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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-government-zero-hour-contract-ban-latest-a9257281.html?fbclid=IwAR0OW6qhoVnO9MVH-E9ruKFLnL_V3NQ5PMpYEkGGHEXskJxkAsrr2UJjRIs Two-thirds of voters want Boris Johnson ‘s government to ban zero-hours contracts, a poll has found. There will be many people over the coming months and years who will tell the "pollsters" that something should be done about the homeless, or the costs of electric, gas and water, or about the costs of public transport, or the failing (and privatised) NHS, or the excessive profits and tax avoidance of large corporations. etc. To all those I say, that if you did not vote Labour then you have only yourselves to blame and you must bear the consequences of your actions. Johnson a nd his sycophant cronies have been given a blank cheque to do as they please and sell off vast portions of the British economy to the Americans, (the takeover of British defence giant Cobham by a US private equi
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/e/making-sense-shattering-defeat Brexit was the defining factor. Look at the "leave voting areas" that turned to the conservatives. Leigh, the hometown of my family, elected a conservative candidate for the first time ever. Leigh, a town destroyed by pit closures and mill closures. Leigh, a community which stood firm through the miners strikes and suffered the closures of Parsonage, Atherleigh, Howe Bridge, Bickershaw and many other pits. Leigh, the constituency that voted heavily for Andy Burnham and then Joanne Pitt with thumping majorities now have James Grundy as their MP with a majority of 1965. It was Brexit that was the cause of the defeat.
So be it. The anti Corbyn, Stop Labour winning at any cost coalition, have achieved their aim and handed Johnson a huge majority in the House of Commons. Television, Newspapers, Dis affected Labour Party members, elements of the PLP, those who have shouted from the rooftops that the Labour Party is antisemitic, can sit back this morning and gloat on their success. They have handed Johnson an open cheque to "Get Brexit Done" and then sell this country off to Trump and American business interests. They have given him 5 years to create a society for the few not the many. I despair and grieve for the people of this nation. The people who remain reliant on Food banks to feed their families. The people who are and will remain homeless on our streets. The pensioners who are faced with ever increasing costs for food, fuel to heat their homes, as well as declining cars services. The cash starved NHS where nurses, doctors and other staff who face increasing work loads and frustrati
It is time for real change. https://youtu.be/kDIuApfVxBg We are now in the final week of the election campaign battle. Upon this battle lies the very future of our country and millions of our people. The people are in desperate need of a Labour government. The people on zero hours contracts. The people on housing waiting lists or seeking a home which they will never be able to afford or sleeping rough on our streets. The families reliant on food-banks or other charities to provide a meal on their tables. The pensioners, facing a daily choice between heating their homes or feeding themselves. The cash starved NHS where we are thousands of nurses and doctors short and GP surgeries where we have to wait more than 2 weeks for an appointment because of s shortage of doctors. Crime increases because the government has reduced the police forces by 25,000 officers. This country and its people cannot afford another term of Conservative government with its lying and duplicitous leader and
E-Zec Patient Transport services I do not believe for one minute that every single organisation that you ring is always "experiencing a large volume of calls and your call is very important to us. Our operative will be with you as soon as possible". There then follows the obligatory "music" , loud, distorted and often inaudible, punctuated with another message saying "you are in a queue, your call is important to us". This morning it was the turn of E-Zec the privatised Hospital patient transport service. Ha ving spent almost 30 minutes on the phone and being told on numerous occasions that "you are in a queue and your position is number 7" we rang off. Now E-Zec are a pretty awful organisation at the best of times and have become even worse following their "New revised procedures". With the exorbitant profits that these privatised companies make from taxpayers (that is you and I) you would have thought that they could employ enou
Boris Johnson urged to calm Commons 'inferno of rhetoric'. Crass, inflammatory, seditionary, repulsive, malevolent and outrageous comments by a politician masquerading as the Prime Minister of this country. Not a word of contrition, apology, regret or shame during a lengthy speech attacking the opposition and berating MP's and the Supreme Court for getting it wrong.With Conservative MP's baying and yelling out support for their leader, Johnson culminated his hysterical tirade with a the disgusting remark " the best way to honour the murdered Labour MP Jo Cox – an ardent remainer – was to “get Brexit done”, which followed a comment in response to a Labour MP to the effect that he had never heard such a load of humbug. This man is a danger to this country, to civilised behaviour and to democracy. Some Tory MP's have even stated that "It worked for Trump and it can work for us", signifying that this rhetoric is an acceptable tactic.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7500691/Boris-blasts-runs-Britain-PM-Johnsons-allies-declare-war-judiciary.html "Who runs this country?' I rarely use the Mail (or Fail) as a source, but today they scream an hysterical and outrageous (again) headline, "Who runs this country?': Boris Johnson's allies blast 'constitutional coup'. Well DMG Media, Daily Mail and General Trust and editor Geordie Greig, the answer is a simple one. For the benefit of the tendentious employees and owners of this rag, and the mindless individuals who actually read this prime example of gutter press. (including "Boris Johnson's allies"), the Supreme Court have upheld the centuries old reality, that it is the House of Commons and Parliament that runs the country. It is not the Executive or even the Prime Minister, but Parliament. What happened yesterday was not a 'constitutional coup' but a statement of fact, confirming that the Ex
