[Politics] The General Election Thread

[nicko31]

No. It's the money the UK saves in not leaving the EU plus the money which it gains as a result of continued investment from certainty of the future.

Wonder if Mogg would bring his money back to the UK if Brexit was overturned? UK could be a bit of a recovery play for him....

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Even after someone receives a woosh for the same thing, you still jumped in with both feet. I couldn't give a stuff. IT WAS A JOKE.

Calm down Dick normal service will be resumed on December 13th, Reap what.you sow with the silent majority on the march to the Ballot box
Regards
DT

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

The Fib Dem "Remain Bonus". Is this technically a bribe?

Muggy
Regards
DT

 

[hans kraay fan club]

That's a pretty poor excuse. If something is addressed to the household I leave it on the table for all to read. .

This is an absurd argument. How on earth are the Green Party, or any other supposed to know the family politics and general interactions within a household. If there are three registered voters in a household, then it is entirely reasonable for them to send a direct mail to each of them.

Do you get a single polling card for the three of you, too, and vote on everyone's behalf?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

This is an absurd argument. How on earth are the Green Party, or any other supposed to know the family politics and general interactions within a household. If there are three registered voters in a household, then it is entirely reasonable for them to send a direct mail to each of them.

Do you get a single polling card for the three of you, too, and vote on everyone's behalf?

And yet every other (non-Green) party manages to put a SINGLE flyer through my door.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Calm down Dick normal service will be resumed on December 13th, Reap what.you sow with the silent majority on the march to the Ballot box
Regards
DT

Out of interest, how many hours of your life have you wasted typing non sequitur replies to people who couldn't give a stuff? Maybe try needlepoint. Or jigsaws. Far more fulfilling.

 

[nicko31]

Out of interest, how many hours of your life have you wasted typing non sequitur replies to people who couldn't give a stuff? Maybe try needlepoint. Or jigsaws. Far more fulfilling.

He's a Maceonian bot...

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Do you get a single polling card for the three of you, too, and vote on everyone's behalf?

Not really comparable.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

And yet every other (non-Green) party manages to put a SINGLE flyer through my door.

Well that's VERY silly of them, for the reasons pointed out in this thread.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

And yet every other (non-Green) party manages to put a SINGLE flyer through my door.

More fool them.

We've had various, through the door. The only ones that have come specifically addressed to my two sons (21 and 19) were from the Lib Dem candidate. Those are the only ones they have looked at.- suggesting that the Greens, in your case, might be on to something.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Not really comparable.

It isn't meant to be comparable.

The point is that ONE person in a household doesn't get to vote for all the occupants (you'd hope) thus it makes absolute sense for a candidate to try to get their message across to as many individuals as they can.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

He's a Maceonian bot...

You'd think they'd be better at spelling and grammar. It is fascinating to me how empty someone's life must be to have 25000 random goes at trying to provoke a reaction of some sort. Especially when most of it is just random illogical guff.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

And yet every other (non-Green) party manages to put a SINGLE flyer through my door.

Unless your family are throwing away two of them before you realise because they know how angry it gets you?

 

[Stat Brother]

Gove - "The poor using food banks only have themselves to blame".

As per The Daily Mail.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Unless your family are throwing away two of them before you realise because they know how angry it gets you?

Gone on, admit it, you're TLO aren't you ? #Greenscandonowrong

 

[Triggaaar]

There are two things, one is the volume of readers for the different papers, it favours the right

But surely that's just because more of the voters favour the right There's no point complaining which papers the stupid public are buying.

and the other is the extent to which the right wing press will go to, Boris Johnson does not get his head stuck on a chicken by the Mirror, for example.

Didn't David Cameron get dodgy photos with a pig?

 

[nicko31]

Gove - "The poor using food banks only have themselves to blame".

As per The Daily Mail.

That's up there with "British workers are "among the worst idlers in the world" - Truss and Raab...

 

[Triggaaar]

Whilst your general point is valid, the particular Express example highlighted, is beyond 'bias'. Whatever way you look at it, it is straight up industrial scale misinformation.

You'd expect, as you suggest, a right leaning paper to be supportive of a Tory policy, and you might expect them to be critical of a Labour policy. But to come out this strongly, in each direction, when commentating on the very SAME* policy, is entirely indefensible.

It is. Doesn't the Mirror ever do similar?

 

[Triggaaar]

The Guardian hates Corbyn

Well he is likely to **** things up for Labour.

Boris is the worst PM since the 70s, but Corbyn is likely to put him back in.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Out of interest, how many hours of your life have you wasted typing non sequitur replies to people who couldn't give a stuff? Maybe try needlepoint. Or jigsaws. Far more fulfilling.

I know it's tough to take but hey even day dreamers like you must realise people have had enough and want and end to time wasting and stalling in Parliament, I'll keep on saying it reap what you sow
Regards
DF