General Election June 2017

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  • "The only numbers in the Tory manifesto are the page numbers."

    So much this. There's nothing in the transcript of that interview that looks like a problem (I've not listened) but why aren't the BBC grilling the Tories in the same way?

  • apparently he was fucking about on his iPad looking for an answer. the worthless shit.

    you are quick - https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13662110/

  • from the Guardian's rolling coverage:

    "Corbyn said:

    It is totally and absolutely, completely unacceptable for anyone to
    throw abuse at anyone else. Journalists do ask difficult questions and
    journalists do do a job that does require asking difficult questions
    sometimes in difficult circumstances.

    If you don’t like what a reporter says or asks me, or anybody else,
    understand the question they’re asking. We will all do our best to
    answer those questions, but under no circumstances whatsoever should
    anyone throw personal abuse at anyone else, because they are doing the
    job that they have been employed to do and I will not tolerate it
    under any circumstances.

    He also claimed he did not mind people asking him difficult questions.

    There isn’t such a thing as being unfair to politicians. If you put
    yourself up for elected office in public life you are subject to
    permanent scrutiny.

    I never get upset by these things. Never be so high and mighty that
    you can’t listen to everybody else and make sure that you understand
    the motives of the majority of our people and the kind of society that
    we want to live in."

  • Has Theresa May done anything today? Wtf is up with coverage? Osborne has brutally attacked the Tories and the headline of time BBC remains him forgetting a number.

  • Apparently May has asked an audience (of hand picked Tory activists presumably) to picture Corbyn naked.

    Now imagine if that was the other way around...

  • I bet Corbs doesn't look too bad naked. For a man of his age and that.

  • Is there any information about how last nights panel of questioners was chosen for Sky's debate...? Or who chose them...? Bit of transparency would be nice, yes the owner of the pharmacy is 'technically' a small business owner, but I'm sure any punter in the street who watched it would not assume that a 'small' business can actually turnover up to £10 million....

    If nothing else this election is really opening my eyes to the media biases...

  • Craig Murray is a tad... extreme. I don't think character assassination is really appropriate here. But that's some pretty crazy stuff.

  • Retire = lose voting rights?

  • I just can't wait until online voting.

  • Why is 35-64 one category?

  • Why is 35-64 one category?

    Highest earning bracket?

  • That graph (assuming it's real) would be enhanced with projected/2015 turnout as well.

    Among the groups most likely to support Labour it tends to be the lowest. That's been a real target of the campaigns this time round, so hopefully it will pay off.

  • I thought it might be generation x, but the earliest definitions start in the 60's. It looks like maybe they just split the population into:
    Really Labour
    Quite Labour
    Quite Tory
    Very Tory

  • Thinking the same.

  • there are some good reasons against it

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

  • I'm pretty sure I've seen the same breakdowns before but used to illustrate a point about turnout instead.

  • For sure. I just think it's probably the easiest way to even out the age spread of voters.

  • I saw it on Twitter, thought it was a pleasingly* symmetrical chart.

    *Yes

  • " ... but under no circumstances whatsoever should anyone throw personal abuse at anyone else, because they are doing the job that they have been employed to do and I will not tolerate it under any circumstances."

    I understand Corbs needs to get this as far out of the papers as possible and it's potentially draining for any positive momentum coming from the last week of campaigning, but she's a fucking BBC journalist peddaling a very overt right-wing agenda. Her "job", along with everyone else at the BBC is to ....

    to act in the public interest, serving all audiences through the provision of impartial, high-quality and distinctive output and services which inform, educate and entertain.

    That's what it says in the Royal Charter for the continuance of the British
    Broadcasting Corporation.

  • And the original article from the Manchester evening news

    http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/n­ews/greater-manchester-news/school-aide-­laundered-brothel-cash-946427

    If this the British equivalent of Breaking Bad?

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