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Australian Polls last week The new Australian leader's win in the elections is being compared to Trump-like shock for opinion polls. Scott Morrison’s conservative coalition beat the heavily-favored Labor Party and stopped just short of a majority in the Australian elections. & who do you all think was most surprised, Scott Morrison. He called it a miracle. Indian Election Results today's news PM Modi from the conservative party wins a second term by a landslide majority. & who do you think was most surprised? Rahul, son of former PM, grandson of former PM & great grandson of first PM He's offered to resign his party's presidency (the show must go on) UK elections and now as May's term nears it's end here's an article from The Economist The conservative party has a long history of making big bets on mavericks whenever it thinks its back is against the wall. Before they won the party leadership, three of the greatest Tory prime ministers were cordially loathed by their party. Margaret Thatcher was regarded as a polarizing ideologue who lacked the ability to connect with voters or command Parliament. Winston Churchill was a boozy bloviator and serial bungler, launching the Dardanelles campaign (1915) and clinging to the gold standard. Benjamin Disraeli was a flashy outsider who had no achievements to his name other than undermining Robert Peel over the Corn Laws. The Tories punted on all three and won big. It looks as if the party is about to gamble again, on Boris Johnson. The former foreign secretary is the overwhelming favorite among party members, who elect the leader. His only obstacle is persuading enough of his fellow Conservative MPs to put him on the shortlist of two. So far they have been skeptical. The charge sheet against Mr Johnson is a long one: a chaotic private life, a habit of bending facts, a lack of focus and discipline, and being what Sir Max Hastings, a former editor of the Conservative house journal, the Daily Telegraph, calls a “gold-plated egomaniac”. |
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You mean it isn't just American media taking us back to "1984?" (LOL, the novel, not the year!)
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You said it, Nick. Seems like it was a long time in coming but as they say 'its' pouring'.
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Blame it on the Russians! I'm sure there was some hacking going on and some kind of collusion somewhere. Maybe some USA Democrates can get to the bottom of this!
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It's looked odds on to be Boris for awhile Let Thersea take the fall for Brexit Then,  meet the new boss.....
Do ya
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Blame it on the Russians! I'm sure there was some hacking going on and some kind of collusion somewhere. Maybe some USA Democrats can get to the bottom of this! yeah, maybe; but where did Brexit Party come from. It seems more right wing than the Tories. Or is it that grand old parties, and political manifestos don't matter anymore. Sort of a virus spreading across democracies. |
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Yeah It's looked odds on to be Boris for awhile Let Thersea take the fall for Brexit Then, meet the new boss.....
Do ya
"When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead And the white knight is talking backwards And the red queen's off with her head Remember what the dormouse said Feed your head, feed your head ..." - Jefferson Airplane strangely aligns with what you say |
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I guess we're the odd ones out then, as per usual. We have a new party, far from conservative, and rose in popularity like you wouldn't believe. I hope he is able to finally get rid of this ($(*@(#+@)%& conservative Christian a-hole who's been pulling the ropes for way too long, running our country into the ground.
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Hello Crystal,
Are you referring to Thierry Baudet, of Forum for Democracy (FVD) party? As per The Economist ..,
the two-year-old FVD had just shocked the establishment, winning the most votes of any party nation-wide and becoming the largest in several provincial legislatures. Mr. Baudet is: Eurosceptic, Climate-change-sceptic Foe of immigration the Economist goes on to say that Mr. Baudet heralds a tectonic shift in Netherlands history. I'm out of my depth here, but I learnt a lot more from Mr. Baudet's 9 min speech than I did listening to Mr. Neigel Farage https://youtu.be/eLsSA8osEcQ Crystal, feel free to correct me. |
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Re Boris Johnson. At this point I'd vote for a three-legged donkey if I thought that it would achieve Brexit. Not because I voted for it but because as citizens of the U.K. our only real power is in the vote. If the Government can ignore that when it suits them, then we don't have a Democracy anymore.
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Maybe the underlying theme is this: People are tired of governments taking the products of their labor and giving those to others who contribute nothing. People want to take back control over the fruits of their labor.
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