I think you underestimate how many people are really worried about climate change and other green issues. As most seats are safe seats the Greens could garner extra votes in the millions if most people followed my advice of voting green as a constructive protest vote in in such seats.
Not sure if anybody saw the focus group sessions on C4 news tonight. Worth catching on All 4 if your short of a horror film to watch tonight.A room full of working class 2017 Labour voters unanimously agreeing that they couldn't vote for Jeremy Corbyn and admitting that they are considering voting Conservative and love Johnson's messages on Brexit.Absolutely chilling.
How to not win an election, 101...The genius part:Respond to an interviewer asking if convicted terrorists should serve their full sentences with an earnest: 'not necessarily'.Political genius
Quote from: Offwidth on December 02, 2019, 04:55:17 pmI think you underestimate how many people are really worried about climate change and other green issues. As most seats are safe seats the Greens could garner extra votes in the millions if most people followed my advice of voting green as a constructive protest vote in in such seats.This may shock you, but the majority of voters actually don't read UKB, so I'm afraid this is actually quite an unlikely scenario.
I watched this and wondered if Brutus / Offwidth had seen it.
Quote from: tommytwotone on December 03, 2019, 10:18:17 am With Boris and no Ruth the tories are toast in Scotland.Current prediction is 10 Tory seats in Scotland. Personalities not as important, seems pro-Brexit and anti-independence Scots will back the Tories enough so as not to loose too many setas.
With Boris and no Ruth the tories are toast in Scotland.
Being pragmatic- in every sense- this makes the point pretty well.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/03/you-know-youre-not-legally-required-to-like-jeremy-corbyn-in-order-to-vote-for-him-right
I agree but I think such genuinely tribal numbers are dropping all the time.Sometimes in the south (mainly London) the Lib Dems being too concerned about Corbyn can be the big problem. You've got to be a bit daft as a progressive to vote Lib Dem when the potential of an excellent Labour candidate to unseat IDS is on the cards.https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/11/will-labour-faiza-shaheen-topple-iain-duncan-smith-chingford-and-woodford-green-tory-heartlandhttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/02/chingford-voters-seek-change-former-tory-heartland-marginal
Sometimes in the south (mainly London) the Lib Dems being too concerned about Corbyn can be the big problem. You've got to be a bit daft as a progressive to vote Lib Dem when the potential of an excellent Labour candidate to unseat IDS is on the cards.