I don't think she's actually been that bad on the Dementia Tax. The issue is that she sounds so nervous, and not at all very confident. She has some better moments, but overall she's on Gordon Brown levels in terms of public speaking.
Ashcroft seems to have the LDs winning... oohhh... about two seats: Ceredgion and Westmoreland and Lonsdale.
I think his Scottish numbers are particularly dodgy, as they see the SNP win lots of seats on c. 35% against split opposition. If there's one thing we learned from Holyrood last year, it's that Scots vote tactically.
By the way, I hope everyone realises that Tories saying good things about May/bad things about Corbyn and lefties saying bad things about May/good things about Corbyn are just a waste of bandwidth?
I got out of the bath and looked at the twitter hashtag for the debate on my phone, as you do
May getting absolutely slaughtered by 95% of comments I would say, (not my timeline, all of twitter) people proposing the girl who asked the first question as PM etc
God how stupid introducing a policy which does not specify a cap on total care costs. It's crass stupid and they know it. They can't wriggle off the hook either be honest and say its your responsibility to pay or produce policy which has a cap and the explain where the rest comes from. No wonder they are stretching the bounds of credibility.
That was painful/agonising to watch. Hope that lady gets the prompt treatment she needs.
She won't if the Tories gets in.
Mental health services weren't great in the first place when I first had difficulties (in about 2009), but the deterioration in the past few years has been shocking. The Tories only get away with it because people with mental health difficulties, by their nature, generally don't have the self-confidence or energy to make a fuss in the media. If the NHS's treatment of cancer patients was even half as bad, there would've been the mother of all scandals.
I got out of the bath and looked at the twitter hashtag for the debate on my phone, as you do
May getting absolutely slaughtered by 95% of comments I would say, (not my timeline, all of twitter) people proposing the girl who asked the first question as PM etc
Read PB and she appears to be doing well...
Twitter is 95% Corbynista unless you have a more sensible feed
I am starting to think that the move to Corbyn is more Brexit related than an increase in the youth vote. Those wanting to remain can see a weak Corbyn rolling over and they get their soft Brexit. They know that medium term Corbyn will fail but at least the Country is still close to their EU and by 2022 socialism will have put the economy in a disaster zone and the conservatives will again have to return to sort out the economy.
For the first time I think Theresa will lose her majority and that there will a minority government.
I am sorry for her and have supported her but if that is the result she will stand down and a new leader elected
Not really - just seems a likely case to me and I am stating an honest opinion. I would be delighted to be wrong
Prepare to be delighted.
Thanks Jack - maybe I am reading the negatives too much
JackW is right. Sure mistakes have been made. The biggest in my view is not giving more info about Tory candidates from the off in the CCHQ literature. But there have been positives, when I suggested Farron was not very good 2 mths ago I was pilloried. He has been much worse than my wildest dreams. However, I think the polls exaggerate his unpopularity in the mirror of what happened in 2010. And I say that as someone who has expected him to lose his own seat from the beginning.
As with the Copeland by-election W&L is going to be a cliff edge result. Without national resource Farron would lose by about 5k. However, he will pull in help from anywhere to protect himself - forget any gains for the LDs from the Cons for that reason. He is struggling in Kendal but as with Copeland in the by-election it is in the remote areas where he is really losing it. Giving the same caveats as I gave for Copeland I think this will be a Con gain, with a similar majority, 2000 ish
Having a system that relies on individual answers to capability in relation to benefits does not take into account medical evidence. If my wife was asked could she plan and cook a meal she would say yes, as with lots of other questions. It isn't true but I believe, rightly or wrongly that any medical evidence is not taken into account
That was painful/agonising to watch. Hope that lady gets the prompt treatment she needs.
And it's the degrading treatment of people like her by the Tories that has finally started to resonate with the voters.
It's always the way though, there are always people who have (justified) grievances with the system.
There would never be money to deal with absolutely everyone's problems, but surely people like that lady should be earlier in the queue than big cash giveaways to rich people and big corporations like the Tories have chosen to do??
What chance a Sheffield moment from the reds this weekend? One gets the impression some of them think they can pull this off. Come on boys your alll riiiight!!
May sounds a bit nervous tbh. Have to wonder why she ran for the leadership....
Cameron (and Blair before him) were really quite exceptionally good at public speaking.
But even Corbyn is better at public speaking than her tbh and he was deemed unelectable by people like me.
Corbyn is unelectable because of his extreme left wing policies and his cosying up with terrorists.
Didn't you get the memo from CCHQ? That was last week's line.
I encountered Corbyn when he was my local MP in the eighties. I saw at fairly close hand his cosying up to the IRA during the Troubles. The attempts by him and his acolytes to whitewash his past disgust me. CCHQ may have amended the memo but I don't care. He is an odious sycophant for those who murdered our troops and citizens. He is unfit to be PM.
