Boris romps to victory in UK elections
(CNS): The Conservative Party won a significant majority in the UK general election yesterday, not only keeping Boris Johnson in No 10 Downing Street but ensuring that his Brexit deal will go through. While that does not mean he will ‘get Brexit done’, in line with what turned out to be a winning campaign slogan, it does mean that Britain will depart the European Union next month and begin what are expected to be lengthy talks over its new relationship.
The decisive victory for the Tories was largely a result of the public’s frustrations over the parliament’s failure so far to honour the referendum result to leave Europe and a distinct dislike among voters for the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn. The Labour party heartland in the north of England, which largely supported Brexit, turned on the leadership and voted for Johnson. Corbyn has not yet resigned but has confirmed he will not remain as leader of the party.
The Conservatives won a majority of around 80 seats and Johnson has already visited the Queen at Buckingham Palace to confirm that he will lead the new government. With a slight Cabinet reshuffle expected over the next few days, the new parliament will convene next week and begin the process of dealing with the bills to leave the EU.
Here in Cayman, the sigh of relief from Premier Alden McLaughlin was palpable in a statement of congratulations that Johnson and the Conservative Party remain at the helm in the UK.
“It is not without relief that we have learned that the Conservatives won the majority of the national vote in yesterday’s United Kingdom general election,”said McLaughlin. “I congratulate Mr Johnson on a well-fought campaign and look forward to working with his government in the coming year. We believe that a win by the Conservatives is a good result for the Cayman Islands and other British Overseas Territories.”
McLaughlin stated that Cayman has had a positive and productive working relationship with several Conservative governments over the years.
“I look forward to meeting with the Prime Minister early next year and working with him and the new government on issues important to the UK and the Cayman Islands, including completing the important reforms to our constitution,” he added.
However, as time goes on, the government here may find that Johnson is not what he seems.
With the Conservatives now representing the once industrial north and the pressure he will be under to deliver on improved social services and proper funding for the NHS that his new constituents will demand, coupled with the economic uncertainty that the departure from Europe will bring, Johnson will be seeking new sources of revenue.
The Tory leader has demonstrated throughout his political career that he has no specific policy principles. This could see him turning to the territories in search of that tax revenue in just the same way a Labour government was likely to do.
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You so smart but keep on losing
Europe is broke $$$ and have absolutely nothing to offer them but archaic dreams and buildings The only revival to this culture is migrants now arriving from countries with serious issues. All those economic opportunist wid they EU passports are nervous now and have found out there are no guarantees in this life Go Brexit ! The extreme lefties boooooohoooo have not got their lawless utopia of Chaos and mayhem what a terrible shame!!
On what basis is Europe broke?
The basis being that without the UK’s contribution and divorce settlement they are screwed, and that doesn’t take into account the PIGS who are constantly bleeding Germany dry. Add into the mix a virtual halt in the French economy and it’s not looking good.
There are good reasons why they didn’t want the UK to leave, defence, intelligence apparatus and our economy being just three.
With Scotland and Northern Ireland leaving the U.K. the U.K. economy will be screwed too.
The EURO is doing great.
Lol
Certainly sooner have EURO’s these days than £££’s. There will be only one way for the £ the next few years and that will be down. Sad but true. I sold all my £££’s earlier this year and bought $$$.
Have you ever visited europe? And if you have , you obviously have not ventured further than tourist districts. France, Italy, Greece,Spain, Portugal, even the giant that is Germany are facing serious labor concerns.The euro is preparing for a crash as relationships between the U.S and U.K dissolve.
Meanwhile there is a surge of immigrants creating new social concern and burdens. I am living and working in europe and believe me things are not very good for the locals .Locals are losing as politicians push globalist initiatives, creating major gaps in employment opportunity. Schools are underfunded. Free health care while sounding wonderful has tax implications and weigh on salaries. 800 euro is the average take home , and with rising real estate rates – take home salary is starving for relief.
Chaos and mayhem for England when Scotland and Northern Ireland leave the U.K. in 2021.
Got back from France last month and economy was doing good. Like Scotland, France’s service economy is booming. That is not a left or right perspective just a perspective.
Anyone posting on here slagging off the people who voted Tory need to start reading the comments made by some of the Labour MPs who got kicked out. This isn’t a case of Boris Johnson winning the election, Labour threw it all away when they chose Corbyn and his cronies to run the party. I’m from the UK and lifelong Labour voters I know changed sides simply because they felt Corbyn would be a complete train wreck as PM.
