There’s never been a better time to be out of govt.

Now so many of your posts make sense Daz.

Irony on overload… Johnson ‘lie in front of the bulldozer’ has a new bit of childish trolling for Social Media, as he metaphorically flattens the UK (take a look at the latest growth figures) by driving a bulldozer through a wall of polystyrene bricks. They are laughing at us.

On the one hand the Conservative Boris Johnson is a bit of a rascal with the ladies and can sometimes bend the truth a bit, he’s also a bit posh.

“Bend the truth a bit”? Do you also consider the Third Reich to be “a tad naughty”? Jimmy Savile to be a “cheeky wee scamp”? Good grief.

Have you fact checked any of those Corbyn claims? Of course you haven’t. I’ve just picked one at random: ‘Said Hamas and Hezbollah are his “friends“.’ Five seconds’ googling gave me this:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/04/jeremy-corbyn-says-he-regrets-calling-hamas-and-hezbollah-friends

So yes, he did say it, ten years ago, and there is context as to why. And as you’ll see if you read that article, which you won’t, he’s since said he regretted it and apologised. (When has Boris ever apologised for anything, incidentally?)

We live in a time where information can be disseminated widely and quickly, and disinformation likewise. You would do well to check that you’re not being manipulated and misled. Cos if it were me, I’d be quite cross about that and start to ask why.

Or if he’s that bothered about Terrorists he could see the Tories are home to an ex-IRA member.

I listened to Jonathan Ashworth’s explanation for his comments and I 100pc believe him. Why on earth wouldn’t you try to get your opponent to get a bit complacent and ease off. The last thing you’d ever say is “It’s tight, you need to work even harder”. For the reasons cited earlier on this aint gonna do Labour much harm anyway.

“A 4.45% lead on polling day would be a 1% swing to Labour in Lab held seats. And a Lab minority govt”

+1. Nobody can call this one.

There’s never been a better time to be out of govt

+1. In addition to all the obvious stuff we haven’t had a recession for about 10 years so one is due any minute and things are already looking to slow down. If someone wins a majority big enough that they’ll be in govt for 4-5 years they are very likely to get mullered in the next election.

Have you fact checked any of those Corbyn claims? Of course you haven’t. I’ve just picked one at random: ‘Said Hamas and Hezbollah are his “friends“.’ Five seconds’ googling gave me this:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/04/jeremy-corbyn-says-he-regrets-calling-hamas-and-hezbollah-friends

So yes, he did say it, ten years ago, and there is context as to why. And as you’ll see if you read that article, which you won’t, he’s since said he regretted it and apologised. (When has Boris ever apologised for anything, incidentally?)

I fact checked a fair few as well and, like yours they did seem to be broadly true. In fact I was staggered how many that I hadn’t heard of were true and how often googling them lead to further stuff. EG googling the Roisin McAliskey one took me to these gems:

Hornsey Labour Party had a poster displayed at its HQ depicted policemen as pigs wearing helmets. Corbyn’s “Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory” came up with “The capitalist police are an enemy of the working class. Support all demands to weaken them.” and London Labour Briefing included an editorial which said: “The street fighting was excellent but could have been (and hopefully in future will be) better organised.”.

Now he’s on TV telling us he’s going to improve policing! Corbyn’s like Trump in that if you say five or six mad/stupid things (eg Bush Jnr) you’re mocked in the press forever. If you say a gazzilion mad/stupid things they get lost and none stick.

Expecting billionaires and corporations to pay their tax is not revolutionary socialism

Dunning-kruger again. Taxing people who are internationally mobile is impossible without agreement from all countries in the world. It sounds so simple to Corbyn and McDonnell because they haven’t thought it through, but on day one in office a Civil Servant who understands this stuff is going to explain to them why it’s nigh on impossible. Even if they pull us out of the EU to end Freedom of Movement of capital and people they won’t be able to keep company HQ’s in the UK or keep wealthy people – quite the opposite IMHO.

Railway privatisation in the UK was a laboratory experiment that was designed in the EU.

Can you honestly disagree with that?

Yes, it’s bollocks.

Nail biting all round.

It’s a fake.

Britain Erects…

MRP tonight.

Let’s see the direction of the Labour campaign. Wasn’t it a 68 seat Tory majority last time?

10pm.

Nail biting all round.

It’s a fake.
Britain Erects…

Nail biting all round.
Fake poll

Dammit, I genuinely thought that once, just bloody once, one of my political predictions had turned out to be right! 🙁

Curse you CFH!

