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The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 3
Two down, four to go :disturbd:
Here’s a fresh week’s opinion poll so we can track the changing fortunes of the parties standing in the fictional constituency of Cable Forum Central. Please vote again and please continue any discussions that were ongoing in last week’s thread, which for your convenience is located here: https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...php?t=33712720 And if you want to track polling progress, week 1 is here: https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...php?t=33712705 |
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Tories are gonna get spanked harder than an onlyfans content creator*
*allegedly** **the onlyfans bit, tories are definitely getting spanked |
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Labour have been on the back foot over the past week. First the Diane Abbot debacle, then the Tory tax claims. Why Starmer didn't refute that in the debate at the first, or even second, opportunity I do not understand. Probably because taxes are going to increase. But now it's been largely debunked as a made up figure, Labour can go to town on the PM's integrity.
There was a compelling party election broadcast from the Lib Dems last night. It was fairly low on substance, but high on values. https://twitter.com/LibDems/status/1...VsWh-Qd4A&s=19 I'm hoping an Independent candidate who lives in, understands and will stand up for my area puts themself forward. It looks as though parties will start publishing their manifestos from next week, which may help me to make up my mind who to vote for. |
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Is no-one bothered that Diane is a quivering shadow of her former self, Angela is not sure where she lives, Labour's teary first Minister in Wales lost a recent no confidence vote and Sir Keir appears to have a steam-powered thinking process?
They are going to run the Country (probably at 20mph)? :disturbd: |
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2. Angela Rayner has been investigated by the police and other authorities and is facing no further action. Not sure what your problem is? 3. The Senedd is a glorified county council and attracts politicians of that calibre. Its Labour membership, in particular, pretty much opted out of the New Labour project of the late 90s and early 2000s and as a result are prone to making lumbering, centralising, unreconstructed lefty errors with now very obvious consequences for the likes of the NHS in Wales. However, until voters in Wales lose their widespread compulsion to vote for anything in a red rosette regardless of their competence, they will continue to get the government they deserve. 4. Starmer is, I think, capable of quick thinking, but his instincts are to stop and chew things over rather than respond quickly. Watch back the infamous £2,000 claim in the ITV debate and you can visibly see Starmer thinking to himself, “Hang on, that’s not right, it’s so obviously not right there must be some reason I’ve not spotted for him to be even saying that … there could be a trap here, let me think it through.” As the debate unfolded over the subsequent 24 hours of course it became clear it was just a brazen lie designed to be so epic in scale that we all stop and assume it can’t be a lie, there must be some truth to it. If that’s how the Tories are going to conduct the next 4 weeks of campaigning, then Starmer is going to have to start trusting that he knows what he’s offering the electorate and act quickly to counteract misinformation about it. |
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If like me and you don't want KS in you have to vote Tory, as any other vote will put KS in No 10, I will then call for another election as I didn't get what I voted for. (The Remainers tries, so why can't I?)
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I'm afraid if you don't want Sir Keir as your PM, you'll have to move to another country in July. ;)
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4 weeks to end of the worst government ever cant wait to see all the tories cry in sports halls
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2. The Greater Manchester Police said that “matters involving council tax and personal tax do not fall into the jurisdiction of policing" which implies a limited "investigation" on their part which is just as well for Angela given that the same police force sent innocent Andy Malkinson to the slammer for 17 years. 3. Agreed. If a cry baby FM, a knackered health service and a 20mph speed limit don't do it, nothing will. 4. Yep, he's quick alright. He pretended to be gormless and he fooled me. |
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Rishi Sunak not getting a good press this morning from many prominent Conservative commentators.
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Sunak has messed up big time. Leaving the D-Day commemorations early to do a campaign interview shows how out of touch he and his team are.
