General Election 2019

Because free petrol would be next

https://mobile.twitter.com/theadickinson/status/1197525830173364224?s=12

Free electric free Tesla no?

"Conservative political communications and social media consultant."

Dear god.

Gigafactories

Everyone is a bitcoin billionaire!

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 47% (+3)
LAB: 28% (-)
LDEM: 12% (-2)
BREX: 3% (-3)

via
@OpiniumResearch

fuck me

Hardly surprising given that post a few pages back on positive vs negative media stories, tories being allowed to lie constantly and the media providing little challenge and selling their bullshit

Gove on C4 the other night trying to argue that 6 hospitals getting built not 40 is an opinion not a fact shows the sorry state of it all, no wonder people get confused

Also, 47% corresponds quite well with brexit supporters.

Brexit down Tories up, no?

Yeah but imagine the state of the country in a couple of years if the final vote shares resemble that in any way

that is tony blair 1997 landslide territory. when the conservatives do not have scotland. mmmmm very sceptical about that poll. seems like some weird outlier. what IS clear though is that this is no time to be fucking around. we can have mild european social democracy and a second referendum with labour or we can have a hard right, reality-distorting, union-busting, worker-hating racist shitshow with the conservatives. pick a side

most significant news story tonight is LAB’s offer to the (3 million) (!) WASPI women... which they deliberately held back from the manifesto launch so they could announce the same day the tories launch theirs. boris famously reneged on his promise to them of course

Delivered a batch of leaflets this afternoon. Can't imagine it will make a difference.

Convinced my dad to register to vote, he's approaching 70 and never has before. He'll also be voting Labour (at least I bloody hope so) in a marginal tory heald seat.

BBC Edit bias:

https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1198261302898176000?s=19

The guy who had a go at Corbyn about YouTube videos has apparently been on QT 3 times before that appearance.

Not very comfortable with that- it’s a naked bribe.

Too many students now to abolish fees. No fees were fine when 15% young people went to university. Those days are long gone and the cost of doing this will.be enormous and yet again those that will benefit the most will be the middle and upper classes.
It will do little to get more disadvantaged folk to go to university.

So far fro. Being a socialist policy this is a policy designed to get votes from middle class students and there parents. Maybe I'm being a cynic here.

The average lead is not quite that big but still the tories currently are going to win a majority. The lib dems have messed up there campaign with the headline policy being as popular as dog shit (missing the PR angle that they have had three years to work on but haven't plus there other more appealing policies. Many voters ,votes dont count so campaign to make them count). Labour have sat on the fence so long they dug a moat round it. Now they try to distract from there fence sitting with promises of big spending that please some but repels more. So the tories win especially now the brexit party has thrown in the towel.

The union is fractured and so is England. England can splinter too. Sadly so many are willing to have there head shut in a door by a posh bloke in a suit. Also most voters think the choice is which party they dislike the least. No party is really compelling at present. We are a grumpy nation and our poltics reflects that.

@Dammit all’s fair in love and the naked pursuit of power

also nothing “fence sitting” about the labour manifesto. they’ve picked their side - time to pick yours

I’m uncertain that offering to bribe ladies my mothers age whilst refusing to take a position on the defining issue of our age is the vote winner you think it is.

More of a naked bribe than, say, promising to cut the top rate of income tax?

Was about to say the same.

Any policy which financially advantages a specific group could be considered a bribe?

E.g. raising the NI floor is just a bribe to a larger group, albeit a fairly small value one.

Yes, of course- especially if we’re going to find the money for all the increased spending.

A give-away to any one group (even a large one) is designed to win the support of that group. There will also be a group who pays.

In the case of the older ladies pensions it’s the young people of today who get to pay for it- probably because young people don’t vote and old people do.

they have a position on the defining issue of our age don’t they?

• 250bn green industrial transformation fund
  
• upgrade energy efficiency of 27m homes
  
• create 1 million green jobs
  
• ban fracking
  
• windfall tax on oil companies
  
• no pothole fund
  
  

the ‘bribe’ to WASPI women is a real statement of intent. it shows that they don’t just want to stand still and hold onto their 2017 coalition but that they are actively looking to expand it