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SystemSystem Posts: 12,680
edited June 2017 in General

imagepoliticalbetting.com » Blog Archive » GE17 saw the emergence of a new type of “shy Tory” – those opposed to Corbyn but didn’t want a big CON win

One of the features of living in a super LAB-CON marginal less than an hour from London that regularly changes hands is that you get a lot of attention at general elections. Corbyn’s first big outside visit after the election was called in April was to Bedford which was a regular port of call by David Cameron and earlier LAB leaders at GE10 and GE15.

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  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 130,244
    edited June 2017
    There were certainly some 2015 Tory voters who did not want to give May a mandate for hard Brexit and voted LD or Labour or abstained and some 2015 Tory voters who wanted to stop the dementia tax and voted Labour however I would argue neither of these voters expected or wanted a Corbyn premiership. The last general election put a stop to Tory hubris however Labour must be careful not to replace it with hubris of their own
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