Newly elected conservative party head and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson attended his first meeting of Parliament and took direct aim at the insufferable Labor party leftist, Jeremy Corbyn. There’s been a lot of shaking things up in the first week…
Boris Johnson’s move into Downing Street has led to a surge in support for the Conservatives, an exclusive Mail on Sunday poll has found. (read more)
President Trump spoke yesterday with Prime Minister Johnson on the phone. The president relayed the phone call to the media when questioned:
THE PRESIDENT: Well, you know why your timing is good? Because I spoke to him about — how long have you been here? Sixteen minutes. I spoke to him 17 minutes ago. I hung up the phone as you were coming in.
And he’s a good guy. He’s a friend of mine. I think we’re going to have a great relationship. And Boris is going to be a great Prime Minister. I predict he will be a great Prime Minister. He has what it takes. They needed him for a long time. UK needed him for a long time. And —
Q Would you — would you invite him here?
THE PRESIDENT: — let’s see what happens. Yeah, he’ll – he and I will spend a lot of — we just spent a lot of time when I was with the Queen in one of the great, most beautiful couple of days that I’ve ever experienced. She’s a tremendous woman. Incredible woman. We get along very well.
So, Boris and I just spoke. I congratulated him. And he’s all set to go. He’s going to be — I think he’ll do a great job.
We’re working already on a trade agreement. And I think it will be a very substantial trade agreement. You know, we can do with the UK — we can do three to four times. We were actually impeded by their relationship with the European Union. We were very much impeded on trade. And I think we can do three to four, five times what we’re doing.
We don’t do the kind of trade we could do with what some people say is Great Britain, and some people remember a word you don’t hear too much is the word, “England,” which is a piece of it.
But with the UK, we could do much, much more trade. And we expect to do that, okay?
“There’s been a lot of shaking things up in the fist week…”
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From the first paragraph of SD’s text – “fist week” may turn out to not be a typo. This is the British Parliament after all…
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GMTA, DJ (see below)!
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And actually there is a second non-typo type in the title. Should be “…Takes the Reins…” But hey, I think it fits the way it is.
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Yep, shaking the fist.
I thought the, “first thing we do, is dump all the malingerers and whiners out of the cabinet before today’s sun sets” was pretty amusing.
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wouldn’t you love to hear our Congress addressed like that?
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ct, and what we need to do with our hired help in this swamp congress who always take a “vacation ON our money rather than their own which must be changed) instead of doing the job they were hired to do. Of course, queen Pelosi loves to travel and try and convince other leaders that she is the ONE, the ONLY and has the same powers as Trump. Full of you know what. We need to bill them as we did not okay any traveling at all let alone pay the bill, and I suppose the two hussies will expect us to cover their trip to Israel,etc. They need to learn they can travel but on their own money and not ours, so let’s bill them for repayment of all travel and hotel and meals money spent.
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Is this a re-run of Monty Python’s Flying Circus?
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someone should take keys from Nancy liquor cabinet….looks like her family gave up long time ago…
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How about another leader with blond but messy hair! ditto the House Speaker with his grey hair. I thought all English men were very careful in keeping their hair neat and combed. Things have changed. He is shouting a lot but having listened to their Parliament this is nothing new, but glad that Trump rarely yells. I think we will see some changes in England and about time. I think the Queen even likes this PM taking back her country. Maybe even getting rid of the muslims because of the so very many crimes they commit daily. If so, then I would reconsider visiting England again and suffer with their lousy food!
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Liked whatvhe said about Labor siding with the Mullahs, instead of our friends in the the USA.
And he certainly sounds like he IS going to really do Brexit.
Given how hard EU has fought to prevent it, and knowing how a deal with the,U.S. could rebuild their manufacturing, get their people off the dole, etc.,….
I’m hoping Brexit is, if not in itself a fatal blow to EU, at least a yuge boulder that rolls down the mountain, starting the landslide.
One small detail, of coarse. In order to get british voters to agree to get into EU, the arrangement between GB and EU is different than every other country; it THEORETICALLY had an escape clause, the others don’t have.
The EU, the CCP in western europe.
Centralised, dictatorial, buerocratic, unresponsive to the people. Barstuds!
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In light of the recent coup attempt, we need to have a newly elected president inaugurated immediately after election also. There is too much time to poison the well if another malignant administration ever gains power again.
