Reply to: Corbyn has won again

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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...

[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.

[DaveB]

Very interesting.

But if voting is anonymous how can they tell?

I don't know, how did you know most of them voted leave?

[WTFH]

But if voting is anonymous how can they tell?

Probably more accurately than your claim that "the vast majority of labour voters voted brexit"

[fullyautomatix]

Actually over 60% of Labour voters voted remain. Yet Corbyn still gets blamed by his own party for "losing" the referendum.

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2016/06/27/how-britain-voted/

The EU referendum had nothing to do with the party manifesto, it was a free for all vote irrespective of which party you supported. So pretty irrelevant how the Labour supporters voted in the referendum.

[original PM]

Actually over 60% of Labour voters voted remain. Yet Corbyn still gets blamed by his own party for "losing" the referendum.

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2016/06/27/how-britain-voted/

Very interesting.

But if voting is anonymous how can they tell?

[DaveB]

If that mung bean quiche eating champagne socialist bell end becomes leader of this country I am gone.

He was pro remain and yet the vast majority of labour voters voted brexit - when will he realise that he is so out of touch with the majority of labour voters that he will drive them to vote blue - especially if May manages to steer us to a graceful exit.

Actually over 60% of Labour voters voted remain. Yet Corbyn still gets blamed by his own party for "losing" the referendum.

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2016/06/27/how-britain-voted/

[LondonManc]

Tony Blair PM is an anagram of I'm Tory Plan B

Nuff said. He's the real reason that the party is divided. New Labour is a populist skeleton for right-one public schoolers who want to seem cooler than Tory voters. The late John Smith would have been a far better prime minister and at the very least we'd still have a labour party that can keep the Tories on their toes. You don't generally get a good government without a decent opposition.

[TestMangler]

If that mung bean quiche eating champagne socialist bell end becomes leader of this country I am gone.

He was pro remain and yet the vast majority of labour voters voted brexit - when will he realise that he is so out of touch with the majority of labour voters that he will drive them to vote blue - especially if May manages to steer us to a graceful exit.

You don't half talk some drivel. Corbyn a champagne socialist, in a party that has boasted Blair, Burnham etc

I'm not sure if you've ever read a history book, but before the appearance of Tony Blair, Labour was actually a 'left' party, made up of lefties and supported by lefties. Corbyn is a f**king leftie. That's why ordinary labour voters who didn't have their memory chips fitted post 1997, support him.

Just to be clear, I don't vote labour and never have, but the amount of BBC propaganda you're swallowing should be enough to make you retch

[original PM]

Since when did Labour or Tories plan to spend money on something without a definite plan on where to get the cash? TB and GB borrowed billions to finance their fancy projects which we will end up paying for and nothing to show for it. At least Corbyn will spent wisely and most in this country will benefit, if not all.

If that mung bean quiche eating champagne socialist bell end becomes leader of this country I am gone.

He was pro remain and yet the vast majority of labour voters voted brexit - when will he realise that he is so out of touch with the majority of labour voters that he will drive them to vote blue - especially if May manages to steer us to a graceful exit.

[VectraMan]

Arm the subs with lentils and love.

Lentils and love would be equally as effective, but cost far less. Win win.

[FatLazyContractor]

FAO CretinWatcher

Could you please set some cretins here right?