Owl says Goodbye …
So, the results are in.
East Devon and the country stay blue.
5 years of a wet-behind-the-ears and dim Swire clone for East Devon Jupp (or James, still not sure!)
5 years of a lying, narcissistic Trump clone for England.
5 years of a schismatic (dis)United Kingdom.
Owl has had enough*
East Devon has the representation it deserves:
A crap TiggerTory council
A crap new MP
A crap government
Thanks to Lib Dems and Greens who ensured a Tory victory
(thanks Rylance and Gent – though developer Gent really won’t mind much as he will still be a big winner developer-wise)
So, THEY at least will be pleased to hear that Owl has thrown in the towel and is flying off to pastures new.
Enjoy the next 5 years – Owl hopes you get what you deserve.
It was a pleasure to serve you – until this week!
Goodbye, au revoir, sayonara, adios, Auf Wiedersehen, Arrivederci …. I’m off …. RIGHT NOW.
* The blog will remain open as an archive until 31 December 2019 and will then be deleted
OWL HAS LEFT EAST DEVON …
Still time to vote -polling stations close at 10 pm
This reindeer dog will be very upset if you don’t! Don’t upset the reindeer dog!
You have 5 hours to cast your vote if you have not yet done so
Man with dog who will do ANYTHING to get away from him
Photo credit: Dylan Martinez/Reuters
Polling day
Jupp with his minders – including a very, very rich, elderly Tory MP in a towm=n which, thanks to his Government, has a lot of sub-standard houses and no centre:
Claire Wright’s local, ordinary supporters in an ordinary, local venue:
Boris Johnson too frit to vote in his own constituency
Huffington Pist photo
“General Election 2019: Boris Johnson Kicked Off Polling Day… By Not Voting For Himself”
Remember this?
To the person who says you can’t electioneer on election day …
” … restrictions, spelled out in the Ofcom code, apply to all broadcasters including the BBC, Sky, Channel 4 and ITV. They apply to community radio stations, music channels, and political panel shows alike.
However, these rules actually don’t apply to newspapers – as you’d probably guess by the fact that national papers can actually call on their readers to vote for particular parties.”
Source: Wikipedia
and
“Silent periods have also been considered for online political advertising. The UK currently bans ‘political advertisements’ from TV or radio; parties are instead given limited airtime for party political broadcasts. Conversely, print media ads, for example, posters or newspapers, whose principal function is to influence voters in elections or referendums are exempt from these rules, and are not subject to any black-out period.”
https://www.article19.org/resources/uk-we-need-to-change-the-rules-on-election-day-reporting/
Owlis not advertising and, if it helps, feel free to onsider East Devon Watch as an online newspaper.
Why vote tactically FAQ
Vote, vote vote
REMEMBER – a vote for ANY other candidate ib East Devon is a gifted vote to the Conservatives.
CLAIRE WRIGHT – a warrior for everyone in East Devon protecting the NHS, the environment, education, young and old, rich or poor. Cut her political teeth in the scandal-strewn Tory EDDC and forced them to bring the scandals into the light. Stands for a fair confirmatory vote on Brexit.
WHY not others?
Jupp – Swire clone, Dominic Raab protege, parachuted in one month ago because there was no suitable Tory in East Devon – frit like Boris Johnson, too scared to attend all hustings, surrounded by minders, unavailable to anyone who wasn’t carefully chosen for photo opportunities! Was a remainer, now conveniently a Brexiter.
Rylance: vote Rylance, have no choice about Brexit because her yellow Tory Boss will cancel Article 50. The same boss who voted enthusiastically with Tories in coalition – voted & times for bedroom tax, for the Health and Social Care Act 2012 that accelerated privatisation of the NHS and for unsupervised funding to greedy academy schools.
The others: no chance in East Devon, ever.
Time for change …
Watch for dodgy returning officers!
Claire Wright … fighting for East Devon for YEARS not a few weeks (Jupp)
STILL undecided? A few thoughts …
Still wavering? “Boris Johnson pulls out of another BBC interview on day before election”
“Boris Johnson has ducked out of another high-profile interview as the general election vote looms, it has been claimed.
The prime minister’s team had told BBC Radio 2 he would “very likely” sit for an interview with Jeremy Vine, but on Wednesday backed away from the idea, the broadcaster said in a tweet.
Mr Vine tweeted: “Boris Johnson has refused to follow the other six leaders who have taken part in the leader interviews @BBCRadio2.
“His staff constantly told my producers – until this morning – that he was ‘very likely’ to come on. Today we were told he couldn’t, and no reason was given.”
The claim came less than a week after Mr Johnson was lambasted live on air by Andrew Neil, the BBC’s attack-dog interviewer who he had snubbed previously….”
Still undecided? “Food banks now outnumber McDonald’s in Britain”
2019 in Britain:
1,249 McDonald’s
500 Burger King’s
500 Starbucks
over 2,000 Food Banks
“UK’s post-Brexit trade at risk as WTO’s top court shuts down” (thanks to Trump)
“The UK is at risk of being left at the mercy of the EU in its trading relationship in a year’s time after Donald Trump engineered the shutdown of the World Trade Organization’s top court.
The US president’s refusal to approve the appointment or reappointment of any judges on the appellate body has left it unable to function.
From midnight on Wednesday, the WTO court will no longer adjudicate on trade disputes, putting the world at risk of a free trade free-for-all in which the largest blocs have greater freedom to use their economic weight to do as they wish.
Countries or trade blocs who have not negotiated bilateral trade deals containing dispute resolution mechanisms will have no independent means for resolving their problems with each other.
If the UK leaves the EU on 31 January, Johnson has said he will not extend an 11-month transition period in which he wants to negotiate a comprehensive free trade deal with the bloc.
A failure to complete those complex talks by the end of that period would result in the UK trading with the EU entirely on WTO terms, including the imposition of tariffs and quotas, from 1 January 2021.
Under the terms of the transition period, the UK is to remain in the single market and EU customs union temporarily.
Should the UK, once outside of those structures, come to believe that the EU is imposing vexatious barriers to trade, there would be no recourse to legal redress for the British government.
The CBI has said the shutdown of the WTO court will leave global trade “like a football match without referee”. André Sapir, a senior fellow at the Brussels-based thinktank Bruegel, said the UK would be left in “legal limbo”. “It is in the UK’s interests for a solution to be found,” he said.
“Relying on WTO rules doesn’t look so great this morning,” one EU official said. “The WTO buccaneering Brexiteer alternative looks like hubris.”
A number of senior Conservatives, including the former cabinet minister John Redwood, have previously championed leaving the EU without a trade deal.
The EU is looking at building a shadow arbitration system as an interim solution but there is no agreement as yet within the bloc or internationally.
The WTO was established in 1995 to deal with trade disputes. The UK will become an independent member if it leaves the EU.
Phil Hogan, the European commissioner for trade, who will oversee the EU’s negotiations with the UK, said: “With the appellate body removed from the equation, we have lost an enforceable dispute settlement system that has been an independent guarantor – for large and small economies alike – that the WTO’s rules are applied impartially.”
Boris Johnson and the environment
