Rayvin
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I think the best we can hope for is that they have a good rethink over the next few days. That speech was all soundbites, it sounds as though it's caught them cold.
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That speech is horrific. EDIT - although he's right about the austerity narrative, that is indeed why they lost last time.
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Pick whichever one is most likely to win between Libs and Labour if how we leave the EU is a priority to you, vote Green if you're just sick of all of them, I'd say. I'm going to vote Labour if they're able to make clear that they're going for a inbetweeny Brexit. If they faff around and avoid saying anything of substance, I'll go Lib Dem.
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Disagree, but only because I don't think Brexit was actually about Brexit. It was a pressure venting exercise and a general lashing out at the establishment IMO. I don't know if I see the same sorts of people who voted for that, coming out to support the sitting government in achieving it's aims. Entirely different proposition. They'd be backing the establishment, not attacking it.
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There's plenty of people on here who believe that, it shouldn't be hard.
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FFS.
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Not sure about returning to its principles, but he was supposed to shake things up and move them leftwards. All of this he did, but Brexit has killed him off. Without Brexit, what would the Tories have used to reach out to people desperate for change?
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You're assuming turnout is the same. It won't be, and it won't be in favour of Remain. That said, you're otherwise right - that coalition needs to exist in principle even if not in a formal sense. I would add that they can take the middle road of single market access which the vast majority of Remainers would accept, and potentially a decent number of Brexiters.
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True, but only because I haven't sat down and devised a system that disproportionately benefits my score predictions ahead of everyone else's
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I also suspect that her claim that the decision was made recently is true. I genuinely don't think she's a smart politician, just an opportunistic one. This could literally all be down to the polls.
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Maybe because there's no hope of concluding things within that timeframe anyway? And also I guess because if she didn't, the Tories would have a weaker hand going into the election.
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Yes but if Huddersfield win and we lose, then they stand a chance of ratcheting up the pressure on us. I think both teams will be going for it equally.
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I admire your optimism on the Fulham result mind. Can see Huddersfield winning that myself...
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You reckon? It'll be interesting to see their manifesto.
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Let's hope he switches back to the team that played Leeds.
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We should start a new politics thread just so that he can't communicate through avatar anymore.
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I see CT has paid us another visit. Parky, out of interest, whose side are you on in this?
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If May loses this, there'll be no living with Parky.
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At least they'd be fighting for them with UKIP, a party who you would think has to go all out. Maybe they can poison the well against the Tories a bit...
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It'd have to be Labour but can you imagine it though? It'd be as if Brexit has become such an all consuming force that literally no one in poor communities thinks that the Tories have any culpability whatsoever. Dark fucking times.
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Apparently Crosby has already said the Tories will lose the seats they won from the Lib Dems. So again, where are the extra seats coming from - cos they're now down to a minority. http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2017/04/exclusive-conservative-poll-showed-party-would-lose-seats-liberal-democrats
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I hope you're right - and I can see it you know, that this could be a misstep. But everything we've seen in politics in the past year or so suggests that every time the chance comes up, Turkeys vote for Christmas.
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:lol: Just a coincidence that this exact formulation has you top.
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But from who? Who are they taking these seats from? If this is a single issue election, as it will inevitably become, who wakes up in a Labour or Lib Dem seat and says 'you know what, I'm going to vote for May'. At least that's how it should go. In reality, people are fucking stupid so you're probably right.
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Saving the country is no incentive? If it came down to a choice between keeping us in the EU in some form (which is what they've been campaigning on) and 'avoiding being tarnished by Corbyn' I think I know which way they'd go. Since they'd be betraying their voters otherwise.
