Westminstenders: Manifesto or Bust?

[RedToothBrush]

The Brexit Party aren't doing one.

The Labour Party apparently can't afford theirs.

The Conservatives will just lie anyway.

And the LDs got upstaged by Prince Andrew's resignation from royal duties for being a fuckwit.

3 weeks to go...

It's like watching a car crash. I don't want to look but somehow I'm compelled to.

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Pmk

Ooo. Don’t normally post but will do for a front row seat to the car crash first page pmk!

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Thanks, Red. These threads are like a lifeline at the moment.

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Labour's manifesto was a breath of fresh air.

The last manifesto will be a very damp squib and no one with an ounce of sense will believe it anyway

PMK thanks Red.

I'm with Polly on this one:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/21/labour-manifesto-election-corbyn

And thanks Red for the new thread.

Excuse the multiple posts. I have things to do later.

I also love this:

www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/21/what-a-nice-surprise-readers-on-the-labour-manifesto

Pmk

Thanks, red 💐

The Tories set up a website with a fake Labour manifesto and paid Google for it to be at the top of searches

In case anyone is asked about the fake, this is the real Labour manifesto:

https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Real-Change-Labour-Manifesto-2019.pdf

Well, the IFS is not impressed. From the Guardian:

The Institute for Fiscal Studies has said Labour’s plans would push the UK’s tax burden well above levels that have been sustained at any time since the second world war, and expressed scepticism about whether the burden would fall exclusively on the better off and companies.

In the end, it is unlikely that one could raise the sums suggested by Labour from the tax policies they set out. If you want to transform the scale and scope of the state then you need to be clear that the tax increases required to do that will need to be widely shared rather than pretending that everything can be paid for by companies and the rich.

PMK. No cat (I’m allergic to them - as is DD), but I have nice flowers.

Hearing Boris has ducked another TV debate on Sunday ?

On the subject of fake websites have we mentioned that the odious Faragit is suing the witty Led by donkeys.

"Farage and co have sent us a long legal letter demanding we give our website BrexitParty.com to him. Well, he can have the website... for a million quid, all proceeds to the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (price goes up £50k a day)."

https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1197519769890672640

https://thebrexitparty.com/ (owned by Led By Donkeys!)

https://www.facebook.com/ledbydonkeys/

Westministenders' Abbreviations:

https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/eureferendumm2016/3492426-Westministenders-Abbreviation?msgid=84503730

Thank you, Red. I used to watch US politics as light relief from ours. And vice versa when theirs got too much.
Ho hum.

Labour's manifesto has vision, courage and guts. Most of all it's truthful and delivered with a refreshing honesty.

PMK!

Place marking with the news that the Uxbridge and South Ruislip hustings have been cancelled due to the fact the current incumbent (one Boris Johnson PM) is too frit to appear.

twitter.com/ARMilani_/status/1197572493072064512

Tories lie about what they will do and lie about what Labour will do

Guy Verhofstadt, the European parliament’s Brexit coordinator, said that

the Tory dirty tricks of disinformation were “dystopian”
and beyond what even the far-right regimes of Eastern Europe have done.

He is referring to the Tory dirty tricks of faking videos of Labour politicians,
faking a Labour manifesto website - & paying Google to top the search results -
and faking a fact check Twitter account

Shameful Tory strategy.

Labour's manifesto has vision, courage and guts. Most of all it's truthful and delivered with a refreshing honesty.

Because of this, I think if the Tories win I will feel absolutely devastated at a lost chance and will NEVER forgive Tory voters for inflicting their horrible, dishonest, sneaky, vindictive party on the rest of us.