We'll have to agree to disagree on that one. I think you are misreading what "might" happen and who will be blamed. Far from May getting the blame should things go mammaries up it will be those that are trying every trick in the book to make it a mess that will be blamed as they are now. The only way May won;t get a landslide in 2020 is if she does not deliver what most leavers voted for and that is a full exit from the EU. If we are still staying in, still not able to control our borders or still being overruled in the EU she will suffer. Control. Lib Dems will gain because they've done their usual and pinned everything on their new single issue of "rejoining the EU" which is bound to pull a few punters in. Yes there's a long time till 2020 but so far May is ticking all the boxes for most Tory voters and pulling more in as well. She is being "seen" to be doing a good job so far. As for the Donald I think she is being a grown up. We have no control or influence over the US and if we take the moral highground what are we going to do? put sanctions on the US? We'll then have to impose sanctions on many other countries. She has to just be sensible.
This broad left, but not too far left coalition might also include the Greens, 3.8% of the vote in 2015. I know there have been discussions in quite a few places around a broad left coalition, the opportunity may well be there but the trade offs and egos might just get in the way.
You are expecting a broad coalition of left leaning parties to talk to each other? The largest left leaning party can't hold itself together. The Greens are probably closer to Labour but are worth...........erm.........not much because that 3.8m will also include a chunk of borrowed Lib Dem votes. The SNP and Labour? It would be one of the most volatile coalitions ever seen in Europe made up of 4 parties that hate each other as much as they hate the Tories. The problem you have here is that for the left leaning parties to beat the Tories in 2020 they will have to either merge or agree not to stand against each other which is something they are never going to do. UKIP will pull chunks off the Northern Labour vote and the Tories will turn 2nds into firsts in many of them.
Trump falling out with Australia. Due to speak to their leader for an hour, went into a rage and hung up after 25 minutes. https://www.theguardian.com/austral...-report?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
White nationalists rarely plan and commit acts of terror. Except these...I'm going to say 200? Maybe 300, I'm not going to count. https://www.splcenter.org/20100126/terror-right
Fair comment Imp!! What is missing from the political map is a Centre-right party now that the Conservatives have abandoned that position and taken up policies that are akin to UKIP's in order to prevent loss of votes to that party.
The Conservatives are still centre right. You do come out with some skewed statements r.e. pandering to UKIP. The Tories are in a good place at the moment and the only party capable of fighting off the far right.
Is this because they are pandering to the right? It depends on one's perspective. The Conservatives gradually became eurosceptic fearing that UKIP would capture a certain % of their vote and as a result have abandoned the ground that it previously occupied - it was a pro-EU centre-right party like the CDs in Germany. The Conservatives left that ground when Cameron took the Conservatives out of sitting with EPP (European People's Party) and had them sitting with the likes of Right-Wing of the Republic, who though they do not have an MEP, are still affiliated to the group that the Conservatives still sit with in the European Parliament. The reality is that UKIP were never a threat to the Conservatives, but by pandering to his weak, eurosceptic MPs (Cameron should have slung the whole lot out the party like Kinnock did with the Socialist Workers who had infested the Labour party) Cameron created a situation that should never have occurred. We now have Government "by referendum." Feel free to disagree, but the UK electorate badly needs a centre-right pro EU party in order to take votes away from the Conservatives (UKIP wannabes) in order to get a much more centrist Government that will stop the nonsense of Brexit.
Why are the Conservatives sitting with right-wing groups, some of them having links to the far-right, in the EU Parliament? The pro-EU parties in the UK should be highlighting this and hammering home the message. I looked at the list of parties in the EPP, which despite all the flak being flung from the left and right, is still the largest political grouping, despite the negligence of the UK Conservative Party in abandoning its position as a centre-right party. Look at the values espoused by Angela Merkel's CDs. These are the values that the UK Conservatives should be endorsing, instead of retreating behind its bunker and finding "solace" in a "special relationship" with Donald Trump. I won't say the USA because the majority of people in the USA abhor everything that Trump stands for.
Courtesy a source of news. Say a movie theater in Florida banned its patrons from carrying concealed handguns, but a mass shooter came in anyway and attacked — not unlike what happened in Aurora, Colorado, almost five years ago. Under an NRA-backed measure proposed this week in the Florida Legislature, victims who had a permit to carry a concealed weapon could sue the theater for damages, because its weapons ban left them disarmed when they might have been able to use their gun to thwart or stop the attack. The new proposal (SB 610) from Senate Judiciary Chairman Greg Steube — a conservative Sarasota Republican who has proposed a slew of controversial gun rights measures this year — says the “Legislature intends to find a balance” between gun owners’ rights and private property rights. And Steube’s plan to do that means businesses would be held responsible — and put at risk of being sued — for decisions to ban guns.
Trouble is does anyone think that if grounds to start impeachment were found that Trump would do what Nixon did and resign? Nope he'd press a big red button and stay president for life, in an underground bunker, swapping locker talk with his 'dudes' and wondering which of the many teen girls specially provided he would favour later.
Bloody ridiculous. Let me come up with the simple answer. Ban ALL guns. I know. Too simple. Americans must have their popguns.
In contrast, this already feels like a far distant memory: Incidentally, I hear that the Obamas have been holidaying with Richard Branson at his home these past couple of weeks.
