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    President Reagan and then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher got together and put an end to the Soviet Union. I like to think rekindling the love affair between the UK and the U.S. will put an end to the EU.


    Trump, UK's Boris Johnson to meet on sidelines of G-7 summit
    By Morgan Chalfant
    08/22/19 03:30 PM EDT

    https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...-of-g-7-summit

    Way back when in 1993 when the Maastricht Treaty legitimated the European Union I was convinced the EU would implode in 10 years. I missed the mark by 16 years. Happily, the end is near.

    One reminder of a dark chapter in the EU’s sordid love affair with the New World Order crowd. It was much like Hitler’s armies sweeping across Europe when President Clinton’s bunghole buddy, Tony Blair, had a good chance of becoming the president of the European Union.

    Tony Blair and the race for the presidency
    Mark Mardell | 22:17 UK time, Wednesday, 6 February 2008

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/therepor...ce_for_th.html

    Blair never got the job. At the time I felt more sorry for Bubba than I did for Blair. What is a global government guy supposed to do when fate refuses to cooperate?
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    Agenda 21 was a pipe dream for global socialists.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    I like to think rekindling the love affair between the UK and the U.S. will put an end to the EU.
    Brexit is taking shape:

    U.S. President Donald Trump and Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson have predicted “fantastic mini-deals” and “a very big trade deal” after Brexit at a G7 meeting, with the American saying he believes the Tory MP is “the right man” to deliver it.

    “He needs no advice. He’s the right man for the job, I’ve been saying that for a long time,” the American leader told reporters when asked if he had any advice for his British counterpart at a meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit in France.

    “Didn’t make your predecessor very happy,” he added in reference to Theresa May, looking across the table to Johnson with a grin, “but I’ve been saying that for a long time. He’s the right man for the job.”

    “You’re on message there!” joked the British prime minister, winning a laugh from the American delegation.

    G7: Trump Says Boris ‘Right Man for the Job’ on Brexit, Both Hail UK-U.S. Deal
    by Jack Montgomery
    25 Aug 2019

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/201...s-uk-u-s-deal/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    Brexit is taking shape:
    Agent 006 & 7/8ths reports that Queen Elizabeth gave BOJO a big shovel with instructions to dig Brexit’s grave:


    Queen Elizabeth has approved Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s request to suspend Parliament from early September to October 14 — just before the Brexit deadline.

    In taking the controversial step of advising the Queen to call a halt to Parliament, Johnson has shortened the amount of time lawmakers have to oppose his no-deal Brexit plans to leave the European Union.

    Halting Parliament is known as “proroguing.” It is a power that rests with the Queen, and is carried out on the advice of the prime minister, the BBC explains. But, in doing so, it reduces the influence of Members of Parliament (MPs).

    Johnson proposed that Parliament be suspended from early September until October 14, when it would return to hear the Queen’s speech of new legislation and signal a new Parliamentary sitting. Johnson wrote that he wanted the Queen’s speech “to bring forward a new bold and ambitious domestic legislative agenda for the renewal of our country after Brexit.”

    The suspension now only gives MPs opposed to Johnson a couple of weeks before the U.K. is set to leave the EU. (Furthermore, MPs will have only just returned from their summer break on September 3.)

    At the moment, the U.K. will leave the EU without a deal. Some of those in favor of leaving want to do so only with a deal, while others hoping to remain in the EU see any delay as a chance to avoid pulling out altogether. Johnson was elected as leader of the Conservative Party and therefore became prime minister on the grounds of leaving on the October 31 date, whatever the outcome of any new talks.

    A Privy Council meeting confirming the move is said to have taken place at Balmoral, where the Queen is based during her summer and early autumn break.

    Queen Elizabeth Approves Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Request to Suspend Parliament Ahead of Brexit
    By Simon Perry
    August 28, 2019 10:06 AM

    https://people.com/royals/boris-john...-ahead-brexit/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    Way back when in 1993 when the Maastricht Treaty legitimated the European Union I was convinced the EU would implode in 10 years. I missed the mark by 16 years. Happily, the end is near.
    As near as I understand the UK’s parliament Brexit’s demise is at hand:

    It all goes to underline that the British public is with Johnson, they love what he is doing to put the squeeze to the European Union, they know that President Trump has Boris Johnson's back, and they wants to 'get on with it' with Brexit. The Tories are now soaring in the polls and should beat handily any leftist seeking to overturn the results of the Brexit referendum.

    September 7, 2019
    Hey, lefties! Are you ready for, say, U.K. Lord High Chancellor Nigel Farage?
    By Monica Showalter

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...el_farage.html

    I am betting on BOJO because he does not have UK judges torpedoing him the way our activist federal judges sink President Trump’s policies at every opportunity.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post



    It all goes to underline that the British public is with Johnson, they love what he is doing to put the squeeze to the European Union...
    The UK is deeply divided over Brexit.

    Do you read the news? Parliament gave Boris a very hard time.

    But the real reason I am replying is that Nigel is in Putin's pocket, same one Trump is in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    I am betting on BOJO because he does not have UK judges torpedoing him the way our activist federal judges sink President Trump’s policies at every opportunity.
    I lost the bet:

    Boris Johnson's suspension of Parliament ruled unlawful by UK Supreme Court
    Danielle Wallace
    4-5 minutes

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/boris-...-supreme-court
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    President Reagan and then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher got together and put an end to the Soviet Union. I like to think rekindling the love affair between the UK and the U.S. will put an end to the EU.


    If Boris Johnson wins the general election this week, Brexit is likely and his relationship with Trump and the US could blossom. AFP via Getty Images
    https://thenypost.files.wordpress.co...8&h=410&crop=1


    Most important, he supports Boris Johnson’s cardinal policy and the defining issue of the Conservative Party’s campaign: Britain’s withdrawal from the EU.


