(((Rob Ford)))

@robfordmancs

Professor of Political Science, Manchester University. Author, Editor, In God we trust, all others require data Dr B Fisher

Manchester, England
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Joined November 2010
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    Sep 15

    Avg oppo ldr approval, 1st yr (MORI): Foot -23 Kinnock +4 Smith +4 Blair +25 Hague -18 IDS -5 Howard -6 Cameron +3 Ed M -3 Corbyn -18

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  2. 7 hours ago

    The National is all over the place tonight at the idea of a political party promoting one part of the United Kingdom.

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  3. 7 hours ago

    I'm very glad we run these debunk stories but I'm also sometimes baffled that we have to run these debunk stories.

    No, Justin Trudeau Is Not Fidel Castro’s Illegitimate Son
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  4. 22 hours ago

    Nancy Astor, the first woman to take her seat in Parliament, was first elected at the Plymouth Sutton by-election 97 years ago today

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  5. 10 hours ago

    For every use of the hashtag will donate £1 to Shelter - with the aim of raising £25,000. Tag your friends!
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  6. 11 hours ago Nottingham, England

    'The Labour vote is solid' says on

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  7. 12 hours ago

    Reducing UKIP voters to cardboard cutout racist Orcs is another form of left comfort zone politics

    Not as much as they care about racism and imperialism (for which they use different words, of course).
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  8. 12 hours ago

    Also UKIP voters don't actually expect them to ever get their hands on NHS. They're voting to force reaction from main parties

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  9. 12 hours ago

    This will resonate with UKIP leaning voters who have for years experienced Lab uncomfortably changing subject away from their concerns.

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  10. 12 hours ago

    10/10 UKIP know this, of course. So they're delighted Lab banging on about NHS. They will respond with "out of touch Lab scaremongering"

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  11. 12 hours ago

    9/9 So today's blizzard of Lab tweets about Nuttall and NHS is one big neon sign reading "WE STILL DON'T GET IT WE ARE IN THE COMFORT ZONE".

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  12. 12 hours ago

    8/? Lab activists, pols don't actually want to talk about. UKIP leaning voters know this. Lab voters know this. Talking NHS reinforces it.

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  13. 12 hours ago

    7/? But NHS is useless as response to UKIP precisely *because* its comfort zone for them. What UKIP voters actually want is a bunch of stuff

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  14. 12 hours ago

    6/? This generally got awkward silence in response. Lab ppl want to make NHS the solution to UKIP problem because its comfort zone for them

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  15. 13 hours ago

    5/? Most importantly immigration and nationalism (Can probably add defence and leader that list under Corbyn).

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  16. 13 hours ago

    4/? I'd point out the issues UKIP considerers cared about were not the ones where they agree with Lab but they ones where they didn't

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  17. 13 hours ago

    3/? I'd point out most Lab to UKIP considerers already preferred Lab to UKIP massively on NHS. Didn't make any difference.

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  18. 13 hours ago

    2/? Everyone would nod eagerly along. "They are Thatcherites. True Labour voters will never back them once we expose this".

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  19. 13 hours ago

    Whenever I presented to Lab ppl s/one wld say: "UKIP want to privatise NHS. Exposing that will destroy them". 1/?

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    You only need to know one thing about UKIP’s new leader, Paul Nuttall: he wants privatisation in the NHS. RT now.
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  20. 13 hours ago

    That moment when you realise shouting "BLAIRITE SCUM OUT!!" in every meeting hasn't delivered the expected results...

    Momentum recently lost a series of elections in London CLPs. This email from one of their top organisers tells you why they're losing...
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