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[zzr45]

Absolutely biting satire.

Sorry for wanting leaders that can do things like ‘understand how government borrowing works’, ‘not make up new policy on the fly because it sounds good’ and ‘generally be able to discuss future plans coherently.’

 

[bluebark]

Sorry for wanting leaders that can do things like ‘understand how government borrowing works’, ‘not make up new policy on the fly because it sounds good’ and ‘generally be able to discuss future plans coherently.’

Apology accepted you loon.

 

[larrygobfiend]

Sorry for wanting leaders that can do things like ‘understand how government borrowing works’, ‘not make up new policy on the fly because it sounds good’ and ‘generally be able to discuss future plans coherently.’

PARKLIFE

 

[zzr45]

PARKLIFE

I see what you did there.

 

[davek]

My experience of these people is it's not so calculated. They are quite a self important, at times ignorant set of people.

By chance the YOUGOV MRP got it close to being right last time. That looks increasingly like a stab in the dark. It was actually because they got the top line figure correct.

The prediction was consistent with all the other companies predictions thus far. We are seeing herd mentality with the election predictors now, who refuse to accept anything other than 2017 being a one off, and it being solely down to May being awful.

I did state all this at the time in 2017. I remember saying May was awful and these same experts sneer and make out she was the most popular PM since Thatcher, and I was a crazy Corbynite in a bubble. Now they preach the same thing back to me, without a word of humility of how wrong they were, not just that how bad she was, but how that singularly means it can never happen again.

Behind closed doors, the people that matter, Cummings and his team are majorly freaking out currently. They have no idea how Corbyn remains so popular.

There is the potential for the 2019 result to be more out than the 2017. If it proves to be, wait for the tantrum that follows.

I think that's key to remember. This polling is practically new and has no record to judge either way apart from one poll in 2017.

I just doubt very much that the Labour vote in northern and midlands constituencies collapses that much that the Tories capture them. Labour will suffer vote share there, of course. But I dont see the massive capture of seats by the Tories there as projected...I'd say the same thing if the LP were projected to win a couple of score seats in the home counties or the Yorkshire shires, btw...equally incredible.

Johnson is a calamity and his handlers know that they are one major tv moment away from ballsing their plans right up. That's how much they're confident of an overall majority of ANY description.

 

[summerisle]

Latest poll.

 

[orchard]

 

[OnlyBlueWillDo]

Quite like McDonnell myself.

10x better leader than Corbyn, two chancellors on the bounce now won't debate him on Economics, because they know he'd wipe the floor with them.

 

[Khalekan]

 

[davek]

Latest poll.

...but, but, but MRP poll...68 overall Tory majority...

 

[Connor]

Big fan of Rebecca Long-Bailey in this debate

 

[Number_25]

Rebecca Long-Bailey has been absolutely superb tonight.

 

[Number_25]

...but, but, but MRP poll...68 overall Tory majority...

Important to understand how close it really is.

A marginal swing from Tory to Labour could see us take a lot of seats we're not expected to take.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Rebecca Long-Bailey has been absolutely superb tonight.

What's happening tonight? Thought campaigning had stopped?

 

[roydo]

Big fan of Rebecca Long-Bailey in this debate

Rebecca Long-Bailey has been absolutely superb tonight.

Only got half an eye on it, but if she is the one I think you both mean, me too.