BREXIT - A Poll & Discussion

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Well, there's also the option that a crime was not committed, whether by lying or not. We shall have to await the Judges' written reasons.

From the BBC website*

The Uxbridge and South Ruislip MP's legal team argued that the offence of misconduct in public office was about the secret abuse of power and there was nothing secret about Mr Johnson's claim, which they said had been challenged during the campaign.
Mr Darbishire said the attempt to prosecute Mr Johnson was "politically motivated and vexatious".
Addressing Mr Johnson's barrister, Adrian Darbishire QC, Lady Justice Rafferty said: "We are persuaded, Mr Darbishire, so you succeed, and the relief that we grant is the quashing of the summonses."

(sentences reordered for clarity, because the BBC correspondents can't write for sh!t these days )

My understanding from this is that it is quite possible that there was no case to answer, so the issue of Boris's honesty may have been irrelevant.

*https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-48554853

[Krystal n Chips]

All is now explained....the long term effects are clearly far more protracted it seems......

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -occasions

[FD2]

Is Trump unable to remember too much stuff, or are accurate details things for mere underlings to worry about? As a lesson in how to humiliate someone in public, his last speech with Theresa May, on the subject of that Brexit 'deal' :

Trump capped it off by complimenting Theresa May. ‘She’s probably a better negotiator than I am…that deal is teed up…perhaps she won’t be given the credit that she deserves. But I think you deserve a lot of credit. I really do.’ Doh!

[Krystal n Chips]

Clip clop !

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... se-cartoon

[Krystal n Chips]

I know, it's that damned EU again....offering their unwarranted opinions about the valiant UK and our politics ...

The opinions can't be faulted though, can they.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ay-sources

[FD2]

[Nick Riviera]

Insanity is attributing a quote to Einstein that he never said.

[BenThere]

I agree, Krystal, with your linked Guardian article that Boris is a Trumpian figure, which I see as a good thing for UK. None of my business of course, but UK politics need shaking up. Tories quit being Tories and Labor has gone off the rails with Corbyn.

A lot of Americans held their breath when they elected President Trump, seeing him as a poor choice but better than the alternative. To our collective delight, however, just about everything he has done, despite a withering press, outright hatred from the Left, and now a Democrat controlled House that does nothing but resist him, neglecting its legislative obligations, particularly regarding border control - all is coming up roses and America is doing just fine under his administration.

I love how the Left has been driven to distraction trying unsuccessfully to undermine the president, but unable to gain a foothold. And the harder they try, the more ridiculous they are perceived. The Democrats are proving to be President Trump's most effective re-election tool.

[llondel]

A lot of Americans held their breath when they elected President Trump, seeing him as a poor choice but better than the alternative. To our collective delight, however, just about everything he has done, despite a withering press, outright hatred from the Left, and now a Democrat controlled House that does nothing but resist him, neglecting its legislative obligations, particularly regarding border control - all is coming up roses and America is doing just fine under his administration.

One wonders what Obama could have achieved had the Republican Congress not pretty muck blocked anything and everything he tried to do once they were elected.

I'd like to see what Boris achieves, if only that it puts him on the spot and demands he makes good on all his previous stuff. Either the UK will do amazingly well or whoever gets the job in 2022 has the opportunity to be hailed as a great PM for pulling the country out of the mire.

[FD2]

NR - I think insanity would more likely be continually misquoting Einstein.
Did you think it was directed at you?

[4mastacker]

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[Capetonian]

This really is the Guardian, that shrill screeching harridan Polly Toynbee to be precise, at its dismal worst, railing against everything that the conservatives and capitalism have achieved.

Ghastly.

No doubt KaknCrap will be enjoying a sense of self-induced well-being as he reads this poisonous rubbish.

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... referendum
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[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

The Guardian, bought by 6% less people in May this year than last, 132,793 copies daily on average.
The BBC, after being found out in 2014 that it was buying more copies of the Guardian than any other paper, has now shifted to buying with some nod to national circulation and has cut its buy by a third, and now buys less than the more popular broadsheets.

Food for thought:
0.2% of the UK population buys the Guardian*
0.7% of the UK population experiences delusional psychosis**
The demographic for this mental illness exactly matches the demographic for Guardian readers**

* https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/national ... ion-drops/
** https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... report.pdf

[Pontius Navigator]

Food for thought:
0.2% of the UK population buys the Guardian*
0.7% of the UK population experiences delusional psychosis**
The demographic for this mental illness exactly matches the demographic for Guardian readers

and one of them turned up here.

[om15]

Just watched the dismal spectacle of the candidates for the PM on the BBC, we really are finished as a nation, the AlBeeb did the usual stuff of wheeling out some old imam who started accusing everyone of being Islamophobic, instead of telling him to do one they all fell over themselves admiring Muslims, pathetic.
Boris just came across as a mumbling bumbling blusterer failing to properly answer the questions, Gove and Rory Stewart came across as both being equally insane, at least Jeremy Hunt manages to speak properly and give some sort attempt at answering the question, the bald one should have followed his Dad and become a bus conductor.

The beeb managed to unearth a completely un representative selection of the population to pose standard anti Tory questions, a teenage jock girl rabbiting on about global warming, some bloke on minimum wage who doesn't want to pay any income tax, as mentioned the imam questioning our devotion to Allah, and some poor women from a lunatic asylum in Southampton going on about estate agents.

We really are screwed, they are all incompetent, self serving tossers that make Mrs May look good, the sooner we have a general election and get some of Nigel's used car salesmen running the country the better.

[Pontius Navigator]

Om15, you forgot to mention he whose great grandfather was a Muslim

I thought Stewart was a mess. Agree Hunt came out best.

[AtomKraft]

Could I just gently suggest, that fears of the sky falling on our heads post BrExit, might be overblown?

We managed for many centuries, and indeed prospered before joining.

[Woody]

The Financial Times definitely not impressed

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robert shrimsley
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@robertshrimsley
 God this is abysmal - is it too late to keep Theresa May?

[om15]

Well, well, Abdulla from Bristol, the BBC provided imam last night, is not all he seems,

https://order-order.com/

Another BBC triumph, had they got away with it, if Farage had been on the interview panel he would have ripped this bloke to shreads, as it was the others just looked weak and cowardly at the mention of Muslims.

“For those wondering how, given his tweets, Abudullah Patel made it onto the debate last night. The answer: his Twitter account had been deactivated, his tweets could not be read and his account did not exist when searched for…

It was AFTER the show that Mr Patel reactivated his account revealing his tweets. We wouldn’t have put him on the programme if these were public before broadcast but they were not. We also carried out a number of other routine checks which didn’t uncover anything untoward.”

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Any Deputy Headmaster should be allowed on the BBC without question.
The question is: Why is this man a Deputy Headmaster?