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The General Election.

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  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,844
    lucy4 said:

    Anti-Brexit campaigner registers cat to replace the Brexit Party in election in order to secure votes from Conservative candidate in marginal seat.Below are the 2017 results.



    https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/brexit/general-election-2019-nigel-farage-voters-thurrock-essex-brexit-924993


  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,844
    HAYSIE said:

    lucy4 said:

    Anti-Brexit campaigner registers cat to replace the Brexit Party in election in order to secure votes from Conservative candidate in marginal seat.Below are the 2017 results.



    https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/brexit/general-election-2019-nigel-farage-voters-thurrock-essex-brexit-924993




    General election: Man who stood as Lord Buckethead changes name - and takes on Boris Johnson
    Count Binface has vowed to bring back Ceefax if he beats Boris Johnson in Uxbridge and South Ruislip after changing his name due to a copyright issue



  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,844
    edited November 2019

    Party support: 12 November 2019
    Party
    Average (%)
    Likely range
    CON
    38
    (34-42)
    LAB
    28
    (24-32)
    LD
    16
    (12-20)
    BRX
    9
    (5-13)
    SNP
    4
    --*
    GRN
    3
    (0-7)
    PC
    1
    --*
    UKIP
    0
    (0-4)
    TIGfC
    0
    (0-4)
  • chillingchilling Member Posts: 3,774
    The cat is technically a sponger.
    Doesn’t work, unless it’s good at catching vermin.
    Needs to be fed and watered for free.
    Could be high maintenance, vet fees, anti flea treatments, for free.
    Anti social , poos in next doors garden.
    May have a tendency to go Schizo and wreck the furniture.
    All in all, sounds like it is as a desirable candidate as all the others.
    Although don’t use the slogan “ vote Moggy”, it may be misconstrued.
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,844
    edited November 2019
    Boris Johnson news – live: PM makes string of false election claims in BBC interview, as he shuts down questions about his children




    Boris Johnson has made a series of claims about immigration and knife crime picked apart by fact checkers, and said there was “no evidence” of Russian interference in the UK. He also shut down questions about his family in testy BBC interviews.
    It comes as Labour promises to nationalise part of BT and deliver free broadband for all the country if elected, with Jeremy Corbyn set to reveal more as he campaigns in the north-west today.
    Nigel Farage, meanwhile, has claimed that the Tories offered jobs and peerages to his Brexit Party candidates in a bid to get them to drop out of marginal seats. Mr Farage said he expected “police investigations into what has gone on here”.




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    Boris’s most surprising fail in an extensive BBC broadcast round this morning: thinking the proportion of EU and non-EU net immigration is 50/50. It’s not, and hasn’t been for some years. Actually 20/80 (EU 59,000, non-EU 219,000).






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    PM’s claims on knife crime, immigration and indyref2 rejected as false

    Some of the claims made by Boris Johnson in his BBC interviews have already been picked apart.

    The PM said the proportion of EU and non-EU net immigration is 50-50. But actually, ONS figures show that EU citizens have only made up around 20 per cent of the total proportion.

    He claimed that as London mayor he took 11,000 knives “off the street” through the stop and search policy. But as Labour party have pointed out, only 4,500 knives were recovered through stop and search.

    He also said the murder rate fell below 100 for “several years” while he was at City Hall – a claim he’s made before that’s already proved to be incorrect.

    The PM says Jeremy Corbyn would have a Scottish referendum “next year”, but Corbyn says he would “not countenance an independence referendum in the early years of a Labour government”.

    He also tried to avoid responsibility for the failed “Garden Bridge” project – launched under his watch at City Hall.


    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-news-live-general-election-brexit-party-labour-polls-candidates-a9203921.html
  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,935
    The cat candidate has mysteriously withdrawn from running in the election.A Conservative spokesman has denied rumours that offers of free whiskas for life and a new blanket were made to the cat.

  • chillingchilling Member Posts: 3,774
    There’s strict criteria that needs to be met.
    The cat is quite clearly under 18years of age.
  • chillingchilling Member Posts: 3,774
    British Broadband?
    Don’t forget Northern Ireland, you’ll know what will happen.
  • goldongoldon Member Posts: 9,056
    The Cat was last seen up a tree meowing......... Boris denied he was barking. !
  • tai-gartai-gar Member Posts: 2,688
    lucy4 said:

    The cat candidate has mysteriously withdrawn from running in the election.A Conservative spokesman has denied rumours that offers of free whiskas for life and a new blanket were made to the cat.

    lucy4 said:

    The cat candidate has mysteriously withdrawn from running in the election.A Conservative spokesman has denied rumours that offers of free whiskas for life and a new blanket were made to the cat.

    Heard he was to be made a “Pur of the Realm” if he agreed to withdraw
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,844
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,844
    General election: Police assessing fraud claim after Brexit Party 'offered peerages to quit'

    Scotland Yard is looking at two claims of electoral fraud and malpractice after Nigel Farage accused senior Tories of 'Venezuelan-style' tactics





    Police are assessing two claims of electoral fraud and malpractice after Nigel Farage made shock claims that his candidates were offered peerages to quit.
    The Brexit Party leader lashed out this week as his outfit failed to contest more than 50 non-Tory seats it had claimed it would fight in the general election.

    In a bombshell attack on Thursday night, Mr Farage said people who work "deep inside" No10 suggested eight Brexit Party figures could go into the House of Lords - "and all they had to do is come to Nigel and convince him to stand down in a whole load more marginal seats"

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/general-election-police-assessing-fraud-20893463
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,844
    Boris Johnson friend Jennifer Arcuri hauled in by officials over grant cash
    The PM's pole-dancing pal was spotted walking past the gates of Downing Street on her way to a meeting about the £100,000 of government cash her firm was set to be
    handed




    She was on her way to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport where officials were to give her a grilling on the £100,000 grant promised to her firm Hacker House.
    A review last month decided the grant had been "appropriate" despite the firm being based in California.
    Mr Johnson remains under pressure over claims he had a sexual relationship with Ms Arcuri while he was Mayor of London.
    He has denied improperly arranging favours for his 'tech advisor', but repeatedly dodged questions over whether they had an affair.

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-friend-jennifer-arcuri-20890935
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,623
  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,935


    Do they even do the basic maths of such a claim?
    60m trees a year works out to be...
    5m trees planted a month.
    1.153,846m trees planted each week.
    164,383 trees planted each and every day,7 days a week.

    A more feasible way of reducing climate change would be if politicians stopped spouting so much bull every time they opened their mouths.
  • chillingchilling Member Posts: 3,774
    edited November 2019
    Are there sites/locations for these 60m trees?
    Which trees are the best to plant for soaking up C02.
    Who’s doing the planting? Free of charge presumably.
    Are they donated free?
    More detail needed Jo.
    60m? That’s about one each.
    I let an acorn grow about 15+ years ago. Done my bit.
    There’s always a tree that pushes its luck though.


  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,844
    Tikay10 said:


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    I didn't think she did short speeches.
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