Current Affairs 2017 General Election
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ashwuk76
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Queue people saying it's not realistic... voting won't go that way... People don't really want corbyn...
Catfish Blues
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If people have learnt nothing else over the last few years, they should have learnt not to take any notice of polls.
People who like what the polls are currently telling them will almost certainly have been saying how hopeless they were just a few weeks ago when it looked like a Tory landslide was going to happen.
I stand by my prediction of a 50 to 100 seat majority for the Tories. If I'm right, I shall return to say "I told you so". If I'm wrong, and the Labour party do much better than i think we will, then I'll be a very happy man and you can summon me back from the vaults.
But, till next Friday morning, I bid you a fond farewell.
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Go'ed jezza lid
In fairness to roydo,TMS is aceTest Match Special, stay on topic please @roydo.
ashwuk76
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@gorgeousgeorgeEFC told ya!
More Tory lies, slurs and innuendos about Corbyn.
Conservatives Attack ad 'misrepresents Corbyn's views on IRA'
Tory attack ad misrepresents Corbyn views on IRA, says Labour
Widely shared video uses misleading edit of Corbyn’s interview on Sky News, cut to suggest he did not condemn bombing
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn poses for a selfie in York during campaigning on Friday. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Tory attack ad in full
Labour has accused the Conservatives of creating “fake news” after a Tory attack video that went viral was edited to show Jeremy Corbyn refusing to condemn the IRA, when in fact the Labour leader said: “I condemn all the bombing by the loyalists and the IRA.”
The 85-second montage of Corbyn’s quotes has been circulating online for the last week and has been viewed 5.3m times, three times more than any other political campaign video. The Conservatives are also paying Facebook to insert it into people’s news feeds. It is subtitled: “On June 9th, this man could be Prime Minister. We can’t let that happen.”
It includes a clip from Corbyn’s appearance on Sky News last month when interviewer Sophy Ridge asked whether he could “condemn unequivocally the IRA”. The Labour leader said: “Look, bombing is wrong, all bombing is wrong, of course I condemn it.” Ridge responded: “But you’re condemning all bombing, can you condemn the IRA without equating it to.” Corbyn said: “No.”
The clip was cut off there but the full quote was: “No, I think what you have to say is all bombing has to be condemned and you have to bring about a peace process. Listen, in the 1980s Britain was looking for a military solution, it clearly was never going to work. Ask anyone in the British army at the time … I condemn all the bombing by the loyalists and the IRA.
The number of people who have watched the film is similar to a televised party election broadcast audience, but because it is on Facebook it is not regulated by Ofcom, which can only consider complaints about “unjust or unfair treatment of individuals or organisations” in TV party broadcasts.
Another Facebook advert paid for by the Conservatives claims Corbyn wants to abolish Britain’s armed forces. This is false. The Labour manifesto pledges to spend 2% of GDP on defence and states: “We will ensure that our armed forces are properly equipped and resourced to respond to wide-ranging security challenges.”
“The Conservatives are running a hateful campaign based on smears, innuendo and fake news,” said a spokesman for Corbyn. “They do so because they have nothing to offer the British people and their super-rich donors fear Labour’s plan to transform Britain for the many not the few.”
Conservatives Attack ad 'misrepresents Corbyn's views on IRA'
Tory attack ad misrepresents Corbyn views on IRA, says Labour
Widely shared video uses misleading edit of Corbyn’s interview on Sky News, cut to suggest he did not condemn bombing
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn poses for a selfie in York during campaigning on Friday. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Tory attack ad in full
Labour has accused the Conservatives of creating “fake news” after a Tory attack video that went viral was edited to show Jeremy Corbyn refusing to condemn the IRA, when in fact the Labour leader said: “I condemn all the bombing by the loyalists and the IRA.”
The 85-second montage of Corbyn’s quotes has been circulating online for the last week and has been viewed 5.3m times, three times more than any other political campaign video. The Conservatives are also paying Facebook to insert it into people’s news feeds. It is subtitled: “On June 9th, this man could be Prime Minister. We can’t let that happen.”
It includes a clip from Corbyn’s appearance on Sky News last month when interviewer Sophy Ridge asked whether he could “condemn unequivocally the IRA”. The Labour leader said: “Look, bombing is wrong, all bombing is wrong, of course I condemn it.” Ridge responded: “But you’re condemning all bombing, can you condemn the IRA without equating it to.” Corbyn said: “No.”
The clip was cut off there but the full quote was: “No, I think what you have to say is all bombing has to be condemned and you have to bring about a peace process. Listen, in the 1980s Britain was looking for a military solution, it clearly was never going to work. Ask anyone in the British army at the time … I condemn all the bombing by the loyalists and the IRA.
The number of people who have watched the film is similar to a televised party election broadcast audience, but because it is on Facebook it is not regulated by Ofcom, which can only consider complaints about “unjust or unfair treatment of individuals or organisations” in TV party broadcasts.
Another Facebook advert paid for by the Conservatives claims Corbyn wants to abolish Britain’s armed forces. This is false. The Labour manifesto pledges to spend 2% of GDP on defence and states: “We will ensure that our armed forces are properly equipped and resourced to respond to wide-ranging security challenges.”
“The Conservatives are running a hateful campaign based on smears, innuendo and fake news,” said a spokesman for Corbyn. “They do so because they have nothing to offer the British people and their super-rich donors fear Labour’s plan to transform Britain for the many not the few.”
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Nurses pay is an interesting thing that has never been fully exposed - bank nurses take away a stupid amount for the work they do when filling gaps because the NHS create a false economy by keeping less 'full time' nurses on the books. Arguably front line staff could get a pay rise if the NHS actually staffed itself properly rather than using agency staff.
SpongeBob brown shoes
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The nuclear question always gets me
Q...Would you use it?
A....No
He's weak.... he's terrible..... he's got no ballssssss.......
Or
Q...would you use it?
A...yes
He's a fkin nut job....... he's a sicko..... he's a fkin looneeeyyyyyyy.......
Proper tory biffs baying for foreign blood, same old same old
Q...Would you use it?
A....No
He's weak.... he's terrible..... he's got no ballssssss.......
Or
Q...would you use it?
A...yes
He's a fkin nut job....... he's a sicko..... he's a fkin looneeeyyyyyyy.......
Proper tory biffs baying for foreign blood, same old same old
ashwuk76
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Can't believe so many people want to nuke people.. If we are ever at a time when a nuke is needed we are all proper screwed and probably dead...
Agency staff earn multiple times more than frontline staff - there's no arguably about it; if a miracle occurred and the NHS was staffed properly, they could raise wages.
But the NHS is one of those entities that will pay £50 for a £5 box of pens because nobody audits contracts. That's why it is a perpetual money sink.
Nobody wants that.
But people believe that nuclear weapons have done more to stop major conflict than anything else in existence right now.
So people in favour of nuclear weaponry are in favour for reasons of peace, not insanity.
ashwuk76
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Yeah I get the MAD thing but seriously no one actually wants to press the button... because if we are actually at that stage we are all screwed anyway.
People always bay for someone's blood if they won't press the button!
SpongeBob brown shoes
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I agree, it winds me up when you here people screaming and laughing because corbyn wont say he wil happily slaughter thousands of innocent people because of a warped regime they happen to live under, the girl in the audience put all the blood baying mob back in their box when she called them about it thoe, embarrassing
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