UK Politics Thread

LO SCIENZIATO wrote: Jezza will be PM within 6 months or less

Denis Irwin wrote: colemanY2K wrote: Christopher Hope @christopherhope Are you sitting comfortably? Some Tory MPs tell me David Davis is being lined up as an interim leader to take the UK through Brexit talks. DD - 70 in December - would then stand aside for a younger leader late next year. 10:03am · 19 Oct 2018 · Twitter Web Client Read something similar yesterday albeit with Michael Gove installed as leader. Some bunch of f**king jokers. Good f**king christ they've actually found a way of going from the frying pan and into the fire and that takes some doing given the current shambles

yup...the tory party is a nest of vipers. it does look like a coup is brewing.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/dup-hits-out-at-taoiseach-s-despicable-low-and-rotten-brexit-comments-1.3669114The DUP really are a very entertaining bunch of lunatics.

Which is why he is different. Having the same sh*te over and over again, and opposing things for the sake of being in opposition is wrong and one of the many reasons that democracy is a fine idea in theory, but...You can be against Brexit without being pro-EU, that is the stance of a lot of the people that got Corbyn elected Labour leader that he needs behind him to ever be PM. Just adopting the neo-liberal agenda of New Labour would mean no opposition here at all. All the Lib Dems have is being anti-Brexit, leave them to it. There will be a lot more to the fallout from this than just that, especially the way the Tories are going about it.

pre Madonna wrote: Which is why he is different. Having the same sh*te over and over again, and opposing things for the sake of being in opposition is wrong and one of the many reasons that democracy is a fine idea in theory, but... You can be against Brexit without being pro-EU, that is the stance of a lot of the people that got Corbyn elected Labour leader that he needs behind him to ever be PM. Just adopting the neo-liberal agenda of New Labour would mean no opposition here at all. All the Lib Dems have is being anti-Brexit, leave them to it. There will be a lot more to the fallout from this than just that, especially the way the Tories are going about it. Stay principled and stay honest, it will eventually pay off.

Het-field wrote: The interesting thing with Corbyn’s Labour is that we are nearly 18 months after the election and his Labour Party have never established a clear lead over the stories. Currently, a hung parliament is the most likely outcome. Corbyn’s Brexit stance and Labour’s direct competition with the SNP in Scotland would also make it difficult to see a grand coalition working unless a second vote was promised to the Liberal Democrat and the SNP were given a rerun of the Independence referendum, the latter which is anything but sure of success. Old habits die hard and Corbyn has historically been a euro critic . His campaign in 2016 was a joke considering the issues at stake and his Brexit statements tend to be unworkable from the start, entirely vague, or accepting of the outcome in 2016. For his part, he knows what he is dealing with given the constituencies that voted to leave. Brexiteer Tories lost safe seats for holding that position, and the protest UKIP votes that returned to the Tories in 2017 are in some Labour heartlands. Equally there are staunch Labour Constituencies which voted to leave.

the_walls wrote: Denis Irwin wrote: BUPA moving their European Insurance business to Dublin in light of Brexit  https://www.irishtimes.com/business/financial-services/bupa-said-to-plan-brexit-move-of-european-health-insurance-hub-to-dublin-1.3673452 Brexit is clearly very bad for Ireland but hopefully we see more of this to help mitigate it.

Edited by Denis Irwin - 01 Nov 2018 at 12:45pm

There's a thread on Twitter by a fella called Edwin Hayward about 50 effects which Brexit has had on UK business already, well worth reading. Can't post the link from my phone for some reason.