Jeremy Corbyn Takes lead in polls over the Conservatives

I hope he wins but I'm not optimistic @glynch.

That polling company is one of the worst I've ever seen, and I've been watching the outlets that have been recently cherry picking online polls for signs that the conservatives are going to lose. I'm finding that those outlets lean heavily conservative and the polls are of relatively poor quality.

My hunch is that the UK conservative-leaning media is exaggerating Corbyn's acceleration to scare conservatives to come out to vote and to give an excuse to young people not to spend time voting (i.e. we're going to win anyway, why stand in line somewhere).

Let's see how it goes. I think Corbyn will make consistent gains but not sure he has enough time to close the gap (which was the cowardly point of the surprise election) and IF he loses, you know there will be another internal Labour party coup ramping up.

 

Somebody should sticky this thread for review tomorrow morning. LOL.

 

This Fox News puts it this way:

 

Exit polls are projecting a hung parliament. With that said, they're just exit polls. But either way, the Tories really underperformed. They were running against one of the most unpopular Labour leaders in modern times and somehow managed to blow it.

 

That didn't help but May screwed up beyond the Trump association. She was astonishingly terrible at campaigning and Corbyn did surprisingly well. Corbyn actually came across as somewhat thoughtful and even if you didn't agree with him, no one doubted that he was a fighter.

May, on the other hand, sounded like a robot who flip flopped every other day on different parts of the Tory Manifesto.

 

Hung parliament, but no balls.

 

Must have been Russian interference.

 

Even Russian hacking and interference can't cause one to lose to a Jeremy Corbyn led Labour Party. You have to be a really special leader to manage to screw this up.

 

I think this reinforces the notion that the majority of people are simply angry, but not particularly partisan. There's a worldwide throw-the-bums-out mentality, and whoever's in charge is going to face that wrath, regardless if the opposition consists of crazy people like Corbyn or Trump.

 

I'm not so sure. I think the Tories gambled on the collapse of UKIP and assuming that those voters will go to the Tories. They basically assumed that Brexit would decide the election.

Instead the Labour successfully highlighted health care and the challenges with the NHS as well as things like tuition fees and housing costs. The Tories weren't prepared to actually have a policy fight. The Tories just thought Brexit would carry the day. I think there is genuine anger at the system but Labour actually highlighted those problems and campaigned on fixing them, the Tories didn't. If anything Corbyn should be commended for really trying to win on policy issues. A lot of people who didn't really agree with him actually thought he was at least trying to address issues. The Tories were too busy proposing stupid ideas and running away from them.

Corbyn is a nut but he actually campaigned quite well and May didn't.

 

This is great news, I'm ordering some stuff from the UK and the pound will drop significantly with this upset.

 

Interesting that all nationalist candidates in Europe significantly underperformed their predictions since Trump got elected.

Even more interesting is that someone named Lord Buckethead dressed like Darth Vader literally with a bucket on his head was running against Teresa May.

And you thought our elections are bizarre.

Actually ... give me Lord Buckethead over who we've got in office now.

 

why is no media outlet calling Corbyn far left like they called Le Pen far right?

 

Corbyn isn't becoming PM. The Tories will form a government with outside support from DUP (an Irish Unionist Party). Labour did quite well this election but the SNP collapsing in Scotland really ruined their chances of forming a government.