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Boris: Time for Brexit ‘Closure’ – ‘Let the Healing Begin’
Breitbart ^ | 13 Dec 2019 | JACK MONTGOMERY

Posted on 12/14/2019 3:18:31 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Boris Johnson has thanked the first-time Tory voters who have handed him an “overwhelming mandate” to get Brexit done, and offered an olive branch to those who opposed him.

Speaking on the steps of Number 10 Downing Street, the modest official residence of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Johnson related that he had been formally invited to form a new government by Queen Elizabeth II, and pledged that he would lead a “people’s government”.

“I’m proud to say that members of our new One Nation government, a people’s government, will set out from constituencies which have never returned a Conservative MP for a a hundred years,” he said, in reference to his broadly centre-right, neoliberal party’s astonishing incursion into the Labour party’s working-class heartlands.

Johnson said that his “overwhelming mandate to get Brexit done” — he has won the biggest Conservative parliamentary majority since Margaret Thatcher’s last election in the 1980s — would provide a “moment of national resolution” in a country which has been mired in Brexit squabbling from almost the moment the people voted for it, in defiance of the political establishment.

‘Celebrate Boris!’ – Trump Hails UK Election Result, ‘Massive New Trade Deal After Brexit’ https://t.co/qc0qkD2Hje

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) December 13, 2019

“I want to speak directly to those who made it possible and to all those who voted for us for the first time, and all those whose pencils may have wavered over the ballot,” Johnson said, recognising that the gains which made his victory possible came in areas where few voters are natural Tories — indeed, where the Tories have been largely despised for generations.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bojo; borisjohnson; brexit; globalism; neoliberalism; populism; tories

1 posted on 12/14/2019 3:18:31 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Trump Hails UK Election Result, ‘Massive New Trade Deal After Brexit’

Excellent !
In spite of our many past differences, the Brits are still us.

2 posted on 12/14/2019 3:23:50 PM PST by tomkat
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They’re populists - not conservatives. They broadly favor a mix of traditional values aligned with government spending to uplift the most disadvantaged and left behind sectors of society.

In other words, people left behind by neoliberal globalization policies pursued by both the Left and the Right.

Support for Brexit doesn’t fall neatly along the old traditional left-right ideological divides.


3 posted on 12/14/2019 3:24:11 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Funny how you never hear about the Left offering an “olive branch” to our side when they win.


4 posted on 12/14/2019 3:26:16 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; All

EU looks at extending Brexit transition period beyond 2020

Daniel Boffrey
The Guardian
Dec. 14, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/14/eu-brexit-transition-period-boris-johnson


5 posted on 12/14/2019 3:33:17 PM PST by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Can’t heal until the Muslims are deported out of Britain.


6 posted on 12/14/2019 3:37:29 PM PST by Redcitizen (Tagline not secure.)
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To: goldstategop

It is a step in the right direction.


7 posted on 12/14/2019 3:37:45 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Boris may want to heal Britain, but Scotland is already talking about a second secession referendum. The British are at least as divided as America.


8 posted on 12/14/2019 3:38:16 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

When Tories and Republicans start talking about “healing,” be prepared for a cave-in. There’s nothing to heal; the Marxists are the ones inflicting the beat-downs.


9 posted on 12/14/2019 3:39:01 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: goldstategop

What you describe is not really populist, but more like Christian Democrat?

Reality is that neither globalism nor populism (as you describe it) have anything to do with the Constitution here.


10 posted on 12/14/2019 3:47:24 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: Steely Tom

They must know it would not be received well. I’d take the branch and smack them with it.


11 posted on 12/14/2019 3:58:43 PM PST by coaster123 (Distrust everyone under sixty.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’d love to see a realignment of the Conservative into a party that will limit the growth of government. I just saw on You Tube some moronic snowflake wrote that Boris will be like Trump. I replied: If he is that’s a Great Thing.


12 posted on 12/14/2019 4:16:42 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: goldstategop

I have been telling anyone that will listen to... left / right dynamic is dead... it is now nationalists vs globalists


13 posted on 12/14/2019 6:05:22 PM PST by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: Repeal 16-17

“Scotland” is not talking about this. Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish National party (SNP) are. Her party has a only a plurality, not a majority of seats in the Scottish Parliament.

They claim to speak for all Scots, but that is not the case.


14 posted on 12/14/2019 10:36:48 PM PST by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
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boris johnson will amend brexit bill to outlaw extension

Kate Proctor, Peter Walker and Daniel Boffey

Mon 16 Dec 2019 16.53 EST

the guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/16/boris-johnson-will-amend-brexit-bill-to-outlaw-extension


15 posted on 12/16/2019 8:58:40 PM PST by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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