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Boris Johnson's comparison of the Labour Party under Corbyn to Stalin's regime is making headlines around the world for all the wrong reasons. As if we weren't already laughing stocks enough!

In Germany
welt.de/politik/auslan…
In Belgium
hln.be/nieuws/buitenl…
In France
zonebourse.com/actualite-bour…
In Peru
elcomercio.pe/mundo/reino-un…
In Brazil
em.com.br/app/noticia/in…
In the Czech Republic
eurozpravy.cz/zahranicni/eu/…
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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I feel like framing this. Steve Baker said it. STEVE BAKER! Gatt Article 24 unicorn finally slain?
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Reminder: the crazed circularity of the Gatt Article 24 headbangers...

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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Tory election scandals, own goals and gaffes on 6 November 2019 (Campaign Day 1)

1. Boris Johnson kicked off his election campaign with a Telegraph piece comparing Corbyn and Labour to Stalin's persecution of the kulaks (several million murdered).
2. Alun Cairns stands down as Welsh Secretary, 24H after the BBC disclosed he knew about his former aide having sabotaged a rape trial but later denied any such knowledge.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-…
3. The ASA banned a series of DWP ads for being misleading about the ease and speed of moving onto Universal Credit.
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Every vote counts. Of course!

That said, when we're talking about the Remain cause, the youth vote *in aggregate* is by far the most powerful.

100 registered voters aged...
18-24 = 44 votes for Remain, only 10 votes for Leave
25-34 = 36 votes for Remain, only 18 votes for Leave
35-44 = 30 votes for Remain, only 25 votes for Leave

In other words, take a group of would-be voters under 44, and they will contribute more votes to Remain than to Leave.

After that, the trend starts reversing. Eventually...
65+ = 47 votes for Leave, only 24 votes for Remain
The above already accounts for turnout across age group. Younger voters turn out less. But they vote very, very Remain. Older voters turn out in droves, but far fewer vote Remain. So the younger voters still contribute more votes overall to Remain.
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أبو عمّار
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I’m getting rather tired of the equivocation around this Labour antisemitism issue, so here’s a thread for confused pundits & voters. Some smart people out there have been hoodwinked by dishonest political hacks, or are simply too tribal to accept the difference in the following:
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The logical fallacies of people is astounding, literally just had someone tell me: Corbyn made the #Labour party swing to the left because he influences policy...

The fact is this: Labour members made the party go left and elected a left leader. Not the other way around.
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Labour antisemitism in the news again. Three main issues as I see it with the reporting on this.
#1 A lack of understand (or perhaps a wilful ignorance) around the difference between statistical & anecdotal evidence.
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Ed Poole
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Thread: I've recently realised that joining the Labour party has pacified me. I have often set issues aside to focus on short term political battles. The Labour party has ducked too many issues. I think it's wrong. I'm not going to do it any more.
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You Mark Curtis & the Corbyn cult are IMO dangerous idiots if you downplay this.
A Muslim Brotherhood salute is a Muslim Brotherhood salute - be it Egypt, Syria or Turkey. If a Westerner flashed this salute it shows either support for the MB and its vision - or UTTER STUPIDITY.
That Cameron's UK together with Obama's USA have made a pact with "political Islam" is a story that Syria has felt for 7 bloody years ... and if "commentators" of the Western "pro-Syria space" are now downplaying the MB - I feel vindicated for NEVER having supported them before.
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