Labour didn’t campaign on Brexit going for the NHS, the economy, social justice, equality, and care issues….and opportunistically, and hilariously, anti-terrorism. Corbyn rarely mentioned Brexit unless pushed to in an interview…..Labour’s key policies? Brexit not mentioned in this list from the BBC….
Key policies
Scrap student tuition fees
Nationalisation of England’s nine water companies.
Re-introduce the 50p rate of tax on the highest earners (above £123,000)
Income tax rate 45p on £80,000 and above
More free childcare, expanding free provisions for two, three and four year olds
Guarantee triple lock for pensioner incomes
End to zero hours contracts
Hire 10,000 new police officers, 3,000 new firefighters
Moves to charge companies a levy on salaries above £330,000
Deliver rail electrification “including in Wales and the South West”.
The BBC told us this was the Labour campaign direction…
The party will be keen to move the focus of the campaign away from Brexit, and on to domestic issues, such as the NHS, which has come under intense pressure in recent months.
Labour also believes it can score big with voters who feel the economic system is “rigged” against them, with one law for super rich tax avoiders and another for ordinary working people.
After the terror attacks I think it was Kuenssberg who said May wanted to talk about Brexit but that was not the main issue now of the election, security and terrorism were…indeed the FT agrees saying…
So odd that tuning in to the Today show it’s all now about the Brexit….Brexit will now have to be reshaped due to the outcome of the election…the election that they had just told us was not about Brexit.
They packed the programme with pro-Remain people….a Tory MP who suggested we must now change our approach to the negotiations, then Labour spinner Tom Baldwin, ex-BBC Cameron PR guru Craig Oliver and someone from the Economist…all against ‘Hard Brexit’…that is all against Brexit.
May’s campaign was not about the legitimacy of Brexit but who was best to lead the negotiations….it was not a rerun of the referendum though you’d have thought it was listening to Nick Robinson.
Essentially we had Muslim terrorists altering the outcome of our election and a man who is a career long supporter of terrorism and an opponent of every piece of anti-terror legislation still managing to become the champion of British national security. How so?
Corbyn was practically given a blank sheet by the BBC, a new start, his support for terrorism, his hard-line Marxism, his ‘look-away’ attitude towards anti-Semitism in his Party, his ruinous economic policies all were somehow forgotten or downplayed. Two senior BBC journalists both came out for Corbyn, Robinson and Dimbleby, both warning their colleagues not to write anything too harsh about him. Guess they listened.
Stephen Glover in the Mail hits the nail on the head…we did not see the real Corbyn….
Meanwhile, Corbyn was for the most part successful in concealing his extremism, and looked cuddly and unthreatening. He also seemed, unlike Mrs May, relaxed and happy in his own skin. One might say that he has appeared genuine.
Something strange is going on in this country. The British pride themselves on their moderation and common sense. Yet millions of perfectly sane people will today vote for a half-competent extremist whose policies would impoverish this country and make it vulnerable to its enemies.
One way and another, the political centre of gravity in British life has swung appreciably to the Left.
As for the BBC, it has seemed more powerful than ever during this election, probably because of the relative decline of the printed Press. Scornful of Jeremy Corbyn during his two Labour leadership contests, Auntie has treated him indulgently as a mainstream left-of-centre politician rather than the dangerous revolutionary he really is.
We also had that Mishal Husain ‘interview’ wth Boris in which she told him to stop talking…or stop saying things she didn’t like…she actually ‘made the case’ for Corbyn telling us he was now all for ‘shoot to kill’ and was uterly opposed to terrorism…absolutely no idea that this was a highly opportunistic u-turn by Corbyn that was a complete denial of his decades old principles…Husain just wanted to shut Boris up as he made his points….
Day the BBC’s golden girl became a spokesman for Corbyn
Despite misgivings in the Beeb over Husain’s lightweight performance in the debate, she was handed the prize interview at 8.10am with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Radio 4’s Today programme.
Adopting an aggressive, even menacing tone, Husain constantly cut across the increasingly exasperated Foreign Secretary with little evidence of the impartiality the BBC claims it is so proud of in its journalists. It seemed all too clear where her sympathies lay.
In an extraordinary exchange, Mr Johnson laid into Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for his consistent refusal to back counter-terrorist measures over three decades. But Husain insisted on breaking in to ‘set the record straight’, parroting exactly what Corbyn said in the aftermath of London Bridge and ignoring his previous position.
This has prompted criticism that she was acting as ‘Corbyn’s spokesperson.’
The low point came when Johnson scorned the idea Diane Abbott, as home secretary in a Labour government, would have the skills to deal with a major terrorist attack.
It was too much for Husain, 44, who jumped in with a good impression of a teacher disciplining an unruly child, saying: ‘No, no, please stop talking.’ Johnson, clearly taken aback, said: ‘But you have invited me on your show to talk.’
Any wonder that Corbyn managed to poll so high as the major news organisation provided him with a smokescreen to cover up his extremism and present him as a reasonable and moderate statesman….the BBC far outstripping the rest of the media as the trusted source of news..lol…. ‘According to a new ICM survey of over 2,000 Britons, 45 per cent trust the BBC as a reliable source for general election news, compared to only 27 per cent who trust the daily newspapers.’
Other polls give them even more power…
Given a choice of seven different news organisations including Sky News, ITV News and Channel 4 News, 58% of respondents ranked the BBC first for balanced and unbiased reporting. Sky News was second, with 15%.
