Corbyn has won again

[original PM]

Yes indeed I sort of made an extrapolation based on the fact that most the leave votes seemed to come from what were (as far as I was aware!) what we would call labour strongholds - the North East being 1 example.

But yes no actual facts or figures to back it up mind you!

Will be interesting to see what happens.

[Mordac]

Jeremy Corbyn wins again - BBC News

Get in !!

Fabulous news. It seems the MPs are out of touch with the electorate with their infighting. The entire Labour party wants Corbyn to sort out the country, the entire country wants Corbyn in as PM, only he has the empathy and the integrity to run this country in a way that poor get richer and the rich dont get richer.

His socialist ideas will make him the most popular PM ever.

It's like watching a car crash in slow motion. You know it's going to end very, very badly for someone, but you just can't help yourself...

[NigelJK]

on the fact that most the leave votes seemed to come from what were (as far as I was aware!) what we would call labour strongholds

Well Stockport is definitely a red stronghold and safe seat, and voted dutifully to remain, among a sea of other red strongholds that voted leave. It is one of the more deprived areas (nationally speaking) also, although not as bad as most of the others in the area.

[OwlHoot]

It's like watching a car crash in slow motion. You know it's going to end very, very badly ..

I know just what you mean. I carefully read through his post, eagerly expecting a daft spelling mistake or grammar horror.

Couldn't help myself. But in the end it was all a bit of an anticlimax, as I didn't see any!

[MarkT]

Very interesting.

But if voting is anonymous how can they tell?

Well, there are these things called "Polls" they are run by people who want to find these types of things out. They use sampling techniques and ask people how they voted.

They monumentally screwed up last year in the GE when lots of people who said they'd vote Labour to be cool, actually voted Tory because they don't really like anything left wing, most people don't even like left midfield.

Currently the polls are showing the Tories with a 7 point lead, given that Labour have no effective leader and no shadow cabinet to speak of, staffed with a few flip flopping careerists (Thornberry & Burnham) and a load of nobodies with the collective political and business abilities of a soft boiled egg, the chances are that the Tories will have a 20 point lead by the end of the Summer.

Far more important to me is how the new chancellor will deal with taxation and whether he is going to increase the attack on us all under a new "fairness" policy that May appears to be using.

Expect a very bad budget for anyone with a few quid in October, followed by a GE early next year.