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Re: [Update] Jeremy Corbyn wins Labour Leadership

I think the point he making was that Corbyn might have high support among the non-voters but he got the numbers wrong. That's it! :)

Re: [Update] Jeremy Corbyn wins Labour Leadership

Also the turnout is a percentage of those registered to vote. In some wards in Leeds there are streets where the electoral role says No Registered Electors against the majority of properties. So I doubt anyone truely knows the real numbers.

Cheers

Grim

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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth (Post 35800259)

Exactly!

but you know what some people are like. just jump in without engaging brain :)

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Originally Posted by Gary L (Post 35800329)

but you know what some people are like. just jump in without engaging brain :)

:erm:

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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth (Post 35800259)

In some wards in Leeds there are streets where the electoral role says No Registered Electors against the majority of properties. So I doubt anyone truely knows the real numbers.

Although I'm sure the areas where there are 20-30 people registered per house go someway to balancing things out.

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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth (Post 35800259)

Would that be because they are students (Leeds has nearly 90,000 of them) and a large majority are registered at their non-term time address?

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35800330)

:erm:

Don't worry heero. I'm not talking about you ;)

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Originally Posted by Gary L (Post 35800329)

Exactly!

but you know what some people are like. just jump in without engaging brain :)

They might not be eligible to vote.

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Originally Posted by nomadking (Post 35800335)

They might not be eligible to vote.

I don't know. but whoever they are. Corbyn might appeal to them enough to go out and vote. and Dave will help him by cutting those that thought he wouldn't touch.

so there's 4 years for all the votes to swing anyway.

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You thought that about this election as well - that went so well for you....

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Yes there's a recurring theme somewhere... :D

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Originally Posted by Osem (Post 35800363)

Yes there's a recurring theme somewhere... :D

You should know all about that, pot meet kettle

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Rail nationalisation: Jeremy Corbyn’s stupid flagship policy

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Aren’t the railways in England, Scotland and Wales already owned by the state in the form of Network Rail? I know Network Rail lets franchises to private providers, such as FirstGroup and Virgin Group, but that doesn’t mean these private companies own the railways — the clue is in the word ‘let’. So how exactly will Corbyn ‘bring back into public ownership’ something that’s already owned by the public?
What he’ll do is wait for the existing leases to run their course and then, when the franchises come up for renewal, not rent them to private providers. Instead, they’ll be operated by a new, government provider — Corbyn Rail. Couple of problems with this.

First of all, only five of Great Britain’s 25 railway franchises are coming up for renewal between 2020 and 2025. If Corbyn is proposing to make the renationalisation of the railways the centrepiece of his first-term legislative programme, it’ll be a bit of a damp squib. By my estimation, he’d have to remain in power until 2036 in order to see this policy through.
You might think that none of this matters. After all, the chances of Corbyn becoming our next prime minister are fairly slim. But his abandonment of the cross-party consensus in this area will inevitably create a climate of uncertainty, deterring private companies from bidding for the franchises and discouraging the present operators from investing in the network. He’s also indicated that Labour would attempt to ‘renationalise’ academies and free schools, which will create similar levels of anxiety in the education sector.

If Corbyn continues in this vein, his leadership victory won’t just be a disaster for the Labour party. It will be a disaster for the whole country.

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Originally Posted by Ramrod (Post 35800530)

Rail nationalisation: Jeremy Corbyn’s stupid flagship policy

If Toby had been paying attention he'd know there might not even be a network rail come the election

http://www.theguardian.com/business/...-budget-crisis

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Originally Posted by Ramrod (Post 35800530)

Rail nationalisation: Jeremy Corbyn’s stupid flagship policy

Now we know where Miliband got all his 'good' ideas... :D