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 .
Nytram Shakes said:
really annoys me that student fee's are such a big issue, the reason students from poorer backgrounds don't go to uni as much is becuase of their education at pre school or secondary school.
im have student debt, i come from a poor family, does that student debt make any difference to my life nope!
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I agree. To be honest, I don't agree with scrapping tuition fees. The current system of payback is fine, but the fee does put many people off. Simply reducing fees would have been a good enough incentive, I think.

I went to university the year they were raised 9k and some kids didn't apply to UCAS as they thought they couldn't afford it. The fact you don't have to pay it back until you're earning over a certain amount meant nothing to some people unfortunately.
 
"Good evening" :lol: that sounded like Tim nice but Dim
 
Possibly a minority view but Rudd's coming out well from this, her only competition on the right is Nuttall who is atrocious.
 
It's really bothering me now. Who keeps voting tory and changing to labour in the poll above? Show yourself you wicked person!!!!
 
Nytram Shakes said:
really annoys me that student fee's are such a big issue, the reason students from poorer backgrounds don't go to uni as much is becuase of their education at pre school or secondary school.
im have student debt, i come from a poor family, does that student debt make any difference to my life nope!
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Agree completely. Investing the £12b(?) cost of those fees in early years learning would be transformational. Really wish someone was arguing this.
 
The people this program is trying to reach - people who pay no attention to politics, would have turned with the first 10 minutes.
 
saivet said:
I agree. To be honest, I don't agree with scrapping tuition fees. The current system of payback is fine, but the fee does put many people off. Simply reducing fees would have been a good enough incentive, I think.

I went to university the year they were raised 9k and some kids didn't apply to UCAS as they thought they couldn't afford it. The fact you don't have to pay it back until you're earning over a certain amount meant nothing to some people unfortunately.
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Anyone debating this who doesn't stress this point is actively dissuading people from studying and should be ashamed of themselves. The problem with the loan system is that it is not enough to live on, and the interest rates charged afterwards are unfair, not that the system exists in the first place.
 
saivet said:
I agree. To be honest, I don't agree with scrapping tuition fees. The current system of payback is fine, but the fee does put many people off. Simply reducing fees would have been a good enough incentive, I think.

I went to university the year they were raised 9k and some kids didn't apply to UCAS as they thought they couldn't afford it. The fact you don't have to pay it back until you're earning over a certain amount meant nothing to some people unfortunately.
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yeah i think education on the loan system, people act like its crippling it really isn't its a tiny amount of ure wage when you earn over a certain amount.

personally i favour a graduate tax, but the loan system isn't that big of an issue and it annoys me how much press it gets, where their are far more serious problems with our education system
 
712 said:
Anyone debating this who doesn't stress this point is actively dissuading people from studying and should be ashamed of themselves. The problem with the loan system is that it is not enough to live on, and the interest rates charged afterwards are unfair, not that the system exists in the first place.
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That may be a problem, but some people don't understand how the system even works.
 
Jeremy stumbling over the terrorism question here... Doesn't look good.
Ubik said:
Possibly a minority view but Rudd's coming out well from this, her only competition on the right is Nuttall who is atrocious.
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It's all such a mess it's hard to tell. You're probably right.
 
Finally Corbyn saying the Tories have also repeatedly voted against anti-terror laws.
 
Nice. Corbyn hitting back about May also voting against the anti-terror legislation.
 
712 said:
Anyone debating this who doesn't stress this point is actively dissuading people from studying and should be ashamed of themselves. The problem with the loan system is that it is not enough to live on, and the interest rates charged afterwards are unfair, not that the system exists in the first place.
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im not sure thats completely true, ive got mates who are at uni in london right now and living pretty comfortably, a lot of them are better of then people i know working full time
 
saivet said:
I agree. To be honest, I don't agree with scrapping tuition fees. The current system of payback is fine, but the fee does put many people off. Simply reducing fees would have been a good enough incentive, I think.

I went to university the year they were raised 9k and some kids didn't apply to UCAS as they thought they couldn't afford it. The fact you don't have to pay it back until you're earning over a certain amount meant nothing to some people unfortunately.
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The future we are moving towards, education is everything. There should be no deterrents to further education and fees are a big deterrent.
 
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