Covid-19 ~ People may knock this man

Facebook post 28/03/20 

A psychopathic liar who is U turning and papering over the cracks of his parties failings over the last 10 years, that just to name 1 point, has led the UK to have one of the lowest levels of hospital beds in the whole of Europe. 

The overzealous cuts have cost this country billions as we play catch up, just as Thatcher did with the military cuts and the Falklands. Just got through that by the skin of our teeth and who saved us ....our amazing under equipped military.

So yeah thank god Corbyn isn't in charge we might have had hospital beds and a NHS that would have got their pay rise. 

Anyone going to say they are not worth it?

My further points are.

1. The UK's delay in responding has been heavily criticised by countries more experienced in dealing with Corvid-19 and the World Health Organisation.
2. We are the 5th or 6th richest economy in the world so the fact we have one of the lowest numbers of hospital beds in the whole of Europe is something people should be questioning not applauding. If Corvid-19 really takes off here a lot of people will die because of those decisions. So no I'm not prepared to let them off they are accountable for their decisions or should be.
3. The UK's herd immunity strategy was seriously flawed and quite why the scientists thought they could advise something different to what the rest of the world was doing is beyond me. If indeed they did advise that.
4. There are some claims that Cummings had a hand in promoting the herd immunity strategy. whether this is true or not remains to be seen. 

Dominic Cummings reportedly led the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic with a strategy that protected the economy and put the elderly at risk.
According to Sunday Times reports the unelected advisor pushed a discredited “herd immunity” response, saying the prerogative was to “protect the economy and if that means some pensioners die, too bad.”  

• The UK is scrambling to correct its coronavirus strategy 
• Professor Hugh Pennington: ‘Herd immunity is a crazy idea, not really supported by any sound science’ 
• Cummings role under scrutiny over delay to UK suppression policy
• Britain Drops Its Go-It-Alone Approach to Coronavirus

Other Links
How countries around the world are battling coronavirus

Boris Johnson's car crash head to head with Jeremy Corbyn

Corbyn played a mastercard and I didnt realise how much of a mastercard at the time.  That came to light later.

After the leader election debate between Corbyn and Johnson I was of the opinion that it was a bit of a draw with noone coming out on top, however events that came to light after that changed my opinion.

During the debate Corbyn waved a freedom of information document around on negotiations between the Tories and the US which had been heavily redacted (for redacted read censored). 

“Every single line of this document, redacted out. A document here, of US-UK negotiations. Summary of specific negotiating objectives: full market access for US products to our National Health Service. You’re going to sell out our NHS to the United States and big pharma.”  ~ Jeremy Corbyn 

Now here's why I now feel that it was a car crash for BloJo......

1. The Tories obviously had the rebranded twitter account ready to go live if they got hit with something that they couldn't counter and this was it.
2. Soon after Corbyn made that statement the rebranded FAKE factcheck branding was put up on the twitter account trying to claim Corbyn was the liar to cover the impact of the documents.
3. If the document was not factual why didn't the Tories mentioned it afterwards. They never claimed the document was fake. They never claimed it was incorrect.
4. It was so important they were prepared to risk having their twitter account suspended by contravening twitter's rules.
5. Every Tory i've seen interviewed since claimed they did it to exposed Corbyn lies, never mentioning the document.
6. The fact that they havnt claimed the document is a pack of lies is telling.  If the document was incorrect or fake BloJo could have easily said so in front of millions of people.  He didn't, all he could do was bluster his way through it and continue with the Tory mantra that the NHS is not for sale which now people can see is the biggest lie of the lot.
7. Since then BloJo has pulled out of a 2nd head to head debate scheduled on channel 4 as they obviously know its going to get mentioned again and they cant counter it because the document is factual.
8. Regardless what the Tories claim the NHS has been being sold off to private companies for years. It's just done stealthily with Virgin Care one of the biggest health care providers.

Pollster YouGov found Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn were roughly neck-and-neck in the contest, with 51 per cent of the audience saying the Tory leader won and 49 per cent saying the Labour leader. But among undecided voters Mr Corbyn was judged to have won a decisive victory, with a 59-41 per cent lead over Boris Johnson as best performer among that group.

