Charlie Foley
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feck Buckethead, believe in BinFace
Gonna admit you were wrong?The secret is that numbers on the ground don’t correlate with numbers of the polls because the pollsters are lazy, they go to their base get a load of answers and weight them to their hearts content. There’s two things in this election that the pollsters have missed, huge engagement of young people and the vast numbers of people undecided. The undecideds are facing a moral issue, vote for Brexit and get Tories destroying the country for a further 5 years or give Labour a shot and have another crack at Brexit. A lot are warming to the latter because of the campaign Labour is running on the ground. That one on one connection with people has been the difference that has pulled it back against all the media offensive against Labour. That together with young voter turnouts is what will at the very least deny Tories a majority tomorrow. It’s not all over, there’s one more day to go and it’s going to be a big day so really I should get some sleep but I’m too fecking ecstatic.
To think that after the last debate I was so fecking resigned to a Tory majority because ai believed all the media bubble. That one day of canvassing changed the whole perspective of this election and I could see everyone was absolutely passionate and optimistic from everything they were hearing in the doorstep. I hope that at the very least the campaigners around my area will be able to turn the 2 MK seats red but the cherry on the cake will be unseating Steve Baker from Wycombe. They’re all within reach and a hard push is required tomorrow.
I feel like this is a Kevin Keegan moment but I would fecking love to be in the room when BoJo gets the results
“Do you really think Tories get the bus?” They’re not fecking aristocrats. Of course they get the bus.I don't vote. Do you really think Tories get the bus?
I get the bus, the buses are shit, when they do turn up they are always jam packed. I don't want them to be even worse. That's the logic.
Do you get the bus?
If you use public transport to get to work you have a choice between metrolink and bus.Are you really dense enough to think those buses would be even more rammed?
Do you honestly think under 25's avoid them now?
You are suggesting that other parties should feck off because people choose to vote for them rather than the party you want. Not a very democratic stance that now is it?how so?
feck Buckethead, believe in BinFace
Stanley is having a stroke.
Agree with all of this. He is a maverick rebel and new ideas guy. Such people are very important in leadership teams but as a senior member and not as the leader. Because by definition, some of their many ideas will be highly polarising, and they are not in an objective position to see that themselves.Jeremy Corbyn was a good back bench MP - I assume he has never held a cabinet or shadow cabinet post before heading up the Labour Party? A leader he is not, and never has been.
Labour are too influenced by the unions and momentum. Union influence was also the reason the wrong Miliband led the party.
What did he say? Was watching itv coverage.Nish is opening a can of whoop ass on Stanley.
Go on son.
feck Buckethead, believe in BinFace
Wait whaaaat, this is more shocking than the exit poll.Bucket head is a fake now anyway, binface is the guy who was the original buckethead
If you use public transport to get to work you have a choice between metrolink and bus.
What happens if one of the choices becomes FREE?
Are YOU really that dense that you need it explained to you?
What did he say? Was watching itv coverage.
What did he say? Was watching itv coverage.
Than why has the majority rejected that opinion? The message was put out there in stereo, and the poorest have ignored the message. Tell's me perhaps its not as bad as its being made out to be. (BTW I voted Labour).Speak to the people who work for the NHS mate.
I know right!?Wait whaaaat, this is more shocking than the exit poll.
Labour have to do a LOT of soul-searching, and learn some humility, to reform and make themselves electable, or they'll be out for another full generation.
So the point i was getting at in a roundabout way is that moderates and the left divide themselves while the right stick together when push comes to shove, its a huge problem politically that parallels in the united states with regards to republicans vs democrats.You are suggesting that other parties should feck off because people choose to vote for them rather than the party you want. Not a very democratic stance that now is it?
zealots with their head in the sand.Which 'others' are you talking about?
The centre is dead. This idea that if the Labour party stayed/moved back to the centre they would see electoral success is a canard. It doesn't matter how hard you wish it will happen, there is no return to pre-15 politics. Brexit, Trump and global Trumpism is the new normal and we need to adapt to that.
What the first few results seem to show is that in a Brexit election, Labour haven't done enough to get their message out to their 'heartland'. A movement like Momentum has done some brilliant things, but it's membership is primarily young working class people from big cities. Vote Leave seem to have been more successful in channeling small town dissatisfaction, and Labour haven't been able to cut through to Brexit voters in the same way.
Channel 4 coverage is car crash TV.
Its basically a room of depressed lefties and Stanley Johnson
Obviously that would be the case. His economic and tax policy was fecking insane. His plan to increase taxes on investor gains from a rate of 10% with Entrepreneurs Relief to 50% whilst also increasing bank Levy essentially would have stopped small companies getting access to loans/investment to grow, madness.The pound is up across the board. 12 month high against the US dollar.
Labour has been taken over by self-righteous pricks who think they know better than everyone else. It's not a very attractive proposition and part of the reason they are getting destroyed.Honest question, do you think they will? Because they don't seem interested and haven't since the last few loses. I worry about that.
Jesus fecking christ, how many times?! Labour is a 65%+ Remain supporting party. How the feck would them supporting leave have handed them a win? Even in many of those labour leave constituencies a majority of Labour voters were remain.
I got 8/1 on labour getting less than 211 seats...Tory majority was as high as 8/15 on Bet365 earlier today. Fuming I didn’t get on it
Stanley has lost most of his marbles. Pretty cruel to put him in front of such a hostile audience at the mercy of such a hysterical failed comedian.
Have nish and frankie boyle ever shared a stage? Might give him a heart attack.
Ah shit we drink the same thing, now we're technically married under Caf Law. But it also means I get half your stuff in the inevitable divorce, so that's good.
Than why has the majority rejected that opinion? The message was put out there in stereo, and the poorest have ignored the message. Tell's me perhaps its not as bad as its being made out to be. (BTW I voted Labour).
As I said our health service is already one of the very best in the world. And that context is deliberately lost when politicians engage in hyperbole to win votes.
People can switch parties. If Labour provided policies that some of these Lib Dems and Greens could fully back then they could join Labour.So the point i was getting at in a roundabout way is that moderates and the left divide themselves while the right stick together when push comes to shove, its a huge problem politically that parallels in the united states with regards to republicans vs democrats.
Id love to see data on lib dems and greens on who they would prefer between labour or the tory's. my bet would be they have more in common with the left than the right and in that regard their votes do nothing but hand constituances to the tories.
the attempt at tactical voting gave 1 seat to the lib dems and surrendered dozens to the conservatives by slim margins.