UK General Election, June 8th 2017

[Peter]

Labour branch in Jeremy Hunt's seat in Surrey are considering standing down as well, but IMHO this should be so that they can get behind the NHS Action candidate who got 10% last time, rather than the Lib Dems, of course there's precedent for the LibDems backing that party's forerunners in Kidderminster in 2001, not that Labour would like to be reminded of that.

IIRC the dismal Lib Dem performance in SW Surrey was due to the Lib Dems disavowing their own candidate due to some probable fraud and telling their own voters to vote for NHA candidate. Presumably they will support their own candidate this time as this is a place they used to be competitive.

[Peter]

This Labour manifesto seems like it could run Labour into the ground.

And remember, when Labour lose, there will be some who will believe that the reason they lost is that the manifesto was not left wing enough!

[Peter]

He also has Tom Watson (West Bromwhich East) losing his seat, and I've heard some people in the party are sh**tting themselves over Tom losing

It was tight back in the 1980s but mostly I think that just tells you that when the national situation is bad a lot of people in Labour head into a sort of depressed hysteria about everything.

Interestingly there is no UKIP candidate in West Bromwich East, so the Brexit vote may unify behind the Tory candidate, which makes Watson's position more vulnerable than otherwise