Consider his choice for Home Secretary, Diane Abbott. She’s been talked about shutting down security services like MI5 and in the past she’s made no secret of her hatred for the police. This is what her public school educated son has been up to – https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7750565/Diane-Abbotts-son-28-arrested-attack-police-officers.html – Abbott tried to prevent the Daily Telegraph publishing that story.
We’re now seeing Corbyn coming out with delusional nonsense like this – https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-general-election-results-labour-lost-seats-won-arguments-a9247406.html
He needs to get out and talk to a few Labour voters because their take on this is completely different – they just don’t trust him. It’s not about people voting Tory because they think the sun shines out of BoJo’s backside, it’s about Labour taking a violent lurch into areas of politics that working people are uncomfortable with.
Bigger problem was that Corbyn could not clearly articulate his position on Brexit. He was trying to play all sides on the Brexit issue which cost him dearly.
8:49 Possibly because Corbyn didn’t actually have a position on Brexit? He seemed to change his mind on it about as often as he changed his underwear. It was a case of ‘when we get elected we’ll sort this mess out’. That created a big problem for the many Labour voters who had voted ‘Leave’ – they didn’t trust him.
As for Brexit as a Labour issue? I saw an interview with a voter in one of the constituencies where Labour lost a safe seat to the Tory candidate. He’d changed sides and one of the reasons was that the area had ex-servicemen sleeping on the streets while foreigners were being allowed to take all the jobs. They had employers specifying Polish as a prerequisite for employment but the local Labour MP had refused to intervene because it was all covered by EU rules.
10:49, Try finding a plumber in London who is not Polish. If all the people from Poland are kicked out of London the city will have a massive plumbing problem. Young Englishmen need to get off their asses and learn a trade and stop whining that immigrants from the EU are taking their jobs.
There is an entitlement problem in England and Boris is a good representative of that perspective.
If you go to Southern Spain you will see many signs specifying English as a requirement to work in restaurants, hotels and bars. Yes, EU rules apply in Spain too.
Hmmmmn is it a matter of lazy englishmen or cheap labor?! I am sorry but I have never met so many hard working people in my life more than i have in the U.k. They wake everyday, face weather conditions , work there asses off in a competitive market. But cheap labor will always prevail whilst destroying a countries quality standards. Maybe your area has a seperate underline problem that is causing your skewed view.
English speaking requirements are usually isolated to tourist destinations in europe, including seville, tenurreife etc in Spain. And usually it is preferred but not essential! Try speaking english only around europe and you can look forward to turned eyes and snobby remarks and in many cases it will set you up for paying premium rates versus the “local” rate .i will put it that way as to not call it for what it is . I will leave it to you to read between the lines. That being said i love europe but the truth is the truth.
Good rebuttal. The main comment was obviously written by someone who has no idea why Polish plumbers came to the UK in the beginning.
The simple fact was that stupid Labour politicians and liberal hand wringers opened the food gates of cheap labour from Eastern Europe without any mandate from their electorate. Their are plenty of English plumbers who are skilled tradesmen and who can produce the qualifications to back it up, but struggle against an economy based on the freedom of movement to immigrants who send their earnings and welfare support back to home countries, (sound familiar?). It is true that many Poles are returning home, for various reasons including the end of freedom of movement and the improvement of the Polish standard of living. But it doesn’t negate the fact that British workers have been seriously damaged by the immigration policies of the Blair government and the UK bending over backwards under EU law. The so called party of the working classes, (Labour) has repeatedly ignored the working man at all levels of social standing. They bankrupted the country when last in government and left us with a workforce of poorly trained but highly motivated immigrants.
This is going to change, finally we can decide our own destiny and immigration policy without being constantly shafted by those whose vision of the world differs from those who put them in power.
Absolute nonsense. There are no longer plenty of English plumbers who are skilled tradesmen and produce qualifications as the vast majority have retired in the past 10 years. It is also a problem with other skilled trades in the British construction industry, the aging of the English tradesman. Just talk to any of the construction managers around London.
In America they blame the Mexicans when white uneducated Americans cannot find jobs, and in England, they blame the Polish, Latvians, Lithuanians and others when white, lazy, uneducated Englishmen cannot find work.
