It all about opinions - it wouldn't do for us all to think the same - you are the same as Ghost - anyone who complains about the EU is a xenophobe, anyone who complains about Islam is a racist anyone who suggests a man in a dress is still a man is a transphobe give us a break. What could we say about Keith Vass that wouldn't offend you delicate sensitivities?

I was pointing out that Corbyn has surrounded himself with a host of women who are the face of the Labour party - in my view this is a weakness - not because they are women but because of their personality traits and how they present themselves in the media.

Out in the real world where we risk everything that in includes the roof over my head to employ people to make money and pay taxes to keep the likes of you in your cushy public sector job, don't find politicians intimidating quite the opposite a bunch of people that the vast majority have never had a job outside of politics/quangos/unions - has Corbyn ever worked in a job in the real world, same can be said of McDonald. How can these people tell businesses how to run - last week Corbyn was suggesting McDonalds pay a minimum of £15/hour - franchises would be bankrupt in 3 months. Asda made £810m on several billion of sales - it has 120k employees give them all £100 a week extra and the profits are wiped out and job losses start.

Hypocrites most of them - Phillips would stab a Tory yet cry wolf about the word humbug, Abbott wants to ban public schools yet sent her kids to public school - but in your world saying that makes you a woman hater. I have mentioned Vass he should jailed end of - sat on ethics committee another hypocrite.

I dont often agree with you but, you are right to point out the desire to pay the lowest paid staff £15 per hour.
IIRC, Corbyn also wants 16 year olds to be paid a minimum of £10.00 per hour.

Mind you, it could all be electioneering, something that we've seen plenty of from Johnson.

20 new hospitals ring any bells ?? or 20,000 ADDITIONAL police officers, both of which we know to be utter nonsense
(The 20,000 ADDITIONAL police officers cannot be achieved when you take account of the numbers retiring/leaving the force and the new hospitals I understand is now down to 5 or 6).
It seems like the Johnson lies and exaggerations during the leave campaign have just carried on.

Does he EVER tell the truth or hit his self proclaimed targets, I dont think so.

I haven’t seen any policy that advocates a £15 per hour minimum wage, I believe labours policy is £10 per hour.

Those like Sal who claim it’s not possible and will cause mass unemployment etc, these are exactly the same arguments used against bringing a minimum wage into start with, something the Conservative party unanimously opposed.

Sal you use Asda as an example, they are owned by the Walmart family who have wealth of over £100billion, they can afford to pay staff a real living wage.

The likes of Asda employing people on minimum wage are essentially getting the tax payer to pay part of their employees wages, as they claim benefits in order to survive despite working full time.

Why should the tax payer subsidise the wages paid out by billionaires? They need to be made to pay their employees a real living wage.

Journalist, overseas aid worker in West Indies for two years then back to UK and a geography teacher before becoming trade union official for NUPE.

So it's a no then

As far as I can tell he had a VERY brief stint as a local journalist aged 18 before heading to the Caribbean for 2 years at the age of 19, during which time he filled in as a geography teacher at Kingston College for a short spell.

Since returning to the UK aged 21 he's basically been a Trade Union official before becoming a politician. His only attempt at a further education failed when he left Uni after arguing with his tutors.

So no, he's never had a real job in the sense of the average person. He enjoyed a wealthy and entitled upbringing and has been a crusty ever since.

That's because he doesn't actually give a damn about anyone apart from, well, Boris.
(I'm assuming that the "Marxist" tag came straight from the Telegraph ?)

Suggest you follow Corbyn on twitter

Looks like Farage may give Labour a boost after all.
It seems like Farage is now trying to pressure on Johnson to go for no deal by threatening to put candidates against the Tories in every seat if Johnson doesn't scrap his deal.

Maybe a lifeline for Jezza ?

I see big positives for the Tories if Boris sticks to his guns - bad news for Labour as he will take votes off them from the leave constituencies especially the Labour ones.

It's in fact the total opposite of what you suggest.
Farage was going to put candidates in all of the Labour held seats but, the offer was there, to not fight for Tory held seats.
With leave voters having a 50/50 choice between Farage & Boris (not a great choice, I admit), the leave vote will be split, severely damaging Boris's chances of an overall majority.
This is a huge headache for Cummings and the Tory strategists, especially when you factor in the ERG's wishes of no deal.
It would appear that, despite the disastrous likely hit to the ecconomy, the Tories may all have to shuffle even further to the right.

Very few leavers want a no deal Brexit - a few hardliners it will push the vote towards the Brexit party. Farage is despised - Boris is very popular for me its a win-win for Boris. There are what 25 in the ERG hardly a dominant force in the Tory party.

Do you have any empirical evidence about the numbers of leave voters who are single subject enough to vote that way but didn't already switch to the Tories in the 2017 election? We saw bumps in the Tory vote in a lot of places last time (less so than Labour but still a lot) so I'm curious to what degree these people actually exist (I'm sure they do, but to what extent?).

The most likely scenario is the Tory vote falls by less than the Labour one, which will give them the advantage in plenty of constituencies; but will it be enough to offset their almost certain losses in the SW, Scotland and London? Even a 10 point Tory lead may see them barely scrape a majority; it all depends on the vote distribution.