Current Affairs 2017 General Election

[Joey66]

FFS...Zac Goldsmith running again!

Never mind him Esther Macvey got to stand in Gideons old seat Tatton- they would vote for a house brick with a blue rossete there's on it there doh hate her than most tories !

 

[JonS]

It is certainly significant, but you have to wonder why Blair has done it; whenever he has "intervened" like this against Corbyn before it always resulted in Corbyn's numbers going up.

Tony Blair. One of the few people more unpopular than Corbyn lol

 

[Number_25]

I get the feeling that the tide is turning, but I fear that it's probably too late to really make an significant impact.

Just for the love of Christ, get out there and vote Labour.

 

[hullefc]

At the last election the Tories got 24% of the electorate to vote for them and Labour got 20%. There were 33% that did not vote. So it is all to play for to get out those that didn't vote at the last election and those newly registered. Not a forgone conclusion as the so called polls suggest.

 

[Joey66]

I get the feeling that the tide is turning, but I fear that it's probably too late to really make an significant impact.

Just for the love of Christ, get out there and vote Labour.

The tide is turning fir labour but with Corbyn the sewerage is washing up on the beach if they had a decent leader it could be interesting - corbynism is doomed to fail !
Not a big walkover , but an increased majority he is just toxic to appeal to most older labour voters !

 

[neil999]

I get the feeling that the tide is turning, but I fear that it's probably too late to really make an significant impact.

Just for the love of Christ, get out there and vote Labour.

still think lib dem gains is gonna be the story of the election

i think labour voters who voted UKIP in the past wont bother voting at all, one thing opinion polls cant take into account is voter turnout but not only that but WHAT voters dont turnout

 

[WycombeToffee]

I get the feeling that the tide is turning, but I fear that it's probably too late to really make an significant impact.

Just for the love of Christ, get out there and vote Labour.

I don't think the tide is turning. There was one poll (which still had the Tories 16 points ahead) that looked good for Labour, on a day where two other polls showed the exact opposite swing. The next few will be interesting. I don't think Labour will end on 29 points though. Surely they've lost more than 2% since the last election?

 

[tsubaki]

On the housing announced today by Labour a million homes in five year term very commendable - just heard a eye opening phone in on LBC any houses built by a council,they cannot keep the revenues as Maggie stopped this in 1979 no,income for councils only to,the private sector !
Duke of Westminster get half a billion in housing benefit - Maggie thatchers junior minister in that era owns 35 council homes for income !
Flabbergasting so why did Blair, Labour governments and Brown governments not reverse this greedy rich policy????
Also Corbyn has not got the sense to reverse it no wonder council taxes have rose so high as the bread and butter of income for councils was stopped in 1979, and never been reversed that means any future housing development stays in the private sector as local government is banned from building houses, and getting any income on rent or Housing benefit - they can build them but have to hand them to the private sector it's just so mad to be true!

It is shocking, but it is a bit of a missed shot on goal from them. He should have said that Labour will bring in a scheme with the options for tenants to buy the homes (say by paying a chunk more on top of the rent every month) over a decent period, which would have a myriad of beneficial effects and would win more votes.

 

[Joey66]

It is shocking, but it is a bit of a missed shot on goal from them. He should have said that Labour will bring in a scheme with the options for tenants to buy the homes (say by paying a chunk more on top of the rent every month) over a decent period, which would have a myriad of beneficial effects and would win more votes.

Or just repeal thatchers 1979 LG act ?

 

[tsubaki]

Or just repeal thatchers 1979 LG act ?

It would be better to bring in a new Act - the scale of the problem is such that it would need a national response, and all you would do if you let Councils keep the proceeds again is that all of the few remaining council homes in the Home Counties and London would be sold.

 

[tsubaki]

I don't think the tide is turning. There was one poll (which still had the Tories 16 points ahead) that looked good for Labour, on a day where two other polls showed the exact opposite swing. The next few will be interesting. I don't think Labour will end on 29 points though. Surely they've lost more than 2% since the last election?

I am not sure that it is either - though the coordinated attacks over the past few days from Blair, Mandelson, Dugher and now Nick Cohen (edit: ignore that last one, it referred to a video from last August which has resurfaced) might suggest that it may be.

 

[tsubaki]

whoops!

The government has been ordered to publish its plans to tackle air pollution by 9 May after a judge rejected a plea by ministers to delay until after the general election.

Mr Justice Garnham, ruling against the government, also told ministers to stick to his original deadline of 31 July to publish the final policy on tackling the air quality crisis – the same date specified in his original order in November 2016.

He rejected the government’s application to appeal, and said the immediate publication of the plan was essential.

“These steps are necessary in order to safeguard public health … the continued failure of the government to comply with the EU directive and regulation constitutes a significant threat to public health.

“Exposure to nitrogen dioxide [leads to] to 23,500 deaths annually in the UK – that’s more than 64 deaths each day.”

The government had said publishing the plan would have been like dropping a controversial bomb into the election campaign. James Eadie QC, representing the government, said it would be better to put the publication on hold until after the general election to avoid the controversy over how to tackle the air quality crisis being seen as a “Tory plan”.

 

[Joey66]

It would be better to bring in a new Act - the scale of the problem is such that it would need a national response, and all you would do if you let Councils keep the proceeds again is that all of the few remaining council homes in the Home Counties and London would be sold.

The system from 1979 is crippling councils on income damage has been do no government has ever reversed that act so all the paties must have self interest imo!

 

[tsubaki]

The system from 1979 is crippling councils on income damage has been do no government has ever reversed that act so all the paties must have self interest imo!

I agree, but you could come up with a better system than pre-1979 though.

 

[orchard]

whoops!

Result! Hopefully this and a few other things will demonstrate how the current Government are managing our nation poorly and just blagging it whilst (ab)using all the powers vested in them to further their own ends.