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dizzygran; my daughter started teaching during the Blair years and he did fulfil his promise. However, although she loves teaching, she doesn't feel that she can do so for much longer because of cutbacks [and also ridiculous ideas that Gove came up with when he was education secretary]. Mind you, she probably won't have to make the decision to leave as she will probably be one of the teachers that will be 'let go' by this government in the near future....

Wealth creates jobs. Don't be envious

Who on earth is being envious? That is the 'trickle down' theory which fuels tax cuts for the rich and for business and which has failed spectacularly to have worked. Far from investing in this country wealth has mostly gone flying off to tax havens where it grows more and more without contributing to the country which has enabled it to accumulate more wealth.

A country's economy cannot be a totally closed system, money will always trickle out in one way or another but in a well regulated economy companies which have benefited from all the services the state provides (education, health, infrastructure, waste disposal, policing etc.) helps to pay for those services by way of its taxes. They also pay tax on profits made from sales to the country's population; they don't cook their books in such a way as to make it look as though they have made no profit. In a well regulated economy money mostly stays in the country and circulates to the benefit of all.

Major companies cheating the state of the payment (i.e tax) it should get for the provision of services and paying minimal wages for crummy jobs are not at all admirable or enviable. They are despicable.

I read about that dj. Many of the voters affected are students.

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Who do you want to win?

May whose van with her strong and stable message blew over on the motorway,

or Corbyn who creates rainbows.

That's where the money tree is! It's in off-shore bank accounts and the accounts of those companies not paying tax in this country whilst making vast profits here.

I'm thinking a rainbow disappears quicker than a van on a motorway, windy or not

Problem with rainbows is it isn't possible to get to the end plus it isn't possible to catch one.

Some people just have no soul.

I predict Corbyn is going to find that gold for us all at the end of the rainbow.

He's certainly talking to more voters than May has in the whole of the campaign.

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So Corbyn actually created the rainbow? There won't be a crock of gold at the end of it, more like a crock of something unmentionable!

??very good

Corbyn is talking to more voters than May?

True, he has stayed in labour strongholds whilst May has visited labour strongholds . Even a pea brain can work that out.

May visiting Labour strongholds is pointless if she speaks behind closed doors to a selected audience of party faithful. As she does.
Or does just the fact that she ventured north of Watford have such a mesmerising effect that it will bring voters out in droves for her?

Sticking in the comfort zone is not reaching out is it?

Boris reached out to the NE, but needed a police escort in and out of the Shildon community centre!
The crowd to see Corbyn outside the Sage in Gateshead had heaps of young people in it. You know the young people who don't vote. except I think they are going to this time. And there aren't many in TM's audience.

Is the Shildon area a bit on the rough side then trisher ?
It will be interesting to see if the young do vote this time, turning up to see a 'celeb' is something they like to do, but actually trudging off to cast your vote is another thing entirely.

If double the number vote labour in 50 labour held seats it results in 50 labour seats .

Just ordinary people in Shildon, but holding placards and shouting for Labour,so Boris obviously didn't want to talk to them and had police outside, as he slipped in through a side door. You know the police whose numbers have been cut and who should be guarding the public from terrorist attacks.

You never know who will decide to attack politicians of all sides though do you?
Followers of IS or just nut cases.

Good point ab

Had there been police cuts at the times of all the other terrorists attacks in this country?

Roses, it's what anyone with experience and knowledge of canvassing knows, Corbyn hasn't visited one strong Tory seat , it wouldn't make good tv.

May has made several visits to Wales, she was at the launch of the Tory campaign, I have had an email inviting me to a Corbyn appearance in Wales, he will speak to us via a large tv screen, received a second mail yesterday informing me there were still seats available, this was not not from Welsh Labour but from London Labour

Sticking in the comfort zone is not reaching out is it?

Hiding behind closed doors and needing police escorts isn't 'reaching out' either.

And no, roses, Shildon isn't particularly rough, it's just a normal small North Eastern working class town in an area where the two big employers, mining and railway engineering, have long since disappeared. They have no reason to warm to the tories.

I find it quite amusing that Boris should need a police escort in a town which probably voted pretty solidly for Brexit. Seeing that he was a leader of the Vote Leave campaign. But then, I still firmly believe that the NE Leave vote was more a protest about the tory 'austerity' programme than about the EU.

If Shildon was 'on the rough side' rar don't you think the police should be protecting the people who live there rather than standing, arms folded, looking a bit bored, while Boris snuck in behind them.