MAKE BRITAIN GREAT AGAIN

19/03/2011



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Regarding Tory MPs, arch-Eurosceptic Peter Bone lost his rag slightly with Eddie Mair on 'PM' yesterday, preferring to repeatedly complain about 'BBC Bias' rather than answer a question about Brexit.

Listened to Farron's chuckle in tbe background on R4 just now as Rees Mogg is reminded that 9 libdem MPs is the same number as Tory majority. Made me laugh.

That's including the DUP, right? Because the Conservatives won 330 seats in 2015, which is a majority of five, and it's at least one less now.

That's including the DUP, right? Because the Conservatives won 330 seats in 2015, which is a majority of five, and it's at least one less now.

It's a marker for previously Lib Dem seats that went blue - talking to friends in Kingston and they seem very annoyed to have been conned (as they feel) into voting Tory. Strongly suspect that seat will be yellow at the election, no matter what.

The further to the right your dot is, the more safe Tory the seat is, the higher up, the more the people voted to stay in the summer. So if you are above the line, and you care more about staying in the Euro than voting Tory, and you do it to the same level as in Richmond, the to rise may lose the seat in a general election

On that note, from Twitter, analysis of how many seats might swing based on tactical voting for Not-Brexit:

I didn't think Governments can "call an early election" any more - I think they need either a 2/3 majority or to fail vote of No Confidence. It's not something a PM can call tactically anymore.

I didn't think Governments can "call an early election" any more - I think they need either a 2/3 majority or to fail vote of No Confidence. It's not something a PM can call tactically anymore.

So, Italy then. The delamination of the EU continues apace.

Listening to the radio this morning they made that point but also seemed to be saying that it was another vote against an established party of government with eurosceptic far right populists as the cheerleaders.

I have read a fair bit about the details of the constitutional reform the Italians were voting on and it appears to have very little bearing on Italy's relationship with the EU, being instead focused -- as far as I can see -- on restructuring the role of central vs regional governance within the country. Can you explain why this is "delamination of the EU", please?

What, the Austrian election where said far right loon won only 47% of the vote you mean? The country who actually gave us Hitler, well within living memory?

This complacency has much to answer for IMO, though I fell into the same trap with Brexit to be fair.

Yeah, i know a bloke who wasn't very impressed with the shop. He showed his displeasure by nicking a calendar. He got twelve months.

By the way, the nasty Austrian Nazi chap did get around 46.7%, but this was a re-run of the past election that was annulled. In the original he got 49.7%. So his vote share decreased, which is a good thing.

You reap what you sow. Note that I will never, ever, EVER excuse anyone for using their democratic, hard fought for and hard one vote to vote for an extreme Right (or Left) candidate, regardless of perceived or actual provocation. But it surely *is* clear that the terrible backlash is coming from years of quite ordinary people being force-fed bullshit - that they're damn well going to like things they never wanted or asked for like the Euro, full political union, open borders, unfettered immigration - and if they don't, well, they're somehow fascists or whatever. Ironic, huh.

So in short, I very much blame the utterly perverse, clueless political vanity of the Europhile Left for this dangerous situation whose tipping point is surely now well exceeded.