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Corbyn and No Confidence

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trisher Fri 24-Jun-16 15:20:49

MPs are proposing a vote of No Confidence in Corbyn, but we all know they didn't want him in the first place. Could it be that these MPs kept quiet during the run up to the referendum and are now just taking advantage of a situation they helped create? Is a leader only as strong as the generals that stand behind them?

Badenkate Sun 26-Jun-16 13:34:27

Apologies to John McDonell - b****y predictive text

durhamjen Sun 26-Jun-16 16:06:37

Why does this seem to be more important on the news than the rest of the EU/Tory debacle.

durhamjen Sun 26-Jun-16 16:09:39

Just for you, POGS.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/26/corbyn-leader-brexit-labour-rebels-sabotage

They didn't ask me either in their exit polls, but I did get a lot of emails from various groups asking me if I had voted, what I had voted, what I voted in the last election, etc.
Did you not get any?

durhamjen Sun 26-Jun-16 16:10:25

Are you not on yougov?
They did the exit polls.

durhamjen Sun 26-Jun-16 16:11:48

Brilliant, John McDonnell has just said our party members are our sovereign body.

daphnedill Sun 26-Jun-16 16:18:15

Michael Ashcroft also did an exit poll of 12,369 people after they'd voted.

PS. I've already explained twice how Professor Ford of Manchester Uni worked out his statistics, which are remarkably similar to Ashcroft's results.

POGS Sun 26-Jun-16 17:08:56

Why would I get e.mails?

I am neither a member nor an activist?

I am still asking how does anybody know when I voted in the referendum what political party I voted for in the general election , or indeed at any time?

durhamjen Sun 26-Jun-16 17:23:19

They don't POGS, unless you tell them.
However, your one vote in all those millions counts for as little as mine in an exit poll, unless you tell them.
Lots of people obviously do tell them and have told them. Your 0.000002 % doesn't matter in the big scheme of things.
That's what you get for not being an activist or a member of anything.

POGS Sun 26-Jun-16 17:50:58

So that means the figures produced are not worth a tuppenny ha'penny as they rely on people contacting the source, in this case the poll company. What percentage of the 'entire' vote does the poll company rely on for factual information?

From what I have heard, even on Gransnet, the activism on the left is quite a force . It's all spin, mass voting, telling each other where, when and how to 'follow instruction', sign this petition, etc. etc.

It makes the political satire Power Monkeys look like a documentary.

Jalima Sun 26-Jun-16 17:55:42

That's what you get for not being an activist or a member of anything.
You mean not included in the polls?
shock
but no-one has ever asked me anyway, who do I complain to?

rosesarered Sun 26-Jun-16 18:09:23

just heard that 10 have resigned now [labour]

trisher Sun 26-Jun-16 18:14:12

Isn't it funny the Labour party shadow cabinet are all in the news. The Tory Party who are the government are all hiding away somewhere probably plotting something but not telling anybody (deals with Farage and UKIP?)

POGS Sun 26-Jun-16 18:18:08

No it's not funny , it's current news.

No doubt the Tories will be next Trisher.

Lord Falconer now.

durhamjen Sun 26-Jun-16 18:22:14

So Boris is going to ask the leader of Ukip to ask his MPs to support him in the commons. Oh, forgot, there's only one of them.

durhamjen Sun 26-Jun-16 18:26:53

Strangely enough internet polls have always been shown to be more accurate than telephone polls. How do you think telephone polls happen? They are selected on profiles from the census.
Yougov has 350,000. Ashcroft did an exit poll of nearly 12500.
Yougov was about 2% out. It expected 50/50 from the exit polls.

So no, your little bit doesn't matter unless you sign up to it. Anyone can, you know.

POGS Sun 26-Jun-16 18:38:17

They are polls, they are not factual!

It's similar to taking the view of economists as factual information, they don't agree with one another and for every left wing economist there is a right wing economist waiting in the wings.

Nelliemoser Sun 26-Jun-16 18:42:59

I have not really seen or heard Corbyn doing very much at all to promote his views and ideas. He has seemed to me almost invisible.
If he is playing with those "rough Tory boys" he needs to get a more visible and dynamic profile himself.

durhamjen Sun 26-Jun-16 18:44:46

Okay, POGS, have it your own way. Nothing matters.

How is an exit poll not an exit poll?
People coming out of a polling station are not all economists. People on yougov are not all economists. In fact, a lot of MPs are on yougov. If you look at their registers of interests it tells you if they make anything from these companies each month.

It seems quite simple to me. After people have voted, you ask them what they voted,and ask them what party they voted for in the last election. Some of them tell you; others do not.
HOW IS THAT NOT A POLL?

durhamjen Sun 26-Jun-16 18:45:48

How are they not facts?

daphnedill Sun 26-Jun-16 18:47:33

POGS

A few percentage points is statistical error. I believe this started because you don't believe the figures about voter age and party affiliation. All the surveys were within a few percentage points and the trends are quite clear.

You really don't seem to understand economics very well either.

I give up.

POGS Sun 26-Jun-16 18:54:54

Unless every single person that voted in the referendum was asked what political party they belong to/support/voted for in the last election it is not fact.

How many people were asked at the polling stations, how many people were asked by phone, how many people rang to tell them (why , I can only think of political motivation and didn't know that happened).

I would never believe information from pollsters as fact, they don't exactly have a good track record.

POGS Sun 26-Jun-16 18:56:00

Daphnedil

You are a rude person.

Anniebach Sun 26-Jun-16 19:16:10

If the tv cameras choose to film Johnson - even if only waving a banana - but ignore Corbyn it follows we saw little of him

Now the news is all Corbyn and little of Johnson and Gove. Who is going to be the PM in a few months is less important than who will be the labour leader

Ana Sun 26-Jun-16 19:20:33

Well, surely even you, Annie, have to admit that what's going on within the Labour Party at the moment is current news. We can speculate all we like about who's going to be the next PM, but this is happening now!

daphnedill Sun 26-Jun-16 19:23:57

POGS

So are you!