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I would say WHOA, to that. Right up till election day, the Candidate and his staff are totally focused on winning.
After, they need 3 months, to set up a transition team, and go thru the process of hiring an administration, which is several 1000’s of people that need to be hired, in order to have a functioning administration.
West Wing TV show accurately depicted what its like for a new, incoming administration.
Until THIS transition, when the W.H. changed parties, there may have been minor ‘practical jokes’ like super glueing phones, but what,Obama did, virtually trying to sabatoge and kneecap an incoming administration is totally unprecedented.
However, I don’t think your suggestion is possible, practical or would solve the problem.
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In an ideal world, where we could snap our fingers, and eliminate what, 80-90% of the Federal buerocracy, have a WEAK Federal government thats only income is from tariffs, much stronger STATE and even municipal governments, I would say “go for it”.
Many of us would like to undo the distortions to the founders vision.
Getting from where we are, to where we were, or need to be is the challenge.
Simply wishing it were so, and making changes based on how,we want it to be, rather than how it is, is problematic.
Admitedly, I don’t know the answer, but since the escalator ride, for the first time I think its possible. So, theres that!
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Well, we need more time to organize a new administration, but your concern is well noted. The proper fix is to never elect a Communist or Muslim or America-Hater, especially in combination, ever again. I wonder if there might be a way to estabilsh a post-election neutral auditor of sorts that answers to no one until the new President is inaugurated… Probably unworkable but Team Zero did do a Hell of a lot of damage in that period, though his effectiveness in so doing was based on the fact he had been corrupting the entire apparatus for the previous eight years.
One might say we have the records to determine what actions were taken in the interim period, but Zero destroyed massive amounts of records and stole huge amounts he claimed belonged in this library that oughn’t be there and may well never ever be seen again. The most contemptible President imaginable.
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Understand your concern. However the new incoming Administration needs time to formally organize.
I suggest that, first thing, the morning after the election wherein the incumbent or his Party’s chosen successor is beaten, that the newly elected President install a staff of transition monitors in the WH and every Executive Branch agency head’s office who the outgoing Administration is required to include in every meeting until Inauguration Day.
No Executive Branch WH or agency decisions or actions (including personnel, other than resigning) may be made or undertaken without the approval of the incoming President.
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Well Carrie2 (and President Trump) whoa!
Whilst anything is better than the previous bedwetter we had over here, don’t expect Boris to drain our cesspit.
He is already on record to giving one million passports to a portion of our illegals.
He has already stated that Christian Europe should embrace Islam as the latter has as much to offer us as Christianity, and that Turkey is part of Europe and should be in the EU.
It is claimed one of his ancestors is Turkish and they are celebrating that.
But yes – anything is better than what we had, and IF he manages to get us out of the EU, then and only then will I doff my hat to him.
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You sound just like the Nevertrumpers who said Donald Trump was a “New York liberal.”
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Sammy Hains, well may be to you, but with all due respect, to you should research Boris’ past record on immigration and global warming before criticising my pointing it out.
All I am saying he is the least rotten apple in the barrel.
We deserve and are crying out for a leader of the calibre of President Trump who I am an outspoken admirer of.
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Boris is now in the catbird seat. Just as President Trump is shaking things up as President, the Brits had better buckle their seat belts, pop some corn, and grrab a cold one. The ride should be interesting and amusing.
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No such thing a as a ‘cold one’ on that side of the pond. Otherwise, good advice.
;o)
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Don’t they like their pints @ room temp?
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Cellar tempt. So like 50 degrees.
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H.R., I agree and warm beer doesn’t cut it for me, same in Ireland. YUCK!
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And they get right royally pissed if you ask for a glass of ice and then pour the warm beer over it I know from first hand experience.
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My recollection from our 2 trips to Ireland in 2011 is that my pints were always cold. And I don’t do warm beer so I would have noticed.
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Grandpa,
Of course they have cold beer there. I had no problems.
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You were no doubt drinking a lager. That’s what I drank when living there.
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Problem with American beer is that we have the standard-bearers (BudCoorsMiller) that suck and you have to drink them cold to hide the taste. Good beer doesn’t have to be 32 degrees. But the craft beers are expensive here.
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Well, a slightly cool one, right?
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Well, a slightly cool one, right?
