It's all falling apart alarmingly fast for Boris Johnson across the water. How long you reckon he has left as British Prime Minister? Hours surely?
How many parties are they talking about now? I've lost count.
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So a completely different argument!
The British public may have firmly rejected Corbyn and his Trotskyites, but as his mate once said, "They haven't gone away you know".
If they had, Angela Raynor would not be deputy leader and shouting her gob off on national TV every two minutes.
nah, the hard left just run on being angry little lefties and hating people who got off their arses and made something of their lives
There's the Greens but the electoral system debilitates any party outside the big two.
The By-election won't affect the makeup of the parliament by much, but if a Tory safe seat is lost because of Johnson, then his only reason d'etre is lost.
The Tories only accept Johnson's shenanigans because he wins elections. As soon as this stops being true, his days are numbered
The hard left may or may not rely on a downtrodden underclass as their political base, but that's irrelevant because there basically is no hard left in UK politics at the moment, regardless of how often you keep using those words
The Socialist party have zero MPs and only fielded 2 candidates in the last general election
There are a number of centre left parties in the UK, and a few extremely right wing parties but no hard left parties have any electoral success or political support
Getting rich people richer is not what the Tories want, as if they make people more money then they lose their support base!
What utter nonsense. If the 'left' raise people up then those people will vote for the people that helped them.
There's other tricks too to defund regions Wales is subsidising HS2 even though though at it's closest Crewe is 50km from North Wales or an hour by public transport.
Westminster Government has classified the project as benefitting England and Wales, while Scotland and Northern Ireland both receive full Barnett payments for HS2. ... it means Wales won’t receive full Barnett consequential payments and will lose out on £5 billion of funding.
Boris has a majority of 80* and who controls the allocation of the safe seats ?
*And could still buy DUP votes. Or offer independence to Scotland. And there's no election due for years.
A week is a long time in politics. I think it's very unlikely but UK politics is so cynical that I wouldn't be surprised if we find out years later that the birth was brought forward.
The City of London would be fairly far back in the minds of most people living in London. It's a reason but there would be many more above it
I wouldn't even bother with this lad in fairness. He will say anything to back up "his side" including defending Anne Widdecombes homophobia, comparing Rashford to paedophiles and defending Farage's belief that refugees are not people
Sadly a lot of people in England see Boris as Mr Brexit and believe the conservatives are world leaders in vaccine roll out. That’s enough for their continued support.
I don’t think they will lose this by election either which will be a boost for him under the circumstances. He will be ousted eventually but has a while to go yet imo.
there is a reason why the pro remain vote in London was stronger than anywhere else in the UK and that is because the City of London, in general, did not want to leave the EU.
I don't think the by-election is terribly relevant. Voters aren't choosing the next government so who wins isn't all that important and this is likely to prove a nominal benefit to the Lib Dems.
What's going to make or break him is Christmas. His indulging of his own desires while the rest of us make sacrifices is a hideous look. If we get a repeat of last year's fiasco on top of the footage of them making fun of us, that's him done. David Cameron managed to detoxify the party to some degree and Johnson has singularly undone that in a few months.
Levelling up is not what the hard left want, because without poor under privilaged people relying on handouts, the champagne socialists at the top don't have a support base.
Bojo is in deep trouble at this stage - and rightly so.
Johnson has been the most inept, incompetent, inarticulate Prime Minister the UK has seen for a long, long time. He has had everything in his life handed to him on a silver platter and he still manages to royally f*ck things up.
Actually, the fact that he's not had to work his arse off for years and years to get where he is today is probably the reason why he's completely incompetent at the top job. As the saying goes "easy come, easy go."
The Conservatives in the UK do not care one whit about the well-being of the country or the economy - and certainly not those tossed on the scrap heap of deprivation and welfare dependency in regions decimated by economic restructuring who were sold a pack of lies about Brexit.
All they care about is feathering their own nests and protecting their very wealthy donors and cronies who pushed for Brexit to ensure that the City of London remains a major conduit of global money laundering without any EU scrutiny.
The Tories aren't called the Nasty Party for nothing.
Johnson has to get through PMQs this week which will be an absolute sh1tshow for him, or else he may try to avoid it, and be called out for the coward that he is.
