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Neville's Breakfast

Well-known member
May 1, 2016
13,450
Oxton, Birkenhead
For giving a vague, crap and emotionless response, to my mind.

One thing I can't understand about Labour is the pledge to give universal benefits. If the wealthy middle classes get free childcare etc they will simply become richer by investing the savings. This will increase inequality and make less resources available for those who need it most.
 










TSB

Captain Hindsight
Jul 7, 2003
17,666
Lansdowne Place, Hove
So, she will presumably lose her seat in the coming election. If she is that unpopular, then this will of course happen, won't it?

Depends if her challengers are more popular than her, I'd imagine.
She'd have had more chance of defending her seat if she'd not been so prominent in recent months. I feel confident of that.
 




seagulls4ever

New member
Oct 2, 2003
4,338
Impartial BBC presenter takes a swipe at Corbyn "are you sure your plans add up, it was only yesterday you couldn't remember" or something along those lines.

On the other hand, the audience does seem very left wing.
 




Hastings gull

Well-known member
Nov 23, 2013
4,652
One thing I can't understand about Labour is the pledge to give universal benefits. If the wealthy middle classes get free childcare etc they will simply become richer by investing the savings. This will increase inequality and make less resources available for those who need it most.

As I understand it, the idea of benefits was introduced to help those most needy, not just give it to everyone, irrespective. I have mentioned on here before, that my family does not need winter fuel payments, and I am certain that that would apply to hundreds of thousands other pensioners. Corbyn rails ad nauseam about the few and the privileged, and when the PM announced that winter fuel payments would be means tested, so that payments to the few and the privileged pensioners would be stopped, he then hypocritically replied that all should receive it!
 






Hastings gull

Well-known member
Nov 23, 2013
4,652
Depends if her challengers are more popular than her, I'd imagine.
She'd have had more chance of defending her seat if she'd not been so prominent in recent months. I feel confident of that.

But if she is so unpopular in any room, as you stated, then they would be, wouldn't they?
 










Hastings gull

Well-known member
Nov 23, 2013
4,652
'She's not very popular' does not equate to 'so unpopular'.
Nice try, but no dice.

No no, you can't worm out of it. Your point was that she is unpopular in ANY ROOM - hence a quite reasonable assumption that she is so unpopular. By the way, do you actually know what the voters think in her constituency?
 






Husty

Mooderator
Oct 18, 2008
11,998
Good reminder of just how lucky the people of brighton pavilion are here, Lucas has been by far the best performer.
 


TSB

Captain Hindsight
Jul 7, 2003
17,666
Lansdowne Place, Hove
No no, you can't worm out of it. Your point was that she is unpopular in ANY ROOM - hence a quite reasonable assumption that she is so unpopular. By the way, do you actually know what the voters think in her constituency?

Worm my way out of what?
I'm not beholden to you matey.

Have you seen the consistent reaction she elicits?
Yes. I've seen the graffiti.
 








studio150

Well-known member
Jul 30, 2011
30,228
On the Border
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Made me smile
 


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