Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Lord Frost Tells Boris To RESIGN And Be Replaced With A Conservative" video.

  1. Will he, with his desperately poor eyesight, be able to drive all the way from Barnard Castle to London?
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  2. I expect that a foreign, tax avoiding, multi-millionaire will go down with the (currently) tory northern constituencies like the proverbial lead balloon.
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  3.  @Land-of-reason  That is the theory. The same theory which denies the existence of political parties. In reality, how many people who vote actually even know the names of the candidates?
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  4. Don't you just long to wake up tomorrow morning, switch on the TV, and hear someone in a military uniform announcing that, in the current crisis, the armed forces have taken temporary control of the nation. Oh, and those objects hanging from those lamp posts in large numbers are politicians of various parties?
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  5. That is the theory. The same theory which denies the existence of political parties. In reality, how many people who vote actually even know the names of the candidates?
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  6.  @Land-of-reason  You mean the ballot papers that they see for the first time when they enter the polling booth? Those ballot papers?
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  7.  @Land-of-reason  Which simply present the manifesto commitments (for what they are worth) of the party the candidate represents. If you think that people vote for the person, not the party, explain this :- Frank Field, Labour candidate for Birkenhead in 2017, polled 33588 votes, and won a majority of 25514. He left the Labour party in 2018 because of anti-semitism. Frank Field, Independent candidate for Birkenhead in 2018, polled 7285 votes, and lost to the Labour candidate, who polled 24990 votes. Frank Field had been MP for Birkenhead continuously since 1979. 40 YEARS! Explain again how people vote for the candidate, not the party?
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  8.  @Land-of-reason  No. I mentioned manifestos, because that is what appears on the leaflets of candidates. I didn't say that the vast majority of people read manifestos, because of course they don't. You do realise that you are agreeing with me, I suppose? I wrote 'In reality, how many people who vote actually even know the names of the candidates?' Now you say 'Labour voters tend to follow the direction of their parents or partners - group think.' Isn't that agreeing with my argument that people tend to vote for parties, not people? No, we don't have General Elections because circumstances change. We have them because, at least in theory, we are a democracy, and a self-perpetuating parliament would not be accepted. The current situation has, at least in my opinion, been brought about by a combination of Johnson simply not following through on those issues which chimed with the northen voters who elected Tory MPs. By which I mean, Levelling Up, Brexit, and Border Controls. Certainly behaving more like an Islington Thinker than a Tory Prime Minister has hardly aided his cause.
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