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turbinetree

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Mon Jul 1, 2019, 08:27 AM Jul 2019

Labour-supporting Momentum launches campaign to oust UK PM frontrunner Johnson

Source: Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - A group set up to support British opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, has launched a campaign to try to oust Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to become the next prime minister, from his parliamentary seat, it said on Monday.

Momentum, created just weeks after Corbyn’s surprise appointment as leader of the Labour Party in 2015, said it would send hundreds of their supporters to Johnson’s electoral district in west London later this month to “unseat” him.

Johnson holds a small majority in his constituency of just 5,034 votes, making him vulnerable to other parties keen to unseat him in a new national election, which, while not being due until 2022, might be held earlier to try to break the deadlock over Britain’s departure from the European Union.

“Now we’re launching a campaign to make sure Johnson goes down in history as the first sitting prime minister to lose his seat,” said Becky Boumelha, a member of Momentum’s National Coordinating Group.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-leader-momentum/labour-supporting-momentum-launches-campaign-to-oust-uk-pm-frontrunner-johnson-idUSKCN1TW1YF



I guess the Tories still didn't get the memo on Airbus (maybe or maybe not) and Nissan leaving the country if this happens, maybe they should re-read these articles................

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-16/britain-s-busineses-have-already-lost-brexit-or-no-brexit

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/business/brexit-manufacturers-supply-chains/index.html

(Airbus)..............the below examples shows just what the Breixt situation is doing..............

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-24/airbus-calls-brexit-process-a-disgrace-threatens-to-leave-u-k

https://www.euractiv.com/section/aviation/news/airbus-now-wants-to-remain-in-uk-regardless-of-brexit-outcome/
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Labour-supporting Momentum launches campaign to oust UK PM frontrunner Johnson (Original Post) turbinetree Jul 2019 OP
Boris's constituency is Con vs Lab. mwooldri Jul 2019 #1

mwooldri

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1. Boris's constituency is Con vs Lab.
Mon Jul 1, 2019, 05:25 PM
Jul 2019

Makes sense for a Labour allied group in working out how to maximise the Labour vote.

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