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Theodore Bromund: Boris Johnson’s projected victory in British election is profoundly encouraging for US
By Theodore R. Bromund | Fox News
Exit poll projects election victory for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party
The result would pave the way for Boris Johnson to execute his Brexit plan to take the U.K. out of the European Union; senior foreign affairs correspondent Greg Palkot reports from London.
Exit polls projected that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party won a big majority of seats in Parliament in national elections Thursday. Why the victory and what comes next?
According to exit polls, Conservatives are expected to end up with 368 seats in the 650-seat lower chamber of Parliament, while the Labour Party will have only 191 seats. If those projections hold up, the Conservatives will have a majority of 86 seats.
This projected result will give Britain a strong Conservative government that should have no problem lasting five years until the next election.
LABOUR PARTY CALLS BORIS JOHNSON'S PROJECTED ELECTION VICTORY 'UTTERLY DEVASTATING' FOR UK
Like the U.S., the United Kingdom looked like a divided country before the election. But if exit polls hold up, it seems that Britain is a lot less divided than it looked just a day earlier.
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But many of the voters who backed Brexit in 2016 were Labour Party supporters. It wasn’t clear before the election that enough of them would be willing to support the Conservatives, no matter how much the party campaigned for Brexit.
It is easy to look at national polls and assume that national results will be reflected evenly in every constituency across the nation. But every constituency is different, and national polls do not dictate local results.
The United Kingdom election results look like a lot of dramatic changes at the local level created a landslide at the national level. A Conservative win means the political map of Britain has been redrawn.
There are important comparisons to be made between the U.K. election, the 2016 U.S. election, and the recent Canadian election.
In Canada, the Conservatives won a plurality of the votes – but because they piled up those votes in the wrong areas, they lost the election.
In the U.S., by contrast, Donald Trump won enough votes in the right areas to be elected president in 2016 with an Electoral College majority, even though Democrat Hillary Clinton received more votes.
The British Conservatives followed Trump in winning over new voters and – unlike the Conservatives in Canada – won in the right areas too.
Other factors mattered as well. Britain’s Liberal Democratic Party ran a weak campaign, and this may have helped the Conservatives by discouraging voters who opposed them from voting at all.
And the Conservatives would have done even better if the British electoral system was not biased against the Conservatives: because Labour constituencies tend to be smaller than Conservative ones, it takes fewer Labour votes to elect a Labour member of Parliament than it does to elect a Conservative
So what comes next? On Friday Queen Elizabeth will invite the leader of the party with the most seats in Parliament – Boris Johnson of the Conservatives – to see if he can form a government. Johnson should have no difficulty at all in doing this.
For the U.S., the British results are profoundly encouraging. The fact is that Britain has rejected the pre-election, do-nothing status quo.
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British voters appear to have put a Conservative government both in office and truly in power. Britain should now be able to get Brexit done by the new deadline of January 31, 2020. This, in turn, means that Britain and the U.S. will be able to negotiate a free trade area in the near future.
But a caveat is in order. With the exception of its stances on Brexit and free trade, the Conservative Party fought this election by urging more state involvement in the economy. Its policies were certainly further to the right than the Labour Party, but taxation in Britain is already at a historic high, and the Conservatives showed no interest in reducing it.
Unless the Conservative Party begins to make an effective case for conservatism more broadly, politics in Britain run the risk of drifting back to the left.
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Right now, though, that caveat is just that: a caveat. The fact is that Boris Johnson took the gamble to demand, an election. If the exit polls are correct, his gamble has paid off.
There are challenges ahead, from handling Brexit to dealing with the resurgent Scottish Nationalist Party. As Winston Churchill put it, great victories always bring forth the need for greater efforts. But if the projected results are correct, Britain’s Conservatives have indeed won a great victory.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE BY THEODORE R. BROMUND
By Theodore R. Bromund | Fox News
Exit poll projects election victory for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party
The result would pave the way for Boris Johnson to execute his Brexit plan to take the U.K. out of the European Union; senior foreign affairs correspondent Greg Palkot reports from London.
Exit polls projected that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party won a big majority of seats in Parliament in national elections Thursday. Why the victory and what comes next?
According to exit polls, Conservatives are expected to end up with 368 seats in the 650-seat lower chamber of Parliament, while the Labour Party will have only 191 seats. If those projections hold up, the Conservatives will have a majority of 86 seats.
