Thanks for that "evidence". I take it you're surprised the EU are acting in their own interests? I imagine I can take what you've said as a guarantee these brilliant deals will happen?

Trump and May actually signed something? A binding commitment??

Given we don't live in a world as imagined by Ricardo (which the Tories still seem to think we do) I'd much rather someone else was in control of our trade arrangement yes. Where capital can move freely and labour cannot it creates inefficiency and low productivity of labour where that labour is less competitive than equivalent labour across borders. This means that such labour becomes less productive and earns less and makes inequality even worse.

"The way in which globalisation has been managed has led to lower wages in part because workers’ bargaining power has been eviscerated. With capital highly mobile— and with tariffs low— firms can simply tell workers that if they don’t accept lower wages and worse working conditions, the company will move elsewhere. To see how asymmetric globalisation can affect bargaining power, imagine, for a moment, what the world would be like if there was free mobility of labour, but no mobility of capital. Countries would compete to attract workers. They would promise good schools and a good environment, as well as low taxes on workers. This could be financed by high taxes on capital. But that’s not the world we live in."

Those who want globalised capital markets but nationalistic labour markets are advocating making the lives of the working classes worse.

The main policy I keep hearing from the Tories is that May's a strong stable leader. Really? Is that what it's come down to? We'll make your lives worse if you're poorer than our mates but we have a strong leader so that's the main thing. How depressing. All the data and sensible realistic theory shows how bad a job these guys have done and will continue to do!

It is absolutely imperative that we have certainty and stability through Brexit negotiations and beyond.
The choice is between stable and strong leadership by Mrs May and a Conservative government or a weak and unstable coalition led by Corbyn and his comrades.

It is absolutely imperative that we have certainty and stability through Brexit negotiations and beyond.
The choice is between stable and strong leadership by Mrs May and a Conservative government or a weak and unstable coalition led by Corbyn and his comrades.

As I totaly agree with the sentiments it is natural that I post in such fashion.

Strong and stable leadership v weak and unstable coalition of chaos under Corbyn and his comrades.

How can you say that with any certainty? That's incredibly disrespectful to the electorate. Have you learned nothing from recent electoral history? Just on Sunday neither of the main two parties made it through to the presidential run off in France. Last year the polls got it wrong with alarming regularity and they got it wrong with large margins of error.

This is from the man who believes referees do no wrong so I'm hardly surprised.

If you think the best reason to vote for Tories is that May is a more stable choice then that ignores all of the issues and many of the facts. What's the point in stability if it's a stable slide into the abyss? I'm not advocating instability by any means but just saying May will be a more stable choice is vapid and based on little of any substance.

So you ignored my first point then. Just like you ignore incompetence from your beloved "referees".

I like Willo but he is obviously one of those snob Tory voters and the thought of contemplating an alternative is anathema. Most middle-class, or aspiring middle-class, Tory supporters are exactly the same in my experience.

Without them The Tory Party would wither and die. So when the Conservative Party do their usual party pieces of targeting those who can least afford it, it all ties in quite nicely. Applaud those in power who undermine the socially-conscious and turn a blind eye to others in power who despise the vulnerable. Self-affirmation, innit.

Bedroom Tax, lowering of Working Tax credits and lack of mental health care provision are just three examples, of many, of their iniquitous policies over the years.

I don't think you realise how many working class people do vote Tory and have done certainly since the late 70s. Nothing wrong with being aspirational, it is the contempt shown for people that want to get on that is one of Labour's great undoings. It's not about trying to change our "class" (I am working class), it is about improving our lot. Blair got that and largely addressed it but since then, back to normal.

Labour don't like the old or aspirational because if you become old or better off you generally don't vote Labour.
They also prefer you to be in an ethnic minority.