Current Affairs 2017 General Election

[Bruce Wayne]

Still hard to fathom how, or why, this election is being fought on domestic issues or complete non-issues like Trident, with barely a word on Brexit, which will be the dominant (nay only) issue for the next 5 years.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Still hard to fathom how, or why, this election is being fought on domestic issues or complete non-issues like Trident, with barely a word on Brexit, which will be the dominant (nay only) issue for the next 5 years.

Cause 80% of the population see Brexit as settled and don't want another referendum. It's expected that we will leave.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Cause 80% of the population see Brexit as settled and don't want another referendum. It's expected that we will leave.

How we leave is important though, no? It's like 48% of the population now suddenly couldn't give a [Poor language removed].

 

[roydo]

How we leave is important though, no? It's like 48% of the population now suddenly couldn't give a [Poor language removed].

MODS!!!!

 

[Donald Twain]

How we leave is important though, no? It's like 48% of the population now suddenly couldn't give a [Poor language removed].

Reported!

 

[Donald Twain]

Still hard to fathom how, or why, this election is being fought on domestic issues or complete non-issues like Trident, with barely a word on Brexit, which will be the dominant (nay only) issue for the next 5 years.

It does seem to be sidelined , very strange I assumed the election would be fought with it !

 

[ToffeeTim]

How we leave is important though, no? It's like 48% of the population now suddenly couldn't give a [Poor language removed].

Obviously it is, but you seem to want to overturn the result, hence your upset. The overwhelming majority are just voting for who they think would get the best leaving deal and don't want a rerun. Who they think will get the best deal is almost always who they think would be the best PM too tho.

 

[davmaher]

It isn't that unusual - of all the people at our work, only a couple of people have explicitly said who they are going to vote for.

They weren't asked who they would vote for. They were asked if they had decided who they would vote for. Q: "Have you decided who to vote for?" There are really only two possible answers. "Yes I have decided" or "No I haven't decided." To say "I don't know whether I have decided" doesn't make sense.

 

[ashwuk76]

MODS!!!!

lol lol lol

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Obviously it is, but you seem to want to overturn the result, hence your upset. The overwhelming majority are just voting for who they think would get the best leaving deal and don't want a rerun. Who they think will get the best deal is almost always who they think would be the best PM too tho.

I was hoping/expecting the forms of Brexit and how this will actually be played out to be the central point of the campaign.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Polls still all over the place. First 2 out tonight and they are 6 and 12 point margins.

 

[roydo]

I was hoping/expecting the forms of Brexit and how this will actually be played out to be the central point of the campaign.

Now you have stopped swearing, I will suggest that they cant really say much in terms of detail. All they can do is say our team is ace, and yours isnt.

Like the main issues arnt probably that far apart with either of the main 2 parties. Think LD might get some traction with their "yet another vote on it all" amongst some mind.

 

[davmaher]

Still hard to fathom how, or why, this election is being fought on domestic issues or complete non-issues like Trident, with barely a word on Brexit, which will be the dominant (nay only) issue for the next 5 years.

It does seem bizarre, particularly given that May claims she called the election because of the Brexit negotiations. In last nights Question Time she was asked directly by Dimbleby what a bad deal would look like - after she'd used the old "No deal is better than a bad deal" mantra - and her answer was basically that any deal that any other party came up with would be a bad deal. No discussion on broad areas where a line would be drawn in the sand. Dimbleby, of course, didn't push the matter.
On the Trident/Would you push the button issue, it seems crazy that there has been a lot of debate about something that has an almost zero chance of happening in the next 5 years but no discussion on something that will almost 100% happen and will have massive consequences whichever way it goes. Complete failure by almost all of the political class and the 4th estate.

 

[Clint Planet]

I've seen it. A lad I knew went from being a Socialist Labour sort to utter Tory. His girlfriend's rich dad found out she was pregnant and realised she wasn't packing him in so he gave him a good job to stop her being shacked up with a "loser". He's since been given various do-nothing roles where he can't do the firm any harm.

He's completely deluded himself that he's pulled himself up by the bootstraps when the reality is he's basically his Father-in-Laws beneficiary. It'll be interesting to hear his political views if his missus ever bins him off.

You've just summarised the life path of the majority of super-wealthy persons in Britain.

 

[davek]

Polls still all over the place. First 2 out tonight and they are 6 and 12 point margins.

ComRes are off the charts a ridiculous polling organisation. That would make this idiot May a better election leader than Blair or Thatcher in their pomp.

Swerve.

IMO the 5/6% gap is locked in and may or may not shrink/expand in the last 5 days of the campaign, but not to 12%!