Give your kids some ganga so they will sit in their room and not vote. He doesn't trust brown people.
The usual shite from the despicable sh.t.
That sounds like a good plan but it infuriates me that it's even necessary. It's pretty damn obvious that fighting between themselves only helps Johnson.Gfamily wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 12:36 pmA lot of our proEU group are writing to both Corbyn and Swinson calling for them to stop being negative about the other and their party, and pointing out that the only really important issue in this GE is to prevent a Conservative Brexit that will bugger up the country for a generation.Fishnut wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 12:30 pmI say this as a LibDem member but I really wish the LibDems would stop attacking Labour. We need to be looking to build coalitions with the left, not alienate them. The fact that Sam Gyimah was happy to attack Labour councillors in a Conservative-dominated local authority but refused to attack the Conservative councillors for their role in the Grenfell fire speaks volumes. I've been very nervous about the influx of former Conservative MPs to the party and this only heightens my concerns.
That's the way I've been reading it too, and it worries me greatly. The party has tried to distance itself from the coalition years and now it seems to be (hopefully unintentional) evoking those times by welcoming former Conservatives into the party without making any effort to show they support LibDem policies beyond Brexit, and by speaking out more against a Corbyn premiership than a Johnson one. Some apologists have suggested that it's because a) it's obvious they won't support a Brexit-supporting Johnson so it doesn't need to be said and b) by focusing on Corbyn rather than the "Labour leader" it allows them to work with the party if they drop Corbyn. a) seems naive as it clearly does need to be said when you've got so many former Conservative MPs who seem strangely unable to criticise their former colleagues and have shown little shift in their policy positions other than the fact they don't support a no-deal Brexit (which isn't even a shift in their policy positions, it just shows how crazy the Conservatives have become that that view is one worthy of expulsion). While b) seems naive and dangerous. If Corbyn wins enough seats to be able to form a Coalition government there's no way the party are going to get rid of him, which means we've ruled out a Lib/Lab coalition from the start. And if Swinson is saying that she'd make Labour change their leader before she joins forces with them, well, that's not a move I can condone. I don't want those outside our party from having a say in who gets to lead us and I don't think it's fair to demand that we have a say in who leads other parties.jimr1603 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 2:56 pmFrom the outside it looks like they're saying that they're far happier supporting the Tories than Labour under Corbyn.Fishnut wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 12:30 pmI say this as a LibDem member but I really wish the LibDems would stop attacking Labour. We need to be looking to build coalitions with the left, not alienate them. The fact that Sam Gyimah was happy to attack Labour councillors in a Conservative-dominated local authority but refused to attack the Conservative councillors for their role in the Grenfell fire speaks volumes. I've been very nervous about the influx of former Conservative MPs to the party and this only heightens my concerns.
Even if they're just being precautious after getting seriously burned last coalition, with the stuff around a 'caretaker' Govt. they were implicitly saying that they would rather see BoJo as PM than Corbyn.
I heard somewhere that they've not confirmed he's actually going to be standing there, as his seat isn't hugely safe.tom p wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 4:50 pmIf I donate money to a particular constituency, it can only be used in that constituency, can't it?
See, the tories are specnding a lot in Uxbridge & South Ruislip, for some reason, and I thought it might be nice to chuck some readies the way of the labour candidate to try and maybe help remove the sitting MP (one A B de P Johnson).
Am I right - will it all go there and have a not insignificant local effect, or will it just be an insignificant drip in a larger pot?
I wouldn't pay for it either, but I got enough time to scan it before the pop up popped up, plus it's being widely reported albeit most because of his suggestion it be held on a Muslim holy day to stop them voting. I think the student angle deserves some weight though as the election date is widely considered to have been chosen in the hope of reducing the student vote.
But not surprisingGfamily wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 6:30 pmThis is just disgraceful
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... dents-vote
tom p wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 4:50 pmIf I donate money to a particular constituency, it can only be used in that constituency, can't it?
See, the tories are specnding a lot in Uxbridge & South Ruislip, for some reason, and I thought it might be nice to chuck some readies the way of the labour candidate to try and maybe help remove the sitting MP (one A B de P Johnson).
Am I right - will it all go there and have a not insignificant local effect, or will it just be an insignificant drip in a larger pot?
Quite so. And no-one forced her to serve as a minister in the coalition: she and others (yes, you, Norman Lamb, you utter hypocrite) could have refused on principle, but they didn't. It was her choice and she has not come close to repudiating anything done by that government.Little waster wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 3:01 pmBut AFAIK she has never given much of a mea culpa blaming collective responsibility, her public statements have always been along the lines of "the things I did in coalition I did because I believed in them".El Pollo Diablo wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:38 amShe was a minister when she voted in much of that. Best to look at the manifesto.
As I say AFAIK.
Hard to say, the legislation seems vague, as legislation often is.
They really have to not f.ck up their next leadership election.“It’s much more about Corbyn than Brexit,” they said. “I have people who are down as Labour supporters saying they won’t come out for me because of him. And this time, it’s much harder to make the argument that Corbyn won’t win so you might as well vote to have a Labour MP – which is what we were doing in 2017.”
The candidate said they had been given some hope from the sense that the contest had become one between the ABBs versus the ABCs – the Anyone But Borises versus the Anyone But Corbyns. “People are going to vote for who they hate the least. There doesn’t seem to be much enthusiasm for either leader.”