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“the fist week”–a harbinger of things to come?
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Signature pun! 😉
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I learned a new word today.
Jugulate… at the 5:15 minute/second mark.
It means: to kill especially by cutting the throat
I think I am going to like listening to this…
Boris the Thesaurus.
Sure his first name isn’t Ben?
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Listen to Boris. He is a master at the English language, and as a youngster, studied Latin in his spare time as a hobby! I lived over there for a long time, and I always said he would be Prime Minister one day!
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As a Brit, I cannot say more strongly what a upgrade Boris is when compared to May.
However, we live in interesting times.
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Interesting times, indeed! Particularly since Boris’ recent revelation regarding familial lineage:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7158423/Boris-Johnsons-Muslim-great-grandfather-brutally-murdered-faced-treason-charges.html
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Revelation, I wish England well and that a lot of crimes are no longer permitted and dismissed from fear of the muslims overrunning your country. We are aware we need to get right of them here.
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Brilliant election….and well done you!
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BJ is already talking about a mass amnesty for illegals so while he is great in this video clip, he is still a globalist at heart. Good luck fighting his long-held pro-MASS immigration stances.
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No reason to be too happy about this outcome.
Swampy BoJo’s primary role is to undermine Raise of Farage.
There will not be Brexit in October of 2020, or 2021, or 2022…
About that time , the new referendum will be announced to “remedy new realities in divided nation”
About that time, there will plenty of Pakis, Nigerians and Polacks to defeat Core Englanders at ballot box.
Same scenario goes for this country.
Sundance knows that only too well, yet somehow he prefers to celebrate indiscriminately Trump’s administration while deliberately cultivating boiling frog mentality among his readership …
For every Guatemala’s Signature- smoke and mirror victory – there’s a treasonous, neocon act such as this:
“39 Republicans — including Dan Crenshaw,/b>, Anthony Gonzalez, and Peter King — voted with every House Democrat to give Temporary Protected Status to Venezuela’s population.”
Trump has one job:
“Do Not Invade The World – Do Not Invite The World!!!”
How difficult is that?
Demography is a destiny
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I read part of the Guatamala agreement is to allow thousands of H2 ag workers. If the past is an indication, they will never go home. It’s much too easy to slip off the farm and disappear into nearby Latino communities. Years ago it was harder to hide but that’s a far cry from today since we are in the advanced stages of demographic replacement. That’s why farmers need a fresh supply of new slaves every year to replace the runaways. Just because it’s legal doesn’t necessarily make it beneficial to the rest of us. Would very much prefer investing in more automation. A few years ago Australia and Europe were ahead of us on developing farm automation equipment because they did not have such a ready supply of slaves, but haven’t checked lately.
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I apologize for this being a bit off-topic but I absolutely love watching this part of Parliament. It has fascinated me since I was in HS. I wish we had an analog.
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Yep we get Congress Critters speechifying to an empty Chamber or posing during a Committee Hearing……just great to see two sides go at it within 12 feet of one another!
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wonder what the Brits watching thought of the Kavanaugh hearings?
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Hey, we once had a man in Congress, nearly beat another member to death, with a Cane, ON the floor of Congress!
No charges filed,….
The good old days!
I believe what caused offence; he calked him a “Damn Liar”.
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Professional Wrestling in the National Enquirer Arena?
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“A friend of mine” should square up with PDJT about any MI6 “interaction” with our FBI/DOJ/CIA and Steele.
Remember 1776 and 1812 and we bailed their butts out in WW1 and WW2. They owe us.
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All of Europe owes us for The Marshall Plan.
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Triple Bingo on that one!!!
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how about CHINA?? big proclamations recently commemorating the breakthroughs with the table tennis event….try BURMA ROAD forgetful commies!!
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Maybe so, but WW2 bankrupted most European governments. Emphasis on governments. It was the Marshall Plan or Western Europe was going to quickly fall to the bolsheviks. Instead they just slowly morphed into something resembling that.
There were still many very monied individuals in Europe who were able to protect their money in various ways and places. Many of the bureaucrats who run the EU now are descendants of those people, from what I can tell.
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I don’t understand just how their government works with all that yelling going on.
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Well, ours here doesn’t work- with or without yelling. All they seem to be “working” on is a scheme to impeach our President.
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Undeniable, nice riposte 🤺
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Our founders designed our government to be almost nonfunctional.
