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UK: Johnson hails police as “bedrock of society” as Brexit crisis intensifies By Robert Stevens
Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared that tens of thousands of extra police would be the “absolute bedrock” of his government. He announced the measure Thursday in a speech in which a wall of police cadets were mobilised to provide a backdrop. Continue reading
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Brexit/Bojo News Links 6 September 2019
6 September 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back The Sun scores a massive own goal by openly treating its English readers like mugs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/vliWl4Ggcjc/ As his government falls apart, Johnson chooses to meet an alleged war criminal http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/uwDWuhAOksg/ Continue reading
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Last Night in the House… By Philip Roddis
I enjoy schadenfreude as much as the next guy and for the millions of us who detest Boris, last night brought the stuff in spades. I was quite taken by Jeremy Corbyn’s comment. Too much the gentleman to refer to BoJo in person, Jezza’s was as neat a slice of alliteration as you’re likely to… Continue reading
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Brexit/Bojo News Links 5 September 2019
5 September 2019 • 14:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back UK government papers on suspending parliament could be made public http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/4XX1fBkpjkI/ Boris Johnson’s advice to the Queen over suspension of parliament was ‘unlawful’, judges told http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/0KVUBVJZz7I/ Continue reading
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Brexit/Bojo News Links 3-4 September 2019
4 September 2019 • 22:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Dude, Where’s My Majority? Brexit: MPs back bill to block no deal on first vote https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49580185 ‘Boris knows how to win’: Trump sure of his ‘friend’ Johnson, Continue reading
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What just happened? The death throes of Conservatism
By TruePublica Editor: The United Kingdom, a country once touted as a confident pillar of Western economic and political stability is committing an act of self-immolation in front of an international audience. These are the death throes of Conservatism. Continue reading
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When Rogues Prorogue Parliament By Wayne Madsen
Britain, which sees itself as governed by the mothers of all parliaments, Westminster, has received a bitter taste of what occurs when a small minority of domestic political forces, who are teamed up with likeminded foreign actors, manage to prorogue – suspend – parliamentary rule for extremist purposes. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who became… Continue reading
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Brexit – The Trajectory To A Public Uprising
TruePublica Editor: Eight months have passed this year and in that time the government petitions website has seen eighteen dedicated just to fighting for or against Brexit. Eleven have been against Britain leaving the EU in its various forms with a collective sum of signatures (as at 01/09/ – 0600 hrs) at 9,037,911 and seven… Continue reading
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The real reason Johnson prorogued parliament
TruePublica Editor: Just as I predicted last year, the Conservative party is now in its implosion stage. Continue reading
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The Telegraph’s Brexit poll is bogus, but broadcasters seem not to have noticed
Opinion polls exude an aura of scientific truth. Those numbers and percentages are so reassuringly solid, especially when generated by one of the well-known names of the polling world, that for many people they represent hard evidence of the state of British public opinion. Continue reading
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Unhinged before the Fall: Boris Johnson, Parliament and Brexit By Dr. Binoy Kampmark
The Brexit no deal prospect is engendering an element of lunacy fast seeping into every pore of the British political establishment. As with all steeped in such thinking, some of it made sense. Prime Minister Boris Johnson had been inspired by a mild dictatorial urge, seeking to suspend the UK parliament five weeks out from… Continue reading
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Johnson’s proroguing of Parliament: The British ruling class declares war on democratic rights
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament is a historic attack on democratic rights and an attempt to force through a Brexit agenda that will have devastating consequences for jobs, living standards and the democratic rights of the working class. Continue reading
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The Queen’s Active Role in the Right Wing Coup By Craig Murray
Our obsequious media is actively perpetuating the myth than the monarch can do no wrong, and is apolitical. In fact the monarchy has been active and absolutely central to the seizure of power from the Westminster parliament in a right wing coup. Yesterday’s collaboration at Balmoral between the Queen and Jacob Rees Mogg is only… Continue reading
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Boris Johnson, GMOs and Glyphosate by Colin Todhunter
The never-ending push to force GM on the public under the guise of saving humanity is a diversion that leaves intact the root causes of world hunger and undernutrition: neoliberal deregulation and privatisation policies, unfair WTO rules, poverty, land rights issues, World Bank/IMF geopolitical lending strategies and the transformation of food secure regions into food… Continue reading
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FCO Speeds Up Planning to Move UK Embassy to Jerusalem
Following US National Security Adviser John Bolton’s talks with Boris Johnson and his ministers in London last week, FCO officials have been asked to speed up contingency planning for the UK to move its Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, with an eye to an “early announcement” post Brexit. Continue reading
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Brexit – do or die: Selected Articles
15 August 2019 — Global Research How English Nationalist Boris Johnson Is Turning the UK into a “US Colony” By Henry McLeish Boris Johnson and the right-wing Tories in Cabinet are English nationalists who hope to turn UK into a US ‘colony’, a country where EU regulations are replaced by limited welfare, minimum standards, low taxes and Continue reading
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Disunited Kingdom? The Union Is Now All But Dead
TruePublica Editor: Boris Johnson declares himself a champion of the UK union, a prime minister who wants to strengthen “the ties that bind our United Kingdom”. This is just part of the propaganda game being played. But as the FT headline goes – “Brexit has become the enemy of the UK union” (paywall) and it… Continue reading
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Brexit and Britain’s Media Landscape
For a country that prides itself on the acerbic publication, the punchy put down, and balloon piercing irony, the propaganda battles in a changed media scape must have come as a bit of a shock. No part of the country has been exempt from a tide that sees no signs of stopping. Continue reading
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Boris Johnson’s Fake Radicalism
We hear much about Johnson coming to power as an iconoclastic figure willing to cut a swathe through the ranks of the Establishment and especially the Civil Service, aided by blue skies thinker Dominic Cummings. In fact nothing could be further from the truth. There has never been a Prime Minister more entrenched in and… Continue reading
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