Wish I could find the gif where they put May's face on Gerrard's and Corbyn's face on Demba Ba's in that wonderful footballing moment.
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38, with Corbyn as leader
Doesn't that all add up to 101%?
Is that not quite common with these things, given the rounding?
Yeah, guess it's rounded up to whole numbers.
I hope he isn't that stupid but doing this right now would be pretty typical.
Would rather be a leftie than a tory
happy to be a delusional lefty who is at least good intentioned then a selfish right wing git only thinking about their individual short term wealth.
This.
Don't do it to yourself guys. Shy Tories are always a big factor, imagine how shy the cnuts are going to be about voting for this manifesto.
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Is there any comprehensive data on 60+ voters? Wondering if the Tories abandoning triple lock has made any difference.
your right, people don't like to admit the are voting for the tories..... says a lot about the party really
This? It's not a gif tho
that's what I was thinking ofWhat's the voting registration figures? I haven't seen much about it.
I read that over 1 million registered with 250000 registering on deadline day alone
It must have an impact. Truth is it's unaffordable and she's actually right, unpalatable as it is.
The IFS is doing a press conference on the party's costings tomorrow at 9:30am tomorrow. Expect both parties using their research to bash each other!
They're still using 'strong and stable'! Ffs. Just got this release.
Conservative response to Education Policy Institute and IFS reports on school spending
Responding to the Education Policy Institute and IFS reports on school spending, Schools Minister Nick Gibb said:
“Jeremy Corbyn can’t deliver any of his promises on school spending – this analysis shows his numbers categorically do not add up and he is too much of a shambles to negotiate a Brexit deal that works for Britain.
“Only Theresa May can provide the strong and stable leadership our country needs through Brexit – so we protect the economy and are able to fund our schools to educate our children. We will increase the overall schools budget by £4 billion by 2022 – a real terms rise for every year of the Parliament compared to current spending plans – and ensure that no school has its budget cut as a result of a fair funding formula.”
Conservative response to Education Policy Institute and IFS reports on school spending
Responding to the Education Policy Institute and IFS reports on school spending, Schools Minister Nick Gibb said:
“Jeremy Corbyn can’t deliver any of his promises on school spending – this analysis shows his numbers categorically do not add up and he is too much of a shambles to negotiate a Brexit deal that works for Britain.
“Only Theresa May can provide the strong and stable leadership our country needs through Brexit – so we protect the economy and are able to fund our schools to educate our children. We will increase the overall schools budget by £4 billion by 2022 – a real terms rise for every year of the Parliament compared to current spending plans – and ensure that no school has its budget cut as a result of a fair funding formula.”
I've read that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is hamstrung by triple lock. It takes up so much of the money allotted to social care that everything else goes neglected. Now whether that's Tory scapegoating, and they wouldn't do anything anyway, is a different matter.
I'm against it myself, but I am in favour of Labour advocating it for this election. Hopefully it'll help avoid a landslide. And as Labour have no chance of winning, they can scrap it by the time 2022 comes around and blame it on the Tories.
Weak and Wobbly!
For nationalisation to be so popular is a positive for the left. It quite literally doesn't get any more left wing than nationalisation. With Labour it's mainly just the rail industry as far as I can tell. Also NHS contracts.
Probably been posted already but I am absolutely astounded by this.
"We never thought this election was going to be a walk in the park."
I think they also might to potential nationalise water and royal mail as well. But yeah even if the most likely outcome happens and Tories win in June, there's some really positives to be taken.
It would take £100m+ to nationalise water, unless you wanted to do it without compensation, and turn us into the next Zimbabwe.
That does beg the question of how Thatcher squandered and wasted the privatisation revenues in the first place of course, along with the north sea oil revenues, the housing sales, and anything else that wasn't screwed down, but unfortunately all that's gone, we are where we are.
That does beg the question of how Thatcher squandered and wasted the privatisation revenues in the first place of course, along with the north sea oil revenues, the housing sales, and anything else that wasn't screwed down, but unfortunately all that's gone, we are where we are.
Odd thing is that (per latest YouGov) the over 65 number is barely moving at all, it's the 25-49 mark that seems to be moving the most. Tories still lead among pensioners by 67-19.
Also in the latest YouGov are some reasons why I don't think it's a great idea for Labour to start hitting Tories on terror related stuff. Internment of people suspected of extremist sympathies is backed 41-36. The death penalty for people murdering in the name of terror is backed 56-30. On a slightly less draconian but probably more relevant question given the existence of the snooper's charter - forcing social media companies to provide government with a backdoor to bypass encryption is backed 68-18. Tories are also backed on defence and security by 41-18, Brexit by 39-17, law and order 38-21, asylum and immigration 31-19. On personal levels, May is trusted on terrorism 55-30, Corbyn is 33-51. Rudd is bad at 24-40, Abbott is woeful at 9-62. Labour's big leads are on the NHS, education and housing. Go hopeful on those for the last fortnight.
It's not odd at all, as Jippy says dropping the triple lock is obviously the right thing to do. Any of the old codgers that don't see that probably don't know what it's all about anyway.
I agree that that's the right policy (though the double lock doesn't really save much either tbh), but dropping it was even less popular among pensioners than the dementia tax.
As Portillo said today, the dementia tax and it's variations is all about inheritance. Unpopular with pensioners of course, and their children even more so.
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Corbyn will give a speech tomorrow about uk foreign policy and police cuts. Could be risky as no one wants to use the horrible events of a few days ago especially if it's seen as using for political gain but if the current UK policy is blow up countries aboard thus creating extremism hot spots and at the same time cutting policing so it's harder to catch extremists then it would be absurd to not call it out.
Although he's making up a lot of leads, he's got nothing to lose at this point. While it could be risky, if he handles well, could be a real positive impact. Wish him to do well
The comeback is on! G'wan Jezza!
This strikes me as a really bad idea.
For the first time since I was old enough to vote, I won't be voting conservative. Firstly the voting record of our conservative mp is very interesting, he has voted repeatedly in ways that completely contradict the claims and promises made in his last election campaign, add this to the snoopers charter, the fox hunting and the sneaky dropping of support for the ban on importing ivory, I'm done.
I just can't be bothered to deal with being pestered by the hordes of idealistic socialists on Facebook etc. if I announced I will vote Conservative.
It's about time a politician stood up and told the truth about our reckless foreign policy.
Sadly however, I don't think it will resonate well. I hope I'm wrong.
I'm not sure myself if it's a good idea but it's absurd that this Tory government disastrous foreign policy and policing cuts can get a free pass because of the potential of not resonating well.
Saw this a few days ago. fecking disgraceful.
On the fox-hunting issue, why would our Government even consider debating that yet again? It's done, it's banned and we have far more pressing things to talk about.
They're trying to appeal to a certain demographic: gits.
I'm pretty confident the Mail will have a field day with it. "Corbyn blames OUR troops".
Its a mistake people are in an emotive state and want blood. They don't want logic and anything that justifies evil.
He needs to come out strong against terrorism first and a small part of the message should be a review of foreign policy to prevent kicking the bees nest.