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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2019 18:06:21 GMT
I agree and it works both ways, how else do you account for Rees Mogg getting elected? Well lying like a........ Sorry, forgot the subject for a moment.
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 20, 2019 18:32:07 GMT
Yes but what the left wing Labour bods possibly aren't remembering is that some of the candidates, e.g. Luciana Berger, were elected by the constituents (not just the Momentum portion) and stood on a fairly moderate platform under the Labour umbrella. Just because the frothing left don't like them doesn't mean that the remaining 100k of the electorate feel the same. Don't underestimate the tribal nature of your average Labour voter. Stick a red rosette on a pig and they'll vote for it. That goes for Tories and blue rosettes too unfortunately. After all, Lady Rees-Mogg surprised a lot of people in 1969 by giving birth to a bespectacled donkey and 41 yrs later it still managed to get elected in Somerset...
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Post by michael on Feb 20, 2019 19:01:38 GMT
JRM increased his share of the vote. I believe his seat had previously been Lib Dem.
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 20, 2019 21:01:51 GMT
JRM increased his share of the vote. I believe his seat had previously been Lib Dem. Voters can be insane too. Or perhaps the good burghers of Somerset were too mesmerised by the sight of a donkey waving at them from the driver's seat of a Bentley to realise what they were doing.
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Post by franki68 on Feb 21, 2019 9:08:12 GMT
Don't underestimate the tribal nature of your average Labour voter. Stick a red rosette on a pig and they'll vote for it. That goes for Tories and blue rosettes too unfortunately. After all, Lady Rees-Mogg surprised a lot of people in 1969 by giving birth to a bespectacled donkey and 41 yrs later it still managed to get elected in Somerset... 😆
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Post by Tim on Feb 21, 2019 10:01:21 GMT
JRM increased his share of the vote. I believe his seat had previously been Lib Dem. Is that down to him, though or down to the general dissatisfaction with the Limp Dems?
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Post by Big Blue on Feb 21, 2019 10:07:47 GMT
Indeed so for tribalism. It’s said that even if the Conservatives voted a child molesting, jack-booted, homosexual nationalist with swastikas all over their clothes they would win 40% of the popular vote.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Feb 21, 2019 10:25:06 GMT
Indeed so for tribalism. It’s said that even if the Conservatives voted a child molesting, jack-booted, homosexual nationalist with swastikas all over their clothes they would win 40% of the popular vote. I take exception at the child-molesting part but I have actually considered running for election.
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Post by michael on Feb 21, 2019 10:27:30 GMT
JRM increased his share of the vote. I believe his seat had previously been Lib Dem. Is that down to him, though or down to the general dissatisfaction with the Limp Dems? I got it wrong, he's increased the vote share year on year with Labour being the next party. 41%, 49% and 53% of share of the vote for the previous elections.
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Post by ChrisM on Feb 21, 2019 11:23:05 GMT
I take exception at the child-molesting part but I have actually considered running for election. As an MP or as an official at the Golf Club ??
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 21, 2019 18:21:49 GMT
Is that down to him, though or down to the general dissatisfaction with the Limp Dems? I got it wrong, he's increased the vote share year on year with Labour being the next party. 41%, 49% and 53% of share of the vote for the previous elections.
He's still what my wife would refer to as " un coglione".
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Post by scouse on Feb 25, 2019 14:03:31 GMT
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Post by PG on Feb 25, 2019 20:13:39 GMT
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Post by michael on Feb 25, 2019 20:24:46 GMT
I see Corbyn is making noises about a second referendum now. If true the Tiggers have achieved more than the Lib Dem’s in a week.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 20:26:13 GMT
It would be the get out clause of the century but will still leave us divided.
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Post by Big Blue on Feb 25, 2019 22:16:08 GMT
It would be the get out clause of the century but will still leave us divided. Both the Conservative party and the nation have been divided on Europe for generations: Royal Family, World Wars, the 1973 vote, Thatcher's Rebate, Black Monday, ERM etc. This current farce just brings it to the forefront of the media and highlights some of the more unsavoury aspects of society.
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 26, 2019 9:53:58 GMT
I liked that meme you posted from HIGNFY...the one about why we shouldn't have a second referendum because it would divisive...like the first one wasn't...
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 27, 2019 10:49:14 GMT
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Post by Tim on Feb 27, 2019 11:26:29 GMT
What a muppet.
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Post by Big Blue on Feb 27, 2019 11:38:06 GMT
I started this thread and the name of it still stands as correct.
The guy is an arsewipe. The majority of the audience are in agreement with him as arsewipes themselves.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2019 11:38:35 GMT
Say's it all really. This was on the beeb news today and he came across as typical of the hate posters on facefuq et al, shouty and pointless.
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 27, 2019 14:29:01 GMT
Gave Theresa May the opportunity for this soundbite, which I thought was unusually good by her usually awful standards:
"It tells you all you need to know about the Labour leadership," [May] said at Prime Minister's Questions. "Present but not involved."
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Post by michael on Feb 27, 2019 17:24:04 GMT
Hasn't she made the same comment for a number of weeks running?
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Post by Tim on Feb 28, 2019 9:41:46 GMT
Hasn't she made the same comment for a number of weeks running? She's been making the same comments about a lot of topics for a number of weeks running in recent times. It seems to be her way.
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Post by racingteatray on Mar 1, 2019 9:54:37 GMT
If she has, I hadn't noticed. It's hard to make someone's eyes glaze over in fury...but she manages it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2019 12:50:49 GMT
It seems like the May soundbite is being used by quite a few people, the "National interest" comment. If anyone in those orifices cares about national interest, how come we see nothing of that? All I see is personal interest and people who are purchased by the self interest groups around the country. What a mess.
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Post by johnc on Mar 1, 2019 13:26:46 GMT
I wonder what politics will be like when they finish the pantomime and have to do some real work.
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Post by Tim on Mar 1, 2019 13:32:12 GMT
I wonder what politics will be like when they finish the pantomime and have to do some real work. I expect half of them will stand down at the next election and take highly paid jobs with the organisations that have been influencing them over the past few years. That way they will avoid having to answer an angry populace who now find themselves somewhat worse off and no longer able to afford/source products that they bought without thinking of back in the good ole days of 2018!
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