Gloop-Brained Voters. How Labour Intelligentsia Turned On The Electorate

[lindapalmara]

See the comments about the voting public as said by Polly Toynbee, Kevin Maguire, Neil Kinnock and Ken Livingstone.

I am appalled they treat us with such contempt!!! Remember this in 2020!

http://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-mail-on-sunday/20150510/281651073675540/TextView

[-Talbot-]

It's nice to see how the right wingers are so magnanimous in victory.
Well done them.

[Tilly2]

Talking of contempt, Michael Gove's done well, hasn't he?

[lindapalmara]

It's the bike spit at the British people that I was talking about! I haven't seen you being magnanimous on this Forum Talbot!

[Tilly2]

Does he divebuddy? What for? Being in the clique?

[-Talbot-]

I haven't seen you being magnanimous on this Forum Talbot!


Really? Even when I said 'have a nice day, Linda'

When Balls lost his seat?

[mushroom25]

i doubt whether any party would choose to leave an important decision like picking the country's leaders, to the public - many institutions treat the UK population with contempt, and consider us to have the brain power and attention span of slugs.

[Ken4155]

mushroom; how can you possibly say.................ooh, look at that ladybird.

[jno]

I will absolutely not vote for Polly Toynbee in 2020.

[jim360]

Right now the result is going to sting and some people are going to open their mouths prematurely and voice their anger and disappointment in a way that they should not. We've already seen some pathetic responses outside Downing Street, for example -- although I suspect those people who defaced war memorials would have found a reason to protest at something else anyway.

[lindapalmara]

Toynbee is another Champagne Socialist. Never mind she can begger off to her Italian Mansion and lick her wounds !!

[tonyav]

Talking of 'Gloop Brains'.
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/generalelection2015/labour-must-be-the-party-of-ambition-as-well-as-compassion/ar-BBjvm26

[mushroom25]

michael gove proved himself to be something of a muppet when it came to education - approving the teaching of creationism as science in 3 academies, before this was overturned following a campaign led by the humanist society

[ichkeria]

If so many of you Tories didn't behave exactly like the gloop-brained (assume that is meant to be pejorative) folk Kevin Maguire talks about then there might be more sympathy
I mean how else can you explain the comparison of Scotland to Nazi Germany, the idea that anyone to the left of a Nick Clegg is a street fighting anarchist or that AB is the preserve of left wing fascists
I mean, seriously now :-)

[jim360]

The idea that AB is dominated by left-wingers is something rather put paid to by:

The news section questions often being started by AOG and supported by, among others, TTT, youngmafbog, New Judge, svejk, bazwilrun and many others, who are all staunchly and proudly right-wing and not exactly quiet about it either;

The steady drip-drip away of more typical left-wingers from those debates;

The AB's own election poll showing 103 people voting for right-wing and 75 for left-wing parties.

I don't see this bias. I really don't.

[jim360]

Perhaps so but it seems wrong to draw a correlation between their being right-wing and their being suspended. Suspension is usually preceded by a crassly offensive comment.

Left-wing people just tend to drift away rather than being banned, but the result is a site that has roughly speaking even numbers of left- and right-wingers. This makes for interesting and sometimes passionate debates. As to moderating policy, I don't have any part in that.