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"All but a cross is
all that is wanted-
to the polling stations
with your purpose clear
and with that mark
banish May
now that June
the 8th is here!"
words and foto Tommy Carroll
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Tommy the really sad thing about the Labour Party is how the exodus of big hitters like Chuka etc now sees them crawling back to offer their services to JC. I hope he's got the balls to tell them to f**k off.
Graham nearly 500,000 people have joined the Labour Party since Corbyn. The anti-Corbyn GUARDIAN headlined warnings of the Labour Party is in danger of the membership falling below 400,000 3 months ago! Harry claims the meteoric rise in membership is due to UKip deserting ranks. Now you're blaming students (with a wink) re grants- well whyever not? The youth (like us all) have many issues. People have not stopped slagging off Corbyn despite more than doubling membership; winning two internal elections and scoring an amazing comeback from a national election- don't you think the leader and membership deserve some credit? ;- )
Tommy, that 150,000 are all prospective students holding their hands out for tuition fee money. I don't think they realised they had to win the election first!
Chaps the Conservatives are in disarray: Labour has increased its membership by another 150,000 in the last week. Corbyn's position is strengthened and another election more than likely. The Tories need to be kept under pressure. Viva!
Politics today is never less than interesting! Well done, Harry, for a considered eminently readable view of the
situation. I see that Paul Nuttall has resigned as leader
of Ukip and returned to his duties as an MEP in the
north. As for Farage, I think he mentioned the possibility
of another referendum rather than suggested it when I
watched him being interviewed overnight (I was up through the night to see the drama unfold).
Tommy,
What a magnificently `muxed ip` situation we have all managed to get ourselves into!
Before Corbyn celebrates too much, we should remember that Atlee`s landslide in `45 was followed - after `51 - by three successive Tory victories. (and Atlee had actually won his election...not come second).
The Tory`s manifesto error in revealing their intention to
recover some taxation from the `Never had it so good` pensioners (plus the police cuts set against the terror attacks) had a lot more to do with Labour`s lift in
the polls than any return to `the old true socialist values`.
The problem is that all those voters who were pro or con on the Brexit issue are inextricably mixed up, all over the place in all of the parties....so where do we go on that one now?
I know that Farron`s idea of having a second `brexit` referendum went down like a lead balloon in the election...
But guess who is suggesting the same thing now?...none
other than Nigel Farage!
Given the feelings on that subject and the narrowness of the referendum (and the election vote) we are in for a right hotch potch when Parliament starts again.
What price a second referendum?
You couldn`t invent this kind of stuff...it`s straight from never never land!
<Deleted User> (13762)
Thu 8th Jun 2017 17:59
I'm keeping everything crossed Tommy - including me buns.
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Harry O'Neill
Mon 12th Jun 2017 14:45
A common fact of the rise of the populism movement in both Britain and America is the fact of almost full employment in both countries.
In Britain there is also - of course - Government subsidy in the form of in work benefits leading to low productivity and static earnings....In America there seems to be a desire to return to economic and political isolationism...
The word being looked upon with growing suspicion in
the old Western industrial sphere is `Globalization`
The best exposition of what is facing us is - in my opinion-
Philip Hammond`s speech at Davos:
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/davos-2017-chancellors-speech-at-the-cbis-british-business-leaders-lunch.
Today, one can well understand the antagonism between Hammond and `hard Brexit`May which caused her to keep him practically silent during the election campaign.
Convinced Conservative that Hammond is allowed for, This is well worth a careful read.