Won't matter though. Labour voters already know all that, and they either switched to him last time (huge swing to him) when it was a proper marginal or voted against. That's not going to add any votes to the labour total. And if past performances in by elections and the most recent local and euro elections in similar seats are anything to go by then UKIP will be eating into the labour vote.
yeh. and when you'd thought about the matter for more than a microsecond?
You think so? This is from the local council area that Clacton is in, from the may euros:
Would it matter as they are not going to win the election and form the next govt? And any coalition role would obv not include any such proposal.
But we're not talking about whether there will be a panic among the labour party leadership if they do shit, we're talking about your suggestion that your party are just about tied with the tories and UKIP as favs for the seat. They are two different things.
to contest the idea that UKIP are the main opposition to the Tories
So just about tied with UKIP and the tories. And that's what we're discussing - not how your leader would feel if your party did shit. Your grounds for the labour vote being solid seem particularly flimsy. In fact, you haven't offered any.
They will. There's no more to discuss on that daft suggestion.
The quartz political think-tank strikes again:
Do you think quartz actually has an inside lane to the labour strategy committee? Of course they're not going to refuse to stand.
No - they did right not to bother when David Davis had his little pointless ego-stroking exercise. This is different.
So why take his suggestion seriously and why imagine it expresses some deep malaise in your party (tastefully isolated from yourself with they and other stuff)?
Because there's a chance they might tie.
