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MikeCrotch
Nov 5, 2011

I AM UNJUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE RECIPE

YES, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE DISH

NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL TO USE A PEPPERAMI INSTEAD OF MINCED MEAT

YES, THERE IS TOO MUCH SALT IN MY RECIPE

NO, I WON'T STOP SHARING IT

more like BOLLOCKnese

Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:

How is Labour polling in Scotland?

Somewhere between :gonk: and :supaburn:

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Shikantaza
Sep 10, 2016
Only a 9 point lead after relentless attacks from even the left wing media and his own MPs including a second leadership challenge. Where would we be if the moderates had accepted the result first time round?

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

Shikantaza posted:

Only a 9 point lead after relentless attacks from even the left wing media and his own MPs including a second leadership challenge. Where would we be if the moderates had accepted the result first time round?

Fully automated gay luxury communism.

Helsing
Aug 23, 2003

DON'T POST IN THE ELECTION THREAD UNLESS YOU :love::love::love: JOE BIDEN
When the Labour manifesto got leaked to the press the gleeful dismissal of this supposedly out of touch and "far left" document was palpable.

The Telegraph posted:

The document is likely to reinforce concerns that Mr Corbyn is soft on defence, law and order and migration.

Critics will also cite it as evidence that Labour plans to “soak the rich” with a huge tax raid on high earners and businesses, in a week when both Mr Corbyn and the shadow chancellor John McDonnell praised the works of Karl Marx

They've even got Blairites wailing and gnashing their teeth for the media:

quote:

A Labour source warned it is "Ed Miliband's manifesto with hard left hundreds and thousands sprinkled on top".

They added that union leaders have been bought off with special pledges including promises to look again at pensions, scrap driver-only trains and offer an inquiry into the battle of Orgreave during the 1984 miner's strike.

Turns out Labour has actually been polling a lot better since their Manifesto came out and, if anything, the extra media exposure garnered by the "leak" probably helped it gain more media attention.

Business Insider posted:

LONDON — Labour's leaked manifesto pledges are hugely popular with the public according to a new poll for Jeremy Corbyn's party.

According to a poll by Comres for the Daily Mirror, the following plans have majority support from among the public:

Plans to renationalise the railways;
Freeze the retirement age;
Ban zero hours contracts;
Increase taxes on the rich;
Build hundreds of thousands of new council homes.
By contrast, Theresa May's plans to axe the ban on fox-hunting and increase the retirement age, received the support of just 12% and 15% of voters respectively.

Of the 13 promises listed in the poll, only Labour's immigration policy was opposed by more people than supported it.

A 9 point deficit in the polls isn't exactly something to celebrate but I'll take what I can get at this point.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
https://twitter.com/robertshrimsley/status/866256096884903936

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016


jezza letting anarchists into the cabinet, time for a purge imo

Corek
May 11, 2013

by R. Guyovich

horseshoe theory???

Corek
May 11, 2013

by R. Guyovich
small brain: labour are dangerous radicals
glowing brain: tories are dangerous radicals
cosmic brain: snp are dangerous radicals. true conservatives vote labour

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We
true conservatives vote lib dem jeb!

Corek
May 11, 2013

by R. Guyovich
the perfidious pict must be defeated by any means necessary

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016


p lmao considering labour's only realistic chance of being in government is in coalition with the snp

(this won't happen lol)

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

labour 2017: only jezza can stop the snp

labour 2018: we had to give northumberland to Queen Nicola I the First so she'd let us nationalize the railways

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

Fallen Hamprince posted:

p lmao considering labour's only realistic chance of being in government is in coalition with the snp

(this won't happen lol)
The SNP will never go into coalition with Labour, although they might support them on some laws and probably help them pass a budget.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
if an independent scotland gets EU membership i hope the north fo england where i live decides to go with scotland

Plucky Brit
Nov 7, 2009

Swing low, sweet chariot

Jose posted:

if an independent scotland gets EU membership i hope the north fo england where i live decides to go with scotland