Always blame someone else but never yourself.
Entitlement reigns in large areas of both societies.
So tell me why do Englishmen not go to trade school and learn a trade where there are so many well paying jobs available in most cities in England?
Face weather conditions? You are delusional. England does not have the snow and cold of Canada or many parts of America. So many snowflakes there. Hell, the trains to London from Kent often stop or are late in November and December because of “leaves on the track”. What a joke.
Wait till the cheap labour leaves and see who will work in the agricultural areas or the hospitals and nursing homes. Not the entitled English people. That’s when the English will have a serious rethink.
Furthermore, while the rest of Europe learns a second and sometimes a third language the English don’t bother learning other languages. Lazy is the word for it. The English are the snobs as they expect everyone else in Europe to speak English. I was always amazed living in Spain when I met retired English people who had lived in Spain for over a decade and still were incapable of speaking even a few words of Spanish. Snobs? The people who cannot learn a few words of Spanish.
Oh you fool. Apprenticeships are doing just fine in England, can’t speak for the others, but I cane through a gas engineers programme and know many other guys and girls who are now highly skilled and motivated. Your view clearly comes from a huge chip on your shoulder, not reality.
And English is the worlds, let alone Europe’s first and official language. Every country learns English, including China. You need to read a bit more, and I don’t mean the Guardian, Daily Mirror or the rags that peddle this crap.
Oh and you will note that the new government are transforming the immigration rules to enable skilled workers priority over the unskilled from Europe, Asia and anywhere else that has taken the UK for a soft touch for so long.
The great thing is that people like you obviously don’t want to be there, so good luck with that bigoted chip on your uneducated shoulder as you make your way through your perfect world outside.
Sorry to tell you but gas engineers are not considered to be in the construction trades industry in England.
If the trades are doing so well in England why are all the plumbers from Poland in London?
1:24, You just validated 11:52’s view on the English view of the English language. “Europe’s first and official language”? WOW. You need to spend more time on the continent.
No, Corbyn’s problem was that he and his crowd are a bunch of anti-Semitic, IRA, Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran and Russia apologists with a Leninist/Marxist ideology they laughingly still call Revolutionary Socialism.
They have a car crash political vision that ordinary people, of whatever mainstream political persuasion, just cannot accept.
The ridiculous abandonment of their pledge to see the result of the EU referendum acknowledged and supported was catastrophic in their traditional voting regions.
BoJo may not be all things to all men, but he is a patriotic politician who passionately believes on his country and people.
The electorate have seen where traditional or tribal voting patterns can lead, these people are not their grandparents, they are making choices that were once not theirs to make.
Brexit is only a part of Labours decline into irrelevance, their arrogant self belief that they know what’s best for the British people has had more of an effect and will resonate for many years to come.
Starmer, Thornberry and all those who tried to stop Brexit by paralysing parliament did terminal damage to Corbyn by persuading him to tone down his natural eurosceptic inclination and accept a half hearted Remoaner agenda that was doomed as much as that dumb attempt by the Lib Dem’s to cancel Brexit.
The best results of the election were undoubtedly the total loss of all those opportunist Labour and Tory MP’s who crossed benches or were thrown out due to their Remoaning activities.
I do feel sorry for those who took a stand against anti-Semitic Reds in the Labour Party but they should have fought from within and sought to overthrow these rotten traitors.
Anyway, like him or not, BoJo has an overwhelming mandate and the UK can finally break free from the rotten and un-democratic EU.
I think if anyone can make the best of leaving this bankrupt monolith it’s him and his belief in a new dawn for all, regardless of regional or political differences.
Not sure why you say the EU is un democratic. People from every EU country elect MEP’s. Problem is that England is not good at playing the diplomatic game related to political alliances and coalitions in Brussels. They usually get out maneuvered by other EU countries in many issues.
Its undemocratic because bureaucrats call most of the shots.
Hate to tell you this but many of those bureaucrats are British following laws passed by elected representatives many of whom are British.
Who elects the EU President, the EU Commissioners, all those millions of EU bureaucrats and the ECHR?
Oh yea, not the electorate, so definitely democratic then.
The EU parliament is a hopeless talking shop of self entitled federalists and europhiles. The British saw through this sham, that’s why they didn’t play nicely.
Good riddance to all of them.
The 45% that still want Brexit defeat the 55% that don’t through the vagaries of the British first past the post system. Get enough angry old racists angry enough and you can win lot of seats in the North.
