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XMNN posted:managing director and a particularly cunty sales manager are talking politics v loudly in the office I feel for you dude, I don't miss that. My field is overwhelmingly lefty, and it's bliss in the office. Then we have a volunteer group of largely older people, lovely hard workers but very Daily Mail. I had to ban political chat like the dictator I am
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Cat Machine posted:Can someone point me towards the Momentum marginals map for canvassing that was posted at the end of the last thread? I think I've read enough posts on here now to convince me it's time to do something and I'd like to know where I'm best going. Thanks! https://www.mycampaignmap.com/ slight warning: according to the CLP I'm campaigning with, apparently Momentum took the sources for the events a week or two back and the map hasn't been updated, so you may want to check out the Labour Events page to get up-to-date information! ed: e.g. where I am there are lots of events on the Labour page (5+ events on some days) that just aren't listed on the Momentum one ed: ed: they appear to have updated the Momentum one since I last checked CGI Stardust fucked around with this message at 11:01 on Nov 6, 2019 |
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Rarity posted:So this is the first election I've been fully politically engaged for. Is this number of MPs stepping down normal or is this an exceptionally high number? there's usually some churn but the big deal this time is they all appear to be from the same moderate wing of the Conservative Party. 2005-2010: 149 MPs did not seek reelection in the 2010 general election (a lot of these were those caught up in the expenses scandal and Labour MPs seeing the writing on the wall) 2010-2015: 90 MPs did not seek reelection in the 2015 general election 2015-2017: 31 MPs did not seek reelection in the 2017 general election 2017-2019: 65 MPs so far not seeking reelection in the 2019 general election
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Ratjaculation posted:stolen from gbs
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Cat Machine posted:Thank you very much! Blocked at my work, but I'll try not to read too much into it. I'll check out the events page.
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Doccykins posted:James, Cleverly avoiding questions from Kay Burley Cleverly is saying that he was double booked and was doing an interview for Talk radio at the time.
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re: canvassing, a friend made the comment that a lot of people who dont already vote Labour tend toward older demographics who respond best to face to face interaction and telephone conversation. I dont know about respond 'better' but I've had both red-faced shriekers and kindly grannies giving out battenburg so ymmv. door knocking is legit (unless you work for myhermes and are incapable, give me my parcel you fucks)
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https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1191704005451427841?s=19 This is the kind of poll we like to see.
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sebzilla posted:No government, everybody go hog wild! No, there's still a government. Just no parliament.
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Necrothatcher posted:The only thing I'd disagree with what I've seen on here is when someone said posting in this thread is a valid form of campaigning. I love this place, but posting here isn't effective political action pretty much anything else you could do is more likely to help Labour. I wouldn't underestimate how many people have been educated/radicalised in this thread though. Yeah it's obviously no where near as impactful as a lot of other things but positive, inviting, informative spaces like this do make a difference.
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I'm feeling kind of hopeful this morning. Having both Jay Burley and Piers Morgan laying into the Tories, and the official Tory response basically being "it's fine because people are chumps" seems like nothing but good news. They really don't seem to have learnt anything from 2017 and just assume they've already won.
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Just had an email from Jenny Formby saying no campaigning on Sunday (Remembrance) before 2pm. I know some of you don't get the emails. It's great so many people are so positive but don't make Sheffield Rally mistake!
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Grey Hunter posted:https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1191704005451427841?s=19 I think you're mixing up LAB and LDM 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:No, there's still a government. Just no parliament. *extinguishes flaming torch*
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Doccykins posted:Add to jumping-before-pushed The local Lib candidate is of course a spod who has already sent out the usual lying graphs in his pamphlets. Can't see it doing him much good, since if there's two things South & the Vale hates, its city boys and young people. Exciting times.
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Steve2911 posted:I wouldn't underestimate how many people have been educated/radicalised in this thread though. Yeah it's obviously no where near as impactful as a lot of other things but positive, inviting, informative spaces like this do make a difference. I've always been a lefty, even when I was a callow teenager, but this thread has undoubtedly made things a lot clearer for me, and given me the tools to educate a few family. It's important.
