Boris Johnson on course for huge win in UK election, exit poll suggests

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  1. LangleyMan

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    Yeah, I saw it when I had a chance to check Sky News. Good riddance.
     
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    Hilary Benn? Yes.
     
  3. LangleyMan

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    The problem is "Dead in a Ditch" Boris doesn't have answers.

    Canada (37m people) can offer preferred access to the largest supply of raw materials in the world after Russia in return for trade deals. Still, it took nine years for Canada to get a deal with the EU. It's a cold world out there for small countries.
     
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    They used to represent working class folks, something the Conservatives have never done.
     
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    the right supports the corps and foreign outsourcing and foreign imports - and huge tax cuts for the rich

    the right even wants to call corporations "people"
     
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  6. LangleyMan

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    Don't get too excited by a misimpression based on your limited understanding of the British parliamentary system.
    Not only are you unaware of how parliament works, but you're seemingly unfamiliar with what happened around the referendum.
    The people are still against Brexit.
     
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    Everybody who voted Tory voted for the dementia tax to come, signalled by Damian Green on the radio yesterday.
    He said it was about grasping the nettle, but essentially the NHS will differentiate types of sickness under the Tories, and if you have the wrong kind of sickness they will take your house.
     
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    Or it’s own version of capitalism. Remains to be seen as to which.
     
  9. Montegriffo

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    They also voted for a return to stop and search, an amnesty for up to half a million illegal immigrants, Scottish independence and a return to violence in Northern Ireland.
     
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    Never, no majority in NI and no Scottish partition, that's what we all voted against.
     
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    Our Scottish brothers and sisters are not our 'colony', they are our family. And we in NI aren't going anywhere either.
     
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    Never happen, with Boris in No 10 the union is more secure than ever.
     
  13. Montegriffo

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    Not so sure about that. Without Scottish MPs, the Tories would never lose another election.
    Tories don't care about Scotland.
     
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    Without Scottish LABOUR MPs you mean (seriously Scotland is massively over-represented in terms of the MPs they return). The Tories do care, Ruth Davidson could very well be a future PM.
     
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    Yeah, right, his deal will split Northern Ireland off from the rest of the country.
    It will take a bit of time for some people to realise Boris Johnson is an evil lying racist, then again Tory voters feel a kinship to that sort of thing.
     
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    I accept that your vote was to make a United Ireland and an Independent Scotland impossible so that you could continue with your beloved religious dream that you have a right there. What you did instead was create a situation where for the first time you have more nationalist MP's than any other and where the only logical way out is a United Ireland. Your day has gone. Your party's attempt to make a United Ireland impossible backfired.
     
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    I heard the idea is appealing to her but it is too late. That would never happen unless she left Scotland and I doubt she would.
     
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    I was not talking about you there.
     
  19. Thedimon

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    Enlighten me.
    I’m aware of the fact that people voted for leave.
    Denial.
     
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    I disagee. The English hate the Scots and Irish, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland consists of rule by racists English who don't see the peoples of the other UK countries as brothers and sisters but as mugs to be exploited.
    If the Windrush scandal and the Grenfell fire tells us anything it is that the English are contemptuous of others, foreigners are to be either hated or exploited or stolen from at the barrel of a gun or killed. Brothers and Sisters? Do me a favour. I have lived amongst that evil English mindset for over 60 years having been born in Kent, and it is to my eternal shame that my particular accident of birth has been to have been born in England.
    English Tories are even more vile than Trump supporting Americans, thats how bad it is.
    But they are also the winners and we are obliged to suffer.
     
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    Of course he's not, whatever gave you that idea. Boris can deliver Brexit and probably give NI some form of special status to do that because he is an unequivocal Unionist, it was Nixon who went to China.
     
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    What the blazes does that mean? What 'beloved religious dream'? What does religion have to do with anything? There are more nationalist MPs but again that means nothing, people were voting for Brexit not an end to partition. Brexit will actually make a united Ireland impossible as it will impoverish the South, we have a Unionist in No 10 with a huge majority, things are looking rosy.
    Our day has never looked brighter.
     
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    How is it too late? And why would she need to leave Scotland? Gordon Brown was PM?
     
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    Who were you talking about?
     
  25. Reasonablerob

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    What on EARTH are you talking about? Britain is the land of hope and glory where we're all equal, I've lived in NI, Scotland and various parts of England and never experienced any of the nonsense you're spouting. What does the Windrush botch up and the Grenfall tragedy have to do with anything?
    Your self loathing is truly pitiful, you should be proud to be English and you should be proud to be British.
     

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