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Why would he want 6 debates? He’s absolutely shite at them

Must be getting close to the 75 figure of 1997 now, they were very close yesterday

Impartiality rules innit. I do agree re vox pops generally but that one is going to find Tory voters in the most Tory seat in the country. Sure they probably picked the dumbest of the dumb but my point was that these people exist, nothing more, nothing less

50% of the population have average or below average intelligence Theres a politics Joe voxpop on YouTube where they go to the Tories safest seat (whichever seat Canvey Island is in) and yes the usual Vox Pop rules apply but imaginary deity on a bike these people are dumb. Edit: Here it is

They clearly aren’t

They should have been residing in bin

Well it’s nowhere near as bad as the band I’ve just seen a poster for… Shalamar… f***s sake who the hell is interested in seeing Shalamar. They were shit even at their peak, they weren’t even disco nor were they soul. The sort of music that no drugs were involved in the making of.

Don’t artisan chocolate people just call Caramac like chocolate blonde chocolate? That was certainly my impression when I tried blonde chocolate. Takes like an upmarket shit version of caramac

So they are still deciding which laws they can get through Parliament before it’s prorogued Yep nothing screams unorganised and unplanned like that at all.

I haven’t listened to that album for probably 19 years

Aussie rockers of the hit album Get Born fame? Is it like a 20th anniversary tour or something?

There are quite a few Tory constituencies that are yet to find a candidate, there were at least 30 last night but that will have risen with today's not standing again announcements. There’s a few Tory MPs that don’t yet have a seat to run in (due to the boundary changes) among them Stuart Andrew (seat abolished) and Richard Holden (abolished seat and refused to stand in North East again) the party chairman who will be running the campaign This merry go round could be amusing in the coming days. In other news Corbyn is standing in Islington North (announced a couple of hours ago)

Whitbread is Beefeater and Brewers Fayre etc Can't say I've been in one for years, they even ruined Premier Inn by jacking the prices sky high Long may they fail

Theres a few things to take into account. There are a good number of seats where the LibDems are the natural opposition (though Labour's strong position has lessened them for this election) Tactical voting will be a thing in this election like never before, there are already a number of campaigns underway and some of them have people like Carol Vorderman leading the charge for them The LibDems are strong in the South and South West (especially) and will mop up a good number of seats in that region. I was conflicted in the poll above as my current thought is they'll get between 45 - 55 seats, I went for 50+ in the end but it is a very fine line I'm also of the opinion that their vote share will be higher than their current (still pre GE announcement) place in the polls and as we get closer to the poll their numbers will rise with tactical voting to the 12-15% range. Up to this point people haven't really looked at where they live and how they'll vote if they vote tactically and that rather than policy will be where the LibDems rise. You can also add in that in the local councils they won control of a good number of councils that weren't exactly expected, they are on something of a rise which isn't showing yet (IMO obviously)

Deffo, Sunak did him a favour with the timing for that

Booked the 5th off work. Go to work, go to vote, go to bed. Get up at eleven, open bottle of wine. Then Party like Thatchers died again on the Friday

Nigel Farage confirms he likes getting paid by GB News for spouting hateful shite

My prediction for that is the election after this one

I don't think they ever had any intention of letting her back in but were pushing it back past the North Islington nominations, which although rushed out yesterday were due to be announced today anyway. By my reckoning they have until Friday 7th June 4pm to get the nomination papers in for whoever the candidate is. It could be that they want the Corbyn decision early to force his hand and come out into the open that he's standing but with Abbott they may be pushing it back as far as they can to be as unhelpful as they can should she decide to stand as an Indie

Very light blue recently not true blue. That isn't a positive thing for the Tories

I think theres another aspect to hearing aids not currently mentioned It's ok resting some apparatus on the bridge of your nose all day but having to stick something in or around your ears all day is a step further

Electoral Calculus currently has the SNP to lose 36 seats out of 48

Why would you want them to be less fresh for the sake of cutting them when required?

Not by the margin of the Economists prediction. They are never that wrong.

It won't play out anything like the Economist prediction. That is a classic case of presenting the data and coming to a wildly incorrect conclusion to suit their narrative. The Poll tracker has the Tories on 21% (which is a historical low and 30% lower than their worst ever General Election result), yet their analysis has them getting 192 seats. With over a 30% share of the vote is their disastrous 1997 election they only managed 165 MPs. FPTP can produce some wildly unrepresentative party cohorts but seriously not that wild. The Economists analysis isn't worth a carrot