Me too, before I saw the error of my ways!
I found this interesting. Problem is, given our electoral system, most people are right, aren’t they? Their vote does count for almost nothing in most constituencies in the country. It is pretty rare that every vote counts. Winchester 1997 was one of the few - where there was a 2 vote difference between the Lib Dems and the Tories. But in most seats it is pretty much a forgone conclusion. So, why should they vote?
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It’s not just Black ppl bathsaint.
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This is why we need electoral reform!!
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That’s not what i asked is it?
Nice impartial view.
Julian Jessop, chief economist at the Thatcherite think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs,
Shit paper, so biased it’s painful to read.
Are they snatching babies as well now? Can’t say i’m suprised(unless there’s no profit in it).
There’s a reason it is colloquially referred to as the Torygraph
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If we are going to be slinging around the Nazi’s insult could we at least execute the apostrophe?
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Ended up having breakfast on a few times with then AfD leader (or founder). Happened to be staying in same b&b in Cornwall. He started a conversation about Farage. We didn’t know who he was at the time (and it wouldn’t have mattered anyway) but said what we thought about Farage and were clearly left wing and then the next breakfast was a tad awkward.
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Full English!
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Gas or firing squad?
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For balance here’s Labours view on those figures, although i’m a bit confused how the telegraph and the mail(yes they both ran the same piece, almost like they’re working to an agenda, rather than reporting real news) can come to their conclusions without seeing a costed manifesto. Were the figures in the leak, i don’t know, or are they just making it up?
This bit caught my eye.
When we were in office the tax burden on the British people was 33.9% of GDP, under this government it is currently 34.4%,” he said. “And they are projecting that by 2020 it will be 37.2%.
I expect it will boil down to accounting interpretation - eg will they recognise infrastructural investment spend as current account spending or say that it should be amortised over the lifetime of the asset
etc
Anyway - they promise us full accounting when they publish the manifesto so we will see.
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What year is that first Labour figure taken from?
I’d like to draw eyes North of the Border. Labour have almost got nothing to lose in terms of Parliamentary seats. The SNP have mostly been about shielding the Scots from the worst of the Tories, very cynically I might add. I don’t think it’s done out of any particular love - it’s as much electioneering as anything else, and the SNP are much closer to New Labour than they’d like to admit.
Game on? Emily Thornberry did very well in Edinburgh on last night’s QT.
As has been said the whole way through, people don’t trust Labour due to Corbyn being in charge.
That’s because Thornberry is competent. It’s amazing what happens when you put competent people in decent positions, and not tat like Abbott.
Last year in power? Probably not. Maybe just before the banks destroyed everything.
Looking it up and let us know.
Thornberry was all over the news in 2014 due to an tweet 're white vans. People were up in arms about it. But it’s good to see that things can move on and be do.
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