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Which is what I said, so we’re in agreement. The Government lost seats, and the consensus is that May’s campaign in 2017 was one of the worst in modern history. I’m sure you expected Labour to be ‘wiped off’ of the map. Or if you want to go off just %s would you say Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour...

Definition of unprecedented: ‘never done or known before’. In my lifetime Blair won 43.2% of the vote. Thatcher won with 43% a few times and Major 42% of the vote. So 4 prime ministers in your lifetime have achieved that figure. Another 2 or 3 elections from Margaret Thatcher have had the...

It’s peculiar because you have to go back to 1970 for the last time both Labour and Tory achieved more than 40% of the vote. A return to ‘two-party politics’ if you like. The Lib Dem’s actually performed marginally worse (in relation to vote share %) than expected. The 2017 GE was fought with...

Yes I think you do because you’ve clearly misinterpreted something I’ve said. You said: I’ve taken exception to this because the 2017 General Election proved this wrong. Firstly, Labour performed much higher than expected as the polls predicted a comprehensive win for the Conservatives with a...

At least they have a stadium to mock...

... An undercover Sunderland would say that!

Why have you looped Labour, Lib and 'other' parties in together? I may as well as reply 'if you combine every party's vote share, you reach 100% of the vote'. It's stating the obvious, frankly. Before 2017, the last time the Tories won more than 40% in a GE was in 1992, and you have to go back...

I didn't quote an opinion poll, use of 42.4% for the Tories and 40% for Labour is the 2017 General Election result, which again is not an opinion poll. There's not really much you can argue with here. I may as well quote polls since you insist I have, and the polls show a drop in support for...

“Labour doesn't have much more than the hard core Labour voters presently. Corbyn as leader hasn't got many floating voters on Labour's side. If he had Labour would be running away with it.” Yes you did. 40% is not based on polls. It’s based on the 2017 general election result.

You’ve argued that Labour’s support is only limit to hardcore support. By your logic, 40% of voters are hardcore Labour. I like to use polls as they’re helpful, but ultimately, but haven’t been able to predict the outcomes of the last 3 elections. The Tories polled at 20% and more ahead of...

Unprecedented? No, but the difference is more 42%+ in recent times would guarantee a pretty comprehensive majority. So to get 42.4% and lose seats is pretty bad. But, both the main parties shared 80%+ of the vote share for the first time since 1970. In modern times, that is unprecedented. My...

People said that in 2017 and Labour increased its vote and seat share.

Theresa May won't go for that because it will cause even more disunity in the Tory party, that's her #1 priority, to keep the Conservatives in power.

I don’t think there’s a lot of people like that. Indifferent to our situation? Maybe. Sisu, have alienated a lot of people so whether or not they’re in the ‘right’ is immaterial to a lot of people. Agreed that there’s an element of novelty to the support of Wasps.

Their fans were excited about having a new home, having been exiled to Wycombe for an age. I don’t blame them.

I don’t think CRFC are affected or have a ‘glass ceiling’ put over them. They have their own niche in the market, proper hardcore Coventry rugby supporters support CRFC. Most people I know who go up the Wasps is because for a day out, watching quality rugby. As such, my impression is that the...

Only a very, very small percentage of football owners are benevolent enough to throw money at a club without hope of reinvestment. They’ve been aggressive in achieving their goals. Whilst I don’t agree with their methods, things like the club needing full access to match day revenues and...

No one has said SISU are blameless, but perhaps the penny is dropping for an increasing amount of fans that SISU aren’t the only bad guys in this. To use an example, their stadium plans, or lack of rather, was criticised. But, given the council’s role in any large scale development in the city...

If the club can’t but a share in the RICOH, then our long future has to be building our own stadium. Why does a section of our fans have this weird attachment to the RICOH? It’s brought nothing but disaster for this club even before SISU came to town. Ultimately, the stadium is Wasps’ problem...

Robins has said he’s being released at the end of the season. A signing for the U23s, perhaps he had some good raw attributes to maybe kick on in the EFL. Evidently this isn’t the case. Personally, I don’t mind these kind of signings to beef up our U23s because one of these may make the grade.