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just like "ding dong the witch is dead" reaching number 2, "Liar, Liar GE2017" which is at number4, it will never be shown or heard on tv or commercial radio.

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Thanks for that Goodluck. There's the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxN1STgQXW8

To be fair there should be two versions with Corbyn's own lies and deficient arithmetic and they both be played equally.

The bearded communist radical actually might get in. The UK is screwed anyway, what difference does it make which crank you vote for?

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Jeremy Corbyn is not a communist. He's not a member of the Communist Party in Britain, who tend to poll quite low in the elections.

And the UK is not screwed. It adapts and moves on. As it will when it leaves the EU.

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Madverts Today  04:21 pm JST

The bearded communist radical actually might get in. 

So is the communism, the radicalism or the beard that you object to most?

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Not a great beard to be honest. More like stubble than a full bog brush. Certainly not up there with Fidel's magnificent effort.

Go Jezza!

My bookie mate told me the Tories by 30 to 40 is where the money is going.

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Theres hope for the UK. They elected to get out of the Merkel "Islam is our future" nightmare.

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It's a pity that the UK can't hold an election in the same style as the Brexit vote.

I've read that after the next election the Tories will adjust some of the council boundaries in their favour too . The UK Voting system has been tinkered with continually over the years, and is now sadly rigged, and not exactly Democratic.

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Well, the UK is definitely at a crossroads. Assailed regularly by mass murdering muslims in its midst and its citizens told by the muslim London mayor, in effect , to get used to it.

Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn is "uncomfortable" with police shoot-to-kill authorization. Good luck!

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Simon Foston Today  05:07 pm JST

So is the communism, the radicalism or the beard that you object to most?

Don't they all go together?

Maybe it's the sandals and the cardigans.

Or maybe it's the Care Bear political platform the defies arithmetic and the weakness that really scares me. DQon't forget Corbyn doesn't really want to win, he basks in perpetual opposition as the ultimate lefty rebel. Britain never got over the destruction wrought by the socialists in the seventies. Corbyn would usher in a new era of poverty and trade union madness. Watch the Pound plummet should he be elected.

But like I said, the decline of Brexit Britain is just beginning no matter which mythomane gets to reside in number 10.

Heretic:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/24/communist-party-vows-support-jeremy-corbyn-labour-manifesto/

The Communist party will not field candidates in the general election for first time in almost a century after suggesting Jeremy Corbyn will help achieve its "revolutionary" aims. 

The party's general secretary said communists would provide support on the ground for Mr Corbyn, who is a long-term supporter of the movement and has previously called Fidel Castro "heroic".

He's a commie alright.

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Corbyn doesn't really want to win, he basks in perpetual opposition as the ultimate lefty rebel. Britain never got over the destruction wrought by the socialists in the seventies. Corbyn would usher in a new era of poverty and trade union madness

I think you'll find the madness like the three-day-week actually kicked off under Edward Heath although Wilson and Callaghan weren't too great either.

The real destruction kicked off in the eighties under Thatcher.

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Britain never got over the destruction wrought by the socialists in the seventies. Corbyn would usher in a new era of poverty and trade union madness. Watch the Pound plummet should he be elected.

Correction, Britain never quite recovered from the devestation Thatcher wrought on entire communities across the land. The trade unions were decimated and workers rights were demonised. The intelligence services wasted time infiltrating and spying on them. One can only hope that workers will come first, ahead of fat cats and their precious profits. Time will tell. Oh and the pound has already plummeted, first thanks to the economic excesses which led to the crash in 2008 and more recently thanks to Brexit. But as I said, elsewhere, the UK will adapt to the uncertainty of that result.

Of course the Communist party will support Labour, they'd be foolish not to.

And UKIP will give the Tories support, which must make May and co. far right fascists, if one is to use your logic about questionable support.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3737825/paul-nuttall-urges-public-to-vote-tactically-and-support-theresa-may-because-jeremy-corbyn-cant-be-trusted-on-brexit/

He's a commie alright.