It is a difficult thing to face, the acceptance of the majority of your peers disagreeing with you. I hear you. It has happened to me.
It’s best like dealing with a bandaid — never tear it slowly. just rip it off.
Except it was distinct minority. Brexit support is at 45%, around the same amount the Tories polled. The minority are imposing a massive act of self-harm on the majority.
Only because of the SNP Vote! Labour + Lib dems = 43.8%. The fact is, the Remain vote lost in 2016 and could never accept it
We struggled to accept that many people in England’s grim provinces were that racist and stupid.
The voice of a Remainer. A bigoted idiot!!
It is that very view that cost the vote you so wanted. You and yours chose to attempt to marginalise those who were the majority. You chose to characterise them as racist, stupid and backward. The same thing happened in the U.S.
We should all learn from history and be more truthful going forward. We’re all in this together, yeah?
And that’s the self opinionated, Metropolitan elitist mentality that lost you the argument from day one.
It is not racist to want self determination, have you ever been to the Midlands and the North of England?
I can guarantee that many of those voters were descendants of immigrants themselves. So whose the racist, bigoted and elitist know all now?
Keep dreaming.
In the past, Boris has made clear his disdain for Scotland and has made derogatory remarks about them. So certainly don’t blame the Scots for wanting to pack it in with London now.
Laughing my ass off at stupid people who actually think that their lives will improve by voting for someone who is already bought and paid for.
You idiots deserve everything you get. Johnson, Corbyn, Trump, Clinton, etc, etc. They are all cabal. Stop it with your left-right shyte.
Too bad more of us aren’t as smart as you, O sayer of sooth.
People work within the boundaries of their legal and social systems until the point in which they can change them.
Big Beau, Or in the case of Trump, totally smash the institutions. Smash the FBI, the Justice Department, CIA, Senior Military establishment, acquire a major new ally, Russia, smash the American diplomatic service and replace with what? Political lackeys and friends of Russia. Not the change I want.
Believe that and you will believe anything. But if it seems that way to you, then carry on.
Believe in working with the system until the point in which Constitutional amendments can be made? You BET I do! See how it is working here? WE are in the throes of making changes in a legal way. That avenue is open in nearly every democratic government.
Big Beau, you must be very concerned about how Trump is wiping out the American system of checks and balances? Your totalitarian tendencies are showing through.
#notmyprimeminister
Well maybe you have a prime minister? Pray bloody tell?
Perhaps we can all vote for him/her/sky fairy/toad goblin, etc.
How old are you? 12?
Funny how every time the left loses they cry Collusion. Or Russia. Or Ukraine. Or the stupidest of all them. #notmy…….
Get over yourselves. You lost and you lost for a reason. You are devoid of policies or any meaningful ideas. Instead of running around and crying how about coming up with something tangible to run on? Maybe then you would garner more votes.
Except I didn’t lose. We won. 48 of 59 seats and no, Boris is not our Prime Minister.
Bloody stupid Scot we english only wish boris would allow another Scots referendum and allow the english to vote in it, we would soon be rid of you
But Scotland would have all their oil and gas.
…..of which they richly deserve to be determinant.
And it’s worth diddly #### on the markets now. Have you not heard about the transition to non fossil fuels, your polluting based economy will fail within a few years.
England is still very dependent on Scotland’s fossil fuels. Perhaps you are not aware of that fact.
Bloody stupid EnglishmenBoris, who says he is going to block Scotland having a referendum, next year, on leaving the U.K. and remaining in the EU. Hope Scotland is soon rid of anti democratic Boris.
The EU is not offering to take Scotland.
4:19, Perhaps you don’t realise that Scotland is already in the EU economically.
not once brexit happens
There is a transitionary period to Brexit and during that time Scotland and Northern Ireland will be fighting to leave the U.K. and stay in the EU.
Fact to note. Over one third of Northern Ireland’s dairy production is exported to Ireland for processing. Where is all that milk suppose to go if Northern Ireland leaves the EU trade zone?
You don’t get it do you! The UK leaves the EU by Jan 31 2010 (6 weeks). That includes Scotland and NI.
Even if Scotland secured independence in the transition period, it would have to apply as a separate country to join the EU which will take years – and undoubtedly, join the Euro – it has no currency of its own!!.
