Boris Johnson landslide, Corbyn quits as election leader

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It looks from my perspective Britain is on a roll.

A majority of Australians support closer ties with Britain once it breaks away from the European Union, despite being largely ambivalent about the impact of Brexit on their own lives.

A new YouGov poll found nearly two-thirds of Australians back freer movement between Australia and Britain after Brexit, while 56 per cent believe it is in the nation’s interests to reach a post-Brexit trade deal with Britain. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation ... 6bf73edc5c

Australia and Great Britain will hopefully mutually gain enormously through trade deals and closer ties.

The election was held on 12 December. So if you look at the change of the FTSE 100 since the closing on 12 December:
12 Dec --- 7216
13 Dec --- 7273
16 Dec --- 7353
17 Dec --- 7519
18 Dec --- 7525
Total increase in stock prices 309 which represents a 4.3% increase since the election. It looks from my perspective Britain is on a roll.

There is a conflict of interest in terms of land-use Vs conservation. A great example is in the last federal election when thousands of regional Queenslanders turned their backs on Labor because they thought Shorten would revoke mining rights to Adani's Carmichael Coal mine. An utterly selfish act which bought no benefit since Adani haven't hired anyone since Morrison won the election and of course country Queenslanders are happy to keep burning coal.


Not sure if you realise but the state Coalition governments and their country ministers are largely responsible for not enacting proper fire management practices which has contributed to the bushfires in NSW. Fire service chiefs across Australia have unilaterally tried to meet with your hero Scott Morrison but he is avoiding addressing their concerns and ignoring their emergency summit because that would mean he would have to raise why the coalition (including the Nationals) are happy to keep burning coal and raising the global temperature.


Open cut mining is an incredible eyesore. sustainable farming practice and mining rehabilitation is a joke. I spent my childhood in WA and remember how the mining industry spread Jarrah dieback killing half the native forest.


Do you know why mental health is a major problem in country electorates? why is youth suicide such an issue? people are isolated and lonely, farmers might have their networks (like your parents) but for people who work in regional/rural areas unless you were born there you end up isolated and alone. Don't try and glamorise some mythic country folktale that everyone is mates and they have your back...I've lived in rural areas and people are not friendly to outsiders. Kids who grow up in the country leave to the city first chance they get.



Where did I say one family? I went to an expensive private school and knew hundreds of families from all over Melbourne and they are all of the same elitist snobby ilk. I know many of them who were psychopathic bullies, selfish and self-indulgent who now hold position of power and one bloke like to murder animals for fun (he should have gone to jail) is now director of medical services. I pity his patients. In a Harry Potter world it would be exactly like the slytherin house but only worse.

My only friends in school were international students because they were at least genuine and good hearted.

Who cares, Australia's future is with Asia not Europe....

The FTSE 100 is actually a fairly weak indicator of how the UK economy is doing as most of the companies on the index are multinationals whose profits are generally made outside the UK especially when the pound is in a weaker state as has been the case in recent years. The FTSE 250, however, is largely made up of UK companies with little or no presence in other markets so this index is actually a more reliable indicator of the state of the UK economy.

The sooner we can decouple our reliance, to some degree at least, on that Authoritarian country the better.
Every bit helps.

One of the boys who was in the same house,but a year above me, at Felsted is now a respected economist. Another,from a different house, with the same birthdate as me was the Tory MP for Chichester.They weren't bad bullies, but a lot of other boys were.
I wouldn't call my family 'elite' just solid middle class. My father has had a Who's who entry since 1977 /1978 .

As for me I've lived in the kind of housing people on benefits live on for the last 36 years . I've hardly mixed at all with 'posh' people .

Thanks for sharing. Many Australians get the impression Britain is still a class based society and your "pedigree" determines where you work as much as your paper qualification. I certainly think the British working class are more conservative than their Australian equivalents.

The left in British electoral politics has become more fragmented, particularly in the past decade; those with economically left values are increasingly divided by cultural attitudes. It will be vital for Labour to find ways to bridge this growing divide if the party is to be electorally successful.

Liberal-left positions on diversity, immigration and European integration, as well as areas such as criminal justice, security and human rights, are appealing to middle-class professionals and students, but often grate with the social conservatism of traditional working-class communities.

Going off on a tangent.
As a person from a solid middle class family who has drifted down the social scale due to chronic, severe mental illness this raises the question of how much class should be based on where you end up or on what values you hold.

My parents were fairly socially liberal conservative my father , and a mother who was a liberal/conservative voter . I have always been to the left, politically , of both - pro remain ,pro immigration, anti capital punishment, pro diversity etc

My middle class socially liberal values have stayed intact despite my falling down the social totem pole .

This is largely Australia's fault. Previous conservative and labour governments since the 1960s have never invested in innovation or manufacturing which would have created industries that make us global competitive. Instead they continue to invest in primary industries on coal, minerals, agro-forestry and fishing where we rely on Asian markets (China is only one trading partner but certainly our biggest).

Kim Beasley and Barry Jones wanted Labour to adopt a knowledge based economy policy where investment shift from traditional land based exports to manufacturing. It's never been adopted.

Even when the armed forces get contracts to building submarines or planes we send the money to France, Sweden or the US.

We have made and are making serious dosh through mining.
Don't quote me, but I think iron ore and coal exports sustain our standard of living on their own.
Without them, we would probably have to go the Greek way and sodomise the pensions and welfare payment bigtime.
Young people, yes I know you aren't one of them critters, are clueless about what would happen economically to the people who could least afford it.
And China is bullying us on this front.