BREXIT

So at the start of a general election campaign, the PM and his chief adviser have both been referred to the CPS for breaking the law on elections. Hard to imagine a more serious matter for our democracy.

I’d save your sympathy for yourself as you come across as someone with a lot of issues and hatred.

Did anybody else see our Prime Minister sign his letter to Jeremy Corbyn as “Jeremy Corbyn”? The Tories are losing the plot!

In 2015 you promised to build 200,000 starter homes by 2020 for first time buyers. You've actually built zero. How do you explain this?

Tory minister: "But Jeremy Corbyn ..."

This Tory election candidate in Wales who said that people on benefits should be put to death, and enthused about the idea of a campaign of vigilante violence against homeless people. How do you justify the Conservative Party sticking by her?

Tory minister: "But Jeremy Corbyn ..."

When Jacob Rees-Mogg insinuates that the victims of Grenfell Fire were to blame for their own deaths because they 'lacked common sense', do you agree with him?

Tory minister: "But Jeremy Corbyn ..."

Why is there still a budget deficit in late 2019, when you originally promised that austerity would completely eliminate the budget deficit by early 2015?

Tory minister: "But Jeremy Corbyn ..."

Why is the government deliberately hiding the report into Russian interference in the EU referendum?

Tory minister: "But Jeremy Corbyn ..."

The economic recovery after the 2008 bankers' insolvency crisis has been the slowest in centuries, and UK workers have suffered the longest sustained collapse in the value of their wages since records began under your watch. Do you feel any sense of responsibility?

Tory minister: "But Jeremy Corbyn ..."

Tory austerity cuts to the NHS and social care have led to soaring waiting times at A&E departments, continually growing waiting lists for operations, impossible levels of demand on GP practices, and an estimated 130,000 preventable deaths. How do you feel about this?

Tory minister: "But Jeremy Corbyn ..."

Do you feel that scrapping 21,000 police jobs, closing down 600 police stations, and relentlessly slashing the police budget since 2010 has in any way contributed to the violent crime epidemic?

Tory minister: "But Jeremy Corbyn ..."

In recent years the conservative government has blocked low income workers' access to the justice system with unlawful tribunal fees, unlawfully forced people to work for no wages, unlawfully suspended parliament, and unlawfully supplied weapons to the Saudi tyrants to commit war crimes with. How do you have the cheek to pretend that you're 'the party of law and order'?

Tory minister: "But Jeremy Corbyn ..."

[Continues non-stop for six weeks]

Changing the subject a bit, what do people think about the impact of the Brexit Party possibly running candidates in every constituency? Would that dilute the Tory or Labour vote more? I worry it would hurt Labour more myself as Johnson is generally liked by Brexiteers.

If they were to win seats it could be interesting. You'd think it would be pretty simple for the Tories to come to an agreement with them, but if it's just a case of them wanting us out of the UK, there's no reason why Labour couldn't either. In theory, the Brexit Party doesn't necessarily have to be a right-wing party as there is a lefty case for leaving the EU, but the fact that they're led by Farage, and have chosen a logo featuring an arrow pointing to the right, suggests it is.

Have to say, I think anyone who would vote for the Brexit Party in a General Election is a fool. Imagine living in a constituency where your elected MP's one and only policy is to get out of the EU. Jesus!

I think the polls in the last few months (though they should be taken with a large pinch of salt) seem to suggest that the Brexit Party vote is mostly damaging the Tories. Johnson's increasing poll ratings have coincided with the Brexit Party losing support. Polls have also showed that Labour Leavers are more Labour than they are Leave. I have already been out canvassing in this election and most of the anti-Labour / pro-Brexit vote is fairly warm to Johnson, but much much warmer to Farage. I live in a constituency where my Labour MP has a majority of around 5,000 - I think from a Labour point of view, particularly in my constituency, it is very helpful indeed that the Brexit Party are putting up a candidate. It also helps that the Tory candidate has been parachuted in from Scotland and has never been here in his life. And he isn't white either so the frothing gammon / UKIP xenos won't vote for him. 

Definitely agree with your final point. Anybody who sees the levels of crisis in the NHS, the numbers of homeless people living on the street and the millions of people having to use food banks just to survive and then goes and votes for a single issue party needs a good hard slap. I include both the Liberal Democrats and the Brexit Party in that category.

The Tories (and of course the B(n)P) want you to make this election solely about Brexit and the likes of Sky News are calling it the “Brexit Election” but it isn’t. It’s a general election.

That's not strictly true though is it. Nigel Farage has constantly lied about our relationship with the European Union:-

- Lied that EU Commissioners cannot be removed (elected national governments can actually vote to remove them),
- Lied that EU Parliament is unelected (it's actually made up of directly elected MEP's from member states, Farage should know this, he's been one for years),
- Lied that we can't control immigration (under European treaties we can control immigration, but that's down to the Tory gov. upholding those treaties, not the EU),
- Lied that we'd be forced into an EU army (our power of veto over any new EU laws explicitly prevents this should we choose to do so),
- Lied stating Article 50 says we have no obligation to pay anything to the EU after 2020 (not straightforward, but could go on for years due to outstanding binding contracts with the EU),
- In 2016, defended the idea that we could be like Norway, a Single Market country, and is now pushing for a hard Brexit to leave the Single Market (okay technically that's not a lie, but it's abject hypocrisy).

But you probably already knew that anyway.

Well in your opinion we're all doomed. no need to vote at all.

Just back from mold. The first time I've seen anybody campaigning and it was the brexit party. People queuing up to speak with their representative.

Good grief! Is that possible?

Who thought they could do worse than the campaign in 2017?!

Unbelievable.

David Hanson (and Mark Tami in the constituency next door) are both effective MPs who are very vocal and active in representing their communities, causes and plights. Both very cooperative, quick to respond to queries and voluntarily follow-up on those queries. They have a loyal “following” in their constituencies and like another poster above in my recent experience around the area Labour leavers are still Labour. I’d hope both keep their seats.