The 2019 General Election

[brogdale]

Rees-Mogg seems quiet of late?

Raab?

Turns out the vermin's focus groups couldn't identify any senior figure that the electorate could stomach!

 

[brogdale]

Shares in BT haven't gone down much, the City doesn't think labour in power is a real possibility?

If you really want to talk about the price of BT shares...

 

[killer b]

Shares in BT haven't gone down much, the City doesn't think labour in power is a real possibility?

Who gives a fuck what those cunts think?

 

[Badgers]

Who gives a fuck what those cunts think?

My heart bleeds for the fucking shareholders

 

[treelover]

Anyone over 50 knows how much power the City can wield in an election and after, do you think their power has waned?

 

[treelover]

Btw, its weird seeing the Tories offering dosh everywhere, though of course, whether they would pay out is another thing.

 

[brogdale]

Anyone over 50 knows how much power the City can wield in an election and after, do you think their power has waned?

Seriously, financialised capital has nothing to fear from national legislatures...they'll well above all that malarkey

 

[killer b]

I think paying attention to movements in the stock market as a guide to what's going to happen in an election a month away is a fool's errand

 

[not-bono-ever]

The city wants a plan - any plan will do in the absence of anything

 

[Proper Tidy]

Railway Mania - Wikipedia
10,000km of railways were built in just a few years of the boom, privately financed and barely regulated. The state didn't really control the railways until the Big Four grouping in 1923, by which time all the routes were long built.

Nationalisation then made perfect sense, but it's simply not true that "the state built the railway network"

That in no way differs to what I've just said though

 

[MickiQ]

Shares in BT haven't gone down much, the City doesn't think labour in power is a real possibility?

They probably don't no but even if they did, they have plenty of time. Labour won't be seizing assets on 13/12.
They would have to get legislation through Parliament, then they would have to win a court case, come to agreements with foreign governments where there are foreign investors, possibly fight overseas court cases as well. Agree a price probably fight the odd court case over that. If they lose any then they will have to amend the legislation and start again.
Even if they win a massive majority next month, we will be halfway through the lifetime of the Parliament before any utilities are taken into public ownership.

 

[kenny g]

Great to hear the dubious reasons why a free product isn't good for consumers. Apparently choice is what we currently get.

 

[Mr Moose]

It’s a great idea and no one can say the market has provided for rural broadband or even especially reliable broadband elsewhere. It ticks all the boxes for the environment, for working and for delivering healthcare.

 

[SpineyNorman]

See the Green Party have waded in with basic income by 2025

Green Party offers universal basic income by 2025

Will probably be enough for a packet of fags by 2025.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Piece about how the tories killed off the BT fibre project decades ago because "competition":

How Thatcher killed the UK's superfast broadband before it even existed | TechRadar

 

[belboid]

Great stuff, another Trump visit planned!

US President Donald Trump to visit UK ahead of general election

 

[Proper Tidy]

Great stuff, another Trump visit planned!

US President Donald Trump to visit UK ahead of general election

This is actually good imo

 

[brogdale]

Yeah, he won't hold back from endorsing blustercunt (again) and that will, indeed, be a major electoral problem for Johnson.

 

[belboid]

This is actually good imo

I know, that's why I said it!

 

[Teaboy]

Its got to be that Trump has invited himself with the unwavering belief that he will win the election for Johnson. I can't believe that for one minute Johnson's advisers want this to happen. Knuckle headed pro Trump headbangers is a vote that is firmly in the bag already for Johnson. This will not go well.

 

[Smangus]

This will not go well.

it will for us

 

[brogdale]

Just a straw in the wind... in the 2 previously Labour held Croydon constituencies the Brexit Party is standing a candidate but in Croydon South where (Tory) Chris Philp faces no BP candidate, a UKIP candidate is nominated to stand.

This happening elsewhere in former Tory held seats, or just a local thing to Croydon?

 

[teqniq]

One can only hope that this will be the kiss of death for the tories.

Trump confirms pre-election UK visit

E2a lol apologies I see this was already posted upthread, I stand by my observation though.

 

[Marty1]

Great stuff, another Trump visit planned!

US President Donald Trump to visit UK ahead of general election

Probably won’t make it as he’ll no doubt be impeached by then.

 

[binka]

Probably won’t make it as he’ll no doubt be impeached by then.

He won't be

 

[YouSir]

Its got to be that Trump has invited himself with the unwavering belief that he will win the election for Johnson. I can't believe that for one minute Johnson's advisers want this to happen. Knuckle headed pro Trump headbangers is a vote that is firmly in the bag already for Johnson. This will not go well.

Maybe in his madness he thinks that over here he'll get a better reaction than the boos he's been facing back home recently. So, he's in for a nice surprise.

 

[ska invita]

Its got to be that Trump has invited himself with the unwavering belief that he will win the election for Johnson.

Its a NATO meeting with all NATO leaders - they'll be at Buckingham Palace too

Queen Elizabeth II will host a reception for NATO leaders at Buckingham Palace on 03 December to mark 70 years of NATO alliance. Allied heads of state will then meet on 04 December in Watford to discuss security challenges to "ensure that NATO continues to adapt in order to keep its population of almost one billion people safe", according to the organisation's Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg.

 

[Marty1]

Maybe in his madness he thinks that over here he'll get a better reaction than the boos he's been facing back home recently. So, he's in for a nice surprise.

Trump loves attention, good or bad.

Right now as President he’s like a pig in shit.

 

[YouSir]

Its a NATO meeting with all NATO leaders - they'll be at Buckingham Palace too

That'll be nice then, Erdogan's security beating up protesters outside as Trump pretends the distant booing isn't happening and Johnson tries to convince the waiting staff that he's a normal human being.

 

[ska invita]

That'll be nice then, Erdogan's security beating up protesters outside as Trump pretends the distant booing isn't happening and Johnson tries to convince the waiting staff that he's a normal human being.

IIRC demo meets at 4pm at Trafalgar Square then moves at some point on Buck Palace