The Purge

[Old Greg]

Don't see it that way myself. Quoting from the rule book
"A member of the Party who joins and/ or
supports a political organisation other than an
official Labour group or other unit of the
Party, or supports any candidate who stands
against an official Labour candidate, or
publicly declares their intent to stand against
a Labour candidate, shall automatically be
ineligible to be or remain a Party member,
subject to the provisions of Chapter 6.I.2
below of the disciplinary rules."

As a fully paid up union member I expect rules to be followed. He should have abstained rather than vote Lib Dem then he would have been OK.

Hmmmm Now as a fully paid up member of UNITE, and therefore an affiliate member of the labour party should I offer myself to the Exec Committee for punishment and chastisement/correctional thinking for not voting Labour?

The conversation that seems to be going on is that it is fine to vote for a different party (e.g. tactical voting) but not to publicise it. So if voting Lib Dem is not in itself against the rules, then reporting publicly that you did is claimed to be the behaviour that equates to supporting a different party. That is open to counterargument.

[Yorkie62]

The conversation that seems to be going on is that it is fine to vote for a different party (e.g. tactical voting) but not to publicise it. So if voting Lib Dem is not in itself against the rules, then reporting publicly that you did is claimed to be the behaviour that equates to supporting a different party. That is open to counterargument.

I see your point. If you don't publically state you voted for another party nobody is any the wiser, so you can vote for a non labour candidate, technically breaking the rule, and get away with it so long as you don't brag about it.
The punishment should fit the crime of a traitor. I'll leave it there![emoji848]

Brain the size of a planet and I still have to communicate with morons

[Old Greg]

I see your point. If you don't publically state you voted for another party nobody is any the wiser, so you can vote for a non labour candidate, technically breaking the rule, and get away with it so long as you don't brag about it.
The punishment should fit the crime of a traitor. I'll leave it there![emoji848]

Brain the size of a planet and I still have to communicate with morons

This is the amusing bit.

[Yorkie62]

This is the amusing bit.

No problem with this so long as the rule is applied uniformly and equally across all regardless of the size of their beard.

Brain the size of a planet and I still have to communicate with morons

[AtW]

You are a moron, 62

[meridian]

[Yorkie62]

Something not quite right with these graphs. perhaps the sample was only taken inside the M25.

What I take from these graphs is that the labour vote migrated to the Lib dems and Greens ( Remain) whilst the conservative vote migrated to Brexit (Leave). However, in the labour heartlands of the North of England, there was a significant vote away from Labour towards the brexit Party which is why the brexit party came top in virtually every constituency. So what we have here is another southern poll all about the South East of England.

[Old Greg]

Something not quite right with these graphs. perhaps the sample was only taken inside the M25.

What I take from these graphs is that the labour vote migrated to the Lib dems and Greens ( Remain) whilst the conservative vote migrated to Brexit (Leave). However, in the labour heartlands of the North of England, there was a significant vote away from Labour towards the brexit Party which is why the brexit party came top in virtually every constituency. So what we have here is another southern poll all about the South East of England.

These are party members, not voters.

[Yorkie62]

These are party members, not voters.

Ah and so the labour party does not have any party members outside of the M25? That's OK then. carry on.

[meridian]

Something not quite right with these graphs. perhaps the sample was only taken inside the M25.

What I take from these graphs is that the labour vote migrated to the Lib dems and Greens ( Remain) whilst the conservative vote migrated to Brexit (Leave). However, in the labour heartlands of the North of England, there was a significant vote away from Labour towards the brexit Party which is why the brexit party came top in virtually every constituency. So what we have here is another southern poll all about the South East of England.

You’ve started off with your own position on where you think people voted, saw that a poll didn’t fit your view, but rather than checking with YouGov or other sources to find out where they sampled for their poll you curve-fitted your own assumptions and anecdotal data to fit your own narrative, thus propagating your own confirmation bias.