General Election June 2017

Or she gets pushed out and Boris takes us out of Europe.

I had a look at the daily mail this morning, for interest; how can they print this hyperbole? Surley it's libelous in some way?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4578716/Apologists-terror-Corbyn-McDonnell-Abbott.html

(I have written to the IPSO, not that they do anything)

I really think it's high time for a proper indipentant news regulatory body, that can classify outlets either real news or opinion. If you can't stop people reading it, you need to tell them that it's just not fact. With all this fake news, it's also time for change in the way media outlets are managed and run. They need some official approval and a factual source.

It's time something is done.

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Yeah I saw that too and thought the same thing. Giddying amounts of hyperbole, too.
Surely the wording they've chosen - they are 'accusing' them - is on dodgy legal ground?

Labour knew it would get a tough time from the right of centre press. How has the party handled it?

No worse than the way they went after Kinnock with the front pages back in 1987 and Foot in 1983.

Possibly worse.

And those two front pages come back to why people will vote conservative.

https://twitter.com/mrjammyjamjar3/status/871829837262061568

This thread though. if only people looked beyond the front pages of the Scum.

Makes my blood boil.
Almost unbelievable that these are THE 2 main papers this country reads (and are influenced by), not some obscure paranoid ranting. It's so creepy how calculated it is.

As I said above, I won't believe any polls until the results are in. I can't believe that Labour will come close to winning, but we'll see. I suspect that May will still increase her majority in spite of her 'campaign', but I hope that won't happen.

Was good wasn't it. Such truth.

We need to change as a nation. Sadly it's hard to make change happen, while stuck in the rut.

notice how Abbott is the only one depicted as unflatteringly as possible with her mouth open.

You know you've lost the arguments when you have to resort to cheap shots like this.

As much as I want the Tories to lose tomorrow, part of me also hopes they win. Because then the cluster fuck that is Brexit will happen on their watch, and, in the way Gordon Brown is blamed for the 2008 financial crisis, we can spend the next ten years hammering the Tories for plunging us into recession, losing any standing we had on the international stage, devastating our public services, etc.

I totally get that argument. I just worry how much more damage they can do in 5 years. What will be inherited?

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An appealing idea, but I suspect that may be wishful thinking. There will be so many other possible diversionary excuses for the country sliding into recession, and rest assured that the Tories and their tabloid apologists will be working hard on that. (As they have been doing already by blaming problems with Brexit on the EU e.g. May's speech at No. 10 invoking images of war, the Gibraltar kerfuffle, etc.)

I had to give up on John Humphreys this morning, what's the point in having guests on when you just are going to tell them they are wrong because Teresa May said human rights are the problem, therefore they must be

My old man was a dyed-in-the-wool liberal.

Then again, the Navy did treat him like shit.

"End of your commission in two weeks is it, Cmdr TW? Off to the Falklands for 6 months it is then."

Diane Abbott avanti from Lab front bench - would have been a great move a month ago.

In the DM today

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That cartoon could backfire what with the marketing push for Wonder Woman (perhaps).

Some of this is quite funny

https://twitter.com/hashtag/LastMinuteCorbynSmears

Looks like they left in the same year then. The RN would've been in desperate straits to send my dad to the Falklands, he was working on a training submarine in Gosport then, and it had no engine.

It'll be increasingly difficult to blame the EU once we've left. Not that it'll stop them, but eventually people will realise they've been conned.

If they could realise that before midnight than that would be rather nice.

And those two front pages come back to why people will vote conservative.

Absolutely true.

Purely a smear campaign. So depressing.