Jubilant PM [Boris Johnson] heads to the Commons to seal date for snap election [tr] [ed]

UK Daily Mail ^ | October 29, 2019 | James Tapsfield

[C19fan]

Boris Johnson faces a showdown over the election date this afternoon - after dramatically winning his battle for a pre-Christmas poll following a climbdown by Jeremy Corbyn.

Although the ballot now looks almost certain to take place, the PM is still engaged in bitter wrangling with opposition parties over whether it should be on December 9. 10, 11 or 12.

Battle lines are being drawn in the House over the process for passing a short Bill that will trigger an election.

If it goes through by the end of the day it will move to the Lords, and Parliament is expected to be dissolved as early as Monday for what promises to be a frantic campaign.

[C19fan]

Finally this Zombie Parliament is going to be dissolved. I hope Johnson and Nigel Farage combine forces.

[pepsionice]

If you use the baseline of 2017’s results (Labour getting 40-percent at 12.8-million votes)...I would suggest they will be losing around 10 to 15 percent of their votes.

I might also suggest that the 32-million votes combined in 2017...will be broken (maybe one to two million votes on top of that). BREXIT had 33.5-million who voted in 2016.

[Hostage]

The exposure of the globalist deep state has never been more clear than in witnessing the shenanigans pulled by the Remainers in Britain.

And if reports are accurate, Brits are fed up with what they see as a clear effort to thwart the will of the British people.

[apillar]

Lucky Brits, I wish we could get our election season over from start to finish in six weeks, ours never stops anymore, literally, as soon as one election takes place, campaigning starts for the next.

[be-baw]

Just as they can’t speak proper English, the Brits can’t assemble a proper government.

[Flaming Conservative]

I find a classic British accent to be lovely. Their form of eubonics, however, is like nails on a chalkboard. I’m not referring to regional accents; like our regional accents, many of them are delightful.