Westminstenders: 10 day count down

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10 days to go...

... Wake me up when the shit show is over.

Genuinely astonished at the hypocrisy.

I don't really have an issue with the idea that people can support Johnson despite his problematic history with women, but I'm just flabbergasted at the double standards.

I imagine that as with the Abbott-Corbyn hypocrisy, the female partner's skin colour is a rather important data point here.

No one has been unfriendly to you Epic - we've just refuted your arguments carefully and resoundingly, responded precisely to what you were claiming with reasonable counterargument - and you've run out of things to say... That happens a lot here with a certain type of poster.

Byeee

We don't have many posters up round here - either Listening. And we are usually a sea of red posters.

Our MP has a huge majority and I know will get in. She's an amazing MP and works so hard that she doesn't need to canvass - she has lots of support. It is funny that there are so very few posters in windows though. We have a few red ones and that's it.

She's an amazing MP and works so hard that she doesn't need to canvass - she has lots of support

That for me is the convincing argument. Never mind whether you don't like Corbyn/Swinson/Sturgeon - the latter who isn't even a Westminster MP; ask yourself if the person you can vote for is worth voting for.

I suppose the same might apply to not liking Johnson, but here I would ask - what sort of Tory is standing? Has a moderate Tory managed to get the nomination, or are they all English Nationalists?

My window

• @LordCFalconer: It is... so if Mr Johnson becomes PM again, he won't be restrained by the courts from acting unlawfully*

Worthy of repeating. The Conservative government has spent the last three years trying to try various new strategies -acting without parliamentary debate at all. It has also tried limiting parliamentary debate to a length of time that only allows for lip service to be paid to the issues.
It has tried to act by prime ministerial letters alone; it has increased Henry VIII powers to enable individual ministers to make legislation. It has also shut parliament down completely.

Next on the ConservatERG agenda is the permanently increased ability for the government to act without legal constraint.

What next.

When will people wake up.We are a very small number of steps away from a government that says the next election will be in 10 years time, or 20, or on a date to be decided.

Don't vote Tory or Don't vote for these Tories this time.

Hugh Grant has been scrutinised and dealt with 25 years ago when the incident occurred. He also apologised.

Remind me of the consequences for Boris Johnson. I also seem to have missed his apologies.

www.change.org/l/uk/the-people-power-index-how-did-your-mp-score

Cannot quite believe there are some MPs with a worse ranking than Jared O’Mara (no personal experience, just based on what I’ve read on here and elsewhere about how rubbish he is).

Accountability will be a la Trump stood in front of a helicopter shouting responses and not hearing or pretending to not hear what is being said.

Yup just what we need Dusty a PM not even answerable to the courts there are parallels but youre shouted down if you bring them up, I think this election is more important than a lot of people realise but while the MSM has a vested interest the majority of people aged over 60 wont hear about it, and even if they do aaaaaarrrgghhhh Corbyn

^www.change.org/l/uk/the-people-power-index-how-did-your-mp-score^

#31 here Which I can well believe - had quite a to-and-fro in the past 2 years.

Also had another more overt leaflet in the post today from our Tory hopeful. Again only one, my name. I guess I need to read it to my wife and servants.

Also on the Hugh Grant thing. We have ourselves to blame, partially at least.

We have created an X factor type culture where celebrity replaces issues for many.

Eddie Izzard, Ian McKellen, Harry Styles, JK Rowling, Lily Allen, John Cleese, Russell Brand, Gary Lineker, Danny Dyer have all had their say. Even the PM has a celebrity cache. We have blurred the boundaries.

But generally most of these celebrities are people too, with some valid views. Some of them are very perceptive and most care about the people.Hugh Grant is only one example and just not the best one. At least he isn't a Johnson fan, as he could so easily have been.

DG give it to the butler he can disseminate it to the rest of the staff saving yourself the trouble of going downstairs and dealing with the underlings yourself

Remind me of the consequences for Boris Johnson. I also seem to have missed his apologies.

I saw a clip a few days ago of Boris listening to the tapes between him him and Darius Guppy conspiring to beat up a journalist. He laughs all the way through it like remembering a classic old wheeze, a joke between mates. The he claims its out of context and when it's pointed out that all the context is clearly in the phone call and asked how he feels hearing it back he says 'well obviously, I'm furious about my private calls being recorded' - and chuckles some more. The man is a psychopath.

Is it just me but does this read as pure bollocks?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/04/bbc-impartiality-precious-protect-election-coverage

Those who criticise our election coverage by focusing on a couple of mistakes ignore the overall quality and evenness

@JustAnotherPoster00 - it's so short sighted over the media though...... no sympathy for them when it comes back and bites them on the bum

^www.change.org/l/uk/the-people-power-index-how-did-your-mp-score^

Mind didn’t even make it into the top 600

@Justanotherposter - I am calling bullshit in that......
I can't watch the bbc - it makes my blood pressure go up. They may not be intentionally biased (🤔) but if this is so the quality of the people they employ is so poor that they go into things unprepared, not knowing facts on the matter...
And don't get me started on Laura K - tweeting a link to Cummings blog - that was a new low - she should have been fired for that alone. If she had done a critical analysis of it - that would have been one thing (is she capable) but to just desiminate it....

Tory Fibs
@ToryFibs
Just now, Jeremy Corbyn arrives at the Robin Hood statue in Nottingham to make a speech

Labour will introduce an Oligarch Tax, Tech Giant Tax & Robin Hood Tax. We’ll use that money to eradicate the hunger you saw on Channel 4 Dispatches on Monday night

twitter.com/i/status/1202206860062777351

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/03/tories-festive-food-bank-visits-conservative-policy?CMP=share_btn_tw

How dare these Conservative MPs make festive visits to food banks? - Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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A smear is a brewin

•Corporate media are attacking Corbyn for not watching Queen’s Speech on Xmas Day

•Truth is, Jeremy without telling journalists, sneaks off to a North London Refuge to meet folk spending Christmas without hope or a place to call home. Picture of last Xmas

Prayers being the religious equivalent of "apps"

Love it. The app for forgiveness for my childhood misdeeds as admitted in the confessional was always three Hail Marys.

According to CEEDA (independent Early Years research body), all the main party manifesto pledges for Early Years funding are inadequate:

All parties' manifesto pledges will lead to shortfall in Early Years funding
Source: Early Years Alliance

Estimated deficit in funding:

Conservative: £824 million shortfall
LibDem: £314 million shortfall
Labour: £80 million shortfall

There is already an estimated £662 funding shortfall in the Early Years, according to previous reports.

Saw a bit of Trump's press conference and his comments on doing a trade deal with the EU.

It would appear that what he calls "barriers" are what we would call minimum "standards"

Bodes well for the UK-US trade negotiations

The BBC is damaged beyond repair as a news organisation. I haven't see it's news page on a regular basis for weeks now. They should have used a longer spoon when supping with the devil. No amount of balanced reporting on the upcoming ongoing sale of the NHS is going to spare them the same fate.