Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2019 5:57 am
So there was no actual anti-Brexit party then by that definition.
Because sometimes even national leaders just want to hang out
https://forum.nationstates.net/
Vassenor wrote:So there was no actual anti-Brexit party then by that definition.
Vassenor wrote:So there was no actual anti-Brexit party then by that definition.
The Archregimancy wrote:Salandriagado wrote:
My claim is specifically that a narrow majority voted against Brexit. I'm specifically claiming that Labour voters don't want to leave, and voted for them to block the Tories. (And I skipped PC/SDLP/SF because I just added parties in until I got over 50%).
Then you're wrong.
Labour's ambiguous Brexit policy was deliberately designed to avoid alienating either Leavers or Remainers; we therefore should not assume that all 10,292,354 Labour voters 'didn't want to leave'.
It's certainly likely that a good majority of Labour voters would have supported Remain in a second referendum; but by no means all of them. So you're making the statistical error of assuming a majority should be taken as representing the totality of a data set when combining that data set with others.
And again, Labour was not an anti-Brexit party - only a pro-second referendum party.
Salandriagado wrote:The Archregimancy wrote:
Then you're wrong.
Labour's ambiguous Brexit policy was deliberately designed to avoid alienating either Leavers or Remainers; we therefore should not assume that all 10,292,354 Labour voters 'didn't want to leave'.
It's certainly likely that a good majority of Labour voters would have supported Remain in a second referendum; but by no means all of them. So you're making the statistical error of assuming a majority should be taken as representing the totality of a data set when combining that data set with others.
And again, Labour was not an anti-Brexit party - only a pro-second referendum party.
No, I'm merely saying that you can't assume the contrary. And also that they're probably approximately balanced out by Tory voters who don't want to leave.
Salandriagado wrote:Unsurprisingly, Corbyn's gone.
Salandriagado wrote:Unsurprisingly, Corbyn's gone.
Fartsniffage wrote:Salandriagado wrote:Unsurprisingly, Corbyn's gone.
He isn't gone yet. Just said that he won't lead Labour into the next election. He's still leader.
Vassenor wrote:So what do we make of what happened in Kensington?
Fartsniffage wrote:Salandriagado wrote:Unsurprisingly, Corbyn's gone.
He isn't gone yet. Just said that he won't lead Labour into the next election. He's still leader.
Sure, but they knew what they are voting for. The Tory manifesto isn't particularly hard to read even for the most ardent Tribalist pro-Euro Tory.
Dead man walking.Fartsniffage wrote:Salandriagado wrote:Unsurprisingly, Corbyn's gone.
He isn't gone yet. Just said that he won't lead Labour into the next election. He's still leader.
Salandriagado wrote:Unsurprisingly, Corbyn's gone.
Better to pull the plaster off now whilst the election hurts rather than keep gently pulling and tugging and extending the pain.
Zurkerx wrote:Regardless now, the EU next year will have one less member, and likely I think we'll see a hard exit.
Fartsniffage wrote:Vassenor wrote:
And apparently its problematic that hes waiting for a replacement to be chosen rather than pulling the rug out from under the party.
Yes, it is. Because he'll still be the ineffective leader he's been thus far through us leaving the EU in January. He should get out of the way.
That the idea of blocking Tories at any cost and trusting a website to help was a dangerous one that backfired.Vassenor wrote:So what do we make of what happened in Kensington?