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Vote Lib Dem. Seriously. I am a candidate in very north london, we're all organised for this possibility.
Yeah, 'cause you did such a sterling job last time?
I knew I should have put a bet on this, we were never going to leave Europe. Which ever parties manifesto says stay in Europe will win - end of story.
Constituencies overwhelmingly voted to leave though.
Current polling: CON 43, LAB 25 [1]
Conservatives won the 2015 Election polling at 34% [2].
[1] https://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/9828
[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/UK_opini...
I knew I should have put a bet on this, we were never going to leave Europe. Which ever parties manifesto says stay in Europe will win - end of story.
She would have never of called if she thought she wasn't going to win. This is basically to get a higher majority in the commons, so things can go through unimpeded.
The real danger for her is presumably that MPs don't give her the mandate to hold the election at all, which would potentially mean we get yet another new and unelected PM.
Actually this is just good business for the Tories, and I've long expected it. The opposition is in disarray under Corbyn, and our prime minister has never won an election. This is as easy a victory as Theresa May will ever be able to bank on, and legitimises her leadership in the eyes of a large section of the public. She can also claim (maybe rightly so) that she has the undisputed majority support of the public fo…
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I wonder (I'm not from UK), is there really zero chance of someone from Labour to challenge Corbyn (someone more moderate/center leaning) and rally the pro-EU voters ?
The Labour Party establishment have tried to dethrone Corbyn before and failed. He's an odd case. He commands a lot of influence among Labour members and to some extent the unions (who have significant ties to and influence on the Labour Party here). This makes him more-or-less untouchable as party leader. However, he's loathed by most of the party's current MPs, who are politicians and know he's going to be a liabil…
I daresay that it's them who are making the party a liability. They've made the Labour Party seem completely ridiculous - and that's not Corbyn's fault.
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Vote Lib Dem. Seriously. I am a candidate in very north london, we're all organised for this possibility.
Yeah, 'cause you did such a sterling job last time?
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Pretty much, Corbyn has gathered a lot of grass roots support but will fail to appeal to the wider electorate. I suspect there is a good chance that Labour in the rest of the UK will implode after this election in the same way that it has collapsed in Scotland (although I'm not clear who voters would transfer their loyalties to as they have here in Scotland where the SNP now dominates).
A lot of that grass roots support is young & as a result has much less weight for voting, unfortunately.
As an outsider, the news that got to me was that older people simply showed up to vote (and others didn't).
Actually this is just good business for the Tories, and I've long expected it. The opposition is in disarray under Corbyn, and our prime minister has never won an election. This is as easy a victory as Theresa May will ever be able to bank on, and legitimises her leadership in the eyes of a large section of the public. She can also claim (maybe rightly so) that she has the undisputed majority support of the public fo…
It also negates the 'Theresa doesn't have a mandate, no one voted for her' argument.