BBC are now reporting that he is making a grovelling apology for leaving early. |
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Nope Labour in Wales in not ideal. I’ve always thought it’s been a case of voting for who you think will do the least damage. Welsh Tories may not be Westminster Tories but they are definitely cut from the same cloth. As such, no blue vote from myself or anyone I personally know, for a very very long time. |
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Will Sunak step down as Conservative leader? |
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This wasn't really going to go anywhere. The Tories did it just ahead of the local election campaign as a bit of politics. ---------- Post added at 08:33 ---------- Previous post was at 08:22 ---------- Quote:
Anyone with the most basic sense of politics or common sense would say that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom does not leave the 80th commemoration of D-Day early. Even outside of an election, you don't do it. David Cameron was there did he not warn Sunak how it would look? There is a photo of the President of the United States, The President of France, The Chancellor of Germany and .... the UK foreign secretary. Thankfully Cameron is an ex-PM so it still looks statesmanlike from the UK. Even politically surely Sunak wants to be in that photo? The thing is that it's so easy. You should want to do this as PM anyway. Which PM would not want to spend their time with D-Day veterans of every country on what will be the last ever chance to do so? Starmer stayed for the whole thing and I don't think that not attending, or leaving early, was ever considered for Labour. I don't think they even thought about it until Sunak left early. When Suank left early did he not consider "Wait a moment, Starmer is staying behind? Maybe I should as well?". Maybe he thought he was being clever because Starmer won't be campaigning and he would? It's bad politically, and morally, and a basic failure to do his job. The guy is a complete moron. |
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We all indulge in performative outrage to a greater of lesser extent on forums like this. It’s a debating tactic after all. But this morning I am absolutely incensed that Sunak thought it was acceptable to leave D-Day commemorations even a second earlier than any of the other leaders present, in order to go on ITV and repeat his lies about Labour’s tax plans. Utterly extraordinary. And no amount of unreserved apology can undo the evidence of him being fundamentally unsuitable for the job of Prime Minister.
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That said I’m not staying up for it. |
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It's starting to feel like there's too many 'mistakes' for it to be a mistake.
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I am starting to wonder if there’s some kind of side bet to throw the election. Is Rishi Sunak going to be on Taskmaster or something with a task to get less than 100 MPs? |
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It clearly shows Sunak's disconnect to the British public because until now I couldn't think of anyone who would a) want to skip such a ceremony b) think doing so wouldn't reflect badly on them with their friends, family and in this instance, the electorate. |
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What’s quite mad is this was a day Rishi was getting for free. No difficult election questions. Gets to be a statesman while Starmer hangs around pretending. Maybe sell some of his Dad’s tools to Zelensky.
But no, he made a mess of it. |
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Just walking past Downing Street as you do and I came across Sunak's Friday night karaoke lyrics blowing down the road. I may have tweaked them slightly ;)
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Slightly off topic (sorry) but a contrast on how a different national Leader behaves:
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And as regards the disgraceful Sunak, the ITV interview that was more important to him than showing due respect for those who fought and died in what is perhaps the single most important military engagement in history, won’t even air until Wednesday of next week. Which means when it comes around, we will all be talking about this again.
See how tiny is my violin. |
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He’s exercising a form of collective responsibility. His private thoughts on Welsh Labour would probably be quite illuminating. Also, vis a vis Tory claims that what Welsh Labour is doing to the NHS in Wales now is an indication of what UK Labour would do to the NHS in England after the election, it’s worth pointing out that Welsh Labour was running the Cardiff clown car last time there was a UK Labour government, and there was a notable disparity in outcomes between England and Wales then, too. Of course Labour can’t draw attention to that without implicitly slagging off the Welsh branch of the party, so they’re a bit stuck.
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What the heck is going on on the election 2024 program the audio is way out of sync
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Unite refuses to endorse Labour party’s election manifesto
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Sunak on TV apologising for leaving the D Day commemorations early, then trying to make out that any further discussion of this decision would be disrespectful to veterans and those that lost their lives because it would be "politicising" the commemorations.
The guy is a total ass. |
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Wherefore art thou witty remoaners? Rishi is guilty of D-exit. Please discuss for the next 4 years :dozey:
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I think Wales is in a bit of a bind, and to be brutally honest I think the underlying problem is that the Senedd and government have got too much legislative/executive power. |
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Or do what the Remainers did and demand another vote? |
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Difference being Remainers don’t get another crack 4 or 5 years later.
