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philglossop
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Nov 13, 2019, 10:28 AM
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Plymouth could be interesting.
Plymouth Moor View is currently Tory under Johnny Mercer, Armed Forces minister and they've cunningly said they will be rebuilding the main hospital Derriford for the City which is based in his constituency.
Whilst I'm in Sutton and Devonport which is Labour under Luke Pollard. But I have to say theres a lot of disquiet about his actions as our MP. Plymouth voted 60 to leave, whilst Mr Pollard is clearly a remainer. The Tory candidate main banner is Brexit, and I've seen a lot more Tory posters around compared to 2017.
As a local government employee, I'm a natural Labour supporter normally. But I dont like nor trust Mr Pollard, and I dont trust Mr Corbyn full stop. Is that enough to swing my vote Tory for the first time in my life, I dont know. 4 weeks to make my mind up.
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007Dale
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Plymouth could be interesting.
Plymouth Moor View is currently Tory under Johnny Mercer, Armed Forces minister and they've cunningly said they will be rebuilding the main hospital Derriford for the City which is based in his constituency.
Whilst I'm in Sutton and Devonport which is Labour under Luke Pollard. But I have to say theres a lot of disquiet about his actions as our MP. Plymouth voted 60 to leave, whilst Mr Pollard is clearly a remainer. The Tory candidate main banner is Brexit, and I've seen a lot more Tory posters around compared to 2017.
As a local government employee, I'm a natural Labour supporter normally. But I dont like nor trust Mr Pollard, and I dont trust Mr Corbyn full stop. Is that enough to swing my vote Tory for the first time in my life, I dont know. 4 weeks to make my mind up.
That’s promoted me to have a look at PS&D - very interesting.
2017 would suggest not a marginal (Labour maj 6-7k)
But as recently as 2010 it was a 3-way marginal, pre Lib Dem collapse.
From 2015, the strong UKIP vote seemed to move almost entirely to Labour in 2017.
Ann Widdecombe is standing as the Brexit candidate, could they take sufficient votes off labour to let the Tories in again? Particularly in a major Leave area?
Plymouth Moor View is a Con-Labour marginal, with Brexit not standing and the Lib Dem’s nowhere. This seat looks like it will be a straight fight between them, if this one goes Labour, then it’s all over for Johnson.
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Towlawtom
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Nov 13, 2019, 4:41 PM
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And the government still don't want 16 or 17 year olds to vote!
But these 2 can!
https://twitter.com/joepike/status/1194300101398806528?s=19
I need to have the last word, as it always looks as if I am right !
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Yatesman
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Nov 13, 2019, 5:46 PM
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Its a typical 'blame the voters' piece.
How about a level of competency for politicians before we start taking people's votes away?
It seems more daft that any fool or charlatan can and does, become MP's , MSP's and MEP's.
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Yatesman
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Personally, I’m not a fan of letting children vote due to the undue influence of parents and teachers. Is it any worse than stupid adults being unduly influenced by the Mail and Express?
Total circulation of the Mail and Express ?
Less than 1.5million
In an electorate of 47,900,000 methinks you rather overplay their influence.
Lets just look at that again.....
47,900,000
1,500,000
Hmmmmmm!
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PaulC
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Nov 13, 2019, 11:19 PM
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Personally, I’m not a fan of letting children vote due to the undue influence of parents and teachers.
Perhaps we should have a referendum on lowering the UK voting age :) I'm also dubious about the idea of letting 16 & 17 year olds vote. If they're not considered mature enough to be held legally responsible over a contract then how could they be considered mature enough to decide matters of national policy? .
The evidence from Scotland is that 16-17 year olds took their duties very responsibly. They accessed far more sources of information than any other age group before reaching their decisions.
There are very large numbers of over 18s who lack intelligence, political maturity and commonsense, yet they are allowed to vote. Political maturity is not determined by age alone.
