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By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA LONDON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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KariHaruka
And the circus continues.......
I wonder what special acts Bojo The Clown has planned out.
Jimizo
I’m no fan of Corbyn but Johnson really should try to stop lying for a few minutes.
He’d be better employed trying to enforce some discipline on members of his party spewing crap about people who died in a tragedy.
Ah_so
Little bit off topic but there has been a massive amount of UK news on JT of late. As a Brit I can’t complain, but it seems disproportionate- some of the news is pretty minor news in the UK from the looks of it.
SimondB
Straight out of the Trump playbook. Monkey see, monkey do.
Jimizo
To be fair to Johnson, he was lying and making idiotic statements long before Trump lowered the tone.
Johnson was fired from his first job in journalism for making up quotes.
kohakuebisu
Johnson should campaign on all the achievements of the Conservative Party, who've been in power for a mere ten years. Oh wait....
No Business
I hope the Brexit party takes everyone else to the cleaners.
Simon Foston
No BusinessToday 08:29 am JST
Surely you don't think that's very likely.
No Business
It's not very likely; more's the pity.
itsonlyrocknroll
Jeremy Corbyn cannot in all seriousness, even remotely be juxtaposed to mirror dictator Josef Stalin.
Politicly all Party's wheels are politically wobbling, they don't know there backsides from their elbows. Shrill unnecessary lunacy.
u_s__reamer
"These politicians are actual aliens."
Yes, THEY LIVE! Stormzy's got those sunglasses and he can see right through them. The election is going to upset the UK's political applecart with 3 different platforms vying for business. Johnson's going to lose his apples because he never learned the lesson: if it ain't broke, don't brexit! Corbyn's reasonable but risky campaign for big social change to benefit "the many over the few" and then later allowing voters to have the final say on Brexit will see some of his apples fall on the Lib Dem's cart because, as history shows, complicated left -wing arguments leave too many punters intellectually challenged. It's likely the Lib Dems will be the main beneficiaries from the Brexit brouhaha, but unlikely they will have enough apples to set up store. Gridlock born of Brexit should result in rescinding Article 50 as the only way to move forward.
Jimizo
What Brexit Party policies do you like?
TumbleDry
It is November 7.
Why isn’t Boris in a ditch yet?
Joe Blow
Insider secret: at some point every journalist has made up quotes.
Aly Rustom
You mean Albino Gorilla see Albino Gorilla do
cleo
Translation - he lied. Again.
Translation - they lied. Again.
I think (hope) perhaps he is, he just hasn't noticed yet.
You got something against albino gorillas?
Invalid CSRF
No Business
All of them. Check out their manifesto.
elephant200
Corbyn is going to deport all the Tories to exile in.... The Falkland islands! But was that a bad idea? I don't think so!
Aly Rustom
only when they occupy downing street or the white house
Jimizo
Every journalist, eh? Quite the knowledge you have there. Have all of them been fired at some point because it was so egregious?
@No Business
All of the Brexit Party policies are good? I can honestly say I have never voted for any party while agreeing with all their policies. The manifesto must be a masterpiece.
Can you send us a link to this manifesto? I’m particularly concerned with the state of the NHS and the proliferation of food banks. What policies is he offering to deal with these issues?
Thanks in advance.
cleo
It is for the Falklanders.
Invalid CSRF
Jimizo
Farage was driveling about turning the Falklands into a penal colony in the past. Is that in his ‘manifesto’? How about reintroducing smoking to the pub? Did that make the cut?
cleo
Nigel has apparently vowed that he will never issue a manifesto. His party/company does have some stated policies, however.
https://www.theweek.co.uk/101632/the-brexit-party-s-policies-examined
To summarise:
A hard Brexit to be implemented yesterday.
Voting reform to replace fptp with a system of proportional voting.
Abolish the House of Lords
Cancel the HS2 rail project
Scrap inheritance tax
Scrap interest on student loans
Halve overseas aid
Free WiFi on public transport
Unicorns and sunny uplands for all
The NHS and food banks are not mentioned at all, I'm afraid.
Jimizo
That’s what I thought but No Business claims to have read one.
Mind you, I once saw a sign on the side of a bus saying the NHS was going to get 350 million quid a week after Brexit.
Crazy stuff.
kurisupisu
Boris is working himself into a deeper hole.
If Corbyn’s economics were more rational and Diane was let go then I would give him a chance...
1glenn
It was reported on the news over here that Boris has refused to release the results of the investigation into Russian meddling in the Brexit vote until after the next elections. Why? Is Boris afraid that if voters know why they are undergoing Brexit that they will not vote for the Conservatives?
itsonlyrocknroll
Sorry to ask, Cleo, Jimizo, zichi,
Politically wise, are you Tom Watson, Jeremy Corbyn or Tony Blair
Blair spectre hangs over this election. Doesn't it?
How with gritted teeth, will you all Sanitize politically progressively,
Where is M3? maybe enjoying one Greek yogurt too much. Yes
HBJ
My prediction: It'll be a hung parliament with the Lib Dems holding the balance of power. To form a government their demand will be to have a second referendum, which Labour will finally agree to - and following a second referendum Brexit will be cancelled.
Joe Blow
No, it's usually done with anonymous source stories so that nobody knows.