With just a week to go - the state of the UK general election is not pretty...

[Soph0571]

Brexit Voter: "We voted for Brexit, why haven't you done it?"

The Conservatives: ‘’It is all the fault of Parliament, Labour and the Courts, they are ignoring the will of the people and we want to get Brexit done. You can’t trust anyone else to get Brexit done, only we respect the wishes of the majority, only we want to protect the democratic mandate from the referendum. We will get Brexit done.’’

All Other Parties: ‘’The Conservatives have had over 3 years to deliver Brexit and have failed completely to do so. We want to revoke article 50, stop Brexit, hold a second referendum, Brexit won’t fully happen for years anyway whoever wins, the election is not just about Brexit.’’

Brexit Voter: "We voted for Brexit, Johnson is going to do it, stuff everything else."

Party faithful members: ‘’Baaah, baaaah, baaaah, chunter, chunter, chunter, I am saying what they want me to say no matter how ridiculous it sounds to the general public.’’

Pretty much everyone else: ‘’Fuck Brexit and the far left and the far right who are leaving us with so few options for the governance of this country. We want our country back to a moderate normal place’’

Rinse and Repeat for the next week. Oh, Goody!

[CanonRay]

1. Meanwhile in the U.S.

Trump is becoming more deranged by the hour.

In Russia, Putin is laughing his ass off.

[T_i_B]

2. I'm wondering at present....

Would the Tories be doing even better, and Labour even worse if the disastrous project to leave the EU wasn't an issue?

From what I can see, Jeremy Corbyn is wildly unpopular with a huge swathe of people and would be losing voters regardless. Seen as ridiculous, unrelatable, indecisive, anti-semitic etc etc etc.

Were leaving the EU not an issue the election might well have focused much more on Corbyn, and not in a good way either.

[Denzil_DC]

3. It's easy to forget how Ed Miliband was othered, even demonized,

up to and during the 2015 general election.

The guy couldn't even eat a bacon sarnie in peace, the party was divided under him as "the wrong Miliband", and some in the media who are so keen to root out antisemitism nowadays were only too happy to indulge in its dogwhistles or worse, savaging his father's memory while labelling him "red Ed" etc.

[T_i_B]

4. Things have only got worse since 2015

Depressing isn't it?