LOL. I suspect you don't reside in Britain. That kind of language belongs in the 1950s...

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The real destruction kicked off in the eighties under Thatcher.

Rubbish. You're old enough to remember the winter of discontent.

Just take our once glorious automotive industry absolutely destroyed by the socialists. Trade unionists actually sabotaging the vehicles destined for export. Triumph actually had to relocate their factory to stop the madness, but it was already too late. A far cry from the thirteen engineers at Jaguar in the 1950's that took on the might of a 1000 German engineers at Mercedes to take le Mans....

Socialism is a failure. It's a nice idea, but it always ends up in the equal sharing of misery. Like Venezuela. That failed state that up until only recently Corbyn was praising and publicly saying we should copy their example....

Pays de Bisounours is the proposal, economic ruin is the reality. And I don't support the Tories either. It looks much better up here on the fence....

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LOL. I suspect you don't reside in Britain. That kind of language belongs in the 1950s...

Yup, Franco-Brit millennial enjoying the sun right now watching the UK sinking thanks largely to baby-boomers obsessed with taking Britain back to an alternante 1950's that never actually existed.

I see you ignore the article I cited. LOL right back at ya...

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Anything and everything for tomorrows Election, statically, is detailed within the sites below. Scroll down for UK general elections since 1932, plus the 23rd June 2016, UK referendum on EU membership all with statistical breakdowns. Also I have singled out the link for UK Members of Parliament, 2015 - 2017 listed by majority.

http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk.htm

http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/mps-maj.htm

This provides an indication of the struggle the Labour opposition is up against just to maintain the current 230 seats in comparison to the May 2017 local council elections.  Be prepared for a Conservative majority of some 110 plus seats from the data taken from Mays election.  

Some Manifestos 2017 ......

https://www.conservatives.com/manifesto

http://www.labour.org.uk/index.php/manifesto2017

https://www.snp.org/manifesto

http://www.libdems.org.uk/manifesto

http://www2.partyof.wales/actionplan17

http://www.ukip.org/manifesto2017

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The Tories under May will increase their majority from 17 to something like 50 or so if you look at the latest bookies' averages. Apparently, appalling weather is forecast which might increase the majority further due to lower turnout. Corbyn has fired his number two Diane Abbot the day before the election so things are not looking good for him as she has stronger support among Labour backbenchers. Corbyn will be forced to resign on Friday as leader of the Labour party.

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Rubbish. You're old enough to remember the winter of discontent.

Yes, as I posted Wilson and Callaghan were as incompetent as the Tory Heath when it came to managing the economy. Three car crashes in charge, not two.

Socialists destroying industry? IDo you really want to talk about the wholesale destruction of industry in the Thatcher years? I could start but I usually get to bed around midnight. In a nutshell, the destruction of industry created an enormous army of unemployed and ballooned the welfare bill.

You know the benefit culture you despise? It really came of age as she bloated the ranks in those years.

Very destructive.

It's easy on the fence. I wouldn't vote for any of them./They're all the bloody same/Nothing will change/They are all idiots. I don't have a lot of respect for that kind of thing to be honest. I think the idea of voting for the least objectionable candidate or party is the best way to go.

Tories are completely objectionable.

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Corbyn is not a communist - the utter nonsense people believe.

If you love the NHS, don't vote Tory.

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Madverts June 7  07:44 pm JST

Just take our once glorious automotive industry absolutely destroyed by the socialists. 

So capitalists do a much better job, do they? How about what the Phoenix Group did to Longbridge? How did BHS and the Royal Bank of Scotland get on under Sir Philip Green and Fred Goodwin? Are they socialists?

Socialism is a failure. It's a nice idea, but it always ends up in the equal sharing of misery.

Much better to let a caste of private sector oligarchs run everything for their own benefit, pocket the profits and share out the misery among everyone else, eh?

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