Chomper Higgot

The ‘letter threshold’ has been passed, the vote will happen this evening.

The Guardian article provides quotations from members of Johnson’s Government and leading Tories that indicate a their belief a leadership challenge is inevitable. How do you evade that?

Did you miss the subject of this discussion? You’ll find it at the top of the thread.

But will the Tories replace him? I have my doubts. My side bet is Johnson scrapes through a leadership challenge then within a couple of months calls an early General Election. The economy is getting worse, the Tory Brexit mess is biting harder, inflation is getting worse, poverty and the income gap is getting worse, the prospects of Tories winning the next General Election are getting worse. What a right Tory mess this is!

The title of this news could equally be: ”Putin tells the West what he fears most”.

The problem is, who are they going to replace him with? Worse still, Johnson winning the vote as he continues to lose the support of the public. A right Tory mess.

You’ve not heard of VAT, Duty, or Energy Taxes then? Regardless of when housing, education, health services and welfare were brought into place they were all brought about by Liberal/Labour Governments and all have been continually underfunded by Tory Governments. Your claim that the Tories look after the poor with these programs is a misrepresentation of historical and current facts.

The poor pay higher taxes wrt income than any group in society. Welfare benefits brought into being by Labour and Liberal Governments. NHS brought into being by a Labour Government. Public Housing (Addison Act) by a Liberal Government.

Sorry, but it is not ‘an opinion’ that Johnson is a ‘serial liar’, it’s a matter of public record he is.

There’s not many having gammon for lunch these days, most can’t afford it.

It’s also a result of the ‘Democracy is dead/all Politicians are liars/all Politicians are in it for themselves’ narrative. It’s a narrative that discourages participation and voting. Politicians, Politics and indeed democracy has its faults but it’s the only way ordinary people have any chance of getting any form of representation. Participation and voting are the means to be heard, hence the efforts to discourage participation and voting.

I had lunch last week in Nottingham with a former British Thai resident who used to say exactly the same thing. He packed his bags and came back to the UK when he needed the NHS.

There are two bi-elections coming up that will play a part in the decision the Tories are trying not to make.

Disenfranchising the poor and marginalized has become a matter of mirth, what a spiteful and bitter place the rightwing had become.

That’s an exaggeration, although admittedly only a slight exaggeration.

Because voter identification requirements disproportionately disenfranchise the poor and marginalized members of society. Refer paragraph “Voter identification in polling stations‘ in the attached link: https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/our-views-and-research/our-research/public-attitudes

I was in a Tesco Supermarket in the UK this morning, a number of people were bitterly blaming Joe Biden for the UK’s inflation. I heard similar in the Netherlands a couple of weeks ago.

Johnson has fallen foul of the old political adage ‘you can fool some of the people some of the time…’. His lies have caught him up and his contempt for the public is on full view. It’s not the ‘boos’ arriving at the Queen’s Jubilee that matter, it’s the constant disgruntled complaints that can be heard in the shops, on busses, in the pub, anywhere where people have a chance to vent their thoughts. The public know what a lie is, they know what a liar is and they know truth matters. Of course Johnson was booed, I’d be surprised if he was not.

Away with your false equivalence. Collisions with dear are accidents. Heavily armed young men walking into schools then gunning down children and staff is premeditated mass murder. None of this has anything to do with the ‘southern border’.

She needs to be hauled in on multiple counts of perjury and falsifying evidence.

I’m not sure it’s another polarization issue. I find myself in broad agreement with people on this trial with whom I am diametrically opposed on a wide range of other issues.

Alternatively, MeToo is not the bogeyman you are being told it is. Read up on Borderline Personality Disorder, you’ll get to see precisely why she destroyed herself.

It is Heard and her lies that have damaged the MeToo movement.

I followed the trial closely, Depp’s victory was obviously the right ruling. On multiple occasions Heard was demonstrated to have lied (perjured herself), on multiple occasions Heard was demonstrated to have fabricated evidence (a crime), on multiple occasions Heard was demonstrated to have referred to evidence that did not exist (baseless accusations). But the clincher was the evidence of Heard’s Borderline Personality Disorder. She’s toxic, she secretly filmed Depp as she herself goaded him in an attempt to entrap him into an act of DV that she had escalated. Angry as he was, and had a right to be, Depp takes it out on the furniture, he does not turn on Heard, who is still goading him. This is classic behavior of a person with Borderline Personality Disorder. Take some time to read up on it. Heard was very clearly the abuser in that marriage, Depp very clearly the abused.

Depp has won the case. As I said earlier Heard is now done. Her career is over, she can look forward to facing indictment for perjury. The woman is toxic, a classic example of Borderline Personality Disorder. Next up, why did she lose her driver’s license?