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Post by jdredd on Jun 6, 2017 22:55:08 GMT -5
I thought I already had a UK thread, but I couldn't find it. I also thought I had a Brexit thread, but I couldn't find it either. And I do think we need a special thread for the UK other than "Europe's Descent", since the UK doesn't seem to want to be part of Europe any more. Anyway, there is an election coming up, and while May should probably win, nothing is certain. I will probably change the name of this thread, though.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 6, 2017 22:58:57 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Jun 8, 2017 23:33:53 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/world/europe/theresa-may-britain-election-conservatives-parliament.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain suffered a major setback in a tumultuous election on Thursday, throwing her government into uncertainty less than two weeks before it is scheduled to begin negotiations over withdrawing from the European Union. "Mrs. May, the Conservative leader, called the snap election three years early, expecting to cruise to a smashing victory that would win her a mandate to see Britain through the long and difficult negotiations with European leaders over the terms of leaving the union. But according to results reported early Friday morning, the extraordinary gamble Mrs. May made in calling the election backfired. She was in danger of losing her majority, raising the possibility that Britain would end up with a hung Parliament, in which no party has enough lawmakers to establish outright control."
Awwwww, too bad. Trump-hugger Theresa lost seats in the Parliament after she called this election to increase her majority.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2017 8:20:37 GMT -5
[quote author=" jdredd" source= FAKE NEWS ALERT! NYT IS FAKE NEWS! SDS DOES NOT CONDONE liberal FAKE NEWS! LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain suffered a major setback in a tumultuous election on Thursday, throwing her government into uncertainty less than two weeks before it is scheduled to begin negotiations over withdrawing from the European Union. "Mrs. May, the Conservative leader, called the snap election three years early, expecting to cruise to a smashing victory that would win her a mandate to see Britain through the long and difficult negotiations with European leaders over the terms of leaving the union. But according to results reported early Friday morning, the extraordinary gamble Mrs. May made in calling the election backfired. She was in danger of losing her majority, raising the possibility that Britain would end up with a hung Parliament, in which no party has enough lawmakers to establish outright control."
Awwwww, too bad. Trump-hugger Theresa lost seats in the Parliament after she called this election to increase her majority. [/quote] UK can let themselves Fall into extinction Due to liberals and their terrorist Muzzie Pals
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Post by jdredd on Aug 6, 2017 20:31:33 GMT -5
For the last 500 years England has been riding pretty high. A number of other countries have tried to bring her down: Spain, France, Germany and Italy, and have all failed. Despite England pretty much having it's way with Europe, England seems to have decided it can go it's own way, to hell with the EU! Could this be the beginning of England self-destructing? That would be hilarious!
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Post by jdredd on Oct 6, 2017 0:33:07 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/opinion/theresa-may-jeremy-corbyn.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0"LONDON — If you wanted to write a spoof of Britain’s Conservatives, you’d struggle to do a better job than the real version at the party’s half-empty annual conference this week in Manchester. Things hit such train-wreck levels that even the stage fell apart — during a speech by Prime Minister Theresa May, the Conservatives’ leader, letters fell off the party’s latest lackluster slogan behind her. That was just the final slapstick touch to a disastrous address, during which Mrs. May struggled with a fading voice and a spluttering cough, and was pranked by a comedian who handed her a fake P45 — a termination of employment notice. It was a fitting close to a conference that highlighted the extent to which the Conservatives are in free-fall, and the degree to which Mrs. May’s days as party leader are numbered. That all stood in stark contrast to Labour’s conference at the seaside town of Brighton a week earlier. There, party leaders were met with rock-star receptions and standing ovations. Packed meetings focused on the policies Labour should first roll out in government, while references to the party leader Jeremy Corbyn as “the next prime minister” sounded not just like peppy campaign talk but a tangible scenario. Events organized through Momentum, the grass-roots group of Corbyn supporters, routinely saw snaking queues. Left-wing politics had the buzz of a music festival and the effervescence of a political force that is tantalizingly close to power." Ha-ha! The pendulum seems to be swinging the other way in the UK! Maybe Jeremy will stand up to the clown in the WH.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 3, 2018 11:06:02 GMT -5
So it looks like the way the US propaganda machine is going to push back against the possibility of Corbyn becoming PM is to smear him as an anti-Semite.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 19, 2018 0:42:00 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/news/labour-lawmakers-slam-corbyns-response-to-party-anti-semitism/Labour MPs slammed their own leader, Jeremy Corbyn, Tuesday over his nonchalant attitude toward anti-Semitism in the party. Corbyn, an advocate for Palestinian rights and a critic of Israel, came under fire during an impassioned Parliament session yesterday. The Labour leader has apologized before for “pockets” of anti-Semitism in the party and promised to discourage their growth, but a bipartisan group of lawmakers accused him of failing to do so after protests by the Jewish community erupted last month." The conservative press (CIA bankrolled? Just asking) continues it's smear campaign against Corbyn. Will it work? Possibly.
