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It seems not everyone thinks Corbyn's plans are that bad, including a lot of the real experts in @Chris_the_Brit 's chosen field.

'Labour deserve to form the next government' say 163 economists in letter

Labour have secured the backing of 163 economists in letter ahead of the General Election .

The signatories agreed that Jeremy Corbyn's party deserve to form the next government, not Boris Johnson.

In the letter, they argue the UK economy needs reform, prioritising long-term innovation and investment over short-term returns.

The economists' letter backs Labour's plan to return corporation tax to where it was before the Tories took power.

And it says public services are "under intolerable strain" - warning a hard Brexit will only make matters worse.

The letter says: "It seems clear to us that the Labour Party has not only understood the deep problems we face, but has devised serious proposals for dealing with them.

"We believe it deserves to form the next government."
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/labour-deserve-form-next-government-20965893

The full text of their letter and list of signatories.
https://bit.ly/2pSjTjC
 
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Brexit Party MEPs have some of the worst attendance records in European Parliament - Scram News

All talk and no show.
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Brexit Party MEPs have some of the worst attendance records in the European Parliament, Scram News can reveal.

According to analysis by MEP Ranking, several MEPs from the Brexit Party have some of the worst records for both plenary attendance and roll-call voting in the whole Parliament, while they also rank poorly against other UK MEPs.

Out of 751 MEPs, Ann Widdecombe, who is the third highest earning MEP, has the 737th worst plenary attendance record, deigning to attend on just 59% of occasions. The European Parliament’s plenary sessions are where MEPs formally sit to vote on EU legislation and adopt its position on political issues.

Meanwhile, Brexit Party MEP Lance Forman is ranked at 726th on the list, which means he has the 71st worst plenary attendance record out of all 73 UK MEPs.
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Brexit Party MEPs abstain on vote to combat child abuse - Scram News

Another telling abstention from the Brexit Party.
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The Brexit Party has abstained on a vote calling for international action against child abuse, Scram News can reveal.

According to documents provided by a European Parliament source, all of the Brexit Party MEPs who attended Parliament today abstained on the motion, which marked the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of Child and called for actions to guarantee children’s rights.
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Keeping the tradition of awfulness alive.
 
https://twitter.com/x/status/1199415154011725824

https://twitter.com/x/status/1199432664144601090

Jeremy Corbyn just gave the worst political performance of modern times

That must surely rank as one of the worst political performances of modern times. Jeremy Corbyn in his grilling by Andrew Neil came across as listless, disengaged, impersonal, irritable, unprincipled and outright bored. Especially when asked about Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis and the fact that 80 per cent of Britain’s Jews think he is anti-Semitic. He looked bored. And of course he started banging on about Islamophobia. He couldn’t believe someone was asking him about those pesky Jews when all he wants to talk about is lovely Muslims.

It was terrible from beginning to end. Corbyn fluffed every single issue. Four times he was given an opportunity to apologise to Jews and he refused. He was asked if saying that ‘Rothschild Zionists control world affairs’ is anti-Semitic and he couldn’t bring himself to say it was. For crying out loud. It was unacceptable, he said. Eventually, when pressed, he said it was an anti-Semitic trope. So why hasn’t the Labour member who uttered those very words been suspended, Neil asked? Oof. And again from Corbyn, just boredom. Irritation. He looked like a man being bothered by flies rather than a man being asked why a significant majority of Jews think he’s a racist.

On the WASPI women and their pensions, a policy adopted by Labour only when Boris was asked an awkward question about it on the Beeb the other night, Corbyn couldn’t say how he would fund those pensions. ‘They have to be paid for’, he kept saying. Okay – but how? No idea. From Britain’s reserves, he suggested. Where in our reserves will you find £60 billion, asked Neil? Don’t know, said Corbyn, bored again. Then came Brexit. Would he campaign in a second referendum? No, he said. He’d do nothing. He’d just run the government. Following his performance tonight, I’d say the fat chance of him running the government just got that bit fatter.

He wouldn’t even say whether he would kill an ISIS leader. Neil gave him the scenario. The military has its eyes on an ISIS leader, that ISIS leader is plotting terrorist attacks in the UK, and you are given the option as PM to kill him – yes or no? Corbyn’s response was as predictable as it was yellow-bellied. Can’t we arrest him, he said? Of course, Jeremy – maybe we should send the Old Bill over to Syria to put him in handcuffs? The idiocy of it. Corbyn is so lacking in principle, in basic decisiveness, that he won’t even commit to killing the leader of the closest thing to religious fascism that exists in the world right now. So much for his anti-fascism.

It was an astonishing sight. And it wasn’t entirely down to Neil’s famous grilling techniques. Neil is great, of course, but much of this disaster was of Corbyn’s own making. He can’t answer basic economic questions, he won’t take a stand on the biggest issue of the day (Brexit), and he won’t even drop a bomb on a mass-murdering, woman-enslaving, child-killing religious lunatic. Most strikingly of all, Corbyn looked like he just didn’t want to be there. Which is one thing he has in common with the rest of the country: we don’t want him to be there, either. When you treat a Q&A over how you would run the country in such a switched-off, cretinous fashion, it really is time to call it a day. Save Labour; hell, save Jeremy himself – put this sad man out to pasture.
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Can't wait to get home and watch the interview!
 
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The Voice said:
Hmmm.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1199411621400993792

RIP Labour.
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Unfortunately, Corbyn attracts a large cult around him so none of this will really matter, except perhaps for floating voters. And remember we haven't seen Boris yet...I expect Neil to give him a hard time as well. He really is the best in the business. Much prefer this format compared to the shows when so-called "members of the public" (many who actually turn out to be activists for a specific political party) ask dumb questions.

I'm encouraged by the fact that no Jews interviewed by the Telegraph are voting Labour in London seats which are marginal for the Conservatives, Finchley & Golders Green (majority: 1650) and Hendon (majority just over 1000).

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Dave said:
It seems not everyone thinks Corbyn's plans are that bad, including a lot of the real experts in @Chris_the_Brit 's chosen field.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/labour-deserve-form-next-government-20965893

The full text of their letter and list of signatories.
https://bit.ly/2pSjTjC
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The wealthy elite, the people the Tories exist to protect, the people who have reaped rich rewards from increased productivity while leaving everyone else with stagnant income, will not stand for any form of economic reform.
 
Dave said:
Maybe one day you'll be able to truthfully call yourself a Brit, but for now can't you vote in Australian elections?
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Haven't looked into yet.

Anyway, this is awkward.

Plymouth Labour Youth Officer Boasts About Breaking the Law

The BAME Officer for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport Labour Party, Baz Ahmed, has boasted on Twitter of ‘receiving’ postal votes from local voters. He has even tweeted pictures of unsealed ballots voting for the Labour Party. Electoral Commission rules are clear that handling someone else’s ballot paper is in breach of the code.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1199449591327985664
 
 
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