- 24 Mar 2019 14:41
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Personally I think the success of Labour in the next General Election really depends on the stupidity of the Tories. Under another Labour leader there would be a big Labour lead rather than a four points deficit at the moment because the Tories are a complete clusterfuck. Also they have gotten away without being punished heavily today in the polls because the reality of Brexit has not hit everyones pockets... yet. But they shouldn't be complacent. I am pretty sure under Hard Brexit the UK public would vote for Frank Spencer over a government who actively went out of its way to crash the economy. So if that is Corbyn vs the Tories, Corbyn may well do better than Blair in 1997 actually. Not because he is a great choice but because the Tories are such a bad choice.
redcarpet wrote:I'm not sure but some people might be thinking there will be a repeat of the 1997 General Election result of a landslide Labour Party victory partly because of the divisions and so on in the Tories over the EU in the early 1990s. That's only a possibility, and my money isn't on it. The Polls are neck-to-neck. Corbyn can get either a 1 or 2-point Labour Party lead at most. So I'm not optimistic.
Personally I think the success of Labour in the next General Election really depends on the stupidity of the Tories. Under another Labour leader there would be a big Labour lead rather than a four points deficit at the moment because the Tories are a complete clusterfuck. Also they have gotten away without being punished heavily today in the polls because the reality of Brexit has not hit everyones pockets... yet. But they shouldn't be complacent. I am pretty sure under Hard Brexit the UK public would vote for Frank Spencer over a government who actively went out of its way to crash the economy. So if that is Corbyn vs the Tories, Corbyn may well do better than Blair in 1997 actually. Not because he is a great choice but because the Tories are such a bad choice.