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The 2017 General Election campaign

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Also Trumps decision doesn't hurt Labour, plenty of hay to be made there - and probably with those important swing voters.
 
Well this is all going swimmingly bad for the vermin, whether it is bad enough for them to to lose or result in a hung parliament who can say?
 
The importance of climate change is less the issue than the fact that Labour can attack May for sucking up to Trump. Maybe I'm just totally out of the loop but my impression is that bar the absolute batshit loonies (who there never going to vote Labour) people in the UK, even lots of Tories, despise Trump*. He's a major turn off and this gives Labour an excuse to use this against May. It's another hit on the 'strong and stable' mantra.

*Certainly here in Aus even longtime LNP people really dislike Trump, and that just goes double for swing voters.
 
Owen Jones was sent this apparently

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Anyone know labour's position on right to buy. The BBC website says labour will suspend RTB. But I've just had labour campaigners on my doorstep who say this is not true and BBC have got it wrong. So who is telling the truth? :confused:
 
Anyone know labour's position on right to buy. The BBC website says labour will suspend RTB. But I've just had labour campaigners on my doorstep who say this is not true and BBC have got it wrong. So who is telling the truth? :confused:
From their manifesto: Labour will suspend the right-to-buy policy to protect affordable homes for local people, with councils only able to resume sales if they can prove they have a plan to replace homes sold like-for-like.
 
Also Trumps decision doesn't hurt Labour, plenty of hay to be made there - and probably with those important swing voters.

The importance of climate change is less the issue than the fact that Labour can attack May for sucking up to Trump. ... It's another hit on the 'strong and stable' mantra.

Unsurprisingly, as other world leaders line up to condemn Trump's actions, May is notable in her silence.

Hell, even the mayor of New York is saying he's basically going to ignore Trump and sign the city up to Paris independently!
 
It's brave to lie about being invited when you actually replied to the invite by email.

Maybe she's just the kind of inspiration we need going into these tough Brexit talks :hmm:

TBH its even more impressive that you can give, as an reason for missing a hustings, the excuse that you need to use your time to speak to voters in your constituency.
 
In suspiciously suppressed polling predictions**, May/Tories are going to get a landslide of 116 absolute majority.

**from January ;)


Plus also, the Queen Is Dead already and no-one's reporting that either ;) :D
 
Anyone know labour's position on right to buy. The BBC website says labour will suspend RTB. But I've just had labour campaigners on my doorstep who say this is not true and BBC have got it wrong. So who is telling the truth? :confused:
Well, Housing being a devolved matter, I can tell you that Labour certainly did not get rid of RTB all the time they were in charge in Scotland. I am happy to see that Labour might be developing some thinking about that.

Labour had from 1997 to 2010 to put an end to buying council houses.

It did not.

EDIT: I suppose I ought to make it clear that RTB is no longer happening in Scotland. But it was not the Labour Party that stopped it,
 
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From their manifesto: Labour will suspend the right-to-buy policy to protect affordable homes for local people, with councils only able to resume sales if they can prove they have a plan to replace homes sold like-for-like.

Cheers. So basically, the two labour campaigners either were lying or do not know their own manifesto as they both told me to look up the manifesto as suspending it is not mentioned there :facepalm:. She even said look it up on internet and use Control F to find it :D
 
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