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This general election will take place before the negotiations. The SNP are calling for a referendum during the negotiations.
If a major sporting team started messing about and getting distracted in the build up to a big tournament, they would be heavily criticised and on failure of winning, blame would be attributed to the lack of preparations beforehand.
The negotiating process is already underway now that Article 50 has been triggered and to distract now is as bad as distracting at any point. 6 weeks of the PM’s teams working on electioneering is 6 weeks taken away from spending time focusing on getting the best deal for the country. 6 weeks for BoJo to parade around what an utter incompetent f*ckwit he is both nationally and internationally. Fantastic negotiating strategy.
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A more suitable analogy would be a sporting team investing heavily in the transfer market prior to a new season, since the Conservatives are clearly going to emerge from this election in a stronger position. I don’t know how any sane person who has looked at the polls can deny this.
The formal Brexit negotiations have not begun, the EU has been very clear that it wants all negotiations to take place with the the mandatory two year window. Currently the both sides are simply testing the waters and finalizing their strategies. The SNP were requesting a referendum during the later stages of the process, a very crucial time in any negotiation. They requested that date because they knew it was unreasonable, and the expected refusal allows them to construct a narrative that Westminster is dismissing the will of the Scottish people (despite the fact that opinion polls are consistently showing that most Scots don’t want a second referendum).
[quote quote=130106]Oh that and someone just reminded me that Theresa May’s excuse to Scotland a few weeks back was that they couldn’t have an independence referendum because she was busy focusing on Brexit negotiations to deal with any voting in the next 2 years, now she’s called a full blown General Election which apparently won’t cause distractions from the same negotiations.
Out to Lunch, Dinner and Supper.
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This general election will take place before the negotiations. The SNP are calling for a referendum during the negotiations.
From a purely local perspective, I think Lucas has to go. Whether or not you support Labour, his track record since 2001 has been poor. Of course he can’t take all of the blame, but when a constituency has been in constant decline for well over a decade, a decline that is sadly ongoing, then the local MP who has served throughout that period has to take a lot of responsibility for this.
His incompetence has long been shielded by the fact that Wrexham is historically a safe Labour seat.
I’m sure Theresa May has her quirks, and she clearly isn’t the social justice warrior that she pretends to be.
But if we’re on the subject of past quotes and strange beliefs, then I think the next couple of months are going to be very interesting. The Tories are going to carry out a smear campaign against Corbyn that will highlight why even his own party see him as a dangerous kook. Aside from the fact that he’s proposing economic polices that have a long track record of failure within this country, he has a shadow-Chancellor who walks around Parliament with a copy of Chairman Mao’s “Little Red Book”.
Although surely the most damaging problem is that over many decades he has consistently sympathized with violent anti-British terror groups, and brutal communist dictators. His recent warm eulogies for Fidel Castro and Martin McGuinness prove that he’s still completely out of touch with the public mood on these subjects. His suggestion that he wouldn’t fire back if the UK was being targeted by nuclear warheads is also of great concern to the majority of the British electorate. The fact that he doesn’t sing the national anthem is sure to alienate many patriots.
His liberal attitude towards immigration is also far away from what the majority of the British electorate would like it to be.
I respect that he has principles that he has held on to for decades, but this fact is also why he’s unelectable. The Labour party is supposed to be a party of government, not a party of protest. Under Corbyn they are the latter.
Youth turnout has always been relatively low, even when you were young. So stop this typical anti-youth ranting.
Sixteen years of Lucas, sixteen years of decline. Labour have clearly been failing this town for a long time, both in Parliament and at a local government level. Given the desperate situation Wrexham is now in, perhaps it’s time for something new? As far as I’m concerned, we can’t continue to head down this path, we need change.
