tiny minority of Labour Party supporters) want a no-deal. Supprt for no-deal seems to be in the 30% to 40% range.
A unscientific straw poll taken down the local shows almost complete support among "gammons" but even younger people appear to be of the opinion that a no-deal will involve nothing worse than a little short-term inconvenience but that it'll turn out fine. The Leave campaign has been very successful at branding reality as "Project Fear" and as a result people here simply discount any and all warnings of future consequences. |
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Harking back to the heyday of Izal, then
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