Truly the best candidate.
EU elections are proportional, splitting the vote is less relevant. It just means a lot of brexiteers in the Parliament showing why most Europeans want the UK to leave.Heh, some good stuff there. We are in the midst of Tory meltdown. Dems and TIG will try the damnedest best to get people to show up at the polls and others will get the reamainer word out
Not too concerned with the ukippers leaving the Tories and going back to garbage and ukip. Splits the right-wing vote three ways. This was inevitable from the day May lurched her party to the right.
Big question is labour, what with the ever increasing majority for remain. It's serves them well to delay the official backing for a second ref until the last minute before the EU elections. But play it wrong and there is a chance this will benefit the brexit party.
First things first, labour is playing for time knowing damn well the talks for a brexit deal will break down.
The UK EU elections use D'hondt and split the UK into regions with very small numbers of seats each, giving not particularly proportional outcomes.EU elections are proportional, splitting the vote is less relevant. It just means a lot of brexiteers in the Parliament showing why most Europeans want the UK to leave.
While westminster is on vacation it seems EU line is hardening with october becoming a hard deadline. Seems like Macron is doing lots of convincing behind the scenes and he convinced germany and a few others.
Seems like they also want to force out the brexit party as soon as possible.
https://www.ft.com/content/f064d5fc-61b8-11e9-b285-3acd5d43599e
It should be no surprise that polling. There's a high anti-EU sentiment in Italy. I wouldn't be surprised if there's an EU referendum there..
Yeah I believe it, there's an Italian lady at the place I work, and she basically said she moved to the UK because of what the EU is doing to Italy, she hates the EU.
Does she realize she was able to simply move to the UK and work there because of the EU?Yeah I believe it, there's an Italian lady at the place I work, and she basically said she moved to the UK because of what the EU is doing to Italy, she hates the EU.
Does she realize she was able to simply move to the UK and work there because of the EU?
Yeah I believe it, there's an Italian lady at the place I work, and she basically said she moved to the UK because of what the EU is doing to Italy, she hates the EU.
I still bet there will be another extensionWhile westminster is on vacation it seems EU line is hardening with october becoming a hard deadline. Seems like Macron is doing lots of convincing behind the scenes and he convinced germany and a few others.
Seems like they also want to force out the brexit party as soon as possible.
https://www.ft.com/content/f064d5fc-61b8-11e9-b285-3acd5d43599e
There is a lot of reasons to hate the EU tbh. Just not enough reasons to leave it.
In the sense that the EU's existence is a net benefit for EU countries…
Between this and David Blunkett's recent "Why hasn't the full force of the law been used against these eco anarchists who fill me with contempt?" article in the Daily Mail a few days ago, it's probably time to remember New Labour had something of an authoritarian/social Conservative streak in certain areas.
Nah, new labour was perfect, it's only us bitter impotent lefties who give a shit about things like half a million dead Iraqis, the massive expansion of anti terror legislation and the normalisation of right wing rhetoric.
I'm not sure anyone (sane) thinks New Labour was perfect. I think people get irritated at Corbyn worship and ignoring the various good things NL did do, as if it's all a zero-sum game.
I'm also not sure anyone thinks Iraq was a good idea, and I'm pretty sure many on the left think Labour moving leftwards is welcome, and that those who don't like its current course aren't necessarily social fascists who love killing Iraqi children.
You might think this is facile, but I've read enough of Twitter.
There is a lot of reasons to hate the EU tbh. Just not enough reasons to leave it.
In the sense that the EU's existence is a net benefit for EU countries…
Fair, I don't do twitter, but whenever the reanimated corpse of Blair comes back to vomit his bile on us I become somewhat bitter. I've also heard a lot of Blair era worship when I was volunteering with labour locally, so I am somewhat salty about the whole thing.
Also fair. I am no fan of Blair.
I shouldn't read Twitter, it's often so... stupid. So so so stupid...
Also, digression, but I see the largest number of utterly unfunny wannabe comedians on Twitter. I guess it's a function of the medium, but nowhere else do I read so many desperately unfunny political 'jokes'...
How have I never seen this?!
Just after the referendum apparently, not a quote, just Marr spouting this absolutely fucking disgusting rhetoric at the beginning of the show.
Coming from Marr it doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Just another one of these twats that seems to forget that he's part of the elite that he's railing against.
Even crazier, in this age of massively accelerated nostalgic feelings, are people wanting the "good old days" of 2012 back.
American outsider here. Two questions:
1. Now that Brexit negotiations seem to be on an endless trail of extensions because no one seems to be willing to commit to even the idea of leaving the EU outside of taking points... will Brexit ever actually happen?
2. Maybe I'm just used to the banal appearance of the modern American politicians sans Trump... but it's it just me, or does everyone involved in this seem a bit... odd? Like, there's the whole pig-fucking thing with David Cameron. Then there's Boris Johnson, who actually looks & carries himself like a madman. And then there's the whole Bucket Head thing. It's actually quite... entertaining to watch play out. All of your politicians seem like real characters.
Well the article implies that grassroots pressure would make MPs change the rules to oust her earlier, I'm not sure how she remains in office if she has no supportBut they can't have another no confidence vote until next year under their own rules. The only thing they can do is a no confidence vote in the entire government and trigger a General Election, and even then I don't think May would actually have to resign.
If they lived in a bubble, sure. Which admittedly many of them did before Brexit.2012 was the olympics so it doesn't surpise me when especially many liberals point to that as the good old days because the country actually felt very open, understanding and progressive atleast in the media.
This is literally their pitch2012 was the olympics so it doesn't surpise me when especially many liberals point to that as the good old days because the country actually felt very open, understanding and progressive atleast in the media.
2. Maybe I'm just used to the banal appearance of the modern American politician sans Trump... but it's it just me, or does everyone involved in this seem a bit... odd? Like, there's the whole pig-fucking thing with David Cameron. Then there's Boris Johnson, who actually looks & carries himself like a madman. And then there's the whole Bucket Head thing. It's actually quite... entertaining to watch play out. All of your politicians seem like real characters.
Christ.
Let's go back to 2012 isn't much of a pitch...