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Rarity posted:I think you're mixing up LAB and LDM I thought that then I thought maybe looking at it from potential for non-tory (even if it is a libdem).
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Jedit posted:Cleverly is saying that he was double booked and was doing an interview for Talk radio at the time. Despite the fact he was physically at Sky. I'm sure this won't just piss them off even more, and certainly didn't make him look like an incompetent buffoon as well as a liar
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Ratjaculation posted:I feel for you dude, I don't miss that. My field is overwhelmingly lefty, and it's bliss in the office. My boss swung from a 'sensible' Tory to a Lib Dem because of how crazy Boris is, and he is rich enough to be a natural Tory voter, so if that's any reflection on general movement it's great.
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Yeah since starting to lurk in this thread since probably just after the 2015 election, I went from not voting at all and being 100% politically apathetic to being a pretty full on socialist. I've since been able to convert a fair few friends and people at work over to the cause so it's absolutely a positive impact, however small it may be.
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Purple Prince posted:My boss swung from a 'sensible' Tory to a Lib Dem because of how crazy Boris is, and he is rich enough to be a natural Tory voter, so if that's any reflection on general movement it's great. My tory colleague has gone from tory to "I hate all the parties, I'm not voting", which is quite amusing to me.
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happyhippy posted:Things Jacob Rees Mogg Thinks He Knows More Than You. I haven't checked whether anyone already said this because I know better than the thread.
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Coohoolin posted:I've never been to Faslane, is it pretty? The nuclear weapons convoys are pretty impressive. The base is a shithole though.
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Thing about door knocking is no matter what you say or do (as long as you're not a prick) it says "we care" to the knockee. The objective isn't to persuade swing voters or win over the enemy, it's the non voters that matter - when people are disengaged or disenfranchised, literally just turning up to let them know that one party actually does give a gently caress about them is often enough to get them to turn out. Although I've seen a lot of older swing voters saying "you're the only ones that bothered to come round so we'll vote for you this time." S Wales though so ymmv
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A quick thought on door-knocking. What about those in our communities without doors on which to knock? It's possible to register to vote if you have no fixed address. It might be a strong move to have a stock of the forms printed and ready to hand out to rough sleepers etc. Especially since Labour have promised to buy up several thousand homes and get people off the street immediately after winning the election. https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/voter/people-no-fixed-address
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https://www.theguardian.com/politic...py_to_clipboardquote:Swinson personally wrote to Butler to say she believed her account of racism and that everyone has a responsibility to be “careful with the words they use”. That's just absolutely amazing.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:In the UKMT, every page is the sex page. Ultra Kinky Mega Thread
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Borrovan posted:Thing about door knocking is no matter what you say or do (as long as you're not a prick) it says "we care" to the knockee. The objective isn't to persuade swing voters or win over the enemy, it's the non voters that matter - when people are disengaged or disenfranchised, literally just turning up to let them know that one party actually does give a gently caress about them is often enough to get them to turn out. It surprised me how many folks have a specific single issue gripe that they want to offload to somebody they feel is linked to the cause of it. 'My mums care home closed due to funding cuts, my son's school became an academy and now performs poorly, the community health visitor team has been slashed so new mums who cant get out are left to fend for themselves'. Just being a sounding board for them to go off on goes a long way to building a bridge. You do need a degree of resilience for this though, some people have really been through the wringer.
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Purple Prince posted:My boss swung from a 'sensible' Tory to a Lib Dem because of how crazy Boris is, and he is rich enough to be a natural Tory voter, so if that's any reflection on general movement it's great. My dad's done the same (he's a staunch capitalist so I couldn't swing him to Labour, but better than nothing), and I managed to convince my mum and sister to vote Labour thanks to this thread making it easy for me to follow what's going on and explain it to them. Thank you, posters 
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