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nitpicker

(7,153 posts)
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 06:14 AM Jun 2019

Damaging talk of 'no deal' spells doom for the Tories

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/05/no-deal-doom-tories-boris-johnson-brexit

Damaging talk of ‘no deal’ spells doom for the Tories

Polly Toynbee

Wed 5 Jun 2019 06.00 BST

We’ll come out, deal or no deal, on 31 October. That’s the spirit! We’ve got to have the courage to tell the people of this country we can do it if we really want to.” So says Boris Johnson in his jaunty launch video, all blind faith that he alone can leap the Brexit impasse when he is anointed prime minister (odds now 11/10). Where’s the democratic legitimacy? We the people are mere dumbfounded onlookers at the insolence of this coup, not “taking back control” but letting him seize it.

Already his “no deal” talk is doing real damage. UK manufacturing shrank last month at the fastest rate since the referendum, with export orders at a three-year low. Construction figures fell their fastest for a year due to “ongoing political and economic uncertainty” as “a fragile dreariness descended on the sector”, according to the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply. Retail sales fell by 2.7% in May, the worst drop since records began, though consumer spending is what has kept the economy afloat. Wednesday’s service sector figures are unlikely to lift the gloom.

Make UK, representing manufacturers employing 2.7 million people, blames Brexit chaos, pointing at cavalier candidates calling for a no-deal Brexit. Even “moderate” Jeremy Hunt supports no deal, though “with a heavy heart”. Never mind his heart, look at the real world consequences of these wildly irresponsible would-be leaders. “There is a link between people standing up and saying no deal is acceptable and people losing their jobs as a direct result,” warns Make UK’s chief executive Stephen Phipson. Reckless Brexiters call it Project Fear, but he says: “It’s not theoretical or hypothetical scaremongering.” It’s happening now.
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Damaging talk of 'no deal' spells doom for the Tories (Original Post) nitpicker Jun 2019 OP
The endorsement by the orange cheetolini should really help lapfog_1 Jun 2019 #1
It didn't kill JustAnotherGen Jun 2019 #2
Putin is the happiest man on earth at the moment for good reasons beachbum bob Jun 2019 #3

lapfog_1

(29,166 posts)
1. The endorsement by the orange cheetolini should really help
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 06:17 AM
Jun 2019

to kill his chances of becoming the next PM

JustAnotherGen

(31,683 posts)
2. It didn't kill
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 06:31 AM
Jun 2019

Netanyahu's election. His supporters and Brexit supporters - not much difference in regards to "right to exist" in these groups.

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