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/john-mann-nominated-to-the-house-of-lords-after-shock-resignation-over-labour-antisemitism-1.488417 Peerage for John Mann, Labour MP. John Mann Member of Parliament for Bassetlaw elected on a Labour party platform, has served on the Treasury Select Committee, and has he has chaired the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism. He has been a fierce critic of Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour leadership and is counted amongst the usual suspects in the PLP who have been seeking to remove Corbyn since 2015. His infamous altercation with Ken Livingstone calling him a "Nazi apologist" and a "f****** disgrace", but repeatedly checking that he was still in the frame of the camera lens, clearly demonstrated how Mann was and still is, more concerned with keeping himself at the front of the picture to promote his own image. John Mann, the hypocrite, the fierce critic of the party that gave him his career, the polit
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/05/stew-or-vote-against-himself-what-does-boris-johnson-do-now Stew or vote against himself: what does Boris Johnson do now? Three strikes and you are out? Bozo Boris Johnson, the leader of what remains of the Conservative party MP's and the Conservative party in the country, and currently squatting in number 10 Downing street, has been in post for almost 8 weeks only since July of this year in fact, but in that time has lost all four of the votes he has had in the Commons. It must be unprecedented for a PM to be defeated by the Commons in all of their only votes in the house and yet push on blindly with their dogma. Yet, Johnson remains in place, showing the same arrogance as the other American politician believing they alone are right and all very clever, despite the evidence surrounding them on a daily basis. As the traditional Conservative party crumbles around him, turning into a narrow, bigoted
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/03/boris-johnson-suffers-commons-defeat-as-tories-turn-against-him Humiliation for Johnson. All Members of Parliament, must stand together to resist the attempted coup led by Johnson and Cummings. The threats issued against members of his own party, demonstrates that the dictator Johnson, with the sinister and nefarious Dominic Cummings lurking in the shadows, indicate that this pair of duplicitous conspirators are rattled by the level of opposition and public reaction to their plot to overthrow the privilege of the elected members of the Commons, and replace it with the autocratic rule of a central cabal within the Executive. Last night, the Commons took the first step towards ensuring that Parliament is sovereign, taking control of the order paper by winning an emergency Brexit debate provoking anger and arrogance from the government benches where Jacob Rees-Mogg demonstrated contempt for both Parliament and the public wit
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu/johnson-threatens-to-purge-rebel-brexit-mps-from-party-idUKKCN1VN0BS Johnson threatens to expel any Conservative MP's who oppose him. As with all dictators following a coup, Bozo Boris Johnson, the leader of the Conservative party, now moves to crush any and all opposition to his tyrannical cabal. The threat to expel any Conservative MP who dares to vote against him and criticise his actions, is without precedent in our Parliamentary history. Johnson, aided and abetted by the sinister Dominic Cummings, who has certainly encouraged if not proposed this authoritarian outrage, seeks to concentrate all power in himself and his executive, to the exclusion of Parliament and its elected members. This country is, at the moment, a Parliamentary democracy, but Johnson masquerading as the Prime Minister but voted into the office by only 94,000 Conservative party members, is seeking to establish a dictatorship in the United Kingdo
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/28/chancellor-sajid-javid-fast-tracked-spending-review-fuels-talk-of-early-election Boris Johnson asks Queen to suspend parliament This is scandalous and outrageous. To prorogue Parliament is an affront to democracy and an insult to the British people. Bozo Boris, the leader of the conservative party, who currently resides in 10 Downing Street and masquerades as Prime Minister of this country, due to the votes of only 94,000 Conservative party members, demonstrate an arrogance never before seen from a United Kingdom Member of Parliament . He is without legitimacy and credibility and yet behaves in the same way as a tinpot dictator of some Banana Republic. Whether you are a "remainer" or a "leaver", this issue goes beyond the simple choice of Deal or No Deal. It is a fundamental choice between democracy or dictatorship. We must never allow a politician of any party to place themselves in a position of powe
