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The weekend has seen the leaders question time debates.

Johnson failed to answer a question and the BBC edited later edited footage to change laughter at him to applause.

Swinson continues to prove that the Lib Dem campaign planners don't understand the electorate. They based the campaign around her and the more the public see her and the more she opens her gob she proves she's the witless headgirl who really knows fuck all.

Corbyn has now adopted a neutral 2nd referendum position. Far too late.

Jo Johnson apparently said that a good election manifesto is one people aren’t talking about 48 hrs later, and it seems that the Conservatives really have gone for that strategy.

Johnson had promised a manifesto for change yet of the three main parties it seems far from that. It avoids controversy for the most part, but also doesn't offer solutions to some of our biggest problems like social care. But with the Tories so ahead in the polls, the status quo and making sure they don't have a repeat of the 'dementia tax' car crash seems to be the order of the day. Because Brexit is going to going to provide a magic solution instead...

Meanwhile the Labour Party have gone completely the other way and really have gone for it and come up with ideas. With a mixed response from the public and press.

And I still can't tell you what is in the LD one, cos Prince Andrew...

This week should see the election come into focus as postal voting starts. As it stands its hard to bet on anything but a Tory majority.

pmk. still no idea who I'm actually voting for. :(

Is there an election?

💐

Pmk.

PMK

Oh god no 😕

Pmk, thanks as always RTB, i think you should be nationalised

Whatever happens at the election I will be buying gin. To celebrate or drown my sorrows.

Pmk

Thanks, red 💐

Tory media manipulation and dirty tricks this GE are just a continuation - by much the same people - of what they did in the referendum

Grim that they are still getting away with it, without sanction

• in fact, the BBC joining in, to edit the BJ footage

It's a major part of why Remainers don't accept the referendum result and if the Tories win, will likely cause deep & bitter opposition again.

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Gin and I don't mix well, so I'll go for vodka, but for the same reasons.

The Times article on the previous thread that suggested so many hard-line-Brexit and leading Conservatives might find their seats in danger was presumably an outlier, but somehow heartening all the same. Especially since I shall be voting in one of those seats.

Tories will win now. I hope they reap what they have sown, and have a humungous skip into which they will throw their promises of a great outcome from Brexit.

Yes I am bitter, sorry cannot help it.

Britain Elects
@britainelects
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10h
Since MPs voted for an early election, Jeremy Corbyn has risen 3pts on who the public would prefer as Prime Minister (16% -> 19%); Boris Johnson has fallen 4pts (39% -> 35%).

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@OpiniumResearch

Lol

Pmk

tbh, I think that Times article was wildly optimistic

Zac Goldsmith will likely lose his Richmond marginal seat, but that's hardly a big upset

I'd be delighted if any of the Tory Brexiter big fish lose their seat too, but it looks unlikely

Boris : the shortest term PM in history (I hope)

Too late: he's already been PM for longer than George Canning by three days.

Didn't Canning die in office?

PMK.

What will mainly decide whether we get a hung Parliament will be whether the Tories gain their 50+ target Labour seats in the North, Midlands and Wales,

This will be determined by how many Lexiters feel strongly enough about Brexit to vote Tory
and also whether the BXP take more votes from Labour than from the Tories in those Labour seats

The Tory strategy is for those gains to offset their expected losses of 20+ seats in Scotland and Southern England to the SNP and LDems respectively

That will be partly determined by whether the LDems continue to get squeezed, by whom and in which seats.

I think the Times poll was based on the opposition uniting against the Tories in each seat but I don't have time to re-read now. As we have seen that may not be likely.

Britain Elects
@britainelects
12h hours ago

Tories widen their lead over Labour this week - Britain Elects poll tracker update:

CON: 42.4% (+1.5)
LAB: 29.6% (+0.3)
LDEM: 14.7% (-0.3)
BREX: 4.6% (-1.8)
GRN: 3.3% (+0.2)

Chgs. w/ 19 Nov

Double lol

PMK, thanks Red. I'm resigned now to the fact that I have to vote Labour, because there is no other option.

ASking
Bother
But Canning was v v old and had had a stellar career before
unlike Bozo

Ah feck.