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→ Criminalising abortion is a red line for British electorate
There are some policies that British voters just can’t stomach, and new polling gives an idea of what those are. According to More in Common, privatising the NHS, opening Britain’s borders, withdrawing from Nato and banning same-sex couples from adopting are red-line issues for over half of voters. That is to say: if a party had one of those policies, it would stop people voting for it.
Interestingly, the biggest red-line issue that would stop 67% of people from voting for a party is criminalising abortion. On the other end of the scale, only 16% listed legalising assisted dying as a red line, 25% nationalising industries and 28% rejoining the EU. Strikingly, only 35% thought bringing back the death penalty was a red-line issue. Hanging, drawing and quartering could be on the ballot box soon…
→ Will Jeremy Corbyn start his own party?
It’s not only Dominic Cummings and Matt Goodwin who think the two main parties in British politics are increasingly redundant. A former leader of one of those very parties, Jeremy Corbyn, agrees. Today in the Guardian, he explained his thoughts about creating a new party after the “loveless landslide”.
For information: this seems to be Corbyn’s thoughts about the next stephttps://t.co/oVkmWheMnj pic.twitter.com/gEQkxoMBu7
— Edmund Griffiths (@EdmundGriffiths) July 12, 2024
“The time for celebration […] is over. Building for the future starts now,” he wrote. Corbyn’s success in Islington North as an indpendent candidate proves the existence of “a movement that offers a real alternative to child poverty, inequality and endless war”, and which stands up for “anti-racism, equality and inclusion”. Overall, the former Labour leader has “no doubt that this movement will eventually run in elections”.
Corbyn does admit that “to create a new, centralised party, based around the personality of one person, is to put the cart before the horse.” After all, hero worship can be politically damaging…
→ Does Trump know who he’ll pick for vice president?
With the deadline days away, Donald Trump has reportedly narrowed his running mates to Ohio Senator J.D. Vance and North Dakota Governor Doug Bergum, per political outlet Puck.
One Trump advisor anonymously called the former president “master of the tease” and promised he’d build suspense as long as possible, though he’ll have to announce his vice presidential pick by Thursday. His allies have said he could still very well change his mind, given that he did so three times in 2016.
The delay on a veep announcement is perhaps less about suspense and more about avoiding the spotlight, as a major announcement from Trump could distract from turmoil among Democrats. Biden, for his part, floated an interesting veep suggestion on Thursday evening.
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SubscribeRiddle me this. You have a poll covering a wide range of issues, the vast majority of which are not even being discussed, yet you don’t include net zero, an actual policy that is being implemented today.
There’s a section on Climate Targets. The poll questions are clearly being worded through a Left-Establishment or “Global Centrist” Lens so they’ll get the answers they seek.
I clicked on the link, and it brought me to a tweet. I should have dug a little deeper. I did go to the website and found a poll that said 49% of respondents said wind and solar would lower their energy costs. Britain is either in much bigger trouble than I thought, or the poll has very much been massaged.
Yeah. Wind hardly generates power and the last time I checked, the British Isles weren’t exactly known for abundant sunshine!
Wind generated 24% of total Uk power in 2020. Doing better than that now. That’s not ‘hardly’.
A good example of the importance of doing your own fact checking!
Check out what this site is promoting and the picture will become ultimately clear.
Thanks, Jim!
Seen a number of Polls that indicate at least two-thirds support the Net Zero ambition. Were the question phrased – do you support an increase in bills to fund Net zero then of course the answer might be different, although even that is too simplistic a question. But overall I suspect you will remain in a minority JV, rightly or wrongly.
If ban same sex couples (men not women, I want to emphasize) from adopting children is a red line for voters, for me Britain is the country of idiots.
Two men and a baby, toddler… I’m really sorry.
I think a white couple adopting a black child is a red line for many adoption agencies.
It’s probably because increasingly we all know of such couples, see and witness their decency and stability, and recognise there are many worse environments for a child. Nonetheless it is true that the kids themselves should be able to comment on this in years to come, although most kids will love their parents for all their faults when it comes to it.
Biologist’s story (real):
Arriving at a group of scientists in an African reserve, the biologist saw a small, pathetic-looking monkey sitting in the corner of the cage.
Colleagues said that the mother of this monkey died after falling into a trap of poachers. The scientists took the cub with them, placed it in a cage, provided it with food, but despite all their efforts, it looks like it will die in the next day or two.
It was very painful for the biologist to think that the cub would die alone, so the biologist took him into his bed.
The next morning the narrator was awakened by a cheerful, cheerful monkey with shining huge eyes jumping on his stomach.
The biologist was a woman.
End of the story.
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Women have a bit different brain, buddy.
Me, I believe what I believe not because it is popular with the general population, but because it’s what my limited mind believes is right.
Elective abortion is evil.
Only 25% see mass nationalisation as a red line? Oh, come on. The respondents weren’t even remotely a balanced cross-section of the population.
It’s just More in Common clickbait.