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One of the most weird features of this election campaign is that the Conservatives are doing everything they can to try to persuade us that Jeremy Corbyn really is in with a chance of becoming next prime minister.
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Dutch company Abellio runs Greater Anglia (ie. out to Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex), ScotRail, and 50% of Merseyrail.
Which franchises are "nationalised to France"??
I have some sympathy with this - not the delusion but the reason why they might accept losing. Many of them genuinely feel cheated. The system is out to stop them and the answer is to fight back rather than compromise with someone Murdoch deems acceptable.
Perhaps Corbyn could get the French and German governments to nationalise all our public services on his behalf. They might stand a chance of running them properly too.
Up there with Judas, Benedict Arnold, Kim Philby, and Mark Reckless.
Or a good old Tory campaign coitus up.
Perhaps she can be recorded off mic calling voters thick, smelly, or bigots.
Fairs are cheaper, but that's because we make the railway user pay, not the taxpayer.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-35800733
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-39466348
The Tories should stop trying to make a Corbyn win seem more plausible, it feels counter productive. Ok maybe turnout will be a bit depressed in some areas, but battleground areas will work hard to keep it up, and better to harness the once in a generation surge feeling than tell peop,e it's on a knifes edge.
Perhaps that might help explain things to you
Corbyn = Tory sleeper agent!
Are they also going to propose lift attendants are mandatory? Re-introduction of horse and cart as Uber replacement?
The poll shows that 44 per cent believe that Britain was right to vote to leave the EU, while 45 per cent think the decision was wrong. This is the third time since the referendum that YouGov has found a majority of people thinking that Britain made a mistake in last year’s vote.
Which leads me to two conclusions: one, it was a joke ("man, I'd pay you £250k to stand aside", which both parties knew wasn't actually possible; or two, it never happened.
The poll indicates that two thirds of the public and more than half of Labour voters think the party has no clear policy on Brexit, are not sure or picked the wrong option from a list.
Among Labour voters, 13 per cent think that the party is opposed to Brexit and wants to stay in the EU, 9 per cent think it would have a second referendum, 13 per cent think it does not have a policy and 18 per cent are not sure. The rest correctly say the party wants a trade deal with access to the benefits of the single market.
Again, I just don't buy it.
"In many parts of the country the Conservatives haven't won in years.
VOTING CONSERVATIVE RISKS BRITAIN GETTING PRIME MINISTER CORBYN"
(then there is an image of Corbyn outside No.10 giving a thumbs up to the camera, then underneath....
....wait for it....
"BUT THE LIB DEMS CAN STOP LABOUR WINNING"
I laughed for several minutes and chuckled for hours more. Still can't quite believe it's real, but it's right in front of me now. And then this thread. Precious. Very precious.
(Not, I hasten to add, that I think OGH would have know of this particular leaflet)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Judas
But it would be inappropriate to ask, as it would be an overlap between my professional and personal activities. I'm comfortable when the personal creates benefits for my professional activities; but it's harder when the professional sphere opens up personal gains*
* Although I may invest personally in a 40% IRR first charge instrument to help a client out
Will the last small business owner please remember to turn the lights off.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/05/10/snapchat-posts-huge-loss-maiden-results-disappoint/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/10/ruth-davidson-accuses-nicola-sturgeon-grubby-spin-brexit-fishing
http://uk.businessinsider.com/rod-rosenstein-james-comey-firing-2017-5?r=US&IR=T
The obligatory season of over-analysing campaign bumph is upon us. - Just bin it.
Actually, apart from Abbott's plane crash, things have gone relatively smoothly.
Either Labour are stacking up support disproportionately, eg in London, or their switchers are being replaced by previous non-voters (eg the newly energised young), or the polls are wrong.... or the polls are right.
I think the last of these is least likely. But if polls show them ticking up into low 30s, perhaps the leaflets in the thread header will gain some traction. They're designed to counter the local Lab campaigns of "Corbyn won't be pm, so you can risk a vote for as your local MP" which if successful would depress Mrs May's majority.
Sources in Bedford have revealed exclusively to JNN that TSE may already have been terminated by OGH after the former Ozzie groupie refused to desist his investigation into the "Thread First" occupied by Smithson Jnr, well known for his avatar links to President Putin.
Mike Smithson was unavailable for comment this morning.
I hope now for an utter landslide, so the remaining sensibles in Labour can get rid of the 1970s throwbacks and provide a decent opposition - with a route back to power when the government eventually messes up, as of course they all do.
Toby Young @toadmeister
To nationalise railways Corbs would have to win next 4 GEs. Last rail franchise comes up for renewal in 2036, by which time he'll be 87.
I blame BREXIT ....
Coburn still uncertain how many UKIP Scotland candidates there'll be. He's waiting to see "who has managed to fill the forms in correctly".
Superfluous "R" there me thinks ....
What is clear from the polls is that the Tories have gone from 36% in 2015 to 46-50% this time, which is a dramatic shift - 50% is surely the ceiling since there will always be a big chunk of the population would would never vote Tory. The non-Tory half of the population has to vote for someone, barring a few abstainers.
And in fact the offer of the donation was not denied by Lucas on the show yesterday. She said the donation went through their ethics procedure and was rejected. Although I should add that she said this was after the candidate had already stood down.
But I agree with the thread header. Basing this campaign around the threat of Corbyn becoming PM is a mistake because no one believes it is possible. Rather, as May herself has done, the emphasis should be on giving her the strongest possible hand to negotiate Brexit on the country's behalf. Marine Le Pen had a better chance of winning than Corbyn and she had no chance at all.
But Labour's problem isn't it's policies anyway, but the lack of trust that they will be able to manage things well or pay for any of them.