Probably a good idea, since the majority of Scotland's trade is with Yorkshire.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

i'm seeing double here, two wieners

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

good boys recognize game

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Fallen Hamprince posted:

labour 2017: only jezza can stop the snp

labour 2018: we had to give northumberland to Queen Nicola I the First so she'd let us nationalize the railways

amazing how Labour keeps getting better

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
THe press finally doing their job and properly questioning may and shes loving up badly lol. she's so insanely poo poo i can't believe they've let her get away with it for this long

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We
you may not like what you find lol

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
lol

https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/866620871112368129

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We

reasonable politician changes views in response to being confronted with evidence!!!

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

reasonable politician changes views in response to being confronted with evidence!!!

Idiot politician proposes terrible policy, can't defend it for even a week, melts down on tv.

Incy
May 30, 2006
for other Out

namesake posted:

Idiot politician proposes terrible policy, can't defend it for even a week, melts down on tv.

Labour words

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We
please do not use Labour Words itt

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
i hope jezza wins big

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

corbyn trying to be pm would bring endless lols so i definitely hope that happens

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
i woudln't put it past the PLP to start mass resignations from the cabinet and a l;eadership challenge even if labour somehow got a majority

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

Jose posted:

i woudln't put it past the PLP to start mass resignations from the cabinet and a l;eadership challenge even if labour somehow got a majority

corbyn will resign in disgrace after a second referendum he OKed to keep PLP at bay forces the UK to remain in the EU, the perfect conclusion to the Brexit SaGa

R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

Jose posted:

i woudln't put it past the PLP to start mass resignations from the cabinet and a l;eadership challenge even if labour somehow got a majority
purge purge purge purge

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

Premier Corbyn forced out after it is discovered he is an Iraqi deep cover agent who has been engaged in a years-long campaign of revenge to destroy the labour party from within but after a serious of hilarious, The Producers-esque backfires ended up transforming the UK into a one-party socialist state.

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We
legislation to abolish tuition fees included word "& parliament" in tiny print right after it says "tuition fees"

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

Jose posted:

THe press finally doing their job and properly questioning may and shes loving up badly lol. she's so insanely poo poo i can't believe they've let her get away with it for this long
Yep, It's Good.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
lol

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-polling-general-election-2017-favourite-young-voters-a7749251.html

quote:

Jeremy is the only leader whose approval ratings have improved since the election was called, jumping 11 points. But approval ratings don’t tell the whole story. Pollsters ask for a judgement on whether the leader is doing a good job, which is effectively asking people to second guess what everyone else thinks about a politician. Much more interesting is YouGov’s net positivity rating, and Jeremy’s has gone from -19 to +22 within the space of a month, with 57 per cent either liking or really liking him. This is one reason why more people would consider voting for Jeremy Corbyn compared to alternative Labour candidates.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

Good ideas generator

Double lol.

https://twitter.com/JGForsyth/status/866668930290655233

It's not going to happen, but if Corbyn won a majority, I would laugh for hours.

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer
Kinda bizarre that the value of sterling has dropped because Theresa "Flapping, Born-Again Diamond Hard Brexiteer Moron" May might lose the election to Jeremy Corbyn whose party is much more open to european cooperation tbh

Incy
May 30, 2006
for other Out

jBrereton posted:

Kinda bizarre that the value of sterling has dropped because Theresa "Flapping, Born-Again Diamond Hard Brexiteer Moron" May might lose the election to Jeremy Corbyn whose party is much more open to european cooperation tbh

Is this not because the disaster scenario of no majority for one party, no majority coalition with unified view on brexit becomes slightly more likely?

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
I just hope labour MP's see the absolute massive turn around since the manifesto got leaked and realise people like all that stuff and to keep it

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Helsing
Aug 23, 2003

DON'T POST IN THE ELECTION THREAD UNLESS YOU :love::love::love: JOE BIDEN
I assumed Blair was saying what a lot of the PLP couldn't when he declared that he wouldn't support Corbyn even if he believed that Corbyn's policies could win.

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