LINKS
Election debate: Corbyn accuses Boris Johnson of wanting to ‘sell NHS to Trump’ after Brexit
Leaders' election TV debate cancelled after Boris Johnson refuses to take part
Virgin awarded almost £2bn of NHS contracts in the past five years
Johnson v Corbyn: The ITV Debate | ITV News

The BBC's absolutely indefensible Bias against Jeremy Corbyn continues

Will Jeremy Corbyn's long march lead to power?

In 2009 at a Palestine Solidarity meeting he referred to “our friends from Hezbollah” and “our friends from Hamas”. His defence, when criticised, was similar to his stated reasons for meeting Irish republicans. He told Channel 4 News that “to bring about a peace process, you have to talk to people with whom you profoundly disagree”.

Note the last part of that quote  “to bring about a peace process, you have to talk to people with whom you profoundly disagree”

Picture 1 posted about 2am in morning

It's interesting that the image on this link was one that was obviously put up to make Corbyn look like a communist. See picture 1 above posted about 2am and picture 2 below, by 11:44 the image on the website had been changed).

I remember thinking well if that's not biased reporting from the BBC I dont know what is.

The absolute lies, misinformation and hypocrisy is literally beyond belief.

Picture 2 changed by 11:44 Am

This was run only a few days after the BBC had "Accidently" run a video of remembrance day from 2016 making BloJo look good and Corbyn look bad.

In reality it was BloJo that looked dishevelled, made several cock ups and laid the wreath upside down.  Still the media only had time to shout that Corbyn hadn't bowed enough.   Apparently there isn't a right or wrong way to lay a wreath, but I guarantee there would have been if Corbyn had put it the wrong way up.

One looks like hes been out at a nightclub all night and the other is Jeremy Corbyn.

BloJo Smarter on left in 2016 against on right looking like been pulled through a hedge backwards 2019

BBC apologises for using wrong Remembrance Sunday clip

Then whilst listening to Radio 5 live I heard the interviewer saying "but surely this is just going to let Corbyn into number 10" not Labour but Corbyn.  Any references on the other side were not made about Johnson but the Conservatives.

Absolutely indefensible Bias.

They have done exactly the same before in 2018 positioning Corbyn on a screen next to a picture of the Kremlin.

Apparently it was the curved screen, yeah right.

Did the BBC edit a photo of Jeremy Corbyn to make him look close to Russia?

BBC rejects complaints over Jeremy Corbyn's 'Russian' hat



LINKS
It’s not a conspiracy. Boris Johnson is just bad at laying wreaths and mopping floors

Blojo has negotiated a ‘NEW’ fantastic deal

Brilliant you really couldn’t make it up (If what is being reported is true), due to a string of the Tory's incompetent decision’s one of the smallest parties yet again holds the entire UK to ransom. Interestingly its a party that was voted in with less votes than Jeremy Corbyn.

Mays deal was effectively voted down by the ERG stopping Brexit on the 31^st March, Yes their votes would have swung it, because the DUP (and a lot of others) didn’t like the temporary back stop. 

Now Blojo has negotiated a ‘NEW’ fantastic deal with a permanent backstop (although it’s not called that) and unsurprisingly the DUP are not agreeing to it, which means that the ERG won’t agree to it.

If you wanted to negotiate a deal that wouldn’t get through parliament you couldn’t really do a better job, again if true, the whole thing is an absolute sham.

The establishment is getting worried

Can always tell when the establishment is getting worried. The Tory media kicks in and it filters down.  The instances of lies and misinformation increase exponentially.

If they just posted facts id be happy to believe them but I would guess that as high as 90% of every negative thing about Corbyn is Bollox.

A fantasy of hysteria created by those who stand to lose control because Corbyn cant be bought. If he could we wouldn't be seeing all the vilification we do see from all angles.

The funny thing is most of the people spreading the false information, havnt checked it and would actually stand to gain from Corbyn getting in.

