Farage holding Boris to ransom. Let's hope he gets traction and splits the Leave vote down the middle, Offering not to stand against any MP who renounces the Withdrawal Agreement.
Not sure how the split will go. Leave voters are daft enough to fall for Nige's sales patter in numbers.
It's worthwhile posting this again in case of "misunderstandings". Item 14 pertinent. https://fullfact.org/europe/viral-list-about-lisbon-treaty-wrong/
This beggars belief. Why would a political party that wants to Remain, put a candidate up against a pro Remain Labour MP, where dividing the vote would potentially hand the seat to the Tories. Is Jo Swinson really for Remain, or is she an agent provocateur, intent on dividing Remain voters, so that she can go into coalition with Buffoon and vote for another long list of nasty cuts for the poor. She has history. https://scramnews.com/liberal-democ...-eu-labour-mp-rosie-duffield-canterbury-seat/
For what it's worth I agree that it's madness to stand. I have an election meeting with the LD's in my constituency on Tuesday 5th and I will be putting forward my views in no uncertain terms. Nobody should work for a Lib Dem candidate in a Labour held seat, or for that matter vice versa. Let's bugger Pfeffel!
The reality is that Labour is likely to win many more seats than the Lib Dems, so if the Lib Dem supporters really want to Remain they simply must help Labour win as many seats as possible, so that they can at least have a say on Leave with a Labour negotiated deal, or Remain. The Lib Dem’s will never get a majority, which made it so easy for them to say they would revoke article 50, because they will never get the opportunity to implement it. It’s like me telling all my family(Tory supporting bastards ) that I would give them each a million pounds if I won the lottery. It won’t happen, winning the lottery that is. If she scuppers Labour’s chances to unseat a Tory MP, by splitting the vote, then I will believe that she is what I suggested further up the thread. An agent provocateur solely intent on helping the Tories take us out of the EU and into the arms of Donald Trump, with a prime ministerial position as her reward. Obviously I think that Labour supporters should reciprocate, but it frustrates me that the leaders of both parties won’t sit down and come to an arrangement here. A simple agreement that they would support the best placed candidate to unseat a Tory MP could have a devastating impact on the Tories. I think, from Swinson’s point of view, she doesn’t want Labour to gain an outright majority, because then she would have no power in the house, and she looks as if is enjoying the attention a little bit too much.
Interestingly, I am told by reliable people I know, that the Bath Labour Party have told their local members and supporters to vote for Wera Hobhouse, the sitting Lib Dem MP. Hopefully the 2 neighbouring constituencies, NE Somerset and Wells, will also co-operate, Wells is ripe for the plucking by the LD’s, while NE Somerset could be a huge prize for Labour at the expense of the locally-despised Jacob Rees-Mogg.
You know, while I am worrying about the Lib Dems taking votes away from Labour, it is equally possible that they will take votes away from the Tories. There must be plenty of Tory voters who are pro Remain, who might be tempted to switch to the Lib Dems, leaving a gap for a Labour candidate to sneak through. Is it over yet?
Wouldn’t it be deliciously ironic if Brexit, that supremely Tory concept, turned out to be the very mechanism by which the Tories were dethroned?
I'm voting Lib Dem. I want a government that will have the courage to govern. I'm not interested in another people's vote I don't care about 6 tests or a people's Brexit. I believe any flavour of Brexit is fundamentally and catastrophically wrong for Britain on so many levels. Only the lib dems have planned to revoke A.50, that's a powerful promise and will hold weight with a lot of the 16.4 million who voted to remain and now feel abandoned by both of the big 2 parties.
