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A series of ethical scandals forced PM Boris Johnson to resign

This is a historic moment, but should not be a surprise for someone, because Thatcher and May did the same. They all survived a confidence vote, but only for a short period of time. And now, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is doing it. To resign. A series of ethical scandals forced PM Boris Johnson to step down. Even his most stalwart supporters abandoned him.

Margaret Thatcher resigned in 1990. Tony Blair stepped down in 2007. David Cameron in 2016, and Theresa May in 2019, and they`re all part of intense political drama. Theresa May was tearful as she expressed her gratitude for being able to serve the UK she loved.

In December 2019, Boris Johnson won a landslide victory on the promise of delivering a Brexit deal and leading the UK to a bright future outside the European Union. But Brexit and Covid-19 made it very difficult for Johnson and the UK.

Johnson described the job as a PM as the best job in the world, and he wanted to continue. But after nearly 60 members of his government stepped down, he was forced to do the same.

He had a speech in front of the famous 10 Downing Street door on Thursday and said that he would be stepping down. Just like his predecessors Thatcher and May when they delivered their own resignation addresses.

«It is clear now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore, a new prime minister,» Boris Johnson said.

His opponents said it was good news for Great Britain that Johnson decided to resign. They also believe that it should have happened long ago.

He was responsible for lies, scandals, and fraud on an industrial scale, Stamer said on Twitter.

Former British Prime Minister John Major said it would be «unwise and may be unsustainable» for Johnson to remain in the office of prime minister for long while a new Conservative leader is chosen. He too suggested Raab could serve as the acting prime minister.

The last thing PM Boris Johnson said in his speech on Thursday was that «the future together is golden».

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The EU deal is about a method of avoiding the return of a physical Northern Ireland border

Prime Minister Theresa May have spent over two and a half-year to negotiate with EU to leave the European Union. Later on today, the Parliament will vote on the deal and the question is not whether Mrs May loses but how badly it will be.

The opposition party will vote against her deal on Tuesday, and a defeat by more than 100 will be the worst since 1924. In other words; the Brexit deal is set to be rejected in the biggest Parliament defeat for a British government in 95 years, according to Bloomberg. 10% of the business is with the EU and 90% is outside of the EU.

More than 30 million people voted on the EU referendum in the U.K. Leave won by 51,9% to 48,1%, and the referendum turnout was 71,8%. The referendum was held on Thursday 23 June 2016. Since then, Theresa May have made a deal with the European Union.

England voted for Brexit by 53,4% to 46,6%, and Wales voted for Brexit with leave getting 52,5% vs Remain 47,5%. Scotland and Northland Ireland both wanted to stay in the EU. Scotland voted to Remain by 62% vs 38%, while Northern Ireland voted for a Brexit at 44,2%.

The idea to the European Union started right after World War II, and the idea is to avoid a war with each other by having European countries to trade together.

There are 28 countries in the EuroZone and that is not the same as the European Union which is «only» 19 countries with its own parliament, sets of rules and the same currency; the Euro.

The EU is an economic and political partnership and the idea is that countries which trade together were more likely to avoid to go to war with each other. People from the member states can move over the borders without any questions and so can goods and money.

Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty gave PM Theresa May and the EU two years to come to an agreement. Both parties scheduled to leave the EU at 11pm UK time on Friday, 29 March 2019, but a European court has ruled that the UK can decide to stop the process. It can also be extended if all the 28 EU members agree.

Communist Jeremy Corbyn wants to try to force a general election if there is no deal later today, and if the UK`s main opposition party Labour succeeds, they wants to go back to Brussels and negotiate a new version of Brexit.

PM Theresa May has warned Conservative Mps thinking of voting against the deal she has reached with the EU that they risk «no Brexit at all». That happened in another referendum which was backed by the SNP, the Green Party, Plaid Cymru, Lib Dems, some Conservatives and a large group of Labour Mps. They want the public to be given the final say, with the option to remain in the EU.

There is a 585-page withdrawal agreement. It covers the cost for the UK to leave the EU and that is an estimated £39 billion. It also proposes a method of avoiding the return of a physical Northern Ireland border.

The Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party will vote against the deal. They have a 310 mile land border with the EU and this is a point that dominated the Brexit talk. Nobody wants surveillance cameras at the border because the question is free cross-border flow of trade and people.

So, is it gonna be a hard border, soft border or no border at all? Both, the UK and EU agreed to put in place a «backstop» to ensure there is no hard border whatever the outcome of the trade talk between them. This is a safety net wich is good for both parties.