Divide and Rule.

The simple question to ask is, if Corbyn is really that bad...

Why do they need to lie and create misinformation? 

Surely the truth would be sufficient?

Mayhems last roll of the dice or a stitch up?

29th March 2017 and Theresa May triggered Article 50.

Its taken just over 2 years while she went off and negotiated what she thought Brexit was. Unfortunately it wasn't what all the other MP's, including MP's from her own party, thought Brexit was.

Its always the problem with vague sound bites like Brexit means Brexit ....it was always open to interpretation. It appealed to everyone because everyone thought they knew what it meant but it actually meant nothing to everyone, because its vagueness left it, a catch 22 almost.  But everyone still quotes it as if what their interpretation of it, is the right one.

Fast forward to tonight, the clock is running down the UK has until 12th April 2019 to propose a plan acceptable by all 27 members of the EU or it leaves with No Deal.

Mayhem has 10 Days to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

Tonight May decides to "take action" and offers to sit down with the leader of the opposition.

"I'm offering to sit down with the Leader of the Opposition to try to agree a plan that we would both stick to, to ensure that we leave the European Union and that we do so with a deal.

Before we move on lets be clear why we are at this point.

1. May went off and negotiated on her own with very little accepted input from others.
2. Its very clear from the comments of Tory MP's that May has been nothing but intransigent, 2 Brexit Secretary's have resigned because of it. 
3. This offer of talking should have happened 18 months ago. Consensus should have been sort at the start so that whatever deal was negotiated had backing and could get through parliament.
4. While writing this I suddenly thought if the Tories wanted a fall guy to blame it doesn't come much better than May.

Soapbox opinion
Personally I think anyone sitting down to talk at this late stage needs to be very wary. There are very few avenues left and the opportunity to share the blame around a bit is high.  Is this the plan behind this last minute reaching out? A bit of slippery shoulder finger pointing?

In a nutshell

• We have 10 days until the 12th April, unless May can come up with a reason for the EU to extend.
• It would need to be a show stopping reason like another referendum or a General Election.
• There is only one deal on the table (May's deal) with the EU and they have said it wont be renegotiated.
• May's deal has already been voted down 3 times now.
• MP's have so far voted against every other proposal put before them.
• MP's have voted to avoid No Deal at all costs. (That's just advisory though and not enshrined in law)
• The EU has stated it wants to do all it can to avoid No Deal.
• However the EU has actually planned for No Deal unlike the UK who's plans are severely lacking and nowhere near complete.
• 12 April 2019 is also the deadline for informing the EU of the intention to hold MEP elections.
• Unless the UK leaves on or closely to the 12th it will be required to hold MEP elections.
• 23rd of May is when EU elections take place, 49 days time.

Lets look at possibilities

1. No Deal, its still the legal default if all else fails.
2. May's deal "The withdrawal agreement" is still the only deal on the table with the EU.
3. A long extension, UK would have to be holding a General Election or another Referendum to get such an extension and would have to take part in EU elections.
4. Revoking article 50, the UK can do this unilaterally. 
5. May could resign.
6. Other suggestions are some form of Customs union and or single market attachment. But surely if going for either of these we might as well stay in the EU. 

Soapbox opinion
I don't know where May is going with this at such a late stage, looks like nothing more than another attempt to get her deal over the line and/or dilute some of the blame away from the Tories. To me this smells of a stitch up.  Jeremy Corbyn you would be wise to be very careful, you could be being set up. I wouldn't trust her as far as I could throw her and with limited doors to walk through now, I feel the Tories are moving into damage limitation.


LINKS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_invocation_of_Article_50_of_the_Treaty_on_European_Union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Exiting_the_European_Union

Lets face facts the Tories have reduced the deficit .....but ...hangon....

Lets face facts the Tories have reduced the deficit .....but ...hangon....

