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Unlike Cameron, she wasn't in a habit of doing U turns. She meant what she said. I admire her stance and conviction.
Compare that to most of the cabinet and shadow cabinet: I couldn't name most of them, and have respect for even less.
I do quite like the way Teresa May carries herself, will be interesting to see how she develops as a PM. SHe seems to be able to quickly gain the measure of people.
I think re-nationalising the railways is a good idea, but there is no way I would vote for someone who calls Hezbollah friends.
He'd also probably cause an uprising among loyalists in Northern Ireland given his IRA sympathising history.
The other problem is that he's economically illiterate. Unlike @Evilmags I don't think GDP should be the main measure of whether the country is a success. You can raise GDP by cutting workers rights and getting lots of immigration. BUT you have to have to be able to balance the books.
The other problem Labour has is that it is full of people whose main causes seem to be multiculturalism, LGBT, and CO2 reduction rather than trying to run the country for the average person who wants to go to work and have enough money to put a roof over his head and pay for everything his/her kids need. This is why they elect someone like Corbyn and are driving their traditional support to UKIP.
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Shortlist of two - decision Friday.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/19/actor-tracy-brabin-frontrunner-win-jo-cox-batley-spen-jane-thomas
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
How many polls do you need to see?
Obviously we cannot 100% predict the future, but JC winning looks extremely unlikely
As mentioned by others, the money our ruling classes plundered from the Empire was burned by fighting the Germans in two Wars
you could also weight the vote of each MP (and unelected candidate) with the number of votes they received in the last parliamentary election
"Obviously we cannot 100% predict the future"
And i wasnt suggesting that we'd simply amassed a large pot of money that was being gradually frittered away...
The Scottish economy stalls and the SNP get the blame - Scots voters return to what they see as a true socialist Labour Party.
Theresa May decides that free movement is a price worth paying for tariff free access to the EU - the Tories start fighting each other. Farage comes out of retirement and UKIP surge losing the Tories votes.
China's banks collapse leading to another downturn - being forecast but we know how accurate these forecasters are.
Along comes the 2020 election. Many Tory voters stay at home; some switch to the Lib Dems. The left of centre parties hatch a plot to work together to keep the Tories out but not standing against each other in the key marginals. Labour wins seats in Scotland. Tories are wiped out.
The result could be a left wing coalition of Labour, Lib Dems, Greens etc with Corbyn as PM. Sounds ridiculous but the plot to keep out the Tories is already being planned. Corbyn has four years to rehabilitate himself. That's a long time in politics.
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It's largely a myth that Labour can't managed the finances but the Tories can - in fact both have about equally poor records. Both parties have used borrowing to finance what they want to do and then subsequent inflation and devaluation to pay down the debt, that's the way Western capitalism works.
I have to admit I wouldn't trust McDonnell with the country's finances though - or trust him at all full stop. But would he be worse than Osborne? Hard to be sure - he and Corbyn are right that growth is necessary before the deficit can be cut. Austerity has clearly failed, as it was bound to. At least May knows that.
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No more buying elections by reducing interest rates too far like Lawson in 87 - thus causing house prices to rise too far and the problems of the early 90s housing market.
Tracey, whilst being an actress has been a lifelong labour member and has been a involved heavily in charity and politics in that time.
Im very proud that she has succeeded in becoming the Labour candidate. She is a local lass that's done well.