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Match Day Thread General Election 8 June

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  1. ForestHillBilly

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    Royston- In your travels, what are the voters telling you they admire about Mrs May and/or her policies?
     
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    Lots of things have come up - her patriotism, seriousness, sense of duty, being preferable to her predecessor. Just about everyone supporting Brexit currently likes / supports her. The 'bloody difficult woman' thing has cut thru. The biggest cut thru of the campaign however was Diane Abbott's infamous interview - that did real damage.

    The national polls are definitely wrong.
     
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    So it's her, rather than her policies.
    There was another one almost as bad, which didn't get the same publicity. Corbyn himself hasn't been too bad, although the electorate made up their mind on him long ago.
     
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    Corbyn being challenged to condemn the IRA- a foretaste of things to come.
     
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    Damian green was great on the Marr show. I wonder if people will be wetting their pants over that like Abbotts little episode. (Which was hilarious and pathetic at the same time)
     
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    The Tories are haemorrhaging support after they issued that Manifesto! Mrs May looks like she might do this with her pathetic dogma, and idiots like Green haven't helped... isn't it strange that we haven't heard a peep out of Hammond?

     
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    I'm guessing ....... but perhaps @Royston 's Avatar may not be appropriate with the way that May is c0cking up this election <laugh>
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    over the weekend a number of people asked me if she was doing such a bad election job deliberately?? At heart she is a 'remoaner' so perhaps she wants another Party to deal with Brexit?..... I see Davis has now said that the UK will refuse to talk to the EU if they insist on the £100b divorce payment... ah... that's good.
     
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    Labour's share of the vote is increasing, but not enough to translate significantly into seats won. A lot of young people are now registering to vote which will help Labour, but shockingly over 30% of them still haven't bothered. I'm feeling more confident now that Labour will get 150 seats, but 200 is out of reach whatever wobbles Mrs May has in the next 2 weeks. By polling day Diane Abbott will hopefully be a distant memory. I was hearing yesterday from a staunch Labour member who knows her that she's a useless MP, just a very lazy woman who doesn't bother to brief herself (surprise surprise).
     
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    The fact Labour are slowly increasing in popularity goes to show how poor Mays campaign has been.
     
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    Tories 2017 election campaign

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    All they had to do was nothing DUMB!
     
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    Nicks on a one man, Twitter crusade to tell the people otherwise <laugh>
     
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    It's only a wobble, albeit a very welcome one. Never underestimate Labour's ability to shoot itself in the foot. Think of the Edstone at the last election.
     
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    I think they thought if they just said 'strong and stable' enough times, people would forget how bad they have been. I saw somwhere that the national deficit has ballooned in the last seven years despite all the austerity thay have introduced. Given the nature of opinio n oplls, they should be safe, but the idea that May is going to get some sort of mandate to queen it about in the Euro negotiations is drifting away.
     
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    I agree with Nick. London is a bit different politically from most of the country.
     
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    London and Liverpool two cities cut from the same cloth for me
     
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    First the Budget Uturn on self-employed tax, now social care. Team May crumbles faster than anyone would've thought under pressure

    1:14 PM - 22 May 2017
     
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    Cartoon in Private Eye-
    Two foxes with a newspaper headline May to bring back Fox-hunting. One says to the other "I'm still voting for her".
     
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    I didn't know foxes had a vote? Why can foxes vote but my dog can't?
     
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