Saint Daniel Hannan predicted he'd chuck it at the time, so he was goading him yesterday for being a cunt.
He must have been seething when Carswell decided not to run.
Theresa May's Conservatives
Jeremy Corbyn's Labour
Tim Farron's Liberal Democrats
Paul Nuttall's UKIP
2 people's Greens
Nicholas Durgeon's Scottish Nationalists
Satan's Sinn Fein
Dr Ian Paisley's DUP
Some other bunch of nonces
I'm foreign, but I wish I were an Englishman
Saint Daniel Hannan predicted he'd chuck it at the time, so he was goading him yesterday for being a cunt.
He must have been seething when Carswell decided not to run.
Tony Blair reckons that people should vote for the Lib Dems or Tories in some places. And for that, he needs to be thrown out of the Labour party.
If Labour threw party members out for occasional disloyalty (implicit), then Jeremy would have been kicked out of the party years ago having voted against the party whip over 500 times (explicit disloyalty).
Still, nothing better than watching a good purge on the left.
Voting against the whip isn't against the membership rules. Advocating for other parties is.
Only if you do so explicitly, which he didn't.
The absolute state of Zac Goldsmith crawling back to the Conservatives to try and win selection in Richmond. Hopefully they tell him to fuck off.
Somebody with that much money should have better hobbies.
I suspect he's not particularly bright.
.....
Yeah, he's just a rich bellend looking for some plebs to boss around. Totally transparent.
I have reports through a friend of a friend of a friend that knows him (I know, right?) that he's well meaning but thick as pig shit.
Clive Lewis put up some seat poll to say that only he could beat the Tories. It seems he made it up and the pollster he accredited it to has been onto him to take it down.
One of the favourites for the leadership, there.
A friend of mine was sitting next to Paddy Ashdown on a train yesterday and was chatting with him.
As well as helping him fix his laptop he got talking to him about the election. They were interrupted when he got a call from some journalist, who Ashdown gave a bit of a bollocking to.
Ashdown ran the Lib Dem campaign at the 2015 election, so you have to ask what some of these people need to do to be discredited.
Ryan Coetzee or Andrew Cooper, as examples, shouldn't be allowed to work in politics again. Unless your aim is to lose and lose badly.
That is a good graph. But once those Conservative voters start to die...
Yeah but real socialism hasn't been tried.
It's not fair on young people. If only they could vo.... Wait.
Yes it has. The NHS is socialist to give one glaringly relevant example.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
The worlds highest revenue sport, the NFL is also socialist as fuuuuuuck.
I must have missed something here. Why has Tim Farron, recently off his whistlestop tour of telling people 'Yes I think homosexuals are disgusting but they shouldn't be sent off to re-education camps" sacked a bloke for saying Israel is bad for Palestinians?
Looking at his CONTROVERSIES, the worst ones tend to come from him using Israelis/Jews interchangeably, and he seems to have accepted that he does himself no favours doing so. The shitstorm that his rocket comments (for example) provoked was just mass idiocy, given the history of Jewish settlers' own violent responses to their perceived occupation by the British Empire.
I just read about this guy... So it seems to be ok to support Israel bombing Palestine, but not the other way round?
Terrorism mate.
#JeSuisVictims
This sums THE MOVEMENT up, really. It's easy to pay three quid, but ask them to go out knocking doors on a cold Tuesday night in Stoke and they can't hack it.
Is that James?
Mutton-headed mugwump is quality Borissing
In the context of an election it's pretty lol because what it has generated is about 9 light hearted comment pieces investigating exactly what sort of an idiot they think Boris is claiming Jezza to be.
I preferred "benign Islingtonian herbivore".
It's a great way of keeping the narrative on Corbyn's unsuitability for office.
It's just complete wankery from a try hard gobshite.
Suitability for office isn't something Boris has any right to bang on about.
In the same way that Corbyn and his supporters have no right to complain about lack of support from colleagues or failures of message discipline by the PLP. But there we are.
It's proven highly effective because not only is there considerable coverage about what a mugwump actually is, the analysis then details Corbyn's faults against the definition. Meanwhile, more substantive comments are glossed over.
If Jezza was serious about going down in flames he would have said something along those lines.
This line about Theresa May being "out of line" by calling an election really is a laugh. These people fucking hate the electorate.
lol Jo Swinson. You forget how crap those Liberal Democrat stiffs were.
