Jeremy Corbyn is a ****house mate, instead of traveling to these areas where he is so unpopular he was pottering around the North West speaking to people he didn't need to convince, or staying in London speaking to University crowds. Students who in tens years will vote Tory. Boris, love him or hate him, was all over the joint speaking to loads of people. Even in the North and Scotland. He was far, far more personable with normal people. I said this in the main political thread countless times. Instead of speaking to Andrew Neil on a TV interview which gets a few thousand views, he was visiting places. Btw, you were right I was wrong when it came to the result, I thought it would be close.
hope so. They need to completely cleanse the party of momentum and the dregs of Corbynism to move forward. If not then Boris will walk the next election in 2024. I honestly think Boris will now do a good job. I know Londoners who’ve said he’s been the best major they have had. He made promises and delivered.
Really? He cut the numbers of police and fire service. Like I say, I hope i'm proved wrong but it doesn't look good when the above is part of his track record
I don't, particularly, but we need them to remake themselves so that there's an alternative to Boris.
Why shouldn't Scotland get another vote? the last one was over 5 years ago and a lot has changed since then, or is your idea of democracy that people are allowed to vote until they vote for something you like and then they're not allowed to vote any more because you got what you wanted?
It was described as a once in a generation vote. Five years is not a “generation”. Lots of things change all of the time. Does that mean the SNP are allowed to have a vote every 5 years? In any event there has been a recent vote, the General Election, where more people voted for “Unionist” parties than voted for the SNP. Where is the mandate which suggests that the Scottish people want a second referendum as opposed to the SNP wanting a second referendum. Similar situation to the losers of the first EU referendum claiming that there should be a second referendum because they wanted one when clearly the majority of people didn’t.
Careful there. On that basis, far more people voted for remain parties than for the tories. By your logic, no mandate for Brexit. (this is, incidentally, not an argument I am making. we decide matters by the largest plurality, not the majority. a large plurality chose a government that it knew was committed to brexit. hence, that decision has been made. it just applies equally to a large plurality of the scots voting for a party that it knew was committed to Scottish independence.)