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PaulC
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Personally, I’m not a fan of letting children vote due to the undue influence of parents and teachers. Is it any worse than stupid adults being unduly influenced by the Mail and Express? Total circulation of the Mail and Express ? Less than 1.5million In an electorate of 47,900,000 methinks you rather overplay their influence. Lets just look at that again..... 47,900,000 1,500,000 Hmmmmmm!
Print readership
Mail 4m
Express 0.8m
Online readership
Mail 11m
Facebook, Twitter.
Free publicity from BBC and Sky who quote them extensively in their newspaper reviews.
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Yatesman
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Personally, I’m not a fan of letting children vote due to the undue influence of parents and teachers. Is it any worse than stupid adults being unduly influenced by the Mail and Express? Total circulation of the Mail and Express ? Less than 1.5million In an electorate of 47,900,000 methinks you rather overplay their influence. Lets just look at that again..... 47,900,000 1,500,000 Hmmmmmm! That’s incredibly simplistic. Print readership Mail 4m Express 0.8m Online readership Mail 11m Facebook, Twitter. Free publicity from BBC and Sky who quote them extensively in their newspaper reviews.
Incredibly Simplistic should be your tag line..........It's your stock in trade 
Here's the circulation figures https://en.wikipedia.org/...ngdom_by_circulation
No doubt most of the online hits are from Snowflakes looking to be offended......
Could you post evidence that the Mail or the Mail Online influences readers any more or more effectively than The Guardian Online for example.
Unlike print papers one would suspect that in the online world a person has access to ALL publications and therefore one should conclude that online readers have a more even access to opinions.
Therefore the 1.2 million print readership of The Mail and the 0.345million readership of the Expresss has a minimal influence on an electorate of 47,900,000 .
In fact, I suspect the Mail and Express is bought by people ALREADY holding the attitudes promulgated by those papers and so influences very few people.
I think it's simply hard for leftys to accept that they are not trusted, not believed and are mostly held in contempt by pragmatic and rational thinking voters.
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PaulC
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Nov 14, 2019, 8:00 AM
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Personally, I’m not a fan of letting children vote due to the undue influence of parents and teachers. Is it any worse than stupid adults being unduly influenced by the Mail and Express? Total circulation of the Mail and Express ? Less than 1.5million In an electorate of 47,900,000 methinks you rather overplay their influence. Lets just look at that again..... 47,900,000 1,500,000 Hmmmmmm! That’s incredibly simplistic. Print readership Mail 4m Express 0.8m Online readership Mail 11m Facebook, Twitter. Free publicity from BBC and Sky who quote them extensively in their newspaper reviews. Incredibly Simplistic should be your tag line..........It's your stock in trade Here's the circulation figures https://en.wikipedia.org/...ngdom_by_circulation No doubt most of the online hits are from Snowflakes looking to be offended...... Could you post evidence that the Mail or the Mail Online influences readers any more or more effectively than The Guardian Online for example. Unlike print papers one would suspect that in the online world a person has access to ALL publications and therefore one should conclude that online readers have a more even access to opinions. Therefore the 1.2 million print readership of The Mail and the 0.345million readership of the Expresss has a minimal influence on an electorate of 47,900,000 . In fact, I suspect the Mail and Express is bought by people ALREADY holding the attitudes promulgated by those papers and so influences very few people. I think it's simply hard for leftys to accept that they are not trusted, not believed and are mostly held in contempt by pragmatic and rational thinking voters.
I’ll let you discover the difference between circulation and readership.
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007Dale
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Nov 14, 2019, 2:54 PM
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ComRes (11th / 12th Nov) has an increased lead for the Tories (10% v 8%).
However, that is an increase in both Tory and Labour vote at the expense of Brexit and Lib Dem.
To be seen what impact the Floods and NHS wait times have on this. The Sunday Paper polls will be a good indicator; if Labour aren’t showing an improvement by then, it’s really looking poor for them.
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Towlawtom
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Nov 14, 2019, 4:16 PM
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Still a hell of a lot better for labour then at the same point in 2017.
