Election 2019

[plasticpig]

Norfolkit said:

Politics Live just reported on a dust up in Leicester East (ex. Keith Vaz), looks like Corbyn/Momentum have forced a candidate (currently an Islington councillor and strong supporter of Corbyn) onto the local Labour Party against their wishes, the local party chairman has resigned and will be voting Conservative!

This has been brewing for a week or so. Lots of sour grapes. The favored local replacement for Vaz came out with a pretty racist diatribe against the selection.:

Sundip Meghani said:

Worst of all, it is a slap in the face for the Indian community in Leicester and across Britain, to not only impose a non-Indian heritage candidate – in a seat with one of the highest Indian demographics in the country – but also a candidate who chaired Labour’s National Conference earlier this year when it passed an appalling anti-India motion. It sends entirely the wrong message and is an insult to the people I come from. It shows just how little the Labour Party values and respects the Indian community, particularly Hindus and Sikhs.

https://sundipmeghani.com/2019/11/12/east/

So if you are not of Indian heritage you aren't suitable to represent Leicester East. apparently...

[Dont like rolls]

plasticpig said:

https://sundipmeghani.com/2019/11/12/east/

So if you are not of Indian heritage you aren't suitable to represent Leicester East. apparently...

but you are a rabid communist it seems.

[citizensm1th]

plasticpig said:

https://sundipmeghani.com/2019/11/12/east/

So if you are not of Indian heritage you aren't suitable to represent Leicester East. apparently...

Bugger all to do with Indian heritage, the vaz family has been a big deal in local politics in Leicester for years its all about cast and tribe and political dynasties
Keith's mommy was a big cheese in the council

[vaud]

citizensm1th said:

Keith's mommy was a big cheese in the council

Paneer, surely?

[anonymous-user]

Apparently Aaron Banks Twitter has been hacked and all his DM's have been made available for download

[vaud]

anonymous said:

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Source? nothing showing on Google news, bbc, etc?

[anonymous-user]

vaud said:

anonymous said:

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Source? nothing showing on Google news, bbc, etc?

Twitter and Reddit

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23arronbanksleaks&am...

[vaud]

anonymous said:

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Ahh thanks.

[plasticpig]

Dont like rolls said:

but you are a rabid communist it seems.

Nope anarcho-capitalism is more my thing. Any candidate that doesn't leave a trail of slime behind them is better than Vaz. Labour are testing the aphorism "You could put a red rosette on a pig and they'd vote for it" to it's limits. I suspect Claudia Webbe will win but with far smaller majority.

[ChevyChase77]

Our Green Party candidate has a nose piercing. And they say we shouldn't stereotype. ;-)

[Digga]

ChevyChase77 said:

Our Green Party candidate has a nose piercing. And they say we shouldn't stereotype. ;-)

Just she smell a bit like cabbage being boiled in a damp tent too?

Asking for a friend.

[ChevyChase77]

Digga said:

ChevyChase77 said:

Our Green Party candidate has a nose piercing. And they say we shouldn't stereotype. ;-)

Just she smell a bit like cabbage being boiled in a damp tent too?

Asking for a friend.

I've only seen her in the press, so I don't know. I'll ask one of the people who'll vote for her, I'll just go and find someone with a nose ring, green hair and an overly baggy jumper to ask......

[Digga]

ChevyChase77 said:

Digga said:

ChevyChase77 said:

Our Green Party candidate has a nose piercing. And they say we shouldn't stereotype. ;-)

Just she smell a bit like cabbage being boiled in a damp tent too?

Asking for a friend.

I've only seen her in the press, so I don't know. I'll ask one of the people who'll vote for her, I'll just go and find someone with a nose ring, green hair and an overly baggy jumper to ask......

You mean those eco warrior types that incongruously travel around in camper vans made from converted old ambulances or mobile libraries, which appear to be powered by nutty slack?

[citizensm1th]

plasticpig said:

Nope anarcho-capitalism is more my thing. Any candidate that doesn't leave a trail of slime behind them is better than Vaz. Labour are testing the aphorism "You could put a red rosette on a pig and they'd vote for it" to it's limits. I suspect Claudia Webbe will win but with far smaller majority.

