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4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - David Gauke: We won't ... · 1 reply · +1 points

Typical Remainer, Gauke presumes the electorate is thick. Pesky and inconvenient thing this democracy business eh?
Personally I don’t think Boris has anything to fear. Come up with whatever legal ruse, a couple of options have been kindly suggested by the likes of Major and Grieve, and we’ll get the sight of Gina Millar et al scuttling back off to the Supreme Court. Perhaps if they win we’ll have the delightful sight of full on Remainer hubris once again displayed on our TV screens. And then the election oops. Or alternatively a Remainer Alliance with 100% Remain Supporting ministers likely sustained by the same percentage of Remain supporting MPs will sign the surrender document. And then? Oh yes a pesky election.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: "I strongly dis... · 1 reply · +1 points

I don’t think this has done any harm. A who’s who of hubristic gloating Remainers, victory photos and all. And in the background an election being set up as the people vs politicians/ the establishment. Looks like a Pyrrhic victory to me.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: "A Liberal Demo... · 1 reply · +1 points

Of course if there was one it should be No Deal vs Deal as Remain was knocked out in a once in a generation referendum were people voted Leave despite not knowing exactly what leave meant. But that’s not really what the Remainers want is it?

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: Swinson commits... · 0 replies · +1 points

And that’s the weakness. Chuka Umunna has said the new political divide is Leave vs Remain. The Lib Dems have just made themselves more “extreme” in this divide attracting hard Remainers, totally alienating Leave voters. Which means Labour has to tract towards a more Remain position to try and gain enough of its metro Remain support while further opening up its traditional Leave heartlands.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Garvan Walshe: No Deal... · 1 reply · +1 points

I was under the impression that it was the dementia tax combined with an awful campaign that did for Theresa May in 2017. All we heard about brexit was the vacuous “Strong and Stable” and “Brexit means Brexit” Labour largely avoided the subject. This author states as a fact that it was Brexit policy which caused the loss of her majority. He clearly knows more than me.
The Libs are going for Revoke? Interesting. So they’re pushing themselves even harder towards Remain to hang on to their core but not moderate vote in this matter. Labour might track further Remainwards as a result leaving their Leave voting heartlands more exposed.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: 'It was their c... · 0 replies · +1 points

When there was a confidence vote all the ERG supported May’s gov.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The Village cares abou... · 2 replies · +1 points

Rudd didn’t seem to like the fact that so much resources were going into No Deal preparations. But surely that’s the best chance of getting a deal, that when we say No Deal is better than a bad deal, actually meaning it and preparing it as opposed to meaning it in the abstract. Perhaps that caveat should have been in the last manifesto, with the likely result that many party activists would have campaigned in the abstract.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The Commons votes for ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Difficult times with a Remainer cabal calling the shots without forming a government. But they always had the numbers. Listened to the news reports of dissent about recent tactics although it doesn’t take a lot to spook many Conservative MPs.
What would have been the alternative? Prorogation simply smoked out the problem, without it the process would have been weeks of water torture with the same outcome. The cabal resisted the call for an election tonight but they can’t keep that going for long. It’s not a good look and plays into the hands of the establishment including ex ministers who’s job it was to prepare for no deal at least in theory, trying to thwart Brexit. Remember the days of Theresa May bending like a reed in the wind depending who she spoke to last. Does anyone want to go back to that? Indeed will the electorate at large?

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The Commons votes for ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Problem is how could you fight an election fielding these MPs as candidates? Everyone would know in ad Vance that they would undermine the manifesto they were standing on if the Conservatives won and didn’t achieve a large enough majority which would in turn undermine the vote when trust is such a big issue.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The end of the Conserv... · 2 replies · +1 points

Sad but this needed to happen. Hammond, Gauke and Greg Clark recently served in a cabinet that had exactly the same policy and whose job was to prepare for it, that is that it was stated many times that the UK would leave on 29th March with or without a deal. Clearly neither they or the EU really believed it, and now clearly they won’t countenance leaving without a deal under any circumstances. They had to go.
Expelling people who until recently were officially helping to prepare the UK to leave will play into the narrative of an establishment who won’t follow the electorates instruction to Leave in 2016. Boris’s clear and decisive leadership will appeal after 3 years of dither and drift and Corbyn will struggle to offer much more than that especially at the head of a rainbow coalition. So huge risks but a big opportunity. Wonder how many on this site, Brexiteers that is, would have taken a GE with a Brexiteer in charge in the dark days of May?

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