That's Alan Johnson's old constituency. What platform is she running on?

 

Found the answer myself - she's running on a Brexit favouring platform, albeit one that doesn't support current Conservative policies elsewhere. An interesting strategy - the constituency voted 67% to Leave, but is very much a Labour safe seat.

Found the answer myself - she's running on a Brexit favouring platform, albeit one that doesn't support current Conservative policies elsewhere. An interesting strategy - the constituency voted 67% to Leave, but is very much a Labour safe seat.

 

Yeah it's an interesting strategy and potentially could get quite a few votes with Labour dwindling!

Sky projection from the election results have 23 others, 9 Libdems, 54 SNP, 215 labour and 348 Tory

 

 

(If that don't add up add it to Tory)

 

That'd be a fairly good result for us. That's probably 4 seats for the Tories in Scotland which would be border 3 and a northern one no doubt

So that would be a 47 seat majority for May. Think it'll be a bit higher myself, 60-70, but not over 100 as some polls predict.

IMO the Tory majority will be over 100 - possibly well over, as they are gaining significantly from the the reversion of the UKIP vote to their former preferences.

The key problem is that a lot of the UKIP to Tory switchers previously voted Labour or even Lib Dem.

The key problem is that a lot of the UKIP to Tory switchers previously voted Labour or even Lib Dem.

But only a small minority of overall Labour-Tory switchers.

The key problem is that a lot of the UKIP to Tory switchers previously voted Labour or even Lib Dem.

 

I've heard estimates that anthing between 1/2 & 2/3rds of the UKIP vote were formerly Tories.

 

But only a small minority of overall Labour-Tory switchers.

 

Well, you won't have to worry about *this* UKIP supporter switching to the Tories in the event there's no UKIP candidate here!

Who am I?

 

Squawk! Strong and stable! Squawk! Strong and stable!

 

SQUAWK! STRONG AND STABLE! SQUAWK! STRONG AND STABLE!

 

Yes you guessed it - I'm a parrot! Albeit without the charm and a smaller beak....

And as I've said before, it bloody works. Theresa May has now established "strong & stable" as the Tories' brand, and its simplicity and alliteration means that its memorable, so with great repetition it will seep through to the electorate and get the Conservatives over the line.

 

Compare & contrast with Labour's slogan, "Working for the many, not for the few". For a start, it's too long and wordy, it doesn't flow well as a sentence, it is a bit of a tongue twister, and it is not memorable at all, even with constant repetition.

 

Methinks that someone should sit down the Labour team down with a copy of Basic Persuasion 101, because if that's the best they can do, they're going to flounder over the line.

The Tories do have the advantage of not worrying about whether their slogan has even a grain of truth. May is about as strong and stable as a jelly that has failed to set properly.

It looks like the cynicism I have long developed about all political parties is starting to catch on even here. :)

WTF. McDonnell hinting that he and Corbyn will stay on even after they've lost. Of course he says they're on course for a win. LMAO.

Edited May 8, 20178 yr by common sense

It looks like the cynicism I have long developed about all political parties is starting to catch on even here. :)

No, you just never read properly before.

WTF. McDonnell hinting that he and Corbyn will stay on even after they've lost. Of course he says they're on course for a win. LMAO.

Perhaps you could provide evidence of a senior politician who has gone into an election saying that they are heading for defeat and will, therefore, be resigning as soon as that defeat is confirmed. You may recall that Cameron insisted that he wouldn't resign if he lost the EU referendum. Again, he was more or less duty bound to say that even though he knew it wasn't true.

Perhaps you could provide evidence of a senior politician who has gone into an election saying that they are heading for defeat and will, therefore, be resigning as soon as that defeat is confirmed. You may recall that Cameron insisted that he wouldn't resign if he lost the EU referendum. Again, he was more or less duty bound to say that even though he knew it wasn't true.

 

And yet, even if the defeat is as bad as opinion polls are indicating (and it probably will be), I for one still would think Corbyn should stay on as leader on the basis of being the lesser evil - the "moderates"' big idea STILL seems to be to try to backslide on Brexit, which is easily as electorally-toxic as anything Corbyn stands for.

And yet, even if the defeat is as bad as opinion polls are indicating (and it probably will be), I for one still would think Corbyn should stay on as leader on the basis of being the lesser evil - the "moderates"' big idea STILL seems to be to try to backslide on Brexit, which is easily as electorally-toxic as anything Corbyn stands for.

OTOH, if leaving the EU proves to be the calamity many of us think it will be, Labour will be just as culpable as the Tories (or Theresa May's Team as they now like to be known).

If it is as disastrous as we think, thr public will blame the Tories! But the One Party State media will admittedly try to spin it so the EU tskes all the blame for not bending over for Mad May and Little England...

And yet, even if the defeat is as bad as opinion polls are indicating (and it probably will be), I for one still would think Corbyn should stay on as leader on the basis of being the lesser evil - the "moderates"' big idea STILL seems to be to try to backslide on Brexit, which is easily as electorally-toxic as anything Corbyn stands for.

There is next to no chance that would be Yvette Cooper's platform. The bigger risk is that on June 9th they all start saying "legitimate concerns" in sync.

And yet, even if the defeat is as bad as opinion polls are indicating (and it probably will be), I for one still would think Corbyn should stay on as leader on the basis of being the lesser evil - the "moderates"' big idea STILL seems to be to try to backslide on Brexit, which is easily as electorally-toxic as anything Corbyn stands for.

 

...and yet if Corbyn had vigorously represented the official Labour Party position on Brexit and convinced 2% of voters (or 4% of non-voters) that the Labour Party believed in a fair society for poorer people that wouldn't be served by a Brexit vote, despite what the Tory right-wing press and Brexit lying polticians were saying (including leaving the single-market), then that "Toxic" electoral stance wouldnt be an issue and we wouldnt even be having an election right now....