It’s an upside.
Just sexing them up for the public, probably only took him 45 minutes as well 
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The EU is a strange thing really. It’s very Lib Dem - both economically and socially liberal, so fairly right wing economically but libertarian rather than authoritarian. I can understand why the real left wingers hate it, but they ignore all the good that it does.
I have always thought that lefties should like the EU because it’s often fairly quick to impose market corrections, but they can’t get over the fact that it considers a “corrected” market to be the best approach, while the lefties find the whole idea of “market” anathema.
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The difference was that back then it was a stupid idea that people didn’t vote for.
I think you’ll find that was Michael Foot they didn’t vote for, an intellectual man but utterly unelectable. Corbyn shares one of those traits.
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The result could be so good for the Tories that there is a risk that the opposition benches would have spare seats in the Commons!
I do feel the pollsters could be well out predicting a Tory landslide
Funnily enough, all the previous election polls, underestimated the Tories results/seats…
So unlikely, imo…
I heard this interview this morning. It’s a shocker.
The phone calls which followed were mostly dismayed Labour supporters expressing the view they can’t bring themselves to vote Labour this time.
https://soundcloud.com/spectator1828/diane-abbotts-car-crash-lbc-interview
Think I’m going to vote LibDem this time around.
I think I will be as well.
I’ve got some common ground with the Lib Dems on House of Lords reform.
Pretending for a second that there are not substantial restraints imposed by the legal, global and economic context… What’s the worst that Corbyn would do given unfettered power? What do you think May would do?
I do wonder whether people who are opposed to the ideology of tories of May’s rather poisonous ilk specifically would not be better getting over themselves and voting labour rather than diluting the vote.
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Dianne Abbot fails to impress whenever I see her on TV. Here, she sounded like some ill prepared contender on Dragon’s Den not able to give the numbers when asked even though I’m sure she’ll have been properly briefed. You could hear by the end that she had found the right page but by then she’d lost any semblance of appearing to know what she was talking about. It’s a pity. There are people in the Labour party who could get this kind of information across coherently. Unfortunately she isn’t one of them.
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May is going to win. The only hope is to put in place an effective opposition to do what they can to limit the damage under the next government and to be in a position to challenge credibly in five years time. I do wonder whether Corbyn’s supporters would not be better getting over themselves and letting a realist take the reins. Encouraging them by voting for him will only delay this.
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It’s only a pity because there must be people in the Labour party who could do a better job as shadow home secretary than Abbott and (curiously) they are not afforded the opportunity - at least not yet.
Haven’t most of them refused to be part of JC’s team ?
Lots of wasted talent on the back benches.
