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So what do we reckon for the Batley & Spen by election? Another dropped in candidate with no connection to the area or the people, or will they think about what happened in Hartlepool? 60% Leave constituency and the Labour MP has a 3,500 majority.

6 and 7 is bullshit. They might be increases in terms of absolute values but do not factor in population growth for example and other costs associated. Both sectors have lost a lot of money over their tenure.

Yes - giving my parents the chance to buy their council house so they (my Dad) could actually get on the housing ladder. Without that he probably never would have done.

It’s a fine for not voting - but it’s only $20

I think if you make sure people have the ‘none of the above’ option to choose then you could try mandatory voting?

Go on then - chuck your voter ID idea into the Tory Facebook groups you frequent and see what happens 😂

Go on then - name the real or shadow who held that role prior to Gove and Rayner... no Googling.

Something something, and a bit nicked from Waitrose.

Rayner’s is a pretend job... that’s why Boris gave the real equivalent to Gove.

So you’re only bothered about certain types of corruption..... gotcha.

Not backing Brexit is ultimately what cost them - a lot of their policies are generally popular.

May well be the case, but seeing as they have already lost Scotland forever, as well as half of Wales they don’t have a choice.

Labour can’t win without the left being on board. That’s a fact.

True - leave that populism bollocks to the right.

I suppose the guy in the Hartlepool video was spot on as well yeah?

Was it a a Labour MP/activist making that comment - or is that just your assumption. Could quite have easily been a Tory making that statement.

Nothing from the interviewer to challenge this. Challenging this rubbish is not being disrespectful, or condescending - it’s just pointing out facts.

Happy to read the words of some working class people that have become disillusioned with Labour, the party needs to hear more of it. But these are the ramblings of a Lord no less, whose ability to connect with the working class was demonstrated in the erosion of the Labour vote in his...