Polls can be used as an indication of swing but using them for an actual result can be very misleading. More and more people are less inclined to give their opinion when asked to do so.
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Yes, she did. I didn't decode that, not been up long enough, quite yet.
Fully expecting Kuenssberg's hatchet job to get a good airing in the rest of this campaign, given this morning's circumstances and the level of Tory desperation.
Rudd using her speech to politicise the attack as well. They've obviously decided to change their views since Manchester
Crazy.
I know people keep saying this is due to the polling methodology - are there any articles laying out the differences here?
What has she said?
Just the same as May really, pushing their security proposals.
It's an abuse of power and absolutely fecking shameful.
I'm sorry to say that it's the nail in the coffin for the Labour campaign.
The right wing press are going to go into full blown fear mongoring mode now and convince everyone her words are powerful and she is going to make us safer.
The war on terror is a complete failure. It's time to change tact completely.
Speech will go down great with the electorate though sadly. Any chance the Labour campaign had is over.
Yeah thought the same.
As you say she will use it to promote her agenda of more invasions of our privacy. Sadly I feel 3 terror attacks in 3 months will convince people that it's necessary.
Yup it's done and dusted now. The next 5 years are going to be absolutely awful and the terrorist situation will only get worse with Tory foreign policy.
Depends. Army, police and intelligence services have all been cut under the Tories and there's more to come. If labour can push that message, they may convince some of the electorate to switch.
It was likely done and dusted before this. According to Owen Jones, Labour's own data has them down by 12 points and that was a few days ago.
Yep, this will get ignored though. Tories have been making this country weak and vulnerable with their cuts. They have no leg to stand on but have the media and will openly lie to the public as seen with Brexit.
3 attacks in 3 months under a conservative government and somehow they will be seen as the people to trust with security.. wtf?
Remember people were saying exactly the same about it being over after the Manchester attack.
I found it deplorable. This morning was not the time be discussing a political agenda. It should have been about keeping us briefed on the facts showing sadness at the loss of life and support for the services who do an amazing job running into danger.
There were still debates and stuff after that. Now, there's a few days until the election. Campaigning is suspended for the major parties, though May used her speech to campaign. Conservative tactic is already to go door to door mentioning Corbyn and the IRA. They'll double down on that now as well as the papers.
It needs to be highlighted once Labour start campaigning again. The fact that the Tories used this for political point scoring is deplorable.
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Yeah that speech was definitely campaign driven, the height of tastelessness.
I dunno, trying to predict anything in this election so far has been a fool's errand (e.g., me).
Its an interesting dynamic isn't it. Whilst i don't really feel the attacks are on the Tories, they have cut services and so the idea of them being more trusted is odd.
I guess its more the idea that right wing are tough while the left are soft.
Heathrow and Gatwick are seperated by 25 miles, albeit 25 miles with bodies of water, areas of outstanding natural beauty, hills, roads, towns and so on
25 miles in 15 minutes is 100 miles per hour, average. The fastest speed a London Underground train goes is the Metropolitan line at 60 miles per hour. However, the Eurotunnel top speed is over 180 miles per hour, and it could be argued that that was more directly comparable.
Maybe 15 minutes is unrealistic, but it's not in the realms of science fiction. The question is paying for it.
Yeah to be honest, I just was just having a laugh, particularly regarding the idea of this little shuttle thing but a fast-train/tram/shuttle thing is possible.
I just had to respond to someone in disbelief on Facebook who said that we can't elect Corbyn because Venezuelans are eating zoo animals as a result of their leaders socialist policies.
Fecking scandal.
That's disgusting.
Labour jump doesn't surprise me, talking to a fair few people who I imagine either voted SNP or didn't vote at all in 2015 who are now backing Corbyn's Labour. They're pretty much all under 30, aye, but there's a reasonably sized bunch all the same, who'll make it enough to put a small dent in the SNP vote and slightly boost Labour's.
Scandal? Should be but I doubt it makes its way into any news tbh.
That's slightly terrifying. A candidate shutting down the views of an opponent by using their prevalence in government.
When he rings the bell he says something along the lines of "the subject is Manchester" and then it sounds like he says "sort of personal attack I wish to avoid" whilst walking over to the table, but it's muffled to say the very least. His complaints only seem to rise after Rudd writes something down and gets his attention.
Under a Labour government, we'd be reading:
Corbyn can't keep us safe
and...
ON HIS WATCH
Corbyn can't keep us safe
and...
ON HIS WATCH
Corbyn has changed, rather than looking like your favourite geography teacher, he looks like your headmaster, certainly someone has got hold of his wardrobe.
I find myself scared and very angry at the world this morning. The direction this country is going is bad enough but with the tories at the helm spreading their nastiness feck knows how bad things may get.
It feels like a very pivotal election
It feels like a very pivotal election
Think he was saying "this is censorship"
You are better than this Pexbo get a hold of yourself.
"Tact often appears in place of tack. Presumably some people think of it as short for tactic, which is synonymous with tack in some contexts. This is understandable given how rare tack is, but tact is not conventionally short for tactic, and, fairly or not, phrases like change tact are generally considered wrong by people who pay attention to these things."