Will Boris Johnson be interviewed by Andrew Neil

[fedup21]

Like all the other party leaders? He said something over the weekend implying he was happy to be, but has this been scheduled?

I understand perfectly. Patronising much!

Yep!

Just like you are going to support Johnson

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Not voting is a perfectly respectable thing to do,

It absolutely is not

Too many people fought too hard for us, particularly women, to have that right.

Of course it's fine to not vote. We don't have compulsory voting.

i won’t blame myself - I had no other viable choice

Neither, one assumes, did the people who vote labour

Of course it's fine to not vote. We don't have compulsory voting.

I’m not even bothering to discuss this with someone who genuinely believes that

BTW, did anyone else notice that the Tory manifesto promises a commission looking into constitutional change? It's long been on the Cummings wish-list, of course.

Last night, Newsnight said they'd tried several times to get anyone from the party to come and comment on it, or give more details, but no one was willing to speak. The Tories they did have on the show claimed not to know much about it.

As the Newsnight analysts were saying, this could mean some minor tweaks... or it could mean dramatic change and removal of some oversight that the courts and parliament have over the executive.

No one knows, and this is not a small thing.

Conservative Party manifesto 2019: 13 key policies explained
www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50524262

13. Launch a democracy commission
It will look into the constitutional power balance.

Suffragettes etc fought for us to have the right to vote. Not the compulsion I believe.

tobee

Said that to a friend over coffee today

What? That's akin to saying people have fought for equal pay between men and women means all women should work!

That was to Bear

Ok, so none of us bother our arses to vote - then what?

Or, more realistically, you are just hoping people who think differently to you don’t bother their arse to vote because it’s the only way Labour will win.

Too many people fought too hard for us, particularly women, to have that right

People did not fight for us to vote in someone who doesn't believe in democracy. Where would be the sense in that?

Johnson is the least worst option IMO

You have decided to support Johnson.

I have issues with all of the available options too. I'm NOT going to be supporting Johnson.

So yes, we do both have a choice – clearly, as we're making different ones.

arse and tobee, you’d be much better back in the WM echo chamber where Corbyn is the Messiah, even though most of you argree he’s a twat.

It’s a bit close to the real world here.

And in just over a week we’ll know what our fate is

I don't like Corbyn and I don't like Johnson.

The difference for me is that there are still a lot of good people left in Labour, whereas all the sane Tories (and yes, I happen to believe there were quite a few of them) have been kicked out of the party.

So if the choice is between Sadiq Khan, Keir Starmer, Hilary Benn, Yvette Cooper, Jess Philips, David Lammy vs. Ian Duncan Smith, Dominic Raab, Pretty Patel and Jacob Rees Mogg, I really have no hesitation in deciding which side to pick

I can post in both places.

Is that the only way you can frame it? That people are not bothered? How do you feel about bothering yourself to go down to the polling booth and spoil your vote? Rather than vote for Johnson, who you say is fucking shite? Where's the virtue in that?

I'd encourage everyone to vote. However they choose. But I respect people of they don't vote.

Not sure why you think, Bear, that i wouldn't? I thought you might just be trying to make yourself feel better.

Pretty good trick being a twat and a messiah!

Now I've turned this thread into my own personal echo chamber!

There is an enormous difference between spoiling your ballot paper and not voting

But again I’ll ask, if everyone spoilt their paper then what?

They'd have to come up with something different? Dunno. There's been lots of things in the last year that have been "a first"

Meanwhile, back to the OP...

Johnson still dodging being interviewed by Andrew Neil.

General election 2019: Andrew Neil issues interview challenge to Johnson
www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50679252
[Andrew Neil] ended the monologue by saying: "The prime minister of our nation will, at times, have to stand up to President Trump, President Putin, President Xi of China. "So it was surely not expecting too much that he spend half an hour standing up to me."

Anyway none of that makes me think I'll vote Tory. But I'm going to vote Corbyn. If people think "anyone but Corbyn" there are those that think "anyone but Johnson". It's not that hard to imagine, is it?