The UK Politics and EU Referendum thread - merged

[Ironside]

Panelbase/S Times (Scotland Westminster):

SNP 47 (=)
CON 28 (+1)
LAB 14 (-1)
LD 4 (=)
UKIP 3 (=)
GRN 3 (=)
N=1,008

Highest CON number ever recorded in scotland by that pollster and leads to 5 MPs if a uniform swing

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was only 20 years ago the tories had 11 MPs in scotland (lost them all in 1997)
previous to that they had over 20

[Ironside]

A question I've been meaning to ask for ages..

Why did Scotland vote No in indyref, but elect virtually all SNP candidates at the general election?

they won most of the seats as its first past the post  they only got about 50% of the popular vote
and this was with many labour/tory voters not turning up and the SNP managing to mobilize the yes voters to come out
since the Indyref the 45% we vocal since Indyref2 was announced the 55% are making alot more noise i can see a backlash in may and the SNP % of votes compared to the general election being well down

[PokerBroker]

Independence could set Scotland's economy back 10 years, warns top SNP adviser http://bit.ly/2nBr1Kh

Smoke and mirrors again, not one direct quote attributed to Wilson and the timeline quoted in the article was 5 - 10 years. 

[PokerBroker]

A question I've been meaning to ask for ages..

Why did Scotland vote No in indyref, but elect virtually all SNP candidates at the general election?

they won most of the seats as its first past the post  they only got about 50% of the popular vote
and this was with many labour/tory voters not turning up and the SNP managing to mobilize the yes voters to come out
since the Indyref the 45% we vocal since Indyref2 was announced the 55% are making alot more noise i can see a backlash in may and the SNP % of votes compared to the general election being well down

Happy to bet you any amount that you wish on SNP winning more councl seats than they currently hold and Labours vote collapsing massively across the country? 

[Ironside]

A question I've been meaning to ask for ages..

Why did Scotland vote No in indyref, but elect virtually all SNP candidates at the general election?

they won most of the seats as its first past the post  they only got about 50% of the popular vote
and this was with many labour/tory voters not turning up and the SNP managing to mobilize the yes voters to come out
since the Indyref the 45% we vocal since Indyref2 was announced the 55% are making alot more noise i can see a backlash in may and the SNP % of votes compared to the general election being well down

Happy to bet you any amount that you wish on SNP winning more councl seats than they currently hold and Labours vote collapsing massively across the country? 

I agree SNP will do better than last council election and labour worse, my claim was SNP will be down on the general election.

[TightEnd]

sky poll of scottish voters*

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* obviously only polling people in edinburgh and dumfrieshire,according to one poster on here

[TightEnd]

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 45% (+1)
LAB: 26% (-2)
UKIP: 10% (-1)
LDEM: 9% (+1)
GRN: 4% (-1)

via ICM / 17 - 19 Mar

[TightEnd]

account of Monday's fiery PLP meeting

Jeremy Corbyn Under Fire As Parliamentary Labour Party Angrily Defends Tom Watson In Momentum Row

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jeremy-corbyn-plp-parliamentary-labour-party-tom-watson-momentum-seumas-milne-lord-watts_uk_58

[TightEnd]

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[TightEnd]

lol

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[ripple11]

lol

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....and Dame Vera is at number 1

[doubleup]

Bill Cash what a POS

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-european-union-bill-50-billion-sir-bill-cash-european-scrunity-committee-german-ww2-debt-a7642186.html

[TightEnd]

The Guardian on Labour: not up to the job. 'The decline is enormous and it can't go on'

editorial

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/21/the-guardian-view-on-labour-not-up-to-the-job?CMP=share_btn_tw

[TightEnd]

Hard, extreme, ultra, phobic, authoritarian: this is how Ultra-Brexiteers are viewed by many people,

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/03/ultra-brexiteers-new-menace-polite-society/

[TightEnd]

Juncker's interview, plenty of candour

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