Westminstenders: Manifesto or Bust?

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The Brexit Party aren't doing one.

The Labour Party apparently can't afford theirs.

The Conservatives will just lie anyway.

And the LDs got upstaged by Prince Andrew's resignation from royal duties for being a fuckwit.

3 weeks to go...

Bridgen driving around in his range rover with his mobile ad board today...

....City of Cambridge is Remain Ground Zero, and no one can afford to live there so they all commute in.

Yes, DrBlackbird, if you're in a LD/Con seat, you're really stuck with only voting LD and hoping they've learnt something. But it leaves me feeling slightly detached from it all.

Bridgen driving around in his range rover

Hope he looks after it. If he gets his way Solihull will close and Tata will make them in Slovakia where they already build the discos.

City of Cambridge is Remain Ground Zero, and no one can afford to live there so they all commute in

This is very true, lots of commuters down the A14 from here. Oh, the joy if my vote actually meant something at last.

I think St Albans could be interesting , too. They are furious with their MP.

DGRosetti
Ah, the wonderful days of the Comic Strip

Robbie Coltrane and the Chainsaw in Hope Cove
or the wonders of Another old English Pub
hard to decide which was best

I'm in St Albans. Lots of LibDem leafleting since August. Lots of Lib Dem signs. The houses that usually have Conservative boards up don't.

Keeping my fingers crossed.

Mockers Anti BBC sentiments run deep... "Boris Johnson has this week been plotting his first 100 days in office in a £9.5m residential Westminster townhouse owned by the senior Sky television executive Andrew Griffith, who rose to the top of the broadcaster during its Murdoch years."

Where I am (Ceredigion) the choice is easy. Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru were ahead of both the Conservatives and Labour by a country mile in the 2017 GE. Plaid just pipped it by 104 votes. As an English incomer of 9 months, my money is on Plaid. I’m getting a distinct impression that Wales is pretty hacked off at the main Westminster parties. Quite a number of Plaid Cymru posters up around here; some - but not as many - Liberal Democrat posters. Not a vestige of labour or Tory posters to be seen so far.

It was JS herself who said it very clearly and openly.

I heard her say she wouldn't support either Corbyn or Johnson.
As a LibDem activist, I am personally more on the left of the party than the right. As far as Corbyn goes, if he doesn't improve Labour's standing in the next election, I think he will be gone, and anyway party leaders tend only to last about 5 years on average. If he is gone, the Labour party have some good people waiting in the wings - Starmer, Thornbery and Lisa Nandy are three who immediately come to mind.

Johnson, if he has to fall on his sword, who is there? Priti Patel, Rees-Mogg and an assorted Cabinet of entitled but rather brainless idiots. The decent people that the Tories might have drawn upon in the past have all been chased out of the party, many who could still have expected to have at least another 10 years ahead of them.

I haven’t run away. Just very busy with family. I’ll look at these replies later and answer. Sorry didn’t mean to start an argument.

lots of commuters down the A14

AKA The Road To Hell, a linear car park from Fenstanton to Bar Hill, most days.

They could have put the railway back, but put in that stupid busway instead.

Indeed @MockersFactCheck MN. Hopefully it’ll improve when the new road opens. I always use the A428.

Tory MP Alan B'stard supports Brexit
truth is stranger than fiction

A strangely convenient oversight by Google
As in the referendum, "sloppiness" by a giant US software firm helps the hard right

iirc, some of them were financing rightwing Brexit thinktanks, in reaction to the EU Commission imposing limits on and then swingeing fines for rule-breaking

Rowland Manthorpe@rowlsmanthorpe

So here's the thing.
That Tory Google ad first appeared without a disclaimer

Google's rules state that "all election ads in the EU... show a disclosure that identifies who paid for the ad"

So who broke the rules?

@AJMartinSky and I found out

Google breaches own rules with undisclosed Tory attack ad

https://news.sky.com/story/google-breaches-own-rules-with-undisclosed-tory-attack-ad-11866416

An attack ad on Google run by the Conservatives broke Google rules because of an error by Google
.....
Under existing British law, any candidates, political parties or non-party campaigners are required to have an imprint on any of their printed election campaigning material to show that they have produced it.

A digital imprint regime would have introduced a similar requirement for Google, YouTube, and similar social media platforms used by campaigners
- but the government failed to introduce these protections in time for the election.
< I wonder why >

If I were betting inclined, I would put money on St Albans going lib dem.

I wish Mid Beds would. No chance.

Might be a repost ...

Israel is failing to produce any kind of govt, no coalition or C&S agreement can be figured out. Similar situation in Britain seems quite possible to me in December 2019.

Spain's not doing great either. Ireland's governing party is being propped up by their biggest rivals.

I’ve watched the clip I posted and JS doesn’t say that she’d join with the Tories, you’re right. I’m sure she did in the original but maybe not ... the other clip some one posted before me. Did that LD MP not say they’d join with the Tories?

Feel like I’m going a bit mad misinterpreting in this way. Hmmmm I’ve read it somewhere too.

However I do understand that this election is very much down to individual constituencies and if your LD vote is the only way to get the Tories out it’s a good thing.

The Tories have just ripped off Labour’s free hospital parking policy. They’re completely shameless.

Conservatives on course for a majority – but Boris Johnson could lose his seat
New analysis by Datapraxis shows the Conservatives on course for a majority of 48.

www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2019/11/conservatives-course-majority-boris-johnson-could-lose-his-seat

God, that article is depressing, SwedishEdith, though on the upside it’s talking about Iain Duncan Smith, John Redwood and Dominic Raab losing their seats if people vote tactically.