General Election

[tiffinboys]

No need for Radio satire.

JC: No policy on tridents yet. We will review, IF elected. ( )

And

J McDonald: any one earning over £70 or 80k is RICH.
JC: we never mentioned figure of £70k or so. (No wonder; he earns £138k )

[tiffinboys]

Few polls out today, giving Tories massive lead. But I feel it's very early days and unless Labour does some massive blunder, Tories would be just around 340-345 mark, still better than 2015.

[quasimodo]

No need for Radio satire.

JC: No policy on tridents yet. We will review, IF elected. ( )

And

J McDonald: any one earning over £70 or 80k is RICH.
JC: we never mentioned figure of £70k or so. (No wonder; he earns £138k )

I saw the interview of JC on the Andrew Marr show.He can expect huge criticism in the newspapers even Labour supporting ones.Members of his own party must have cringed when he discussed defence. His own unilateralism on nuclear defence came to the fore abandoning his parties agreed position on Trident.It was a car wreck of an interview.

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -manifesto" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Conservatives have announced they will be putting in place a policy to curb fuel bills.Their "bribe".Somehow it is different from the policy they attacked when announced by Ed Milliband in 2015.

[Eccentric]

Do you really want to ask voting for this?

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[Amber]

Do you really want to ask voting for this?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 48156.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Eccentric, some healthcare services have already been outsourced to private companies - Virgin for example is now running paediatric services in Wiltshire and has been sold patients' data without their parents' permission.

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It would be no surprise to see American organisations getting involved - the neoliberal politics referred to upthread and the hard Brexit which a landslide will give mandate for mean that we will basically be subject to the vagaries of markets, and we will have to buy where people will do business with us.

I heard Tony Blair, whose involvement in Iraq I still despise, speaking on R4 about an hour ago. To my surprise and discomfort I found myself agreeing with every word he said. The article below is not a great summary to be honest but it is worth trying to listen to the original interview if it is available. His sense of despair at the state of things is certainly something I can relate to, and though he was rather more charitable about TM than I am he did cast some light on the pressure she is under from the hard right of her party to force a radical Brexit deal which will leave us totally adrift from the Single Market.
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/po ... gger-party" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

As an aside did anyone see Trump saying he had bombed Iraq, until the interviewer asked if he meant Syria? I only saw it on Hignfy but .

[JaneEyre]

As an aside did anyone see Trump saying he had bombed Iraq, until the interviewer asked if he meant Syria? I only saw it on Hignfy but .

Thank you for mentioning that, Amber. I didn't know about this and I am underwhelmed by the dangerous state of the world these years to come. Here he is on a CNN website:

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[tiffinboys]

Is T Blair looking for invitation to stand? He is most welcome to try his luck from Richmond Park, Kingston or Twickenham. All very pro Remain areas. If he can't win from here, then he would at least know what people think about him. Disaster for Labour Party.

[JaneEyre]

That was another biased party political broadcast by the disgruntled party

Hi Catseye, ( waving )

You made me laugh with your campaign during the last few days!
Well, if I were able to vote in the British general election ( clause in the conditional tense... meaning I am not able ), I would vote for your party as the Liberal Democrats have promise second Brexit referendum.

https://www.ft.com/content/4850c1aa-281 ... 28796fe35c" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[tiffinboys]

as the Liberal Democrats have promise second Brexit referendum.

JE, they can promise any thing, even moon. They don't have to deliver. If they were to join any coalition, all their promises would be forgotten, as neither Labour or Tories would go for the second referendum.

For deliverable promises, it has to be either Labour or Tories in the government.

[Catseye]

That was another biased party political broadcast by the disgruntled party

Hi Catseye, ( waving )

You made me laugh with your campaign during the last few days!
Well, if I were able to vote in the British general election ( clause in the conditional tense... meaning I am not able ), I would vote for your party as the Liberal Democrats have promise second Brexit referendum.

https://www.ft.com/content/4850c1aa-281 ... 28796fe35c" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Here's waving back. I shall eat popcorn and watch the tamasha unfold>over to you - our resident pro Kim ung May fans-good luck to you- you are the new elites now the old order is over now- yow, lot have firmly got your trotters under the kitchen table so you better deliver our bacon back home and double quick, I tell you.

Or it will be your trotters that we put to the fire.

I shall have cake, you shall have cake we will all have cake.......... or else!!

A toothless threat from the toothless party