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  • 21-06-2017 5:48pm
    #1
    JackPerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47 ✭


    Would the Conservatives have won in the UK if the Grenfell Tower fire had occurred before the Elections?


Comments

  • #2
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Maybe. Maybe not.


  • #3
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    Uh, I think so OP, but we'll never get a monkey to use dental floss.


  • #4
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Atoms for Peace wrote: »
    Uh, I think so OP, but we'll never get a monkey to use dental floss.

    What do you want to do tonight?


  • #5
    MistyCheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    Ooh I love these!

    What is 'hat' with a 'w' in front of it.


  • #6
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands.


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  • #7
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    I don't think they would have won the election if it was held again, a few days later, let alone after Grenfell. Theresa May is way out of touch with the UK electorate. I think it just came down to people not thinking Corbyn had the personality, or had it in him to run the country. Although tine has his shown maybe Theresa May doesn't have it in her either.


  • #8
    Academic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭Academic


    JackPerry wrote: »
    Would the Conservatives have won in the UK if the Grenfell Tower fire had occurred before the Elections?

    I'm not sure. But I do think that if the election had been a week or ten days later that Labour would have won. They had terrific momentum going into the final days, and the chief motivating issue in my opinion wasn't Brexit, it was the Tory's austerity policies.


  • #9
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    If Labour had a moderate centre left leader they would have won imo. That's the problem with the FPTP electoral system, people like Corbyn are in Labour, whereas in Ireland under P.R he and his fellow travelers within Lab would be part of one the fringe far left political parties.


  • #10
    mad muffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    MistyCheese wrote: »
    Ooh I love these!

    What is 'hat' with a 'w' in front of it.

    I dunno? What is hat with W in front of it?


  • #11
    RiderOnTheStorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    mad muffin wrote:
    I dunno? What is hat with W in front of it?

    Yes


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  • #12
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    What do you want to do tonight?

    The same thing we do every night....


  • #13
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    The same thing we do every night, Pinky...

    *pants


  • #14
    munster87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭munster87


    mad muffin wrote: »
    I dunno? What is hat with W in front of it?

    Uuhat


  • #15
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    If Labour had a moderate centre left leader they would have won imo. That's the problem with the FPTP electoral system, people like Corbyn are in Labour, whereas in Ireland under P.R he and his fellow travelers within Lab would be part of one the fringe far left political parties.

    Corbyn is moderate. He is also the most successful Labour leader since Tony Blair.


  • #16
    ChunkyLover54
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover54


    RayM wrote: »
    He is also the most successful Labour leader since Tony Blair.

    Faint praise indeed.


  • #17
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    ChunkyLover54 wrote: »
    Faint praise indeed.

    Not if you remember how popular Blair was pre-Iraq.


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