At least webbe was born in the area the vaz family moved to Leicester

[WCZ]

stevesuk said:

Quite surprised that the LDs are doing so badly in the polls. They're pretty much the only party who have said they want to reverse Brexit, and we're led to believe that 50% of the electorate want that to happen - so why do only 16% intend to vote for them? Perhaps given the choice between Jo Swinson as PM, or hard Brexit - they've picked the safer option

think it's partly because of negative media attention and social media stuff coupled with not being able to take part in the tv debates, if people think they can't get in power I suspect they'll not want to waste their vote

[FiF]

Earthdweller said:

bhstewie said:

I believe the latest YouGov poll showed that the more people see and hear Jo Swinson the more they dislike her.

I haven't seen it just heard it mentioned so don't know it was focusing on parties or leaders.

I’d tend to agree .. she comes across as a shouty sixth former with no depth

Her ability to do 360 degree U turns is another turn off

Her me me me attitude without actually providing any substance and just slagging BJ and Corbyn again is a turn off

Policies ?

Well I know they want to ignore and overturn the largest democratic vote ever ...one that she campaigned to have

Other than “Stopping Brexit” and promising to plant twice as many trees as the Tories

What else ?

I just dont see the point of them at all and coupled with the chance that a vote for them
“Could” put Corbyn in number 10

No chance

That LibDem tree planting, is that the scheme which requires 114 trees being planted every minute of every hour of every day throughout each year.

[Stuart70]

FiF said:

Earthdweller said:

bhstewie said:

I believe the latest YouGov poll showed that the more people see and hear Jo Swinson the more they dislike her.

I haven't seen it just heard it mentioned so don't know it was focusing on parties or leaders.

I’d tend to agree .. she comes across as a shouty sixth former with no depth

Her ability to do 360 degree U turns is another turn off

Her me me me attitude without actually providing any substance and just slagging BJ and Corbyn again is a turn off

Policies ?

Well I know they want to ignore and overturn the largest democratic vote ever ...one that she campaigned to have

Other than “Stopping Brexit” and promising to plant twice as many trees as the Tories

What else ?

I just dont see the point of them at all and coupled with the chance that a vote for them
“Could” put Corbyn in number 10

No chance

That LibDem tree planting, is that the scheme which requires 114 trees being planted every minute of every hour of every day throughout each year.

60m trees a year - that even more wooden than her debating style!

btw Earthdweller - a 360 degree change in policy would be no change in direction! Are you praising her consistency or have the numbers outwitted you?

[anonymous-user]

R Mutt said:

Just caught the tail end of the news ticker, about plans to cut knife crime including swift trial for posession, without seeing who it came from, is a great idea, followed by a Labour proposal to delist companies that fail to tackle climate change.

The shocking thing is people would actually vote for the latter if those were the only 2 policies the parties stood on.

Knife crime is a conservative plan.

Just illustrates how mental Labour is.

They plan to delist a company (how i dont know). If that company doesnt meet their target on "make something up this week"

All the company will do is relist in New York, Singapore or Switzerland.

Way to go for the LSE value. Muppets.

[Earthdweller]

Stuart70 said:

60m trees a year - that even more wooden than her debating style!

btw Earthdweller - a 360 degree change in policy would be no change in direction! Are you praising her consistency or have the numbers outwitted you?

Of course .. I got the figures from Dianne Abbott ...

[bitchstewie]

jsf said:

Knife crime is a conservative plan.

Just illustrates how mental Labour is.

They plan to delist a company (how i dont know). If that company doesnt meet their target on "make something up this week"

All the company will do is relist in New York, Singapore or Switzerland.

Way to go for the LSE value. Muppets.

It's almost as if they have't had 9 years to be tackling knife crime.

Seriously, we need a General Election to be prosecuting people for knife possession quickly and it's a "conservative plan" even though they can't have been doing it very well or else why are they now announcing it as a bold new policy?