UK Politics Thread

2. I think that is exactly what he did and did so in a way that kept his own party's support from completely splitting. The main reasons for a 'leave' vote were because of frustration with the government, a government that arrogantly misjudged the public mood.

3. Maybe not directly, certainly indirectly. Look at how London has been gentrified and hipster filled. Funny how it happened as a result of Thatcher and Blair. Seeing people earn ridiculous wages for doing f**k all is just an insult to people. It obviously needs to be taken further but it is a start.

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2. He wasn't supposed to, if he had they might have lost more than a by-election.

3. It should be done in conjunction with higher tax bands. Personally speaking it would make me feel less murderous when I land in Liverpool street, they are lucky they have tight gun laws.

There's been a few suggestions that the Labour candidate in Copeland's reluctance to do TV and radio spots and present her own personal agenda may have been a mistake. But that's largely irrelevant now.

On the bright side. MP's from nine different political parties earlier today united to support Eilidh Whiteford's Private Members Bill for the UK to ratify the Istanbul Convention on violence against women. A couple of Tory MP's led by the odious far-right MP Philip Davies (look him up he is a total cant) tried to stop it by filibustering it (so it would run out of parliamentary time and be shelved) but they were thwarted in their attempts. Nice to have a good news story from Westminster once in a while 

I think this article is interesting. It talks of "normalising" defeat, which I feel is what Corbyn, McDonnell etc are trying to do. Previous issues related to polls are also not justifiable reasons to ignore the major discrepancy between the Tories and Labour at the moment, as Copeland is a manifestation of the bad numbers.

*My links never seem to work. But the article is readily available through Google.

Very little to dispute about what he says.