U.K.

The unelected, goofball far right prime minister of Britain, Trumpist Boris Johnson, has a special Halloween cooked up this year-- crashing Britain out of the EU and triggering a Great Recession for his country, for Europe and possibly worldwide.

The first test of Boris Johnson's premiership came yesterday. First, remember that Johnson wasn't elected to head the U.K. government by British voters, just by a small number of Conservative Party activists. The zany Trumpist who now heads the U.K. is far to the right of the general electorate and after his party's loss of a seat in Wales yesterday, has a working plurality in Parliament of exactly one vote.

Before he was sworn in, Trump demanded Theresa May appoint his clownish crony, Nigel Farage, the British Ambassador to the court of clowns in DC. One might imagine Sir Kim Darroch, who had already been announced to be the new ambassador in August, 2015, wasn't amused.

Mitch McConnell's wife/beard, Elaine Chao, a longtime spy for China and a member of the Trumpanzee Cabinet, had her trip to China abruptly canceled after myriad ethics questions were referred to officials of the State Department and Transportation Department.

Starting tomorrow, the most hated man in the world and his largely detested family, are coming to England for a 3-day state visit-- and at a time when the U.K. is facing its most significant crisis since the Second World War.

New polling is scaring the hell out of both the Conservative Party and the Labour Party in the U.K. Voters who want to leave the EU are abandoning the Conservatives for Nigel Farange's far right Trumpist Brexit Party and Labour voters who want to remain in the EU are abandoning their own flip-floppy party for the Liberal Democrats.

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Thursday, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn the the House that "After the last few days of government chaos and some defeats, all of us now have the opportunity and the responsibility to work together to find a solution to the crisis facing this country, where the government has so dramatically failed to do so.

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The headlines about the new YouGov poll for The Times is bizarre. 38% of respondents prefer a further right government-- so Boris Johnson rather than Theresa May. OK, so 62% don't? And 24% of respondents are out-right racists. Ummm... so 76% aren't?