Of those polled in the UK, 62% believed the BBC to be accurate and reliable as news, and almost half of those polled found them to be unbiased.
Contrast of course how they treat Trump whose main sin seems to be that he wants to control immigration. perhaps if he supported Muslim terrorism instead of wanting to stop it the BBC would back him as they do Corbyn.
That terrorism has altered the course of the election is without doubt…curious that the BBC is now saying it was all about Brexit, especially as Labour didn’t campaign on that.
Just got this in:
Statement from Paul Nuttall to the Party membership
Paul Nuttall MEP
To Joe Adam-Smith
Today at 12:41
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Joe —
This morning, I wrote to the Party Chairman to inform of him of my decision to resign as the Leader of UKIP, with immediate effect.
When I took over at the end of last year, with the support of so many of you, I had a plan to unite and rebuild our party. I always knew that in the first year, we would face a difficult set of local elections but I was confident that with a summer of reform we could work on refocusing our party on a new future.
Sadly, things haven’t turned out the way we had hoped. Instead of just one, I’ve led our party through three difficult elections. They were always going to be tough, but I believed in the future of our party and knew that I needed to stay standing, to see us through to calmer waters when we could undertake the changes we needed.
I have done everything in my power to lead from the front and to make our party proud – I really do love UKIP and more than anybody I want it to succeed.
I’m very proud of the campaign we’ve fought. We have reclaimed our position as the outrider of British politics, daring to speak out on the very real dangers that face our country. For a second time, we stood on a first rate, costed manifesto that offered real options on how to build a safe, prosperous post-Brexit Britain. We made an early decision to stand down in hundreds of seats, to offer Brexit candidates a better opportunity of getting over the line, which has meant that our overall vote share has fallen. Putting our country before party was a decision that you would never see an establishment party take.
Ultimately, it wasn’t enough. In an election that was framed by the Prime Minister as being all about Brexit, voters have focused everything on who would be the next Prime Minister and that has undoubtedly led to a return of two party politics – temporarily.
UKIP’s time will come again, of that I’m certain. But it will come under a new Leader, who hopefully now has the clear water ahead of them to make the party we all love a success. Whomever that Leader is, they will have my full and loyal support as I return to representing my North West Region from the European Parliament.
Thank you all.
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UKIP
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I didn’t warm to Nutall but I think he had an impossible job in this latest farce. Last night I heard the Guv’nor talking about a ‘tide’ in politics and I think he was, as so often, very right. This election was about Corbyn’s Chavez-like appeal to an electorate sick of hopeless Tories and a Conservative leader with a tin ear for public opinion. Ukip’s message was lost in the background noise and nothing Nutall could have done would have made it heard.
I’ve also noticed that Brexit is the headline today with regards to the result.
It got very little mention on the run up to the election but now all the remoaners are coming out of the woodwork and blaming the Tory position on Brexit as the reason they did so badly.
The dreadful manifesto is hardly getting a mention yet the triple attack on pensioners, their key voter group, and dragging fox hunting back into politics was a manifesto designed to lose votes.
When we are young, almost all of us have far left leanings and then as we mature and start living in the real world we usually turn towards the right for sensible government. There appears to have been a big increase in the youth vote. I wonder how many of these teenagers will bitterly regret their lefty vote when they grow up.
If not Farage then Anne Marie Waters should lead UKIP.
If May goes then definitely not Ruth Davidson (another remoaner) who is being touted, probably by other remoaners.
For me, Jacob Rees Mogg, John Redwood or a similar leaver should be the new leader.
I think this is going to plan and the awful manifesto and useless campaign are all part of the bigger plan to scupper Brexit.
May is a ditherer and indecisive, how on earth did she become pm unless it was all part of a devious way to derail Brexit. She’s played her part by filling the important part of the cabinet with remoaners, delaying article 50 for as long as possible and has called an un needed election, fought a weak campaign and ultimately causing the chaos we are currently in.
The BBC will clutch at any straw to promote the remainiac cause. Be prepared for a tsunami of pro-EU propaganda.
EG, GC
Yes – it’s sickening.
According to Breitbart, Anne Marie Waters is intending to stand for the UKIP leadership “assuming the top brass don’t block me from standing”.
She is on The Jon Gaunt Show today at 4.45pm.
The terror problem is obviously tied in with properly securing our borders, and thus Brexit.
Only one man can save UKIP, and I don’t even need to mention his name.
You’re probably right.
Yes the BBC gave Corbyn a very easy time, however we must recognise that there was much more thsn this in play. A complicated set of factors helped Corbyn
Students and welfare recipients – loved the bribes on offer
Public sector workers- heavily labour biased and tend to believe resources are limitless
White working class switched UKIP to labour, interesting exceptions e.g. Mansfield but elsewhere Mays red Toryism failed
EU migrants with vote – a growing constituency ?
Muslims- Corbyn record loved by them – a growing constituency
Tory remoaners voting lib dem in the south
Combine all this with Mays dire manifesto offering nothing positive and care policy and you have yesterday’s result.
Exactly.
And does anyone seriously believe that Kensington is genuinely Labour? Imagine the impact of a land tax, or any tax increase for that matter, on the residents there.
I assume a large part of the electorate consists of European ex-pats voting out of fear and self interest.
Not saying that the Conservatives don’t have a problem, mind.