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seem to understand it.... Another referendum on Europe at some point, is a certainty. Problem is we'll get a much worse deal than we had, but have to take it. Beggars can't be choosers. |
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Classy…
https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...3&d=1717930834 What the Labour candidate was doing in France… https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...2&d=1717930741 |
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Anyone know why Kuenssberg is missing from the iPlayer today? There’s a lot of people talking about Farage being racist about Sunak which I suppose might have meant they were worried about falling foul of the law in some way but no official reason seems to have been given.
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They have removed clips from X too. Possibly something Farage said (seen some comments online) But could alternatively be the fact he was promoted on screen as being in Clacton could mean that, rather than being interviewed in his capacityas Reform leader, he is perceived as being interviewed as a constituency candidate, a perk that his opponents in Clacton haven't been given.
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Hearing some very disturbing rumours that Sunak’s D-Day debacle was planned to allow him to fall on his sword…..paving the way for David Cameron’s return to number 10. Apparently he’s the only Tory believed to be capable of preventing the total annihilation of the Tories we’ve been hoping for.
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Personally I think it’s instructive to remember that Rishi Sunak is the one who came second to Liz Truss the last time the Tories had a leadership election. They knew he was even worse than she was. They’ve always known. And their failure to deal with him months ago has now blown up in their faces and they have nobody to blame but themselves. |
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No you’re absolutely right with all that. But given how much of a bloodbath they’re facing, desperate measures such as this would not shock me one bit.
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I reckon, as seen as Labour are going to win regardless, that I might as well vote for Nigel’s party. Just to give the Tory’s a kicking and see what arises out of the ashes.
They’ll either reform into a proper Conservative Party or just perish and be replaced. This election is basically a free punt. We’re guaranteed at least 10yrs of Labour, providing they don’t implode as spectacularly. ---------- Post added at 16:59 ---------- Previous post was at 16:58 ---------- Quote:
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It’s an interesting calculation. If you accept there’s a percentage of population that are racist, of that percentage there will some that are right leaning. Do more of them vote Tory led by someone else than Sunak?
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It’s a bit of a shame for our Nige the far right seem to be doing well in the European election. Instead he’s slumming it in Clacton.
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I think Rishi will last until the election, but maybe we should open a poll to guess what time he resigns as leader of the Conservatives on Friday 5th? I think he'll be gone by 6.30am.
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Also known as the "motte-and-bailey fallacy"… |
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The convention that senior ministers should be members of the commons so they could be regularly questioned by elected MPs itself goes much further back. The last Lord Prime Minister retired from office in 1902. Alex Douglas-Home was a peer when asked to become PM in 1962 but by then it was understood that it just wouldn’t do for him to remain in the Lords and he immediately renounced his peerage. Personally I think more than 40 years of there being no Lords in any of the senior cabinet posts should have been enough to end the idea for good and it therefore smacked of desperation to parachute Cameron in. An admission there was nobody good enough in the entire elected Tory party. Some of the recent commentary around Sunak and the D-Day debacle leads me to think on some level he wanted a former PM to be Foreign Sec because that way he could turf a lot of the foreign policy that was rightfully the PM’s onto him. It has become clear that Sunak finds international relations boring. Poor wee scrap. |
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If KS loses the General Election will he resign? |
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Sunak will jet off to California with his billions. He knows he’s lost this.
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In Scotland it’s the old red card for Douglas Ross (the branch office leader for the Conservatives for those currently asking “who?”. Expenses scandal claiming from the taxpayer for journeys undertaken relating to his work as a linesman.
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The betting odds suggest Rishi Sunak does not have much time to book his removal van. https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics |
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So what’s on the agenda this week? Is Rishi Sunak going to punch David Attenborough in the face? Will the Conservatives launch a policy of indentured servitude for second born children? Or maybe we could declare war on someone?
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I wouldn't be surprised if some hack discovers his children's LA school reservations :) |
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Key thing this week are the manifestos:
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I dont think thats going to be an issue. |
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Be careful what you post on your socials.
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Who is the 1 Conservative in the CF poll? Stand forward and state your case. We're all ears ... ;)
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https://wokingham.today/lucy-demery-...for-wokingham/ |
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I'm curious who the two "Others" are voting for.
Looking up my candidates on the BBC website, I see I have moved to a new constituency, apparently part of some reform over the last year. |
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Is there any significance behind the Liberal Democrats being in italics or is that just a glitch? |
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