[Politics] The General Election Thread

[Bakero]

Learned all those words before you broke up for half term?

C - for the spelling.

 

[Happy Exile]

He withdrew his own deal that was voted through parliament. The people hell bent on destroying the country are the hard right Tories, the Brexit Party, PPF, Mouldy Nuts, 2P, and yourself.

I can't understand why anyone votes Tory if they're capable of reading facts.

All facts, not opinion: Tory austerity has failed so badly (just as people who aren't driven by ideology over objective reality and basic understanding of economics warned them it would) that national debt has more than doubled under the supposed party of fiscal responsibility. Yeah! Let's vote Tory and keep growing the national debt! WOOOO!

We're also the second worst performing economy in the G20 for most of the time of Tory rule, with only Greece having worse wage growth. Go Tories! This is what we want!

A third of the country is now in such a state of poverty the UN has condemned it. Poverty has grown by millions under the Tories. Woop! Rule Britannia!

When the Tories came to power only 5% of NHS trusts were in financial crisis, now it's 60%. Meanwhile the amount going from government to private health companies has doubled and literally billions is given to the DUP instead of the NHS to shore up their lack of parliamentary majority. Awesome job! Making Britain Great Again!

Yet people will vote Tory and tell themselves they'll personally benefit in some way or that somehow it is the best thing for the country despite the facts showing it clearly isn't. Madness.

I really don't want Corbyn to be Prime Minister either but no-one could sensibly argue he'd do a worse job than the Tories...

 

[Grombleton]

C - for the spelling.

It's just what happens when the govt cut spending on education - people suffer. It's a shame to see.

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

Will this election be nothing more than people trying to work out where best to put their Brexit remain or leave vote?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Saying Labour's socialism is like Lenin or Mao's communism is like saying Christianity is the same as the Spanish Inquisition.

I love the smell of napalm in the morning of someone attempting to reply to some dick I have on ignore

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I can't understand why anyone votes Tory if they're capable of reading facts.

All facts, not opinion: Tory austerity has failed so badly (just as people who aren't driven by ideology over objective reality and basic understanding of economics warned them it would) that national debt has more than doubled under the supposed party of fiscal responsibility. Yeah! Let's vote Tory and keep growing the national debt! WOOOO!

We're also the second worst performing economy in the G20 for most of the time of Tory rule, with only Greece having worse wage growth. Go Tories! This is what we want!

A third of the country is now in such a state of poverty the UN has condemned it. Poverty has grown by millions under the Tories. Woop! Rule Britannia!

When the Tories came to power only 5% of NHS trusts were in financial crisis, now it's 60%. Meanwhile the amount going from government to private health companies has doubled and literally billions is given to the DUP instead of the NHS to shore up their lack of parliamentary majority. Awesome job! Making Britain Great Again!

Yet people will vote Tory and tell themselves they'll personally benefit in some way or that somehow it is the best thing for the country despite the facts showing it clearly isn't. Madness.

I really don't want Corbyn to be Prime Minister either but no-one could sensibly argue he'd do a worse job than the Tories...

Now, this actually is Post of the Week.

Not BG's attempt to barter Big Shane for White. No, sir. FFS.

If people like us who think Corbyn is a bit of a dick have decided to vote Team Corbyn, then....then there is hope. And even Hopeless has hope in it. Fact.

 

[abc]

On reflection, TW@T could have been a better choice of word. But having double checked, I think retard is perfect.

If you find it personally offensive perhaps a SAGA magazine or caravan club is more your bag

Not really, but I’m quite involved with adults with severe learning difficulties, the very people that would have been called ‘retards’ in darker times. Rightly or wrongly I think it remains an offensive term.

 

[Two Professors]

I love the smell of napalm in the morning of someone attempting to reply to some dick I have on ignore

More gibberish from the only person in the World with an ignore function on his tv.

 

[Mellotron]

The biggest threat we have known to the UK since the war.

Corbyn and McDonnell, they would destroy this country for decades.

Think carefully for what you wish for.

I’m guessing they would destroy the country in the same way there is blood on the streets right now.

 

[Jolly Red Giant]

regards
DR

How many deaths was Tony Blair responsible for when he sent British troops into Afghanistan and Iraq?

 

[Guinness Boy]

Will be interesting to see what switches on the voters and what doesn’t.

Jon Ashworth on QT stuttering and getting the sex of the London Fire Chief wrong, yet what he ended up saying was bang on re Grenfell.I hope this is an election based on what people say and do and not sound bites.


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[Raleigh Chopper]

Will be interesting to see what switches on the voters and what doesn’t.

Jon Ashworth on QT stuttering and getting the sex of the London Fire Chief wrong, yet what he ended up saying was bang on re Grenfell.I hope this is an election based on what people say and do and not sound bites.


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There are some right cranks in that audience tonight.
You know we are in deep trouble when people are cheering Farage and the Brexit Party in a general election.
There are also people who think that Boris Johnson doing a deal with Nigel Farage and backed by Donald Trump ( I wonder why) is a good thing for this country.
Our small band of dimwit lunatics on here seem to endorse the same.
Also that brilliant Irish MEP making such clear sense and explaining how it works actually made the audience shut up and listen.
You could almost hear the rabid leavers thinking oh my god, I didn't realise any of that.
And that's because most leavers do not understand the complexities of leaving or trade deals.
Even when we leave, we will not actually leave for a very long time and we will be paying 33 billion pounds back, something leavers definitely did not want ( that bit has gone very quiet hasn't it)
There is no doubt that Cameron calling the referendum and the amount of ignorant people we have in this country will absolutely ruin it.

 

[The Clamp]

Well, we have been out for almost an hour. How are we all feeling?

 

[clapham_gull]

Well, we have been out for almost an hour. How are we all feeling?

European ?

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Well, we have been out for almost an hour. How are we all feeling?

It's nowhere near as bad as I thought it was going to be.
It feels like nothing has happened so credit to the Tories because they did say it would be a very smooth transition.

 

[Dick Head]

Boris has promised much I just hope that he gets a majority that will allow him to show that he can produce what he promised if not then people are entitled to doubt him and his intentions.

Why am I not entitled to doubt him and his intentions now?

 

[Dick Head]

Neither he, nor you, get to decide, at which point people are allowed to ‘doubt his intentions”, thanks.

Well said.

Apart from the third comma.

#pedant

 

[Deleted member 2719]

https://youtu.be/Xz263nvH_V0

Can you really imagine America or any other country would want to deal with the dangerous brothers (Corbyn and McDonnell).

Has any leader backed or talked about them fondly?

They are the men that wear the 'mask of deceit'.

Think carefully about what you wish for.

 

[keaton]

https://youtu.be/Xz263nvH_V0

Can you really imagine America or any other country would want to deal with the dangerous brothers (Corbyn and McDonnell).

Has any leader backed or talked about them fondly?

They are the men that wear the 'mask of deceit'.

Think carefully about what you wish for.

I thought Brexiteers' argument was that the UK was so big and powerful everyone would have to do business with us? They'd do business with any leader, they'd just be pissed off they can't destroy the NHS

 

[Deleted member 2719]

I thought Brexiteers' argument was that the UK was so big and powerful everyone would have to do business with us? They'd do business with any leader, they'd just be pissed off they can't destroy the NHS

Wake up The NHS is NOT for sale.

You lot will believe anything Corbyn and Co says.

The man wears the 'mask of deceit'.