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.
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.
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
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?
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?
He's moderate to the extent that he has no ideology or morals and will do or say absolutely anything to get in power or stay there. The man is an imbecile and a pathological liar. He'll happily watch his country burn if it serves his personal interests. He's pissed off his own family members, who, unlike Boris, actually have a solid reputation. He is corrupt, uninterested in following the law, and is generally an awful human being. If you think that represents the Conservative Party, that says more about the Conservative Parry that it does about Johnson's moderation.
Hope is the denial of reality
He's none of that, but you hate him because he's winning and not on your side.
He is bursting with energy and utterly focused. Just look at the discipline of his leadership campaign. It looks like he might manage to pull off a GE win (after 9 years of austere Tory Govt) that would objectively be a hell of an achievement. If he delivers Brexit then he will be the most consequential PM since Thatcher. If you add to that two times winner of the London mayoralty, the man who won the Brexit referendum, then you have the most successful electoral track record since Blair (at least).
That's not a bad record so far - even if he does blow up at some point in the future. (But don't count on it.)
Using the Trumpian strategy of deflecting through ad hominem? Every thing I said is demonstrably true. FYI (and this is undoubtedly supported by my posts here), my views align fairly well with the pre-2016 Conservative Party. I didn't become any more left wing. Your Conservative Party decided to abandon pragmatic liberal conservatism in favor of a corrupt nationalism. Any party that would debase itself by appointing Boris Johnson as its leader (by a huge margin no less) is a not party that deserves anyone's respect. Ditto for Labour and Corbyn, but Corbyn has no shot at getting a majority.
Hope is the denial of reality