Current Affairs 2017 General Election

[tsubaki]

We do have other methods of delivery, such as cruise missiles, but I take your point.....

Not for nukes we don't - in fact I am not sure that even the Yanks have nuclear-capable cruise missiles any more.

edit: wikipedia states they do, albeit they are the air-launched versions

 

[Joey66]

Again, you are wrong. Since 2010 in London the Met has sold off dozens of police stations, cut nearly 3000 police staff, lost more than a thousand regular officers and they are facing another cut of £700 million after the election. Special Constable numbers have gone down too, but they aren't paid and so cutting them / getting more of them has no direct cost (apart from uniform and whatnot).

Meanwhile, the population of London went up by a million between 2001 and 2011, will probably have gone up by another million by 2021, and we are facing the biggest domestic terrorism problem since the 1980s.

so corbyn and abbot go to the money tree - they use the same claw back of money to pay for different things hate to imagine them in EU negotiations........

 

[davmaher]

Nothing to see here obviously https://twitter.com/hashtag/torydirtymoney?src=hash

That is truly disgraceful if true. Can't see any mainstream media picking up on it, though, as it doesn't fit the agreed narrative for this election and/or the Tories are making deals with their mates in the media to ignore it. I'd hope Labour and SNP will be over this like a rash.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Laura Kuensberg is an expert in making sure she finds every possible Remoaner she can to interview on the campaign trial. She is fake news.

 

[Jib in lad]

That is truly disgraceful if true. Can't see any mainstream media picking up on it, though, as it doesn't fit the agreed narrative for this election and/or the Tories are making deals with their mates in the media to ignore it. I'd hope Labour and SNP will be over this like a rash.

It tells you everything about the MSM and their mates in the Tory party.

Disgraceful.

 

[tsubaki]

Laura Kuensberg is an expert in making sure she finds every possible Remoaner she can to interview on the campaign trial. She is fake news.

... and yet she still hasn't done to them what she did to Corbyn.

 

[tsubaki]

It tells you everything about the MSM and their mates in the Tory party.

Disgraceful.

Indeed - though you could have learned that by reading that article in today's Mail, where they suggest that Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge are hypocrites because they are seeking substantial damages off a French paper, just because one of its photographers took a photo of her in the nip without her consent and the paper made loads of money out of it.

Apparently the hypocrisy comes from them not having a problem with people being able to see them during their wedding.

 

[Groucho]

This 'strong and stable' stuff.

It's a bet.

I reckon when one of them does an interview, if they don't say the catchphrase then they have to put a fiver in the kitty.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

This 'strong and stable' stuff.

It's a bet.

I reckon when one of them does an interview, if they don't say the catchphrase then they have to put a fiver in the kitty.

Given what Cameron did at university, is that a euphemism?

 

[Groucho]

Given what Cameron did at university, is that a euphemism?

Hehe

 

[Tubey]

Yep, electable, honest.

 

[Tubey]

This 'strong and stable' stuff.

It's a bet.

I reckon when one of them does an interview, if they don't say the catchphrase then they have to put a fiver in the kitty.

It's a well known psychological ploy.

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/minds-business/to-be-more-persuasive-repeat-yourself.html

It'll work too, because by saying "strong and stable" over and over again, without deviation, you're showing consistency, which is in itself "strong and stable".

She wants to be boring; that's her whole point. Dull but dependable. That's the mindset she wants the voters to have on her.

It means that when Labour do something utterly stupid, which given McDonnell, Thornberry, Abbott and Corbyn are at the heart of Labour currently means you won't have to go searching for stupid things, then by contrast the Tories look calm and rational.

You may dislike the tactic, but it's why she's going to win by a landslide. She doesn't need to campaign with style or even substance - she just has to make few mistakes.

 

[Clint Planet]

 

[Bruce Wayne]

So basically it's a choice between crap and crapper, but we should choose [insert party of choice] because it's your tribe and therefore the crapness is okay?

 

[peteblue]

It's a well known psychological ploy.

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/minds-business/to-be-more-persuasive-repeat-yourself.html

It'll work too, because by saying "strong and stable" over and over again, without deviation, you're showing consistency, which is in itself "strong and stable".

She wants to be boring; that's her whole point. Dull but dependable. That's the mindset she wants the voters to have on her.

It means that when Labour do something utterly stupid, which given McDonnell, Thornberry, Abbott and Corbyn are at the heart of Labour currently means you won't have to go searching for stupid things, then by contrast the Tories look calm and rational.

You may dislike the tactic, but it's why she's going to win by a landslide. She doesn't need to campaign with style or even substance - she just has to make few mistakes.

Exactly......