That was painful/agonising to watch. Hope that lady gets the prompt treatment she needs.
And it's the degrading treatment of people like her by the Tories that has finally started to resonate with the voters.
There is the minor problem that it was Labour that first planned revisiting people's entitlement to disabled living payments.
True. It's well known that the Department of Work of Pensions didn't start being a shitshow under IDS, as anyone who remembers James Purnell time there knows.
I am starting to think that the move to Corbyn is more Brexit related than an increase in the youth vote. Those wanting to remain can see a weak Corbyn rolling over and they get their soft Brexit. They know that medium term Corbyn will fail but at least the Country is still close to their EU and by 2022 socialism will have put the economy in a disaster zone and the conservatives will again have to return to sort out the economy.
For the first time I think Theresa will lose her majority and that there will a minority government.
I am sorry for her and have supported her but if that is the result she will stand down and a new leader elected
Not really - just seems a likely case to me and I am stating an honest opinion. I would be delighted to be wrong
Prepare to be delighted.
Thanks Jack - maybe I am reading the negatives too much
JackW is right. Sure mistakes have been made. The biggest in my view is not giving more info about Tory candidates from the off in the CCHQ literature. But there have been positives, when I suggested Farron was not very good 2 mths ago I was pilloried. He has been much worse than my wildest dreams. However, I think the polls exaggerate his unpopularity in the mirror of what happened in 2010. And I say that as someone who has expected him to lose his own seat from the beginning.
As with the Copeland by-election W&L is going to be a cliff edge result. Without national resource Farron would lose by about 5k. However, he will pull in help from anywhere to protect himself - forget any gains for the LDs from the Cons for that reason. He is struggling in Kendal but as with Copeland in the by-election it is in the remote areas where he is really losing it. Giving the same caveats as I gave for Copeland I think this will be a Con gain, with a similar majority, 2000 ish
I got out of the bath and looked at the twitter hashtag for the debate on my phone, as you do
May getting absolutely slaughtered by 95% of comments I would say, (not my timeline, all of twitter) people proposing the girl who asked the first question as PM etc
I am starting to think that the move to Corbyn is more Brexit related than an increase in the youth vote. Those wanting to remain can see a weak Corbyn rolling over and they get their soft Brexit. They know that medium term Corbyn will fail but at least the Country is still close to their EU and by 2022 socialism will have put the economy in a disaster zone and the conservatives will again have to return to sort out the economy.
For the first time I think Theresa will lose her majority and that there will a minority government.
I am sorry for her and have supported her but if that is the result she will stand down and a new leader elected
Not really - just seems a likely case to me and I am stating an honest opinion. I would be delighted to be wrong
Prepare to be delighted.
Thanks Jack - maybe I am reading the negatives too much
JackW is right. Sure mistakes have been made. The biggest in my view is not giving more info about Tory candidates from the off in the CCHQ literature. But there have been positives, when I suggested Farron was not very good 2 mths ago I was pilloried. He has been much worse than my wildest dreams. However, I think the polls exaggerate his unpopularity in the mirror of what happened in 2010. And I say that as someone who has expected him to lose his own seat from the beginning.
As with the Copeland by-election W&L is going to be a cliff edge result. Without national resource Farron would lose by about 5k. However, he will pull in help from anywhere to protect himself - forget any gains for the LDs from the Cons for that reason. He is struggling in Kendal but as with Copeland in the by-election it is in the remote areas where he is really losing it. Giving the same caveats as I gave for Copeland I think this will be a Con gain, with a similar majority, 2000 ish
Do you really think that LibDem activists from South West London are heading up to Cumbria to fight for Farron?
I am starting to think that the move to Corbyn is more Brexit related than an increase in the youth vote. Those wanting to remain can see a weak Corbyn rolling over and they get their soft Brexit. They know that medium term Corbyn will fail but at least the Country is still close to their EU and by 2022 socialism will have put the economy in a disaster zone and the conservatives will again have to return to sort out the economy.
For the first time I think Theresa will lose her majority and that there will a minority government.
I am sorry for her and have supported her but if that is the result she will stand down and a new leader elected
Not really - just seems a likely case to me and I am stating an honest opinion. I would be delighted to be wrong
Prepare to be delighted.
Thanks Jack - maybe I am reading the negatives too much
JackW is right. Sure mistakes have been made. The biggest in my view is not giving more info about Tory candidates from the off in the CCHQ literature. But there have been positives, when I suggested Farron was not very good 2 mths ago I was pilloried. He has been much worse than my wildest dreams. However, I think the polls exaggerate his unpopularity in the mirror of what happened in 2010. And I say that as someone who has expected him to lose his own seat from the beginning.
