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UK’s Boris Johnson promises BREXIT, 20K more police, a battle royale with the EU and- a new ‘golden age’ as he makes his first speech.

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Good afternoon.

I have just been to see Her Majesty the Queen who has invited me to form a government and I have accepted.

I pay tribute to the fortitude and patience of my predecessor and her deep sense of public service.

But in spite of all her efforts, it has become clear that there are pessimists at home and abroad who think that after three years of indecision, that this country has become a prisoner to the old arguments of 2016 and that in this home of democracy we are incapable of honouring a basic democratic mandate.

And so I am standing before you today to tell you, the British people, that those critics are wrong.

The doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters – they are going to get it wrong again.

The people who bet against Britain are going to lose their shirts, because we are going to restore trust in our democracy and we are going to fulfil the repeated promises of Parliament to the people and come out of the EU on October 31, no ifs or buts.

And we will do a new deal, a better deal that will maximise the opportunities of Brexit while allowing us to develop a new and exciting partnership with the rest of Europe, based on free trade and mutual support.

I have every confidence that in 99 days’ time we will have cracked it. But you know what – we aren’t going to wait 99 days, because the British people have had enough of waiting.

The time has come to act, to take decisions, to give strong leadership and to change this country for the better.

And though the Queen has just honoured me with this extraordinary office of state my job is to serve you, the people.

Because if there is one point we politicians need to remember, it is that the people are our bosses.

My job is to make your streets safer – and we are going to begin with another 20,000 police on the streets and we start recruiting forthwith.

My job is to make sure you don’t have to wait 3 weeks to see your GP – and we start work this week, with 20 new hospital upgrades, and ensuring that money for the NHS really does get to the front line.

My job is to protect you or your parents or grandparents from the fear of having to sell your home to pay for the costs of care.

And so I am announcing now – on the steps of Downing Street – that we will fix the crisis in social care once and for all with a clear plan we have prepared to give every older person the dignity and security they deserve.

My job is to make sure your kids get a superb education, wherever they are in the country – and that’s why we have already announced that we are going to level up per pupil funding in primary and secondary schools.

And that is the work that begins immediately behind that black door.

And though I am today building a great team of men and women, I will take personal responsibility for the change I want to see.

Never mind the backstop – the buck stops here.

And I will tell you something else about my job. It is to be prime minister of the whole United Kingdom.

And that means uniting our country, answering at last the plea of the forgotten people and the left-behind towns by physically and literally renewing the ties that bind us together.

So that with safer streets and better education and fantastic new road and rail infrastructure and full fibre broadband we level up across Britain with higher wages, and a higher living wage, and higher productivity.

We close the opportunity gap, giving millions of young people the chance to own their own homes and giving business the confidence to invest across the UK.

Because it is time we unleashed the productive power not just of London and the South East, but of every corner of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The awesome foursome that are incarnated in that red, white, and blue flag – who together are so much more than the sum of their parts, and whose brand and political personality is admired and even loved around the world.

For our inventiveness, for our humour, for our universities, our scientists, our armed forces, our diplomacy for the equalities on which we insist – whether race or gender or LGBT or the right of every girl in the world to 12 years of quality education – and for the values we stand for around the world

Everyone knows the values that flag represents.

It stands for freedom and free speech and habeas corpus and the rule of law, and above all it stands for democracy.

And that is why we will come out of the EU on October 31.

Because in the end, Brexit was a fundamental decision by the British people that they wanted their laws made by people that they can elect and they can remove from office.

And we must now respect that decision, and create a new partnership with our European friends – as warm and as close and as affectionate as possible.

And the first step is to repeat unequivocally our guarantee to the 3.2 million EU nationals now living and working among us, and I say directly to you – thank you for your contribution to our society.

Thank you for your patience, and I can assure you that under this government you will get the absolute certainty of the rights to live and remain.

And next I say to our friends in Ireland, and in Brussels and around the EU: I am convinced that we can do a deal without checks at the Irish border, because we refuse under any circumstances to have such checks and yet without that anti-democratic backstop.

And it is of course vital at the same time that we prepare for the remote possibility that Brussels refuses any further to negotiate, and we are forced to come out with no deal, not because we want that outcome – of course not – but because it is only common sense to prepare.

And let me stress that there is a vital sense in which those preparations cannot be wasted, and that is because under any circumstances we will need to get ready at some point in the near future to come out of the EU customs union and out of regulatory control, fully determined at last to take advantage of Brexit.

Because that is the course on which this country is now set.

With high hearts and growing confidence, we will now accelerate the work of getting ready.

And the ports will be ready and the banks will be ready, and the factories will be ready, and business will be ready, and the hospitals will be ready, and our amazing food and farming sector will be ready and waiting to continue selling ever more, not just here but around the world.

