The UK Politics and EU Referendum thread - merged

[aaron1867]

Corbyn hasn’t won a debate, attacked by Rabbibi, attacked for apparent fantasy manifesto and attacked for not picking leave or remain

Labour continue to climb, slowly, in the polls

[teddybloat]

i suspect the very gentle climb is down to the remain vote becoming less split between the libs and labour in their favour.

incredible that they have not made a real indent in one of the least popular and least relatable tory parties in memory

[Sheriff Fatman]

Here's the full transcript from the Andrew Neil interview.  No further words necessary.

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/11/full-transcript-jeremy-corbyn-grilled-by-andrew-neil/amp/

[Jon MW]

Corbyn hasn’t won a debate, attacked by Rabbibi, attacked for apparent fantasy manifesto and attacked for not picking leave or remain

Labour continue to climb, slowly, in the polls

Pollsters have identified a trend where 'unknowns' gradually drift towards Labour.

Mainly fueled by people who voted Labour before ticking don't know up til now but gradually firming up their support.

It's good for Labour, but it is primarily Labour voters saying they're going to vote Labour again so it's not spectacular.

[TightEnd]

In a hung parliament Labour would hold talks with the Liberal Democrats and the SNP on Jeremy Corbyn’s future and a second Scottish independence referendum, a senior party adviser has said.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/3036ba72-0fc6-11ea-aa63-2a87a83b86bb

[TightEnd]

The FT is scathing

https://www.ft.com/content/d0e98b10-0f63-11ea-a7e6-62bf4f9e548a

[TightEnd]

Boris Johnson is risking ‘biggest Brexit crisis’, says UK’s former EU envoy

https://www.ft.com/content/73e14980-0f8b-11ea-a7e6-62bf4f9e548a

[TightEnd]

"In 2020 Brexit will act like a giant squid that has attached itself to the face of the nation, sucking its lifeblood and refusing to let go." The Economist tells it like it is

https://worldin.economist.com/article/17318/edition20202020-britain-will-be-divided-damaged-and-diminished

[TightEnd]

A costing that didn’t appear in the Tory manifesto - the government’s own forecasts suggest Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal would reduce growth by 6.7 per cent of GDP by 2034. The average person would be £2,250 a year poorer.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2019/10/how-early-election-would-allow-boris-johnson-dodge-damaging-economic

[RED-DOG]

Johnson will be in power for the same reason Trump is - No credible opposition.

[ripple11]

Corbyn and his 400 page "secret US / NHS drug" report.

Calling Woodsey to summarise  

[teddybloat]

This supposed gotcha is already falling flat


The documents were put online 3 weeks ago and labours had them for a week. They barely mention the NHS and definitely not in the context Corbyn claims.

Fact checks are going to ruin his claims and it's a desperate deflection tactic

[ripple11]

just seen this....


@thetimes
 will publish the first seat-by-seat MRP forecast by
@YouGov
  at 10pm on Wednesday.

This was the model which forecast a hung parliament in 2017...

sudden jump in £ value...on rumours of leak.

[Marky147]

Boris gets Laura for his sitdown then?

BBCPoliticsUK on my timeline, got me

[teddybloat]

haha looking that way

he's bottled it completely

they should tub of lard him