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[alphorn] 30/11/2019 12:31

"Boris Johnson backs looser state aid rules after Brexit - FT"

That went over the thickos' heads M.

Apart from supporting lame ducks it does not say much for BoJo's confidence that there will be any lame that need supporting after his wonderful exit from the EU.

[gotnorolex] 30/11/2019 12:27

Dream = Fantasy! No?
Anyone is free to become President there! No?

[gotnorolex] 30/11/2019 12:14

Trivializing climate change, trade, law & politics has been the hallmark of Trump's Presidency! No expletive can adequately describe this complete fool!
It will take a few years to rid America of this stench, but it will! With all it's flaws, we're better off with them heading the free world!

[minerve 2] 30/11/2019 11:48

"plus the immigrants who don't even know who they voted for because someone else did it for them, are the irreducible hard core of the Labour vote"

Evidence or is this another small-brain concept.

[gotnorolex] 30/11/2019 11:42

Foreign aid is quite obviously "Indian Giving" even when misspent on fleets of Rolls Royce's, the beneficiary's are always citizens of donor governments!

[grahamite2] 30/11/2019 11:41

maxk 30 Nov '19 - 11:00 - 284434 of 284438

David (not his real name) is a diehard socialist who ... works in the public sector.

Says it all. These "public servants" who leech off the rest of us, plus the immigrants who don't even know who they voted for because someone else did it for them, are the irreducible hard core of the Labour vote.

[maxk] 30/11/2019 11:32

Anyone But Corbyn:

Meet the Jewish voters who have turned their back on the Labour Party



Rosa Silverman
27 NOVEMBER 2019 • 8:27AM



Ask Eliyahu Kelman who he’ll vote for in the General Election, and his answer is simple: “ABC - anyone but Corbyn.” A member of the North London Jewish community, his views are echoed by many in the area. Of the Jewish voters The Telegraph spoke to on the drizzly streets of Hendon and Golders Green, and inside the kosher shops and cafes here, none planned to give Jeremy Corbyn their vote on December 12 - including those who had previously been committed Labour supporters.

This week, the Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis made an unprecedented intervention in the election by branding Corbyn “unfit for high office” and accusing him of allowing the “poison” of anti-Semitism to take root in the Labour party....



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[minerve 2] 30/11/2019 11:13

Boris Johnson backs looser state aid rules after Brexit - FT

See, even Boris is being a bit 'lefty looney'. LOL

[bbalanjones] 30/11/2019 11:13

gnr: the plain fact is that 'Favoured Nation Status' is an illusory concept with DJT's "America First" diktat.

[gotnorolex] 30/11/2019 10:47

BBJ Boris and Trump are socially and intellectually further apart than the Atlantic!
Boris is however keen to do business with the US with favoured nation status!
Labour's "NHS not For Sale" sign is as unnecessarily stupid, as every house owner in the UK putting one up in the front yard to prove their property is not on the market!

[dudley nightshade] 30/11/2019 10:46

hat does the latest poll say?

All the recent polls have predicted a Tory lead and an overall majority - but to varying degrees.

YouGov's constituency-by-constituency poll has reiterated this, indicating that an election held today would see the Conservative Party win 359 seats, 42 more than they took in 2017.

This would leave them with a 68-seat majority, which would be the party's best performance since 1987.

Labour, meanwhile, are set to lose 51 seats, falling from 262 seats in 2017 to 211 now, and taking 32 per cent of the vote, a nine percentage point decrease.

This would be the party's worst performance in terms of seats won since 1983, YouGov said, adding that the party are on course to not take any new seats.

Chris Curtis, political research manager at YouGov, said the current analysis shows the Tories have a "comfortable majority", with seats coming their way at the expense of Labour in the North and Midlands.

"As expected, the key thing deciding the extent to which each of these seats is moving against Labour are how that seat voted in the European Union referendum," he said.

"In the seats that voted most strongly to Leave in 2016 (60 per cent or more in favour of Brexit), the swing to the Conservatives is over six per cent."

Also according to the predictions:

The Lib Dems will win one more MP - increasing their seats from 12 to 13, picking up four new seats while losing out in three they currently hold.
The SNP will secure a further eight seats, two from the Tories, five from Labour and one from the Lib Dems
The Greens will still have one seat, while Plaid Cymru will still have four

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[bbalanjones] 30/11/2019 10:41

g2:

Did the police use a silver bullet?

Politicos and the Justice Department have to answer why this bloke was ever released.

It has cost two citizens their lives.

[toon1966] 30/11/2019 10:34

Bargainbob -

[xxxxxy] 30/11/2019 10:33

MOMENTUM is BADCORBYN is BADLABOUR is BADLEAVE and WTO

[grahamite2] 30/11/2019 10:30

Did the police use a silver bullet?

[bbalanjones] 30/11/2019 10:27

BoJo is running scared of being tarred by Trumps visit to the NATO London Summit next week to mark 70 Years of NATO. As an "Admiring Friend" of Trump he is Scared of meeting him 1:1 as Trumps popularity over here is down at sewer level.

Watch out for some avoiding footwork by BoJo's 'Minders'

[gotnorolex] 30/11/2019 10:25

As popular as a sour herring in an oilskin jacket!

[gotnorolex] 30/11/2019 09:56

bargainbob...."TV debates are a bit like Formula One," he told i "They're boring until someone has a car crash, so now everyone is waiting for that car crash, but there usually there isn't one as the people participating are so well prepared that they just avoid all mistakes."

I couldn't have said it better! The Union of the Kingdom is better than the European Union. You can't get sentimental with historically hostile nations, do business deals by all means, but don't sell your soul to them that don't have your best interests at heart!

[xxxxxy] 30/11/2019 08:48

The pound has been risingBy JOHNREDWOOD | Published: NOVEMBER 30, 2019There has not been a lot of media comment,  but the pound has risen   from 1.06 Euros to 1.17 Euros since August  and from $1.21 to $1.29. The commentators say this has happened thanks to opinion polls implying a Conservative government that can get Brexit done.Indeed, its not so far off the Euro 1.23 and $1.37 levels  it was at just before the referendum. Since then we have seen a worldwide strengthening of the dollar against most currencies, to do with US interest rates being a lot higher than Euro area, Japanese and UK ones.Prior to the referendum and any suggestion we might leave the EU sterling hit a low of 1.04 Euros in 2009. In the 1980s sterling was well below current levels against the dollar whilst in the EEC.There has been a lot of nonsense talked about sterling and Brexit. Sterling has fluctuated substantially against both the dollar and the Euro all the time we were firmly in the EU. Interest rate differentials, different outlooks for growth and inflation all have an impact, as does relative money policy.  Once out of the EU sterling will doubtless  continue to go up and down according to relative sentiment about our economic policy and  valuations as it has done during  our long time in the EU.

[mikemichael2] 30/11/2019 08:48

Another 'heavy' session for Min last night, he has a serious drinking problem. Lets see what time he arrives.