Maybe, I'm hoping that politics becomes more centrist now, I get that people want different things and much over the last 3 years has been on the very extreme edges. Perhaps the ERG don't get all they want, hopefully Labour can untangle the God awful situation where the far left wingers aren't calling the shots and they can also take a more sensible centre ground shape. Maybe this is exactly what was needed? Johnson however much of a bumbling berk he can be needs to deliver investment for the new areas that have put faith his way. Labour need to drop this extreme position, it just isn't popular outside of the the metro bubble.
Labour must reflect. They had a leader who wanted to take us back nearly 50 years but more importantly for them, they did to England what labour had done for Scotland, they took labour voters for granted. They were taken over by a far left movement who convinced the leadership that having 500,000 members was more important than millions of traditional labour voters. Also, just announced, Boris has won an advertising contract for smeg fridge freezers
Well. I guess that means no free broadband then? Disappointed with the result, obvs, as I think it's a huge wrong turn for the UK, not just on the Brexit issue but the direction the country is taking in terms of public services, wealth inequality and political philosophy generally, although I am glad the result was so decisive. One of my main beefs was with the fact that the result of the Referendum had been so narrow and since then so much more information had come out that it was wrong to treat that result as determinative of a matter of such enormous weight, so a second one was needed to settle the issue. Although this wasn't a second ref, it was as good as, and it puts the result beyond doubt. Despite Brexit as an idea and Boris Johnson as a man and a leader being exposed to ruthless scrutiny, it's clear that no matter what a dangerously flawed character he is and almost no matter what he said or did (it was beginning to look as if he could personally take a dump on the doorstep of every household in the UK and they'd still vote Tory), the public has emphatically shown which way it wants the country to be run. God help us. Or rather God help a lot of the people who put him back in power, as I fear they might come to regret making this Devil's bargain and in a few years time once they have got over the elation of getting their Brexit, there's going to be a serious case of buyers' remorse when they feel the effects of another 5 years of depleted and sold off public services, economic stagnation and under-investment in their communities (who, let's face it, the Tories have never shown much interest in before and in fact until very recently they openly despised). Or maybe I will be proved wrong and the Tories will somehow against all indications from their personnel and their history, turn out to be the champion of the working classes and will successfully combine nationalism and socialism. Still. It's an interesting time to be alive, now we seem to be in an era of one party politics, or at least we will be until those in charge of such things in the Labour Party stop fantasising that this is Cuba and that the public would stomach a leader as radical as Corbyn. The outcome might have been different with a different man or woman at the helm, although perhaps it wouldn't as Kier Starmer could well have been seen in the former Labour heartlands which are now in Conservative hands as just yet another one of the champagne socialists who have taken their votes for granted and haven't represented their interests. And there was even a little schadenfreude on offer, seeing Jo Swinson's hubris being followed, inevitably, by nemesis when not only did she not become PM as she had predicted with such insane over-confidence, but she also lost her seat. BoJo should have given her the benefit of his classical scholarship on that issue.
Will people stop laughing at this, I'm being serious. He's been part of my morning routine now for over 3 years, I'd almost tuned in to his rhythm of STOP BREXIT shouting...and now gone? Back to work? I do worry about him
To all our lefty friends on here:- BAHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA....etc... ahem... Turns out our poll was fairly accurate
Great result! Corbyn says he'll stand down but not until he leads Labour's review. Good luck with that plan.....I hope they dissect him during the post mortem. Good speech Boris, ending "let's get Brexit done but first.... let's get breakfast done"
Either he does faux-Brexit or we leave on WTO terms. There is no other realistic path forward. I'd like to know which way he'll go!
