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Oh Britain, what have you done (part ∞+21)?

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https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/1129835053876424704
Sorry matthew, that's just maths! ;)

Seriously, I'm surprised this question hasn't been asked before. It's critical to the entire debate about whether Labour would do better if they unequivocally endorsed a second referendum or confirmatory vote.

Of course the usual caveats apply: this is just one poll, and survey responses don't always translate into action at the polling station.

More importantly, Labour needs to consider how permanent the gains and losses from changing its Brexit strategy are likely to be: e.g. a transient gain in support from the LDs vs a permanent loss of support to Farage or the Conservatives would not be a good trade. So snapshots of voting intentions like the one above aren't knockdown arguments in favour of an anti-Brexit position, although they need to be taken into account.
 
PS: don't vote Lib-Dem:

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The comments below the tweet are quite informative:

https://twitter.com/dannyalexander/status/1130370638340939777

Even some Lib-Dems are annoyed about it when the party is looking to squeeze the Labour vote.
Meanwhile...

https://www.theguardian.com/society...ies-child-hunger-breach-human-rights-says-ngo

The full, damning report is here:

https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/05/...ards/austerity-welfare-cuts-and-right-food-uk

This is the legacy of the Tories and their austerity enabling Lib-Dem chums.
 
Half Incher?

Mmmm, bl**dy conservative.

Bring back Pounds, Shillings and Pence next.

We went Metric didn't we, centimeters & millimeters, ffs.

.....and centipedes, don’t forget centipedes. I voted Leave to get rid of bloody centipedes. Bloody centipedes comin over here and telling us how to measure. Bring back the inchipede I say.
Stolen from Mark Steele
 
I think it is necessary to have a job in Switzerland paying a Swiss salary to be able to afford to live here. Unless you have a few million stuffed behind the sofa I guess.

Canton Jura is probably the cheapest place to live in Switzerland though, it might be doable without working if you can bring lots of savings, are single and have low living costs.
Do you go shopping in France?
 
Meanwhile...

https://www.theguardian.com/society...ies-child-hunger-breach-human-rights-says-ngo

The full, damning report is here:

https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/05/...ards/austerity-welfare-cuts-and-right-food-uk

This is the legacy of the Tories and their austerity enabling Lib-Dem chums.
The ghoul known as Esther McVey is launching her leadership bid with a call to loot Britain’s overseas aid budget to subsidise and mitigate Austerity at home. She’s branding her populist, greedy little stunt “Blue Collar Conservatism”. Expect a beauty contest of vicious Toryism as they all try to show off their hardline credentials for leadership. They’re sickening.

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Michael Heseltine this morning at The Emma Barnett Show. Can't find it mentioned anywhere in the news, though.


Emma Barnett
"here you are looking like you're ignoring democracy and therefore voting for the LibDems which ironically have democrat in their name"

Michael Heseltine
"I'm not ignoring democracy, I'm trying to give the people the chance to endorse their original judgement.
There's no anti-democracy in my language.
If I could be frank, the real reason...

Look why don't they want a second referendum?
There's only one reason.
It's got nothing to do with the original result.
They don't believe they can win it a second time.
That's why they don't want it.

Now they'll come up with a whole lot of spurious arguments about democracy and the people have spoken and all this other stuff, we could all invent these arguments.

But the real reason why they won't have a second referendum is that they don't think they can win it."


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0005213
 
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How much has Brexit cost the UK?
Apr 23, 2019
MPs to investigate billions of pounds thrown at preparing Britain to exit the EU

https://www.theweek.co.uk/93785/how-much-money-has-brexit-cost-the-uk

(...)

The cost of staging the EU referendum and the 2017 general election - which “can also be attributed to Brexit”, says The Daily Telegraph - comes to £269m. In addition, “MPs who were voted out of office as a result of the election claimed £4.6m in ‘winding up’ costs so they could move out of their offices and give staff redundancy pay”, the newspaper adds.

In total, the Treasury “has allocated £4.2 billion towards government departments for Brexit preparations since 2016” - £1.5bn of it in the 2018-19 tax year, says Full Fact.

And “this is not all the money that the Government plans to spend on Brexit - as some departments’ pre-existing budgets will be used for Brexit preparation, too”, according to the fact-checking site.

“To add insult to injury, even the Prime Minister's thrice-defeated Withdrawal Agreement cost the public £45k in printing fees,” says the Telegraph.

Then there is the cost of holding EU elections in May, which are estimated to come in at more than £100m based on the last vote back in 2014.

(...)

ka-ching £££

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More importantly, Labour needs to consider how permanent the gains and losses from changing its Brexit strategy are likely to be: e.g. a transient gain in support from the LDs vs a permanent loss of support to Farage or the Conservatives would not be a good trade.

To some extent a blip for sure, but there is certainly an element of resurrecting the Lib Dems. It would have been much better for Labour for them to take their "coalition punishment" at the next GE, the relatively small number of Labour / LibDem marginals notwithstanding.

I do though worry about a Labour party that cannot tempt the white, northern working class vote away from the likes of Farage, especially one that is so broadly left rather than Blairite.
 
To some extent a blip for sure, but there is certainly an element of resurrecting the Lib Dems. It would have been much better for Labour for them to take their "coalition punishment" at the next GE, the relatively small number of Labour / LibDem marginals notwithstanding.

I do though worry about a Labour party that cannot tempt the white, northern working class vote away from the likes of Farage, especially one that is so broadly left rather than Blairite.
Didn't you post a link to a poll that suggested that the northern working class leave vote is peeling away from the Faragists?
 
Lesley Riddoch: has BBC’s Question Time gone rogue?

https://www.scotsman.com/news/opini...-bbc-s-question-time-gone-rogue-1-4930316/amp

What’s it like to work for decades building political success in Scotland, only to discover that, on almost every instalment of the BBC’s Question Time, that country has somehow ceased to exist? Instead you visit Question Time’s Scotland – an angry place with deep reserves of anti-SNP sentiment, a preoccupation with local service shortcomings and rows of angry Brexiteers. Of course, such political outlooks are real, perfectly valid and held by some voters all over Scotland. But in the proportions that currently dominate Question Time?
 
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