Hitler’s Nazi government was efficient and very unfriendly to civilians and soldiers. Efficient government leads to big brother tyranny.
The House can do anything their hearts desire trying to impeach President Trump. Without a Senate to convict and a SCOTUS to uphold the impeachment and conviction, it is impossible to impeach President Trump.
Every effort by democrats in the House and their co-conspirators in the Senate has been to harass and stymie President Trump and to blame Trump for the failures of Government.
Setting up for a democrat sweep in 2020; with a minimal chance for Peloser to assume the Presidency if she could take out Pence too.
Except, the democrats have muffed every opportunity at every turn while President Trump succeeded spectacularly in spite of democrat shenanigans.
Worse, the democrats have reduced their election chances to nil even with their massive voter fraud.
Trump, however is now being described as teflon Trump.
Peloser, Schifface and Nadsgoneler have been using up all House time. Which has hidden their budget bills from close read and understanding.
I suspect Peloser is going to try and ram these bills down Congressmen and Senate throats at the last minute. Another attempt to hold the United States hostage so they get their massive portions of pork.
Let’s hope neither the Senate nor President Trump fall for this falsehood.
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“Our founders designed our government to be almost nonfunctional.”
Agreed. Initially, the less they accomplished, the better off we were likely to be. The status quo has become so bad that our government isn’t non-functional. It’s dis-functional. And I mean that in the most pejorative way possible. The only solution I see remotely likely to alleviate this disaster we call the Swamp is to vote out the incumbent. There are almighty few who deserve another term.
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Well, if you watch the Poldark episodes on PBS – the ones where he’s in Parliament – the only thing that’s changed is the fashion and the fact that women are now MPs.
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Oh, how I LOVE the Poldark series — can’t wait for the next season!!! The Parliament scenes were some of my favorites.
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A shirtless Poldark wielding a scythe should be on TV every Sunday evening….NO…no, I mean the Parliament scenes….that’s the ticket! 😀
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Hubba, hubba Ad Rem. Referring to Parliment scenes, of course. 😎
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Oh yeah….of course…..
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I don’t know what’s funnier – your comment, or the fact that Stew like it, LOL!
As for me, I’ll take one Endevour (mustachioed or sans mustache) in a proper suit. Wouldn’t be unhappy, though, if he found himself in a scene where he had to rush from the bathtub to answer the phone. 😉
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LOLOLOLOL!!!
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Arguably a lot better than yours.
Now I am a massive supporter of PDJT.
The U.K. has many, many issues. However their parliamentary system is open to non confidence motions, and electric debates.
Imagine a similar setting in Washington with PDJT on one side, and any of the Dems on the other side. Seriously folks it would be the #1 watched T.V. show if it were aired in Prime time.
God bless PDJT
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Jeez that would SO GREAT to watch.
Imagine Pelosi et al standing up spouting their BS and POTUS just absolutely obliterating them time after time after time.
Downside would be the cops would arrest him after awhile for persistent cruelty to dumb and corrupt politicians.
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It produces orators who are able to stick to their guns in the face of “adversity.” The lying scum in our Congress would wilt under it. Anytime a Brit pol, any Brit pol, addresses the US Congress, he’s always a big hit because he is molded by this process .See if you can dig up video of the testimony before Congress of the criminal swine George Galloway for an example of what I’m talking about. Able to put down all allegations against him purely by the sheer force of his delivery to feckless American figureheads who are unaccustomed to being addressed in such a manner.
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I found the video you speak of here, and yes he did literally wipe the floor with our “congressional children”. It is a pleasure to watch
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He brought a “dossier” with him. If only he knew at the time what a “dossier” would mean in The Swamp.
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Thank you! Top young to have seen, this. A very prescient and ominous example of fake intell & skewed media.
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The Dems could have used a guy like this instead of Mueller. Still surprised they didn’t get pit bull Stormtrooper Herr Weissman.
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Their kabuki is better than our kabuki.
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Well stated!!
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They’re handier with edged weapon up close and personal. Twitter, not so much.
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It’s actually not all that difficult to understand. You start with having a Sergeant-at-Arms that will grab you, rough you up, and eject you from the proceedings (and remember the Canadian Sergeant-at-Arms that killed the terrorist [“Just moments after he gunned down Canadian Parliament shooter Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, heroic sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers was seen calmly walking through the halls, gun in hand.”]).