And don’t forget that in the event of a no deal outcome, we will have the extra lubrication of the £39 billion, and whatever deal we do we will prepare this autumn for an economic package to boost British business and to lengthen this country’s lead as the number one destination in this continent for overseas investment.

And to all those who continue to prophesy disaster, I say yes – there will be difficulties, though I believe that with energy and application they will be far less serious than some have claimed.

But if there is one thing that has really sapped the confidence of business over the last three years, it is not the decisions we have taken – it is our refusal to take decisions.

And to all those who say we cannot be ready, I say do not underestimate this country.

Do not underestimate our powers of organisation and our determination, because we know the enormous strengths of this economy in life sciences, in tech, in academia, in music, the arts, culture, financial services.

It is here in Britain that we are using gene therapy, for the first time, to treat the most common form of blindness.

Here in Britain that we are leading the world in the battery technology that will help cut CO2 and tackle climate change and produce green jobs for the next generation.

And as we prepare for a post-Brexit future, it is time we looked not at the risks but at the opportunities that are upon us.

So let us begin work now to create free ports that will drive growth and thousands of high-skilled jobs in left-behind areas.

Let’s start now to liberate the UK’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules, and let’s develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world.

Let’s get going now on our own position navigation and timing satellite and earth observation systems – UK assets orbiting in space, with all the long term strategic and commercial benefits for this country.

Let’s change the tax rules to provide extra incentives to invest in capital and research.

And let’s promote the welfare of animals that has always been so close to the hearts of the British people.

And yes, let’s start now on those free trade deals – because it is free trade that has done more than anything else to lift billions out of poverty.

All this and more we can do now and only now, at this extraordinary moment in our history.

And after three years of unfounded self-doubt, it is time to change the record.

To recover our natural and historic role as an enterprising, outward-looking and truly global Britain, generous in temper and engaged with the world.

No one in the last few centuries has succeeded in betting against the pluck and nerve and ambition of this country.

They will not succeed today.

We in this government will work flat out to give this country the leadership it deserves, and that work begins now.

https://youtu.be/zNHcipybhq0

Boris Johnson Talks Tough on Brexit in Combative First Speech

New prime minister’s approach looks set to put the U.K. on a collision course with the European Union

By Max Colchester and Jason Douglas, Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2019 10:05 am ET

LONDON—British Prime Minister Boris Johnson laid out a hard-line negotiating stance with the European Union, setting the stage for fraught Brexit talks before the U.K.’s scheduled departure from the bloc on Oct. 31.

In a combative first speech to Parliament, Mr. Johnson reiterated Thursday that the plan in place to avoid a border on the island of Ireland after Brexit—one of the central planks of the divorce deal—was “unacceptable” and would have to be abolished.

That plan, known as the Irish backstop, is designed to prevent the need for customs checks and regulatory inspections on goods along the 310-mile border between the Republic of Ireland, which is a member of the EU, and Northern Ireland, a part of the U.K., when Britain splits from the bloc after Brexit.

For Dublin and Brussels, the backstop is essential to preserving peace and security on the island of Ireland, smoothing cross-border trade and protecting the EU’s economic frontiers.

However, it is anathema to many pro-Brexit lawmakers, who see it as a trap to keep the U.K. tightly in the EU’s embrace. Their opposition sunk the divorce deal in parliament and the premiership of Theresa May, Mr. Johnson’s predecessor.

The new prime minister’s approach seems certain to set the U.K. on a collision course with the EU. The bloc has repeatedly said the backstop isn’t up for renegotiation.

“No country that values its independence and indeed its self-respect could agree to a treaty, which signed away our economic independence and self-government as this backstop does,” Mr. Johnson said. He ruled out a time limit for the backstop, one possible area for compromise.

“I do not accept the argument that says that these issues can only be solved by all or part of the U.K. remaining in the customs union or in the single market,” he said to cheering Conservative lawmakers.

Brussels is wary of weakening a provision of the withdrawal deal it views as critical to protecting the EU’s single market, its common zone of regulation and economic cooperation.

On Wednesday, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said a new, better deal for Britain was “not going to happen.”

Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn also questioned the approach. During her leadership, Mrs. May vowed to get changes to the Irish backstop from the EU, but came back empty-handed.

“The House will have both a sense of déjà vu and trepidation at a prime minister setting out rigid red lines and an artificial timetable,” Mr. Corbyn said Thursday.

Mr. Johnson reiterated that Britain would quit the EU in October and that he would seek to leave with a deal. However, he said he had told the British civil service to prepare for no deal and had made more funds available for them to do so, including for an advertising campaign to raise awareness of how households and businesses should get ready.

In the future, the British people would look back at his tenure as the beginning “of a new golden age” for the country, he added.

