It's on.
So Friday 13th we will know who is to be our PM going forwards: Johnson or Corbyn.
I'm 100% definitely backing the Conservatives. Corbyn is an actual Marxist and a real danger to the country unlike Brexit.
Two of the worst possibly people to lead our country await.
On one hand we have a serial liar. A man with no principles or credibility; who bounces between positions on a monthly basis and will do or say anything to advance is career. The lowest bar held by any PM I can think of. A man who I believe most definitely does not believe that Brexit is a good idea. A man I'm convinced would cripple the economy by over spending just so he could say he actually achieved something (for the first time...)
On the other a man who lacks behind even Boris Johnson in basic leadership skills. A man who can't even bring himself to tell us what his position is on Brexit and who have been flip-flopping for so long on the issue I literally don't care what they decide to do now.
What a treat.
I could never vote for a Tory party led by Johnson. Even so, it'll be a long time until I consider voting Tory again.
I won't be voting for Corbyn.
Jo Swinson is not PM material; but given that I'm still yet to be persuaded that the benefit of Brexit outweighs the cost (and I don't give a monkey about the intangibles of Brexit like "identity" or "sovereignty"), I'll be voting Lib Dems. I want a strong remain presence in parliament to ensure that we leave the EU in a manner I find acceptable, and keeps the UK in tact.
At least that's my position on Brexit. Manifestos may change things.
Jo Swinson is not PM material compared to Johnson but she could be with more experience. She has miles more potential to be PM material than the antisemite in chief.
I hope to gosh that anyone on the right votes Tory and anyone of the left votes Lib Dems. I don't like her but Swinson is decent in a way Corbyn just is not. The LDs are decent in the way Labour is not. I'd love to see the LDs displace Corbyn's Labour on the left, the Tories can't be in power forever and when we lose, as we will, I'd rather lose to the LDs than Labour. The Tories and LDs are opposite sides of the left/right and Brexit/Remain divide but both are decent parties. BXP and Corbyn's Labour are not.
PS if you think that Boris really doesn't believe in Brexit then ideal situation should be a large Tory majority. If the Tories have a tiny majority, or worse a minority, then Boris will be in hock to the ERG in the same way May was torn asunder by them. If Boris wins a healthy majority he can deliver the form of Brexit he wants rather than what the extremists want, which will be an FTA Brexit I'm sure as Boris is not a No Dealer. The smaller the majority the more the risk of an accidental No Deal.
I don't want Labour to be trashed. Corbyn will resign after the next election so I'm confident a more sensible Labour will return soon.
I'd rather the Tories suffer heavy defeats. It'll make them re-evaluate their approach and realise that the public no longer support Brexit. That's my hope at least.
A Labour Party that wins a plurality but not a majority of the seats might have no choice but to dump Corbyn as a precondition for a coalition. Not that Labour under Corbyn is going to do that well.
Hope is the denial of reality
Then I'd rather a Corbyn PM and an annihilated Tory party.
I dislike Corbyn, but I despise Johnson, Raab, Davies, JRM, Redwood, Gove, Cummings and the ERG. I despise their arrogance and incompetence. I despise their ridiculous slogans (aka lies) and I despise their hypocrisy.
And remember, I still consider the 2016 to be illegitimate. Vote Leave, led by our PM, broke the law and as far as I'm concerned it's scandal that we even triggered Article 50. Our PM, Gove and anyone associated with Vote Leave broke a major pledge by voting to trigger Article 50 without having a trade agreement in place first, and I will never forgive them for that.
You may be able to accept and look past law breaking, lies and incompetence on that scale; but I won't. Fuck them. They all deserve to be deselected and cast into irrelevance.
Maybe I will vote Corbyn after all.
That we can agree on.
Edit: Although don't imply that I'm mad/crazy. I'm not. I'm angry and I want justice, and it's entirely justified.
Voting Labour for the first time since the 90s. Fuck the Tories.
When the sky above us fell
We descended into hell
Into kingdom come
I'd recommend voting for whoever has the highest chance of beating the Tories in your specific constituency. The Tories are on pace for a majority on 35% of the vote.
Hope is the denial of reality
And? I'm not blaming the Tories.
Hope is the denial of reality
Does it surprise you that people like myself, who have voted Tory all their life, despise Johnson and the current Tory party?
Maybe "surprise" isn't right. Can you recognise why he's so disliked?
"Get Brexit done" is a possibly the worst of all of the pathetic slogans peddled by our criminal Vote Leave government.
It must surely only appeal to children and those with learning difficulties.
But perhaps I'm being unfair to children.
On another note I've spoken with 2 people recently who say they'll be voting Brexit Party. I asked them if they were comfortable voting for a party with an unelected leader and no manifesto. They were.
Can anyone explain that?
Well, RandBlade and his ilk have been firing up the craziness for over two years with talk about the merits of leaving with no deal or as some call it WTO terms that any deal sounds like abject surrender.
I don't think they understood a good portion of the electorate would internalize that. But it's basically a case of making your bed and having to sleep in it.
The upcoming election may bring some clarity, but it would not surprise me if you wind up with an even bigger mess in Westminster.
One thing I do expect is the DUP losing seats.
Congratulations America
We don't know if the majority of the country are Brexiteers. Only 17m are. Sorry, were. Many of those will be dead now.
Plus the recent poll of polls since the referendum show a clear sign of regret in voting to leave and majority for remain.
Does the lying account for nothing to you?
No! The General Election is not a protest ballot.
The European Parliament I voted to make our MEPs redundant - not to elect a government. Thus it didn't matter who the MEP was, because they would have no power and be made unemployed shortly. The General Election is not the same thing, I would never have done that in a General Election.
You did something stupid that does have some consequences. The most obvious consequence of the stupid thing you did was that you helped waste money—some of which is yours—on 29 useless or downright harmful MEPs. As a protest vote, your vote has had no positive effect on your position in the Brexit negotiations or Brexit process; had you voted for productive and competent MEPs, you would've increased the likelihood of at least someone getting value for money for the duration of their tenure, however short or long that may prove to be.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."