The UK Politics and EU Referendum thread - merged

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Chart of the year: Two big changes: collapse in Corbyn as "best PM" and rise in Brexit being handled badly http://bit.ly/2sGmThf

[TightEnd]

YouGov / Times gives Tories 7 pt lead over Labour.

Con 44 (+2)
Lab 37 (-2)
Lib Dems 8 (-1)

Slowly but surely Tories drifting clear

[TightEnd]

Something absolutely remarkable in the YouGov polling from today.

These are figures for those in social grade C2DE (January numbers in brackets):
CON 48% (35% in January)
LAB 37% (46% in January)
Eleven-point swing to the Tories from Labour since January.

[TightEnd]

Michel Barnier says the EU has rejected Theresa May’s backstop proposal

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"On leaving Bec Grammar School in Tooting, his A Level results were not good enough to secure a university place, so Davis worked as an insurance clerk and became a member of the Territorial Army's 21 SAS (Artists) Regiment"


Eh?

[Jon MW]

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"On leaving Bec Grammar School in Tooting, his A Level results were not good enough to secure a university place, so Davis worked as an insurance clerk and became a member of the Territorial Army's 21 SAS (Artists) Regiment"


Eh?

"The regiment was established in 1859, part of the widespread volunteer movement which developed in the face of potential French invasion after Felice Orsini's attack on Napoleon III was linked to Britain.[3] The group was organised in London by Edward Sterling, an art student, and comprised various professional painters, musicians, actors, architects and others involved in creative endeavours; a profile it strove to maintain for some years"... blah blah - eventually became the regiment mentioned above.

<3 Wikipedia

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I think I might form the 53rd SAS (bacon sandwich eaters) regiment.

[TightEnd]

Hilarious

We are fucked beyond reason and measure - by  Marina Hyde (I paraphrase slightly)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/08/top-guns-brexit-eu-machismo-tories?CMP=share_btn_tw

[TightEnd]

Brexit, the destiny-defining policy of the UK government, is being carried out by leaders whose hearts are not in it. Has this ever happened before? asks Charles Moore:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/06/this-period-of-british-history-is-like-the-first-months-of-the-second-world-war/

[TightEnd]

Barnier confirms everything we’ve been saying for months.

Brexit means:

1) whole UK in whole single market and whole customs union

or

2) sea border which divides UK internal market

[TightEnd]

If Brexiteers want to blame someone for the way Brexit is working out, they need to look not to Downing Street, nor Remainers, nor the EU27; but to a mirror, says

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2018/06/brexit-boris-johnson-remainers-leavers-theresa-may

[Doobs]

Hilarious

We are fucked beyond reason and measure - by  Marina Hyde (I paraphrase slightly)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/08/top-guns-brexit-eu-machismo-tories?CMP=share_btn_tw

Marina Hyde is so good every time.

[nirvana]

Hilarious

We are fucked beyond reason and measure - by  Marina Hyde (I paraphrase slightly)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/08/top-guns-brexit-eu-machismo-tories?CMP=share_btn_tw

Marina Hyde is so good every time.

I liked this

The likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg – a sort of monocled Sergio Ramos,

[nirvana]

While I'm here, again, thanks for posting all these links to interesting articles

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While I'm here, again, thanks for posting all these links to interesting articles

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