As with the Copeland by-election W&L is going to be a cliff edge result. Without national resource Farron would lose by about 5k. However, he will pull in help from anywhere to protect himself - forget any gains for the LDs from the Cons for that reason. He is struggling in Kendal but as with Copeland in the by-election it is in the remote areas where he is really losing it. Giving the same caveats as I gave for Copeland I think this will be a Con gain, with a similar majority, 2000 ish
That was painful/agonising to watch. Hope that lady gets the prompt treatment she needs.
And it's the degrading treatment of people like her by the Tories that has finally started to resonate with the voters.
There is the minor problem that it was Labour that first planned revisiting people's entitlement to disabled living payments.
True. It's well known that the Department of Work of Pensions didn't start being a shitshow under IDS, as anyone who remembers James Purnell time there knows.
It's one of the things that I find the most disillusioning about Labour, far more than what Corbyn might have thought about the Falklands when I was a kid. Very many of the things Labour now claims to oppose - tuition fees, Academy schools, greater use of private providers by the NHS, reexamining eligibility to disabled benefit payments - are ideas first developed by their own government.
Overall a good performance though will be hoping North Korea doesn't overshadow it all.
May is lucky that the press is on her side and thus will ignore most of her blunders and look for any mistakes Corbyn makes. If this wasn't the case, well....
I am starting to think that the move to Corbyn is more Brexit related than an increase in the youth vote. Those wanting to remain can see a weak Corbyn rolling over and they get their soft Brexit. They know that medium term Corbyn will fail but at least the Country is still close to their EU and by 2022 socialism will have put the economy in a disaster zone and the conservatives will again have to return to sort out the economy.
For the first time I think Theresa will lose her majority and that there will a minority government.
I am sorry for her and have supported her but if that is the result she will stand down and a new leader elected
Not really - just seems a likely case to me and I am stating an honest opinion. I would be delighted to be wrong
Prepare to be delighted.
Thanks Jack - maybe I am reading the negatives too much
JackW is right. Sure mistakes have been made. The biggest in my view is not giving more info about Tory candidates from the off in the CCHQ literature. But there have been positives, when I suggested Farron was not very good 2 mths ago I was pilloried. He has been much worse than my wildest dreams. However, I think the polls exaggerate his unpopularity in the mirror of what happened in 2010. And I say that as someone who has expected him to lose his own seat from the beginning.
As with the Copeland by-election W&L is going to be a cliff edge result. Without national resource Farron would lose by about 5k. However, he will pull in help from anywhere to protect himself - forget any gains for the LDs from the Cons for that reason. He is struggling in Kendal but as with Copeland in the by-election it is in the remote areas where he is really losing it. Giving the same caveats as I gave for Copeland I think this will be a Con gain, with a similar majority, 2000 ish
Not got over your defeat by Nick Cotton yet , then .
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I think his Scottish numbers are particularly dodgy, as they see the SNP win lots of seats on c. 35% against split opposition. If there's one thing we learned from Holyrood last year, it's that Scots vote tactically.
Little wonder he's floundering ....
Tough Shit love.
Ignores fact that cant recruit nurses, Drs,
Would rather cut taxes for rich
I got out of the bath and looked at the twitter hashtag for the debate on my phone, as you do
May getting absolutely slaughtered by 95% of comments I would say, (not my timeline, all of twitter) people proposing the girl who asked the first question as PM etc
Read PB and she appears to be doing well...
Top of scale 2010 to 2017 5% up inflation over the 7 years 19%
Mental health services weren't great in the first place when I first had difficulties (in about 2009), but the deterioration in the past few years has been shocking. The Tories only get away with it because people with mental health difficulties, by their nature, generally don't have the self-confidence or energy to make a fuss in the media. If the NHS's treatment of cancer patients was even half as bad, there would've been the mother of all scandals.
https://twitter.com/bbcquestiontime/status/870732339155836928
She handled it fairly well, but the follow-up was a killer
"Mental health is your go to soundbite for questions on the NHS..."
As with the Copeland by-election W&L is going to be a cliff edge result. Without national resource Farron would lose by about 5k. However, he will pull in help from anywhere to protect himself - forget any gains for the LDs from the Cons for that reason. He is struggling in Kendal but as with Copeland in the by-election it is in the remote areas where he is really losing it. Giving the same caveats as I gave for Copeland I think this will be a Con gain, with a similar majority, 2000 ish
Major fuck up from the Tories here. Collective failure allowing May to take over without properly testing her.
@Frasergrant: Hey #theresamay there is a magic money tree. It's called offshore bank accounts. It's called Trident. It's called Amazon and Google.
Her double chin was as big as her face