Labour Will Not Lose Any Seats On Thursday.....right Oh!

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36192601

[bazwillrun]

Like some of his supporters on here...totally deluded

[Togo]

Yeah and Shergar to win the Arc de Triomphe ridden by Elvis, and trained by Lord Lucan.

[jim360]

I'd put something like 5,000-1 odds on Corbyn being correct...

[EDDIE51]

He is hardly going to say they will lose seats is he?

[youngmafbog]

What a nob.

[youngmafbog]

Jezza that is.

[andy-hughes]

As Eddie points out - one of the first rules of politics is never to admit that you are even vaguely in the same galaxy as trouble.

Remember that minion of Sadam's who was being interviewed by a news reporter, and confirmed that their was no Allied troops anywhere near, and the backdrop was a large number Allied tanks rolling in!

Similarly, Jeremy will not admit that his party's local councillors are about to vaporised, and that the countdown to his own exit as leader - which started the day he was elected - is speeding up exponentially.

[mushroom25]

//the countdown to his own exit as leader - which started the day he was elected - is speeding up exponentially. //

are labour expected to do badly at the polls because of the views and policies espoused by Mr Corbyn - or because the parliamentary party are almost universally opposed to those views and also, QED, the views of the root and branch party electorate that overwhelmingly put Mr corbyn in charge?

[Gromit]

While it is a given that Labour will lose seats, it is not obvious where they will go.

The Conservatives are not exactly united themselves, and Osborne's budget quickly unravelled leaving a black hole in the country's finances. Will people who voted Labour in 2012, switch to the Tories, I doubt it?

The LibDems were annilated at the General Election and they seem to have an invisible leader. Will the people who voted Labour in 2012, switch to the LibDems? Again, I think not.

Which leaves UKIP. They tend to win by taking votes from the Conservatives, not Labour.

So perhaps Labour will lose a lot of votes, but those votes won't transfer to anyone else.

The results will be interesting.

[anotheoldgit]

According to this report they have already suspended 50 members for racism.

They soon won't have anyone left to stand for election.

Oh I bet they wish that they had never heard of that word they are always willing to label others with.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3570731/Jeremy-Corbyn-face-stalking-horse-challenge-Labour-suspends-50-activists-racism-run-key-elections.html

[Jackdaw33]

When it comes to local elections I tend to vote for the person, not the party. I live in a marginal ward, currently held by Labour. I expect Labour to hold on here as the sitting councillor is very hard-working whilst I wouldn't trust her Tory opponent an inch. So, for only the second time in 46 years of voting I shall vote Labour. You heard it here first!

[DTCwordfan]

and the Tower of London is going to empty on Thursday morning.....

[EDDIE51]

What do you make of the results?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2016-36218450

[Old_Geezer]

Barring border changes, seats are never lost, they've merely been misplaced for a while.

[EDDIE51]

^^ Good point OG

[jim360]

So far, Labour have lost 24 seats (as opposed to the hundred-odd that was predicted/ feared), compared to the Conservative's massive gains on a humiliating night for Labour of... five.

[jno]

looking very nationalised there, though, jim? Labour does well in Wales while being beaten by the Tories in Scotland (where I don't suppose it matters who comes second anyway, but even so).

[jim360]

I'm waiting for the full results to come in before I study them, although yes there are signs of remarkable regional variations.