And anti-Brexit people like you accuse Brexit voters of being isolationist. What a joke.

 

June 8th, the liberal left politics in the UK are going to be destroyed for a generation, that's what you get for ignoring the people for too long.

 

No. YOU ignore what Trump's staff said after meeting May absolutely clearly that Brexit was a huge opportunity to steal away all of OUR BRITISH business. They said it. They havent retracted it. India turned away the huge May entourage with ridicule, because we had little to offer taking an isolationist stance. The countries May has been welcomed are warmongering ones. Other countries are NOT lining up to buy our goods, though they are very happy to sell us stuff.

 

This is not ignoring "the people" (of which I am one, working class, and like most of my family not rich and struggling financially - are you?). I'm not the one making rich people richer, and selling off British businesses to foreigners. The Tories are. The Liberal left were already hammered by the banking crisis, by the way - a crisis caused by Thatcher's policies (allowing banks to get too big to fail, gamble on dangerously stupid loans, and ever be checked). The "Liberal left" were virtually indistinguishable from Tory-right-wingers if that's who you are talking about, and the financial crisis was with the full support of Tories every inch of the way.

 

Nothing is forever in politics, as you will find out over the next decade as sane people pick up the pieces as they always have to do following disastrous governments....

Plot twist: Peacemob makes a post that doesn't contain 'Liberal Left'

And anti-Brexit people like you accuse Brexit voters of being isolationist. What a joke.

 

June 8th, the liberal left politics in the UK are going to be destroyed for a generation, that's what you get for ignoring the people for too long.

 

Ok Rita, maybe your should soften them up with your putty warriors first :)

David Dimbleby is delaying his retirement to front the overnight election results again *.* (2015 was supposed to be his last). It wouldn't be the same without him, so I'm glad he's back again.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/apr/...bbc-huw-edwards

 

:cheer: Legend!!

Wonder if many will actually stay up all night this time. Two people I know say they won't as the result's a foregone conclusion, unlike in 2010 and 2015. I probably will again.

It depends on the exit poll. If it shows a gigantic Tory landslide, I don't particularly want to stay up to watch that come true.

I have little hope. I mean it is possible that Corbyn pulls off an upset like Trump buut I doubt it.

I have little hope. I mean it is possible that Corbyn pulls off an upset like Trump buut I doubt it.

 

 

As someone on DS pointed out, in the three recent poll upsets, 2015, Brexit and Trump, the poll differences weren't that big. Many were within the margin of error in fact and Clinton did win the popular vote so the polls there weren't wrong. This time the Torys are up to 22 points ahead and the polls aren't even in single digits.

The tories should win but 7 weeks is a long time....

 

No. YOU ignore what Trump's staff said after meeting May absolutely clearly that Brexit was a huge opportunity to steal away all of OUR BRITISH business

 

That's despite Trump supposedly supporting Brexit and the whole Trump - May special relationship talk? I suppose its makes sense in terms of Trump's 'America First' economic policy.

 

 

The tories should win but 7 weeks is a long time....

 

 

Yes, even a week is a long time in politics

Why is no-one here talking about Labour to introduce 4 new bank holidays?

 

Social media seems to have gone pretty wild for it.

WEEPING

WEEPING

That prediction has my seat going tory :o Currently emigrating to Aberdeen North.

 

That's by FAR the largest tory poll I've seen in Scotland, I'd guess it's just an outlier but if the results turn out to be anything like this then WEEP indeed.

One of the many casualties of the snap election is local party democracy. Local parties have delayed selecting candidates, partly because of the impending boundary changes and also because they thought there was not necessarily any rush. Now both Labour and Tories will be doing a lot of the work at party headquarters rather than letting the local parties take the lead. The Tories will be imposing shortlists on local parties for target seats (including seats they already hold where the MP is stepping down) and imposing candidates on the remaining seats. Labour will be selecting all candidates centrally. The likely outcome is that there will be fewer MPs with a proper local connection and fewer MPs prepared to vote against their party.

 

The Lib Dems have already selected candidates for well over half of the constituencies and are aiming to select the rest in the usual way, allowing local parties maximum autonomy.

The 5 non-SNP seats are being selected at local level. Everyone else is seeking re-election

The 5 non-SNP seats are being selected at local level. Everyone else is seeking re-election

The SNP do have the luxury of having very few seats where they don't already have an MP!

The SNP do have the luxury of having very few seats where they don't already have an MP!

Very true! But I doubt that'll last past June

The COMRES out yesterday had the Conservatives on 50% (highest in its history)

 

CON 50%(+4), LAB 25%(nc), LDEM 11%(nc), UKIP 7%(-2), GRN 3%(-1)

 

The hyperbolic MoS headline about the ‘Tory lead being halved’ is just the usual rubbish designed to steer May to abolish the commitment to .7% GDP to foreign aid - thankfully nobody will be taking any notice of them!

 

Also the latest Scottish poll gives:

 

SNP 43%(-7), CON 28%(+13), LAB 18%(-6), LDEM 9%(+1)

 

which does indeed support the idea that the SNP will lose a few MPs.

 

Twickenham will be interesting - a 67% remain constituency (so quite similar to Richmond Park) that currently has a narrow CON MAJ of 2017. Vince Cable got to be the favourite there surely!

Edited April 23, 20178 yr by Doctor Blind

Why is no-one here talking about Labour to introduce 4 new bank holidays?

 

Social media seems to have gone pretty wild for it.

 

 

I suppose because it's just another of loser Jezza's daft policy idea that he'll never get to implement. I do think we should have one more, on June 23rd, UK Independance Day.