General Election 2017 | Cabinet reshuffle: Hunt re-appointed Health Secretary for record third time

How do you intend to vote in the 2017 General Election if eligible?

  • Conservatives

    Votes: 80 14.5%

  • Labour

    Votes: 322 58.4%

  • Lib Dems

    Votes: 57 10.3%

  • Green

    Votes: 20 3.6%

  • SNP

    Votes: 13 2.4%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 29 5.3%

  • Independent

    Votes: 3 0.5%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 2 0.4%

  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 11 2.0%

  • Other (UUP, DUP, BNP, and anyone else I have forgotten)

    Votes: 14 2.5%
  • Total voters
    551
  • Poll closed .
712 said:
She's billed to. It's if she fecks up again then it gets interesting. Do they hide her away or just carry on and pray? I'm remembering Brown's 'bigoted woman' moment, it might only take one cock-up to swing it.
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If she turns up then it will be tasty. I'm hoping for a disastrous time for her
 
Lentwood said:
Interested to know why you feel Corbyn is not 'nice' and which associations and viewpoints he has held which you disagree with?

I think one of the problems Corbyn has is that he is opinionated and does have principles. Politicains these days scramble for the middl ground because if you don't stand for anything in particular nobody can disagree with you

Corbyn has done absolutely the right thing - come out with a solid manifesto of ambitious but achievable policies. Not everybody will agree with them but the reaction from the general public seems to be that many do
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Nobody 'nice' supports and actively campaigns on behalf of terrorists and murderers. The two do not mix. For context, a younger Corbyn would likely be out campaigning for the innocence of Salman Abedi right now.

Agree with his policies all you like but he is not some lovely, harmless old bloke and people shouldn't be voting for him thinking he is.
 
Twitter politics doesn't seem that different to the transfer forum.





Also this is amazing

 
11101 said:
Nobody 'nice' supports and actively campaigns on behalf of terrorists and murderers. The two do not mix. For context, a younger Corbyn would likely be out campaigning for the innocence of Salman Abedi right now.

Agree with his policies all you like but he is not some lovely, harmless old bloke and people shouldn't be voting for him thinking he is.
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Again, I would very much like to see where you get this idea from.
 
RedSky said:
You and me both Miss Quacks!
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The area I live in is strange. Half a mile away there are loads of vote labour posters yet the Tories won in this constituency two years back. I know my little village is pro tory so i decided to be a little defiant and I've got my vote labour poster up. My house backs on to a main road so it gets exposure :D
 
I loves the Scottee tweet. Its about time some of these MPs of all parties remember that don't operate in a vacuum, the people they work for are very real indeed.

This election is reminding me of one thing, not trump, not macron, the labour leadership election.

He was 200/1 with no chance, being laughed at. The longer it went on the more popular he became.
 
QuackQuack said:
The area I live in is strange. Half a mile away there are loads of vote labour posters yet the Tories won in this constituency two years back. I know my little village is pro tory so i decided to be a little defiant and I've got my vote labour poster up. My house backs on to a main road so it s exposure :D
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Yeah, I was down in Brighton last week and there's a big Labour movement over there. My constituency is Tory with a Lib Dem challenger so will have to go tactical I guess. At least the village i'm in is very pro Lib Dem so I don't feel like kicking people in the shins! :p
 
The Tory PR machine is cranking up ahead of the debates. Another release @Cheesy
Love the way it has a 'Conservative source' quoted at the end whose tone is identical to all of their missives.
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Responding to Jeremy Corbyn’s admission that he would open discussions with the Scottish Government over yet another independence referendum, Ruth Davidson, Leader of the Scottish Conservatives, said:

“Nicola Sturgeon has said she’d put Jeremy Corbyn into Number 10. Now Jeremy Corbyn says he is happy to ‘open discussions’ with her about a second referendum.

“Labour voters in Scotland now know that Jeremy Corbyn would sell them down the river. I will never fold against Nicola Sturgeon’s demand for a second referendum. It is clearer than ever that only by voting Scottish Conservatives on June 8th can we send her a message to take if off the table.”

A Conservative source added:

“It is simply not worth taking the risk of Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street in 10 days’ time, in charge of Brexit with the SNP calling the shots.”

ENDS
 
Expect the Tories to go hard on the economy. It's played a surprisingly little role so far in their narrative so far in their omnishambles of a campaign.
 
11101 said:
Nobody 'nice' supports and actively campaigns on behalf of terrorists and murderers. The two do not mix. For context, a younger Corbyn would likely be out campaigning for the innocence of Salman Abedi right now.