All the opposition parties in the House of Commons and the Labour party have said they will vote against the deal. In addition; some reports say as many as 100 are also opposed to it. The Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party, who PM Theresa May relies on to keep her in power, have also said they will vote against it.

PM Theresa May argues that if her deal is voted down, Britain risks leaving without a deal, and some think it will cause chaos at the ports and damage industry. Alternatively, she says, there will be «no Brexit at all».

Mrs May need at least 320 votes to pass and so far it seems to be difficult. Some say that the deal they have today is not what they voted for. Others say it is even worse than staying in the EU.

Nobody know for sure whats gonna happen if the Parliament rejects the Brexit plan, but there are a few scenarios; they can leave the EU without a deal or they can have another vote in Parliament. They can also go for another EU referendum or a general election, or Mps can remove Theresa May and start to renegotiate a deal with the EU.

If some of this happens, the Brexit date of 29 March will therefore be delayed by a few months and that should be enough to renegotiate a deal if EU agree.

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Maria Zakharova Tells Who Is Really Behind The Salisbury Anti-Russian Campaign

The World`s most powerful leader did it again. He won the Russian election, and there is no doubt; Russian people love him. Nearly 80 percent of the Russian people voted for Vladimir Putin. A very strong leader.

But it is the nerve agent people spend most of the time on at the moment. UK, Germany, France and the US blame on Russia and Putin for the attack. But there is one problem; They can`t prove it. Maria Zakharova, the official representative to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), and the director of Information and Press Department, talked about it on Russian TV last week.

Maria Zakharova said Theresa May has absolutely no proof, and I don`t know who briefs her. She said what we hear in MSM is a classic example of the British propaganda machine. A well-oiled machine operating at maximum capacity.

They have all the tools to share information about this or to request it from Russia, which they need to do since theyre blaming us, she said. But theyre not doing any of that. What they are doing is making claims and statements.

I want to tell you that not one legal mechanism, legal mechanism of international law has been used by the UK in this case. It`s a grand international provocation.

This is not the fist time this is happening. We have cases of Litvinenko, Berezovsky and Perepilichny. Nobody knows anything, and everything is covered in this fog of secrecy. Everything is classified.

First, they launch an insane propaganda campaign, then they seal the data. Then, the courts make a decision, but nobody knows what they are. Because all those things are classified.

Boris Johnson said «We can`t go to Russia for the World Cup.» This was the first thing they said, no official inquiries, no desire to find the truth, just soccer. That was the first day, and before there was an issue with soccer, there was Syria, Ukraine, not to mention the doping scandal, human rights issues, and so on.

Putin said in an interview «We destroyed all our chemical weapons under the control of international observers. We did it first, unlike our partners who promised to do it, but until now, unfortunately, they didn`t keep their promise.»

Putin also said that this is nonsense. Why would Russia do anything like that before the presidential election and the World Cup,» Putin said. Nevertheless, Russia is ready to discuss any issues, to work together and overcome any difficulties.

They have a clear plan, Maria Zakharova said.

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India`s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is doing something right and they can surpass China very soon

Theresa May is negotiating with the European Union and investors are concerned about a hard landing on these Brexit deals. It`s difficult to know exactly the outcome of the Brexit deal but what we do know is that the British economy grew 1,7% YoY in the second quarter of 2017.

Not so much compared to Chinas 6,9% growth, which is the best G20 country followed by India at 5,7%. Britains economy fell from 2,0% to 1,7% and that is the opposite direction of India`s growth. Can India grow by a greater margin than China this year?

 

 

According to IMF, Indias economy will grow by a greater margin than China in 2017. Not only that. Indias innovation growth rate is expected to rise significantly over the next 15 years, placing it ahead of Russia and close to surpassing China, according to a new report.

China is the leading nation in terms of innovation among BRICS countries, but India`s Prime Minister Narendra Modi must be doing something right. India is set to see a surge in innovation and could surpass China by the end of the next decade.

According to Chinas Science Technology Exchange Center, Indias innovation growth rate is expected to rise significantly over the next 15 years, placing it ahead of Russia.

India`s economy is expected to grow by 7,2% in 2017, according to IMF. A new study highlights the growth that can be expected in intellectual advances, such as science and technology, which are often perceived as indicators of future growth.

It`s BRICS Innovation Competitiveness Report 2017 predicted that the innovation competitiveness of India would see a significant rise with its growth rate probably surpassing China between 2025 – 2030.

What is India`s Prime Minister Narendra Modi actually doing right? He has been taking notable steps forward in innovation, supported by a reform agenda.