Mr. Johnson has wasted little time since arriving in office Wednesday to make his intentions clear. Late Wednesday, he packed his cabinet with euroskeptics who have previously said they would be willing to leave the EU without a deal.

On Thursday, he launched into fierce criticism of Mr. Corbyn, saying that he had been captured by remain supporters and that his euroskepticism has softened at the hands of “body snatchers” in his party.

“We [the Conservatives] are now the party of the many,” said Mr. Johnson, pointing to the 2016 referendum in which a majority of British people voted to leave the EU.

In Brussels, officials have been bracing for Mr. Johnson’s arrival for weeks, parsing through his statements on Brexit during his leadership campaign and preparing for a rapid return to talks with a new U.K. team over the summer.

Publicly, European officials say they are in listening mode and want to hear Mr. Johnson’s thinking about the divorce arrangements and the nonbinding political declaration meant to set out the shape of future relations. The EU has said repeatedly that the declaration could be adjusted to target closer or looser EU-U.K. economic ties in future.

Privately, many officials think Mr. Johnson is gearing up for a no-deal Brexit or a general election in which he would campaign to take Britain out of the bloc without an accord.

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neptune joe
neptune joe
4 years ago

He forgot the part about deporting 10 million? Muslims and making the UK British again! (was it ever?)

SoftwareBabeOHIO
SoftwareBabeOHIO
4 years ago
Reply to  neptune joe

England has always been 2ND to America because they restrict a LOT of God-given rights. England will NEVER be as great as America UNTIL she adopts a Constitution and Bill of Rights like America has. Then, Britain needs to get rid of the MUSLIMS, THE GLOBALISTS, AND ANYONE WHO WANTS TO MAKE HER WORSE THAN SHE IS RIGHT NOW.

First thing Boris needs to do is look at the MUSLIM POPULATION, THE ILLEGALS, AND THE GANGS THEY NOW HAVE THAT ROAM THE STREETS. ADDRESS CRIME and you are halfway there, Boris. Allow good law-abiding Brits to carry their own guns, and you are fully there! ALLOW THEM ALL FREE SPEECH.

Wanna bet Soros’ Son is screaming his head off right now that Boris Johnson has won? IT IS THE GOAL OF SOROS TO BRING DOWN CAPITALISTIC COUNTRIES AND HE WOULD HAVE WON UNDER THERESA MAY, BUT NOW HE HAS TO TAKE 2 STEPS BACK AND FIND ANOTHER SOLUTION TO HIS DILEMMA.

1PierreMontagne1
1PierreMontagne1
4 years ago

Soros never anticipated Trump and Soros has lost again having never anticipated Boris Johnson as PM.
….and of course SOROS never dreamed that both were smarter than his and will work together against him.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago
Reply to  neptune joe

Boris Johnson’s first priority must be a Parliamentary bill to compensate victims of the Muslim rapegangs and see that they receive all of the help that is necessary to restore what is remaining of their lives. Incentives should be paid to those who report these crimes and these rape gangs made a top police priority. May I suggest this compensation be reimbursed from a special tax on all the mosques in the UK? Let’s see if Corbyn and his Labour Party will oppose such a bill?

Bill
Bill
4 years ago

If he doesn’t restore free speech, he won’t be able to get the crime problem under control. The blanket of anonymity will keep the criminals on the street, instead of prison, or deported.

SoftwareBabeOHIO
SoftwareBabeOHIO
4 years ago

Boris was very clear in NOT putting names on the people he was talking about, such as MUSLIMS, LIBERALS, AND PRO-GLOBALISTS.

I pray for the British people to stand up against the tyrants of Britain, namely MUSLIMS, LIBERALS, AND PRO-GLOBALISTS like we did when we got Trump elected!

SoftwareBabeOHIO
SoftwareBabeOHIO
4 years ago

The ONLY way to reverse that is to REVERSE their policies of allowing Muslims to have their own NO-GO ZONES, their own policing all under the guise of Sharia Law. The country’s laws SHOULD TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER ANY IDEOLOGICAL LAWS OF A RACE OR RELIGION.

If a Muslim or a foreigner cannot integrate into a free country’s society, learning its language, its customs, and supporting its goals of freedom, THEN THEY NEED TO BE DEPORTED TO A HELLHOLE COUNTRY OF THEIR CHOOSING. If they can’t choose, send them to Saudi Arabia, Turkey, or Iran.

MUSLIMS and freedom are like oil and water. MUSLIMS ALLOW NO FREEDOM OR LIBERTIES. Therefore, ISLAM SHOULD BE OUTLAWED!

