To feel the faint stirrings of hope of a Labour victory?

[KentMum2008]

Just that really? We all thought it was a done deal, T May was going to win by a landslide and we'd be crippled by another 5 years of Tory rule.

Fast forward a few weeks and a Labour victory doesn't seem like such a long shot.

AIBU to feel optimistic that Labour genuinely have a fighting chance? At the very, very least it might result in no overall majority, but the ultimate dream of a Labour govt, run by a true socialist isn't as impossible as previously though.

JC4PM!

You you either believe in polls or you don't.

It seems some are very selective in their beliefs and only trust them if they show what they want it think.

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Dawn I can't link it on my phone but on the news apps they have the front pages of tomorrow's papers

Toast, don't say that....poor Mummymeister would have been congratulating herself on her 'originality' there......😞

I do miss Vincent Hanna's exit polls, rarely wrong.

Other than that, I'm of the opinion that they give an idea but for obvious reasons are not definitive.

Sturgeon was on Radio 4 this morning saying she will enter coalition with Corbyn

Nightmare scenario.

Not as much as the Tories winning though, to be fair.

Not as much as the Tories winning though, to be fair

No. SNP dictating terms to the weak and ineffectual Corbyn is much worse. May will tell Sturgeon to get lost; Corbyn will roll over.

When has he rolled over?

The man is thrawn and stubborn in the extreme

It's laughable to suggest he would compromise his values. He just doesn't

Weak and ineffectual Corbyn? Whatever you say about him this is rubbish. Over his decades as a politician he has stood his ground over so many issues which have been unpopular at the time. I'm afraid that if you think he is weak and ineffectual you see just falling for the empty words of the strong and stable rhetoric from May.

You are not you see

He was a backbencher with no power or position to lose so sticking to his principles to regularly vote against his party didn't cost him anything.

He was weak and ineffectual during the EU referendum because he so doggedly stuck to his principles - Jeremy couldn't sully himself with sharing a platform - Jeremy couldn't possibly attend the Labour Party EU campaign launch because he was far too busy at a CND rally.

So which is it?

He won't sully his.principles or he will roll over for SNP? Cant be both.

A hung parliament is nothing to get excited about. The fucking Lib Dems will pitch up again (shortest period of opposition in history?) plus a few others like the DUP and we'll have another crappy right wing coalition. Yay!

Obviously your nightmares are very different from mine, lass. Personally I'm not going to shit myself over the idea of a more equitable society and adequately funded public services.

Yeah I'm not trembling in terror at the thought of those brave police last night being funded properly and not having their numbers slashed.

I wouldn't be scared of the government not slashing the army and funding to intelligence agencies.

I think I could live with myself if the nurses and doctors working tirelessly last night were well funded and paid decently for the work they do.

In fact I think the whole country could sleep a bit better if all of these vital services were not being slashed and restructured and wasted, when we need them the most.