The Remainers are done! They can continue to squawk all they like, but the argument is over.
Only 6 weeks to go and we’re all out, no ifs, no buts.
Scotland has no mandate from the EU to remain in the bloc and would have to renegotiate a completely new membership as an independent country. That could take years, if not decades. They would have to demonstrate a strong economy based on sustainable energy and not on diminishing and increasingly valueless oil. Then they would need a currency as they would certainly be denied Sterling and a direct membership of the Euro.
The EU doesn’t need another basket case economy, especially one with such a small, but needy population. The SNP would do better by sorting out the Scottish health system, their increasing drink and drugs issues and social care provision. Europe isn’t the answer and it’s not independence, it’s dependence, full stop.
Oh oh, a whining sweaty rears its head. Well you do have a Prime Minister, and rightly you have a First Minister, but she only represents a tiny minority of the UK population and has no power to do anything about independence except do what sweaty’s do best, whine, whine, whine. You had a Referendum, but true to form you lost and now won’t accept real democracy when it kicks you in the ass.
Get over it loser and spend your time trying to work out exactly how you would pay for your independence without English support.
Gosh, and here it is the weekend, and you don’t sound like you’re having any fun at ALL.
“Sweaty”. 🙁
As a Brit, it would be great to see Scotland leave the UK so we don’t have to listen to Ian Blackford anymore. It will take at least 5 years to rejoin the EU and the Scots would have to join the Euro. Oh, btw, the UK negotiated a rebate on their EU contributions – wonder if Nicola will be able to do the same?
The SNP have their own assembly and yet their health system and schools are below that of the rest of the UK. What they ought to do, is focus on the real issues in their own country and stop bleating.
You really are confused. The right conspiracy theorists are claiming that Ukraine colluded with Hillary and Biden while most normal and rational people of all political persuasions can clearly see Trump is colluding with Russia not Ukraine.
The only winner was Putin and Russia.
Just the majority of voter’s.
#suckitupbuttercup
Democracy at work, pity Africa!.
Here comes the fall of euro dinero
If democracy is based on lies and no morals, then yes.
Given Corbyn had “jokingly” said that there was a money tree in the Cayman Islands, by which he was going to fund his manifesto pledges, we should all be very relieved by this result.
Always a good thing to see leftists and globalists lose power!
Trump 2020
wrong country dumb dumb.
1:20pm It was Trump’s election in USA that put a monkey’s wrench in the globalist manifesto as it opened the eyes of other nations the truth of what their leaders were indeed doing to them!
His election opened their eyes to the TRUTH why the farmers et al were receiving subsidies not to farm …
It opened their eyes why their factories were closing and their mines as well whilst the citizenry headed to Social Services for relief to buy food!
It opened their eyes why their countries were subsidizing military protection to countries richer than theirs whilst they were inundated with “supposed refugees” refusing to assimilate!
It opened their eyes and that’s why they thank TRUMP!
GO BORIS GO!
WHAT AN AWESOME CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR GREAT BRITAIN🇬🇧 ..
Yes, what an awesome present for a Great Britain. The smashing up of Great Britain. Never been a Christmas like this.
This time next year we will be getting ready for a very messy divorce.
If it is time — whether we are talking about a personal relationship or an international one — when it is time, it is time, and everyone knows it.
History evolves in spurts, but also with progressive changes. Sometimes it’s enough to just hold on.
Well you should run home quickly to help. Bye….
Every time I re-read your post, it makes me want to chant. Great verbal stairway. God bless. 😉
Well, the Devil and his Russians will control every government in the world. The blind will be made dumb and the dumb will be made blind and they will all be elected to high office controlled by Magog.
The Russians already control the White House.
Lol, moron
You must be Russian 4:21.
In the Mueller report there are over 150 Russians associated with the Trump campaign both directly and indirectly. Think about it.
On the day of Trumps announced impeachment who was in the White House for a 4 hour meeting with Trump? Foreign Minister Lavrov. Got to love Putins boys and how they have taken control of their man in the White House.
lose power? They were in power and created this fiasco. You Russia loving right really know how to spin the facts.
OMG: four more years of him? Spare us.
5 actually (at least). Labour will continue with an extreme socialist agenda and Momentum (elite middle class socialists) will ensure that either Angela Raynor or Rebecca Long-Bailey is elected as the new leader.
