53 minutes ago, RayC said:

I wouldn't have thought that unilaterally breaking an international agreement was the best way to win friends and influence the wider international community.

The wider international community don't care. They are lining up to sign trade agreements and invest in the UK. They already know what the EU is like and would probably like their own opportunity to stick it back to the bloc too.

19 hours ago, placeholder said:

Under the Tories, the rich got richer whilst the middle class, working class and poor got poorer.

Well at least some of us are doing OK out of it. Glad Liz Truss will make it even better for us, I could do with a large tax cut because I'm not happy where my hard earned taxes are going now. 

3 hours ago, James105 said:

I suspect (another) one of the reasons people voted to leave is due to the language of people who desperately wanted the UK to remain such as the language used in this lovely little sentence.   I have always been bemused by those who think they can bring others to their way of thinking by calling them bigots or some other derogatory term.   I have yet to see this tactic succeed to persuade anyone to do anything (it seems - not surprisingly - to have the opposite effect), and yet those who consider themselves intellectually superior to those who think differently to them continue to use this strategy.  

I quite happily accept all the derogatory terms the leftists and Europhiles throw around these days. Water of a duck's back, in fact I wear them as a badge of pride.

I know my opinion is correct and they have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. Most of them take a twisted and spin article from a lefty rag like the Garuniad, take it as gospel, then regurgitate it here.

9 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Brexit is definitely a contributing factor:

DOVER TRAFFIC - LIVE: BREXIT TO BLAME FOR ‘INCREASED TRANSACTION TIMES’ AS TRUSS URGES FRANCE TO ACT

There will be increased transaction times at the border due to extra checks needed since Brexit, the chief executive of the Port of Dover has said, as Tory leadership hopeful Liz Truss called on France to act over “entirely avoidable” delays.
Doug Bannister said the country is in a “post-Brexit environment” and that means that extra checks need to be made and “capable people” to man the booths at Dover.

Meanwhile, the foreign secretary said the delays and queues were “unacceptable”, blaming a lack of staffing by the French at the border.

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/dover-traffic-today-delays-queues-news-b2129651.html

 

No. It's all a French created problem.  If they turned up for work as they were supposed to do, there would be no queues. 

35 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Getting you back on topic.

 

This government, in which both candidates have been ministers, has handed tens of billions of pounds of tax payers money to chums if the Government members with zero benefit to the public.

 

Both candidates are mired in the corrupt record of the government in which they served and supported.

Both candidates have done and will continue to do infinitely better than any Labour chancer would do. 
 

Tens of Billions? Just a scotch rag’s made up nonsense. 

25 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Under the Tories, the rich got richer whilst the middle class, working class and poor got poorer.

Average UK household £8,800 a year worse off than those in France or Germany

The UK’s failure to get serious about inequality and weak growth over the past 15 years has left the average British household £8,800 poorer than its equivalent in five comparable countries, research has found.

A “toxic combination” of poor productivity and a failure to narrow the divide between rich and poor had resulted in a widening prosperity gap with France, Germany, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands, the report from the Resolution Foundation said.

The thinktank said that if the UK matched the average income and inequality levels of those countries, typical household incomes in Britain would be a third higher and those of the poorest households two-fifths greater.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/13/average-uk-household-8800-a-year-worse-off-than-those-in-france-or-germany

 

UK Living Standards Audit 2022: Stagnant wages have left millions “brutally exposed”

Fifteen years of stagnating wages in Britain have left millions of the poorest paid workers defenceless in the face of rising inflation, resulting in an unprecedented “income shock”. Around 10 million people are being pushed into “severe levels of poverty”, according to a new report by the Resolution Foundation.

Living Standards Audit 2022, published on July 4, found that 15 years of falling wages have left millions of people “brutally exposed” to what it described as a “catastrophic” cost-of-living crisis.

While those on low and middle incomes have seen their pay stagnate, or even decline in real terms, those at the top have watched their wealth skyrocket.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/07/08/opsl-j08.html

Nothing in there to show how Labour would have done anything better. Higher taxes, higher waste and higher squandering of the public purse. 
Labour would just make us all poorer still.   

Sounds like it’s time to tell them “Sorry, that deal’s off.”

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

And cut public services in a society already floundering after over a decade of Tory austerity.

 

 

It took years of austerity to sort out the mess left by Labour’s financial mismanagement. Remember the note they left: “Sorry, there’s no money left.”

3 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Johnson was brought down by his own failures and his own political colleagues following two stunning Tory defeats in bi-elections.

 

Beyond success at the ballot box, the ‘Left’ had no part in any of Johnson’s ousting.

Just re-read the UK press over the last couple of years. Or even see personal abuse against Boris and the constant regurgitation of Garuniad hate articles here in this forum. 
 

Definitely a leftist Remainer plot. 

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I'm in the UK, I hear constant discussion of the cost of living, fuel/energy prices, inflation.

 

I don’t hear any discussion about rightwing ‘culture wars’.

 

People are far too focussed on simply getting by in their own lives to be in the slightest bit bothered about how other people live theirs.

 

Nobody is interested in the faux outrage of rightwing ’culture wars’, it’s not even on the radar.

 

And quit the gaslighting, Johnson was brought down by his own failings and his own party.

 

Not some lefty skulduggery.

It’s a measure of the company you keep. You are obviously mixing in the wrong circles. 

The general population is totally fed up with the PC Gone Mad / Woke Nonsense / Culture Wars. (Delete according to decade.) It’s forced down everybody’s throat by the progressive out of touch liberal left. There is outrage but they are not allowed to post it on social media like the left are. 

Yes, everybody is also feeling the pinch, but understand where it is coming from and that it is an issue globally, not brought about by Boris. For the past year the government has not been able to function properly while the anti-Boris witch hunt was underway. 
 

Boris was brought down by a combined and concerted effort of the Left and MSM Remainers, who hate him and Brexit.
Lefty skullduggery at its’ spiteful and vicious worst. 

Both MSM and lefty posters appear to be inordinately interested in the machinations within the Conservative party.  It’s almost as if they had a finger in creating the current situation. If they put as much effort into their own Labour Party leadership it might have chance of winning an election on day. 

5 hours ago, placeholder said:

An honest lady who was vehemently opposed to Brexit until the referendum. Clearly, she's a highly principled person.

After education and probably reading this forum, then watching the EU perform despicably, she has seen the error of her ways and become a Leaver. It’s always a woman’s prerogative to change her mind. 
Now, why haven’t you guys done the same.