The UK Politics and EU Referendum thread - merged

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Labour refuse to expel Ken Livingstone for comments on Hitler and Zionism. http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2017/04/labour-refuses-expel-ken-livingstone-comments-hitler-and-zionism

Labour MP: "The foul stench of anti-Semitism will become one of the defining characteristics of the Corbyn era"

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Polling expert Prof John Curtice warns of 'deep trouble' for Corbyn if Labour loses West Midlands mayoralty http://bit.ly/2nAnBab

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Polling expert Prof John Curtice warns of 'deep trouble' for Corbyn if Labour loses West Midlands mayoralty http://bit.ly/2nAnBab

Can he really survive to the 2020 election?

If not, who takes over?

The betting is looking like a 2 horse race Derek Keir and Clive....both about 6/1

I'm sure they would love a women to take the helm..... but atm the only one who could and would do it, is Mrs Balls and she's as big as 33/1.

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Labour's own deputy leader "ashamed" the party has "failed" Jewish people. Quite a self-condemnation;

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Lynton Crosby poll for Tories shows party would lose many of the gains it made from the LDs at GE2015

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2017/04/exclusive-conservative-poll-showed-party-would-lose-seats-liberal-democrats

(why TM won't call an early GE i assume...)

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"Labour, the decaying tree under whose shadow nothing can grow":

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2017/04/progress-occur-labour-its-current-form-must-bow-out

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European parliament overwhelmingly backs red lines for Brexit negotiations

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/apr/05/european-parliament-red-lines-resolution-brexit-negotiations?CMP=twt_gu

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did no sub-editor stop to think?

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compare and contrast

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and

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Ashcroft implied vote shares:

CON 41
LAB 28
LD 9
UKIP 10

Not a poll, but numbers v similar
21st-28th Mar
N=10,153

http://lordashcroftpolls.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ALL-CHANGE-Lord-Ashcroft-Polls-April-2017.pdf

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i like these charts showing the shifts in support from election to election, this one with the referendum on too

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[AndrewT]

Whilst they look nice there must be something off with the calculations - according to the first one in 2015 UKIP picked up as many votes from ex-LibDems as they did from ex-Tories, and more ex-Libdems than ex-Labour voters.