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My ideal election outcome:
- Labour: 260-270
- SNP: 45-50
- LibDems: 30-40+
- Greens, Plaid Cymru, friendly sensible independents: 5-10+

1) Denies Tories a majority
2) Denies Labour a majority
3) Puts balance of power in the Remain camp

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*If* the above scenario played out, I could see Labour jettisoning Corbyn and as a result a Government of National Unity forming around a second referendum and points of agreement in the various manifestoes, with all parties represented in Cabinet.
If Corbyn didn't go, it would be an exclusively Labour minority government with a Sword of Damocles hanging over it as it could be brought down absolutely any time by its very reluctant backers. Corbyn would have to hold a second referendum, but the rest of the manifesto? Nope!
Corbyn boosters don't seem to grasp that if Labour don't get an outright majority:
A) They're not automatically entitled to be in government
B) Corbyn isn't automatically entitled to stay leader *if* Labour want to form a government
C) Labour doesn't get to enact all its policies
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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I'm sick and tired of the idiotic response from many (NOT all) Labour supporters that goes something like this: "Well, if you don't support Corbyn's policies, you must support poverty and inequality". Those aren't two sides of one coin! Broken logic, and insulting to boot.
And while we're at it, I genuinely despair at the "we've done nothing wrong because the other main party did something as bad or even worse" line of non-reasoning.

Anti-semitism? Nope, look at the Islamophobia.
Uncosted manifesto? Nope, their sums don't add up *either*.
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There are other parties, you know! Many moderate voters of *all* parties are looking at the Johnson & Corbyn farce double-act and despairing of both.
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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This is what I was talking about earlier. You can't just snap your fingers and magic £58 billion out of thin air, even if the cause it is intended to address is very worthy. That's about half the cost of a decade of austerity!
And it sabotages their manifesto into the bargain. Buckets of free ammo for the Tories.
It's almost as if they... want to lose?
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