UK General Election, June 8th 2017

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From a few recent polls I've looked at it seems that the 65+ age bracket is basically handing this election the the Conservatives, otherwise it would be a Close/Lean Lib race.

Lib?

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You'll find that the Prodigal Son, David, got the largest number of votes among both MPs and among the party membership. Ed only won through his support among affiliated supporters; something which was used as rather a bludgeon against him later, of course...

Yes i've edited my post upon finding this out.
And of course even if the blairites did have signifcant grassroot support in 2010 you'd have to be delusional to think this is true in 2017.

David Miliband got a lot of support because he was a figure of gravitas

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I mean, it's a rehash of what she said when she first took the job. For swing voters, it's probably a much better look to be this brand of moderate than the smug socially liberal Thatcherism of Cameron's crew.

It is quite funny how a cap on energy bills is no longer a Stalinist diktat of Ed Marxiband though.

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Yeah the fact they have the BNP on there is pretty dumb, seeing as last time they were beaten by TUSC, the NHA, Respect, Yorkshire First, Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol, Mebyon Kernow, Socialist Labour, the English Democrats, Lincolnshire Independents, Liberals, Monster Raving Loonies, Christians, Christian People's, Worker's Party, Poole People, the "Independent Save Withybush Save Lives" and the North East Party.

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Yes, this is becoming an increasingly unpleasant trend of online activists (and actual journos) of all stripes (inlcuding my own) - to pounce on essntially random people who have the INDECENCY to question their facourite politicians on TV and dox them, often mistakenly. Has the potential to cereate a chilling effect on democracy tbh.

As I already asked before, where is Labour making these inroads? Is is in their strongholds or former strongholds or is it somewhere new? I'm not comparing a general election to a referendum, but Brexit barely passed while winning a huge majority of constituencies. If Labour is making meaningful gains in England, that's a serious shift in this election. With that said though, there's still 2.5 weeks to go. As the old axiom goes, even a week is a lifetime in politics.

reversion to the mean. There was a big rally round the flag recently (similar to what you see after big disasters) that was probably always going to be hard to maintain, especially when the media statred remembering other issues existed besides brexit.

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tbh I can live with Corbyn staying if he manages to improve the 2015 score against all odds. Would be best if he quitely shuffled Diane Abbott to a less embarrassing position though.

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May is probably going to be at subterranean levels in a year or two, especially if the press turn on her Major style.

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The Tories had to rely on Unionist under Major and it certainly won't be backing a Corbyn-led Labour.

Sure but DUP were not the leading Unionist party then right? What would they demand in terms of policy?

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