Christ, imagine how unbearable you'd have been if we'd actually won.

 

Then again I'd probably still be drunk a week later.

I told you so!!

 

They said the same about Thatcher.

 

They derided him and attacked him as they thought, "Hang on, if the public hear his ideas they might start to get ideas above their station. Shut him down...'

 

I was also right about social media campaigning winning it for us. I told you I was doing my part from my VEERY safe Labour seat where door knocking does nowt.

Well, never thought I'd hear Jeremy Corbyn compared to Margaret Thatcher.

Would love it to be this time last week!!

I told you so!!

 

They said the same about Thatcher.

 

They derided him and attacked him as they thought, "Hang on, if the public hear his ideas they might start to get ideas above their station. Shut him down...'

 

I was also right about social media campaigning winning it for us. I told you I was doing my part from my VEERY safe Labour seat where door knocking does nowt.

Unless you're running the Labour Party's Facebook account, then you would have done far more good spending less time on here and more time in your nearest marginal seat.

There SHOULD be no marginals, except Berwick but that is too far for me, though we did lose Middlesbrough South.

 

No, our social media campaign won it.

Edited June 15, 20178 yr by Willy's Tears

Opinion polls are an election are bloody useless. The media has a big effect, I certainly don't think the recent terror attacks or the London fire has done May any good.

 

Corbyn is a nice guy and it's clear he's grown in to the role as leader, especially since his rebellious party members seem to support him now (before inevitably making a leadership challenge themselves).

Corbyn is a nice guy and it's clear he's grown in to the role as leader, especially since his rebellious party members seem to support him now (before inevitably making a leadership challenge themselves).

 

Corbyn is a good salesman, but what he is selling is snake oil...

There SHOULD be no marginals, except Berwick but that is too far for me, though we did lose Middlesbrough South.

 

No, our social media campaign won it.

What on earth are you talking about? No marginals?

 

I'd love to think you were making a case for PR, but I doubt it somehow.

Corbyn is a good salesman, but what he is selling is snake oil...

Poor analogy. Tories sell snake oil cos it will kill you. The events of this week?

Now you could have said magic beans for Corbyn - I don't agree with it but it would at least make sense.

Poor analogy. Tories sell snake oil cos it will kill you. The events of this week?

 

Terrible tragedy, but blaming individual politicians is absurd - the way the media portrays it, you'd think the PM had started the fire herself with a match & a can of petrol! :rolleyes:

 

Now you could have said magic beans for Corbyn - I don't agree with it but it would at least make sense.

 

You're right, that is a better analogy, but Corbyn is still promising something he could not deliver - not without bankrupting the economy anyway.

Terrible tragedy, but blaming individual politicians is absurd - the way the media portrays it, you'd think the PM had started the fire herself with a match & a can of petrol! :rolleyes:

You're right, that is a better analogy, but Corbyn is still promising something he could not deliver - not without bankrupting the economy anyway.

I'm intrigued to know what media you look at. The media here in the UK on planet Earth are blaming, variously, the EU, Kensington and Chelsea Council and a man who owned a faulty fridge.

The Conservatives sat doing nothing for FOUR YEARS after a report into the Lakanal House fire recommended that sprinklers should be retrofitted to 4,000 tower blocks across the United Kingdom.

 

Then of course there was this debate that Philip Davies (standard self protectionist Conservative landlord) talked out, aided by the morons who claim to be 'doing everything they can'.

 

Do a bit of research Vidcapper.

Edited June 17, 20178 yr by Doctor Blind

I'm intrigued to know what media you look at.

 

Anything that isn't behind a paywall.

 

 

Terrible tragedy, but blaming individual politicians is absurd - the way the media portrays it, you'd think the PM had started the fire herself with a match & a can of petrol! :rolleyes:

You're right, that is a better analogy, but Corbyn is still promising something he could not deliver - not without bankrupting the economy anyway.

I never said May was responsible. I said Tories. If you truly believe political parties have zero effect on lives of people why are you even bothering to comment?

You're right, that is a better analogy, but Corbyn is still promising something he could not deliver - not without bankrupting the economy anyway.

So were the Tories. It was their immigration policy.

What on earth are you talking about? No marginals?

 

I'd love to think you were making a case for PR, but I doubt it somehow.

 

North East is solid red, usually second only to Scotland in its hatred of that viiiile nasty party.

I never said May was responsible. I said Tories. If you truly believe political parties have zero effect on lives of people why are you even bothering to comment?

 

In the forlorn hope of changing a few minds. :teresa:

 

North East is solid red, usually second only to Scotland in its hatred of that viiiile nasty party.

 

Surely first now, given the recent election results?

That was a tactical voting blip and you know it.

North East is solid red, usually second only to Scotland in its hatred of that viiiile nasty party.

Not every constituency is though, is it? Darlington has a majority of 3,000 and was a big Tory target. Bishop Auckland has a majority of 502. That's not even counting all of those in Tees Valley.

 

The North East is also trending from Labour to the Tories (outside of Newcastle and Durham) moreso than the rest of the country. That's why everyone was rightly a bit concerned when the first two or three results announced last Thursday night up there showed swings which weren't at all consistent with the exit poll.