This is absolutely fucking lamentable. The more you see of the general public, the more you have to wonder if the Reform Acts and universal suffrage were really worth it.
The panel are also displaying a genuinely dreadful lack of understanding of constitutional convention, or they're just wilfully misrepresenting it.
A dreadful panel all round really.
Some belting highlights here.
- Only "30%" is the electorate voted for Brexit, therefore it's illegitimate. This includes children and babies who will be affected by the referendum vote and were denied their say.
- "You haven't given us policies." Green says wait for the manifesto out in ten days' time. Audience member says "you called the election and surely you should be able to get your policies out quicker than Labour." Which they are, because Labour's isn't out for about a week after that.
How do you get to the point of being that thick?
You absolutely can't go on a platform like this and hide behind a manifesto that isn't due for a week. The cunt's done it twice now.
What's he meant to do? He's in the cabinet, and will be after the election, so he can't be in a position of making policy pledges that he doesn't know about it.
He can offer a personal view, but that's equally pointless in the context of what the policy commitment will actually be.
This should be the manifesto, along with however many pictures of Jezza palling around with Gerry Adams they have saved.
Hold on. I've just seen on the Twitter that the Tories (Conservative and Unionist Party) are going to privatise the NHS. Is that right?
I don't know, but this SNP wanker appears to have suggested that there should be no bombing in Syria and the only solution is to get everybody round the table. Presumably this includes ISIS, but in the event that this went ahead one assumes they'd immediately denounced "TORY SCUM" for engaging with terrorists.
Has there always been such a demonstrable dearth of political talent or is over saturation simply exposing their latent incompetence to the masses?
They're rigging the system is all I know.
Yep. They've called an election and are asking people to vote for them. If they win enough votes, they might increase their majority. It's outrageous, as I'm sure we can all agree.
"Blessed are the peacemakers" from Clive Lewis, there. Presumably that's Jeremy's condoning of the IRA excused.
"King Jong-Un is clearly bad, but..." from Jo Swinson before launching into a huge rant about how much of a cunt Donald Trump is.
She's now suggesting that Trump should have obtained international clearance before launching missiles against Assad. Because the Russians wouldn't veto it.
My friend made the point that it'd be interesting to see how the Lib Dems would go if they basically went all in and said "we have one single policy - we will immediately repeal article 50 and stay in the EU, if elected".
Obviously they'd get nowhere near winning, for a variety of reasons (not the least, throwing the entire party behind a policy that has at best significantly less than majority support), but currently they're just drifting badly and don't seem to serve any real voting niche. It would certainly be enough of a point of difference with the two major parties that it would attract interest.
I doubt anything is too crazy to try given their current death spiral.
EDIT: Said friend is also non-British. This was just some hypothetical discussion about the upcoming election.
That basically is what they're doing isn't it?
I expect them to gain a decent number of seats, although when you're on 8 then any number of gains is a decent number.
Yeah, that's pretty much what they're doing. If you're still advocating to stay in at this point, then you were probably a Lib Dem voter pre-coalition anyway. You might return to the party this time around on Brexit alone, but they're still sitting on less than half of their vote from 2010.
I don't actually think they have a huge number of places to go. They might gain a few seats in ultra-Remain strongholds, but part of the Lib Dem "gameplan" is to have a massive ground operation in by-elections. Sarah Olney won Richmond in December, but that was because they threw absolutely everything at it. That's impossible to do in a general election, obviously, and they just don't have the weight of support, activists, or money at the minute to do a huge amount outside core target seats. Plus if you look at the votes on a seat by seat basis in England and Wales, the vast majority of constituencies voted to leave. There's not a huge number of competitive ultra-Remain seats to target:
The Guardian have done some decent analysis and it actually looks fucking bleak for them: here. To be honest, I think their credibility is still shot. It's impossible to make the argument against "the Tories" and "Tory policy" when it was your party that propped them up for five years and voted with them on things like austerity and tuition fees.
Farron doesn't help them. He's not exactly a figure of national significance, and most people don't even know who he is.
I'm doing a full spreadsheet again for a prediction (I underestimated THE TORIES last time, to my eternal shame, was about 30 seats out).
There are so many unknowns and four-way dynamics in this one (for example, where do all the 2015 kippers go? Tory, Labour, stay with UKIP, stay at home?) that it should be pretty unpredictable, on a local level at least.
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