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Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 2

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36176496)

I'm coming round to the idea that the £2k tax hit statement is this elections equivalent of the £350k a week on the Brexit bus. Both are made up figures but end up successfully putting the opponent on the back foot.

I'm sure I saw last night on Peston that under the Tories we'd be £3000 worse off.

Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 2

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Originally Posted by peanut (Post 36176497)

I'm sure I saw last night on Peston that under the Tories we'd be £3000 worse off.

The £2k for a household over four years is quite modest - we've paid £13k per household in more tax since the Conservatives came to power according to some calculations I've seen.

I think the issue currently is that the larger parties have not published their detailed manifestos. Until these are published, it's a case of he said, she said.

Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 2

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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36176474)

Unlikely to be true, given how long he allowed the Diane Abbot nonsense to go on before making a slightly less than equivocal statement about it. There is a pattern here and it’s not good.

For whatever reason he seems to have a problem with speaking quickly and clearly. His instincts are to stop, chew things over, and then form carefully worded sentences. He is going to be PM, no doubt about that, so he is going to have to learn PDQ that sometimes you need to stand up and speak clearly and forcefully. You don’t always get to chew it over for a week. He might as well learn that now, rather than the next time we face a national disaster.

Starmer indecisive? I am not really sure .. maybe he is and maybe he isn't :) What I am sure of is that allowing a lie to be be repeated so much, as Andrew and others have pointed out, has the risk of baking it in, right or wrong. There are enough people out there who do not think too hard about decisions that change the country.

Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 2

Seems like a good point to bring down the curtain on week 2’s discussion and poll …

This thread is now closed, however, please feel free to pick up anything you read here and discuss it in the week 3 thread, now live here: https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...php?t=33712736

And don’t forget to vote in the week 3 poll!