Boris isn't campaiging very well and still a lot to play for.
I'm looking forward to the debate between Corbyn and Johnson to see who comes off best. That could have some influence on the voters.
I need to have the last word, as it always looks as if I am right !
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Yatesman
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Nov 14, 2019, 7:31 PM
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Still a hell of a lot better for labour then at the same point in 2017.
Boris isn't campaiging very well and still a lot to play for.
I'm looking forward to the debate between Corbyn and Johnson to see who comes off best. That could have some influence on the voters. Johnson is just so poor when responding to direct questioning. Beyond slogans “let’s get Brexit done” and acting the fool there is nothing. He had no vision for the country. His only ambition is for himself. He always looks so flustered when he has to think on his feet and he takes criticism very badly. I’m looking forward to his head to head with Corbyn.
I think Boris enjoys those sorts of events.
He's very clever at getting his core message across to voters.
Corbyn, on the other hand, is joyless and irksome and an easy target thanks to his flip flopping on Brexit/ScotIndy and his fantasy economics!
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PaulC
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Nov 14, 2019, 9:22 PM
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Traditional Labour leave voters need to wake up !
Do they love Brexit more then the NHS and protecting their working and social rights which Boris will slash,
Simple choice for them to make! And you really think Labour will look after the NHS?[/reply] So under the Tories, England had the worst A&E waiting time ever recorded, cancer treatment waiting time targets which haven’t been met since 2015 and 100,000 unfilled vacancies. The Tories are not fit to be guardians of our health service.
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007Dale
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Nov 14, 2019, 10:21 PM
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Traditional Labour leave voters need to wake up !
Do they love Brexit more then the NHS and protecting their working and social rights which Boris will slash,
Simple choice for them to make! And you really think Labour will look after the NHS?[/reply] So under the Tories, England had the worst A&E waiting time ever recorded, cancer treatment waiting time targets which haven’t been met since 2015 and 100,000 unfilled vacancies. The Tories are not fit to be guardians of our health service.[/reply] Austerity, as a direct result of the incompetence of the last Labour Government, is the main reason for NHS funding being curbed. What was it the outgoing Government said in 2010 “sorry there’s no money left.” We’ll go figure, it has an impact on health, education, policing. Mind you, if you think the last 9 years of austerity is bad, wait and see what happens after 5 years of a Corbyn labour government. Firstly we’d need to increase NHS funding by 20% just to keep service levels the same, when we’ve given everyone Friday’s off. Looking forward to reading the Labour manifesto to see where all this money is coming from to nationalise everything and increase spending in all Government departments. But at least Corbyn is clear on his Scottish Independence policy...
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Chris1963
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Nov 14, 2019, 10:37 PM
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the Labour manifesto to see where all this money is coming from to nationalise everything and increase spending in all Government departments. One way in which Labour could pay for all this stuff would be to pull British troops out of all Muslim countries (and possibly the Falklands as well) which would save billions. I don't know if they are actually considering this and if they are, they are certainly doing well at keeping it under wraps.
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Yatesman
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Traditional Labour leave voters need to wake up !
Do they love Brexit more then the NHS and protecting their working and social rights which Boris will slash,
Simple choice for them to make! And you really think Labour will look after the NHS?[/reply] So under the Tories, England had the worst A&E waiting time ever recorded, cancer treatment waiting time targets which haven’t been met since 2015 and 100,000 unfilled vacancies. The Tories are not fit to be guardians of our health service.[/reply] Whatever issues and struggles the NHS are facing they would be far worse under Labour. The truth is that the NHS is being misused and it's ethos has been lost/confused/compromised by poliitcal interference . The NHS is asked to do far more than it should need to and is just a cash cow for thousands of middle managers and administrators. It is out of focus and needs a major reboot. The Tories have been running the NHS for most of the 71 years it has existed so that proves it cares for the NHS ,however...... It needs taking out of the political sphere and running independently of politicians.
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