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27/11/2019

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Can it really be true? Is this coming election just a choice between Jeremy Corbyn or Boris Johnson as our next prime minister? That is about as comforting as being asked to choose between hemlock and cyanide as an aperitif.
 
Johnson is a self-aggrandizing, egocentric, and well-documented liar, publicly unmasked as such on many occasions. His party is guilty of the most blatant and underhanded skulduggery, of which the two most recent occurrences were the proroguing of parliament that had “Nothing to do with preventing discussion on B*****…”, and the shameless renaming one of their Twitter accounts as an “objective and independent fact-checker”. 
 
Corbyn is an agitprop dinosaur, a throwback to the revolutionary socialism of the 1960s, who is so breathtakingly inept that he cannot – or will not – root out antisemitism in his own party. If ever there was an open goal for Labour’s enemies that could – and should – be closed for good, that is it. But not only that. Everyone knows, whether they like it or not, that this election, with all the spin and hype to the contrary, is about one issue – B*****. Corbyn will “renegotiate a deal” and put the issue to a public vote. But on the question of leave or remain, the greatest, the most important, and the most divisive issue that this country has ever had to deal with – short of the civil war of the seventeenth century – Corbyn steadfastly refuses to state his opinion.
 
So, hemlock or cyanide, the outcome is inevitable, and then what? Elysium fields would be lovely, but I have a feeling that it is Dante’s Inferno that we’re headed for …
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Lorayne Northfield
27/11/2019 08:58:50 pm

And now what?

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clive
27/11/2019 09:32:24 pm

I am constantly infuriated that people accept Johnson's behaviour as not only acceptable, but somehow endearing. I'm not sure that the LibDems have the oomph to halt the Tory juggernaut -not even enough to deliver a hung parliament. The Morgan vs Morgan interview about the 50,000 nurses was comical and yet pathetic, the 40 hospitals that turn out to be 6 ridiculous, but it seems even these monstrous lies will not undermine the Tories. There's still a long way to go, and as May found out, a big lead in the polls ain't no guarantee. Maybe if we started praying.....

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