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General Election 2017
- Thread starter Giraffe
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- Jan 19, 2010
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On a related note, The Guardian has assessed those who are considered to be campaign assets versus those who are invisible:
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...mpaign-conservatives-tories-cabinet-ministers
And on the other side? Other than Abbott's comedy shows, I can't recall seeing or hearing from anyone other than Corbyn, although I'd try and pretend McDonnell was on holiday or something if he was on my team too.
The keep sending out their favourite attack dog... Barry Gardiner. Not sure who else they have got.
To be honest, it's quite a good strategy... promise everyone lots of nice things (which most people never expect to be delivered but it makes you sound like you care)... and let the Tories carry on ****ing up their own campaign.
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portslade seagull
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Labour no thanks. Conservative for me best of a bad bunch
He's made an unpaid career at it, and he was very vociferous last year that he had me on ignore, however I should remind myself of my age and behave, sorry Ernest.
The Labour Brexit team have been very prominent - Thornberry and Gardiner have been in the media almost as much as Corbyn. Starmer, a bit less so. McDonnell hasn't been as prominent as you'd expect a shadow chancellor to be - but that may be a reaction to Hammond's low profile.
As well as Thornberry and Gardiner, Rayner and Long-Bailey have been pretty prominent too. The person who has kept a low profile is Tom Watson - very strange in a deputy leader.
No, no there isn't.
Lovely stuff. *chortle*Allow me:
The Tories poll lead in this poll is 5% over Labour, but
1. This is down from a 23 point gap in late April, and 15 points in mid-May
2. The raw/unadjusted data in this poll show Labour leading 43-40…only an aggressive adjustment, got us to a 5 point Tory lead
https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/2017-06/pm-june-charts.pdf
seagulls4ever
New member
- Oct 2, 2003
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Keith Starmer and Rebecca Long-Bailey are very impressive.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Angela Rayner and of course my favourite so far this campaign Emily Thornberry, she has demolished Fallon which was easy but others too, are having good campaigns as well
Keir Starmer.
One thing that does surprise me about the Labour campaign is the lack of attention that has been paid to Brexit. This is one area where Labour has a massive advantage over the Tories: their Brexit team are two lawyers (one of them, an extremely senior one) and an expert in international trade and arbitration. The Tory team is a journalist (who was sacked for lying), a GP and a businessman. Labour is clearly better suited to discuss the fine print of hundreds of trade agreements but this advantage is scarcely mentioned.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
I thought Theresa May was doing it all for the Tories ?
I've finally made my decision to tactically vote for Lib dem as they were marginally second in the 2015 election in the constituency where I now live, this will be the first time ever I have not voted Labour, but the Tory majority has to be weakened, so needs must.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Well, living in the catchment of 'Mid Sussex', ain't nothing gonna change out here.
seagulls4ever
New member
- Oct 2, 2003
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Vince Cable criticises Theresa May's economic credentials:
SK1NT
Well-known member
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Don't understand this one in Mid Sussex, Labour beat LibDem by c.1400 votes in 2015 yet that site suggests voting Yellow to oust Soames and not Red.
It was probably based on early polling and very low initial Labour support... so it's all a bit buggered really... not that it was ever really going to make much of an impact.
Have LibDems done better there in the past? Perhaps it is because they expect some drift from Blue to Yellow, and suggest Labour voters add to that?
Probably entirely academic in that seat, as you say.
I'm also a 'Labour voter' who'll be voting LibDem, as I'm in a marginal LibDem (over Tory) constituency.
SK1NT
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I have the same in my mum constituency. The wiki table for 2015 says labour came 2nd however the site tells me to vote lib dem... Judging by the all the lib dem posters in the windows i shall stick to what the site says.