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Selby.Margaret Thatcher was a sane, rational and competent politician. Ann Widdecombe is a batshit nut job.God knows how much I disliked Thatcher's policies, but she would never have made a speech like that. It shows how far down the slide we've gone where you are supporting and justifying that idiocy from Widdecombe.
What does the world think of Boris Johnson?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zotVME8jdaI
Another prominent Brexit Party member barely on nodding terms with the truth.https://mobile.twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1151165049706299392A bit of context. She worked for Cambridge Analytica on the Kenyan election, in which they poured misinformation into the social media streams of people who'd been profiled through their Facebook usage as being susceptible to being misled by lies about the Opposition (sound familiar). She's now a BP MEP.Several journalists have said she worked for CA and have been threatened with legal action by her for libel. Turns out she must have just forgotten that she DID work for CA. Easy done I suppose. Seems like BP folk regularly forget stuff they've done before.
''No-deal Brexit 'would send UK into recession', forecasters fear - business''But apparently they have released this forecast before speaking to the brains trust on the Viking Chat Forum.''A new healthcheck on Britain’s economy is expected to warn today that a no-deal Brexit would plunge the country into recession.The Office for Budget Responsibility (the fiscal watchdog) will outline how the UK economy would suffer if Britain fell out of the EU without a deal.Under the OBR’s no-deal scenario, the UK economy would contract in 2020, and end up 3% smaller in five years time.The warning will come in the OBR’s new Fiscal Risks Report for 2019, released today. This is a serious, weighty report, looking at the strength and weaknesses of the UK public finances, and the threats which could undermine them in the future''https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2019/jul/18/no-deal-brexit-uk-recession-obr-fiscal-risks-retail-sales-business.
Interesting how much the goalposts have shifted on Brexit. At first it was going to be the greatest thing ever, ushering in a great new era for Britain. There'd be a smile on the face of every child and money in everyone's pockets. Now we have Boris Johnson on stage waving a fish about and saying we will still have drinking water and planes will still fly. And people are still fired up about the whole thing. Truly strange times.
The most interesting outcome being played out at the moment is how both the left leaning parties in the USA and Britain, the Democrats and the Labour party are losing popularity, and in some ways credibility. The labour party is falling apart, losing voters every month, and falling further behind. With any past leadership and common sense policies they would be romping it, but the career politicians that front them now, straight out of university, with no life experience, smug attitudes, and political correctness coming out of their ears are just a turn off.