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Personally if things continue as they are l would say a hung parliament is a pretty good betting proposition whenever the next general election happens.

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The results of the local elections are no real guide to what will happen in a General Election. Only some council areas had an election anyway, and the results were skewed by London.

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The local elections last year certainly were no indication of what would happen in a General Election as Theresa found to her cost ! They underestimated Labour support in a national vote a few months later.

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l think this just about sums up many politicians nowadays who can't give a straight answer to a straight question...

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/poli...-a3849896.html

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Williamson is not up to the job, but Theresa has an ever decreasing pool of 'talent' e.g. Boris - Foreign Secretary - you wouldn't have got way with this as a joke 5 years ago....

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Frightening isn't it? The most important time for this country in literally decades and it is being run by a bunch of infighting Amateurs with a bigger clown waiting to take over if this lot self destruct. Jeez .. you could not make it up.

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The elephants are out of Africa and Williamson out of his depth. Unbelievably crass answers and well done to Richard Madeley for not tolerating such nonsense.

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Every time Liam Fox opens his mouth he makes it up. A real fight for dunce of the month at the moment!

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I think that Fox is worried that he won't have a department to run in a while. The fear of redundancy can make people say stupid stuff. He'll still have a job though, just not a cabinet level position.

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Yeah, I mean when you are accused of having a "show me your papers policy" what else is there to do, other than resign?

Of course...compare the other side to Hitler apologists. What else.

(FYI that wasn't a swipe at you, May did that exact thing on PMQs which is precisely the kind of behavior that makes me view her so poorly).

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For where there is anti Semitic abuse with some parts of the Labour party we also have Islamophobic abuse with some parts of the Conservative party.:(

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...mophobic-abuse

https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk...nvolvement-pro

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a8390121.html

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Hands up who said "F*** business" Was it a) Diane Abbott b) Boris Johnson?

The answer is the latter. Is there no party which will stand up for hard-working job-creating companies?
https://www.ft.com/content/8075e68c-...7-1e1a0846c475

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That was aimed at the CBI, wasn't it?

Incidentally, there is little point linking to The Times or The Financial Times as they are for subscribers only and the rest of us can't read it. You could copy and paste the relevant parts that make your point, however.

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Labour are not the party for business but the Conservatives who espouse themselves as the party for business are becoming the opposite of that as many close senior business friends of the Conservative party have started to voice their ire and displeasure more and more at the current shambles and lack of any clear plan.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...bs-theresa-may

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/t...ness-ncwfljkcm

http://www.itv.com/news/2018-06-24/a...usiness-party/

https://www.ft.com/content/8075e68c-...7-1e1a0846c475

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The end deal will be favourable to business and to Britain. The Government actually wants businesses to plan for a no deal Brexit to show the EU negotiators that we are ready to pull out of a deal if necessary. This is a negotiation, and if you want to win a negotiation, you have to toughen up.

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In your biased entrenched view but many major UK business leaders and many of the populace do not share your rose tinted false optimism.

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There's a word for them just let me think what it is.