I'm a socialist and voting Lib Dem again (as are Mrs B and my daughters). Last time the Lib Dem's Tom Brake lost the last LD seat in London by less than 700 votes and should breeze it this time. Yesterday afternoon, on our way back from a festival, Mrs B and I drove through Cheam, a Tory bastion. Not a single Tory poster to be seen. Incredibly, I saw a Labour one!!!!
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I travel all over London, south east and the Anglia area for work and predominantly it's Lib Dem posters and boards on show , the only Tory ones I've seen were in Norfolk and they had been defaced , normally that area a pig with a blue rosette would get elected Woking had a Reform rally last week and from what I saw the average age was 70 plus , hardly any labour posters out there Like Brian I'm socialist , been a labour member for many years and resigned membership when Starmer started his left purge ,also due to the local labour group being a bunch of idiots as well As for voting I've still not made up my mind , my town it Conservative and the current MP is retiring, the candidate to replace him was withdrawn at the last minute due to previous misdemeanours and another had to be flown in from God knows where , best chance of getting rid of conservatives is voting Lib Dem but its could be close
As with all of these things, especially in the last election, it's somewhat suspect The most obvious being it predicts Labour to hold Bristol Central, while every poll has the Greens dumping Thangam Debbonaire to the kerb And I'm tempted to bookmark their prediction of Labour winning Croydon South handily, too...
Yvette Cooper (for all her faults) just eviscerated the misnomered Cleverly on LBC despite the grubby Fat Controller Ferrari doing his best Tory Support Act. Bluto Cleverly is a complete fool with no grasp of any of the briefs of his Office as Home Secretary.
The Torygraph have gone after another Reform candidate today. This time it's Julian Malins KC, who's standing in Salisbury and thinks that Putin's a great bloke. As they all do, apparently. “I have actually met Putin and had a 10-minute chat with him and he seemed very good." "He is not the Austrian gentleman with a moustache come alive again.” I'm guessing that this isn't going to be the most popular opinion in the place hit by a Russian chemical weapon attack. Malins practiced law in the Cayman and British Virgin Islands, as well as working for Cambridge Analytica. I'm sure that those facts are unrelated to his fondness for a certain Russian dictator.
This is the previous 15 minutes of JO's summary of 14 years of Tory governments. It's worth a watch - and share with anyone you think may be still undecided ... That it takes a British comedian, living in the US and broadcasting on HBO to provide the best attack on that misrule says everything you need to know about the state of UK politics and media.
