PETER HITCHENS: I used to love elections. But now I say a plague on all their houses!

Since the EU ‘Brexit’ referendum (in which the vote to ‘exit’ was the majority choice of the UK) the recent parliamentary debacles on the subject of actually leaving the EU has confirmed the obvious and already well-established fact that Scottish dislike for all things British, and particularly English, runs right to the top of their governing body.
Having spent three and a half years of my military ‘twelve’ and then another four years of my civilian life working in many parts of Scotland I was always bemused by the extraordinary level of hostility – bordering on hatred - towards the English by the many Scots whose paths I crossed in the course of my work there!
In light of the SNP’s incessant demands for another referendum on Scottish independence, even while at the very same time voting to deny the result of the referendum of 2016, it wouldn’t surprise me if that hostility now becomes mutual and will seek to overturn and block the outcome of any future successful Scottish referendum to leave the United Kingdom

When the press and medias (owned and directed by the real gaffers; the elites) when they throw their weight behind the Tories you know that Boris’s ‘deal’ is good for the EU and bad for Britain!
It would seem that the only people telling the truth is the Brexit party – and see how the Tories have doctored their logo to look like the Brexit party logo. Every dirty trick in the book!

I had already resolved on abstaining from this election, so I am glad to see an article which reflects my anger with Westminster. Frankly, I am astonished at conservatives still placing their shattered trust in the Conservative Party-- but perhaps I should refrain from judging, since I did vote for Theresa May in 2017. I lived to regret that choice. I refuse to shovel coal into this sodden furnace any longer.

C. Morrison "The shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, reported the “discriminatory and irresponsible” comments to the chief whip"

Rayner was a home help before she became an MP which apparently demonstrates her caring nature for people. Sadly, she doesn't exhibit much in the way of kindness to anyone who disagrees with her absurd plans for spending to create the biggest welfare dependent state in history. She also doesn't appear to exhibit much in the way of common sense so the usual default for such people is to resort to emotional arguments in which any opponent is made out to be an evil supporter of Adolf Hitler should they not think that the best way to run an economy would be for low paid British workers to subsidise an army of fatherless families and tax dodgers bumming around watching GMTV and complaining that their Universal Credit scams haven't been paid out in full. If the economy was left to Rayner and Swinson there would be no economy because scivving about doing no work and making stupid choices would be even more highly rewarded than it is now.

JeremyBonington- Jagworth, C. Morris on.
As I became a mum in the early 70's and I was a young mum, it's easy for me to compare then and now.
You mention mums interviewed on telly.
I saw a clip Friday being asked how they would vote. Immediate reaction from me was the rather, large size of these ladies, sitting on mats while their young were moving about.
We didn't have "Sure Start". I like many other mums seemed more confident in our individual parenting. Working class girl, confident in reading and a no one needed to do things for you.
In those days it was normal to see mums and babies out with prams, facing mum, learning facial expressions and empathy. No former minister like Penny Mordant proposing to have an emoji to show like or displeasure on social media as restraint has gone leading to all sorts of inappropriate language and behaviour becoming widespread, in the real and Internet world.
Surely it's common sense you instil this early? We knew that.
Then our young toddling by the puschair, noticing, chatting, learning how to socialise.
Brings me to size, because diabetes is now high on demand for N. H S. intervention, because it is such a huge change to see so many overweight mums. Of course size has increased generally.
When PH talks of the 1983 elections then, that was the beginning of my realisation that education was being dumbed down as a parent of you staring my old secondary.
Surely if we have such a problem with parenting and that is backed up as we see police becoming social workers, the more they retreat from the beat, then Sure Start is after the horse has bolted.
Bring back domestic science and practical skills. Less see education and parent craft instead.
Simply how to care for a newborn, how to toilet train, how to teach dexterity, all the tried and tested. Nothing political.
Prevention as in crime is better than pouring moment into after the crime.

Mrs.B. | 12 November 2019 at 08:22 AM :
*** When I was 21 in 1975, the ever growing political union was not was being voted for. I believe the closer political aim was witheld from us in documents released later.***

The political establishment have also kept rather quiet about that sort of forced convergence being part of the NATO (New American Territories Overseas) entrapment, right from its beginning.
What is now called the EU is just a non-military branch of that process.
Only one economic agenda, only one social agenda permitted ... from IMF and World Bank imposed "privatisations" (ie. transnational corporate rip-offs) to TTIP type betrayals .... the US-led "Chicago-school" economics of criminality, looting and exploitation, which the EU has not opposed.
Yet they contrive to call a choice for the electorate between which bunch of differentially badged -- but otherwise very much the same -- political establishment fatcats are going to get the best places at the trough, "democracy".
Now with ever more added pc and identity-politics....
But never mind -- we are all increasingly 'free' to agree.