Boris Johnson won a general election by one of the widest margins in recent history. In doing so the Conservatives inflicted a stunning defeat on the Labour Party, which suffered losses projected to rival those of the 1935 election. The Liberal Democrats also suffered heavy losses including their leader who lost her seat to the SNP, which alone among the opposition parties, did well. Though their gains were of course, entirely north of the border. Mr. Corbyn, the head of the Labour Party announced he will stand down as his party's leader after "a period of reflection."
The leader of the Scottish National Party has already begun trumpeting her demands for another independence referendum, which will likely be approved by the new Conservative government somewhere around noon on the day after the Second Coming.
News coverage here, here and here or pretty much anywhere you choose to look on Google.
I don't know. The English might be ready to let the Scottish bolsheviks go and give them the non-Commonwealth immigrants.
ReplyDeleteIn 2014 I urged the Scottish people to remain in the Union. Five years later, I'd be glad to see them go. The SNP are the mirror image of Sinn Fein, just without the obvious connexion to a terrorist organisation; they are every bit as strident, arrogant, like a broken record ("against our will," "another independence referendum," &c), and championing every textbook left-wing cause you can name. Since devolution, one of the more pestilential legacies of Blairism, they have had a degree of autonomy over healthcare, housing, &c and have failed miserably. Scotland has the worst drug and alcohol problem in the UK and the streets of Glasgow on Friday nights would be recognised by Hogarth. Their response? "Let's legalise pot, man!" A pox on that country! I have every confidence that Mr Johnson flatly refuses to entertain Miss Sturgeon's shrill demands for another independence referendum.
ReplyDeleteI voted Conservative in this election, not out of any love for the Conservative Party (I'd actually like to see it implode and a real social, monetary and politically conservative party take its place), but because I dreaded the prospect of another hung parliament, which would have been another year and more of bickering and dithering. A vote for the Labour Party would have been a vote to be taxed 50p on the £1 for some of their fantastical policies, and, as a white British man I'd have been far, far down the list in the arbitrary prioritisation of minority groups in their enthusiastic cultural Marxism. The member for Hackney, Mrs Diane Abbott (a fat black woman, another socialist, photographed only yesterday in two left feet shoes - google it!), was on record some years ago saying that, if elected, she would put black families first. That's the Labour party in a nutshell, and they wonder why they lost so badly?
I'm glad to see the back of some MP's. Anna Soubry, Chuka Umunna (that's a nice British name!), Dominic Grieve, David Gauke. Other losses I regret. Caroline Flint was a Labour MP who did her best to represent her constituents on Brexit, the same as the would-have-been Father of the House Dennis Skinner ("the beast of Bolsover"). In Skinner's case, it's ironic that a man who campaigned his entire life for British secession from the EU should lose his seat for being a member of a Party dedicated to our remaining in it.
These are very early days yet. I'm hoping that Mr Johnson will in time return to some kind of centre ground on domestic policies. Before that, though, I'd like our leaving the EU to be absolute priority.
If Scotland were to leave it would go far to ensure that the Tories would almost always be the majority party in the House of Commons, absent a realignment of parties in "Little England" (and Wales?).
ReplyDeleteThe Scots are NOTHING without England. If they tried to enter the EU as an independent nation, I think the EU would balk at that. The Scots produce nothing and are freeloaders.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Scots bashing. I see some folks like to keep the coals of bigotry alive. Way to go, Adolph!
ReplyDeleteI have to agree. Some of the comments were inappropriate. Tone it down please... everybody.
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ReplyDeleteThat's their business.
ReplyDeleteI am not complaining. On the contrary, it is to your credit.
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