January 2020 Politics thread: Losing EU for good?

Close the old one, let’s go

Old one

https://community.drownedinsound.com/t/the-unofficial-2019-general-election-polling-day-and-post-mortem-politics-thread/43924/5551

https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1212156124134334464

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Volunteering β€˜Losing EU for good?’ for the pithy pun title (inspired by Solange’s β€˜Losing You’)

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shit’s fucked yo

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https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1212433056776232960

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Oh god people will start using the hashtag 2020Vision won’t they

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You’re the mod! Works for me.

Thanks to @whiterussian for closing December’s horror

Changed for reference (can’t believe this song is 7 years old):

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Presumably the Corbyn/Johnson response is from a different set of respondents to the rest

https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1212493702205034497

Hmm, wonder how much Patriotic Nationalism hurt RLB?

Jess Phillips in 3rd fucking hell

Well I mean of the others only Nandy might be a surprise in the polling, surely? I felt like RLB, JP and KS are the only ones being considered seriously

Tbf they probably were Tory votes

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I suspect that’s her ceiling to be honest

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Only Nandy can win here

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(and her only good one to date) (runs away from thread)

Yep, interesting. YouGov’s polling of party members has proved VERY accurate in all recent contests.

Perhaps the myth of Labour Members being almost exclusively blind β€˜Corbyn Cultists’ or whatever will finally be on the way out.

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Just a cult of β€˜not those other options’?.

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In 2015, yes. Your regular reminder that Momentum constitutes c.10% of the Labour Membership at present.

Looks like Phillips is going to be standing then

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