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Post by jdredd on May 4, 2018 14:32:44 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/world/europe/theresa-may-conservatives-labour-uk-elections.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld&action=click&contentCollection=world®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfrontLONDON — Despite mounting troubles over Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union and a recent cabinet resignation, Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party emerged relatively unscathed from local elections, according to results released on Friday that showed that its opponents had failed to make the breakthrough many expected. Mrs. May has been struggling to deal with one crisis after another, many of them related to the negotiations over the withdrawal, but mixed results from across the country meant the opposition Labour Party failed to achieve the big, and symbolic, gains it was hoping for. Labour was victorious in some key areas, but it fell short in its efforts to take control of two Conservative strongholds in London — Westminster and Wandsworth — that had been thought to be vulnerable, as well as the capital’s northern borough of Barnet, a much easier target. On Friday, Mrs. May visited Wandsworth, where she exulted in the Conservatives’ victory there. “They threw everything at it, but they failed,” she said." Perhaps the geezers running the Dems should take note. I think expectations of a "blue wave" in November are misplaced.
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Post by jdredd on May 28, 2018 14:09:03 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/05/28/world/europe/uk-austerity-poverty.html?action=click&module=Trending&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer&contentCollection=Trending"For a nation with a storied history of public largess, the protracted campaign of budget cutting, started in 2010 by a government led by the Conservative Party, has delivered a monumental shift in British life. A wave of austerity has yielded a country that has grown accustomed to living with less, even as many measures of social well-being — crime rates, opioid addiction, infant mortality, childhood poverty and homelessness — point to a deteriorating quality of life.When Ms. Lewis and her husband bought their home a quarter-century ago, Prescot had a comforting village feel. Now, core government relief programs are being cut and public facilities eliminated, adding pressure to public services like police and fire departments, just as they, too, grapple with diminished funding. By 2020, reductions already set in motion will produce cuts to British social welfare programs exceeding $36 billion a year compared with a decade earlier, or more than $900 annually for every working-age person in the country, according to a report from the Center for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University. In Liverpool, the losses will reach $1,200 a year per working-age person, the study says." I'm sure this warms the heart of the anti-state freaks and the leftover Thatcherites. Whatever. As I've said before, I'm fine with a society based on "Every Man for Himself". I've got mine.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 12, 2018 0:08:28 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/world/europe/trump-uk-visit.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"LONDON — For decades British leaders have relied on meetings with American presidents to show off their influence over a global superpower and illustrate the durability of the “special relationship” they prize so much. But for Prime Minister Theresa May, who has endured months of political turbulence, including the recent resignation of Boris Johnson, her foreign secretary, President Trump’s impending trip to Britain looks like it could be an ordeal more than anything else. Even before his arrival, Mr. Trump stirred the pot, suggesting that he would like to catch up with his “friend” Mr. Johnson while in Britain, a country that the president described as “in somewhat turmoil.” When asked whether Mrs. May should stay in her job, Mr. Trump adopted the pose of a disinterested observer, pronouncing this a question for “the people.” He then suggested that speaking with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, which he is scheduled to do next week, might be easier than conversing with Mrs. May, who will host a dinner and a lunch with the president during his stay." Much as I would like to see a bit of the old ultra-violence for nostalgia sake, I know in these namby-pamby times British anti-Trump protests will be forgettable and pointless. And the British will get just what they deserve, a long boring decline.