A Political Thread

[The Jones Boy]

If Teresa May gets in, we get a hard Brexit.
The EU leadership (all maggots) will not allow the UK to have access to the single market without taking the free flow of European immigrants.
If the UK gets a hard Brexit say goodbye to the banking and insurance community in the city of London.
Any kind of tarriff and those greedy gits will run for Europe.
I don't want to be here during a hard Brexit, it's gonna get tough here like it has'nt been for a long time.

I see you chaps getting caught up in personality cults rather than outcomes.

Some of you are saying, "I don't like Corbyn, he's an old codger, I'm not voting for him.

Fair enough.

For me I don't care about the personalities, I care about the outcomes.
More Tories = a better life for the rich folk at the top of the earning pile and an increasing difficult life for everyone else.
We will see an increase in homeless British citizens
We will see an increase in food banks.
We will see an increase in people being foreclosed on and losing their homes.
The deficit will continue to increase as the gap between the rich and everyone else gets wider.
The subsidy that was in place for people who wanted to invest in solar panels for their houses and businesses under labour, that was removed
by Dickwad Cameron at the first opportunity, will continue to be unavailable.
There's just no compassion for people or the environment under the Tories.
Vote for them at your peril and live with it.

 

[ncurd]

I'm mainly not voting Labour because my constituency is Lib Dem or Tory. Corbyn has nothing to do with that choice.

 

[The Jones Boy]

We have an Indian sheila MP called Rupa Huq in my constituency. She has been pretty visible and seems to make an effort. I honestly don't know who the other candidates are, I haven't seen anything from the Lib Dems yet, and the Conservative party leaflet was all about Teresa May. UKIP seem to have disappeared.

 

[ncurd]

Looking at your constituency you have an honest to god fight on your hand between the Tories and Labour. But it doesn't surprise me your leaflet is running the May V Corbyn line especially if you have a good MP they are trying to not make it about electing a representative but electing an overall leader. How small was the Tory logo?

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Ok seriously how in the name of living **** can anyone still support Trump? The man literally has NO redeeming features personally or professionally!

 

[General Melchett]

As far as I'm concerned the Brexit outcome is down to the Tories (it's been a party agenda item for decades) and seeing as many of them have conveniently switched from being Remainers to Brexiteers it's their responsibility to manage the leaving process. I hope people vote for them because they got us into this. The referendum was a total farce - people had no clue what they were voting for.


I have a feeling that Corbyn won't resign after he loses the election. RIP Labour. There is a gap in the market for a new centre left party, similar to what has happened in France.


Trump is a cretin but there are more worrying things in American democracy/politics. There is clearly an agenda to get him impeached before his four years are up. The whole Russian links thing is just a smokescreen created by the DMC who are quite obviously controlling most of the mainstream media and have the intel agencies in their back pockets. There is nothing democractic about what we are seeing there.

 

[Which Tyler]

Trump is a cretin but there are more worrying things in American democracy/politics. There is clearly an agenda to get him impeached before his four years are up. The whole Russian links thing is just a smokescreen created by the DMC who are quite obviously controlling most of the mainstream media and have the intel agencies in their back pockets. There is nothing democractic about what we are seeing there.

As far as I can tell, the whole impeachment thing is nothing to do with the Russian links; but about an obstruction of justice by "requesting" Comey to drop the investigation into Flynn (who does appear to have been very dodgy).
Yes, there's been talk about a looming impeachment since before he took office - but that's largely because he was so obviously incompetent and narcisistic that the chances were high that he'd do something impeachable before his 4 years were up. I think the fact that he knew everyone was just waiting, and he still gave them the ammunition within his first 4 months is a surprise to everyone.

 

[Gavin]

Lolz.

The Conservative and Unionist Party.

 

[The Jones Boy]

I watched the little parties have their debate this evening.
Corbyn and Dis-May took a beating for not showing up.
They both lost credibility for not engaging the public in this arena.
Paul Nuttall is a smug ****

It's looking like an easy Conservative/ukip victory. TYhe private media, almost all of them, are completely behind the Conservatives.
All I'm seeing down the track is the rise of social unrest as the poor increase in misery and numbers and slowly get organised.
Not an environment I care to be involved with, especially since Teresa may, in her time as Minister of Police, gave us the lowest ever police numbers since WWII

I see she was talking again about how she would deliver less than 100,00 immigrants per year
When she was Minister for the Home office she promised exactly the same gift, and failed utterly to deliver

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Jan Ravens does a great Theresa May impression.

 

[The Jones Boy]

A bit of fun.

 

[ncurd]

WTF is Theresa May on with this Dementia Tax the amount of self inflicting harm they are doing is insane.

Shes tried to fix it today by saying "oh but the rich will keep more than 100k'.

This was an easy election victory they seam to be trying to destroy.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Pretty amazing.

Still think it will be a Tory win but could see it becoming a hung Parliment and can't see anyone wanting to do a coalition.

 

[Groundhog]

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

In reality they are both Stevie G.

 

[Groundhog]

And to further the football analogy Britain is the SPL. One surprisingly dominant team that is a laughing stock at the European level.
I'd also like to add it took me a while to be able to distinguish between Corbyn and that grandad from Doctor Who who had a picture of him crying as a meme for a while.

 

[Gavin]

Labour claiming if they get they'll scrap university fees. Good move so close to the election, we all remember how well the Lib-dems did after they said they'd scrap fees.

 

[ncurd]

I'll start off by saying I'm still anti-tuitions fees.


I don't know how much tuition fees are on students registers these certainly from the conversations I've had most students feel the arguement has been had and lost its certainly not the vote winner from 7 years ago. Kids of today just accept it unlike people of my age who saw people just older than them get a free education and we were told we had to pay.

More importantly though that wasn't the ONLY reason for the lib dem serge in response although it was central to our downfall. The actual reason was a leader taking a central ground and compromising between the two more 'tribal' parties. The ability to show show moderate non knee jerky proposals.

Problem is we 'propped' up the wrong party in many supporters views.

Its been interesting I've gotten way more involved this campaign and Brexit arguement didn't really work for us but the other policies we have are working to a small degree. I think it will take years to recover to heady days of 22% of the vote, focus on rebuilding certain seats and then working on the areas.
In some ways talking to activists this election is too soon we actually as a party could of done with not fighting Brexit but due to the parties stance of pro-Europeanism we didn't have much choice. Rather to have fought the good fight and lost going into a GE with a pro-Europe policy than trying to fight the referendum. Should note its not something I agree with (leaving the EU) just would be politically better if we'd completely lost the fight (some argue we have which is kind of the problem).

 

[General Melchett]

Yet another spectacular U turn by May on social care.

It's incredible that so many people just can't see that she's not much better than Corbyn. U turn after U turn and yet she's still on course for a thumping win.

 

[The Jones Boy]

Just another U turn from Terriblah May,
There's no cap on the dementia tax
No, wait, there is a cap now.
But wait, we don't know what size the cap will be and we're not telling anyone anyway...
The Lady's not for turning... less than at least twice on every policy muck up...
Farcical.
My biggest concern about the Tories is the absolute muppet they have as the chancellor of the Exchequer.
Not one single thing in the Tory manifesto is costed.