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Dec 2019
10:26pm, 12 Dec 2019
1,807 posts
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I saw mummy kissing Pothunter
If the exit poll is anywhere near accurate then the whole of the Labour leadership need to go - not just Corbyn.
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Dec 2019
10:27pm, 12 Dec 2019
6,124 posts
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Dooogs
This could properly split the Labour party - if a Corbyn acolyte is the next Labour leader, there could be mass departures from the 30-40% of centrists in the party.
I do wonder what the proper small-c conservatives (the Dominic Grieves and Justine Greenings, as it were) must be thinking about the political way forward...
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Dec 2019
10:30pm, 12 Dec 2019
6,968 posts
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Too Much Water
I bet Chuka wishes he hadn’t pulled out of 2015 labour leadership...
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Dec 2019
10:31pm, 12 Dec 2019
43,375 posts
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Diogenes
Time to leave the country.
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Dec 2019
10:31pm, 12 Dec 2019
15,587 posts
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Chrisull
Zp wins the poll ticker. I think we can all concede now. Hearing Sunderland will have gone at least partly Tory.
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Dec 2019
10:32pm, 12 Dec 2019
59,318 posts
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swittle
It's likely that a higher number of LinkedIn updates will be taking place as the evening grows older.
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Dec 2019
10:34pm, 12 Dec 2019
11,659 posts
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Cerrertonia
If any of the Sunderland seats have gone to the Conservatives, that would suggest a 3-figure majority.
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Dec 2019
10:37pm, 12 Dec 2019
6,969 posts
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Too Much Water
Come on Chris, at least one of your predictions must have been close?
I don’t think it will be as high as 86, but maybe around 50-60 but as I was just saying to my wife, it means less “need” for a hard Brexit as the ERG votes may not be needed. Depends if Boris shows his own thinking on Brexit whatever that is or if he follows the path he’s indicated at already.
The probable good news for my wife is she doesn’t need to rewrite lots of reports to HQ as they had counted on this sort of poll result for their strategy.
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Dec 2019
10:37pm, 12 Dec 2019
6,125 posts
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Dooogs
It could also / alternatively be a realignment of the electoral map with the revival of blue-collar Toryism, and a decline in geography defining voting patterns...
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Dec 2019
10:37pm, 12 Dec 2019
22,969 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Michael Foot got 209 seats and that was a disaster for Labour.
I completely get why Labour "turns left" when confronted by heartless Tory policies, but the precedents all say that Britain is a capital-loving country which simply does not want socialist government. Blair understood this. Corbyn never has, and here we are. Ignore history and you are condemned to repeat it etc...
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