Jun 2024
7:20pm, 26 Jun 2024
4,241 posts
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Cheg
Lets insure he does.
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Jun 2024
7:22pm, 26 Jun 2024
19,650 posts
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NDWDave
Well that’s helpful |
Jun 2024
9:00pm, 26 Jun 2024
9,019 posts
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Pothunter
paulcook wrote: And that there will be many people nodding in agreement. My neighbour will probably be cheering in agreement… |
Jun 2024
9:44pm, 26 Jun 2024
17,352 posts
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jda
Dave W wrote: Flogging a dead horse there, JDA. Perhaps but I remain eternally optimistic that some readers might understand the point. |
Jun 2024
10:00pm, 26 Jun 2024
32,591 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Reviewing the polls over the years, the Labour Party went into a consistent lead on 8th December 2021 and they have been ahead in every poll since. Coincidentally, the Mirror's first Partygate headlines were 30th November. As with much of what has happened to the Tories over the last 5 years, Johnson lies at the heart of the rot setting in. It is still somewhat incredible to think that, having been 20 points behind for so many months, Sunak called an election in the expectation - presumably - that he could turn all that around in 6 weeks. Or perhaps he was just going the political equivalent of Dignitas. |
Jun 2024
10:36pm, 26 Jun 2024
21,713 posts
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Chrisull
Trump was favourite when I backed Biden in the polling and made a killing in 2020... Admittedly it was at the last moment. But the polls that have them equal have Biden only being supported by 12% of the youth, which seems patently ridiculous as some polling analysts have commented. Rust belt Dem voters seem confident that Biden holds MI, WI and PA. Whether that's true I don't know. Lib Dem voters apparently reckon Stratford will be theirs. Wait and see. |
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Jun 2024
10:53pm, 26 Jun 2024
21,714 posts
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Chrisull
Labour not fighting fascism and ordering candidate away from Clacton sigh: theguardian.com From July 5th onwards I am Green. |
Jun 2024
11:22pm, 26 Jun 2024
5,469 posts
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paulcook
I find it peculiar that Labour seem to be much more keen to fight seats against left-wing parties / independents than they do to fight right-wing and far right opponents. Even if I think Farage really might not want to win his seat anyway. |
Jun 2024
11:32pm, 26 Jun 2024
44,786 posts
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SPR
Why do you think Farage doesn't want to win? He could have just not stood?
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Jun 2024
11:39pm, 26 Jun 2024
5,470 posts
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paulcook
I don't for one second think he really wants to be a constituent MP. Nor have to sit in parliament. As I put it yesterday / Monday, whenever it was, "he wants the glory without the graft". Brexit was the perfect democratic result for him. He got everything he wanted but didn't have to put an iota of work in afterwards. Being 1 MP in a very minor party, will be potentially the complete opposite, plenty of work and nothing to show for it bar being an angry old man shouting at the clouds. Though yes, he clearly has further designs on something else. |
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