Then, you turn to the Speaker of the House. When he says, “order, order”, he’s telling the Sergeant-at-Arms to be ready. That’s why he doesn’t have to raise his voice.
This allows for the imposition of weird arbitrary rules (like you have to talk to the speaker and refer to anyone else in the chamber as “the right honorable gentleman”) but pretty much allows everyone to act like they’re schoolkids on holiday otherwise.
The other characteristic that is difficult to appreciate is how small the room is. It’s pretty much the size of a large classroom.
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The proceedings in the HoC are just pantomime. Johnson is just a puppet. We have a uniparty in the UK and the presence of the Islamic hand behind all actions undertaken by the Establishment is unmistakable. No one should be kidded in to thinking anything substantial has changed just because Johnson was elected PM. Trump should never trust him.
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Er, this is a bit ranty and paranoid.
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He doesn’t. Trump is “good friends” with Macron as well, as we know. He doesn’t trust him either, he’s just smart enough to know he should keep good relations with everybody, as good as he can at least, while pressing hard for what he wants. It’s classic Trump, and it’s a good model for the rest of us, in fact. You can be tough and courteous both.
BlowJoe is a well-spoken toff, and fully aligned with the Establishment over there, no different than Macron. But don’t be misled that the toffs sent him over to comingle with the unwashed Faragistas. BlowJoe ain’t Nigel Farage and never could be, or anything close. He’s Macron or even worse. Every single Lib/Lab/Con member of Parliament is hand-picked by the London Establishment, and Lib/Lab/Con are basically clones. They have no primary process to speak of, not that we’re much better with our bought-off primary process, splitter strategies and all the rest.
Trump will play this guy like a fiddle. But hey, I hope BlowJoe does do something good for the UK. He can’t be any worse than Blair, Call Me Dave and Mistress May.
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It’s always appropriate to be cynical about politics and politicians. As Dorothy Parker once said, “It’s hard to be cynical enough, but I try to keep up.”
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watching Boris address Parliament was refreshing…remember the media cheering Theresa may when she tried to thwart the President? yeah, that went down the media memory hole, never to be talked about again…
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“Brits had better buckle their seat belts” …..
HERE TOO… have a feeling things are about
to bust wide open/WE’RE OVERDUE FOR ARRESTS.
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To be honest. I’m enjoying how the socialists / democrats are becoming so cannibalistic. While some arrests would be welcomed by many, our entertainment will just not be the same.
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He looks so much better without the Shetland Pony hairstyle.
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Boris Johnson on Donald Trump
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That’s from 2015. Trump has won over many people since becoming President.
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Thanks for jogging my memory. I knew there was a reason why I was nonplussed about this guy.
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Me too. I’m not anticipating any significant pro-Trump or pro-Brexit move by BJ. He’s certainly full of passion but he’s also full of contradictions so, good luck U.K. IMHO the Brits have already sealed their fate by allowing the muzzies to invade unabated and take over too much of their country. And the level of Leftwing political correctness in that country is sickening.
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See my point above about the hand of Islam behind everything the UK Establishment says and does. No one should be fooled by Johnson.
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Parliamentary politics boggles my mind. I have no idea what it was I just watched there, but it is certainly entertaining.
And if BOJO is anything more than entertaining, he will free TORO.
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You asked:
A SHORT GUIDE TO THE
BRITISH POLITICAL SYSTEM
http://www.rogerdarlington.me.uk/Britishpoliticalsystem.html
😁
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Wow, thanks A2, this a Great Reddi-Reference!!
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“WHEN DOM MET DON Dominic Raab will fly to Washington to step up negotiations with Trump over US trade deal and says ‘Brussels isn’t the only game in town’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/uncategorized/9598413/dominic-raab-washington-trade-deal/
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They should have done that a couple of years ago. It appears the clog in the pipe has been opened up.
I feel bad for the British citizens. Imagine if we had voted for something so massive in 2016 and it still hadn’t been accomplished 3 years later?
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Elections matter, said someone.
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But we did, the “draining of the swamp”… [crickets]
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The wall
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You mean like stopping the illegal alien invasion and throwing out the millions of illegals already here?
