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4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Coronavirus 2) Ryan Bo... · 0 replies · +1 points

FDR

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Johnson's sex problem · 0 replies · +1 points

Interesting, I hadn't come across this perspective before. I'd always assumed Gove had strong ambitions to become PM (no that there's anything wrong with that)

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - John Redwood: In this ... · 0 replies · +1 points

While the headline 30% is true I think you have to factor Scotland into that, a truer figure is really to look at England and Wales alone, and for the moment at least voter distribution is in our favour

However we approach this issue we do have to face facts that the NHS is grossly inefficient and badly mismanaged. What the solution ends up being I don't know, but we are going to have to be realistic and look at all the options eventually

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Johnson's sex problem · 0 replies · +1 points

If Long-Bailey thinks trans politics are a vote winner then thats her lookout, but as you say it is a worry if Boris goes anti-science with the climate change stuff. I think it is mostly for show though to be honest, we do have almost 5 years ahead of us, I don't think he's going to waste much of his political capital on that

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Johnson's sex problem · 2 replies · +1 points

Labour are an irrelevance. The media are struggling to generate sufficient interest in their leadership election, even the anti-semitism reporting seems to have fallen by the wayside

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - John Redwood: In this ... · 4 replies · +1 points

This enduring popularity of Trump is a sight to behold. He beats every Democrat in head to head polling, think Sanders is the only one that even comes close. Head to head polling for the others doesn't look good for them at all

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - John Redwood: In this ... · 4 replies · +1 points

well ok we would never say Remove, it would always be Reform

I think before the election we couldn't be sure so it made sense to lean left on the NHS issue for pragmatic reasons. But the sheer scale of the victory meant we might have been overly cautious on that messaging. People weren't as concerned about the NHS as other issues. And as we have seen in recent years the public is gradually changing opinion on the NHS, seeing the gross waste and inefficiency, and the numbers of people taking advantage of the system. The reality on the ground with this issue isn't what it was even 4 years ago

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - "If you go 'transgende... · 0 replies · +1 points

Yes, it's probably a combination of factors, I'm just not sure we're particularly serious about addressing this issue. We're storing up problems for the future (electorally it doesn't matter due to concentration of younger voters in urban areas but surely it has knock on effects for the intellectual standard of our schoolchildren and graduates). Yet we seem happy (complacent?) enough with the situation and seem disinterested in even looking at it (other than a few articles here and there about blue haired SJW's or whatever)

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - John Redwood: In this ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I agree but we have plenty of time, and there is still some residual affection for the NHS amongst red wall ex-labour voters. I know the election is won now and it doesn't matter but I still think its a case of more haste less speed

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - John Redwood: In this ... · 14 replies · +1 points

I think we will start to make moves on the NHS but not so soon after the election. Don't forget we have 5 years to play with here, and we just collected a bunch of red wall voters, many of whom are probably still a bit uneasy about ditching the NHS (I actually think the fear of losing those voters is overstated, and we would have won even if we had said we were removing the NHS but I do understand caution on this front)