[Politics] The General Election Thread

[schmunk]

Either that or some Palace fan somewhere has missed his payment in getting them to take us down.

He tried to get them to accept 10p in the pound...

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

I wonder if Corbyn will fall on his sword after the election if he returns numbers like the calculus suggests or will he continue to hang around?

IF, and I still think it's a huge IF, the Tories win an overall majority, he'll be gone on the Friday the 13th.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

IF, and I still think it's a huge IF, the Tories win an overall majority, he'll be gone on the Friday the 13th.

Once Corbyn is out of the way, then if we get the right Labour leader, we can start on the long road to getting our country back.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Labour and Lib Dems falling over themselves to condemn govt response to the floods in the North. They'll be disappointed with that pitiful scrabbling about for votes.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Like Lewes MP Maria Caulfield supporting Brexit when her constituency was 52% Remain, you mean?

Yep, works both ways
Regards
DF

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

All those prospective Brexit candidates are reaping what they've sown, or rather Farage & Tice are. All those thousands of pounds paid to be candidates, and for pamphlets to be printed, only to be dropped like hot coals because Farage & Johnson have cosied up together. No refunds as Nige has pocketed it for himself.
It's all a massive Ponzi scheme.

You seem rattled all of a sudden
Regards
DF

 

[HH Brighton]

Corbyn and Swinson both have their faults but imagine walking into the polling station and putting your cross next to Conservative and allowing Johnson to lead a country? Incredible that about 1 in 4 people will actually vote for them.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

As much as I might believe it, I cannot ever bring myself to like it.

Just like the referendum result , no change there then
Regards
DY

 

[Wardy's twin]

Once Corbyn is out of the way, then if we get the right Labour leader, we can start on the long road to getting our country back.

Unfortunately we will be out of Europe by then and the economy will be truly f*caked.

 

[Gwylan]

Labour and Lib Dems falling over themselves to condemn govt response to the floods in the North. They'll be disappointed with that pitiful scrabbling about for votes.

I'm not quite sure why that's pitiful. This is a government that has made cuts to the Environmental Agency and has ignored flood defences, it's a government that has ignored the effects of climate change and a government that didn't call an emergency committee until five days after the flooding started. I'd have thought that calling out governments for their lack of response is exactly what opposition parties do.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Corbyn and Swinson both have their faults but imagine walking into the polling station and putting your cross next to Conservative and allowing Johnson to lead a country? Incredible that about 1 in 4 people will actually vote for them.

, time to wake up and smell the coffee, extremist liberals or labour Marxists no thanks
Regards
DF

 

[knocky1]

, time to wake up and smell the coffee, extremist liberals or labour Marxists no thanks
Regards
DF

An extreme Liberal? Whatever next. A far Centrist? A passive Neo-Nazi? A Tory Socialist?.................oh, we've had that one.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

An extreme Liberal? Whatever next. A far Centrist? A passive Neo-Nazi? A Tory Socialist?.................oh, we've had that one.

Yep , Swinson masquerading under a democratic banner is laughable, don't despair though most reasonable people can see straight through them ,totally unelectable
Regards
DF

 

[Simster]

Corbyn and Swinson both have their faults but imagine walking into the polling station and putting your cross next to Conservative and allowing Johnson to lead a country? Incredible that about 1 in 4 people will actually vote for them.

It's the amount of lying and lack of scrutiny the current crop of Tories enjoy that gets me, and this is largely down to a stubborn electorate, too unreasonable to look at the questions their conduct raises. The economy barely avoids a recession with the lowest growth in years, and Matt Hancock pronounces that it is booming. Or the talk that recession is over and that the Tories are putting 20,000 plod on the streets, ignoring the fact they cut them in the first place. Or that apparently Labour's spending is going to run into trillions but we can't talk about Tory spending plans because the same Tory says he doesn't want "to go bandying number around", and the less said about JRM and his Grenfell comments the better - never mind the absolute tool in the Tory party who then backed him up.

They are absolutely full of shit, but there are just so many moronic PPF simpletons to ensure that they don't need to be accountable - they can do what they want because they're delivering Brexit.

Luckily, it really is hard to imagine the utter chaos we'd have endured under Ed Milliband. Thank the LORD that the entitled ruling class in the Conservatives have done such a magnificent job by simply pointing out how terrible Milliband and then Corbyn would be.

 

[Simster]

Yep , Swinson masquerading under a democratic banner is laughable, don't despair though most reasonable people can see straight through them ,totally unelectable
Regards
DF

You are so SO thick. You clearly don't know what democracy actually is.

If the LibDems won the election, they'd clearly have a mandate to bin Brexit. That is parliamentary democracy. This is in contrast to the Tories who couldn't get a shit Brexit deal through a democratically elected parliament, so tried to shut it down.

 

[Eeyore]

Electoral Calculus today (same as yesterday afternoon possibly).

View attachment 117047

So the Tory vote drops 3.8% and they win an 114 seat majority.

How can a part with less than 40% of the vote be able to do that ?

A seriously ****ed up system.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

You seem rattled all of a sudden

Projecting. Now you can't vote Brexit party. Are you going to spoil your paper or boycott?

 

[Two Professors]

Unfortunately we will be out of Europe by then and the economy will be truly f*caked.

Fortunately we will be out of the EU,not Europe,as their economy (Germany) is well and truly fkt!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Labour and Lib Dems falling over themselves to condemn govt response to the floods in the North. They'll be disappointed with that pitiful scrabbling about for votes.

Pitiful? In Dec 2015, after Storm Desmond, Cameron could have applied for money from the EU to help with flood relief and to build up flood defences but he had to do it within 12 weeks of the flooding.
The leader of the LibDems, Tim Farron, even reminded him before the end of February 2016, but Cameron failed to do so.

Maybe the victims of the floods, hearing how the EU millions could have helped them, have been influenced to vote Remain in June of that year.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/22/uk-days-from-losing-125m-eu-flood-fund-aid-tim-farron

 

[vegster]

It's the amount of lying and lack of scrutiny the current crop of Tories enjoy that gets me, and this is largely down to a stubborn electorate, too unreasonable to look at the questions their conduct raises. The economy barely avoids a recession with the lowest growth in years, and Matt Hancock pronounces that it is booming. Or the talk that recession is over and that the Tories are putting 20,000 plod on the streets, ignoring the fact they cut them in the first place. Or that apparently Labour's spending is going to run into trillions but we can't talk about Tory spending plans because the same Tory says he doesn't want "to go bandying number around", and the less said about JRM and his Grenfell comments the better - never mind the absolute tool in the Tory party who then backed him up.

They are absolutely full of shit, but there are just so many moronic PPF simpletons to ensure that they don't need to be accountable - they can do what they want because they're delivering Brexit.

Luckily, it really is hard to imagine the utter chaos we'd have endured under Ed Milliband. Thank the LORD that the entitled ruling class in the Conservatives have done such a magnificent job by simply pointing out how terrible Milliband and then Corbyn would be.

You can thank the Multi-millionaire non-dom owners of 4/5 ths of the British press for that. The double standards are breathtaking.