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thatbags Thu 23-Feb-17 21:21:10

What these people have to say about Labour as it is now struck cords with me.

Peter Hurst (@peterleohurst)
'Blue labour types' right about 1thing: many trad Labour voters more conservative than many third wayers/centrists care to acknowledge.
2. That conservatism with a small 'c' includes things like loving the royal family and being proud of being British. Social dems might not
3. win via 'riding the tiger of nationalism' but they wont win via the old 'New' Labour formulation either. The 5 million voters lost
4. During the years 1997-2010 are not going to return to a party that is, in effect, the lib dems in drag Iain. prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/labou…

Lisa Muggeridge (@LisaMuggeridge)
I have noticed that Westminster does appear to believe that the only function of the north is to reliably vote Labour. And we don't now.
For as long as UKIP, the Labour left and fringe batshittery is the only alternative to Lab up here the Tories will clean up.
'Why would working class people vote Tory'. Because they cant vote Labour and the alternative is UKIP. In a nutshell.
One of the striking things about the left is this shock at working class tories, and working class people who dont want their revolution.

The photo is Hurst's Twitter profile. What it says seems well put too.

whitewave Sun 26-Feb-17 21:11:23

Blimey ana I haven't been watching this thread too closely but now find I'm in a list!!!!!! My post was deleted when I suggested mair was a ukip supporter. You have committed a cardinal sin you know. You haven't been too clever as you have forgotten that I live in a Green MPs constituency.

Ana Sun 26-Feb-17 21:08:08

Or are you saying it's just 'guesswork' that dj is a Labour supporter? grin

Ana Sun 26-Feb-17 21:06:22

I object to all these accusations of collusion - my count was done entirely off my own bat and I had now idea roses was doing one of her own.

GracesGran there are obviously more Labour supporters on this thread than Conservative supporters.

durhamjen, whitewave, Badenkate, Paddyann - I could go on....angry

Anniebach Sun 26-Feb-17 21:04:21

Corby needs to go on an anger management course , seems on the brink of cracking up

And even I was surprised at all those empty seats at the conference

POGS Sun 26-Feb-17 21:01:24

DD

" Was it planned via PM? I'm truly astounded that anybody would spend their time doing that, but hey ho!"

Does you no justice.

POGS Sun 26-Feb-17 20:57:01

I do wish posters would Follow the time line of a thread as to who said what, who made the ' first ' comment/statement that others engaged with .

rosesarered Sun 26-Feb-17 20:53:41

It takes about one min to look at this thread for a quick count.grin Try it!

rosesarered Sun 26-Feb-17 20:52:30

For years, on the political threads, posters have laid out their political views, so some of us do know , but DD and GGM2 are newer to GN ( or haven't noticed )

daphnedill Sun 26-Feb-17 20:48:01

Was it planned via PM? I'm truly astounded that anybody would spend their time doing that, but hey ho!

Chewbacca Sun 26-Feb-17 20:47:46

And some of us stepped forward and revealed all!grin

rosesarered Sun 26-Feb-17 20:47:30

Sarky comments are par for the course by some posters.

rosesarered Sun 26-Feb-17 20:46:16

Both Ana and myself have counted, on this thread, as durhamjen stated that there were more Conservative posters commenting.Not the case, there are more Labour.
Spare time? Only took a minute.grin

POGS Sun 26-Feb-17 20:45:32

confused

daphnedill Sun 26-Feb-17 20:45:03

Blimey! Who's 'we'? Have you and Ana had a meet up and spent your time trawling through threads? hmm

GracesGranMK2 Sun 26-Feb-17 20:39:47

We? Interesting roses. Is that what you do with your spare time? The only one I actually know is you roses - you told us although you could have changed your mind, again. Oh and Annie, of course she keeps telling us but then she could always make a protest vote against Corbyn should the need arise - if we get to that point.

I don't think anyone else has said that I have noticed and unless they do it's just guesswork isn't it? I have no idea why you think there are more Labour voters than Tory. It seems to me the right wingers appear to make more posts per person but I that doesn't give us any idea of definite voters does it?

I shall leave you to it I think. It really does feel like prying if people haven't shared with ... the two of you? More?

POGS Sun 26-Feb-17 20:28:15

GG MK2

So who, what, where, when?

Ana Sun 26-Feb-17 20:02:00

If it's any consolation, you're in the last group, GGMk2 as is daphnedill as she's a self-confessed 'floater'.

Everyone knows who the true Labour supporters are.

rosesarered Sun 26-Feb-17 19:55:16

Go through and count them GGM2 ( it's what we did)

GracesGranMK2 Sun 26-Feb-17 19:53:35

So who Ana?

Ana Sun 26-Feb-17 19:46:19

Certainly more Labour than Tory, roses. I can't even remember now who said otherwise but they must live in a parallel universe...

rosesarered Sun 26-Feb-17 19:39:30

I was thinking that too , I think you may be on the wrong page/ thread GGM2.

Definitely more Labour voters posting on this thread, I think you have the figures about right Ana.

POGS Sun 26-Feb-17 19:30:20

GGMK 2

To whom, what, where does your post apply to when using the word 'distraction'?

GracesGranMK2 Sun 26-Feb-17 18:49:30

Why should anyone mind that the Labour Party was founded on so called Christian Principles. It can't really be a surprise to anyone when this country would have seen itself as Christian at the time.

So what is the point or is this just another distraction?

Chewbacca Sun 26-Feb-17 18:45:11

smile

Ana Sun 26-Feb-17 18:37:23

Yes, that's what I had you down as, Chewbacca

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