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[Doctor Gollum]

In other news it's emerging that the food vendors at Glastonbury Festival are in uproar after Jeremy Corbyn fed the crowds with 5 loaves and 2 fish! 

Excellent news. If he keeps that up, we can nail him to a cross and be home in time for Christmas.

[Mister Rog]

Apologies, but I need to call bullshit...

Afterall, elections are NOT decided on Facebook/Twitter etc, but at the Ballot box... Regardless of what the BBC agenda police et al would wish you to believe

Six months ago I would have agreed with you, but this belief is exactly why Corbyn did rather well and Theresa May did rather badly. During the election and for some time after my facebook page was bombarded with Corbyn stuff, "suggested" groups and whole load of other crap. I have no idea why 

it's a travesty when one party gets its finger out and actually works at something that's effective, and the other is so complacent they barely bother to campaign and lose what ought to be have been a sure thing.


Perhaps we should misapply a bunch of labels in the hope of being insulting?

That's exactly what happened, and everyone grossly underestimated the power of using social media.

Agree or disagree, like or hate it, it is a real power. Even smaller businesses now often do not have websites, they just use Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. I like to see live music, a local venue no longer updates it's website, if I want to know who's playing I have to use Facebook. Same with a local restaurant if I want to see the new menu or special offers etc.

[STEMO]

Contrary to populist media hype, the Conservatives didn't lose, and Labour didn't win. They (being Labour), and us (the royal us) would do well to remember that and get on with the task in hand... ie securing our future outside the EU rather than constantly trying to undermine the process of government at every turn.

Yes. As long as Theresa does as she's told by the DUP and her back benchers, there should be no problem in getting an an agreement that everybody will endorse.
In your fickin dreams.

[Mister Rog]

In other news it's emerging that the food vendors at Glastonbury Festival are in uproar after Jeremy Corbyn fed the crowds with 5 loaves and 2 fish! 

           

[STEMO]

Apologies, but I need to call bullshit...

Afterall, elections are NOT decided on Facebook/Twitter etc, but at the Ballot box... Regardless of what the BBC agenda police et al would wish you to believe

Six months ago I would have agreed with you, but this belief is exactly why Corbyn did rather well and Theresa May did rather badly. During the election and for some time after my facebook page was bombarded with Corbyn stuff, "suggested" groups and whole load of other crap. I have no idea why 

it's a travesty when one party gets its finger out and actually works at something that's effective, and the other is so complacent they barely bother to campaign and lose what ought to be have been a sure thing.


Perhaps we should misapply a bunch of labels in the hope of being insulting?

That's exactly what happened, and everyone grossly underestimated the power of using social media.

Agree or disagree, like or hate it, it is a real power. Even smaller businesses now often do not have websites, they just use Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. I like to see live music, a local venue no longer updates it's website, if I want to know who's playing I have to use Facebook. Same with a local restaurant if I want to see the new menu or special offers etc.

You can view someone's facebook page without joining.

[Nick W]

Six months ago I would have agreed with you, but this belief is exactly why Corbyn did rather well and Theresa May did rather badly. During the election and for some time after my facebook page was bombarded with Corbyn stuff, "suggested" groups and whole load of other crap. I have no idea why 

it's a travesty when one party gets its finger out and actually works at something that's effective, and the other is so complacent they barely bother to campaign and lose what ought to be have been a sure thing.


Perhaps we should misapply a bunch of labels in the hope of being insulting?

I used travesty sarcastically by the way.


Campaigning used to take hours every night knocking on doors in your ward, trying to convince the don't knows/undecided/floating voters to turn out for you. Even my father, who doesn't own a computer or mobile phone, would jump at the chance of successfully doing that work from the comfort of his armchair/party headquarters.


As I've said before, Corbyn's appeal is to the traditional Labour heartland who always did the real campaigning - why is it such a surprise that they learnt their lessons from the EU referendum and changed tactics?

[Mister Rog]

Six months ago I would have agreed with you, but this belief is exactly why Corbyn did rather well and Theresa May did rather badly. During the election and for some time after my facebook page was bombarded with Corbyn stuff, "suggested" groups and whole load of other crap. I have no idea why 

it's a travesty when one party gets its finger out and actually works at something that's effective, and the other is so complacent they barely bother to campaign and lose what ought to be have been a sure thing.


Perhaps we should misapply a bunch of labels in the hope of being insulting?

I used travesty sarcastically by the way.


Campaigning used to take hours every night knocking on doors in your ward, trying to convince the don't knows/undecided/floating voters to turn out for you. Even my father, who doesn't own a computer or mobile phone, would jump at the chance of successfully doing that work from the comfort of his armchair/party headquarters.


As I've said before, Corbyn's appeal is to the traditional Labour heartland who always did the real campaigning - why is it such a surprise that they learnt their lessons from the EU referendum and changed tactics?

There have of course been two bouts of elections recently, local council and the General. I've had loads of people knocking on my door, and all but one were bloody useless. I'm not referring to their politics or policies, but the fact that they just handed out some crappy leaflet and made no attempt to engage or discuss or persuade. Useless, the parties need to use double glazing sales people or something.

By the way, the only one that asked my me views and explained his, was an Independent in the local elections, and yes he got my vote.