General Election June 2017

I know a lot of people stick their fingers down their throat at the very mention of Tony Blair but I think he's right a lot of the time and especially here https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/24/tony-blair-fight-tories-june-election-brexit-labour-eu

Brexit is the dominant election issue. The conventional election response of an opposition is to say: vote Labour to keep the Tories out and return a Labour government. The response in this election could be in line with that convention: Brexit is not the only issue, so vote Labour, for example, to save the NHS or stop cuts to schools.
It won’t work.

Hunt was interviewed on Breakfast this morning (and got a harder time than he did on Radio 4's top political programme) and he constantly brought everything back to Brexit and 'strong leadership'. That's all we are going to hear.

I really think Labour's message on Brexit needs to be loud, unanimous and clear:

We're going along with it, because that's what people want, and the only way it won't go through is if it's guaranteed to fuck us up massively.

There's no point in pissing around trying to be all things to all people, and trying to be a party for sore losers, because that's why support is being shed outside London.

It's fucking annoying that an issue caused by a Tory party split has strengthened the Tories and continues to split Labour.

None of it matters. No party has ever been elected when they have been behind in the polls on who would best run the economy and which leader would make the best PM. Labour and Corbyn are very far behind in both. Now you can add in who would get the best Brexit deal. There is nothing to be done. I hope I'm wrong but I voted in 1983 and it feels a lot like that.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2017/apr/26/can-you-guess-what-mays-soundbite-was-at-pmqs-video

maybe allow people to choose when they want their reminders to be? I would prefer to have a reminder the day before to ensure I build time into my day the next day. (not that I will forget to vote in any way barring an accident.)

We haven't determined that we will do this yet... mostly due to deliverability and timing issues (can we send it on time, can we get to the inbox, can we manage the right email to the right constituency recommendation and polling poll, etc).

We're starting to assemble a project management team to help us deliver these things, but right now we are focused on the immediately achievable.

What is this strong and stable shit the tories are being allowed to peddle? They're only strong in comparison to the utter shambles Labour are in, and they're about as stable as a picnic umbrella in a hurricane. It's all they keep repeating in every fucking interview in answer to every fucking question. This is the tactic in politics now, isn't it? Ignore the question, repeat your bullshit message, numb the electorate into dribbling antipathy.
We've got the most incompetent leader and front bench in my lifetime, and they're set to win a landslide and change the political landscape in this country for ever.

Do find it kind of amazing that they are using that line again, since David Cameron's use of it was roundly slated for being massively ironic - “Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice – stability and a strong government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband”.

Mugwump.

Maybe that's Corbyn's best bet. The tories want to keep spouting their self-made myth, perhaps he needs to keep pointing out the shambles that 'strong and stable' government has brought us.
There's also the tory economy myth - that they always leave the economy stronger than Labour. Again, it's bullshit that's very easily refuted and yet for some reason that message is still allowed to be shouted.

An interesting view

She's a robot
https://twitter.com/stigabell/status/857641571528962050

At least she's getting out to the marginal constituencies, the other day she was in Brackla, which is a right fucking dump.

True, she does seem to have a strong and stable plan for touring the country to talk at people about her strong and stable leadership. She's very strong. And oh so stable.

Tonight she's speaking here

The other day she was in this lovely place.

Worth a punt (if you can work out how to do something so complicated)?

The hard part appears to be finding somewhere that will accept multiples on constituency betting...

so paul nuttal ( winner of this years london marathon, part time super model and oscar winning actor ) is going to stand for election after all

so soon after saying he was standing , he wasn't standing and now he is standing again, lets hope his policies are equally as muddled

Let me know if you do. It's worth a quid :)

He was on the radio this morning and was refusing to say where he was standing (despite most people being fairly sure they know where it is). It was the usual car crash interview.

This is hilarious (TM meets the 'workers').

https://twitter.com/johnharris1969/status/857836687606599681

He is speaking in Hartlepool tomorrow so it could be there?

imagine if corbyn had faked a stage managed "meet the proles" news item by stalking around a deserted factory after everyone had clocked off. FACTORYGATE!

may seems to have called an election she wants fuck all to do with. hey ho. strong and stable.

All the big online ones specifically say 'singles only' on special markets. I suppose it's probably because running up a massive win is relatively easy, given the number of seats.

Yes, they're not really independent events (unlike distinct football matches) so multipliers don't make sense for the bookies.