This projected result will give Britain a strong Conservative government that should have no problem lasting five years until the next election.
LABOUR PARTY CALLS BORIS JOHNSON'S PROJECTED ELECTION VICTORY 'UTTERLY DEVASTATING' FOR UK
Like the U.S., the United Kingdom looked like a divided country before the election. But if exit polls hold up, it seems that Britain is a lot less divided than it looked just a day earlier.
More from Opinion
But many of the voters who backed Brexit in 2016 were Labour Party supporters. It wasn’t clear before the election that enough of them would be willing to support the Conservatives, no matter how much the party campaigned for Brexit.
It is easy to look at national polls and assume that national results will be reflected evenly in every constituency across the nation. But every constituency is different, and national polls do not dictate local results.
The United Kingdom election results look like a lot of dramatic changes at the local level created a landslide at the national level. A Conservative win means the political map of Britain has been redrawn.
There are important comparisons to be made between the U.K. election, the 2016 U.S. election, and the recent Canadian election.
In Canada, the Conservatives won a plurality of the votes – but because they piled up those votes in the wrong areas, they lost the election.
In the U.S., by contrast, Donald Trump won enough votes in the right areas to be elected president in 2016 with an Electoral College majority, even though Democrat Hillary Clinton received more votes.
The British Conservatives followed Trump in winning over new voters and – unlike the Conservatives in Canada – won in the right areas too.
Other factors mattered as well. Britain’s Liberal Democratic Party ran a weak campaign, and this may have helped the Conservatives by discouraging voters who opposed them from voting at all.
And the Conservatives would have done even better if the British electoral system was not biased against the Conservatives: because Labour constituencies tend to be smaller than Conservative ones, it takes fewer Labour votes to elect a Labour member of Parliament than it does to elect a Conservative
So what comes next? On Friday Queen Elizabeth will invite the leader of the party with the most seats in Parliament – Boris Johnson of the Conservatives – to see if he can form a government. Johnson should have no difficulty at all in doing this.
For the U.S., the British results are profoundly encouraging. The fact is that Britain has rejected the pre-election, do-nothing status quo.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR OPINION NEWSLETTER
British voters appear to have put a Conservative government both in office and truly in power. Britain should now be able to get Brexit done by the new deadline of January 31, 2020. This, in turn, means that Britain and the U.S. will be able to negotiate a free trade area in the near future.
But a caveat is in order. With the exception of its stances on Brexit and free trade, the Conservative Party fought this election by urging more state involvement in the economy. Its policies were certainly further to the right than the Labour Party, but taxation in Britain is already at a historic high, and the Conservatives showed no interest in reducing it.
Unless the Conservative Party begins to make an effective case for conservatism more broadly, politics in Britain run the risk of drifting back to the left.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Right now, though, that caveat is just that: a caveat. The fact is that Boris Johnson took the gamble to demand, an election. If the exit polls are correct, his gamble has paid off.
There are challenges ahead, from handling Brexit to dealing with the resurgent Scottish Nationalist Party. As Winston Churchill put it, great victories always bring forth the need for greater efforts. But if the projected results are correct, Britain’s Conservatives have indeed won a great victory.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE BY THEODORE R. BROMUND
london may secede from the u.k. and form it’s own cuntry under paki moslem rule.
I hope the brits know what they voted for. Its like rejecting their biggest export market.
Scotland and northern ireland first.
The EU can't save itself. Also, sensible countries like Poland and Hungary are rebelling against open borders.
Britain’s most ethnically diverse Cabinet ever under boris johnson
By Diversity UK Editor | July 25, 2019
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has selected the most ethnically diverse Cabinet the UK has ever had with Sajid Javid becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer; Priti Patel as Home Secretary; Alok Sharma as International Development Secretary; Rishi Sunak as Chief Secretary to Treasury; James Cleverley as Party chairman and Kwasi Kwarteng as Minister for business, energy and industrial strategy. These Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Ministers represent 18% of cabinet. According to the Institute for Government, there have been only five full cabinet members from such backgrounds ever. Some 14% of the population in England and Wales come from ethnic minority backgrounds, according to the 2011 census.
