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The 2017 General Election campaign

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Mostly first impressions watching while posting and drunk. Also quite visual in instinctive reactions and it just looks fucking weird in terms of symbolic choice. And what she's saying hasn't changed, so I'm just picking up on other shit.
I'm drunk as well.
The way at one point where she said the same shit again, slowly, as if to a tied, grimacing child.
 
I've made it to the end, where they talk about wanting a good deal, but no deal being a better deal than a bad deal, but no deal is dire, but she's confident she can make a deal. And then following that up with 'I'm PM until the 8th of June'.

Might as well...

 
I had a strange pleasure feeling when the journo's did her over, one by one.
yup, she picked the Journos and each one was worse than the previous one for her. The Guardian ought to get a fucking grip though, their final Q was meh- they could have taken her to the cleaners on it
 
I know that some people aren't big fans of Eoin, who retweeted this but never mind the source, priceless. :D

The guy does raise an interesting point though which I've seen other people asking and I've been asking myself, namely are the Tories trying to throw the election so that Labour get the blame for whatever Brexit deal finally gets negotiated? Or are they really that incompetent?


That seems a little far fetched. The Tories are just incompetent; look at how incoherent and repetitive May is. These people think they are born to rule, and talent isn't required. They have no idea. She was shit as home secretary, happy to lie about cats.

They don't want to leave office, they are just shit in office and as this is a snap election they are less prepared than otherwise. Consequently their manifesto is a joke. Their arrogance is plain given they expect the plebs to lap it up no matter its uncosted.
 
Er, its satire.
That seems a little far fetched. The Tories are just incompetent; look at how incoherent and repetitive May is. These people think they are born to rule, and talent isn't required. They have no idea. She was shit as home secretary, happy to lie about cats.

They don't want to leave office, they are just shit in office and as this is a snap election they are less prepared than otherwise. Consequently their manifesto is a joke. Their arrogance is plain given they expect the plebs to lap it up no matter its uncosted.
This is a snap election they are less prepared?

Pisspoor

Who decided to call the election, chuck? This wasn't forced on them.
 
This is the question I want them to ask - you called this, it was on your timing, your decision. Couldn't you have worked out some figures on the back of a fag packet on the way to the commons vote? So fucking arrogant and clueless.
 
I presume the right wing press who said "violent madmen" shouldn't be allowed dictate the vote after the murder of Jo Cox, will show the same admirable restraint for the rest of this campaign.
 
Green Party candidates in Pembrokeshire pull out of General Election

PEMBROKESHIRE Green Party is standing down its General Election candidates in both the Preseli Pembrokeshire and Carmarthen West & South Pembrokeshire constituencies.

The party said its two candidates, Valerie Bradley and Frances Bryant would no longer be running for the seats.

A party spokesperson said “We would normally advocate 'vote for what you believe in'.

“However, with this election, given the nature of the voting system and time running out for action on climate change, the biggest threat to Green values and objectives would be a further five years of reactionary Tory government....
 
I suspect that (possibly with the exception of a handful of target seats) the Green vote will collapse as it's voters pile in behind Labour. But the Greens only have themselves to blame for this after all their "progressive alliance" nonsense and offering to stand down in seats.
Even in target seats. Suspect that Bristol West is going to be a doddle for Labour now despite Green resources being thrown at it
 
On Bloomberg Tories Break Through in Towns That Once Hated Them
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Polls Whipsaw

But fortunes in Wales can change quickly. A month ago, a poll showed Conservatives on track for a historic breakthrough. But on the day of May’s visit, a YouGov poll conducted for ITV showed that momentum had gone into reverse. Earlier on Monday, she announced a policy U-turn on an unpopular elderly-care plan that Labour had branded “dementia tax.”

“One runs out of adjectives to describe how shattering it would be if the Conservatives were to end up as the largest party in Wales,” said Richard Wyn Jones, professor of Welsh politics at Cardiff University. “There are some low-hanging fruits for the Tories in northeast Wales. That’s where Labour looks most vulnerable.”

However, Wyn Jones also warned “Welsh Labour has this impressive record of doing just enough to escape the clutches of its enemies.” While Tories remain far ahead of Labour, the main opposition party is narrowing the gap. Fact remains that if May does well in Wales, it would suggest she can win big in other parts of the country too.
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Interesting little article this on May's appeal or Corbyn's lack of it in Labour constituencies. Or not, looking far from certain.

Funny really has folk scared about Brexit complexities or delighted by it both running towards a "strong&stable" Nanny State Thatcher like figure. A not very trustworthy lifelong Tory activist tactical advocating some softer positions and touting reliable electoral lies while looking fairly shifty. That's while May's slightly bonkers team has embarked on a potentially huge constitutional change with little oversight and flirts with a chaotic Hard Brexit while talking up grand globalising ambitions. May herself has almost no foreseen role in the talks but the Tory campaign is all about her ability to master Johnny Foreigner. The earnest 80s leftie Corbyn is spun as a dangerous mad man in the era of Trump. It's all a bit fragile, misdirected and very neurotic but maybe that fits the mood the country.
 
All that head shaking made her look utterly out of touch with reality. Her pr people will have been very disappointed with her body language.

It's not like she hasn't - like all cabinet ministers for the last 20 years - been given extensive tutoring in masking her body language, either. Every time she gets rattled, though, she forgets her training, does the sneer, the headshake, and then the "you foolish mortals!" smirk. She might as well hold up a placard saying "don't believe a word of it. I don't!!!" :facepalm:
 
For my sins I'm watching her Andrew Neil interview...

Why the fuck has she got a massive silver chain round her neck? I mean fine, I try not to clock fashion too much. But it's a massive silver chain.

Also she's trotting out the 'they won't have to worry about it when they're alive' thing again, because elderly people don't give a shit about what happens to their property after they die.

She's been taking bling tips from Flava Flav again.
 
That seems a little far fetched. The Tories are just incompetent; look at how incoherent and repetitive May is. These people think they are born to rule, and talent isn't required. They have no idea. She was shit as home secretary, happy to lie about cats.

They don't want to leave office, they are just shit in office and as this is a snap election they are less prepared than otherwise. Consequently their manifesto is a joke. Their arrogance is plain given they expect the plebs to lap it up no matter its uncosted.

Some people are comparing May's situation as PM with Major's situation with his "bastards". The two aren't really comparable, though. Major had clear ideas about direction, and was willing to thin his own majority right down in order to deny the whip to the more Europhobic of his "bastards". May, on the other hand, has continually shown that she's prepared to - like Cameron - capitulate to Euroscepticism in order to get an easy ride, hence a lot of firm commitments end up being rescinded, policies don't get formulated, and May's government ends up looking not only incompetent, they end up looking opportunistic, and as though their policy is decided by which direction the winds of fate are blowing.
 
Depends how she plays it. If she plays it for party advantage - and she WILL - then the public may not be quick to forgive her.

The other problem she'll have when she tries to hint Corbyn is basically an Islamist, is that it's the Labour manifesto that's promised to increase policing (for all that Diane Abbott messed up the costings). It's not an easy sell to portray your opponents as soft on terrorism when that's the case - you need to be better at it than her anyway.
 
The other problem she'll have when she tries to hint Corbyn is basically an Islamist, is that it's the Labour manifesto that's promised to increase policing (for all that Diane Abbott messed up the costings). It's not an easy sell to portray your opponents as soft on terrorism when that's the case - you need to be better at it than her anyway.


tbf is Ms Abbott puts 1/2 million extra coppers out there the terror-scum will have a hard time of things.
 
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