That’s the plan 
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Hartlepool with Tory lead at 17 percent.
How the fekk does Hartlepool vote Tory?!
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Boris, they love him
It was a Tory graph poll, but 17 points is fucking massive.
Given that there is no Brexit Party or Kippers to split the right wing vote the Tories should romp home. It will pretty much summarise how fucked up this country is.
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This, squared !
Phone poll, I think there are only 350-odd data points once the ‘don’t knows’ are eliminated so it’ll be very inaccurate about the size of the majority. In a lot of these red wall seats if Labour and the Lim Dems run, then the Tories will win. Labour only won Hartlepool in the last election because the Brexit Party took 25% of the vote. The expectation is that the vast bulk of that vote will go to the Tory candidate as BXP is gone.
We. Are. Fucked.
Cos, y’know that statement about half of the population being below average intelligence?
Well, a LOT of them live in Hartlepool. Add to that racism, bigotry - I could go on, and the Tories make perfect (non)sense.
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The labour party folks in our area doing canvassing by phone are hilariously posh.
I only get to vote for the police twat this time round.
Speaking to a farmer today the talk turned to: 'Have you had your jab? “Oh yes I’ve got my second coming up on Sunday, don’t you think Boris has done a marvelous job? Makes you proud to be British”…
Flabbergasted and in poor company my vibe was well whittled.
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The one thing he’s not remotely responsible for and he gets fucking credit for it 🤦🤦🤦
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He is not responsible for the roll out, but someone had the forsight to order many times the requirement of vaccine from many different suppliers early on to cover all the bases.
Without that there would have been nothing to roll out.
I thought I might google how and why we got in that position and who we had to thank. Turns out it was Tigger himself!
I’m glad he watched Contagion and not Outbreak 
This is really rather good.
Much better than being told by John Harris for the umpteenth time that its not the voters fault and we sholdn’t blame them
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Scumbag bible pg:12. You will loose in a ‘fair fight’ with someone who fights dirty.
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That’s a good article. For me the thing labour don’t do is ‘why us’. They seem to think pointing out all the reasons ‘why not’ the tories is enough, but it’s not, especially when the other parties also do the same.
Starmer is not impressing me at all at the moment, he’s very ‘meh’.
I look on in despair at our broken two party system, and in equal dismay at how it is analysed. The fact that voters see it as a two-horse beauty contest at-all dooms us never to progress, but I see little in the wider media to challenge the notion.
Sure, Labour are out of touch: painfully so - all their terms of reference are obsolete - not just the dialogue with the Cons. Starmer clearly hopes never to have to run the cuntry, and I’m confident he never will, even though - for all his shortcomings - he’s the best prospect we’ve had in a long time. Labour don’t even seem to realise that no-one thinks of themselves as working class any more - depressingly few Brits even see work as worthwhile, and even the scummiest ASBO’d-up scuffer has been groomed to believe they’re middle class.
Our generation are used to thinking of Britain as a broadly-socialist nation - as if it was some kind of ingrained character-trait. At one point in history we really were socialist - we came out of two World Wars with a pretty clear idea of what had caused our suffering and required change. But the generation that created that is effectively gone and we now live in a greed-is-good Thatcherite dystopia: Materialism and the Cult of Self is our national character now. There is no Society any more, and it’s a damn fool that doesn’t face this and act accordingly.
It’s not even about the telly, much less newspapers: voters’ mindsets are set by memes on social media - by the shut-in echo-chambers of all our online lives. The Right owns that, and is both able to control it and is more competent at influencing it. The right is also more ruthless - happy to say and do whatever it takes to maintain control: look at UKIP and Britain First - saying the unsayable on the tories behalf, with no accountability but influencing thought and detoxifying hate, division and nationalism…
By contrast, the left is dispositionally idealistic - aspiring to (if not often achieving) honesty and realism - even against its own interests sometimes. How hilariously naïve! We no longer live in a World that has any taste-for, or even contact with Reality! Comforting lies are all that modern generations have known: “Yes, you’re special”, “Yes, you’re unique”, “Yes, you’re the best”, “Yes, you’re smart”, “Yes, you’re talented”, “Sure, one day you’ll be a princess/footballer/the opposite gender”, “Yes, life’s fair”, “No, you will never encounter criticism”, “No, you’ll never hear the word ‘no’”… There’s no taste for the truth, and telling it repels the very people who most need to hear it.
It’s sad how Labour still clings to the notion of heartlands, when there was never really any such thing for them. They still talk about geography, when it’s really about psychology. Labour “heartlands” were really “headlands” in the days of mass unionisation which was all about making the individual wealthier and happier. Now, there can be no “heartlands” when unionisation is a dirty word and your only appeal is to idealism and collective-good. Those are traits that have to be learned and - ironically - can only really be fully-indulged if you are fairly well-off… By comparison, the political right has it easy - it appeals to the animal within - the greedy egocentric ape, grabbing for all it can get, certain that it is the centre of the Universe; deep-rooted instincts that exist in every living thing: Self First - take all the things, breed with the Alpha, secure territory, destroy competition. In an uncertain World that’s an easy sell - especially when you already control how that World is perceived…
tl;dr - wot Ruprecht sed
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Does anyone else think that the only possibility now is that Lawrence Fox is a genius actor, and has been undertaking a majestic form of performance art? Attacking the NHS the day before an election, and criticising them for requiring applause to work when he’s an actor can only be this, surely?
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