Current Affairs 2017 General Election

[Librarian]

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...eat-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy

The Observer
The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked

A shadowy global operation involving big data, billionaire friends of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign influenced the result of the EU

 

[Old Blue 2]

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...eat-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy

So all those things in that huge article influenced me to vote Leave? Hilarious in the extreme!!! lol

 

[Socrates]

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...eat-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy

The scariest thing for me is that the whole world (or enough to swing the balance) is sleepwalking into this.

 

[tsubaki]

Meanwhile, in a teenage boy's bedroom:

The Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, has said he had a poster of Margaret Thatcher above his bed as a schoolboy but denied he had been a young Tory.

Farron said he had “all sorts of weird icons” as a schoolboy during an ITV programme in which one of his schoolfriends claimed the MP had an “I Love Maggie” sticker on his textbook.

He hinted that the interest in the Conservatives had been the result of a teenage crush. “There was a young woman, let’s be careful what I say, who when I was about 15 or 16 had a soft top Morris Minor and she was a young Tory and so I was somewhat taken aback by her, but frankly not by her politics,” he tells Julie Etchingham during the first of ITV’s The Leader Interviews.

However, Farron, 46, said he did have a photograph of the former Tory prime minister in his bedroom. “I had a Carl Sagan photograph above my bed, who was of course the great, I guess the human voice of Nasa. I had pictures of strange sort of leftwing politicians. I remember I had a Mrs Thatcher picture. I had a John F Kennedy picture. I had a [Liberal leader] Jo Grimond picture.”

 

[evilwebby]

Dunno if anyone follows the markets o these things like I do. but the odds, which were already pretty decisive, have moved even more in favour of the Tories after the last round of weekend polls. Labour to be the biggest party was about 22-1 before the weekend and has now drifted out to 45-1.

 

[orly]

Meanwhile, in a teenage boy's bedroom:

Anyone know which constituency Neville Southall is standing in?

 

[flibbyflob]

Latest opinion poll is depressing with Tories on 49% and Labour 27%.

 

[Milk]

Theresa May to stand against Howling Laud Hope ........

Just one slight snag ........ the OMRLP are yet to publish their Manicfesto .... which is not really surprising as they didn't bother for 2015 as the one from 2010 would do.

It's a VOTE FOR INSANITY

 

[bluecol]

Labour is facing wipe-out, latest polls giving the Conservatives a 170 overall majority. Got to be down to the cretin Corbyn, the despicable Dianne Abbott and the Das Capital lover McDonnell, a Hannibal Lecter look-alike.

 

[bluecol]

Latest opinion poll is depressing with Tories on 49% and Labour 27%.

Why is this depressing?

 

[tadao]

So all those things in that huge article influenced me to vote Leave? Hilarious in the extreme!!! lol

I think it was more about being able to influence people whose opinions weren't set in stone. You've made clear your feelings, so you wouldn't be swayed but, by using peoples data to identify who can be targeted, is at least intriguing, if not something more scary.

 

[Librarian]

So all those things in that huge article influenced me to vote Leave? Hilarious in the extreme!!! lol

You've been duped mate, groomed.

 

[WycombeToffee]

I think it was more about being able to influence people whose opinions weren't set in stone. You've made clear your feelings, so you wouldn't be swayed but, by using peoples data to identify who can be targeted, is at least intriguing, if not something more scary.

We're all determined anyway. This is just more overt and obvious.

 

[tadao]

We're all determined anyway. This is just more overt and obvious.

You mean pre-determined?

 

[Old Blue 2]

I think it was more about being able to influence people whose opinions weren't set in stone. You've made clear your feelings, so you wouldn't be swayed but, by using peoples data to identify who can be targeted, is at least intriguing, if not something more scary.

What miffs me somewhat, tad, is that those who write those kind of articles claim to have the whole shakedown on why things went the way they did, and why people voted the way they did. It seems to me rather crass in the extreme...