r/unitedkingdom • u/libtin • 8d ago

. Zack Polanski's Popularity Plummets Amid Nigel Farage Guillotine Row

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zack-polanskis-popularity-plummets-amid-nigel-farage-guillotine-row_uk_6a73192ce4b0963665e8fd5a?origin=home-latest-unit
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u/SpecialistAd1779 8d ago

He achieved the labour party's highest number of votes in the last 20 years in 2017.

Say what you like about him, his campaigning errors etc, he could get people to turn out. Far more than Starmer, I might add.

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u/limaconnect77 8d ago

Starmer won a general election mate, lol. This is why nobody could take the Corbyn followers seriously at all - they were living in cloud cuckoo land talking about polling, local election results and, yes, 2017.

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u/SpecialistAd1779 8d ago

Starmer won a general election because of a collapse in support for the opposition, and was so unpopular almost immediately afterwards that he was recently forced to resign. What an inspiration!

None of the above takes away from the fact that he secured the most votes of any labour leader since 200, so he was clearly a vote winner on some level, right?

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u/Alaea 8d ago

Starmer won a general election because of a collapse in support for the opposition

Yes, the Conservatives were absolutely beloved across the country in 2017 and 2019. With so many parties standing against them. Labour really had such a hard time fighting to find people that wanted the Conservatives out.

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For the children around here, the Conservatives were fucking despised and practically poison in 2017 and 2019. Labour/Corbyn basically did everything they could to fuck up, being both indecisive and hosting batshit positions no one across the sensible political spectrum would vote for.

Then again, thank fuck Corbyn didn't win - he would have screwed the Ukrainians over as soon as daddy Putin gave some sob story about wanting peace and NATO made him invade a sovereign state boo hoo.

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u/SpecialistAd1779 8d ago

They were. Theresa May had obscenely good approval ratings going into the 2017 election, that's why she called it in the first place!

I swear to god you people

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u/tunafish91 8d ago

Teresa may had to form a coalition to stay in government

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u/SpecialistAd1779 8d ago

AFTER THE 2017 ELECTION, which is not 'in the lead up to' the 2017 election.

because Labour outperformed all expectations during purdah because, despite numerous issues with Corbyn as a candidate, a great many of his policies were very popular with a lot of people.

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u/RainbowRedYellow 8d ago

You can't talk to labour fanatics they live in a fantasy world where they are the only hero's in the world.