Government schemes such as Digital India, which expands the countrys online infrastructure, and StartUp India, which promotes financial backing for entrepreneurs, have been unveiled to boost the countrys innovation and technology sectors.

India`s growing information technology and scientific expertise have also helped turn it into an increasingly dominant outsourcing hub.

So far, China is still the leader in terms of innovation competitiveness among BRICS nations, followed by Russia, South Africa, Brazil and India.

Europe is struggling to follow. Ireland is the best country with its 6,10% growth, followed by Romania with 5,9% growth and Estonia with 5,7% growth YoY.

At the bottom in Europe we find Norway with only 0,20% growth, Macedonia by its 0% and at the very bottom Liechtenstein with negative -1,9% growth.

Monaco, Liechtenstein and Luxemburg are the richest countries in the world measured by GDP per capita.

 

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Posters are important but Social Media Platforms has become a dominant player to grab seats and win elections

It`s a big surprise for many to see how the Labour Party has stolen seats from the Conservatives. How in the world did that happen? Is is a great campaign? John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, said: «This campaign has changed the nature of political discourse in this country.

Jeremy Corbyn has run a fantastic campaign.»

The partys success saw it almost completely wipe out the Tories in London and more than double majorities in seats that were previously considered marginal. Lets take a closer look at the finest pre-election propaganda.

 

 

Margaret Thatcher initially rejected this famous poster from 1978. She said to the art director: «You know perfectly well that you should never have the other side`s name in your own poster!» The art director explained that it was a double entendre.

«Well, it cant be very good because I dont get it!» Thatcher said.

Labour`s Denis Healey called it a «fraud» when he learned that the people in the dole queue were in fact members of Hendon Young Conservatives. The controversy ran for weeks. The art director estimated that the furore earned the equivalent of £5m in free publicity.

It was a start of a long and largely fruitful marriage between the Tories and the Saatchis, helping the party win the next four elections and the agency grow into a global behemoth.

 

 

This poster is from 1992. «Its a kill or get killed in this game,» Jeremy Sinclair told Tory campaign chief Shaun Woodward at that time. Woodward explained that new PM John Major didnt want to run a negative campaign.

«Thats fine, if you dont mind losing,» Sinclair retorted. Tory wonks calculated the spending pledges in Labour`s manifesto as costing £35bn. Sinclair «basically divided it by the number of taxpayers in Britain».

The mathematics might not have been the most rigorous but it allowed the Saatchi team to produce the most notable poster of the campaign, which would define the entire agenda leading up to polling day.

 

 

Labours ad men had always felt one step behind their brutal and relentless counterparts at Saatchis. But Blair recruited Trevor Beattie, the creative master behind the Wonderbra «Hello Boys» poster and French Connections FCUK campaign, and soon Labour were beating the Tories at their own game.

«This will be the most iconic image of this election,» Beattie told Tony Blair as he unveiled the poster depicting Tory leader William Hague with Thatcher`s hair at No 10.

Blair was concerned that it was too flippant. But then he started to laugh. «Youve just shown why it works,» labours communications chief Alastair Campbell told him. «Because if its funny, its fine. People look at it and smile but it makes a powerful negative point.»

 

 

Posters will always be important because if you cant get your message across in five or six words then, chances are, you message isnt righ in the fist place,» says Jeremy Sinclair. This time around, the Saatchi team managed to do it in no words at all.

This is the best poster of the campaign so far. Expressing a clear and powerful message in a single, compelling image. Whether the fear of an SNP/Labour coalition is really the high-salience issue that the best ads usually focus on is questionable.

 

The latest Labour campaign poster of the 2017 General Election has been ridiculed on social media because it shows Theresa May «grabbing» seat in the party`s northern heartlands. The poster is titled «Tories are holding Britain back».

The poster shows the arm of what appears to be Mrs May, complete with a blue bracelet, holding onto the upper right hand corner of England, with Labour`s slogan suggesting that the Prime Minister and the Tories have «held Britain back long enough».

The poster has left many people on Twitter feeling confused. Some people have suggested that Mr Corbyn pulled out of the poster launch because he realised it was not very good. Some said on Twitter that the poster suggested the UK wanted to move closer to the U.S with the Tories stopping if from doing so.

The poster was created by Krow Communications which the party hired to take the lead on its advertising and communications campaigns. Posters has played a very important role in a party`s campaign, but the world has changed. Social Media Platforms has become a dominant player to grab seats and win elections.

 

 

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