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  1. Montegriffo

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    He has to get a majority in the house though.
    The Brexit party splitting the vote on the right and a resurgent Lib Dem party would ensure he didn't get the number of seats needed.
    A hung Parliament with a coalition of Labour, SNP, Libs and the Greens taking control is the most likely outcome and that means a second referendum.
     
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    At 37% of the vote the Tories should be ok. The Lib Dems may pick up a few seats but I doubt that it will be much more than a dozen. And the way things are going, come the next election Wurzel will be able to take the Labour Party home on his pushbike.
     
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    Yes you do have a point. I am not sure if the opposition has to agree to a General Election after a vote of no confidence because of the Fixed Term Parliament Act. However there are enough people who would vote for a lying racist lawbreaker rather than a party where an MP was reported as drinking a mojito on a train, so he might get re-elected.
    My guess is a hung parliament after a General Election, or maybe in this madness both Labour and Conservatives emerge with a new leader. In that case the whole picture changes again.
     
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    Boris is going to be soooo empowered after this, he might not even need to hook up with Brexit Party to bury Corbyn. Still, good to have the backup option.

    Oh, and calling bullshit Muslim black bags letterboxes isn't "racist", it's factual.
     
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    As far as I know they don't. But the alternative would be for the Tories to be kept in power up by the Labour party for the next three years. So I reckon the Labour party will support a call for a general election.

    As for Boris being a lying, racist crook, I have been hearing that ever since he stood as MP for Henley in 2001. It may well be true, but it hasn't stopped him yet and I can't see it bothering him much in the future.
     
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    Brexit party isn't teaming up with the Tories unless Boris delivers a no-deal Brexit by 31st Oct. That's out of the window now so the vote on the right gets split.
    Let's just hope the Labour party has the sense to ditch Corbyn before any election.
     
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    Nothing bothers him he simply brazens everything out.
    Collateral damage affects people like the poor woman in jail in Iran, his many 'partners' and his children, taxpayers (are you aware of his behaviour over the London Stadium?), and of course victims of racist hate crime due to antipathy he whips up. Oh and he damages people who trust him because he is a proven liar.
    For some reason people are prepared to vote for him anyway.
    He has never done anything good, those who say he was a valued Mayor of London have not examined his record in that position.
     
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    It is not factual to say clothing is the same as letterboxes.
    Clothing tends to be flexible, letterboxes are rigid.
    Why say such non factual stuff if you are not being racist?
     
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    Well, that is show business.

    When he was mayor of London Boris got on with being mayor and cheered us all up. All poor Saddo Khan does is blame everything on Trump and have the police dancing in the streets with Greta Thunberg while her fellow teenagers are left to stab each other in the Labour party fiefdoms where their deaths can be safely ignored. Or blamed on Trump.

    Anyway, the SNP and Lib Dems are calling for a vote of no confidence in Boris. This should lead to a fall of the government, a general election and a Tory majority for long enough to get us out of the EU. So far Wurzel has shown an uncharacteristic glimmer of common sense and refused to back the motion, but with a bit of luck and a flowing wind he will be forced along and lead the brothers and sisters into another one of the glorious defeats that they love so well
     
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    If the Tories under Boris hadn't decimated the police force with cut after cut there wouldn't be so many stabbings.
    No one who is paying attention thinks that the Conservatives will win a majority in any GE. It will be a hung Parliament again and back to square one except maybe a Lab, SNP, Lib coalition with a slim majority.
    Oh, and that would mean a second referendum.
     
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    If Saddo Khan hadn't spent so much time trying to create a right on, touchy feelie, non sexist, non racist police force dedicated to explorations of their transgender sides there would be even less.

    I do
     
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    Oh, I see what level you want to debate at.
    Maybe try a playground rather than a political forum.
    Bye.
     
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    I am a Londoner and Boris Johnson didn't cheer me up, so that is at least all minus one.
    He might have cheered up that American pole dancing woman when having his afternoon visits with her at taxpayers expense.
    Khan on the other hand tries to do a proper job.
     
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    Well Boris cheered me up and I voted for him in both Mayorial elections, so I guess I cancel you out. And the Blond moppet won both elections so despite the rent a mobs flouncing down the Strand in protest because their skinny lattes were served up cold, it would appear that more Londoners like Johnson than don't.

    As far as I can see all Saddo Khan does is blame everything on Trump and dream hopelessly of becoming leader of the Labour party.
     
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    Londoners who like Boris Johnson might be ones who had secret afternoon personal home visits from him whilst he was working at our expense as Mayor. Other affectionate Londoners are those who are cool with him wasting their money on things like the post Olympic London Stadium, bendy buses, water cannons, a garden bridge and ways to explain why crime did not fall as much in London as in the rest of the country on his watch.
     

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