Be Excellent To Each Other

Does he at least call it "nuclear" and not "nukular" ?

Getting him to say nukular rather than " fun bang bang toys" was a problem. Expecting anything more is unrealistic.

Also, his tweets increasingly sound like something the old man from the mill shouts between the Scooby Gang unmasking him and the police taking him away.

Article in the 'Washington Post' (I think I ran out of free links this month a long time ago) about the views of Mr Trump's fans at his rally. I honestly don't know how you could start communicating to these people.

The survey found that the Tories were on 44%, up two points, while Labour were on 26%, down one. UKIP were on 13% and the Liberal Democrats on 8%.

When challenged by former Shadow Chancellor Chris Leslie to explain the huge poll lead, Corbyn replied: “Of course I understand what’s going on and the problems we have had in the media.”

But he added that “we do a lot better on social media”,

Fuck me.
Thanks to MrPSB

My only hope is that Corbyn doesn't "peak" too early following the forthcoming by-elections and they get rid.

Why do you think it is better for there to be no functioning opposition at this crucial point in British political history?

Apparently the Labour Grand Plan is to hope that the Tories split over Brexit and that declining living standards will make people vote Labour.

That's a plan that even Baldrick would be ashamed of.

Latest Guardian poll puts the Tories at 44% and Labour on 26%

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/

UKIP are at 13% whilst the Great Lib Dem Fightback has made a tactical retreat back to 8% whilst they regroup and bide their time. Just like they did in the late 1920s for, er, sixty years.

Move to Brighton.

Are ukipreally lessright leaning than the Tories?

I don't really pay too much attention to these kind of things. I mean, for example, every mainstream UK party is right wing or right of centre - and the BNP are *considerably* to the left of both Labour and the Lib Dems?

Who comes up with this stuff?

Accordingly, the BNP calls for the selective exclusion of foreign-made goods from British markets and the reduction of foreign imports. We will ensure that our manufactured goods are, wherever possible, produced in British factories, employing British workers.

When this is done, unemployment in this country will be brought to an end and secure, well-paid employment will flourish.

We further believe that British industry, commerce, land and other economic and natural assets belong in the final analysis to the British nation and people.

To that end the BNP will restore our economy and land to British ownership and will take active steps to break up the socially, economically and politically damaging monopolies now being established by the supermarket giants.

Fully cognisant of the reality that economic growth is driven primarily by true free enterprise, a BNP government will seek to give British workers a stake in the success and prosperity of the enterprises whose profits their labour creates. Such schemes are the only guarantee of workers being motivated to ensure the success of their employers.

You *do* understand that's a two-dimensional graph, right? And what the two axes mean?

You *do* understand that I'm ONLY talking about ONE of those axes, right? Political alignment?

I STILL DON'T GET HOW THE GREENS ARE LIBERTARIAN THO

Anyway, this wasn't even my main beef? The biggest problem, for me, is that pretty much every party is defined as right of centre or right wing, which (IMO) is nonsense.

I take your point, that you would expect that the 'centre' would be the average position. I wonder if there is some 'absolute' scale they're using there.

So, no, then, you do not.

I don't really pay too much attention to these kind of things. I mean, for example, every mainstream UK party is right wing or right of centre - and the BNP are *considerably* to the left of both Labour and the Lib Dems?

The three main parties have been right-leaning economically since the early- to mid-00s anyway. Possibly less so for Labour these days but who knows where they sit on these scales anymore.

The three main parties have been right-leaning economically since the early- to mid-00s anyway. Possibly less so for Labour these days but who knows where they sit on these scales anymore.

You know why.
I genuinely believe (like many people, increasing every day) that most of the big calls Labour have ever made have turned out to have been shit for one reason or another, most especially in economic terms - however doubtless well-intentioned in many cases, or whatever.

So, logically speaking, if something's almost invariably shit, why lament its lack of influence?

If you're asking me: would I like to see a strong, effective, robust and knowledgeable, grown up Opposition formed of intelligent, diverse people from all walks of REAL life and business, well, that's fair enough - but that's just never going to be Labour. Look at them now FFS. As an intelligent man of business and commerce, with a responsible management and technical role, would you seriously trust them to do or run anything? No, I think not.

An inclusive centre-left party is difficult. It's no real wonder that Labour struggle to unify the old labour movement, which is all about workers rights and protectionism with the modern progressive left. They're in opposition on too many issues. Like, lest we forget, the EU.

Plus, the policies don't work.