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 .
does anyone else nosey at the addresses off candidates on the ballots?

Mine was something like this:

Ukip: Private Estate
Conservative: feck those houses are basically castles
Labour: ow thats just round the corner...... i could go round for tea.
Lib Dem: ow their some cute cottages i like them
Green: no address in this constituency???? huh?
 
Depends, it was Labour in 2010 too with a much smaller UKIP vote share. Sounds like a real swing constituency with no UKIP.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/election2010/results/constituency/d08.stm

*EDIT* just looked back to 2005 and 2001. Amazing how huge Labours vote used to be there compared to now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newca...rliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2000s

Farrelly voted against Brexit so that won't go down well with the voters.

http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/brex...-50-by-march/story-29968291-detail/story.html

Tory candidate is active on social media too whereas Farrelly isn't. I expect they'll go blue for the first time.
 
The British press are a disgrace. Britain doesn't have a democracy, it has some kind of pro Tory propagandist state or whatever you can call it.
Over 95% of the British press basically turns into a Tory party propaganda machine at an election because it's in the interests of the proprietors of these so called media outlets.
To call Britain a Banana state is an insult to most Banana states! It's a kin joke!! Please please please, vote for anything except the party the majority of the press wants you to vote for. It's in your interest to do so.
 
The banking crisis required a bailout whoever was in power. That side of things can't be blamed either way, aside from the general lack of controls put in place pre crisis.

Do you think Tories, who belive regulation gets in the way of business, would have made any laws to protect us from the crash?
 
Is there any youtube stream or something similar where I can follow the election night if I'm not in the UK?
 
Ordinary folk vote Tory because it makes them feel like they belong to a club that's well above their station .

Sad.
 
Is there any youtube stream or something similar where I can follow the election night if I'm not in the UK?
I'd go with Silva's shout, if you can. If not, I think this works for Sky...

 
Do you think Tories, who belive regulation gets in the way of business, would have made any laws to protect us from the crash?
Nope! But nor did Labour. The crash was pretty much inevitable. No one gets in the way of the gravy train... Until it runs out of track!
 
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The banking crisis required a bailout whoever was in power. That side of things can't be blamed either way, aside from the general lack of controls put in place pre crisis.
No it didn't. If you actually believe in capitalism, you have to let failing businesses, even banks, die when they lose billions of pounds. Since the banks were bailed out, governments aren't in a position to do it again. And have the banks learned their lesson? No they haven't.
 
It's clear regulation of the press isn't needed at all.

But you know, 'freedom of speech', 'you can't say anything these days mate...' or whatever the latest right-wing bullshit is.
Won't be long before we end up with those US style political attack adverts on telly.
 
No it didn't. If you actually believe in capitalism, you have to let failing businesses, even banks, die when they lose billions of pounds. Since the banks were bailed out, governments aren't in a position to do it again. And have the banks learned their lesson? No they haven't.

Do you know why car finance is so cheap right now? Dealers sell cars on credit, they sell these loans on, they are chopped up and packaged up, relying on everyone still making payments and the value of underlying asset not crashing. Sound very familiar
 
I find the drugs bit more than a tad tasteless but the rest is just a not overly funny attempt at humour.

Plenty of people on my Facebook feed making the rather tired 'Tories vote tomorrow' joke.
 
Do you know why car finance is so cheap right now? Dealers sell cars on credit, they sell these loans on, they are chopped up and packaged up, relying on everyone still making payments and the value of underlying asset not crashing. Sound very familiar
Preach!
 
Do you know why car finance is so cheap right now? Dealers sell cars on credit, they sell these loans on, they are chopped up and packaged up, relying on everyone still making payments and the value of underlying asset not crashing. Sound very familiar
Are you implying that car loans are about to bring the global financial system to its knees?
 
Why would they be turned away? If they registered to vote before the deadline surely they would be able to vote.
Apparently tellers may be using out of date register. Here's a facebook post by the Newcastle-under-Lyme Labour Party

https://www.facebook.com/NewcastleLabour/posts/1888008374806789

Important notice for anyone who has been turned away from a polling station:
The tellers may be using an out of date register. If you believe you have registered please go back to your polling station and insist the tellers ring the council to confirm you are registered.
 
Scrolled through my facebook feed and I've seen nothing deratory towards Tory voters to my surprise. May well change come tomorrow, but all positive vibes..
 
Just two and bit hours left to numb myself enough to cope with the exit poll. I'm opening the Morgan's.
 
I find the drugs bit more than a tad tasteless but the rest is just a not overly funny attempt at humour.

Plenty of people on my Facebook feed making the rather tired 'Tories vote tomorrow' joke.

Context is different though. It's in a (amazingly) non-satirical paper, in the middle of a very serious article about a related topic.
 
Your assertion was that the deficit had increased over the past seven years.




I remember the debates quite well, and on no single occasion did the official Leave campaign promote what you advocate. I think you know full well that such a course as you suggest is designed to suit your personal agenda, more than it represents the spirit of the result.

You've worded this in such a weird way that I think you know that it is at best a tenuous point and at worst an outright lie.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...arage-anna-soubry_uk_582ce0a0e4b09025ba310fce

The long and the short of it is plenty of voters went to the polls believing that this was on the table and that was an opinion that at best was not discouraged by the Leave campaign and, at times, was promoted by very key figures within that campaign.

If Vote Leave (or Leave.EU) had been honest about this point then Leave would have lost the referendum. Again, I think this is another example of you extrapolating your knowledge of the EU and your views onto an electorate as a whole which obviously can not be of one mind.
 
Your assertion was that the deficit had increased over the past seven years.



I remember the debates quite well, and on no single occasion did the official Leave campaign promote what you advocate. I think you know full well that such a course as you suggest is designed to suit your personal agenda, more than it represents the spirit of the result.
No I said that it was up over 7 years( I meant cumulatively). My point was that Tories have a higher deficit than Labour statistically they do because while they cut services they give large tax cuts to the rich. Even their good year(this year is worse than Labours normal year on that graphic.

Feck spirit. They guaranteed that we would get the £350m a week for the NHS and admitted they lied the day of the results. What ever their spirit was goes out the window when they admit that they lied.
 
Voted, the polling station was pretty quiet but as one person left another would come in which was good.

Went with my party, not the person and voted for Labour (even though they haven't got much chance of regaining control in my constituency).
 
Context is different though. It's in a (amazingly) non-satirical paper, in the middle of a very serious article about a related topic.
Yeah, that's just bizarre.
 
Good to see that I'm not the only one who fecked up the Tory "majority" question.
 
Screw predictions about the result, let's get to the real business and predict turnout.

I'm going to say 68%.