He has a byelection the day after where an extremely safe Tory seat is in play. Will tory voters stay at home out of anger at Johnson? Maybe they will. Lib Dems are polling ahead of the Tories according to some polls, Losing that seat could result in a full scale revolt from MPs worried about their own seats with Johnson at the helm
He is also struggling really badly getting his 'plan b' through parliament with dozens of his own party voting against it, and other MPs refusing to say that they have confidence in him
He has the booster program as political cover, but the problem is, anything that focuses on Covid restrictions will remind the public that he is an utter hypocrite and has lied repeatedly about those christmas parties
'Levelling up' is not what people want. 'Levelling up' is what you do in a video game by grinding out experience
What people want is investment in infrastructure and the opportunities to be able to make positive life choices
The EU have poured billions into regional development and targeted the development at the areas that needed it the most. The EU knows that investing in the less developed parts of the EU will have long term benefits. The Tories don't have this foresight, they see the exchequer as their own slush fund that they can use to buy votes and funnel money to donors and croneys
I'm guessing it wasn't Tory backbenchers who sent me a link to petition to call for the investigation of the Metropolitan police, for facilitating the party at 10 Downing street.
That was probably another just angry leftie.
Actually I think you'll find some Tories themselves hating Johnson also, it's not just the 'hard left.'
you mean like attracting companies like Nissan to Sunderland, Toyota to Derby, Sony and Panasonic to South Wales?
Hell, I lost my job in the late 80s because there were government grants to move to Mid Lothian which my company took advantage of
Most of the people who criticise thatcher weren't even a stir in their fathers groin when she was in power.
Conservatives have proven time and again that **** down criticism is much more important to them than the welfare of the British people. Levelling up is and always was a scam. At best, it will partly mitigate a small fraction of the devastation the Tories have wrought on this country.
Levelling up is an old Thatcher saying from the 1970s and we all saw how well Thatcher helped the more disadvantaged areas of the UK during her time as PM..
Johnson and the Tories like to issue 'buzzwords' but you always judge politicians based on their actions and the Tories have slashed 15 billion for the budgets of local councils over past decade https://www.local.gov.uk/about/news/fragmented-short-term-government-grants-poor-value-money-councils-warn
What are you basing this on?
lots of anger in this thread.
Levelling up is what people want to see, as opposed to "Tax the rich and give it to the poor" ideology the opposition offer.
When I say what the opposition offer, we don't actually know what they offer, because all we hear is the angry leftie gob shite that is their deputy leader.
they aren't though. that's just more "Angry Leftie bullshit".
Yet it has been completely forgotten.
Boris will survive this sideshow.
The difference between the EU's RDF and "leveling up" is RDF actually went to the poorest areas of the UK and not to the areas that won local parties the most votes.
One of the biggest Borisisms that always stuck in my craw is "levelling up". Heavens, there's even a Secretary of State for Levelling Up (yes that's their title).
On initial inspection, it appears to be about building stuff in places that don't nice have nice stuff. A kind of low-resolution regional development strategy. What's not to like? So why not just call it regional development like any sane person would?
Aha, that's the beauty of levelling up, it's regional development without 'tall poppy syndrome' (Boris' words). Basically, it's a patronising 'helping hand' to the provinces to outwardly signal they give a hoot about places that have been suffering economically since Thatcher, but London and the Home Counties won't be handing over any more loot than they have to. Kind of like slippery arguments against higher income tax on billionaires writ large.
Studies have shown that besides the blue riband projects like HS2, the 'levelling up' funds have been going disproportionately to Tory-controlled constituencies and electoral swing constituencies, and in-particular, vulnerable Lib Dem seats that Tories are targetting are getting 3 times the amount of funding per head than (typically poorer) safe Labour-held constituencies.
Cynical, pork barrel, self-dealing, and grotty. And this is central to Boris' platform btw.
Labour is dead. Destroyed by infighting weak stances. Kier Starmer is a bloody joke.
There is also a very real reluctance to be responsible to try and deliver a Tory Brexit too and I cannot really blame them for that. The Tories dragged the country into the disaster that is Brexit and they didn't have the first clue on how to plan it out, resulting in the absolute shambles that we see today. Frankly, I'd be loath myself to step into the shoes that's responsible to try and dig the country out of that situation.
People like Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson don't care. They don't have to care. They don't reside in the same world as anybody on this thread. They don't even reside in the same world as the vast majority of their "subjects".
We're talking about someone that's been groomed for power in some form or another since he was at Eton. While perhaps not automatically destined for the highest office in the land, he's nevertheless an Oxbridge educated article that was always assumed a political position of some description, completely irrespective of his ability. So his outlook on life is vastly different to the greater percentage of people both in Britain and outside of it.
He found himself as PM due to circumstances, more than likely, but it's doubtful that he really gives that much of a crap about the role. But he doesn't have to and if he was deposed in the morning, he'd just retreat into whatever shade of political role he can and continue on as normal regardless of the shambles that his dog and pony show premiership resulted in.
It's all just an amusing game to people like Johnson, because there's nothing riding on it for him to be truly worried about.
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