British Politics Thread.

[Al Shut]

At this point the Queen should just give up neutrality and appoint somebody different, so I can have a good laugh.

[grimmas]

Well she could appoint herself, I'm not sure the country has got the hang of democracy. 😜

[Psychosplodge]

[URL="http://election-data.co.uk/poll-of-trade-union-members"]Some figures for you Mystery.[/URL] I think the sample size is rather small.

[CoffeeGrunt]

[URL="http://election-data.co.uk/poll-of-trade-union-members"]Some figures for you Mystery.[/URL] I think the sample size is rather small.

Given the groups it's sampling, it's fairly large. Trade Union members, mind, not a lot of them so not much extrapolation to make the sample size fit the group size. Too specific for a countrywide view, but interesting that Trade Unions are so scathing of him.

[Mr Mystery]

Interesting stuff - but apparently, at odds with the intentions of the Unions toward the leadership ballot?

[Psychosplodge]

Well Len McCluskey wants his puppet doesn't he?

[Mr Mystery]

Who knows?

Though the Independent had an interesting headline - Corbyn, the man so unelectable, Labour are desperate to keep him off the ballot.

[Psychosplodge]

The party elected Red Ed didn't they? Then when he failed among the wider voters for being too far left they went for a full blown marxist.

[Mr Mystery]

This does make me wonder how Tory Party members are feeling about May just sort of 'becoming' PM.

As discussed a page or three back, whilst we in Britain very much vote for party, not person, the personality of the party leader still plays a role, particularly for swing voters.

May's statements so far have been seemingly contradicted by her own voting record - could Tory Members be feeling they've been lumped with a liability, because everyone else just pulled out?

As for Red Ed - I think he choked because he was a bit of a wet lettuce?

[Psychosplodge]

Idk. Being a floating voter who actively dislikes politicians generally...
Also you're probably better placed geographically to find the "tory in the street"
On "local" news last night/this morning they were asking people in Harrogate and they were broadly supportive of the choice.

I think there was an element of that.
He certainly seemed anything but decisive.