This seems appropriate too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOfffyn4SWI

Unwanted advice from The Donald ...

The Times - Trump tells Boris Johnson to join forces with Nigel Farage

President warns prime minister that Brexit deal will block, not boost, transatlantic trade.

today

President Trump derailed Boris Johnson’s first day on the campaign trail by criticising his Brexit deal and urging him to “get together” with Nigel Farage.

 

Mr Trump blindsided Downing Street by giving an interview to the Brexit Party leader that overshadowed the prime minister’s efforts to sell his withdrawal agreement to the public.

 

Mr Trump waded into several domestic issues, including the question of a pact between the Conservatives and the Brexit Party.

 

He told Mr Farage in the radio interview that Jeremy Corbyn would be “so bad for your country” and denied the Labour leader’s claims that Brexit would put the NHS "up for grabs" by US  corporations.  ...

 

With a friend like Trump, who needs enemies?

(see above)

BBC News - General election 2019: Boris Johnson rejects pact with Nigel Farage

today

Boris Johnson has rejected the suggestion from Nigel Farage and Donald Trump that he should work with the Brexit Party during the election.

 

The Tory leader told the BBC he is "always grateful for advice" but he would not enter into election pacts.

 

His comments come after the US president said Mr Farage and Mr Johnson would be "an unstoppable force".

 

Downing Street sources say there are no circumstances in which the Tories would work with the Brexit Party. ...

 

The Guardian - Martin Rowson on Donald Trump's advice to Farage and Johnson - cartoon

EDIT

For clarification: the two Loch Mess Monsters in the ditch = Johnson (yellow) and Farage (blue)

BBC News - Boris Johnson faces calls to publish Russian interference report

today

Boris Johnson is facing renewed calls to release a report assessing the threat posed by Russia to the UK's democratic processes.

 

Former attorney general Dominic Grieve said its release was vital ahead of the general election because it contained information relevant to voters.

 

Mr Grieve, chairman of Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, has accused the PM of sitting on the report ahead of the 12 December poll.

 

The report was finalised in March 2019.

 

Compiled by the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee, it includes evidence from UK intelligence services concerning Russian attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 EU referendum and 2017 general election. ...

 

An American view of the fiasco ...

The New York Times - Will Great Britain Become Little England?

Nov. 2, 2019

LONDON — Over the centuries, Great Britain spawned the Industrial Revolution and nurtured representative democracy. 

 

It ruled the waves and created common law. It nurtured the first antislavery movement and stood up to Hitler.

 

And now Britain has gone nuts.

 

To paraphrase Churchill, if the nation should last for 1,000 years, people may look back and say: This was their saddest hour. 

 

Actually, never mind: Brexit may cause the United Kingdom to fragment, so that the country might not last a decade more, let alone last a millennium.

 

The U.K. is headed for a new election on Dec. 12, at a time when both its major parties are headed by people who should never be trusted anywhere near Downing Street. 

 

What’s more serious is the likelihood that Prime Minister Boris Johnson may eventually manage to drag a wearied Britain out of the European Union.

 

It’s baffling for friends of Britain to see Johnson leading in the polls as he recklessly pursues a path that is damaging his country economically and risks dismembering it. 

 

Those of us sentimental about the U.K. feel as if we’re watching a dear friend quaff a few pints of bitter and hurtle toward a cliff.

 

• Economists largely agree that Brexit will cause both trade and G.D.P. to suffer.  ...
  
  
• Johnson’s Brexit would leave Northern Ireland more integrated with Ireland than with the rest of Britain. ...
  
  
• In Scotland, there are already calls for a new referendum on independence. ...
  
  
• Even Wales seems fed up. One survey found that 41 percent of people in Wales would favor separation if they could remain in the European Union. ...
  
  
• A fractured Great Britain would no longer be great; ultimately, all that would be left might be England. ...
  
  

BBC News - UK's credit rating could be downgraded, says Moody's

Nov. 10, 2019

The UK's credit rating could be downgraded, according to ratings agency Moody's, which says Brexit has caused "paralysis in policy-making".