    A Boris Johnson election victory would be a win for US-UK relations
    By Augustus Howard
    December 7, 2019 | 12:20pm | Updated December 7, 2019 | 1:49pm

    https://nypost.com/2019/12/07/a-bori...-uk-relations/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post


    President Reagan and then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher got together and put an end to the Soviet Union. I like to think rekindling the love affair between the UK and the U.S. will put an end to the EU.

    XXXXX

    Way back when in 1993 when the Maastricht Treaty legitimated the European Union I was convinced the EU would implode in 10 years. I missed the mark by 16 years. Happily, the end is near.

    One reminder of a dark chapter in the EU’s sordid love affair with the New World Order crowd. It was much like Hitler’s armies sweeping across Europe when President Clinton’s bunghole buddy, Tony Blair, had a good chance of becoming the president of the European Union.


    Tony Blair and the race for the presidency
    Mark Mardell | 22:17 UK time, Wednesday, 6 February 2008

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/therepor...ce_for_th.html

    Blair never got the job. At the time I felt more sorry for Bubba than I did for Blair. What is a global government guy supposed to do when fate refuses to cooperate?
    I am pretty sure UK voters do not want to rekindle a love affair with an old hag:

    Hillary Clinton is back, and so is Chris Steele, this time in the United Kingdom. They are no less than implying that current Conservative (Tory) Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a Russian plant. And it’s no mistake that these allegations are being made just before a U.K. general election on December 12 that will decide the fate of Brexit.

    Hillary Clinton, Chris Steele Allege Boris Johnson Is A Russian Stooge
    By Willis L. Krumholz
    December 11, 2019

    https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/11...ussian-stooge/
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    Britain is also in increasing lockstep with the United States on issues such as China's technological interference, declaring its intention to ban Huawei from future 5G network development.

    The love affair appears to be in lockstep:

    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post


    President Reagan and then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher got together and put an end to the Soviet Union. I like to think rekindling the love affair between the UK and the U.S. will put an end to the EU.
    I understand Great Britain’s loyalty to its former Crown Colony, but I would not take in anybody from Hong Kong until they prove beyond a doubt they are not advocating democracy:


    Meanwhile, some American policymakers are actively considering similar measures for Hong Kong's political refugees.


    U.K. Will Offer Citizenship to Escaping Hong Kongers
    Jack Beyrer
    July 22, 2020 1:15 PM

    https://freebeacon.com/national-secu...-hong-kongers/

    I can only pray that lockstep includes Great Britain’s military assistance when China invades Taiwan:


    LOOMING THREAT China ‘is gearing up to invade Taiwan’ amid calls in US for American troops to defend island if it’s attacked
    Christy Cooney
    22 Jul 2020, 14:19Updated: 22 Jul 2020, 14:34

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/121931...defend-island/

    NOTE: Great Britain taking in Hong Kongers is domestic policy. Defending Taiwan is U.S. foreign policy. More so when defending Taiwan means paying a debt:


    Chicoms have every reason to love Americans, while the Chinese people have every reason to hate Americans. In simple terms, it was FDR’s China hands that gave the Chinese people to the Communists in 1949. Add that blunder on top of Americans cashing in on European imperialism in China:

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...22#post3600622
    The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    Britain is also in increasing lockstep with the United States on issues such as China's technological interference, declaring its intention to ban Huawei from future 5G network development.

    The love affair appears to be in lockstep:



    I understand Great Britain’s loyalty to its former Crown Colony, but I would not take in anybody from Hong Kong until they prove beyond a doubt they are not advocating democracy:


    Meanwhile, some American policymakers are actively considering similar measures for Hong Kong's political refugees.


    U.K. Will Offer Citizenship to Escaping Hong Kongers
    Jack Beyrer
    July 22, 2020 1:15 PM

    https://freebeacon.com/national-secu...-hong-kongers/

    I can only pray that lockstep includes Great Britain’s military assistance when China invades Taiwan:


    LOOMING THREAT China ‘is gearing up to invade Taiwan’ amid calls in US for American troops to defend island if it’s attacked
    Christy Cooney
    22 Jul 2020, 14:19Updated: 22 Jul 2020, 14:34

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/121931...defend-island/

    NOTE: Great Britain taking in Hong Kongers is domestic policy. Defending Taiwan is U.S. foreign policy. More so when defending Taiwan means paying a debt:


    Chicoms have every reason to love Americans, while the Chinese people have every reason to hate Americans. In simple terms, it was FDR’s China hands that gave the Chinese people to the Communists in 1949. Add that blunder on top of Americans cashing in on European imperialism in China:

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...22#post3600622
    Thanks for another fine post, Flanders.

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    Default GOVERN: conduct the policy, actions, and affairs of (a state, organization, or people

    The U.S. Census Bureau has estimated New York City's population at 8,336,817, as of July 1, 2019.


    2940012345813_p0_v1_s1200x630.jpg


    Ireland population 4.904 million



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    Quote Originally Posted by ParachuteAdams View Post
    The U.S. Census Bureau has estimated New York City's population at 8,336,817, as of July 1, 2019.


    2940012345813_p0_v1_s1200x630.jpg


    Ireland population 4.904 million


    To ParachuteAdams: Taiwan’s population is approximately 24 million. What is your point?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    To ParachuteAdams: Taiwan’s population is approximately 24 million. What is your point?
    I LOVED Gilligan's Island when I was a kid.

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    Default This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

    Great Britain interfering. They're going to hurt themselves. Look how big Russia is.
    as much as you want to believe so. It can't all possibly be governed.






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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    Taiwan’s population is approximately 24 million. What is your point?

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