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/brexit/pm-to-tell-merkel-and-macron-no-deal-brexit-cant-be-stopped/ar-AAFWIWb?li=BBoPWjQ Johnson will tell Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron this week that parliament cannot stop a no-deal Brexit. This is insanity. Moreover it is the the rantings of Bozo Boris, the leader of the Conservative party currently resident in 10 Downing Street, who dictates to the rest of Europe that they "must back down" or risk an historic mistake. The megalomaniac Johnson and the sinister Dominic Cummings,followed by the lemmings in the cabinet of sycophants are leading us all to disastrous food, fuel and medicine shortages border chaos, a "hard border" in Ireland risking the return of terrorism and the risk of a “failure” in chemical supplies.This is is addition to the closure of hundreds of businesses and the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs.The "Vote leave" campaign promised that leaving the EU would be a painless and profi
August 9th 1945. Three days after the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki a 21-kiloton plutonium device known as "Fat Man.” It is estimated that between 40,000 and 75,000 people died immediately following the atomic explosion, while another 60,000 people suffered severe injuries. Total deaths by the end of 1945 may have reached 80,000. There is only one country in the world, that has used nuclear weapons against the civilian population of another country. R I P Nagasaki,
Remember Hiroshima. On August 6, 1945 an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. There is only one country in the world, that has used nuclear weapons against the civilian population of another country. R I P Hiroshima.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/29/alastair-campbell-says-he-no-longer-wishes-to-be-a-labour-member Alastair Campbell says he no longer wishes to be a Labour member. Alistair Campbell has left the Labour party. In a letter published in the Guardian, (where else?), Campbell has stated that the party " no longer truly represents my values, or the hopes I have for Britain", adding, “I see no strategy in place that remotely meets the electoral or policy challenges ahead" and “Corbyn is not the leader that Labour needs at this time. He cannot deliver. Even his supporters are realising this". I left the Labour party, or more accurately the Labour party left me, at the back end of the 1980's during the last few years of Neil Kinnock's time as leader. The man who I had campaigned for in 1983, (because Kinnock seemed the best of a bad choice from candidates, Hattersley, Heffer and Shore) soon proved that I probably should have abstained as
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/26/brexit-deadlock-as-no-10-insists-eu-must-scrap-backstop-before-talks UK on course for no-deal Brexit as Johnson rejects EU agreement Madcap Boris, the new leader of the Conservative party, has been very busy over the last few days, annoying and alarming our European partners with his blustering rhetoric on "no deal" Brexit, and his sordid brazen attempts to get into bed with Trump. It should not surprise us too much that the American in Number 10, is seeking to bring this country even closer to the land of his birth, even though the vast majority of the people of the United Kingdom have no desire, or in so me cases no doubt, a vehement aversion to the idea of becoming quasi American citizens, notwithstanding the aspiration that Bozo and it seems a number of his sycophants around the "cabinet table" may have to the contrary. What the bonehead fails to recognise of course, is that he is burning bridges be
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/26/france-warns-boris-johnson-not-to-play-games-with-irish-border France warns Boris Johnson not to play games with Irish border. One of the many problems which no one in the Bozo Boris cabal of sycophants has an answer to. The ego-maniacal dork himself says control of the Irish border can be done with "new technology". Not yet invented and undeveloped "new technology" will solve the problems of border controls! Johnson lives in a world of his own and expects the rest of us to join in his fantasy reality. He is dragging us to very brink of disaster. The lemmings that he has surrounded himself with may choose to blindly follow him into the abyss, but we did not even have a choice, The new leader of the conservative party may believe that he has all the answers, but we can see the reality of this buffoon's self deception.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/eu-rebuffs-johnson-showdown-looms-brexit-190726070914871.html EU rebuffs Johnson as Brexit showdown looms Bozo Boris, the new leader of the Conservative party, maintains that we shall leave the EU on the 31st October and adds, with or without a "deal". The indications are, certainly today, that there is no new or revised deal on the cards. This means that the UK will crash out of the EU and fall into the chaotic mess that will result. The dullard Johnson must be stopped either by the remaining voices of sanity in the Commons or by mass protests on the streets from ordinary people or a combination of both. This buffoon and his cabal of sycophants is too dangerous to be in control of this country. The loose cannon must be stopped before he brings this country and its people to their knees. Revoke Article 50 now, and hold a general election.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/24/boris-johnson-takes-his-revenge-and-sacks-over-half-the-cabinet Boris Johnson takes his revenge and sacks over half the cabinet. Good Lord, what has this country now descended to? In a "Day of the Long Knives" the leader of the conservative party, Tweedle Dumber, has culled a substantial number of the cabinet and replaced them with cronies and sycophants who will all do the leaders bidding, certainly in respect of Brexit if nothing else.(Apart from Brexit, what other issue does this buffoon actually have?) A collection of groupies sprinkled with expense fiddlers, (even though they may have apologised and paid back part of their claims), people carrying out unauthorised involvement in secret meetings with the Israeli government, assorted unqualified MP's rewarded for "loyalty" rather than ability all now rushing lemming like towards the precipice of no deal Brexit and dragging the rest of the c