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AnatolyKasparov

If 40% of Labour voters really wanted Brexit, the outers would be set to win by a significant margin. But, strangely, they aren't. A half decent media would have asked Field for hard evidence of this figure, rather than swooning uncritically over his "free thinking" as they do. I wonder i...

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howsillyofme1 wrote:
There was one 'no' - did the Liverpool fans contribute to the situation!

Damning

Is that the only one that went to a majority verdict?

AnatolyKasparov

If 40% of Labour voters really wanted Brexit, the outers would be set to win by a significant margin.

But, strangely, they aren't.

A half decent media would have asked Field for hard evidence of this figure, rather than swooning uncritically over his "free thinking" as they do.

AnatolyKasparov

yahyah wrote: John Humphries seemed woefully ill informed

You could have left it at that really

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Just completed my correct postal vote forms, three of them. On one of them for the Welsh Assembly- under UKIP, appears the name Mostyn Neil Hamilton ! Bet he never used Mostyn when he stood in Tatton for the Tories. Plain old Neil was probably good enough then. Actually, I'm pretty sure he did - if...

AnatolyKasparov

But then again, as we keep saying the MSM (and especially the BBC, unlike the papers still trusted as "objective" by far too many) aren't exactly going to town on it. Which means that the "tipping point" will have to come through people's personal experiences. Which will inevitab...

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I think a lot of the sort of people who voted the Tories in last year are currently suffering from some degree of cognitive dissonance, and are still unwilling to fully accept that they can see happening in front of them is actually really taking place. (you can also see this in Scotland, with those...

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HuffPostUK Politics ‏@HuffPostUKPol 3m3 minutes ago Junior doctor resigns live on air as medics plan to go ahead with first all-out strike http://huff.to/1UbO0so" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; And guess who they had on to put the other, pro-government, side of the argument...

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Matt Chorley ‏@MattChorley 1m1 minute ago Tory MP tells me academies plan is "f****** poison". Up to 40 rebels. DfE admits they don't have numbers. http://bit.ly/1MSbmSs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; What possessed Osborne, Cameron and Morgan? They're not just o...

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Johnson fought a complacent campaign, partly due to polls generally overstating his position (days before the election Populus had him winning 56-44 IIRC) That is of course an interesting contradiction of the much overworked meme that polls "always" overstate Labour and underplay the Torie...

AnatolyKasparov

Though we don't like to admit it, Boris was at the peak of his popularity circa 2012 and any Labour candidate would have found it hard to unseat him in that year's election. (though I agree dear old Ken didn't help himself in some respects) Certainly the claim in certain self interested Blairite cir...

AnatolyKasparov

Can anyone explain to me what's behind the increasing calls of antisemitism? Are there real concerns? Or is it whipped up hysteria by the right? It's not a major issue in Huddersfield! So I don't really get a feel for it. It's an obvious way of getting at Corbyn, given his past associations. And th...

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I might have posted something in that period, but have been out for most of the day

AnatolyKasparov

What happened between 2 and 5 PM today?

Yes, today's football does not displease me given that this season has been rather trying generally

AnatolyKasparov

Morning. MichaelWhite ‏@MichaelWhite 42m42 minutes ago If Sadiq Khan can keep R4's John Humphrys in order ( he just did) perhaps he can do the same uppity property developers as London mayor ? but before that ... Tim Shipman ‏@ShippersUnbound 51m51 minutes ago If Sadiq Khan is really 20pts ahead, w...

AnatolyKasparov

Well it seems that the POTUS has basically pulped, pureed and pulverised Boris

No wonder the latter had his meltdown in his latest Torygraph piece (all but embracing "birtherism") Barry absolutely terrifies the Brexiters, and rightly so.

AnatolyKasparov

Even better, make him Ambassador to Washington

AnatolyKasparov

Talking of idiotic Labour MPs, Ian Austin demonstrated yesterday that he didn't know his Abi Wilkinson from his Abby Tomlinson

AnatolyKasparov

The point about modern popular music is, those who say "its all been done before" really do have a point.

A nice topic to discuss on Friday morning

AnatolyKasparov

The thing about Scotland is expectations are so low for Labour that only slipping into third behind the Tories (a possibility relentlessly hyped up by the media both sides of the border, though the evidence it might actually happen is thin at best) could now be plausibly pictured as a bad result. As...

AnatolyKasparov

The more I think about Alison McGovern the more pissed off I get. She's yet another shadow front-bencher who flounced off to the back when the Labour leadership election didn't go the way she wanted. She was actually offered a SC job by Jez, and thought for some time about whether to accept it. May...

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Britain Elects ‏@britainelects 6s7 seconds ago London Mayoral voting intention: Khan: 31% (-1) Goldsmith: 20% (-5) Whittle: 7% (+2) Berry: 6% (+3) Pidgeon: 5% (+2) (via YouGov) DKs incl. Oh dear... Taking out DK's the figures are even more remarkable - Khan close to a first round victory with 48% (...

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This will be post #100000 in this section, unless somebody else has squeezed in first

AnatolyKasparov

Alison McGovern just go away http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/21/loss-of-a-single-council-would-be-betrayal-of-people-says-labour-mp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; loss-of-a-single-council-would-be-betrayal-of-people-says-labour-mp I had hoped that her becoming...

