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Old 07-01-2016, 11:22   #16
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Re: Corbyn's kerfuffle

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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
JC got 251,000 votes in the leadership election, Labour got 9,347,000 votes in the 2015 General Election - less than 1 in 37 of those who voted Labour (if you don't count the Tory spoilers or the arrivistes from far-left organisations) voted for JC as Labour leader.

"Massive mandate" = <3% of Labour voters...
Going by your weird calculation Hugh, Cameron got the Conservative leadership with 134,000 votes which is 1.1% of those that voted Tory at the last GE. So Comrade Corbyn has about 3 times the mandate of Cameron.

I love statistics , you can do and prove anything you want with them
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