UK - Politika i društvo

rumbeando wrote:

Bumped into Dominic Cummings.

Me: Ready for the campaign Mr Cummings?
DC: We’re not going to have one.
Me: Really?
DC: They’ll vote for EU citizens and we’ll have to pull it.#Brexit | GE19

— Joe Pike (@joepike) October 29, 2019

KinderLad wrote:Ja mislim da Momentum moze da razbije kampanju. To su ljudi 20-30 godina, nista njima ne smeta nikakve kise i oluje.

UK: House of Commons (lower house of national parliament)

Vote to approve Prime Minister Boris Johnson's (CON-ECR) bill for a snap general election on 12 December.

Approve: 438
Oppose: 20

Bill will now go before the House of Lords (upper house).#GE2019 #brexit

— Europe Elects (@EuropeElects) October 29, 2019

@FinancialTimes number analysis on the election opinion polls.

It’s deja vu: Labour is on *exactly the same* polling level today as the day Theresa May called her Brexit election. Except the Tories are much further behind.

My latest with @jburnmurdoch https://t.co/8axS0ziNwR pic.twitter.com/vmX7yO7zZz

— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) October 29, 2019

The General Election has just been called.

It's time for real change. pic.twitter.com/aiUwhxm5K6

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) October 29, 2019

#BackBoris to get Brexit done.

Only @BorisJohnson can take our country forward and deliver on the people's priorities.#GE2019 pic.twitter.com/3pTkzI6vFy

— Conservatives (@Conservatives) October 29, 2019

Watch this extraordinary exchange:

‘You should be ashamed,’@KenLoachSixteen

He challenges former Barnet councillor Brian Coleman who tries to defend the poor living conditions - cockroaches, damp and drug users, revealed in our film.https://t.co/UoDAu8mHy8 pic.twitter.com/YXAcHGMMRi

— Victoria Derbyshire (@VictoriaLIVE) October 29, 2019

Owen Smith, who challenged Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership in 2016, is to stand down. Expect much more of this in the coming days. https://t.co/b2E15yNvdE

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) October 29, 2019

Amber Rudd announces she will he standing down. It’s turning into a bit of an exodus. https://t.co/PPRYH54fH6

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) October 30, 2019

Heidi Allen will lead a mass exodus of MPs in December after she announced yesterday that she would not stand for re-election.

The Liberal Democrat MP said she was standing down because Brexit had 'broken our politics', joining other senior figures including Father of the House Ken Clarke and Winston Churchill's grandson Sir Nicholas Soames.

The founding member of anti-Brexit party Change UK added that lines are too often crossed and the effect is 'utterly dehumanising'.

Her decision takes the number of MPs that have said they will quit at the next election to more than 40.

Before the 2017 election, 31 MPs announced they would be standing down.
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Mrs Allen's resignation follows that of dozens of MPs from across the political spectrum, including a number of high profile Tories.

Long-serving figures - such as Father of the House Ken Clarke and Winston Churchill's grandson Sir Nicholas Soames - are planning to stand down.

Sir Michael Fallon, former defence secretary, has announced he will leave the Commons before the election, as has Jo Johnson, Boris Johnson's brother.

Other Tories stepping down include Rory Stewart, Mark Field, Nick Hurd, Claire Perry, Mark Prisk, Keith Simpson, Glyn Davies, Jeremy Lefroy, Caroline Spelman, David Tredinnick, David Jones, Seema Kennedy, Richard Harrington, Alastair Burt and Richard Benyon – MP for Newbury.

Labour MP Owen Smith announced his resignation for 'political and personal reasons' last night.

He followed colleagues including Gloria De Piero, Ronnie Campbell, Kevin Barron, Jim Fitzpatrick, Kate Hoey, Albert Owen, Teresa Pearce, John Mann, Geoffrey Robinson, Stephen Pound, Stephen Twigg and Ian Lucas.

Sir Vince Cable and Norman Lamb are also quitting from the Lib Dems, as are Independents Oliver Letwin, Guto Bebb, Nick Boles and Justine Greening.

Analysis by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research estimates that Britain's economy will be 3.5% smaller in ten years' time under the Prime Minister's deal compared to staying in the EU.

Under Mrs May's deal, the think tank estimated that the economy would take a 3% hit over the next decade when compared to remaining in the bloc - meaning Mr Johnson's plan will leave the UK 0.5% worse off than under his predecessor's.

The NIESR, which is Britain's oldest independent economic research institute, put the cost of Mr Johnson's deal at £70bn over the next ten years when compared to staying in the EU.

"We don’t expect there to be a ‘deal dividend’ at all,” NIESR economist Arno Hantzsche said.

"A deal would reduce the risk of a disorderly Brexit outcome but eliminate the possibility of a closer economic relationship."

The think tank said Mr Johnson's agreement - which opens the door to looser economic ties with the EU than would have been the case under Mrs May's deal - would "hinder goods and services trade with the continent leaving all regions of the United Kingdom worse off than they would be if the UK stayed in the EU".

"We estimate that, in the long run, the economy would be 3.5% smaller with the deal compared to continued EU membership," the NIESR said.

The non-partisan think tank meanwhile said a no-deal Brexit - which now cannot happen before 31 January after Mr Johnson asked EU leaders for an extension - would have seen the UK economy shrink by 5.6%.

And it estimated that GDP would be 2% lower over the next decade if the current "chronic uncertainty" over Brexit continued.

"The economic outlook is clouded by significant economic and political uncertainty and depends critically on the United Kingdom's trading relationships after Brexit," the NIESR said.

"Domestic economic weakness is further amplified by slowing global demand."