"In 2005 the UK “current budget deficit” was less that £20 billion. But then came the worldwide financial crisis of 2008 and subsequent recession. The budget deficit skyrocketed to £50 billion in 2009 and £103 billion in 2010. In the subsequent recovery the deficit has steadily declined, down to £1.9 billion in 2018."  {LINK}

So the deficit has reduced by 101.1 billion

                            But wait ....the UK debt is now over 70% more

"In 2005 the UK National Debt was less that £0.5 trillion. But then came the worldwide financial crisis of 2008 and subsequent recession. The National Debt increased rapidly and went over £1 trillion in 2011. At the end of the 2015-16 fiscal year, the National Debt went over £1.5 trillion." {LINK}

Its worth noting that its a total myth that Labour caused the financial crisis of 2008, a myth perpetuated by the Tories to good effect and people still believe it now.  Its well known that the greedy banks caused the crises but the Tories continue to promote the lie.

So UK debt when Tories took over was 1.01 Trillion

UK Debt in 2018 was 1.78 Trillion. That's 780 billion more.

May claimed that a vote for Labour would be a vote for "a coalition of Chaos" the facts are that the Tories turned out to be in chaos.

I'll just mention this.

"Corbyn's spending plans will bankrupt the country" the media screamed "its all uncosted" they claimed.

Fact Corbyn proposed to spend £250 billion on infrastructure, which in turn would create jobs, generally make things better and stimulate the economy.

What happened ....... Total melt down.

 The Tories however have increased the UK debt by £770 billion, with nothing to show for it.

Why hasn't Corbyn condemned the IRA?

Corbyn generally sticks to the mantra that he condems all violence.

However in in 1994 Jeremy Corbyn signed a motion that condemned IRA violence.

Jeremy Corbyn signed a motion in the House of Commons that condemned IRA violence and "extended its sympathy to the relatives of those murdered".

The Leader of the Labour Party supported an early day motion put forward by Labour MP David Winnick to commemorate the victims of the IRA bombing in Birmingham in 1974.  

The motion was tabled on the 20 year anniversary of the attack that killed 21 people and injured 182 others and was signed by Mr Corbyn in November 1994.

So in answer to the question

Why hasn't Corbyn condemned the IRA?

He has.



LINKS
Independent: Jeremy Corbyn signed a motion that condemned IRA violence in 1994

Facebook goes into melt down with anti Corbyn memes.

A narrow miss of getting a no confidence vote in the worst Tory government for years and Facebook goes into melt down with anti Corbyn memes.

Luckily as could be seen in the last General Election the public are seeing through the mis-information, lies, insults etc.

May will probably win today's no confidence vote in the Conservative party. But at what cost?

I expect Mayhem will win todays no confidence vote in the Conservative party. But at what cost, what will the DUP want this time for their backing? Plus the Tories are unlikely to vote for a no confidence vote in themselves.

So where does that leave us.

May seems to have been pushing forward on a deal of her own making in some grand attempt at being the Savior of the UK and putting herself on a standing with Thatcher in the history books (Not that I hold Thatcher in that great esteem) a vanity project from the start.  It is one thing Tories are good at ...vanity.

So is she playing a very clever remain game or a very bad leave game.

Going against the mandate of the country would be a very dangerous thing to do for any PM but she was a remainer at the start.

2 years of convoluted negotiations, well wasn't 2 years because it took about a year and a half to decide what they wanted and the EU still doesn't seem to know. 3 brexit Secretary's later and we are still no nearer to starting to negotiate trade deals.

The mantra still at present is
My deal
No deal
Or no brexit

However at the start it was Brexit means Brexit.....whatever that means. Seems to mean whatever brexit I dream up.

As the house is definitely opposed to no deal that leaves only 2 so she could be playing a clever remain game. Hmmm!

Seems to me the EU keep saying tell us what you really want. By that I think they mean we don't want to know what Mayhem wants we want to know what parliament wants. All the indications are that they realise that mayhem is forging forward with what she wants so they are not prepared to negotiate any further.

A proper proposal backed by parliament I believe the EU would discuss. Personally I think Mayhem is lying when she says there is no further negotiation. Yes there is no further negotiation on her deal but a deal backed by parliament would be looked at.

