June 12, 20178 yr Rooney you are a HUUUGE Tory by just admit it. I have no political allegiances! If anything I am a huge Centrist. I am a definition of one of those voters that can be easily bribed. The economy is the most important thing to me right now. I guess in terms of my political views, my stance on the economy is the only thing that is right-wing.
June 12, 20178 yr http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-scotland-32380783 Actually not true. The SNP were viciously against it and unlike Labour expressly wrote in their manifesto that they were against it. Ed promised a referendum if there was a future transfer of power to Brussels Maybe I should have qualified that with 'the only party standing in all parts of the UK and likely to form a government' then. :P I remember distinctly in the Question Time debates Ed defending the fact that there should not be an in/out referendum and getting quite a lot of hate from the public for it, oh and it was going to be a coalition of chaos if Ed got in...
June 13, 20178 yr Author I will say that this is where Corbyn is strongest, on the campaign front. In the Commons he is terrible. If the Labour party want to keep the momentum then Corbyn needs to reshuffle his front benchers and get some of his stronger members in the shadow cabinet. I wonder if dumping Abbott was enough to win him a couple of the very close seats, right at the end? Like many people, I never actually believed people would vote to Leave. I don't think most Leavers really expected it, either! It did teach politicians the lesson not to take the electorate for granted though - one that has yet to sink in everywhere... ;)
June 13, 20178 yr Author This may help with the post mortem... http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/gene...p;utm_hp_ref=uk
June 13, 20178 yr I wonder if dumping Abbott was enough to win him a couple of the very close seats, right at the end? I don't think most Leavers really expected it, either! It did teach politicians the lesson not to take the electorate for granted though - one that has yet to sink in everywhere... ;) I doubt dumping Abbott made much difference. It was the right call though, clearly she is a very intelligent woman and she said some ridiculous stuff. That said, much like some of the Tories, she needs to be nowhere near the frontbenches. If anything swung for Labour imo it will have been the terrorist attacks and the police cuts.
June 13, 20178 yr Author I doubt dumping Abbott made much difference. Even in Kensington where Labour won by just 20 votes? Oops, never mind. :P Edited June 13, 20178 yr by vidcapper
June 13, 20178 yr Even in Kensington where Labour won by just 20 votes? Oops, never mind. :P Doubt it made much difference considering Diane's majority in her consituency increased by over 10%.
June 13, 20178 yr Author Doubt it made much difference considering Diane's majority in her consituency increased by over 10%. Unusually, that increase seems to have come mostly from the Greens. :blink:
June 13, 20178 yr Unusually, that increase seems to have come mostly from the Greens. :blink: In part, but it's mainly due to the highest turn out since the 1950s at just over 67%.
June 13, 20178 yr Anyone else looking forward to seeing Michael Portillos face in This Week on Thursday?!
June 13, 20178 yr Anyone else looking forward to seeing Michael Portillos face in This Week on Thursday?! I very rarely look forward to seeing Michael Portillo's face. Probably the reason why I never returned to my early childhood obsession with steam trains.
June 14, 20178 yr I very rarely look forward to seeing Michael Portillo's face. Probably the reason why I never returned to my early childhood obsession with steam trains. I think the last time I enjoyed seeing Portillo's face was when he lost his seat in 1997.
June 14, 20178 yr Author I think the last time I enjoyed seeing Portillo's face was when he lost his seat in 1997. I was just thinking exactly the same thing! :)
June 14, 20178 yr Who is he - a huge douche? He used to be a particularly unpopular Tory minister - even more Thatcherite than Thatcher herself. He now presents television documentaries on trains.
June 14, 20178 yr Author He used to be a particularly unpopular Tory minister - even more Thatcherite than Thatcher herself. He now presents television documentaries on trains. 'About trains' sounds slightly slightly less ambiguous. :P
June 14, 20178 yr 'About trains' sounds slightly slightly less ambiguous. :P Doesn't he spend some of the time on trains?
June 14, 20178 yr Author Doesn't he spend some of the time on trains? Yes, but you could theoretically present many kinds of documentaries on trains (in the sense of using them as settings, bather than being *about* trains). :P
June 14, 20178 yr So now that the election is over, we're left arguing over what type of programme Portillo presents?
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