Agree with his policies all you like but he is not some lovely, harmless old bloke and people shouldn't be voting for him thinking he is.
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I think there is a big, big difference between trying to work toward resolvng the conflict in NI (assuming that is what you are referring to as I cannot think of anything else you could be referring to) and supporting middle Eastern Nationalists blowing up kids at the MEN.

Corbyn does have some complex views on the world which need to be properly understood before you judge. Remember Corbyn was one of the first UK politicians to openly support Mandela and campaign for his release
 
Lentwood said:
I think there is a big, big difference between trying to work toward resolvng the conflict in NI (assuming that is what you are referring to as I cannot think of anything else you could be referring to) and supporting middle Eastern Nationalists blowing up kids at the MEN.

Corbyn does have some complex views on the world which need to be properly understood before you judge. Remember Corbyn was one of the first UK politicians to openly support Mandela and campaign for his release
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This isn't true, as far as I know.
 
Ubik said:
This isn't true, as far as I know.
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I don't know how to post a photo or a link so see below taken from The Independent

"Time after time, the Labour party’s worst leader in history has called it right. When he had a full head of hair and weighed a pound or two less, he was out on the streets marching (and being arrested) for the end of apartheid in South Africa and the release of Nelson Mandela, who was then branded a terrorist. I know because, like thousands of others, I saw him there."
 
Lentwood said:
I think there is a big, big difference between trying to work toward resolvng the conflict in NI (assuming that is what you are referring to as I cannot think of anything else you could be referring to) and supporting middle Eastern Nationalists blowing up kids at the MEN.

Corbyn does have some complex views on the world which need to be properly understood before you judge. Remember Corbyn was one of the first UK politicians to openly support Mandela and campaign for his release
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Corbyn was involved in a number of protests and campaigns for the release of convicted terrorists including IRA members and others, outside of any involvement in peace negotiations.
 
Lentwood said:
I don't know how to post a photo or a link so see below taken from The Independent

"Time after time, the Labour party’s worst leader in history has called it right. When he had a full head of hair and weighed a pound or two less, he was out on the streets marching (and being arrested) for the end of apartheid in South Africa and the release of Nelson Mandela, who was then branded a terrorist. I know because, like thousands of others, I saw him there."
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I think Ubik is right. By the early 80's most of us on the left were anti-apartheid. No surprise that Corbyn was also. I don't know when he joined with the movement I certainly had no awareness that he was in any way a pioneer in it.
 
11101 said:
Corbyn was involved in a number of protests and campaigns for the release of convicted terrorists including IRA members and others, outside of any involvement in peace negotiations.
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I think you need to dig a bit deeper. Can you tell me, for instance, why internment was such a roadblock on the way to a negotiated settlement?
 
DenisIrwin said:
I think Ubik is right. By the early 80's most of us on the left were anti-apartheid. No surprise that Corbyn was also. I don't know when he joined with the movement I certainly had no awareness that he was in any way a pioneer in it.
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I am sure Corbyn didn't invent the idea but remember I said "one of the first UK politicians"

Surely you acknowledge that there is a world of difference between having an opinion privately or amongst friends and holding that position as an MP?
 
Lentwood said:
I don't know how to post a photo or a link so see below taken from The Independent

"Time after time, the Labour party’s worst leader in history has called it right. When he had a full head of hair and weighed a pound or two less, he was out on the streets marching (and being arrested) for the end of apartheid in South Africa and the release of Nelson Mandela, who was then branded a terrorist. I know because, like thousands of others, I saw him there."
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I don't doubt that he campaigned, but the anti-apartheid movement was mainstream within Labour and the left generally since the 50s, and the likes of Jeremy Thorpe was trying to get people like Mandela and other prisoners freed since the 60s, and Callaghan as PM even sent Mandela official birthday greetings whilst he was in prison in the 70s.

That photo that goes around of him being arrested was after a demo during a non-stop picket of the South African embassy in '84, which the nationwide AAM had been trying to avoid.
 
Mozza said:
Yup. Old people vote and feck over the young
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A lot of people above the age of 60 are very unhappy about the Tory manifesto particularly regarding changes to pension plans and benefits etc. They will surely recognise that a Tory government will hurt them more than a coalition government led by Labour. I think election day will throw up some surprises.
 
Lentwood said:
I am sure Corbyn didn't invent the idea but remember I said "one of the first UK politicians"

Surely you acknowledge that there is a world of difference between having an opinion privately or amongst friends and holding that position as an MP?
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Yeah. The truth is I just don't know. His anti-racist stance would probably have been reinforced during his stint doing Voluntary Service Overseas in Jamaica as a young man.
 
Captain Ska's "Liar Liar" has apparently been taken out of the charts after reaching No. 1 so the mainstream radio doesn't have to play it.
 
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