Current Affairs The General Election

[Jebus_lives]

Go pray to your thatcher poster melt

It's a much better place if you stick him on ignore.

 

[bigboy]

It's a much better place if you stick him on ignore.

Will do

 

[evilwebby]

Surely this all goes back to the New Labour project? They abandoned the working class to chase votes. It’s all been a sort of slow, painful death since then.

Utterly the wrong analysis.
There's a misperception that the working class vote for Labour handouts and giveaways. The working class want the same thing as the middle classes - to be taxed less, and the opportunity to shape their own live through the efforts of their own hard work. Blair understood that. Traditional Conservatives instinctively understand that also. But to Corbyn and the socialists it is anethema.

 

[dandydan]

Go pray to your thatcher poster melt

"if you don't vote Labour you must be a Toreeee"

 

[Blue 1]

Is Corbyn the problem? Yes.
Are the flag waving, bootlicking, stupid, selfish English the problem? Absolutely more so.

Consider how the rest of the world views "the English" for a second. It's not complementary, is it?

 

[ilikecheese]

Will be weird if Labour win the cities and Tories everywhere else

Would it be? In America that is defo what has happened for a while now. The suburbs of the cities are the battleground.

 

[dandydan]

It's a much better place if you stick him on ignore.

Yet here you are.
ps. The North is Blue
pps. It's because of Brexit.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Wales turning blue too. With them and Scotland turned it is going to be a hard slog to win elections for Labour.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Wales turning blue too. With them and Scotland turned it is going to be a hard slog to win elections for Labour.

They won't stay Tory. I really am amazed at how badly Labour are doing there though.

 

[dandydan]

Wales turning blue too. With them and Scotland turned it is going to be a hard slog to win elections for Labour.

And why is that?

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Utterly the wrong analysis.
There's a misperception that the working class vote for Labour handouts and giveaways. The working class want the same thing as the middle classes - to be taxed less, and the opportunity to shape their own live through the efforts of their own hard work. Blair understood that. Traditional Conservatives instinctively understand that also. But to Corbyn and the socialists it is anethema.

It’s not about “free handouts”, it is about having a party that puts the working class (the majority) first and foremost. I do not believe Labour under Blair did that. The fact he has made a fortune in the US doing corporate work suggests I might be on to something!

 

[evilwebby]

Dayom. Alastair Campbell absolutely putting the boot in. Like him or loathe him you can't deny that he's generally got his finger on the pulse of the country.

 

[dannyboy]

Dayom. Alastair Campbell absolutely putting the boot in. Like him or loathe him you can't deny that he's generally got his finger on the pulse of the country.

He was a huge backer of the second referendum. I´d say he has got that spectacularly wrong.

 

[summerisle]

Frank Field gets his comeuppance.

 

[dandydan]

Dayom. Alastair Campbell absolutely putting the boot in. Like him or loathe him you can't deny that he's generally got his finger on the pulse of the country.

Right on momentum, wrong on Brexit.