Current Affairs 2017 General Election

2017 general election

  • Lib Dems

    Votes: 24 6.5%
  • Labour

    Votes: 264 71.0%
  • Tories

    Votes: 41 11.0%
  • Cheese on the ballot paper

    Votes: 35 9.4%
  • SNP

    Votes: 4 1.1%
  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 4 1.1%

  • Total voters
    372
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I find it baffling that May is choosing issues that offer Labour an open goal.

Like, there is mileage in the winter fuel allowance being actually paid to folk who need it, rather than those who use it to pay for Christmas. But in the scheme of things, its loose change. And leads to the inevitable "Tories attacking the elderly" shouts from the oppo.

Daft. Not impressed with how they/she, have presented themselves so far. They should remember, conceit and assumptions about being in the position the polls apparently place them in, can bite them on the arse.

As a floater, yeah, I know, the LD and Labour are doing ok at making me look a bit closer at what they are saying. Without actually having to.
 
Apparently it's cold in Scotland, but not the North of England :oops:

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Had a look at all 3 main manifesto's and they're all terrible. Don't think the country has been presented with such a crap set of choices in generations.
 
I'm not a Corbyn fan, but there is a lot in that Labour manifesto which I could get behind. Nationalising energy, water and rail, re-introducing student grants, banning unpaid internships (to name a few).

There's good stuff in pretty much every manifesto, there's even plenty of good ideas in the Tories and Lib Dems manifestos - but as a package, all 3 are pretty grim.
 
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/o...ort-and-aid-to-the-provisionals-35727183.html

This is why I can't bring myself to support Corbyn. There's enough neandrathals around here on all sides still trying to claim they were fully justified in the murders that they carried out, and having a PM who agreed with that doesn't sit well.

I look forward to a new labour leader who I can support.

Even in that laughably bad hit piece (describing McDonnell as a "Marxist Leninist Trotskyist" for instance, or saying that Corbyn "flaunted Gerry Adams in the House of Commons as his guest", when Adams had been elected as an MP the year before), there is nothing to suggest that Corbyn thought those murders were justified - let alone that he gave "aid and comfort" to the IRA.

Its a mishmash of links-to and spoke-to crap that would never be accepted in other circumstances, such as (for example) pointing out how many Tory MPs go on junkets to Saudi Arabia.
 
I'm not a Corbyn fan, but there is a lot in that Labour manifesto which I could get behind. Nationalising energy, water and rail, re-introducing student grants, banning unpaid internships (to name a few).

The mad thing is that, even under a Tory government, its the state that will pay for new energy plants, water systems and the railway - we just won't own them afterwards.
 
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