The UK Politics and EU Referendum thread - merged

[horseplayer]

https://twitter.com/MikeStuchbery_/status/1136955012284866562

nice bloke

[nirvana]

https://twitter.com/MikeStuchbery_/status/1136955012284866562

nice bloke

I hope he gets charged for that, such a cheap shot, the guy is the lowest of the low whatever veneer of respectability anyone tries to put on him

[AndrewT]

Tommy Robinson - ‘Free speech - you should be able to say whatever you like’

Also Tommy Robinson - punches someone in the back of the head for saying something Tommy doesn’t like.

[RickBFA]

https://twitter.com/MikeStuchbery_/status/1136955012284866562

nice bloke

Would be nice to see the clown charged with assault.

Where's the Valwinkle geezer to tell us he's innocent and a very nice bloke?

[Mark_Porter]

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Nigel Farage delivered a letter to Theresa May requesting a place in the negotiating team for Brexit.

Failed to win in Peterborough...

Failed to be elected as an MP after 7 attempts...

Delivering a letter to someone who is about to resign and will play no part...

in negotiations which are not actually happening away...

[Mark_Porter]

Here is the letter:-

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[aaron1867]

Just out of curiosity, has there ever been any data or polls to show what Brexit voters prefer in regards to deal or no deal?

[nirvana]

Just out of curiosity, has there ever been any data or polls to show what Brexit voters prefer in regards to deal or no deal?

Don't know but most, in my opinion, would have expected a deal in line with the rhetoric at the time.

What I didn't expect was that 'the deal', in the time we've had, would be solely about the terms of leaving rather than a replacement trading arrangement. Easiest trade deal in history etc.

Regrettably, we have been out-manoeuvered by European negotiators, whether this was deliberate complicity on our part or incompetence, who knows. I prefer that it was us being complicit as no real evidence that the UK was incompetent on this scale in international trade in the past - on our own or as part of the EU.

[Mark_Porter]

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Rory's team just posted this on Twitter.

"More on the latest @YouGov poll, showing @RoryStewartUK leading the race for Conservative party leader, with awareness taken into account"

It's very glass half full. The actual report is here - https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/kfmg0dljim/Internal_190604_ConLeader_w.pdf

It shows that of the 101 people asked (tiny sample no??), 12 people said he would be a good prime minister, 17 thought he would be a bad prime minister, 12 weren't sure and 60 didn't have a clue who he was.

So of the people who knew who he was, 30% thought he would be good. 12 people out of 41 thought he would be good. (The Boris number is 26 people thought he would be good of 89 that knew who he was).

Apparently that translates to When you hear the story, the country turns to Rory.

This made me laugh.

Do you think each of the following does or does not have a likeable personality?

Boris - 38% like him
Javid - 23% like him
Hunt - 16% like him
Raab - 13% like him
Gove - 11% like him

Not exactly a group of death is it.

[Tal]

The public vote is the final two, so who does Rory play in the final?

If not Boris, who do the Boris voters go for? Political voters move to Raab, presumably.

[Doobs]

The public vote is the final two, so who does Rory play in the final?

If not Boris, who do the Boris voters go for? Political voters move to Raab, presumably.

The problem is the same as Labour's.   It isn't a vote of Conservative voters, it is a vote of Conservative members.  I assume members are going to be more likely to prefer no deal to the voters.   

[RickBFA]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48554853

What a shambolic waste of hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Case was never realistically going to succeed.

At least the lawyers made plenty out of it.

[BigAdz]

The public vote is the final two, so who does Rory play in the final?

If not Boris, who do the Boris voters go for? Political voters move to Raab, presumably.

To coin an old Tory phrase,

"there is something of the night about Rory"

[kukushkin88]

The public vote is the final two, so who does Rory play in the final?

If not Boris, who do the Boris voters go for? Political voters move to Raab, presumably.

To coin an old Tory phrase,

"there is something of the night about Rory"

We know Rory isn’t actually a contender?

Lols the something of the night comment, a probably clinically insane woman brayed it once.

[BigAdz]

The public vote is the final two, so who does Rory play in the final?

If not Boris, who do the Boris voters go for? Political voters move to Raab, presumably.

To coin an old Tory phrase,

"there is something of the night about Rory"

We know Rory isn’t actually a contender?

Lols the something of the night comment, a probably clinically insane woman brayed it once.

Don't you mean a racist, homophobic, child eating hateful woman?