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Thanks for another article giving me a quick catch up on the dire situation we find ourselves in after ten years of Tory rule and the idiocy of Brexit. A lot of burrowing in sand using one's head seems to be going on right now as people are tired out by the sheer weight of hearing lies paraded as facts. Dissonance is exhausting.

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Nick

I remember going to vote in 2016 I had to dodge sniper attacks artillery cluster bombs and cruise missiles.

Thank God I made it.

That speech smells desperation.

The Tories are in big trouble.

Their core vote is getting hollowed out with the cost of living.

They can try to ride out a PM who may soon be found guilty of law breaking but if your gas and electric increases from a thousand to 3 thousand in a year that is going to hurt the governing party.

So no Brexit benefits in the Red wall.

I fully expect them to return to Labour.

Ed Davey is doing well on rhetoric attacking the PM more aggressively than Starmer. A Lib Dem pincer attack on the Tories in the South looks like a realistic target.

I still hold that Jo Swinson was a worse leader than Corbyn.

Scotland is a lost cause so Davey and Starmer need each other as Brexit withers like an old prune.

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According to the Mail Online (yes I know), Bodger Johnson 'regrets' his speech comparing those voting against their own interests to others dodging bullets, bombs and rockets. If he truly does, then it makes the likes of Sajid Javed defending Bodger look like the biggest tools on the planet in defending words which are now supposedly regreted.

Johnson's words are throw away and utterly disposable. They are designed to gain maximum effect at a given point in time. They are not there to set out any long term vision or policy. Those who end up defending Johnson's words including his ministers have the task of appearing on BBC, ITV, Ch4 and Sky and justifying something Johnson probably knows it total crap from the start. The term ''useful idiots'' barely begins to do justice to such people.

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