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Now LAB's Stoke byelection candidate gets into trouble for offensive tweets aimed at women. Good for LDs? https://t.co/9JBN21pP0x
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The first part of this comment is probably more damaging than the second part.
(Says the member of Leeds Central CLP!)
More on topic, Linfit Brewery produce Janet Street Porter.
http://www.pintley.com/beer/Janet-Street-Porter/5783/
https://twitter.com/WingsScotland/status/831489161324556289
The Groan doesn't seem to have completely caught up yet, unless Guido is being overimaginative:
or the 'I'm not from Stoke, how should I know' one, which is around somewhere.
As I see it, the Diane Abbott one is a pocket biography.
Popcorn.
Meanwhile Labour is down to 14% in Scotland - wow
We are heading towards automation of politicians, if nothing else.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/nokia-3310-mwc-2017-re-launch-buy-amazon-price-leaks-details-revealed-a7578941.html#commentsDiv
https://twitter.com/gareth_snell/status/806620915261906948
Like open of his rivals he doesn't live in Stoke.
Here is a video of the hustings at Whitehaven yesterday - you can all make up your own minds who is the best candidate to represent Copeland at Westminster. Much of it is tedious and I recommend using the fast forward button occasionally - of course I have to admit bias but personally I would recommend you do not miss the bits involving Rebecca Hanson. https://www.periscope.tv/w/1YpKkdrdPnjGj
surprised labour people aren't demanding he be deselected as candidate. They must implicitly approve of women bashing...
https://twitter.com/gareth_snell/status/26582391637
https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/831501257768574977
That said, some of Mr Snell's forthright opinions are very recent.
Weird to think they control Glasgow Council. You'll get long odds on them winning there this time.
Indy parties up 17pts.
As if stoke doesn't have enough problems with one of these two being their representative in parliament.
@HL: This is a massive retrograde step, will do nothing to increase capacity and only the technology of the mid-twentieth century can get us through the 21st century.
From his sexist abuse to calling his leader an IRA supporting Hamas sympathiser to being Hunts bag carrier with even more right wing views to calling Brexit a pile of shit.
Dud Dud fookin DUD
This can not be allowed to go ahead. If it came down to closing a plant in France or Britain it would be here every time. British governments would happily sell their citizens out for a profit whereas closing a plant in France over Britain would be unthinkable to French politicians they would riot.
Electing Tristram Hunt.
Now, I accept that transfer-friendliness plays a significant role in STV and you can't read over directly from one election to another. All the same, if Scottish Labour does poll 14%, it's looking at losing 60%+ of its council base in a single blow.
“Soft Brexit, Hard Brexit
Massive pile of S***
Sloppy Brexit, Messy Brexit
Quit, Quit, Quit.”
What a gift for Labour Kipper waiverers.
Who reads the Guardian and eats quinoa for breakfast with his Iraqi muslim wife.
The only tweet I've seen which could be problematic is the "I don't live in Stoke" one, since that undercuts one of the main attack lines on Nuttall.
If the candidate is good but there are some small problems, defensive positions should be developed and agreed for the problems.
Failure to admit any such thing that causes embarrassment to the party should result in a fine to the party or charity.
Perhaps even do a DV-style vetting on every candidate. Expensive, but you might actually end up with people who would be a credit to parliament, rather than some random fantasist numpty.
It's becoming clear that neither Snell and Nuttall should be anywhere near parliament.
Not that I am saying Snell falls into this category - he seems a total idiot. But we must not require our politicians to have lily-white public records. That is the way to rule by mediocrity or - worse - by psychopaths.
Its best to assume that anything you put on social media is public and permanent, and the future is uncertain so anything even borderline controversial could come back and haunt you. Personally I would be cautious about sending anything more than trivially controversial by email, most providers will hand over your correspondence in response to a lawyers letter without all that tedious business of getting a court order.
Social media must make life so boring for lawyers, you have half your divorce case evidence passed to you these days from the couples social media accounts.
Most of Snell's tweets appear harmless and even funny (e.g. the Abbott one). However I'm unsure they reflect well on his suitability for parliament.
"Just before we get to them, a quick note on the stats. 83% of our respondents said they were “likely to vote” in the council elections – defined as rating your probability of doing so at either eight, nine or 10 out of 10.
It’s fairly stupendously unlikely that turnout will actually be anywhere near 83% – the figure in 2012 was 39.6%, and it only got to 52.8% even in 2007, when voters were at the polls anyway to vote in the Holyrood general election. So we’ve used the figures for “likely voters excluding Don’t Knows” in this post, because the chances are that in reality, people who don’t know who they’re voting for by now won’t vote at all."
Is the "we" here "Wings" or "Wings and Panelbase"?
One nugget stood out for me: 46% of Holyrood 2016 Labour voters now intend to vote for someone else.