The 2019 General Election
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MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
The 'Fuck You' vote from across the entire political spectrum is probably going to be a major factor in this election
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Oh 'really'?
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
An aside about this brexit party decision to contest only non-Tory seats: the 'decision' (sorry Frank) seems to have been falange just 'deciding' last night. It may well have been his game all along, to try and bluff his way into a formal deal with the tories. But regardless, there isn't even a nominal attempt at getting a decision of the wider party. A whole structure set up to do exactly what he wants. What a fucking twat.
Iirc, falange also chooses the candidates. Maybe the whole thing was the got into the 300s but was just too fucking lazy to come up with any more loons. He probably stopped at the point where the next one would have be been George Galloway...
Iirc, falange also chooses the candidates. Maybe the whole thing was the got into the 300s but was just too fucking lazy to come up with any more loons. He probably stopped at the point where the next one would have be been George Galloway...
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Arbeter Fraynd
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bit baffled by this - Lib Dems are nowhere in Hastings, it's a tight Tory/Labour competition (well not Hastings itself which is easily Labour, but Rye/Fairlight/Winchelsea more Tory)
At this stage perhaps Labour should boot Corbyn out and replace him with his more grounded brother, Piers.
Also Lord West has thrown the boot in on Jeremy today.
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
1st thing Stuart said was that she still a member of the Labour Party.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Double fuck off!
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Whatever your opinions about either Brexit or Trident, it's a bit of long stretch trying to pretend they are in any way related.
I'm not sure where they're going with these personal attacks on Corbyn, most voters don't give a shit if he met with the IRA or Hamas 30 years ago or whether he is reluctant to press the big button (how is this not a good thing?), Most folks have more important things to worry about can they pay their rent at the end of the month, will their kids get a decent education, how long it takes to see a doctor.
The Tories can't come close on these issues and on the one thing where they could say something meaningful about Labour's woolly and vague mutterings about the top issue of the day they just fall back on their daft slogan of "Get Brexit Done"
I'm not sure where they're going with these personal attacks on Corbyn, most voters don't give a shit if he met with the IRA or Hamas 30 years ago or whether he is reluctant to press the big button (how is this not a good thing?), Most folks have more important things to worry about can they pay their rent at the end of the month, will their kids get a decent education, how long it takes to see a doctor.
The Tories can't come close on these issues and on the one thing where they could say something meaningful about Labour's woolly and vague mutterings about the top issue of the day they just fall back on their daft slogan of "Get Brexit Done"
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
TBF the biggest thing linking them together is how Labour have done nothing to actually respond to the questions that get raised. How difficult would it be, for example, to respond to "Would Corbyn push the button?" with "There is no button"?
Supine
Newt Member
nah, he got them all and has pocketed the £100 each they paid. So that’s a cool 300k for grafting his own followers. A grifters gonna grift.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
... and that is on top of the £2.50 a head entrance money to hear the great man speak, or all those people who paid £25 each for the right to be able to say they'd paid the Brexit Party £25.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
I wouldn't bet on it. Neighbouring Mansfield went Tory at the last election after being solidly labour for the previous 96 years.
Humberto
Callooh! Callay!
People are saying the next parliament will be full of loons of one stripe or another. I say, Iraq war, Afghanistan pointlessness, austerity and ideologically driven privatisation is evidently now 'loon' and we are where you led us. Here.
So thanks for that.
An Englishman's home is his castle. It isn't now so why?
So thanks for that.
An Englishman's home is his castle. It isn't now so why?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
No, it's actually a put-down. The invading aristos had proper castles, the Normans, but the English had hovels. Nonetheless the English were proud and no matter that a besieging force of two arthritic dogs could bust down a hovel nonetheless an English man's home was his castle. Norman humour.
Libertad
Sparking up a rollie in the Reichstag
Fuck the Orcs.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Orc is from erk, raf slang for ground crew.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Libertad
Sparking up a rollie in the Reichstag
Orcs are what the Anglo-Saxons called their Norman oppressors.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Basically the same thing then.
I don't think these aren't significant points - I just don't think they are necessarily as significant as you think they are, and I find the flattening of all the Labour heartlands into 'leave seats' from someone who demands nuance in the same breath worth challenging.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
there's an interesting article in the mail about the bp declaration and the effect it may have A morale boost for Boris Johnson, but victory is far from certain, writes Professor Philip Cowley | Daily Mail Online
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
30k but still, yes.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Nope, it's £300k, as 3000 applied to be candidates, all paying £100.
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