Re#740

Ryan, why do always put the phrase ‘as I have proven’ with all of your often dodgy statsistics. You never prove anything, just put your spin on selective information.

Re#739

If John thinks it is a good thing, you can guarantee it isn’t in the majority of the populations’ interest.

Pob has an appalling record in Government of not listening to valid opinion and going off on what almost always proves to be an eventually ineffectual tangent.

If He is let anywhere near the brexit negotiations, the 27 will just laugh at him

My guess as to why she has him in the cabinet is that it is better to have your enemies in plain sight so they can’t stab you in the back. It is, as always, to ensure her personal position and sod the rest of us

Single handed? Really?

I assume your are Living through your own deluded fantasy bromance with Farage Gump John to think so.
Saying something time after time does not make it true.

The ‘braindeads’ who infest this forum would rather hang themselves than agree with that!

I should have said some of his aides have suggested that he had won by losing, my bad

Some on the centre and right of the Labour party have suggested that with such an open goal of TM and her dreadful campaign anyone but JC would have done much better. Easy to say, and shows that there are internal tensions within the party almost equal to those amongst the tories. This is already becoming public with John McDonnell saying that they must keep the current labour shadow front bench after some others who resigned have come back into the fold

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-shadow-cabinet-john-mcdonnell-labour-general-election-a7784886.html

Stop press: b*gger me Pob is back in the cabinet. As environment secretary of all things

What nationwide popularity do you imagine he has John? At the highest point UKIP, with him as leader, gained 12% of the vote. Now admittedly some people who voted Tory and a number of labour supporters as well might like him, but really not enough to suggest he is now as popular as you would wish him to be.

Of all of my friends, at least 1/2 of whom voted tory as far as I could guess, only one has a good word to say about him. This person has very similar views to you as exposed on here so perhaps he could come and join you in a fanclub of two?

As I have said before, you cannot extrapolate what you see in the type of papers you read to the population as a whole. Last Thursday night should have convinced you of that.

My one encounter with Ian Paisley sr. In the flesh (and there was a substantial amount of flesh -he was a big man) Was in the lobby of the European Parliament in Strasbourg when he brushed past me to talk to Jean-Marie LePen. Two zealots together.
I think he had just been having one of his famous rants.

Ah, but that is the whole point, the tories and their apologists on here have spent time decrying JC with their accusations of terrorism links, but as soon as they are in trouble they are happy to fall into bed with people with similarly ‘sinister’ links. They just happen to be linked to pro-union protestant terrorists. Just for clarity, the DUP say they no longer support violence, in itself that suggests they used to.
Hypocrisy?

Oh, and yet again you are making assumptions John. I have never suggested I am a Corbyn supporter. If you had time to search back through my posts You could confirm that. But I guess you won’t bother.
Ryan, I think you are wrong to focus simply on the older voters, assuming that it was simply those policies that blew it for them is far too simplistic.
if nothing else has come out of this it is that the younger electorate has been energised

Oh yes please!!!

He would do irreparable damage to them if he does

Two birds, one stone

Of more import is how the apparent new working relationship between the tories and DUP will affect the Good Friday Agreement. The government of the day has acted as a mediator between DUP and SF, this alters the balance which is not good news for the peace process, whatever one thinks of the merits of each sides’ historical or current position