Posts by Russell Brown
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And finally: Health mattered a shitload more than terrorism or Brexit. And a fair chunk of Labour voters remain wary of Corbyn but voted Labour anyway.
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A national divided by age ...
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The SkyData same-day polling is super-interesting. Conservative voters have a much stronger faith in their party of choice as a good government. But look at that massive approval turnaround over the course of the campaign.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Proper Lorde, in reply to bob daktari,
that afro house nonsense is fantastic!
Props to Keegan for that one.
Lorde playing the powerstation is bloody great, and an all ages... respect
Absolutely. They'd have made much more money playing Spark Arena, but that clearly wasn't the priority.
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Interesting observations from the BBC coverage:
- The Tories' 43% share of the vote is only just shy of the 44% that secured landslide victories for Blair and Thatcher.
- The 40% won by Labour is more than Blair achieved in one victory.
The key is the ravaging of the other parties. As ever, FPP militates against political diversity and new entrants to the process.
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Aaaaand ... it just officially became a hung Parliament.
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Hard News: Interesting Britain!, in reply to Sam Bradford,
Corbyn was bad at ‘the basics’ because he was being kneecapped by his own MPs from day one. How he was supposed to do his job in those circumstances I don’t know. The amazing thing is, he’s not a good politician in any traditional sense – but he’s won over swathes of new voters just by not being a craven chump.
Can't argue with that.
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Hard News: Interesting Britain!, in reply to andrew r,
Why even the author of this site may have been wrong in bowling with the centrists.
Corbyn's run an excellent campaign and May a historically awful one. He appears to have motivated people to vote – and his extremely beige position on Brexit was clearly the right one electorally, given that far more shed UKIP votes seem to be going to Labour than anyone expected. It's hard to credit now that it's only slightly over a month since Labour had a fairly ghastly result in the local council elections.
But I don't really resile from my misgivings about Corbyn's performance as Opposition leader for much of the time he's been in the job. He was really bad at some of the basics.
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Thing we probably didn’t expect to see: Scotland possibly saving the Tories.
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After a series of swings to Conservatives in safe Labour seats, now a clutch of Tory seats looking shaky. Gadzooks!
