Rayvin

Fair enough, at least they're voting in their own interests

Can't disagree with any of that.

@Meenzer Tim Farron has just refused to confirm whether or not homosexuality is a sin. Something I thought had been cleared up previously but which, looking at it now, he was apparently lying about last time, and can't force it past his conscience twice. Not a good look for the Democrats sadly. They look like they're going to pick up very little of what we hoped.

Did they say why?

What are your thoughts on the past few days? You've not said much and your insights from the media side of things are normally useful.

Agree here, but she has to play the game well else she ends up being exposed as a useful idiot. I mentioned yesterday that polling indicates her support is falling these days - I think the SNP need to make improving people's lives the primary goal.

We'll see how it goes I guess. Tbf, the Tories are still up in the polls in big enough numbers that this may all turn out to be rather irrelevant Oddly it seems to be the collapse of the fringe parties that have contributed to this, rather than Labour.

If they manage that while Labour have expressly stated that a coalition won't happen, and without having costed their own (Tory) manifesto, then I think we just have to accept that the right wing press own the minds, literally, of about half the population.

Presumably we're either selling some of what we've got already (Mitro) or we're not buying any other forwards. You're basically right though.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/02/politics/donald-trump-cold-war/ In the 80s, Trump planned to call Reagan and have himself instated as ambassador to Moscow - at which point, he'd have a one hour meeting with the Russians and would end the cold war

What more have they got though? Silly question, I'll bet they have something.

Ipsos MORI: Conservatives: 45% (down 4) Labour: 40% (up 6) Lib Dems: 7% (no change) Women and middle-aged voters are punishing Theresa Mayfollowing controversies over the “dementia tax” and school meals, an exclusive poll reveals today. The Ipsos MORI research for the Evening Standard reveals significant shifts to Labour among women and the 35-54 age group — the “pinched generation” juggling caring for ageing parents and their own children ... Before the Tory manifesto raised care costs and scrapped free meals for infants, women were dividing 49-35 for the Conservatives over Labour. Now that gap has closed to 45-44. Among people aged 35-54 there has been an even more dramatic switch. Before the social care row they split 52-34 for the Conservatives. Now they divide 36 for the Conservatives and 46 for Labour. In other words, they have switched sides. Among older voters, aged 55+, satisfaction with May has dropped from 70 to 57, though she is still positive on balance.

Syria is on its knees as well, it's actually understandable why this isn't a priority for them. Frankly, the US is out on its own in my eyes. Utterly disgraceful action to take. Basically agree with your point though, the Accord was better than nothing.

Nicaragua shouldn't be lumped into that group given they rejected it for not being radical enough, and are working to their own agenda on tackling the issue with commitments far in excess of what Paris would have held them to. They're going to be running on 90% renewables by 2020.

Amber Rudd may not even win her seat...

Environmental issues were always where he was going to be most dangerous. We have to look to the EU and China now.

I think you were closer with your earlier assessment. People like hope. In other news, Labour just categorically ruled out coalition, stating that if other parties vote down their bid to run a minority government (the SNP and Dems) they will have to explain to their voters why they enabled the Tories. Brutal

Good man.

@Happy Face Where did you post go? I was gonna say that the twitter look up thing was a good idea..!

Apparently Labour are polling ahead of Rudd in her constituency Also, Momentum do appear to have gotten this right - they have a website dedicated to helping people locate their nearest marginal for volunteering: https://mynearestmarginal.com/

Then we'll never hear the end of it

Thanks for that! More good news by the looks, although with fewer votes each time it becomes difficult to tell. And who knows how representative RTG are.

Not by any measure saying RTG are a representative basis of anything BUT they've been conducting polls in their politics sections as the election has developed. The third one is running now and is unviewable to me as I'm not a member of the forum @The Fish https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/which-party-do-you-intend-to-vote-for-on-june-8th-part-3.1367756/ But the guy running it posted the previous two outcomes: Part 1: 454 votes, 35.9% Labour, 32.2% Conservative, 18.1% Lib Dems Part 2: 378 votes, 53.2% Labour, 27.2% Conservative, 11.4 % Lib Dems Sunderland should be the sort of place May was counting on, and as such, this sort of trend would be encouraging. Doing such a poll on here would be beyond pointless

She did, but that was in another life apparently. Too long ago to worry about. Corbyn on the other hand supported the IRA about 30 years ago, and that remains hugely relevant today because reasons.

Genuinely think she's losing it... Because make no mistake, not everyone shares this view. They say we’re too small and too insignificant. That Britain can’t do it. That the British people are not up to the task. In short, they don’t believe in Britain. And if that’s where you start, you have no hope of getting the right deal for Britain in Europe. You can’t negotiate the right Brexit deal for Britain if you don’t believe in Britain. You can’t fight for Britain if you don’t have confidence in our strengths and in all that we have to offer. You can only deliver Brexit if you believe in Brexit. You can only fight for Britain if you believe in Britain. You can only deliver for Britain if you have the strength, the plan and the determination to see it through.