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Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
I don't buy it. Something forced him to withdraw. Whether it's something that could be used as a smear (he mentions the wife and kids relocating from Cuba - slightly unusual) or Corbyn's camp have a preferred candidate, I simply don't believe that it only dawned on him overnight that a full-time medical career and being an MP do not mix.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Final hustings for the remaining three are tonight.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
UKIP wouldn't have to attack him in that way. When you see people still pushing the moronic 'pens, not pencils' at voting stations argument, then it wouldn't take much stretch of imagination to think some would view a candidate with a foreign wife in a less than positive light. Social media babble and idle gossip, that kind of thing. Something's spooked him out of it in my view.
Apparently the remaining three candidates are all pro-Remain. Should be fun...
Remainers have the choice to vote for the Lib Dems, if they feel more strongly about the issue than anything else. It would therefore be wiser to pick a Labour candidate who is pro-Leave, in order to attract those who are worried about the NHS but who still want to leave the EU.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Stoke is a Labour stronghold so the turn out is often low. It will be interesting to see if Labour can motivate apathetic voters to turn out and vote for them.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
the tories keep stressing the mythical & magical 'will of the people' is behind everything they say and do but that's pseudo-fascist nonsense. among those who voted to leave there were many reasons & expectations of what an appropriate solution might be; single market access is one split among leavers, limited immigration another, matters of sovereignty another.
the trouble with a simplistic 'for or against' plebiscite is that 'against' defines nothing. we know what 'for' is, but everyone can imagine their own version of 'against'.
so it is powerful initially as a uniting strategy for people who are unhappy with the current set up (often for reasons they don't fully grasp, which may be nothing to do with the eu, such as tory austerity). but this alliance of convenience falls apart at the next stage when consensus has to be reached on what anyone wants.
the leave margin is also a joke, which wil be its unravelling. eg, a 2% swing from leave to remain would make leave & remain equal. in political swing terms 2% is a sneeze, that can swing week to week, let alone year to year.
by way of perspective, the swing from tory to lib in the recent richmond by, with libs basing their entire appeal on being the only remain option, was 22%. that's where this is at.
a change of lab leader for a remain (eg, 2nd ref) candidate would really put the cat among the pigeons with swings like that on offer.
i've voted labour (or tactically anti-tory) all my life. but my vote goes to the remain party (or tactically anti-leave) next ge. and every ge thereafter. changing voter demographics takes care of the rest.
brexit is doomed. it's building sandcastles while the tide comes in. but the tories have to make a show of it because support for it is a predominantly tory vice. & ultimately it's not their money they are pissing away playing at it anyway.
they are all rich for life and already use private healthcare & private schools, so sacrificing those to stealth US privatisation & crippling pfi schemes to fund this fuck-up means nothing to them.
and if taxes are cut for the wealthy across the board 'to encourage investment' they stand to win big.
There could be some procedural glitch in his paperwork for bringing his wife to the UK, also I am not sure if he is adopting her kids , or if it's a long term relationship and they are his - these things may matter to people who are very anti-immigration
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/labourleave/pages/270/attachments/original/1485302931/Labour-can-win-in-Stoke-on-Trent_v4.pdf?1485302931
a small sample poll, but...
it says:
and Labour have chosen a remainer candidate
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
David Davies has just refused to commit to publishing the Brexit White Paper before the A50 debate in Parliament. Wha?
This is the "acceptable" opportunity to vote down A50 that the Remain side have been looking for, namely "we can't vote for something when we don't know what that something is". There's either some very deft political gamesmanship at play here, or this government are even more stupid/inept than I could have ever imagined.