That does seem pretty dim.  Surely the one proper chance you get to speak direct to the most people and tell them your policies and views without media spin has to be taken....made even easier when the main oppo isn't there trying to make you look bad.

It's tough to call, as there's a lot of potential choices in a competitive field, but this is probably the stupidest thing he's ever done.

Diluted Dante wrote:

The thing is when people actually meet him... they like him. The best thing he can do is go out and knock on as many doors as possible over the next few weeks in the top target seats.

Just to go back a bit, but 'target seats'? What the hell are the target seats? There's seats where Labour are desperately hoping to cling on, is that what you mean? I doubt they'll gain a single new seat.

monkey wrote:

Diluted Dante wrote:

The thing is when people actually meet him... they like him. The best thing he can do is go out and knock on as many doors as possible over the next few weeks in the top target seats.

Just to go back a bit, but 'target seats'? What the hell are the target seats? There's seats where Labour are desperately hoping to cling on, is that what you mean? I doubt they'll gain a single new seat.

Any seat where the majority is low, whether it's a seat Labour hold, or the Tories. List of constituencies by majority here.

This is going to be a difficult election for sure. But sitting around moaning isn't going to help. We all need to do everything we can to bring out every vote we can to dent the Tories.

Greens are not running a candidate in Brighton Kemptown. The MP there Simon Kirby actually seems fairly decent, but since his majority is just 690, he has to be a target.

Johnson is potentially using the GE as a back door to following the U.S into Syria without having to have MPs vote on it by taking action while Parliament is dissolved.

Fucking top Lols this.

How do you cripple something that's already crippled?

Old, but still relevant

He claims "it would be hard to say no" if the U.S asked.
Fucking hell, at least Blair pretended we weren't just lapdogs.

The Skips are standing aside in Wells to give the Tories a clear run. The Tories won in 2015 by ~7k over the Dems, and UKIP received around 4k votes.

When history details our impending downfall, it won't begin with May's incoming majority or Brexit, it'll start with AV. Millions of people (my parents included) bought the Auf Wiedersehen angle, saying that they didn't see the point of voting for anyone but their favourite. Their first mistake was that nothing precluded them from continuing to do so, but they saw it as overcomplicating the system and making it somehow less representative.

But here we are and I have to vote Lib Dems against my wishes to have the best chance of helping Labour. I'm wasting my vote if I choose Green again.

The best-case scenario is for Corbyn to do better than expected and, before leaving, to do what Miliband did, but this time triggering a referendum on PR. Farage and his supporters would get behind it — in fact, everyone but the Tories probably would — and then us newly empowered Greens might be able to get a few MPs into power. And from that acorn...

As much as I'm all for more representative voting systems, I don't see that as a panacea: disillusionment with modern politics doesn't seem to be limited to countries that use FPTP.

http://uk.isidewith.com

Apparently I side most with SINN FEIN

Put a bomb under The Resa May

Interesting results from my entries.  There was no questions on Scottish Independence which would have dropped Labour down a bit and raised SNP/Greens up a bit but it does fit my idea that I'm a Labour voter voting SNP until a better option presents itself after independence.  I'm hoping that a new (no capital letter) Scottish Labour emerges that isn't run by Tory cunt sticks.

Tempy wrote:

http://uk.isidewith.com Apparently I side most with SINN FEIN

That's a sick site.

66% Labour,
66% LibDem

Figures.

74% Labour is my top result, which is kind of depressing.

I should also move to southern Scotland apparently, which is not.

I am left wing and mildly authoritarian which is spot on tbh.