Britain’s most ethnically diverse Cabinet ever under boris johnson
By Diversity UK Editor | July 25, 2019
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has selected the most ethnically diverse Cabinet the UK has ever had with Sajid Javid becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer; Priti Patel as Home Secretary; Alok Sharma as International Development Secretary; Rishi Sunak as Chief Secretary to Treasury; James Cleverley as Party chairman and Kwasi Kwarteng as Minister for business, energy and industrial strategy. These Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Ministers represent 18% of cabinet. According to the Institute for Government, there have been only five full cabinet members from such backgrounds ever. Some 14% of the population in England and Wales come from ethnic minority backgrounds, according to the 2011 census.
With such a large majority he can fire the whole lot and send them back to where they came from.
Don't be a party pooper! They need more diversity. Like richard branson!
Richard Branson says he has Indian heritage
PETALING JAYA: Virgin Group founder Richard Branson (pic) says that he has ancestors who hail from India.
In an Instagram post, Branson revealed that his great-great-great grandmother was Indian.
In an event to celebrate his airline Virgin Atlantic's new route to the city, Branson posted a picture of himself sharing a stage with Anand Mahindra, unveiling that Virgin Atlantic's newest flying icon was named Aria after his great-great-great grandmother.
"Great to be in India to celebrate @virginatlantic's new route to Mumbai and join #AnandMahindra for our Business Is An Adventure event. We also unveiled our newest flying icon, named Aria, after my great great great grandfather's wife, who was Indian," Branson wrote.
According to Yahoo News, Branson said that he took a DNA test some years ago, which revealed that his great-great-great grandmother hailed from Tamil Nadu's Cuddalore.
The Cuddalore district is in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Scholars believe the name Cuddalore is derived from the beach the town is famous for, which means 'sea town' in Tamil.
"I knew that I had past generations living in India, but haven't realised how strong our connections were.
"So, it turned out that from 1793, we had four generations living here in Cuddalore and one of my great-great-great grandmothers was an Indian named Aria, who was married to one of my great-great-great grandfathers," Branson was quoted as saying.
Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nat...ys-he-has-indian-heritage#Rxr7JwkJbT4rmxMA.99
Richard Branson says he has Indian heritage
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PETALING JAYA: Virgin Group founder Richard Branson (pic) says that he has ancestors who hail from India.
In an Instagram post, Branson revealed that his great-great-great grandmother was Indian.
In an event to celebrate his airline Virgin Atlantic's new route to the city, Branson posted a picture of himself sharing a stage with Anand Mahindra, unveiling that Virgin Atlantic's newest flying icon was named Aria after his great-great-great grandmother.
"Great to be in India to celebrate @virginatlantic's new route to Mumbai and join #AnandMahindra for our Business Is An Adventure event. We also unveiled our newest flying icon, named Aria, after my great great great grandfather's wife, who was Indian," Branson wrote.
According to Yahoo News, Branson said that he took a DNA test some years ago, which revealed that his great-great-great grandmother hailed from Tamil Nadu's Cuddalore.
The Cuddalore district is in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Scholars believe the name Cuddalore is derived from the beach the town is famous for, which means 'sea town' in Tamil.
"I knew that I had past generations living in India, but haven't realised how strong our connections were.
"So, it turned out that from 1793, we had four generations living here in Cuddalore and one of my great-great-great grandmothers was an Indian named Aria, who was married to one of my great-great-great grandfathers," Branson was quoted as saying.
Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nat...ys-he-has-indian-heritage#Rxr7JwkJbT4rmxMA.99
Remainers vote were split between labour and lib dems.
Never choose a Hamas lover like Corbyn and @Ang4MohTrump !
Ethnically diverse? All I see are CECAs!Britain’s most ethnically diverse Cabinet ever under boris johnson
By Diversity UK Editor | July 25, 2019
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has selected the most ethnically diverse Cabinet the UK has ever had with Sajid Javid becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer; Priti Patel as Home Secretary; Alok Sharma as International Development Secretary; Rishi Sunak as Chief Secretary to Treasury; James Cleverley as Party chairman and Kwasi Kwarteng as Minister for business, energy and industrial strategy. These Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Ministers represent 18% of cabinet. According to the Institute for Government, there have been only five full cabinet members from such backgrounds ever. Some 14% of the population in England and Wales come from ethnic minority backgrounds, according to the 2011 census.
Ethnically diverse? All I see are CECAs!
No lah, the bottom right chap looks like Lukaku.
map and chart sexplain it all.
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