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[kenada_blue]

From people in their own vacuum with their own validation.

The silent majority, don't bother arguing about politics on twitter, or even sharing their view.

I think Corbyn has twice the followers Johnson has.

Exactly. You create your own social bubble as you do with your real world. You all have similar interests and likes.

This doesn't give you a balanced view of the world.

You end up seeing it at you want it to be and not as it is

 

[trueblue84]

how people find him more toxic than Johnson genuinely boggles my mind

I don't think it is toxic, more not credible. That is the sole reason the Tories did so well. All of the other parties had absolute jokers in charge.

Corbyn is great at protesting stuff but can't put forward what he'd actually deliver.

Swinson was on another planet with her belief that the lib Dems would suddenly become relevant again.

The greens were on another planet claiming they would borrow £1tn over 10 years to save the climate but gave no detail of what they would actually do.

The only credible challenger is Nicola sturgeon. Perhaps if they fielded candidates in England they might do surprisingly well!

 

[Bluerover]

....I was a union member for over 40 years and I’ve got the gold badge to show it, but I saw a unity left movement of not very smart people taking over and pushing an agenda that if folk didn’t agree they were bullied and they were outcast.

Trade Unions do a great job, Labour has rightly had close ties but we now have a greater merger of the two and I don’t think it’s healthy and I don’t think it works. Increasingly, Labour is selecting a narrow church of ex-Union type candidates. They all talk the same talk, they are not well-rounded and it puts the electorate off.

....I was a union member for over 40 years and I’ve got the gold badge to show it, but I saw a unity left movement of not very smart people taking over and pushing an agenda that if folk didn’t agree they were bullied and they were outcast.

Trade Unions do a great job, Labour has rightly had close ties but we now have a greater merger of the two and I don’t think it’s healthy and I don’t think it works. Increasingly, Labour is selecting a narrow church of ex-Union type candidates. They all talk the same talk, they are not well-rounded and it puts the electorate off.

I have been in trade unions throughout my career, and have been Branch Chair several times in different grades and locations. I currently am Chair of my branch of a white collar union.

Militancy in unions has always turned off colleagued of all grades from getting involved. It is therefore vital that unions show that they are not tied to any political party ideology but are prepared to make all qualifying workers members of appropriate branches.

What you are saying rings true.

 

[kenada_blue]

Only when the Tories win....

It did under Blair too. Different times but you're talking 10+ years ago

 

[peteblue]

Brexit trumps everything with those Labour voters, a lot of votes were lent last night, they will return to Labour next time round.

Depends on which way the Labour Party now goes. Further left and they have no chance. Corbyn promised everything to everyone, again, and still could not connect with millions of people. He lost 2,500,000 Labour voters, truly awful.....

 

[Blue 1]

Brexit trumps everything with those Labour voters, a lot of votes were lent last night, they will return to Labour next time round.

Aye, and they're going to pay dearly for it.

 

[OnlyBlueWillDo]

The fact we have food banks in the UK in this day and age should of been reason enough for the Tories to be left to rot, but a landslide win is just a massive screw you to the kids in low income homes, many of them live by our great club by the way, for you Evertonian Tories


Let the working man pick up the pieces of a messed up society and buy an extra loaf for their fellow neighbours because the selfish ones are in control for 5 more years

Brexit saved the Tory party this election, in fact it has given them massive power going forward to pass what they like through the commons.

Without Brexit, had we come out on the 31st Oct, or had Labour realised all they had to do was align themselves to the Tories on brexit to take away their unique selling point to the electorate, then Labour could be in No 10 right now.

The fact is Corbyn was a weak leader, he is a brexiteer all his life, had he stood up to the front bench remainers in his party and followed his own beliefs he might have been PM today, you reap what you sow, that's never been truer than what Labour did to themselves last night.

 

[Connor]

....I’m now represented by an ex-Trade Union official who once tweeted that Everton wives should lock themselves away after an Everton defeat. Worst of all, I voted for him.

ian Byrne is the type of person Labour recruit and they wonder why they lost over 2million votes. No values, no decency.

Absolutely pathetic this.

The fella has been a key part in a major foodbank that is keeping people alive in this city.

 

[coollino]

Absolutely pathetic this.

The fella has been a key part in a major foodbank that is keeping people alive in this city.

Closet Tory for sure. All these all inclusive holidays in 5* hotels.

 

[spectateur]

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More like the SUN and DM's government

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Some harsh lessons in the post for places like Barrow and Blyth.

They will compete with the likes of Runnymede, just without the decades of investment in infrastructure, what could possibly go wrong...

 

[Del-boy]

Corbyn, McDonnell and Abbot now need to go. Labour need an overhaul with fresh faces and new ideas.

 

[Connor]

Closet Tory for sure. All these all inclusive holidays in 5* hotels.

Fuming again now.

The fella is a kopite – and not a great one, I admit. But you can very much put that aside when he's literally keeping people alive by teaming up with us across the park to provide basic stuff like FOOD.

 

[coollino]

Fuming again now.

The fella is a kopite – and not a great one, I admit. But you can very much put that aside when he's literally keeping people alive by teaming up with us across the park to provide basic stuff like FOOD.

....Ok pal

 

[OnlyBlueWillDo]

Depends on which way the Labour Party now goes. Further left and they have no chance. Corbyn promised everything to everyone, again, and still could not connect with millions of people. He lost 2,500,000 Labour voters, truly awful.....

I could not disagree more, you submit that manifesto without brexit hanging over the country and it's game on.

This is not a rejection of Labour policy, it is a vote for Brexit, I know the Tories are trying to dress it up as wholesale support for the way they run the country but they know they are lying their arses off saying it's anything but Brexit that won them 5 more years.