UK General Election 2017

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after GE15 the labour party had an opportunity to wake up and realise that the ascendancy of the metropolitan left must come to an end, lest it divorce the party from the people it purports to represent. the economically left wing, socially conservative, working class. commonly considered to be the founding reason for the 'labour' movement. flag faith and family, i beleive was the commonly understood ethos in the first half of 20c.

having argued for years that UKIP was really labour's problem, not the tories, i rofl'ed big time at the damage they did in labour heartlands in northern england at GE15, and said that they needed an Alan Johnston type figure to reverse the northern rot in its core vote.

instead, what we got was an metropolitian 'ultra' from london who cared more about the injustice of palestine than the problems of Pontefract. so I rofl'ed some more. then rofl'ed gain when he proved to be completely imovable despite his utter inability to address the existential questions his party faces.

for all this talk of 'progressive alliances', i warn you all to accomodate yourselves to an 80-100 seat tory majority, and the utter destruction of the notion of the 48%. lest you become totally disillusioned with british politics. ;)

The one thing that has perplexed me about British politics in the past few years has been the process of Party Leaders. I must be blind to the inner nuances of British society because Corbyn in my eyes just seems like a dud. He seems to be alienating to a large section of the public, and as the 'Leader of the Opposition' he certainly abandoned any efforts to represent the 48% who wanted to stay. He had a vote of no confidence just last year and now his party looks like it is on the verge of complete irrelevancy after the next election. How is this man still Party Leader?

In general, I really don't care if 60% had voted to leave. As a politician who is supposed to be looking in the best interests of the State, this drive towards Brexit at the possible expense of Scotland leaving the Union seems to be insanity. And over what, a non-binding referendum? Would a politician really be chastised in UK society for saying, "I will not vote for Brexit in the interest of maintaining a beautiful Union that has stood since 1707." I just don't understand and maybe I never will.