Ennis wrote:
Herb wrote:
@Ennis - Mhairi Black is awesome. If more politicians were like her, the public would be more engaged.
I was genuinely shocked when I seen her seat as one of those which are at risk. I think it just highlights how people vote for an issue, rather than the person for the job.
This election is wrecking my brain. We've got the pro-independence SNP not mentioning Independence (I say correctly, as the mandate for that comes in the Scottish Elections not the UK ones - but I'm biased), we have callous, murdering Tories not shutting up about Independence whilst accusing the SNP of not shutting up about Independence, & Labour seeing a surge due to Corbyn despite Scottish Labour still being seen as completely incompetent & essentially trying to run on an anti-Independence ticket, but doing a worse job of it than the Tories and having a negative campaign whilst UK Labour runs a largely positive campaign.
You have people voting SNP who'd want to vote Labour but can't because their Scottish wing is horrific, you have people who want to vote the pro-Union Labour voting for the pro-Union Tories as they don't trust Labour with the Union despite all risk to the Union coming under Tory Government, you have people voting Labour who'd want to vote SNP but can't hide their love of Corbyn's agenda...
I want off this world.
I have it relatively easy. I'm a Labour member in a very safe Labour seat. The only issue is I don't particularly like my MP, Rachel Reeves. But after a wavering start (like many) she's got in line and is now supporting Corbyn.
I'm swinging between optimism and pessimism for the future.
The Labour majority is just not going to happen - no matter how 'red' my facebook and twitter timelines currently are. I imagine the best possible scenario right now is a Labour/SNP alliance (with the Green and other similar MPs along for the ride).
However, past experience has taught me that the the bubble that I live in is vastly different to how the British electorate vote. So I'm expecting an increased Tory majority tomorrow.