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 12, 2018 14:44:41 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Jul 12, 2018 23:37:49 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/world/europe/trump-brexit-theresa-may.html?hpw&rref=world&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"LONDON — President Trump put his brand of confrontational and disruptive diplomacy on full display Thursday, unsettling NATO allies with a blustering performance in Brussels and then, in a remarkable breach of protocol, publicly undercutting Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain in an interview published hours after landing in her country. In the interview with The Sun, Mr. Trump second-guessed Mrs. May’s handling of the main issue on her plate: how Britain should cut ties to the European Union. He cast doubt on whether he was willing to negotiate a new trade deal between Britain and the United States, and praised Mrs. May’s Conservative Party rival, Boris Johnson, as a potentially great prime minister. The interview was published as Mr. Trump and Mrs. May were wrapping up what appeared to be a mmy dinner at Blenheim Palace — earlier, they had walked inside holding hands — and a day ahead of the president’s scheduled meeting with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle. There was no immediate response from the British government." You can be sure we would not have had this much fun with President Hillary.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 15, 2018 0:26:58 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/jeremy-corbyn-anti-semite-supports-terrorists-holocaust-deniers/"He has a long history of honoring and supporting those who libel Jews, deny the Holocaust, and vow to destroy Israel. When Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the British Labour party in the autumn of 2015, a chill ran through the Jewish community in Britain. They were fearful not because they anticipated the anti-Semitic storm that has since engulfed the highest ranks within the party — no one expected the situation to escalate to the contentious level it has now reached — but simply because they had been paying attention. Behind Corbyn’s polished façade — beyond the walls of the carefully constructed bubble in which he is celebrated as an anti-racist social-justice campaigner for the most deprived in the world — lies a decades-long record of extensive links with terrorists, racists, and dictators. It explains why three leading Jewish publications recently took the unprecedented step of warning, in a joint editorial, that a government led by Corbyn would pose an “existential threat” to British Jewish life." The anti-Corbyn drumbeat continues in the American press. And they are making a coordinated campaign to paint him as an anti-Semite. And as we all know, if you are not sufficiently pro-Zionist, you will be called an anti-Semite. But I'm not sure the anti-Semite smear has as much effectiveness in Europe as it does in the US.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 28, 2018 0:31:03 GMT -5
"Is Jeremy Corbyn an anti-Semite?
That is the question that has dogged British politics since Mr. Corbyn became the Labour Party leader three years ago. It’s also dominated every Shabbat dinner conversation and the WhatsApp thread of every Jewish family across Britain.
I didn’t want this to be true. Though the Anglo-Jewish community is increasingly Conservative, my Jewish friends and I are almost all Labour voters. That fact makes us close cousins of American Jews, who, as the saying goes, earn like Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans.
As Jewish Labourites, we draw inspiration from a tradition that harks back to the Battle of Cable Street in 1936, when the left turned out in force to defend the Jews from Fascists on the streets of London. We all left university a decade ago dreaming of one day working in Labour politics.
But for the past several months, as scandal upon Jew-hating scandal has washed up at Jeremy Corbyn’s door, our parents and aunts and uncles have insisted that we were being loyal to a party that no longer wanted anything to do with us. Some friends began to leave Labour."
If UK Jews abandon Labour because of the anti-Semite smear, so be it. I'm sure they can find a spot in Maggie Thatcher's old party, the National Front. Oh, that's not it. It's so hard to keep track of all the parties in the UK.
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