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With the UK possibly looking for an economic lifeline in the event of a hard Brexit, there is a good chance we could get a trade deal that is very, very favorable to the USA and would throw the UK wide open to US companies.
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Trump is pretty good at negotiating trade deals that are very good for the people on both sides. Too bad China and the EU don’t see this.
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that aged well
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If confused about who is who, here is a handy chart of
“New Cabinet of true beLEAVErs: From Dominic Raab to Andrea Leadsom, inside Boris Johnson’s key team
The new Prime Minister rung the changes on his first days in office
Mr Johnson drafted in a dream team of Brexiteers and got rid of many Remainers
But who are the key players in the new Cabinet?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7293293/New-Cabinet-true-beLEAVErs-Dominic-Raab-Andrea-Leadsom-inside-Boris-Johnsons-key-team.html
Big broom sweeping out the remoaners.
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Good grief. Still 56% remainers.
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Have to keep the party together in order to beat Labour. It’s who is in charge that matters and that is the key positions filled by hard brexiteers.
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Kudos, A2, for being able to have knowledge of and keep up with the politics of three countries: China, UK, USA.
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The first time I ever watched Prime Minister’s Question Time was 2-3 decades ago. My favorite part was when the members on one side made commentary by bleating like sheep.
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Steve Pieczenik is not a fan of Boris https://youtu.be/cuXwyO7XmNU
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Steve Pieczenik claims he is close to and praises Kissinger and my brief subscription to his channel ended right before the ’16 election when he described the Hillary Clinton takeover of America and that she was going to win the election and for us to be peaceful and let it happen.
We’ll see what happens with Johnson but I wouldn’t trust a thing Pieczenik says. Sounds like Johnson is putting the right people in place at least.
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Not saying he’s correct, but it’s a perspective, a data point…
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Is that because he called Trump “unfit for office”?
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The lady who helps Dr. P with the camera frequently wears both Trump and MAGA caps — just sayin’…
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Dr. P is a disinfo spook. Glean nuggets of truth from him with extreme prejudice and caution, much the same way a soviet era dissident would listen to Pravda during the cold war.
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You might be correct about this…
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Just like Pelosi, the filthy corrupt speaker of the house in the UK, is equally as bad. He could be considered the UKs Paul Ryan! It has always interested me how relationships develop among those with opposite political views.
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In our case, it is because the differing political opinions are mostly just for optics, but where they are really kindred spirits is in the massive theft, bribery, racketeering and all other forms of corruption. It is probably the same over there as well.
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Now…can he do something about the Jihad Mayor of London; and the expensive tourist attraction at Buckingham Palace?
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I’m sorry, but I see this as one Socialist attempting to out-Socialist another. Outside of Islamic extremists, are there throngs of people trying to get into the UK?
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PDJT got a tad bit more than zilch from our own conservative and republican establishment upon entering the fray. Expect far less from the Shackled Kingdom. They “come around ” b/c they must like many others… THAT’S real power in play, join PDJT or risk exposure and/or irrelevance.
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The UK Parliament is highly entertaining, and that is their problem.
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Boris is better but he’s no Trump. There’s a lot of deeply seated issues in the UK and the EU that are much bigger than I fear Boris is truly capable of breaking apart. He’s very much a part of the system. I could be wrong, but I still don’t fully trust him.
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Good Lord, I thought I was watching an act of some English comedy staged for ?
Is that really the way they govern in England? Wow.
I don’t know what to think about it.
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The video above is not typical behaviour, except for PM’s Question Time and the odd controversial debate. I have often switched to the Parliament channel outside of peak hours to witness a stultifying debate between a total of a dozen or so MP’s.
The exceptions are obviously more entertaining, and occasionally more informative, but overall it seems to work.
Just as a sidenote, did you know that the physical distance between the opposing sides was set originally to two sword lengths! No prizes for reasons why.
Oh, there was a comment by Cthulhu at 11.57pm about the size of the chamber likening it to a classroom. I don’t know what sort of classroom was meant but there are around 630 MP’s who manage to be accommodated with many standing – it can get very crowded.
SteveT
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That was an amazing display of passion, determination, and patriotism. His comments about Brexit, friendship with the USA, and capitalism being the engine that drives the quality of life in the UK were equally fiery and inspiring.
May and Corbyn aren’t worthy of finding comfort in the shade cast by the new PM’s shadow. Bravo, BJ!
