It is the pure arrogance, again 200 years to late and the expectation anyone not of the type of upbringing deserves to "don ones cap" and cross the street. Redwood is another one, These fools of yesteryear run the party.
Poll: Exit Poll: UK General Election 2017 - Results discussion and OcUK Exit Poll - Closing 8th July
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It is the pure arrogance, again 200 years to late and the expectation anyone not of the type of upbringing deserves to "don ones cap" and cross the street. Redwood is another one, These fools of yesteryear run the party.
Whereas those Tories with the cap/no cap, policy/no policy, costing/no costing manifesto only attracted such informed decision makers?
This is my worry too.
who would be running point for the Cons then ? Johnson is a liability, Hammond is basically a walking *.xls and has the charisma of one, JRM is too high in the Toff stakes, David Davis is likely damaged goods as he was pressing for an election. There are some other back bench hopefuls, but is now the time to try out your super sub ?
Anyway is all a pipe dream because the Libs will not do it
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You're nearly as patronising and condescending as that Resse Mug bloke !
''without fully appreciating what they were voting for'' Get over yourself
well in your case I think it is quite clear...
Brilliant, that's me done! Great comeback
you didn't present anything to begin with... you just ranted... as usual
Who are your Northern Irish friends? Sounds like they're making a threat...
No just genuinely worried. They aren't Sinn Fein.
You only need a few crazies to make more than an 'issue' out of the situation. We've already got one group of people willing to bomb canary wharf and I don't want to resurrect the other one that I thought had been pretty much put to bed.
Are you for real?
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Sinn Fein to meet Theresa May over planned DUP deal putting Northern Ireland power-sharing at risk
John Major: Tory-DUP deal risks jeopardising Northern Ireland peace
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lawl, what a joke. May along with the people who still support her are a danger to our country!!
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John Major: Tory-DUP deal risks jeopardising Northern Ireland peace
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'' Strong and Stable ''
lawl, what a joke. May along with the people who still support her are a danger to our country!!
May have already been posted but I found the yougov poll really interesting.
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/06/13/how-britain-voted-2017-general-election/
Age was already brought up before, but the age at which you're more likely to vote conservative than Labour is an interesting one - 47. That's not far off retirement age for some people, and you'd hope with up to 30 years working experience people understand how the world works. The adage that people voted conservative due to experience doesn't seem to be quite as clear cut there.
Employment was also an interesting one. The only status where people were more likely to vote conservative than labour was if you were retired.
What I also found interesting was the Lib Dem scores. They are exceptionally consistent throughout most of the demographics (excluding newspaper readership). There's a slight decrease as you get older, but not huge, and employment status was fairly consistent too.
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/06/13/how-britain-voted-2017-general-election/
Age was already brought up before, but the age at which you're more likely to vote conservative than Labour is an interesting one - 47. That's not far off retirement age for some people, and you'd hope with up to 30 years working experience people understand how the world works. The adage that people voted conservative due to experience doesn't seem to be quite as clear cut there.
Employment was also an interesting one. The only status where people were more likely to vote conservative than labour was if you were retired.
What I also found interesting was the Lib Dem scores. They are exceptionally consistent throughout most of the demographics (excluding newspaper readership). There's a slight decrease as you get older, but not huge, and employment status was fairly consistent too.
The conservatives do seem to have a bit of a leadership vacuum at the moment, Boris certainly won't oick this as his moment!
The lib dems got badly burnt last time and this time are just too far away from the conservatives in key policy areas to make it work even if they wanted to.
The DUP deal is clearly proving a challenge I wander if we will ever know what they get?
it will have to be public otherwise it could seriously undermine the GFA and the powersharing agreement in stormont. If the UK government does not come clean with what they give to the DUP it would lose neutrality and that could end up in a real disaster.
Check out the DUP's 2015 document which was written up specifically for a hung parliament.
Yeah they should get the Queen to announce it as well, in a speech to mark the opening of Parliament...
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