Labour voters are political dimwits...

[Kalimantan Gull]

So according to Baldy,I'm intelligent because I vote LibDem,but dumb and dying of dementia because I voted Leave?

I'm sure you're neither, just a bit mixed up

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

I've always voted labour (unless 'tactics') and have been a member, but I deplore Jezza; and yet I am stragely pleased at his success in the popularity polls. I loath Militant and fear that Momentum is a reincarnation. But I can't be sure. I accept that as leader Jezza has the right (indeed obligation) to tinker with party rules to serve his purpose (only a clown would create rules that work against the pursuit of one's core beliefs; as Milliband did, the oafytitwomble ). One of my favourite ever politicians was George Walden. I deplore the omnishambols that is the current tory party and the current Brexit landscape. But I have no time for the European super state, which allows MEP Farrage the chance to trouser more money than our PM - to do **** all for anyone; an even more flatulant extravagance than we give IRA Adams for his Westminster parliamentary 'expenses'.

In the next election, like you, [MENTION=5200]Buzzer[/MENTION], I will cast my vote carefully, based on how I view the local candidates' pitch.

I hear nothing from Tory supporters about what is good about the Conservative party. What they are doing well? How they are going to improve the current sh!t storm we are in. The only thing I hear is Labour supporters are thick, that Jeremy Corbyn is a terrorist sympathiser, a Marxist, that only people who vote labour want free things.

This may come as a bit of a shock to Tory supporters but the people I know that voted labour in the last election are not thick or students looking for a free ride. Some own their own business. I have a high level degree and work in a very well paid job as do many I know. The one thing that will not make me change my mind about supporting labour is being insulted or fear tactics and the doom predictions of what will happen if labour get in to power.

There is nothing in the labour menifesto that would help me personally. Just because I don't need help, does not mean I don't realise there are thousands struggling that do. Maybe I should not give a toss, because that just makes me a snowflake leftie loon

What would make me change my mind is a positive alternative, but all I read is fear, hate and insults. That does not work for me.

Yep to both these. I'm not particularly excited about the prospect of Corbyn winning and becoming PM, not least because I fear it'll set Labour back to more decades in the wilderness - but they have to become the next government because this current conservative government clearly cannot be allowed to continue in power. Maybe things will work themselves out in the next three years, but most likely they'll go in a blink of an eye.

 

[Simster]

My take on that graph is that people with degrees are more likely to vote Conservative than any other party. No shock there.

You can take that graph in any number of ways, but until we have PR the bare results are pretty much meaningless.

 

[Ernest]

I vote LABOUR and I'm just about the most INTELLIGANT person on NSC so this thread is USELESS

 

[Medwayseagull]

My take on that graph is that people with degrees are more likely to vote Conservative than any other party. No shock there.

My interpretation of that graph is that people with more money are able to support their kids through uni.

 

[beorhthelm]

My interpretation of that graph is that people with more money are able to support their kids through uni.

i'd say your interpretation has nothing to do what so ever with the graph, and you're projecting your own view onto it.

 

[BLOCK F]

Regardless of how ineffective Mrs.May is as PM, anyone who thinks that Corbyn/McDonnell and Abbott are what this country needs is seriously deluded.
I reckon the country would be on its knees within 2 or 3 years if that lot formed the Government.
It is quite dreadful that this country has such a dearth of political talent, let alone leadership that the likes of May, Corbyn and Cable head their respective parties.

 

[Two Professors]

I'm sure you're neither, just a bit mixed up

If I was mixed up,I'd be a Labour voter!

 

[melias shoes]

I can assure you 'they' do not. I look forward to further installments of your insight.

Oh but they do. They just say we're not taking questions on that ala chakrabati . Glad you like my insights Harry.

 

[ManOfSussex]

Oh but they do. They just say we're not taking questions on that ala chakrabati . Glad you like my insights Harry.

Who is 'that ala chakrabati'?

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

I voted Labour because I liked their manifesto the best....

That's too simple isn't it. Sorry.

 

[Deleted member 22389]

All this talk from Labour about taking back this and that. What are they actually going to manage to do with the railways for example· The issue is with the infrastructure and rolling stock, so nothing will change. Are they suddenly going to build lots of high speed lines all over the place, because this isn't France who have the space, and can run double decker TGV's on it.

 

[dingodan]

Labour candidate - "Free stuff for everyone!"

Labour voter - "Yay!"

Conservative voter - "Nothing is really free, someone has to pay for it."

Labour voter - "Shut up you selfish - oil company shares owning - racist/facist."

"The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else."
- Frédéric Bastiat

 

[melias shoes]

Who is 'that ala chakrabati'?

You know what I'm referring too. When chakrabarbti interrupted a news conference when anti semitism reared it's ugly head. Saying Jeremy will be taking no more questions. Nasty party.

 

[melias shoes]

Who is 'that ala chakrabati'?

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.in...sed-of-colluding-with-media-a7111061.html?amp
This one. Nasty aparty.

 

[melias shoes]

I voted Labour because I liked their manifesto the best....

That's too simple isn't it. Sorry.

You sure it wasn't Jeremy's I'll deal with it speech a week before the election regarding student loans that swayed you.

 

[portslade seagull]

Have you seen how much money train and power companies make!? If the government owns then and runs them why can't those profits be put back into the country to help improve things like healthcare, transport, education and improving the infrastructure of the trains and power companies?

Question. When the railways was last under government control it made colossal losses year on year. Do you want to go back to that ??

 

[melias shoes]

Question. When the railways was last under government control it made colossal losses year on year. Do you want to go back to that ??

Yes they do. They want to take us back to the dark ages. Remember the 70s? I do. Horrendous.

 

[portslade seagull]

Regardless of how ineffective Mrs.May is as PM, anyone who thinks that Corbyn/McDonnell and Abbott are what this country needs is seriously deluded.
I reckon the country would be on its knees within 2 or 3 years if that lot formed the Government.
It is quite dreadful that this country has such a dearth of political talent, let alone leadership that the likes of May, Corbyn and Cable head their respective parties.

Most workers would be screwed. The something for nothing brigade will love it as The country implodes around them with sky high inflation, bombin currency and interest rates that will make many homeless

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Question. When the railways was last under government control it made colossal losses year on year. Do you want to go back to that ??

Incorrect. When the franchise owners handed back the East Coast main line in 2009 because they couldn't make money, the [Labour] government took over and ran it at a profit. Then they [by now Tories] handed it to Virgin & Stagecoach so that they could make the profit instead, the fares went up and we pay Virgin a massive subsidy. So we lose, passengers lose and shareholders do very nicely at our expense.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/26/east-coast-mainline-why-privatise