The UK General Election 2019.

On Thursday, December 12th (12/12/19) Britain will go to the polls in a General Election.

It's second General Election in as many years.

Something which is made all the more annoying by the fact that in 2011 a law was passed. Promising that we would only have to go through this once every five years.

So it's tempting to ask whose fault all this is. And who is to blame.

The truth is that it's yours. You the British voter.

You know what you did.

You believed the polls and the media when they said Theresa May's Conservative Party would win a massive majority of more than 300 MP's. So you all decided to vote for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party.

Thinking that would mean that Theresa May would be the Prime Minister. Only with a bloody nose for inflicting another General Election on you. Just two years after the last.

The problem is that Theresa May has rather a strong nose. So your anger bounced off. And look at you now.

Your other mistake was to believe politicians. When they tried to convince you that the 2017 General Election was going to be about something other than Brexit.

The same is true of the 2019 General Election.

I don't care what politicians have been promising they're going to do if elected. All the money they're going to spend and the laws they're going to pass. Frankly I've not been paying it much attention at all.

That's because none of it is going to happen. Until Brexit is sorted. One way or another.

If you want to stop Brexit you should vote for Jo Swinson's Liberal Democrats (LibDems).

After all the Liberal Democrats are the party for people who just can't make a decision. So they desperately need the EU to keep making all the decisions for them.

If you want to see Brexit delivered than your choice is more difficult.

You certainly can't vote for Boris Johnson's Conservative Party. After all Boris Johnson had the opportunity to "Get Brexit Done" back on October 31st (31/10/19).

Sure Parliament had passed its Act of Surrender. That though only forced Britain to seek a delay to Brexit. It did not stop Britain from attaching reasonable conditions to that delay.

On October 18th 2019 (18/10/19) the EU blocked Albania and North Macedonia from joining. Concerns over democracy and Macedonia's sham referendum on its name change being one of the main reasons.

So the EU certainly wasn't in any mood to keep Britain as a member in defiance of a referendum.

Boris Johnson just needed to give them a tiny, little something to work with. Britain quite reasonably exercising its veto over the appointment of EU Commissioners would certainly be no little thing.

Instead, in his vanity, Boris Johnson decided not to do that. All so he could fight an election campaign under the slogan; "Get Brexit Done."

If you want to see Brexit delivered the obvious choice would be to vote for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party. Even if, having survived a plane crash, Nigel Farage does now just really want to retire in victory.

The problem is that the Brexit Party are a brand new, single issue party. They've never been elected to any local councils, let alone the national Parliament.

They are though really the sane wing of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). However UKIP have still never been elected to the national Parliament.

So I think it is highly unlikely that the Brexit Party will win the Parliamentary majority needed to form the next government.

The risk for people who want to see Brexit delivered is that we will see a repeat of what happened in May's EU Parliament election.

Some people will vote for the Brexit Party. Others will be as stupid as Boris Johnson clearly thinks that they are and vote Conservative.

This split of the Brexit vote means that only the third most popular party in each seat will go on to win.

At the EU Parliament election this was the LibDems. At this election, particularly across the north of England, the concern is that it will be the Labour Party.

So Boris Johnson clearly doesn't care whether Brexit is done or not. But if you want to see Brexit delivered then you do need to hold-your-nose and vote Conservative

As for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party. I'm not a viciously anti-Semitic Deobandi Muslim. So I can think of absolutely no reason why anybody would want to vote for them.

I recently wrote about how I came to meet Jeremy Corbyn. But never finished the story.

It ends with Jeremy Corbyn standing outside a Courthouse for hours in the rain. In the hope that I would emerge and explain to him what was going on. As usual he had absolutely no idea what was going on in his own party.

At both this election, and in 2017, the Conservatives have attempted to smear Labour by calling Jeremy Corbyn a Communist. Linking him to the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Even accusing him of being a Russian spy.

Strangely though they seemed to have completely missed Labour's links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). But then that would raise some deeply uncomfortable questions for the likes of Andrew Mitchell, Dominic Grieve and Tom Tugendhat.

The sad truth though is that Jeremy Corbyn is just a bit thick.

Yet is still amongst the absolute best the Labour Party has to offer.



18:00 on 9/12/19 (UK date).