Boris Johnson has a huge Mandate from the working class. They have ‘lent’ him their votes and he is clever enough not to forget it. He has a great opportunity to be a real leader.
As far as the Scots are concerned, they can forget independence for a generation. The UK is leaving the EU within 6 weeks. Once that happens, Scotland would have to re-apply (5 year process even with current alignment) and adopt the Euro as its currency.
Boris sure did nothing for the London working class when he was Mayor of London. But he sure was a great friend of developers.
He sure did reduce violent crime. As a Londoner I can attest to that. The Labour idiot currently in charge has seen murder rates increase and other violent crime spiral out of control.
And development, (including one of the best ever Olympics) bought work and homes, better than hand wringing and blaming everyone else for your incompetence.
Scottie I see you are awake! 😂😂😂😂😂
I got “beamed up”!
In haggis heaven now with independence coming soon.
Yeah, Scottie woke up when Boris said today he will not support a referendum next year on Scotland’s independence and remaining in the EU when England leaves.
His arrogance knows no bounds.
FREE SCOTLAND.
The stupidity of the argument that claims to want Independence, yet wants to be ruled by 27 others. Only the Scots could come up with that kinda crap.
It’s called having a very large market for your export products. No market then no money in your pocket. Simple really.
Scotland’s service sector is booming making up more than half of the economy. Most of that market is in the EU. Why would you want to lose it with Brexit?
Denmark, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and many others don’t seem bothered with the EU. They are small nations not minding to throw in their lot with the others.
What is wrong with their thinking? Are they all stupid?
They have no options.
Sure they do. They can throw in their lot with Russia and Russia will happily take them and dominate them.
So, no options.
Trump has no problem with the Russian option.
So why have so many countries in Europe during the past 15 years wanted to join the EU? Guess they are filled with crap too?
They have no other choice.
Russia would love to have Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania to choose Russia. Putin wants nothing more than to reestablish the Soviet Empire.
Thats not a real choice is it.
To many people, especially the older generation, there is a choice, There are many pro Russian elected politicians in the parliaments of Eastern and Central Europe.
The parallels between the two continue to be seen, do they not? It’s almost as if they were separated at birth, and the REASONS for them being where they are is also similar. Like the U.S., the UK voted against an entity rather than for one. imo.
Said another way: The crazy I can deal with is better than the unknown. ;D
Big Beau, the EU is not the unknown.
that’s the trick, friend. They both are. It’s like a Hold ’em hand where everybody’s all in.
The many countries that seek to rule the few seek an inequal distribution of resource and wealth.
Big Beau, perhaps you are not aware that people in the EU vote for their EU representatives. The EU is not trying to dominate any country.
Always a good thing to see buffoons and corrupt individuals acquire power.
Trump 2020.
The last paragraph in your article is pure fear mongering and speculation and written by a staunch and today very unhappy Labour supporter
Good bye Scotland & Northern Ireland. Was nice to have you in the United Kingdom family for so long.
Both have been a pain in the ass for too long, so if they want to go, let them. BUT, they go without our money or subsidies, and our financial protection.
The sham argument about oil wealth is over, fossil fuels are no longer politically acceptable and the meagre reserves that are left will continue to diminish in value as reliance on oil makes way for less contentious forms of power.
However, I still don’t think the Scots are that stupid or blind to the ramifications of independence. Northern Ireland is a different matter as they would be absorbed by an existing independent nation, and nationalists now out number unionists for the first time.
The Scots are not stupid. The Northern Irish are not stupid. They see where in the long run where their bread will be buttered. Not with a tiny market in England but with the giant EU market. Their young people have thrown in their lot with Southern Ireland and Scotland with the EU.
England will be in a state of economic decline with BREXIT. If they want to be poorer fine, but don’t force poverty on the rest of the family.
Scotland will be out of the EU by January 31st. Then, they have to actually win an independence vote with the price of oil at rock bottom and 60% of their economy with the UK.
Then, they have to apply to join the EU, meet all the economic criteria and then 27 other states will have to vote to let them in. Spain will be keen (not) as Catelonia (like Scotalnd) wants independence.
Then after that, Scotland will have to join the Euro.
All of this: 5-10 years. Good luck!
No bigger a pain in the ass than Boris. As Mayor of London he was a total buffoon and had no accomplishments whatsoever. He is a self serving, self promoting con man like his friend Donald.
