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Fantastic isn't it, we get May as the leader of one party without anyone having a say and it looks like the labour NEC has cowardly asked for a secret ballot to keep Corbyn out of the leadership of labour, so we will have 2 unelected leaders in May v Eagle at PMQ'S (both of which supported remain).
and they wonder why people are disconnected from politics.
Last edited by cityviking; 12-07-16 at 18:00.
Tommy, you might have added that no-one voted for the current head of state, and that no-one has voted for Britain's head of state, ever!
Maybe there is some hope, Corbyn on the Labour ballot so at least there will be an election.
The issue is though, that for many people they will vote along traditional lines, Traditional tories will vote Tory, Traditional Labour will vote labour, that leaves the "middle ground" many of whom will be voting for who they want to be PM.
I believe that very few of us vote for the candidate we feel will do the best job for our local community.
This is very true. This is an extract from an article I recently read:
"Robert Ford, a political scientist at the University of Manchester, reported on a YouGov survey on partisan reactions to the Downing Street cats. Participants in the survey were shown a picture of Humphrey, the Chief Mouser appointed by Margaret Thatcher, and told that he was either Thatcher's cat or Tony Blair's cat. Affinity for the cat divided along partisan lines: Conservative voters liked the cat far more when they were told it was Thatcher's and Labour voters liked the cat far more when they were told it was Blair's. Ford concludes that partisanship shapes reactions to everything a politician does, however trivial, similar to the halo effect (and a reverse "forked tail effect") observed by psychologists."
So it's very true that (generally) those who regularly vote Tory won't ever change, and the same for those who vote Labour.
I think we are seeing the end of the Labour party , perhaps we saw that coming anyway before all this chaos leadership and Brexit impacts with he rise of UKIP in traditional Labour seats , we will now see the Tories in for a very long time, perhaps that was the plan all along, by some,disrupt , divide and conquer ? .
You need to stay away from the BBC. It's not about selecting a leader, it's about selecting an ideology. Labour selected a leader on 12 September 2015. What you are now witnessing is a concerted attempt by the establishment and the corporate backed media to install their own establishment friendly version of the Labour Party. If you had any ability to think critically, you may be asking the question why might that be? Cui Bono?