[Politics] Brexit

Westdene Seagull said:

It's a single Brexiteer on here that links the GE vote to the Brexit vote. It's a ridiculous connection - for starters I voted leave but then voted for Peter Kyle which immediately shows what a daft connection it is !!!

Your maths seems to be somewhat out as well - in those three seats Labour's vote went up 13.5k not the 23k you claim ( well based on the figures you've posted anyway ).

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beorhthelm said:

psst, bickering over Coventry election results, remember the context - the local election results where Labour had just been slapped down, someone wrote an article suggesting Coventry seats were Tory targets... in reality solid red industrial Coventry was never going to return three Tory MPs and Mr Islam is just creating a straw man you're fighting over. yes, Corbyn has done better than the detractors said, we get it. now, whats his solution for Brexit that is going to be accepted by EU?

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Titanic said:

and Labour MP Frank Field...

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Titanic said:

When is Jezza's Snake Oil sales pitch?

and how long before Labour leave back benchers or those in Northern Brexit constituencies start the back-stabbing?

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ManOfSussex said:

He's doing it in Coventry. Interesting little stat here just Tweeted by the political editor of Sky News, who I suspect is slightly more clued up on such things than people on this thread including your good self - Coventry voted 56% Leave in 2016, but in last years General Election, that The Tories were going to win by a majority of 100 as they're the only party that can deliver Brexit etc as pointed out numerous occasions by Brexiteers on this thread, 3 Coventry seats, that were supposed to be lost by Labour, went like this:

Coventry North East - Majority of 16k up from 12k
Coventry North West - Majority of 9k up from 4.5k
Coventry South - Majority of 8k up from 3k

In those 3 seats the UKIP vote went down by 15k, Tory vote went up by 11k, and Labour went up by 23k - that despite Labour's manifesto clearly stating “same benefits” as customs union and single market.

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Westdene Seagull said:

It's a single Brexiteer on here that links the GE vote to the Brexit vote. It's a ridiculous connection - for starters I voted leave but then voted for Peter Kyle which immediately shows what a daft connection it is !!!

Your maths seems to be somewhat out as well - in those three seats Labour's vote went up 13.5k not the 23k you claim ( well based on the figures you've posted anyway ).

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Ernest said:

He’s more of a Tory troll than you are. He got sacked from the Blair government for being stupid

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vegster said:

Marvellous, expecting you to raise your game significantly over the next few weeks as Jezza and Labour become increasingly the voice of common sense and reason.

Have you become one of the hundreds of Twatters employed by the Tories or do you do this for free?

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bashlsdir said:

Labour as well as some Tories are not respecting the result of the referendum. We voted to Leave the EU, we didn't vote to go back on, it cannot be clearer than that. Not a lot more to say about it really. If Brexit doesn't happen it would be an absolute disgrace.

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larus said:

I'm not a Labour supporter, but there's no way any reasonable person could ever accuse Frank Field of being stupid or Tory. Your problem is that you really are too thick (or maybe just a troll) to understand that people can have genuine positions which are different to you, and they do this based on their own sound reasoning and logic.

Frank Field has always come across as a decent politician IMO.

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Titanic said:

Jezza is delivering this speech like he has never seen the text before... who wrote it??

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vegster said:

Has the set collapsed behind him or has someone given him a P 45? Those are benchmarks for a successful Tory speech.

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bashlsdir said:

Corbyn has let of Labour leave voters down today.

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bashlsdir said:

Corbyn has let a lot of Labour leave voters down today.

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Titanic said:

It is all straw men and dog whistles so far... where's the beef?

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The Labour leader has, with the smallest of nudges, manoeuvred himself into a more pro-business, pro-free trade European policy than the Tory Government.

He has also opened up the looming prospect of the Prime Minister suffering a huge defeat in the Commons, as the number of Tory MPs who agree with remaining in a customs union grows each week.

The Evening Standard has warned consistently that this would happen since the moment the last election result became clear.

So did the Chancellor of the Exchequer, many sensible Cabinet members, business groups, Tory peers and backbench MPs.

But the warnings were ignored and the Conservative leadership instead chose to appease the hardcore Brexiteers, obsessed with the ideological purity of their experiment and — in some cases — openly willing to lose an election, if that’s the price of pursuing it.

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