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To paraphrase PDJT, Let’s Rock! Let’s get this party of victory and progress with Great Britain started! The joint victory party is in full swing! Party on!
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Glad to see Rees-Mogg sitting next to Boris. My jury is out on Boris. I don’t mind his personality but fear he is inconsistent.
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He’s been part of the system for a while. I don’t trust him either. We need to endorse and accept that outsiders are maybe the only true galvanizing force that is needed right now for change. Hence why Obama was such a wicked force; an outsider who proved be sculpted by the very system itself. We need real outsiders, like Trumps. Are they possible to find? Seems unclear. Don’t trust Boris….yet.
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I have such a crush on Rees-Mogg! He is brilliant!
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I really like Rees-Mogg. I was hoping he’d be PM, but a British friend said it would never happen.
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We keep hearing from high-powered Wall Street types, citing senior academic economists, that Britain’s sloughing off Brussels’ dirigiste strait-jacket will spark “a downside reaction like no-one’s ever seen” (recall the NYT’s Paul Krugman on November 9th 2016.) Beansprouts– as Austrian and Chicago Schools (Hayek and von Mises, Milton Friedman) have drummed home for decades, there is no Central Planning, admin/regulatory substitute for innovative, profit-making, free-market, entrepreneurial risk/reward.
Among other things, PM Boris Johnson (an Oxford classicist) is serious in the Trump Mode– a can-do figure focused on essentials, expressing healthy disrespect for larded derrières stacking Fourth Branch cubbyholes like spoilt veggies in Big Gummint’s sprawling produce bin. Boris aside, the buzz delights in inside-baseball’s Michael Gove plus a-political “mad genius” Dominic Cummings aka “Ivar Blodaxe”, the Grauniad’s (qv) “Master of Dark Arts”, in youth a bouncer and Director of “the worst night-club in Britain” (Klute’s “alcopop sweatbox” in Durham, a compliment for those who know).
Working with Gove as Chair of Britain’s “Vote Leave” movement (played by Benedict Cumberbatch in HBO’s “Brexit” series), Cummings tends to “disappear” for 2 – 3 years at a time, surfacing in worn blouses and dungarees at Johnson’s initial Cabinet Meetings. To Brussels oligarchs, festering U.K. clerisy, we say: “Yon Cummings has a lean and hungry look. Such men are dangerous.”
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Gove is as Establishment as it gets over there. He’s the honeypot into which wayward subjects are lured for a rebellious interlude, before a reaffirmed submission to their betters. I fear BlowJoe is such as well.
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Go for it Boris, but can you please, please learn how to use a hair brush or a comb!
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Now that is a Speaker of the House!!!
“Calm yourself! It would be very therapeutic for you to do so!”
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I don’t know how to embed an image in my post, so Treepers might like this:
(H/T Powerline)
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2019/07/Screen-Shot-2019-07-26-at-7.36.31-AM.png?resize=600%2C443&ssl=1
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That was like a comedy skit. lmao The speaker is hilarious and Corbyn has NOTHING.
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Perhaps they will stop be so considerate and acknowledge the muslim plague. If so, I’m with you: I’ll visit England again.
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Has the CIA/FBI formally approved of this transition of power?
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Sundance, I usually prefer watching video you provide, rather than reading a translation, but… with this one, I think a
translation would honestly be much more helpful!
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MEGA !
Make England Great Again !
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I could listen to Boris speak all day long!
When I lived in Britain, he had a lot of criticism but he did a good job as Mayor of London. Certainly better than Sadique.
He actually is a very smart guy, and he’s a big fan of Churchill. He actually wrote about Churchill and it’s a very good book.
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JTR, thanks a million, just great fun!
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I listened to this tape very briefly.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9579851/boris-johnsons-cabinet-first-meeting-new-prime-minister/
He promises to get out of Brexit. YES! Very good.
He wants to “unleash the productive power of the whole UK.” (1:00 – 1:06). YES! Very good.
And he’ll do this in conjunction with “restricting CO2 emissions to zero by 2050.” (1:28 – 1:42). HUH???!!!
Poor delusional Boris. He talks about improving transportation infrastructure (rail and road), but without a thought about what will run on them without producing CO2.
Oh well, maybe if he gets them out of the EU, the next PM can pick up the ball and run with it.
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