Labour can't win

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Unless absolutely SHEDLOADS of people who voted Conservative in 2019 vote Labour this time.

That's right, isn't it?

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Nobody wants to keep foreign criminals in the UK

Some people think foreign criminals have a right to a family life in the UK, the right to stay close to their established communities etc.

I think you will find most politicians lie. Labour is lying about the private school VAT policy, it’s a lowbrow dog whistle policy, that will disadvantage children across the country in all school sectors, and cost the state money. Just so we are all clear, Starmer plans to go to war with the European Court of Human Rights to have education laws redrafted. The UK left is trying to quash UK and European human rights laws, on the basis it will redraft these to suit their party’s ideological concept? Wow, this must be a cold day in hell. What a sorry state UK politics is in.

You either believe in the rule of law or you don't. If laws need to be revised we have to trust that the Government of the time will do so. What we cannot do is fail to apply the law. Patel left the Home office wide open to a JR - it should never have come to that.

You posted that article & either a) had zero curiosity about the substantive issues behind it or b) knew full well about the issues but hoped to score a cheap point. I have no way of knowing which.

"Just so we are all clear, Starmer plans to go to war with the European Court of Human Rights to have education laws redrafted."

Nope.
The Telegraph says Lord Pannick thinks the ECHR stops Labour putting VAT on private school fees.

He's wrong, and I think almost every tax lawyer will agree with me.

Thread:

The most important point is a practical one: ECHR challenges can override acts of Ministers/public officials, but can't override Acts of Parliament.

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Again, you've lost the argument, so you're seeking to deflect.

Nice. We've had a Labour leaflet. You can't move for Lib Dems here

The Tory campaigners tend not to be anyone I recognise.

Presumably because the locals aren't so keen to pound pavements as in some previous years.

Some very Tory friends of OH are even coming to our election night party. I said "Are you sure? You won't be sad seeing all those Tory stronghold seats turn over?" They said "God no. Shitshow." and asked if it was an all nighter.

We've only had L/Ds pamphlets (it's been at least a couple a week since the election was called).

I do hope people who perhaps don't always vote will have seen that politics really does affect our lives whether it's fishermen catching E Coli from shit in rivers, our Nans having to wait too long on a cold floor for an ambulance, not being able to find an NHS dentist for the kids, not being able to find anywhere to rent that we can afford, the price of the weekly shop going up and up, or suddenly having to find an extra £500 a month to pay our mortgage.

I think Labour will win a majority but I predict it'll be a lot closer than we think. I hope Lib Dem and Green win more seats that Reform.

Why do you think that is? are you in a really safe seat they nobody else thinks they can win? Or are the Lib Dems working hard to win it?

Let's hope so. I think they will.

I think most people quite sensibly look at the manifesto finances and Reforms are a complete nonsense.

The Lib Dems are not a credible force. It doesn't help that their leader is a buffoon who thinks that his antics will win votes for his failing Party.

It does worry me that lots of people are prepared to vote Reform.
And they're open about it, too.
You'd think they'd be ashamed.

They definitely don't seem shy about it.

Starker and Labour want to proceed with a policy that harms children and raises no money. If that doesn’t concern you then I’m afraid you are not being objective.

What harms children more, going to school hungry or having to cut back on takeaways?

Sadly, in many circles, racism isn't seen as something to be ashamed of.

I was born in and still live in Wales. The Labour candidate for Swansea West has been parachuted in from London. He has no connection to Swansea or Wales as a whole.

I follow him on Twitter @TroysMammy. He's very knowledgeable on a range of policy areas. He'll be an excellent MP and help contribute to competent government.

Are you're saying people won't vote for him because he's not local?

The electorate has an unfortunate history when it comes to voting for buffoons. Remember that blond one?

I certainly hope so. I worry that I’m in a bubble of tactical voters and it’s not as widespread as it needs to be to get the down to below 75 seats.

I sort of get that the media will more or less dismiss the Lib Dems as irrelevant unless they do something attention seeking and I really admire his gusto, but then I’m one of the people who checks I withTwitter to see what he’s up to every day. It dies always have a serious policy angle.

it seems crazy for the media to ignore the Lib Dems when if about 50 seats go there way instead of to the Tories they’ll be the Opposition.

Sorry, thought it was something else

no matter who takes over it’s going to take years to get this country back on its feet, all politicians are cut from the same cloth and all promise something different, yet in the end they all end up doing the same as each other party suggests