Election Year or Fear!

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It wasn’t me who said they would. I don’t know and merely pointed out that three and a half years is a very long time in politics.

I know I’m wasting my time but look at it this way. Approaching a decade ago you lot won the narrowest of victories in the Brexit referendum but did little in the 2019 GE when Farage didn’t even stand - having missed out on seven consecutive occasions - and Johnson humbled Corbyn’s Labour by winning a very comfortable and large majority.
Johnson lasted as PM for less than three years before resigning in disgrace paving the way for Labour to win with an enormous majority less than two years after Johnson’s departure at which point Farage became an MP for the first time, at the eighth attempt.

Given those facts I find it very difficult to predict what may or may not happen in another three years or so. The Mandelson situation represents a very serious error of judgement. Beyond that I’m not sure what it is about Starmer’s behaviour you find so unforgivable.

You are RA, best have the idiot on ignore, then unless somebody like you quotes his stupid posts I don't have to read the bollox repeated verbatum from whatever fake news media he is reading. Reform won't win an election simply becuase if that becomes a ral posibility, there will be considerable tactical voting to prevent it. But that won't be the case, because history suggests that Farage will not want to cede control and there will, as has already happened a falling out and defections or ejections from Reform.

As for opinion polls, anybody who takes notice of them 3 plus years from a GE needs to give their head a wobble, as you say a lot can and will happen in the time ahead and agin its a fact that what people say in a poll (iirrespective of its accuracy) is often very different to how they actually cast their vote.

Still let the fascists have thier brief moment of triumph, it wont last.