Current Affairs 2017 General Election

[Bruce Wayne]

What annoys me about this post is that I already told you the answer when you made a snipe at him regarding the same thing.

You get annoyed by posts on the Internet?

 

[Brennan]

What is yours then?

I said they all do it. I said May has been a disaster this campaign. I have said Johnson is a buffoon.

If you honestly think that that the LP do not not, ok, (insert your own phrase) "manage" media events, then fine. You are wrong.

I can only believe you're being disingenuous if you're saying you really don't understand the huge difference between putting on an event open to the public, and doing what the Tories have done. They have created via clever photography the illusion that May has been getting out and about talking to large crowds of voters, when it has largely been her surrounded by a ring of Tory activists all holding up placards to make the scene look bigger than it is.

It's a polar opposite to the crowds Corbyn gets, and as I said above, he gets them all over the place. Not just in Labour heartlands.

 

[ashwuk76]

I've begun to read all your posts imagining you as a boorish bloke holding court in a pub drinking mild from handled dimple glass. It makes them much more fun.

awww come on @roydo is a good sort

 

[Clint Planet]

Just not sure he's the messiah many make him out to be is all, although the standard is so low among politicians he does come across better than many.

He's not a Messiah and nobody makes him out to be one. He's an honest, principled, intelligent man at a time when public respect for politicians is at an all time low. Get over it.

 

[roydo]

I've begun to read all your posts imagining you as a boorish bloke holding court in a pub drinking mild from handled dimple glass. It makes them much more fun.

Haha! I am honestly conflicted on this election Clint.

My stance has been from day one that its all about Brexit. May et al have shown me nothing that they will get that right. Corbyn seems to give a lot of folk hope.(Which is a great quality in a politician) But then I cant see his team being all that either.

Hence, conflicted.

But they all play the game.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

He's not a Messiah and nobody makes him out to be one. He's an honest, principled, intelligent man at a time when public respect for politicians is at an all time low. Get over it.

I don't doubt any of that. I dislike his policies, not him as a man.

 

[Clint Planet]

I don't doubt any of that. I dislike his policies, not him as a man.

I bloody love that Labour manifesto!

 

[ashwuk76]

I bloody love that Labour manifesto!

Me too, dunno what isnt to like!

 

[bring the ghost on]

And they just randomly turned up? Wernt tweeted etc etc by activists to pop down there?

Ergo, stage managed.

Does no part of you look at 5,000 people with brollies turning up for for Corbyn (time after time), as opposed to the hand full of people turning up for Theresa May and think - hey, Corbyn is clearly inspiring quite a lot of people?

 

[Brennan]

You get annoyed by posts on the Internet?

Apparently we all do

 

[orchard]

Does no part of you look at 5,000 people with brollies turning up for for Corbyn (time after time), as opposed to the hand full of people turning up for Theresa May and think - hey, Corbyn is clearly inspiring quite a lot of people?

They all went there to call him a bloody jessy for not wanting to nuke stuff mate. Wake up !

 

[The binman chronicles]

Does no part of you look at 5,000 people with brollies turning up for for Corbyn (time after time), as opposed to the hand full of people turning up for Theresa May and think - hey, Corbyn is clearly inspiring quite a lot of people?

Corbyn is an activist he will generate the crowds that want to listen to that kind of thing. Trouble is they were already nailed on to voting for him. Labour could win a lot of the urban areas but that leaves all the rest and they are the ones he needs to inspire to win an election.

 

[bring the ghost on]

You get annoyed by posts on the Internet?

This, coming from the man who once banned outright all political & current affairs discussion.

 

[bring the ghost on]

Apparently we all do

You dug deep there Brennan ;-)

 

[bring the ghost on]

Corbyn is an activist he will generate the crowds that want to listen to that kind of thing. Trouble is they were already nailed on to voting for him. Labour could win a lot of the urban areas but that leaves all the rest and they are the ones he needs to inspire to win an election.

I agree with you that he needs to appeal to a far broader demographic if he is to stand a chance of winning a GE. However, he should still be applauded for inspiring so many people to get interested in politics and go out to see the guy speak. That goes beyond just "activism".