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 .
I don't understand what you mean, but I am a fairly level headed bloke capable of having a balanced opinion. I am also a member of a Jeremy Corbyn support group on Facebook that shout down anybody that posts nasty stuff or fake news, they even get called out if an article is out of date, so as i said, you must be on a completely different group to me.

For starters, lets start with Emma Barnett. Corbyn messed up in the interview he had with her and she was harassed, called all sorts of names and had anti-Semitic remarks posted to her.

One Labour party member was suspended by the party because of one of the anti-Semitic tweets.



I by no means imply its a huge chunk of the Corbyn, but a vocal group who are tarnishing the rest.
 
For starters, lets start with Emma Barnett. Corbyn messed up in the interview he had with her and she was harassed, called all sorts of names and had anti-Semitic remarks posted to her.

One Labour party member was suspended by the party because of one of the anti-Semitic tweets.



I by no means imply its a huge chunk of the Corbyn, but a vocal group who are tarnishing the rest.

fecking hell, Corbyn supporter also happens to be a dick. hardly a headline is it?

Luckily those lovely young tory supporters are all wholesome and pure.

Come on man, both sides have their share of dickheads.
 
fecking hell, Corbyn supporter also happens to be a dick. hardly a headline is it?

Luckily those lovely young tory supporters are all wholesome and pure.

Come on man, both sides have their share of dickheads.

True.

Made my point, so lets move on.
 
Any reason why you're attacking the left today? I'm curious.
I'm begrudgingly voting Labour this election, but this thread has become a bit of leftwing wankfest.
I wouldn't want to offend you, as a poster I like, but being disenfranchised right is a shite place to be. Plus I've been spending a full day with the in-laws.
 
They are never going to replace a 13th century building the best you will get is new glass in the windows.

Yeah I remember the prefab classrooms. We need to make sure that all pupils have a positive environment that enables them to be engaged in learning not chattering at the cold. You don't achieve that by cutting the funding to schools.

I try not to spew vitriol though. I have always said that once you raise your voice you have lost the argument. That doesn't mean that I have never raised my voice though just that I have always regretted doing it.
You are pretty balanced tbf. Few would deny improving school funding is a bad thing.

I've thought for a long time that core things like healthcare, education, policing and pensions need to be taken outside of the five year electoral cycle so they can have proper cross-party long-term planning, rather than regular chopping and changing. Will obviously never happen though.
 
I'm begrudgingly voting Labour this election, but this thread has become a bit of leftwing wankfest.
I wouldn't want to offend you, as a poster I like, but being disenfranchised right is a shite place to be. Plus I've been spending a full day with the in-laws.

I can see your point about it being a wankfest, people shout down the right a bit too much in here. I try and remain as objective as I can (which is hard). It's not exactly great being on the left either to be frank.

I'm just sat trying to watch Twin Peaks and its mind fecking me to oblivion.
 
it's so stupid isn't it? he is committed to keeping trident, but apparently because he is for some reason reluctant to murder millions of people he is somehow a fool?

It's the worst thing about this election.

I mean do any of the people attacking him for his supposed stance on nuclear weapons actually want us to use them? I don't think that they think when they spout such nonsense, because it's like they don't care about hundreds of thousands of people dying and all the ramifications afterwards.

There's absolutely no reason whatsoever why we should have them.
 
It's not a proper left wing wankfest - there isn't the vicious tearing apart of anyone not quite lefty enough going on.
 
You are pretty balanced tbf. Few would deny improving school funding is a bad thing.

I've thought for a long time that core things like healthcare, education, policing and pensions need to be taken outside of the five year electoral cycle so they can have proper cross-party long-term planning, rather than regular chopping and changing. Will obviously never happen though.
That's a good idea.
 
It's the worst thing about this election.

I mean do any of the people attacking him for his supposed stance on nuclear weapons actually want us to use them? I don't think that they think when they spout such nonsense, because it's like they don't care about hundreds of thousands of people dying and all the ramifications afterwards.

There's absolutely no reason whatsoever why we should have them.

Agreed, we'd be better off without trident.

Oh no, we're now in the same position as 187 countries..
 
That's a good idea.
I guess it would effectively neuter any government though. We can but dream.
I can see your point about it being a wankfest, people shout down the right a bit too much in here. I try and remain as objective as I can (which is hard). It's not exactly great being on the left either to be frank.

I'm just sat trying to watch Twin Peaks and its mind fecking me to oblivion.
Things are turning more your way. When I had a beer with @Grinner (come back man!), he said he was left (student), right (start earning), left (more comfortable, give something back). That's been my road and not necessarily one I expected.
 
There's a pattern of journalists who ask tough questions of Corbyn and members of TV audiences who don't make favourable contributions being absolutely vilified on social media.
 
There's a pattern of journalists who ask tough questions of Corbyn and members of TV audiences who don't make favourable contributions being absolutely vilified on social media.
I'm going to guess Laura Kuenssberg and Nick Robinson are the journalists, though it certainly isn't tough questioning that makes them targets. I'm definitely intrigued by your members of TV audiences point, who do you have in mind?
 
The Sun have gone for the headline tomorrow of: Jihadi killer in an Arsenal shirt

No words. Here they are, all pretty much about the terror attacks.
 
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From Private Eye.
 
The Beeb haven't shown a solitary second of the entire speech on their news channel. A whole 40 seconds of it on their website and it doesn't the bit about the Saudis.

So why haven't they gone there already?
Because Jeremy Corbyn isn't Prime Minister.