While this is true, Smith was more than 20% ahead of Major at the time of his untimely death, so while Labour are at disadvantage, Smith managed to overcome this
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BJ 'Levelling Up' Speech - A Masterclass In Gibberish
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While this is true, Smith was more than 20% ahead of Major at the time of his untimely death, so while Labour are at disadvantage, Smith managed to overcome this
Robinjakarta
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BJ suddenly astonished at inequality in the country
He recalls visiting Germany just after The Wall came down and marvelling at 'West German cars with their funny two-stroke engines'.:
Wankel?
Tom Hark Preston Park
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But in 2021, if Smith was pro-EU and Major was a Brexit cheerleader, it wouldn't matter how incompetent Major was (or how competent Smith was), the right wing media wouldn't even pretend to be even handed with their political coverage. Johnson is an appalling man and a terrible PM, yet he is barely scrutinised by anyone in the media.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Apparently when you first set up an account on NSC, the mods make an assessment of attention span before deciding whether to send the new NSC user the 'Full rules of NSC' pdf that states unequivocally that not all threads have to be read in section 7 para 3.5 and the category and subject of the thread should be used to selectively browse
I only found this out recently as I had just naturally assumed for the last 20 years that every new account was sent the full rules
The mods obviously thought one of your latest accounts needed the rules I guess [emoji6]
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Pavilionaire
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Utter rubbish.
Starmer asks the right questions, but Boris is a past master at deflection and whataboutery. Boris never considers the question and gives a straight answer back; indeed, he seems to see it as some sort of fun intellectual challenge to dodge the punch. Within seconds he loses Starmer's gaze, turns to his right and plays to the Tory gallery. It is a complete and utter waste of everybody's time. Very few people watch PMQ's, it is now a tickbox exercise.
Re the levelling up speech - I have looked at the comments on the BBC website and they are almost exclusively withering in their condemnation of Boris's empty bluster, remarkably so when you take the thumbs up/down into consideration. I get the feeling many people are seeing through him; the sleaze, the favours, the contracts, the mountain of bullshit have tainted him.
He and the Tories are just very lucky that the left vote is split between two parties who have no formal arrangement of co-operation in place. Both mistakenly think they can carry on as normal, when in actual fact they need a short-term pact to field one candidate per seat depending on which party is strongest in that particular seat
Thunder Bolt
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Who owns the polling companies?
The polls said the Tories were ahead in the two recent bi-elections, but the actual votes turned out differently.
Very good point Stato, I hadn’t considered that [emoji6]
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Wardy's twin
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Everyone should take that as a compliment i.e. NSC posters are generally sound therefore so is the average Guardian reader.
I have mentioned it several times - the little baldy from Yorkshire whose name momentarily escapes me, former boy star of the Tory conference, darling of Thatcher, and gym-pal of Seb Coe, as leader of the opposition used to defenestrate Mr Tony every week at PM's questions, but it cut no ice with the electorate. I think PMQs hold even less interest outside those of us who like a bit of parliamentary panto than they did even back then. The nation is no longer in thrall to the six o'clock news and news at ten. People get their 'information' from their own bubbles. Even on here several years ago there were people claiming they knew nobody among their network of associates who wanted to remain in the EU while others claimed they knew nobody who wanted to leave (which quite surprised me at the time).
Also, Starmer is quite dull, and reminds me of EL Wisty, which probably doesn't help. And Boris is funny, come on! Everyone admires a loveable rogue. Or something.
nwgull
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Don't let yourself believe that crap you see on social media saying polls are manipulated. Polls are often wrong on a local scale, but generally correct to within 1-2% nationally.
Polling companies make their reputation - which leads to further commissioning and ££ - from accuracy, so the last thing they're going to do is intentionally produce incorrect info.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Anyone on here ever been polled by a polling company in their entire life? I know I haven't
Green Cross Code Man
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Yes. Once when I lived in Old Swan.
Raleigh Chopper
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Nope.
And they have often been wrong in the recent past.
Surely even the thickest of the thickos must see Johnson for what he is by now.
Not many people watch PMQ's and programmes like C4 news and Newsnight (other programmes are also available)whereas you get more in depth reporting.
Uncle C
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Do you regularly watch PMQs, or just the edited clips on the news?
Starmer wipes the floor with Johnson, week in, week out
I watch it live every week religiously. Starmers questions are constructed like you might expect from someone in the legal profession, but Boris is Teflon and Starmer is incapable of pinning him down.
MattBackHome
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Just catching up. Yes it was utter gibberish.
Not really - the polls were out in the 2015 general election (and they modified their polling since then) but that's the only time they've been wrong in the recent past - unless you call 1992 recent; they were slightly off then too.
But as nwgull says, generally polls are accurate - they wouldn't be in business long if they weren't
Tory voter here, but I do agree that Johnson is thoroughly unfit to be PM of this country.
However, remember who he was up against at the GE. Many Labour supporters, let alone the floating voters, believed Corbyn was unfit to be PM.and that old ghoul McDonnell put the fear of God up many a moderate, meanwhile Abbott was just considered a laughing stock.
Not a high class field as they might say in racing terms.