Off Topic Political Debate

The UK requires a firm Brexiteer as PM and Hammond returned to the back benches.

 

You are assuming that the 50 are in favour of Brexit in it's current form. You have nothing to say that is right or not. Maybe a PM that wants to talk to the EU would be an improvement.

 

A good article in the Independent saying the far right in Europe are far from dead.

Sean O’Grady German election: far-right nationalism is by no means dead in Europe

 

Why would the Greens rip themselves apart cologne? Are they a political party or just a pressure group? Surely a political party would want to have some influence within government.

 

The 50 do not need to be in favour of Brexit, that is just the mechanism. The Tory MPs will elect the next PM. We need Barnier to keep to his ridicules bribe so the negotiation breaks down very soon. The reaction will help the cause of Brexiteers to fill the main positions.

 

We would need to join a right wing coalition Frenchie, which would be against the wishes of many of the rank and file. No party should join any coalition without having had a referendum amongst their members on the subject. The SPD have more or less lost their profile as a party through 8 years of coalition with the CDU. We do not want the same happening to us. Going into a coalition where you have very little in common means too many compromises which, in turn, are damaging for a party - also, you are the ones who get the blame when it goes wrong, not the bigger party of the coalition. Look what happened to the Liberals in the UK.

 

Can someone explain why the news media, especially Yahoo and the BBC are so vehemently against Brexit and what motivates John Pienaar of the BBC to be so intent on belittling Theresa May?

The people voted to leave in an advisory non-binding vote, agree with it or not, so it is up to the government (who said they would abide by the outcome) to do their best to bring this about. They don't need a bunch of media luvvies deriding them at every turn when they have the Liberal Democrats, the SNP, some of the Labour party and a **** load of Tories working against them already.

I also noticed the decline of Burslem was being laid firmly at the door of Brexit; even though it has been going on for 20+ years and is the product of poor landlords and an incredibly crap town council.

 

Have totally lost what little respect I had for Labour after listening to this tripe this morning - the gall of the woman is absolutely beyond belief.

She attacks the SNP over equal pay for women employed by Glasgow City Council - a council taken over in May from Labour, who ran it for fifty years. During that fifty years, they actually fought a twelve year court battle against awarding women with equal pay, before eventually losing and being told to cough up - and then left SNP a bill of around £0.5Bn to deal with. That's around 40% of the GCC annual budget.

I am bloody fuming at their hypocrisy and bare-faced cheek...

 

I don't know about Yahoo, but I reckon the BBC are fairly even handed. I suspect it is all about how you see things. There are quite enough newspapers taking sides, misreporting what has been said, and telling people what they should think. I see questioning on the BBC, but not telling people what to think.

 

Only Guardian readers are allowed to work for the BBC. The choice of left wing presenters for the Newsnight programme has been shocking. It was great to experience seeing the faces of the BBC team covering the referendum when it all went wrong for them starting at Sunderland.

 

And I can guarantee it will be replaced by an even dafter one

 

Can the Momentum thugs be stopped?

Laura Kuenssberg hiring a bodyguard was depressing. Then it got worse

 

I cannot see what you are trying to say. Just above you were accusing BBC journalists of being too left wing. Now if she is left wing why would she need protection when going to a left wing conference?

 

You need to ask her why she feels she needs a bodyguard at a Labour conference. There have been many incidents of intimidation by the far left yobs.

Yvette Cooper 'sick to death of vitriol' directed at Laura Kuenssberg ...

 

So is she a left winger or a right winger? You don't seem to be able to make up your mind. Yvette Cooper doesn't want to see such language no matter where they stand on the spectrum.

 

The real issue is not anybody's views but the left wing thugs that abuse and threaten anybody, with impunity, that they contend may disagree with their brand of socialism. Most of the their victims are Labour MPs.

 

aha............ Now that is the daftest comment i have read today.....

But of course any self respecting journo reads the Guardian....for much needed balance in a right-wind media

 

Guardian reader i see SH

 

Please don't insult other Guardian readers. There's not enough pictures and EXCLUSIVE HEADLINES in the Guardian for poor SH.

 

Finally, finally, something I can agree with the Labour Party. Banning betting companies sponsoring football shirts. I would take it even further. Gambling does as much damage as smoking especially to those that can least afford it.