UK/General election/2019
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| Date | 12 December 2019 |
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The UK/2019 General Election is scheduled for 12 December after MPs, by a margin of 438 votes to 20, backed prime minister Boris Johnson's call for an election following months of Brexit deadlock. The PM said it was time for the country to "come together to get Brexit done".
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn enthused:
"This election is a once-in-a-generation chance to transform our country and take on the vested interests holding people back." He said his party would "now launch the most ambitious and radical campaign for real change that our country has ever seen".
LibDem leader Jo Swinson said:
"I am standing as a candidate to be the next prime minister and in these volatile political times that is absolutely possible."
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage welcomed the election, tweeting that the deadlock had been broken and "Brexit now has a chance to succeed".[1]
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Interfering with Laura Kuenssberg | blog post | 25 November 2019 | Craig Murray | It's no coincidence that it is precisely the old and the poorly educated that are the targets of Dominic Cummings’ "Brexit election” strategy. If it comes off, Laura Kuenssberg and her fellow hacks will have proven that the power of the mainstream media is as yet unbroken. |
| Document:JVL statement on Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis | statement | 28 November 2019 | Anonymous | The Conservatives have given us austerity as an organising principle of government and as a result we have proliferating food banks, people sleeping and dying on our streets, our social care system on its knees, and local council budgets and services decimated. So, Rabbi Mirvis, which party is threatening the soul of the nation? |
| Document:Just like that: How the Tory magic trick was done | blog post | 18 December 2019 | Chris Jackson | Boris Johnson will not be leading the people into any mythical promised land, rather they will be led like lemmings off the edge of a cliff. The population of the nation now have more austerity, economic inequality, privatising of the NHS and ever deteriorating public services to look forward to, led by a right wing, elitist, populist. |
| Document:Message for the Red Wall | blog post | 12 April 2022 | Clifford Thurlow | "This is my message for the Red Wall. If you reach a crossroads and your destination is to the left and by mistake you turn right, the further you travel along the wrong road the further you will move away from your destination. It is not easy to turn back, to change your mind. Sometimes, you have to in order to survive." |
| Document:The UK's Macabre Final Election | blog post | 11 November 2019 | Craig Murray | This election is sordid, tawdry, corrupt and uninspiring; a fitting end for the UK and its long history of callous exploitation. |
| Document:Tory in Charge of Entire Scottish Council Election Count | Article | 29 April 2017 | Mel Kelly | Being a software engineer myself, my first thought was - could this be easily used to print replacement postal votes with the voters' ID and their signature, changing our vote for a different candidate while binning your postal vote? I had to conclude yes it could. |
| Document:Trump targets Corbyn in UK election intervention | Article | 2 November 2019 | Laura Tiernan | Donald Trump’s interview shows that Mike Pompeo’s threatened “push back” is far advanced. If Trump is willing to make such anti-democratic public pronouncements against the leader of Her Majesty’s opposition, what are they discussing—and preparing—behind the scenes? |
