Diane Abbott in fine form this morning...

Seagulls over Essex said:

Would you, though?

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jakarta said:

Not having Sloppy Seconds after the likes of JC!

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ManOfSussex said:

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London Irish said:

Diane Abbott is a pioneering politician who gets routinely abused for being a black woman with the "wrong" politics. Funnily enough in Sayeeda Warsi she has a Tory equivalent who also gets the hate mobs for being the wrong colour and wrong sex - great piece just published by Peter Oborne here http://www.middleeasteye.net/column...tell-all-tells-us-about-tory-party-1369883076

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Seagulls over Essex said:

Would you, though?

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Seagulls over Essex said:

Would you, though?

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Titanic said:

NOW is the time for Jezza to capture the momentum...

Westminster voting intention (YouGov 02-03 May):
CON: 48% (+4)
LAB: 29% (-2)
LDEM: 10% (-1)
UKIP: 5% (-1)

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seagulls4ever said:

Are we playing the game of selectively posting polls?

3rd May: Panelbase GB poll has topline figures of CON 47%(-2), LAB 30%(+3), LDEM 10%(nc), UKIP 5%(nc), GRN 2%(-1).

Labour are of course still very far behind in the polls but the vast majority of recent polls have shown Labour gaining ground on the Conservatives, not the other way around.

The closest poll I have seen recently was on 30th April: an ORB poll in the Sunday Telegraph. Topline figures there are CON 42%, LAB 31%, LDEM 10%, UKIP 8%.

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Titanic said:

They look almost identical... not sure what your point is.

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seagulls4ever said:

I wasn't entirely sure what your point was. You seemed to be sarcastically suggesting now was the time for Corbyn to capture the momentum, implying that the polls showed the momentum was with the Conservatives (+4%). That just isn't true.

See my edit for a closer poll; but me selectively posting that poll is just as pointless as you selectively posting the one you did.

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Titanic said:

More selective polling:

CON: 49% (+3)
LAB: 27% (-1)
LDEM: 9% (-1)
UKIP: 6% (-2)
GRN: 3% (-1)

Courtesy of Britain Elects (via @ICMResearch / 05 – 07 May)

#thebigmo

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Chicken Run said:

Can we really believe that such a gap between Conservatives and Labour exists?

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Chicken Run said:

Can we really believe that such a gap between Conservatives and Labour exists?

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Titanic said:

Well, it didn't for the local elections. So it is surely closer than that in reality... but hard to understand why the polls are so far adrift when lefties are usually pretty vocal??

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Weststander said:

I don't believe it. With statesman like big hitters such as Corbyn, McDonnell and Abbott, Labour surely have at least half of the country behind them.

The independent pollsters are part of a right wing conspiracy.

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Weststander said:

The boss of BBC Question Time spoke about this a year back in a radio interview. He explained that the BBC try to make their audience an accurate cross section of views in the country, but some far more so on the left side, are disingenuous when screened for the show. Giving a noisy rabble, who violently applause the grandstanding on stage from the Marxist, whilst interrupting everyone else.

Leaving the quiet 70%.

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Soulman said:

Yep, we'll Abbott reckons 75% of the country are behind her and the other 50% are racists.

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Weststander said:

Even the Labour leaning Guardian mocked Abbott last week. "Diane Abbott has several numbers on police costs – sadly they are all wrong"

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/02/diane-abbott-has-several-numbers-on-police-costs-sadly-they-are-all-wrong

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