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Ouch Peter Oborne ‏@OborneTweets 2m2 minutes ago Zac Goldsmith has brought Trump's divisive, sectarian politics to London. Decent Tories should support Sadiq Khan: The pushpolling in the YouGov 3 today was a fkn disgrace. Q1. Had a preamble about what Cameron and the Standard have been accusing Kha...

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Following on from the Greens not expressing a second preference in the London mayoralty, Caroline Lucas has urged supporters to vote Plaid in Wales for seats with no Green candidate.

How is that "progressive alliance" going again??

AnatolyKasparov

ephemerid wrote:2016 strikes again.

Victoria Wood.

Requiescat In Pace.

Cancer, again

AnatolyKasparov

There have been rumblings about Tory spending ever since the GE (and even before) This could just be a slow burner......

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AndrewSparrow ‏@AndrewSparrow 10m10 minutes ago PMQs - Verdict from the Twitter commentariat - http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2016/apr/20/eu-referendum-brexit-would-put-special-relationship-with-us-at-risk-uk-warned-politics-live?page=with:block-571773c7e4b0bab9b758f671#block-571773c...

AnatolyKasparov

I have voted for Akehurst most of the previous times he has stood for the NEC, but don't expect I will be doing so on this occasion.

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Britain’s two-party political system isn’t working Steve Hilton Voters are disillusioned with a malfunctioning democracy. The system must change so independent candidates have a fair chance of election http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/20/britain-two-party-political-system-voters-de...

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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:
Britain will join “Bosnia, Serbia, Albania and Ukraine” in a European free trade zone, said Michael Gove, the pro-Brexit justice secretary, as he sketched out a vision of the future outside the EU.
FT

As already pointed out, that presumably means we will be aspirant entrants again?

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Gove comparing EU to failing historical empires. He didnt read my article on the fall of Rome then. http://goo.gl/UJGzgp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Happy Anniversary RoT and Mrs RoT! He's never read anything. Pure name dropper. *That* cartoon strip is getting another a...

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This is probably the truest thing ever said about the truly awful and frankly quite weird Thatcher fan girl Liz Truss, even if it was tweeted by a disgruntled Brexiteer. 2/3rds of Liz Truss's brain is cheese - it is a disgrace. #newsnight She simpers. Whilst being as thick as a brick. She was once ...

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Wes Streeting MP getting a deserved shoeing on Twitter for this article in New Statesman: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/04/labours-mcdonalds-ban-virtue-signalling-worst-kind" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Some of his past tweets have been aired, this h...

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Some "Out" campaign economist was referring to how things were pre-1975 (BBC TV news). What happened in 1975? He was on with Vicki Pryce (sp?) - of Chris Huhne fame - who's an "Inner". I see VP on the BBC fairly often lately (ie in the past year or so). Our previous referendum o...

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Whilst I veer between out and in more often than a tory in a madam's dungeon - Im a slender remain at the moment - Brexit do seem to have the momentum. I wonder what odds I could get on an accumulater, Brexit, Corbyn as PM, and Sanders as president by Xmas. I have come to the conclusion that Trump ...

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It might be best for Danczuk on a personal level if he quit as an MP and retreated to private life to sort his "issues" out.

But as is often the case, such people are far too vain to see this.

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rebeccariots2 wrote:
Laura Kuenssberg ‏@bbclaurak 2m2 minutes ago
Osborne appearing alongside Truss, Bebb and Rudd - interesting not just him
He's chosen the titans of government there.

They seem to think Rudd is a good media performer - I must admit I am somewhat mystified as to why.

AnatolyKasparov

I'm not one of those who think that Dave and Gidiot secretly desire a "leave" vote. The trouble is, they don't know any other way of "campaigning" than what they are doing at the moment. And after all, it "worked" a year ago at the GE, so why not now? Well, one not insi...

AnatolyKasparov

Apparently most viewers were unimpressed with Simon D. Shame.

AnatolyKasparov

I think you are conflating Heidi Alexander and another shadow minister - Debbie Abrahams - there. I think both are doing a reasonable job as it happens

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PoliticsHome ‏@politicshome 6m6 minutes ago Labour's Chris Leslie says Labour should be "absolutely steaming ahead" in May's elections, shd be "10, 15 points ahead in the polls". Playing your part in optimising the chances of that eh Chris. One of *the* most annoying of the Bitt...

AnatolyKasparov

Boris wasn't "undecided" a while back - he was actually pro-EU.

He will take whatever position he thinks will suit his short term personal interests - and a largely incurious and deferential media lets him get away with it.

AnatolyKasparov

Yes, but K Clarke has never been known for euphemism

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Three local council by-elections this week: Taunton Deane DC - LibDem hold, with a swing of 7% to them from the Tories last May - when the blue team snatched one of the three seats here by a handful of votes, after the LibDems had clean sweeps here in both 2007 (the first post boundary changes elect...

AnatolyKasparov

Hope things improve for you soon, yahyah

AnatolyKasparov

Part of me wonders if Zac is deliberately trashing the Crosby brand, to show that sort of politics "doesn't work" in the capital at least. That is probably far too Machiavellian in reality, but the crassness of some of his recent blunders mean you can't help but entertain that idea just a ...

AnatolyKasparov

Generally good results for the LibDems in yesterday's byelections, and Labour doing decently despite none of the seats being natural territory for them.

More later, as ever

AnatolyKasparov

Forgot to mention last night, btw, that the present incarnation of FtN has just passed 100,000 posts. Well done everybody

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