 

It has changed the outlook on the UK's current rating - which is a marker of how likely it is to pay back its debts - from "stable" to "negative".

 

Moody's also criticised the general election promises to raise spending with "no clear plan" to finance it.

 

The UK is currently rated Aa2 - the third highest grade. ...

 

Moody's stripped Britain of its top-notch AAA rating in 2013, before downgrading it again in 2017. ...

 

The Sunday Times - Revealed: the Russia report

The report finds that insufficient resources were devoted to tackling threats from Vladimir Putin’s regime.

November 17 2019

Russian interference may have had an impact on the Brexit referendum, but the effect was “unquantifiable”, according to a parliamentary report suppressed by No 10.

 

The report by the cross-party intelligence and security committee (ISC) into illicit Russian activities in Britain could not say if it had affected the result of the 2016 vote.

 

Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, said the disclosure raised “serious questions” about the safeguards in place for the general election next month.

 

“If it is correct that our security services have been unable to reach a conclusion about the extent or impact of Russian interference in the 2016 Referendum, then it raises serious questions which require serious answers," she said. ...

 

The Times of London  - Election 2019: Jeremy Corbyn hails £83bn dream spending plan

Labour offer ‘not credible’, says independent expert as party proposes highest tax burden since Second World War

November 22 2019, 

Jeremy Corbyn has presented the most expensive manifesto in British political history, with plans to expand the state to its largest size since the Second World War.

 

The Labour leader announced plans yesterday for an £83 billion spree, with huge increases to Whitehall budgets across the board and a 5 per cent pay rise for all 5.4 million public sector workers.

 

Labour’s “colossal” tax-and-spend plans would be funded by increases to business levies that one independent expert said would give Britain the “most punitive corporate tax system in the world”. ...

 

Laurel and Hardy, 2020

The End is Nigh ...

BBC News - A summary of the penultimate day of campaigning

What happened today?

Tuesday's headlines included:

•     Labour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth apologised to his party after a secret recording was released of him criticising leader Jeremy Corbyn
•     Mr Corbyn said he's "cool" with Mr Ashworth 
•     The cause of the Tories' bad day - a photo of a sick four-year-old boy sleeping on a hospital floor - has become the centre of a misinformation war
•     Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson has said voters need to decide whether Britain is "open or closed" - in her latest call to stop Brexit
•     Political leaders in Northern Ireland and Scotland have taken part in separate TV debates this evening
•     In the Scottish debate, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon defended her view that Brexit meant there was cause for indyref2 [a second independence referendum for Scotland]
•     Meanwhile, the BBC has learned the shipping industry is drawing up plans for EU border checks in Britain for trade bound for Northern Ireland
•     And the Green Party has been promoting its plans to scrap tuition fees and write off student debt

The UK papers are getting excited ...

The New York Times - Britain’s Miserable Election

Dec. 11, 2019

LONDON - This is the dejection election.

 

Not in my lifetime has Britain faced such a miserable choice.

 

Two vain, incompetent, mediocre charlatans are competing to become prime minister. 

 

For the Conservatives, we have the blustering, lying, oafish puffball Boris Johnson. 

 

In the Labour corner is the querulous, wooden, sanctimonious Jeremy Corbyn.

 

The two candidates are so alarming that, in an unprecedented intervention, former prime ministers from each of their parties have pleaded with voters to block them. 

 

Everywhere, exhausted, disillusioned, skeptical voters debate who is worse.

 

British politics has never known anything like it.

 

These very different men share remarkable, unflattering similarities. 

 

Each is ill briefed, hazy on the facts and implications of his policy proposals, uneasy under scrutiny and belligerent when challenged.

 

Both are promising rank impossibilities. 

 

Mr. Johnson tells voters he can deliver Brexit, quickly and painlessly, if they give him a majority. 

 

Mr. Corbyn claims it’s possible to drastically transform the economy for ordinary people in five years ...

 

...  I fear for Britain’s future.