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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What did you think about Corbyn's point that he wouldn't have started negotiations by threatening to turn the UK into an offshore tax haven like they have done?
I'd agree with him. Our whole approach so far seems to be based on looking as macho as possible and trying to appeal to lowest common denominator views on how untrustworthy Johnny Foreigner is. Trading insults and making threats before negotiations have even started doesn't seem too good a start to me, but it seems a deliberate policy so I guess the government must think it will play well with the public. I think essentially they are trying to feed off and continue to fuel the anger that was part of the Brexit vote.
 
I'd agree with him. Our whole approach so far seems to be based on looking as macho as possible and trying to appeal to lowest common denominator views on how untrustworthy Johnny Foreigner is. Trading insults and making threats before negotiations have even started doesn't seem too good a start to me, but it seems a deliberate policy so I guess the government must think it will play well with the public. I think essentially they are trying to feed off and continue to fuel the anger that was part of the Brexit vote.

You sound like a Labour voter to me, my friend.
 
How can this election be about Brexit when the Tories refuse to talk about Brexit. May is hiding behind the 'it's about Brexit ' because her time leading the government has been a sham, alongside her time at the Home Office. She is hiding behind 'it's about Brexit' when her manifesto is not costed and there is a major blackhole in the government finances after the self employed NI contribution catastrophic budget. The Tories hide behind 'it's about Brexit' when they ditch the increased cost of social care. Every time the Tories are taken to task as they bumble along they yell 'it's about Brexit'.

If only it was about Brexit. The Tories could tell us what they are really going to do about the border in the island of Ireland. Accept all that comes out is 'May will be the strong leader to negotiate Brexit'. When May's record is held up to scrutiny it is particularly poor and all over the shop. The EU will be rubbing their hands with the thought of dealing with May, Davis, Johnson etc.
 
Yet you would bet your future and that of your family on Corbyn and Abbott......if it's oK I'll stick with May.....

Yes. You are asking people to chose between Labour and the party that negotiated us into the EEC, that negotiated Munich, who took is into and out of the ERM and who got a sum total of nothing off the rest of the EU when it was in the rest of the EU's interest to give them something. You are asking people to put their trust in a person who advocated remain, who insisted there would be no snap election, who said there would be no vote and then gave one after being forced into it, and who is the one person in British political history to break their own manifesto promise within a week.

They are terrible. The only one of the negotiating team that could be trusted at all is Davis, and he is the one with the least influence.
 
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