The 2017 General Election campaign

[8den]

According to Chatham House, Britain's generational split is as follows.

Labour
18-24 59%
65+ 19%

Conservative
18-24 19%
65+ 67%

So you see it's imperative to get out the youth vote.

Also start looking out for some deals, like say, a Groupon voucher for day trip away to Bath for your Nan. Because you love her that's why. Nope can't think of anything else happening on the 8th. It'll be a nice surprise. Bring some of your friends. Bring all of them.

 

[J Ed]

Starting to see more and more Labour signs, both in public places and house windows, going up in marginal constituencies in the West Midlands.

 

[bi0boy]

If no one has done an academic paper on the correlation between signs and vote share then someone should.

 

[JTG]

If no one has done an academic paper on the correlation between signs and vote share then someone should.

I've long been of the opinion that while Labour/Lib Dem/Green signs are an indicator of likely vote share in a given area, the lack of Tory signs rarely means a thing. They don't often like advertising their perversions

 

[bi0boy]

I've long been of the opinion that while Labour/Lib Dem/Green signs are an indicator of likely vote share in a given area, the lack of Tory signs rarely means a thing. They don't often like advertising their perversions

Plenty of Tory signs on farmland in Tory safe seats. Can't remember the last time I saw one in a garden. Perhaps they think rent-a-mobs would throw things at their windows or something.

 

[JTG]

Yeah it's the gardens/windows that I'm thinking of

 

[PursuedByBears]

Lots of Tory farm signs round Lancaster as well. Hope this means nothing.

 

[killer b]

Urban Tory signs get defaced much more than the others, expect that's part of the reason they're rarely spotted.

 

[JTG]

Lots of Tory farm signs round Lancaster as well. Hope this means nothing.

It means landowners vote Conservative. Shocker

 

[binka]

Are we all watching the Andrew Neil interview?

 

[Wilf]

According to Chatham House, Britain's generational split is as follows.

Labour
18-24 59%
65+ 19%

Conservative
18-24 19%
65+ 67%

So you see it's imperative to get out the youth vote.

Also start looking out for some deals, like say, a Groupon voucher for day trip away to Bath for your Nan. Because you love her that's why. Nope can't think of anything else happening on the 8th. It'll be a nice surprise. Bring some of your friends. Bring all of them.

This is where Labour's large membership should* have been focused - getting young people canvassed and registered.

*I say should, they could have been, but I haven't heard much about it.

 

[DotCommunist]

Plenty of Tory signs on farmland in Tory safe seats

if you've that much land you probably don't have to look your neighbour in the eye very often, and even then they are conservative voters as well.

Are we all watching the Andrew Neil interview?

its on in the background. IRA questions again

 

[chilango]

A few urban Tory signs in Reading East but as speculated on the dedicated thread for election signs this is likely to be landlords or letting agents rather than the people living there...

 

[binka]

Just the ten minutes talking about the IRA then

 

[free spirit]

Are we all watching the Andrew Neil interview?

link

 

[DotCommunist]

I did lol a bit about 'most people watching won't know about your links to hardline rebuplicans'

its not like it hasn't been in the papers and on the tv a few times is it.

 

[Wilf]

Are we all watching the Andrew Neil interview?

Coming across a bit dour. Could do with being a bit more optimistic, 'we can do better than this' type stuff.

 

[agricola]

He did better than May, but he missed an open goal right at the start when Neil claimed IS existed before the invasion of Iraq.

 

[Wilf]

Coming across a bit dour. Could do with being a bit more optimistic, 'we can do better than this' type stuff.

Ah, exactly what he just did about the manifesto.

 

[8den]

Just the ten minutes talking about the IRA then

Corbyn & Abbott's 30-year-old opinions on the IRA are apparently more important than the current deadlock in the NI Assembly.

 

[JimW]

Shifty look fielding all those attack lines but it all seemed to be stuff we've had ad nauseam for years.

 

[J Ed]

If no one has done an academic paper on the correlation between signs and vote share then someone should.

A lot of commentators in the US mentioned a lack of Clinton signs as being a key indicator of lack of enthusiasm for her candidacy.

 

[Fez909]

I predict a slight dip in the polls for Corbyn after that interview - nothing good came out of it, but the stuff that was 'bad' was known about anyway and he handled it pretty well, I guess.

What I don't understand is how he fails to say the obvious(?) things when he's asked difficult questions:

Q: "You voted against Trident, so that means you don't support it, right?"
A: "I voted against it because I personally want a nuclear-free world, but I'm the leader of the party to represent the wishes of the public, not to dictate. And so I will support Trident as our manifesto says"

etc, etc.

 

[tim]

So you see it's imperative to get out the youth vote.
Also start looking out for some deals, like say, a Groupon voucher for day trip away to Bath for your Nan. Because you love her that's why. Nope can't think of anything else happening on the 8th. It'll be a nice surprise. Bring some of your friends. Bring all of them.

It didn't work in Berwick, for John Wilkes, the eighteenth Century version of Russell Brand.

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. In 1754, at the suggestion of Earl Temple, Wilkes stood for election to Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed—unsuccessfully, despite his bribing a captain to land a shipload of opposition voters from London in Norway instead of at Berwick.

John Wilkes | British journalist and politician

 

[magneze]

He did say that albeit not in those words though. It's an annoying habit that 'tough' interviewer's have. Why won't you say these exact words I put in your mouth?

 

[8den]

It didn't work in Berwick, for John Wilkes, the eighteenth Century version of Russell Brand.

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John Wilkes | British journalist and politician

So basically an 18th century Nigel Farage then

Wilkes was extremely ugly, with a hideous squint,

but had a charm that carried all before it. He boasted that it “took him only half an hour to talk away his face” and would declare that “a month’s start of his rival on account of his face” would secure him the conquest in any love affair.

Well maybe not.

 

[tim]

So basically an 18th century Nigel Farage then





Well maybe not.

Certainly not, a rather debauched and slightly corrupt chap with his heart in the right place, Jailed for standing up for our right to religious and political liberty and a nice cup of tea.

The Tories had his supporters massacred in Southwark for protesting against his imprisonment. I wouldn't put it past them again if Corbyn does too well and Martial Law has to be introduced.
Massacre of St George's Fields - Wikipedia

 

[binka]

Krishnan Guru Murthy making Michael Fallon look like a fuckwit, low hanging fruit admittedly.

(KGM reads out a quote and Fallon assumes it's from Corbyn, he lets him go off on one and tells him it was actually Boris Johnson)

 

[Kaka Tim]

ha ha - fallon gets ambushed again!

 

[agricola]

ha ha - fallon gets ambushed again!

You have to feel for him. Anywhere else in politics to be called an "attack dog" would be an honourable title, but not when you work for people who shoot them when they aren't able to run with the pack any more.