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A Bad Night For Labour
Oh Dear.
Despite the vote for any mid-term election usually going against the incumbent Government, despite the bad couple of weeks with Windrush, despite the (so we are being told by the Remain camp) Brexit negotiations not going well....and so on and so forth, I'd have expected Labour, as Labour expected, to have done considerably better than they have.
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Is this an indictment of Labour's hapless leader?
Despite the vote for any mid-term election usually going against the incumbent Government, despite the bad couple of weeks with Windrush, despite the (so we are being told by the Remain camp) Brexit negotiations not going well....and so on and so forth, I'd have expected Labour, as Labour expected, to have done considerably better than they have.
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Is this an indictment of Labour's hapless leader?
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this wasn't you at the last GE was it ric?
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From what I've seen, it's not been a disaster for either party. They always want to do well at any election but this one seems to be even stevens.
I was amused by an interview on BBC Breakfast this morning when Charlie Stayt asked Labours' Andrew Gwynn how these results reflected on Jeremy Corbyn being a Prime Minister in waiting. Mr. Gwynn said that since the General Election, parties have become very polarised with the main parties showing neck and neck in most opinion polls. Charlie Stayt let him off the hook and didn't ask why he hadn't answered the question. It was easy enough; yes or no. I don't think he would have gotten away with it if Paxman had asked him.
I was amused by an interview on BBC Breakfast this morning when Charlie Stayt asked Labours' Andrew Gwynn how these results reflected on Jeremy Corbyn being a Prime Minister in waiting. Mr. Gwynn said that since the General Election, parties have become very polarised with the main parties showing neck and neck in most opinion polls. Charlie Stayt let him off the hook and didn't ask why he hadn't answered the question. It was easy enough; yes or no. I don't think he would have gotten away with it if Paxman had asked him.
> The opinion on the TV news analysis is that there was very little change for the two main parties.
That's not an opinion, that's a fact.
> I can't agree that it is 'A bad night for Labour'
That's an opinion, and not one that I agree with. Considering the Tories' problems at the moment and the fact that they're mid-term, Labour should have been seeing great gains last night, not simply "very little change". If you think what a Labour party with decent leadership and no recent (Jewish) scandals of its own could have achieved, then "little change" is a rubbish result.
That's not an opinion, that's a fact.
> I can't agree that it is 'A bad night for Labour'
That's an opinion, and not one that I agree with. Considering the Tories' problems at the moment and the fact that they're mid-term, Labour should have been seeing great gains last night, not simply "very little change". If you think what a Labour party with decent leadership and no recent (Jewish) scandals of its own could have achieved, then "little change" is a rubbish result.
