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I'd have thought that their Brexit defeat would have been enough to shock the left out of it's smug sense of superiority, but it seems like the "opposition voters are just ignorant" security blanket is just too darned comfy to let go of. I'm not sure what it's going to take to make you all...

The papers prove nothing of the sort. There is no mention in them of selling off the NHS to anyone, and I certainly never claimed otherwise. I've never used a Sun headline to substantiate any claim that I've made, and I don't believe I've ever told anyone that they should read it. I certainly...

You appear to be conflating Corbyn with the Labour Party manifesto. I was talking specifically about Corbyn, what he represents, and the reasons people wouldn't want to vote for him. I can give you footage of him saying that he wants the UK to be a republic, that he wants to oppose all cuts...

They didn't, unless you're talking about the same form of privatisation that Labour also pursued. I don't want to privatise the NHS, I'm not sure that anyone in British politics does. Even the libertarians in UKIP never pushed for that. It's a complete no-go in British politics, and mostly used...

Do you think they'll sell the police too? What about the military? Maybe they privatised the things you list because they belong in the private sector. Maybe they haven't privatised the NHS because it doesn't, and it would be political suicide to even suggest it, let alone pursue it. He's...

I would say your problem is the men on the posts, not the zonal marking. All they do is play everyone onside for the second balls, make it harder to win the first ball because there are two fewer men in there, and then even in a situation where they might block something they're mostly useless...

These predictions seem decidedly lukewarm next to the prophesies of doom that have preceded a potential Leave majority up until this point. I can't think of a government that hasn't been accused of cutting where they shouldn't, or underfunding public services, or privatising too much of the NHS...

I think if the Tories get a majority then it'll be a slim one and I don't think we'll negotiate a free trade agreement in a year. If the Tories offered the EU an ultimatum on leaving without a deal I think they'd follow through, but I'm not sure it would get that far.

It's not a police excuse, it came straight from the mouths of council staff themselves in the independent inquiry that followed. It's certainly true that the police were ignorant and inept, but far from covering it up they were disturbingly open about how they viewed the girls as troubled...

What is this 'points scoring' you refer to? Because it reminds me a lot of gun advocates in the US bleating that people should 'stop politicising it' every time someone shoots up a school. As for right-minded people, I think many of them would look at how many Labour councillors had to resign...

I've never voted Tory, but if it were between them and Labour in Rotherham it would probably be an easy choice, especially if I had daughters to worry about.

Mate you're a Labour voter from Rotherham...

Jezza has played a bit of a blinder today in fairness to him. Instead of people talking about that car crash interview with Andrew Neil, the talk is all about that 451 page document from May's tenure and whether it shows that Boris wants to sell off the NHS or not. It doesn't of course, but for...

Which cuts are you referring to? Because as far as I can tell the only time the NHS budget has ever deceased in real-terms is under Labour in the 70's and in it's infancy under the Tories in the 50's. Even during the economic crisis it only ever stagnated. There are admin issues no doubt, but...

Well kinda. The 50,000 new nurses included 18,500 that they want to persuade from leaving the profession, so 31,500 even if you don't count them. They're definitely playing fast and loose with the hospitals claim though, they've only budgeted for the seed money to get those projects started.

This is great.

Maybe I'm missing something but didn't they pledge to recruit an extra 50,000 nurses, 5,000,000 extra GP appointments per year, £34bn extra funding for the NHS per year, 40 new hospitals, free hospital parking etc.? You can never fully trust any manifesto of course, but it doesn't sound too bad...

I just wonder whether the 'shy Tory' phenomena might also apply to Corbyn. We've seen with Trump and Brexit that when the mainstream media narrative is that someone/something is deeply unpopular, the electorate might be embarrassed to admit their true position to a pollster, but still have no...