#Ge2019

With the hours counting down to the close of registration for #GE2019 I would like to share some thoughts and a last minute plea for people to start thinking
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its not really for former civil servants to reminisce about their ministerial bosses.. but the departure of Ken Clarke from the Commons merits an exception (he never stuck to rules
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Thread - http://politicalcompass.org Having taken a political test properly, for the first time in my life, I’m now beginning to reconcile my position.As a lifelong @UKLabour voter, until 2019 when I
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Did the Polictial compass again and to no surprise I've become more progressive since joining University, my issues don't lie with that statment or at the fact I have progressive
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MUST WATCH: @GaslitNation & @carolecadwalla: Brexit & Trump are the same crime scene.@LBC #r4today #PoliticsLive #marr #bbcsp #PeoplesVote #newsnight #c4news https://youtu.be/ZKLTucjZwmw  My #tftd:Remember a couple of weeks ago
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THREAD: Failure, misrepresentation and lies. Why no sensible person should vote for the @Conservatives and @BorisJohnson. #GE2019 THE NHS Funding : The Tories have underfunded the NHS. Since 2010
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A centrist by mind with a left Libertarian compass & a #ConservativeParty stance for the #GeneralElection2019 . Am I something of a tripolitical prodigy? Or are others just as perplexed
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This evening's live tweet thread is from the @platf9rm hustings, held at their collaborative workspace in Hove Town Hall with a welcome from Seb Royle. On the panel are @BeatriceLibDem,
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THREAD: Why Keir is right about the second referendum policy *with data*TLDR: Most leavers who defected from Lab would have done so anyway. But failing to back a PV would
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THREAD: On why the Cummings affair is so politically dangerous for the Tories.TLDR: People really think fairness is important, many key Tory voters think laws should always be obeyed and
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Short thread. From the Labour Together Report: "The review conducted for us [...] showed that many alternative media sources have declined in reach since the 2017 election, partly due to
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THREAD: Why is public approval of the government’s handling of coronavirus so strong?Despite facing substantial criticism about testing and PPE, the government is now even more popular than it was
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BILLIONS of Tax-payers' £ spaffed on dubious contracts to Palantir, Faculty, Serco, Sitel, Randox, Public First, Aventis, Pestfix, Ayanda, etc.Why isn't Govt public procurement abuse + Towns Fund misallocation all
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There’s some dismay in Labour ranks about polls like this, showing Lab several points behind the Tories. So here’s a thread about Covid and the natural advantages of incumbency. In
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THREAD With The Corbyn Experiment ending on Saturday it’s worth looking at what he is leaving behind & how/where it happened In 12 charts I have plotted Labour’s GE performance
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One of the jobs of political parties in representative democracies is candidate selectionThen came #ge2019 Problem after problem after problem I can’t remember an election where the main parties
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