Politics - The Non-Brexit Thread.

History has a way of repeating itself especially in politics

In 1956 Labour Leader Hugh Gaitskell has the difficult task of opposing Conservative Prime Minister Anthony Eden for his instigation of The Suez Crisis, something that he believed was wrong but (at the start) was largely popular amongst the British public. Eventually Suez came crashing down on Eden & he was forced to resign. Gaitskell has been proven right, surely he would win the next election ? Unfortunately for him The Tories replaced Eden with the current Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillian who was popular with the public to the point he was dubbed "Supermac" and the Tories won the next election increasing their total number of seats by 20.

In 1968 The United States is beset by a wave of protests largely made of young people opposed to The Vietnam War. After a tumultuous party conference that was stormed by protestors & resulting in violence Democratic Presidential candidate Humphrey moves his party to the left away from President LBJ's hard war stance & adopting a softer approach on foreign policy aligning it more with the hard left & the protesters. But Humphrey mistakes the voice of those loudest in the country with the majority of public opinion, Republican candidate Richard Nixon accuses him of being soft on Communism & siding with the disruption & violence of the protestors. Nixon positions himself as the candidate of stability and "law & order" and uses "The Southern Strategy" to appeal to racist white voters in southern segregationist states. In essence Nixon targets the silent majority and despite only winning 0.7% of the popular vote more than Humphrey, Nixon crushes him at the Electoral College 306 to 191

Sound familiar?

I know the 68 Olympics saw the infamous Black Power salute wasn't it?

French President is coming to London today to celebrate the Resistance Anniversary. He's also going to meet Boris.

Typical politically double standards when he doesn't have to quarantine for 14 days .

Fuck Sake Raab thinks taking the knee is something to do with Game of Fucking Thrones What the Actual FUCK !!!

Boris to Macron. "And it's also the 205th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, do you want to visit the station"

Will he introduce him to Churchill's statue??

(18-06-2020 11:46 )HannahsPet Wrote:  Fuck Sake Raab thinks taking the knee is something to do with Game of Fucking Thrones What the Actual FUCK !!!

Has he binge watched GOT and got confused???? someone needs to show him newspapers from the last two weeks......

or maybe Jim Hacker should???....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M

Boris is up here today.

Throwing money out to the peasants in the hope they won't revolt

I see the Liberal Democrats have overturned a Conservative majority of 22,949 to claim a shock by election victory in North Shropshire.