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Do Labour Have Any Chance At All Of Winning The Election
could they sway things their way with a Lab/Lib Dems pact perhaps, or
do they stand no chance at all.
do they stand no chance at all.
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emmie Funnily enough, I had a look at the Labour Party website and browsed their front bench. None of them (apart from Diane Abbott, who is voter arsenic) have much of a public profile. I think it needs to be someone from the moderate end of the party. Who that could be is a mystery to me. An unknown? Like Corbyn (how many people had heard of him before he became...
12:42 Fri 21st Apr 2017
TM is just slipping into something more comfortable, JD..... :)
actually, this is an interesting read on the subject...
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actually, this is an interesting read on the subject...
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There is not going to be an electoral pact between Labour and the Lib Dems.
There is likely to be some tactical voting, or voting along the lines of the EU referendum. I cannot see how that would help Labour, though: the opposite in fact.
It is hard to see how Labour could win the general election. Never say never, but ....
There is likely to be some tactical voting, or voting along the lines of the EU referendum. I cannot see how that would help Labour, though: the opposite in fact.
It is hard to see how Labour could win the general election. Never say never, but ....
Labour aren't exactly helping themselves - there's loads of ammunition out there on social media (assuming it's not fake - it can't all be fake, can it?) that they are currently ignoring. JC was in Swindon today, and it's from Swindon that a letter that's gone viral this week emanated, concerning the "privatization" of all paediatric care from the GW Hospitals Trust to Virgin Care. (I can't link to it because of the log in credential requirement, but if you have Facebook or Twitter it's easy to find). I hold no brief for Labour (or anyone else) but even if only half of it is true, why wasn't Mr Corbyn waving a copy of that letter today?
Regarding a Lib/Lab pact, I remember such a one in 1977 when the Liberals decided to shore up the Labour minority government in the face of a vote of no confidence. I remember Michael Heseltine's quote in the House at the time, " I've often heard of rats deserting a sinking ship but I've never heard of mice joining one".
Zero chance IMO. But there is no guarantee May will benefit from this election anyway. A gamble which costs the taxpayer and simply wasn't needed.
I can see the danger of Remainers trying to cripple the Brexit process by trying to insist on getting the Single Market access at the cost of the return of sovereignty that Brexit was always about, but I think she should have had the confidence that there were enough sane people in parliament, who haven't pinned their political career colours to the wreckers' mast, to ensure that doesn't occur anyway.
I can see the danger of Remainers trying to cripple the Brexit process by trying to insist on getting the Single Market access at the cost of the return of sovereignty that Brexit was always about, but I think she should have had the confidence that there were enough sane people in parliament, who haven't pinned their political career colours to the wreckers' mast, to ensure that doesn't occur anyway.