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
4 years ago

Pamela, thanks for posting this
– socialist tyrants oppose Brexit because socialist tyrants are globalists
– they want world government, with them grabbing all the power and money
– and subjugating everyone else
– examples:
“The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.”
– Lenin
“As an ultimate objective, ‘peace’ simply means communist world control.”
– Lenin

TD
TD
4 years ago

If he can deliver on Brexit, then the UK can make its own immigration laws instead of the EU.
Then they can stop the flow of bad immigration, which turns parts of the UK into NO-GO Zones.

TD
TD
4 years ago
Reply to  TD

In 2016, an audience member criticized former PM David Cameron for wanting to remain in the EU:
(the guy has brown skin; just FYI for our Democrat friends who might think the guy is white).

“I voted for you (Mr. Cameron) in the last election, because one of things on your manifesto was to get immigration down, you haven’t been able to do that because YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT, that’s the bottom line.” (because the EU won’t let him).

TD
TD
4 years ago
Reply to  TD

The audience member continued:
“The place I grew up in was a lovely area and is now a no-go zone.”

“I can see my standard of living and my families standard of living doing down because of this influx we can’t control. ”

“I’m sorry to say but your closing statement on was that if we leave the EU we’re rolling the dice with our children’s future. I think quite the opposite, by telling us to stay in you’ve rolled that dice already.”

Damn! talk about well said!
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/677822/Cameron-battering-failure-immigration-EU-debate
(video is in the link above).

Bill
Bill
4 years ago
Reply to  TD

Well, Cameron said it, okay, but Poland, Hungary, The Czech Rep., and Slovakia have said ‘No’ to the EU regarding immigrants, so Boris just needs an elbow in his ribs, now.

SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
4 years ago

Bojo is a promise and now he has to fulfill and deliver

Brexit then Muslxit

Bill
Bill
4 years ago

Okay, it’s Thurs. night, and a Breitbart article, that I didn’t read, says Boris is already scaling back his pledge to reduce immigration, and even suggests amnesty. I didn’t feel like a case of indigestion, so I didn’t read it.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
4 years ago

I like that No. 10 over his head. NEVER send a woman to do a man’s job. Unless she is a conservative. You have much better chances to succeed.

I give him a cautious 10.

http://www.weirdhut.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/amazing-monkey-face.jpg

Joy Daniels Brower
Joy Daniels Brower
4 years ago

Great speech, but connected to that YouTube video (from the Guardian, no less!) was another current BoJo speech – and it was a real barn-burner where he enthusiastically outlined much of the programs & changes he hopes to effect: Namely his first speech to the House of Commons! He really had both sides yelling – and he covered a LOT of territory in his 15-minute speech! I highly recommend that those who hear the first speech as PM outside of 10 Downing tune in to is first speech to the Commons as the PM!!

Patriotliz
Patriotliz
4 years ago

Meh…..Brexit shmexit. What about the Islamization of Britain? If Hungary was able to stop the flooding of their country with Muslim migrants yet remain in the EU (although condemned by the EU) what hope is there for Britain when it bans free speech criticism of Islam and imprisons Tommy Robinson for reporting on the Muslim grooming gangs? Britain needs to exit from Islam if it wants a future.comment image

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

In a hard BREXIT it is only Ireland and the EU that can erect barriers to trade between the Republic and Northern Ireland. If Johnson says he is not going to erect these barriers I can hardly see the Irish Government erecting them. Basically,Johnson Knows he can win this battle and the EU will have to agree.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

To be fair, his pledge to put 20,000 more cops on the beat is an expression of recognition of the Muslim problem. In Britain rising crime is a Muslim problem. Johnson should also make it a priority to investigate,arrest and prosecute these Muslim raps gangs,compensate their victims,and post rewards for those who report the crimes. This would be a good start in what must inevitably be the removal of these vermin from British soil.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  John Acord

It’s not only the f’ing muslums that are the problem, it’s also the traitorous muslum collaborators, muslum sympathizers, muslum apologists.

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
4 years ago

Johnson/Farage/Robinson

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

Boris is another bag of wind. I’ll believe BREXIT when it happens, empty words notwithstanding..

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

It’s funny but there was once a kid who was at my barbers and he was agonizing over practically every hair for over an HOUR — for all we know BoJo might have his hair deliberately styled that way.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

Excellent point. Does BoJo have the power to do so? And if he does why doesn’t he?

godot
godot
4 years ago

We all know BoJo is a powerful orator – thanks to the classical education. Talk is cheap. Let’s see where Britain is six months from now. Farage is waiting in the wings.

AZ gal
AZ gal
4 years ago

Good for Boris! I have just 2 bits of advice: 1) Stop badmouthing Trump (he’s not much different) 2) Get rid of your Pak rat infestation.

John Nosser
John Nosser
4 years ago

Looks like the British people under Boris Johnson have regained the strength they had under Churchill in WW II. 180 degree turn from where they were going.

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