Yep, Buh bye. I think it will be good for them both. Our current loss, but perhaps down-the-road buddy.
And, 12:52, good riddance to both, especially Scotland with its constant whining about being “down pressed” and its hands held out constantly for cash. Let them try and survive on their own and with their hope the EU will bail them out. As for Northern Ireland it’s well past time for reunification and now that religious fever on both sides is lessening, thankfully, sensible progress needs to be made to undo this stupid partition of one island.
“Down pressed” by Boris not allowing a referendum in Scotland next year.
The arrogance of Boris knows no bounds.
Amazing that Boris has managed to unite Northern Ireland. For the first time in Northern Ireland, there were more people who voted for the Nationalists than Unionists. There are now more Nationalist seats than Unionist seats for the first time. There is unity against London and a consensus that Northern Ireland wants to stay in the EU. The first major step towards unity with Southern Ireland has been taken.
Good bye United Kingdom in 2021.
Who cares? What exactly does Northern Ireland contribute to the UK? Just a load of hassle as far as I can see
A lot of dairy products and mid sized planes.
‘This could see him turning to the territories in search of that tax revenue in just the same way a Labour government was likely to do.’ That’s a comment made by someone who hasn’t got a clue how the Tory party is funded. If they move on what are popularly called ‘tax havens’ some of their major funding sources are going to pull the plug on them.
Seeing he has a long history of breaking and backtracking on promises at the earliest opportunity
Its not really speculation
The second Boris gets more from turning on Cayman than he does ignoring us he will turn on us, in a heartbeat without a second thought
Labour are currently a bunch of racist, terrorist supporting, hateful cranks who want to destroy Cayman. They would have thought nothing of sending UK armed forces to crack heads here, destroy the economy and starve the population. Deeply nasty, neo-colonialist fascists.
Although I’m only an interested observer now, over the years I did more than a few all-nighters covering UK elections, local and general, and this was certainly one of the most notable.
I think the quote of last night must come from former Labour Shadow Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, who in a heated televised discussion said, “He [Corbyn] could not lead the working classes out of a paper bag.”
And that pretty much summed up the feelings of many Labour voters. I know several life-long Labour supporters who said that, faced with the prospect of people like Corbyn and Diane Abbott running the country, they’d vote Tory. Judging by the results where I now live that’s exactly what they did. Our local Tory MP polled four times as many votes as the second-placed Labour candidate and picked up about 8000 votes over her 2017 total.
As for what it means for the Cayman Islands? I’d say you should all be very relieved by this because Corbyn’s left-wing supporters have an agenda that would definitely not benefit the local financial institutions. Love or hate them, at least a Tory government has too many vested interests offshore to risk rocking the boat.
Very well put John Evans. Borris is not ideal but he is better than Corbyn or the other Labor cronies. A conservative government is better for Cayman as a whole than Labor ever would be.
Politics means nothing except for politicians and suckers who actually fall for this garbage.
bizzare coments from alden…. makes cayman look weak and scared.
he should be ashamed of himslef for celebrating a boris johnson victory.
Nonsense. Corbyn constantly insults us, attacks us and blames us like a drunken man who comes home and beats his wife because she didn’t cook his favorite meal.
Labour deserve no admiration or respect for letting an anti-Semitic friend of sworn terrorists hijack the party.
Cayman would have no chance under Labour/Corbyn rule and so congratulating Boris who has been very friendly towards us is the proper thing to do.
If they try to impose taxes now Cayman will likely go independent. I think it’s fear-mongering to say they will do that. I don’t like Boris by a long shot but I’d rather have him than Corbyn.
Increasingly rich lying, cheating dishonest politicians globally are persuading the poor that they are good people to lead nations, and then go on to screw those same people that voted for them totally, whilst blaming the poverty it causes on everyone else. Now watch them screw Cayman, and if they don’t, the EU will.
I think you may have this situation switched around…It’s people power at work and it’s coming to Cayman too…
Delusional if you think that was people power, that was propaganda power, mostly paid for by Russians!
Delusional, lol.
Hillary, is that you??
No it’s me, Donald. A subtle genius and the greatest leader in the history of the world.
no Donald.
Yes 3:11, I can’t help it as I have a serious problem.
Quite right. The turkeys all voted for Christmas.
Face it, the voters don’t want what you want. Calling them turkeys only reinforces the point.
OK. The sheep not turkeys.