As such I conclude that she's just playing a vanity game and play hero. Trying to get herself in the history books as another Thatcher, although the Tory knives soon came out for her. Corbyn's only route after such an epic fail had to be to call for a vote of no confidence. Everyone would have been putting the boot in if he diddnt, even though chances of winning were slim.

Personally I think there should be a GE as it would hand back power to the people. All parties can campaign on the detail of what they think Brexit should be or even no brexit and the people can vote on the detail.

Another referendum well what goes on the ballot paper? May's deal, no deal, remain? We already voted to leave... How many referendums should we have? Should there need to be a clear 60% majority next time? I think there should.

Nope a General Election is the best route in my humble opinion.

Update

Have to say I don't agree with Labour's stance that a no deal Brexit should be taken of the table before cross party talks. This is not the time to be taking away the only thing that might worry the EU in negotiations. Also May would agree to this if her plan was always to engineer some form of Remain, we wait and see.  I can see why its being asked for but its also going to have little impact on business now at this late stage, so keep it in the cards we are holding while we work out how to play them.

Corbyn - Stupid Woman? Stupid People?

Absolutely disgraceful behavior and nothing more than filibustering. Should sack the lot of them. Politicians are there to do a rather important job... so do that job rather than points scoring, acting like a bunch of animals and displaying fake outrage over such trivia.

Amazing that there was no time to debate a motion of no confidence in a pm that's doing nothing more than running the clock down, but they were able to spend nearly 3 hours debating whether Corbyn maybe said something insulting or not.

Bearing in mind the amount or insults and allegations actually said by Tory PMs out loud, to Corbyn, which would possibly attract liable allegations if said outside parliament, this really shows the level of this utter shower of incompetents.

The reason for this and they damm well know it, they are doing everything to avoid having the vote on Mayhems deal, so they can drive the bus closer to the cliff edge, with Mayhem hanging out the window shouting "its my deal or no deal"

Having the vote would mean losing the support of the DUP, lose that and a vote of no confidence in the Tories would probably succeed.

But also having that vote would allow other options to be debated, including no deal. Which is what they should be doing.

The Next Prime Minister?

                                                   

POLL: Who do you want to be the next Prime Minister?

Most political polls are a sample of 1-2,000 people and much faith is placed in them, click the link above to find out who's in the lead.

The poll above is currently on over 39,141 people ~ 08/06/17 ~
Jeremy Corbyn  91.14%  (35,675 votes) 
Theresa May  8.86%  (3,466 votes)
The poll above is currently on over 39,102 people ~ 31/05/17
The poll above is currently on over 39,076 people ~ 21/05/17
The poll above is currently on over 39,029 people ~ 15/05/17

The poll above is currently on over 39,013 people ~ 10/05/17
The poll above is currently on over 38,880 people ~ 04/05/17
The poll above is currently on over 37,343 people ~ 01/05/17
The poll above is currently on over 35,340 people ~ 29/04/17
The poll above is currently on over 35,011 people ~ 27/04/17

Yougov latest polling

 

LINKS

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/06/07/final-call-poll-tories-seven-points-and-set-increa/
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/06/03/voting-intention-conservatives-42-labour-38-1-2-ju/
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/05/31/voting-intention-conservatives-42-labour-39-30-31-/
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/05/26/voting-intention-conservatives-43-labour-36-25-26-/
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/05/12/voting-intention-conservatives-49-labour-31-11-12-/
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/05/08/voting-intention-conservatives-47-labour-28-4-5-ma/
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/05/03/voting-intention-conservatives-48-labour-29-2-3-ma/
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/04/29/voting-intention-conservatives-44-labour-31-27-28-/

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/04/26/voting-intention-conservatives-45-labour-29-25-26-/

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/04/23/voting-intention-conservatives-48-labour-25-20-21-/

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/04/20/voting-intention-conservatives-48-labour-24-18-19-/

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/04/17/voting-intention-conservatives-44-labour-23-12-13-/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35350361

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_poll

http://www.gallup.com/poll/101872/howdoes-gallup-polling-work.aspx