Great advert Brutal response 😂 (wait for it)⏩ https://t.co/aBfHF3Y85D#GE2017 #BBCQT pic.twitter.com/468E3sMaqv— Momentum 🌹 (@PeoplesMomentum) June 2, 2017
Did another couple of hours canvassing again tonight. Got absolutely soaked. That's about 70-80 hours I've done over the past few weeks. Off tomorrow to see John Prescott, as long as the little woman allows .@johnprescott will be dropping into Telford to support @Kuldip4Telford tmrrw at The Ironbridge (1.15pm). Come along and show your support! pic.twitter.com/sx4AsONoPY— Telford Labour Party (@Telfordlabour) June 2, 2017
Some of the gang after tonights meeting to discuss the forthcoming visit of the future 'supreme leader', Jezza on Tuesday afternoon... Just a handful of the volunteers preparing my for this weeks election, helping @Kuldip4Telford beat @lucyallan for the #Telford #ge2017 seat pic.twitter.com/zGjRYq9g9a— Telford Labour Party (@Telfordlabour) June 5, 2017 Some likely souls, (not me I hasten to add), will be up at 5AM on polling day, out leafleting
Notice none of the centrists and neoliberals are telling their people to fall in line and vote for the progressive Corbyn/Labour like they did for Clinton and Macron. No endorsement from Obama either. Do they think people won't remember this come next election.
For sure, they should be endorsing Tim Farron and the Lib Dems, but that would be too controversial IMO.
24 hours to go and politicians and the media really do stoop to new lows at this time. Mail doing its usual mouth frothing and May this morning saying she will tear up human rights to help secure the country, while other politicians point out that ECHR has nothing at all to do with trying to sort out terrorists and others point out you can only do what she says by putting the country into an official state of emergency. Shambles.
Probably won't work, but I wonder how many people will do it. https://bestforbritain.org/ We need a hung parliament, which will take power from bossy dictator PM and give it to elected MPs: https://t.co/SreXx0NNQX— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) June 7, 2017
You could short-circuit that exercise for most of Britain and just say, 'Vote labour'. We're normally the second party anyway. Also, the figures there are wrong. It gives the percent of leave voters in my constituency as 66% when that's the percent for the Telford and Wrekin area, not just Telford. IIRC we were at about 54%. The leave voters in The Wrekin, (which is a lot more rural), was considerably higher I believe. I haven't got a problem with people voting tactically but you can find all the previous results on wikipedia for your constituency. To wit... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
Regarding the attacks on Jezza... it makes you wonder how much difference it makes at this point. After the previous 6 weeks, (not to mention the previous 30+ years of the same shit), it's not like people haven't got an idea of who's involved, is it. Surely people will have already 'priced it in', as they say. The other stuff... again, May was home secretary for most of the period before 2016. If someone was needed, shouldn't she have done it before we got blown up? It's absolutely laughable what the papers come out with.
Reckon May will get a majority of around 60-70ish which is enough for them to say it is a success, but behind closed doors they will know having May in charge has cost them their chance of wiping out Labour.
Hmm... it might be less than that depending on whether the young'uns can bother getting out of bed. That's the unknown. Jezza's tried to turn it into a generational split which, to be fair, is pretty much what the tories normally do... just the other way around. The thing I do find bloody annoying is that, if we don't win, the right of the party, (y'know... the ones that have contributed nothing to the result for us), will say it proves a left-wing agenda of raising taxes and spending them on the poor, the young and the infirm, has no appeal... and yet, I seem to remember we lost when we had a wishy-washy load of nonsense from them as a manifesto. Well... unless we're redefining stuff like 'An NHS with the time to care' as a hard-left programme. Yeah, I seem to remember Marx saying something like that, come to think of it In 2015 we got 30.4% of the vote IIRC so, under normal circumstances, if we increased that by 6-7%, (as the polls are suggesting), even if we didn't win, they'd be saying we'd increased our vote substantially and are getting close to victory. Do YOU think that's what the right of the party and the commentariat will be saying??? Will they bollocks!!! The generally accepted wisdom was that pretty much ALL of the UKIP vote would be heading to May's 'Strong and stable' mantra. If that doesn't happen that has to be counted as at least a decent result. But we all know that's not what's going to happen. Blair and his ilk will be banging on saying we have to revert to tory light... yeah, coz it worked so well before. Well, apart from that whole 'financial crash' and 'two lost elections in a row' bit. Yeah, that was disappointing!
A lot of former Tory MP's keep suggesting May is gone if her margin is not big enough. It would give me a small satisfaction, though the thought of someone like Boris as PM sends shivers up my spine
Also, let's just think about this... We're having the election partly because she wants a 'strong, personal mandate' for brexit negotiations and THEN, even if the tories win, we STILL end up with yet ANOTHER un-elected tory PM??? Anyway, just been reading this... https://www.thecanary.co/2017/06/07...y-broken-law-last-ditch-attack-jeremy-corbyn/ I'm looking forward to the editors like Dacre being sent to chokey... like THAT'S gonna happen.
Wow, just wow. Own goal of the season scored by May. Shout out to Naughtius and his hard work out on the streets!
Does anyone know where I can watch these election returns in the US? TV or Internet is fine. Now that I've seen the exit polls, I'm excited. EDIT: never mind, it's on the BBC website: http://www.bbc.com/news/live/election-2017-40171454
So if the Tories don't get a majority, what would a majority coalition look like? Can't imagine Liberal Democrats joing with the Tories?
Doubt there would be a coalition tbh. More likely a Tory minority Govt and another election later this year.