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Remainer partisanship re Sadiq Khan's council-tax-funded propaganda is a strong start to the new year pic.twitter.com/WRSxDX3jpT
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Of the most recent polls by all the companies in that table:
2 - YouGov and ICM - had the Conservatives ahead (by 2% each)
4 - Opinium, Kantar, IPSOS and Panelbase - had an exact tie
3 - BMG, ComRes and Survation - had Labour ahead (by 1%, 2% and 1% respectively).
That seems about as close as you can get to a tie.
The last time that a governing UK party was in a similar state to the present one (i.e. complete and utter parliamentary meltdown, with open civil war ensuing over the EU), the opposition party was in excess of 20% ahead.
For example, if the government really is preparing properly to exit on WTO terms, rather than just going through the motions, then it should consult on a proposal that each new car sold in the UK should display the flag of the main country where it was manufactured, together with that of the EU if applicable.
On the side of a (TfL) bus......
Cracking start to the year!
I'm bound to be in favour of whatever it is then.
They’re always angry about something . Why shouldn’t the mayor put a European slant on things . And London voted overwhelmingly to Remain. I was actually hoping they’d play Ode To Joy for the whole display .
/I did both at first just slipped in a vape when I would have had an analogue and after a week or so the fags were left unsmoked on the table top. A good juice also helps, I can recommend bread of heaven made by the druids brew in wales. Even vaping the health benefits are obvious within a couple of days,
Good luck it is worth it.
Shame Sadiq Khan doesn’t show the same concern about escalating knife crime in London.
He clearly is another nutjob who views the EU as the enemy of the UK.
The biggest danger in all of this is polarising London from the rest of England and deapening the divisions
Khan politicised a national celebration to make him feel good but it was unnecesary.
I have no axe to grind for the brexiteers who do not represent my views but if, and it is a big if, we somehow remain in the EU remainers need to be magnanimous or the divisions will go on for decades
That said I don't really see the issue with it personally. Kahn is representing a strongly Remain constituency and this particular message will have been paid for out of their pocket not mine so I cannot get exercised about it.
All those people who are shouting about it are doing is making it stay in the spotlight for longer. They are being played rather effectively by the Mayor.
https://www.police.uk/metropolitan/pcc/
It is a great image though. I think it will become iconic.
https://twitter.com/SadiqKhan/status/1079905450248847361
I must be running low on my snowflake quotient.
To do so, she would have needed to confront various mistruths propagated by the promoters of Brexit. Instead, through her silence, and even once or twice with her own rhetoric, she has led the most mendacious administration since Gulf War-era-Labour.
As an aside, an esteemed PBer channels my thoughts and I think those of many Remainers.
https://twitter.com/spajw/status/1080040628644392960?s=21
https://twitter.com/redhistorian/status/1079767307155574789?s=21
I actually share the views of concern about our image and the way we have divided our nation. But each side bears dual responsibility and many of us are stuck in the middle in despair and just want either TM deal accepted or a clear path to a decisive, and it has to be decisive, referendum to remain
I really couldnt care less, its all London posturing and you cant condemn Khan for doing what
any politician would do
I would have been content - not happy! - with an EFTA type arrangement, and a government that showed true leadership and a willingness to confront the lies around Brexit.
Instead, May enabled the perpetuation of those lies, and lo the Overton window shifted very far and very fast.
Hence we now stand on the precipice of a No Deal Brexit - a circumstance we would have thought laughably unlikely in early 2016.
People who spat on twitter and comment below articles in the Mail represent - at most - 1% of the population
This is why we change government quite regularly.
Brexit is now a right wing capitalism on steroids coup and I refuse to back this and won’t accept it .
May is a vile xenophobic little Englander whose obsessed with keeping fellow Europeans out , shes done zip to unite the country and she can shove her crap deal where the sun doesn’t shine .
Oh screw it,
+2019
At least Sadiq has shown a little bit of imagination.
https://youtu.be/4xr9-CkZZRk
youll feel much better for it
As William points out above, the Deal was in *nobody’s* manifesto, and May conspicuously failed to win a majority for her personal Brexit.
The only political position that May has held consistently throughout her career seems to be hostility to foreigners.
HNY to all, and best wishes to those with health issues, rather a downbeat start to PBs new year.
Sadly, your response epitomises the bigoted, wont-listen Brexiters.
The stupid thing is they did not know what they were doing and are now only realising the seriousness of the mess they all voted for
not much point getting worked up about it
- Reject no deal
- Reject the Conservatives’ deal
- Keep the benefits of the SM/CU
- Put the national interest first
That’s not a commitment to enact Brexit.
(Point four is gloriously unselfaware. Corbyn putting the national interest first would be like Chavez committing to not rob his own Treasury.)
I’m in favour of the deal. You are in no position to call me bigoted or accuse me of not listening.
It wasn't that the 498 voted to invoke A50 - they probably made the not unreasonable assumption (as I would have) that the scope of the project would include a suitable risk analysis looking at every contingency including (however unlikely it may have seemed) of there being No Deal.
To me, that has been the single most abject failure of the past (nearly) two years. We have reached a point with 90 days to go until we leave the EU and it's quite clear we are insufficiently prepared for the not unreasonable contingency of exiting without a Deal.
Were we adequately prepared, we would be in a much stronger position. Our ineptitude weakens us.
That is a failing of governance and of Government for which successive DEXEU secretaries and the Prime Minister herself are responsible and for which they should be held accountable.
So, no, I don't see how it can possibly do him any harm at all.
Edited to add: Good evening, everyone, and a Happy New Year.