If only they could add up...

A few takeaways from the UK General Election that Democrats might want to consider going into 2020

The Corbyn project failed. This is the worst election results, for Labour, since the 1930’s and while they will try and say this is all about Brexit, that is only part of it. In the UK equivalent of the ‘rust belt’ working class areas they have roundly rejected the far-left politics of the current Labour administration and turned to the Conservatives. The sad thing is that because they felt that the left did not give them a reasonable offer, they felt they had no option but to turn to the right – these are died in the wool Labour heartlands, it would have been inconceivable even a year ago that this would be the outcome.

There is a myriad of reasons for this and some of those I think should resonate with the race next year. They felt disenfranchised and left behind after the results of the referendum were not implemented in a timely way and they did not feel that a Westminster centric Labour Party neither understood them nor spoke for them…

Voters are not stupid (mostly). You promise people the earth, a land of milk honey they will suspected that you are talking bollocks, and this is exactly what the Corbyn project did. Labour will be locked out for a decade because of this result and it could have been utterly avoided, and the most vulnerable in our society will bear the brunt of this.

Most people are moderate – they forgot that.

Most people just want to get on with their lives and support themselves and their families without thinking they will be taxed to death because of unrealistic spending plans – they forgot that.

Most people want to be heard – they definitely forgot that.

Expecting anyone to fundamentally change their ethos and principles to fit into how a metropolitan elite see things is not credible. They will tell you to fuck off…

This was not just about Brexit. This was about a whole lot more than that, and the landscape has changed significantly because of it.
I know that the UK is not the US, but one thing I take away from this General Election is that people did not so much vote for Boris as much as they rejected Corbyn, and the decision you all make on who is going to take on Trump will be a major deciding factor on whether the Democrats take the White House in 2020. Americans are more fiscally and socially conservative generally than the UK, right? Democrats need to put up a credible offer in he heartlands in 2020 otherwise it may be the same story. Not so much voting for something but against it.

Just my two pence worth.

BREAKING: BBC exit poll...BoJo 368 majority. GE OPEN THREAD

Labour 191 seats
Con 368
SNP 55
LibDem 13

FUCKING HELL

We are screwed if this is right...
Brexit in 3...2...1..

EDIT: Headline for Open Thread

They rely on poverty and ignorance... it is the only way they can retain power

They're Not Stupid, and They're Not Spineless. They're Evil. Let's Keep That Straight.

The outcome of this election will have an impact like no other on what our society will become...

The sky is as dark as my mood today. When I have finished writing this I am bundling up and heading to the polling station and although I always make sure I use my franchise – in every election since I was 18 – the outcome of this election will have an impact like no other on what our society will become, and the signs are not looking good.

Assuming the polls are correct, the far-right wing cult that has become the Tory party will win a majority and over the next few years we will be witness to the devastating consequences of this to both the Union and the economy.

Bad things that are about to happen:
*We will be out of EU in less than 2 months’ time.
*They will decline to seek an extension to the transition agreement in July, cause ‘Get Brexit Done’ *rolls eyes*.
*In December we’ll be back on the cliff edge –either signing up to whatever deal, if there is one, BoJo negotiates, or falling back on to no-deal. As there will be no extension safety net, no deal is likely IMO.
*We lose our EU rights to the freedom of movement.
*We will have a significant brain drain of highly experienced and skilled individuals as they return to the EU (which has already begun).
*They introduce a discriminatory far right racist points-based immigration system.
*International alliances will be strained to the point of breaking.

The bounders that are about to re-enter No 10 know that they cannot get Brexit done in any meaningful way, but hell, their privilege protects them marvellously as they lead us off into in the trade wasteland that Brexit is, a wasteland likely to last decades, struggling to patch up our trading relationships with pretty much everyone, while being in a much weakened position at the table. Got success written all over it. Add to that Scotland, the border in NI, Spain/Gibraltar, etc et al and in their zealous obsession about leaving one Union, they risk breaking up another…

Batten down the hatches chaps. Shit is about to get real…

OR

I could be wrong and hung parliament and 2nd referendum in 3..2..1..
(I don't like being wrong generally but here's hoping)

Why does she get up the nose of so many ignorant old men...

OK, I know this lowers the tone...but...

Republicans are leaning towards a short impeachment trial in the Senate with no witnesses

So, Trump is planning to define Judaism as a nationality... where have we seen this before?

Do not believe the hype that this is about President Trump bolstering the Education Department's efforts to stamp out "Boycott Israel" movements on college campuses. I mean this might help their suppression of free speech goals, but I do not believe that this is the main motivation. History tells us that defining Judaism as a nationality was so very Nazi Germany 1930’s. This made it easier for the murderous arsehole Nazis to warrant rounding victims up and sending to concentration camps as they "weren't real Germans."

So very very Nazi. Call me cynical, but… Nazi be Nazi and there is an ugly ulterior motive here.