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[Joey66]

Betfair article flagged Cardiff to vote Labour at 11/10 the other day. With that tuition fee promise that is a corker

it would do its a university city and labour anyway!

 

[Sapie88]

one week away and the tories will pile in on that speech with his links to the IRA - etc etc its been said that the tories are keeping a low profile on this for a blast in the last week of destroying Corbyn and it will work - so sad Labour could not field a better leader - with less utopia policies those policies should have been an aim not costed out in an impossible way!
I honestly cannot vote for anyone - put a new centre leader in Labour and it would be a Labour win!

His links where he was seeking for peace and to end the bloodshed in Northern Ireland?

 

[ToffeeTim]

True mate, but those are within understandable parameters

-1 seat, well as of a couple of days ago the most generous line was Coral at +/- 162.5 . Most over betting firms are considerably lower.

200+ is a hefty price. 225+ would be probably three times the Leave price on BF when remain hit 1.08

A value bet for any optimistic Labour support would be 200 seats

For anyone interested it's on Oddschecker

I'm not sure I'd encourage anyone to back Labour ending up net -1 seat. Especially since it's based on internal labour polling with historical data. Their historical internal data from 2015 had them winning a majority. I'm not expecting a landslide by any means but I see Labour down around 30 seats. Just under the 200 marker.

 

[ToffeeTim]

His links where he was seeking for peace and to end the bloodshed in Northern Ireland?

He needs to clarify his position on comments he made about specifically the Gibraltar and Loughall bombers. People who set out to massacre civilians. He said he was 'proud'. He really needs to come out and say he made an error there. It's 2017 for goodness sake. He refused to last year when he came on our local version of the politics show.

 

[orly]

it would do its a university city and labour anyway!

Lib Dem 4/5 fav Joeseph

 

[Boss_Blue]

with less utopia policies those policies should have been an aim not costed out in an impossible way!

How can they be an aim Joey if we don't try to achieve them?

Anyone who votes Conservative is effectively condemning the vulnerable in society to more years of unnecessary suffering.

 

[tsubaki]

How can they be an aim Joey if we don't try to achieve them?

Anyone who votes Conservative is effectively condemning the vulnerable in society to more years of unnecessary suffering.

Given what they would do if elected with a big enough majority, "the vulnerable in" is a redundant part of your second sentence.

 

[catcherintherye]

If we looking at decent bets, there's not as many as last time. However Tories to win seats off Lib Dems look quite good (I think the Lib Dem vote is hollow). Carshalton (I think) I'd get on the Tories there. Tories also at Birmingham (the one after Birmingham Edgbaston) evens is a good bet.

I'd also say Labour over 162 and Lib den under 27.5 at 5/6 are great value bets. I also think Lib Dems at 10 or less seats is great value at 13/5.

I'd avoid making any bold predictions of Labour at 200 seats. The vote is increasing but it's soft.

 

[Joey66]

His links where he was seeking for peace and to end the bloodshed in Northern Ireland?

Wait till the propaganda Tory machine make hay with it in the last week thier USA campaign man is licking his lips - to be a leader you have to be squeaky clean watch this space!

 

[gonetomorrow]

The PM said today Corbyn would take us back to the 70s. Presumably, she meant rubbish in the streets, people not getting buried etc.
I prefer to recall there were lots of council houses and young folk could afford to get on the housing ladder. Football was more fun too.
Bring it on Corbs.

 

[Jib in lad]

To be fair, Corbyn has done well campaigning. Much better than expected.

It doesn't actually matter obviously given the red lines he has that stomp any chance of most people voting for him, but to his credit he's sung a pitch perfect song to his core audience and will probably avoid the incredible landslide it could have been.

So after everything you have seen and heard do you still want the Tories to win.

 

[ashwuk76]

Às I have said before and yet no one really answered. For a moment forget the cost of the issues but is there anything in the labour manifesto that fundamentally shouldn't be done? I say it's all good stuff.

 

[JammyP]

Looking surprisingly good. Yes Theresa, I want to go back to the 70's.
Come on you reds!
Ummm. That just looks so wrong.

[The Red Flag - to the earlier Jacobite tune of the White Cockade]
Come on you red blues!
COYB

 

[orly]

Wait till the propaganda Tory machine make hay with it in the last week thier USA campaign man is licking his lips - to be a leader you have to be squeaky clean watch this space!

David Cameron squeaky clean Joeseph?!?!?!?

 

[orly]

Às I have said before and yet no one really answered. For a moment forget the cost of the issues but is there anything in the labour manifesto that fundamentally shouldn't be done? I say it's all good stuff.

To be fair, it would have been ignored the first time because that's a nonsense thing to do.

If we were ignoring costs, they could have put in "give every graduate a new house" or "fund everyone through private education from the age of 2" or "don't just triple lock pensions, make them double final salary".

Can't just ignore costings.