Can you honestly disagree with that?

Yes, it’s bollocks.

I replied to this earlier and then deleted my post because I didn’t want to (excuse me) derail the conversation. But there’s a grain of truth in it.

Thatcher started the great privatisation sweep, and it was Major who privatised the rail system. Around the same sort of time there was an EU directive issued to separate trains from infrastructure in an effort to encourage competition rather than a monopoly. A bit like the LLU of BT if you like, forcing BT to allow other providers to use the phone system. But it’s something of a leap to go from the EU wanting to open up the rail networks to concluding that privatisation was “designed by the EU,” it was our lot that did that.

Bit of a shock to see that the EU is copping the blame for something the Tory government did, really. I’ve never seen that happen before.

You made a prediction on a poll or the final result?

I was joking – in the post before I’d written it was too close to call and then CFH posts a poll that’s tighter than previous ones have been, hence “proving my prediction right”.

I will make one more prediction though – CFH won’t be getting a Christmas card from the OOB family! I will never forgive!

I fact checked a fair few as well and, like yours they did seem to be broadly true. In fact I was staggered how many that I hadn’t heard of were true and how often googling them lead to further stuff.

There is bucket loads of it, anyone who have followed politics for any length of time wouldn’t be surprised, he is the biggest scumbag ever to seek high office in this country – hopefully he will be dispatched to the nether regions of politics from which he should never have been allowed to emerge.

There is bucket loads of it, anyone who have followed politics for any length of time wouldn’t be surprised, he is the biggest scumbag ever to seek high office in this country – hopefully he will be dispatched to the nether regions of politics from which he should never have been allowed to emerge.

He’ll just go back to his telegraph column

Managed to get a 12 hour Twitter ban for telling the Sun Politics page to **** off and die after they posted this 😆

Use your vote to stop him #GE2019 pic.twitter.com/0DF3VnLJfp

— Sun Politics (@SunPolitics) December 9, 2019

UK #GE2019 MRP seat projection:

CON: 339 (-20)
LAB: 231 (+20)
SNP: 41 (-2)
LDEM: 15 (+2)
PC: 4 (-)
GRN: 1 (-)
BREX: 0 (-)

via @YouGov,
Chgs. w/ 26 Nov

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) December 10, 2019

MRP. Yougov..

28 Tory Majority down from 68.

Hung Parliament within margin of error.

Managed to get a 12 hour Twitter ban for telling the Sun Politics page to **** off and die after they posted this 😆

At least we now know, were it ever in doubt, where Metfy gets their political guidance from.

but yeah, this has been the worst election yet for political lies and the article is well worth a read:

People keep saying this but it needs rephrasing to Tory lies. They’ve out stripped everyone by a huge magnitude.

People keep saying this but it needs rephrasing to Tory lies.

Nah, they’re all doing it. My perception is the Torys have done more of it, but I’ve seen things from all the three main English parties that literally aren’t true. (As opposed to trying to mislead without actually lying which was the game before social media came along.)

At least Owen is out as Labour, I prefer it this way.

I worry that the bad weather might keep all the younglings home.

Tories have 1 day left & polls looking twitchy for johnson

Yesterday ‘Senior Tories’ made up a story about Matt hancock s aide getting punched

Today they had an army of bots tweeting fake news , with Matt Hancock looking complicit (according to newsnight)

What lies will come out tomorrow?

Nah, they’re all doing it. My perception is the Torys have done more of it, but I’ve seen things from all the three main English parties that literally aren’t true. (As opposed to trying to mislead without actually lying which was the game before social media came along.)

This is pretty damning of one party being more dishonest:

It looked just at every paid-for Facebook ad from the three main UK-wide parties run over the first four days of December:

For the Conservatives, it said that 88% (5,952) of the party’s most widely promoted ads either featured claims which had been flagged by independent fact-checking organisations including BBC Reality Check as not correct or not entirely correct. The figure includes instances of the same claims being made across multiple posts. One example was that Labour would spend £1.2 trillion at a cost of £2,400 to every household, which was contained within 4,028 ads. Those sums are significantly higher than others’ analysis of Labour’s plans

For the Lib Dems, it said hundreds of potentially misleading ads had featured identical unlabelled graphs, with no indication of the source data, to claim it was the only party that could beat either Labour, the Conservatives or the SNP “in seats like yours”

For Labour, it said that it could not find any misleading claims in ads run over the period

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/technology-50726500