Current Affairs 2017 General Election

[Zezti]

The true party of the working class everybody.

"Running through the fields of wheat"
So, stepping on the efforts of the working class even when she was young then.

 

[Eggs]

Mind boggingly bad.

..the Labour Party say she's ill today and has had to cancel a scheduled interview with the Today programme. I'm afraid the demons will always come out to haunt this Labour Party until there's change, BBC pointing out to Jack Dromey that Corbyn has voted against terrorist legislation 17 times. It's difficult to argue seriously that you will protect the country against this threat with a record like that.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

She won't be. If the reports of her doing these interviews against the direct wishes of Corbyn and the Labour campaign team are true, there is no way that she will be rewarded afterwards. The only reason she is SHS to begin with is because of the boycott of Corbyn's cabinet by much of the PLP, which is not going to be an issue if he wins - either they will join the Government, or he won't be able to form one.

Is it such a forgone conclusion that she will win her seat? I can't imagine how hopeless her opponents must be.

 

[Khalekan]

Everyone needs to tell all their friends and everyone else you know that they really need to vote or their opinion is completely and utterly irrelevant and they derserve everything they get. I simply cannot stomach another cryfest like after the referendum with attention seeking idiots shouting from the rooftops about how they've been screwed over only to find out that these same morons didn't even vote.

Indeed.

I have done something this election which. I would never have bothered doing before.

I have submitted a Postal Vote as I leave on holiday in the early hours of Polling Day.

It is particularly galling that the people most affected by the Brexit vote and any strengthening of the Tory austerity policy after Thursday are the very young people whom seem too apathetic to get out and vote.

If you don't bother voting you have no room for complaint about the result.

 

[evilwebby]

If you don't bother voting you have no room for complaint about the result.

But that is what the Entitlement Generation specialize in!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Indeed.

I have done something this election which. I would never have bothered doing before.

I have submitted a Postal Vote as I leave on holiday in the early hours of Polling Day.

It is particularly galling that the people most affected by the Brexit vote and any strengthening of the Tory austerity policy after Thursday are the very young people whom seem too apathetic to get out and vote.

If you don't bother voting you have no room for complaint about the result.

I do wonder at times if young people see the tossers put up for election and decide not to bother on that basis, perhaps in the hope things will improve next time round, and then as we get older we realise that all there ever are is tossers up for election, so you may as well vote as not and go for the least bad option.

 

[strummer]

Greg has his own official campaign song as well

Shame they've had to make the video for him. I'm sure Greg's would have been miles better.

Haha that's incredible. That song will be going around in my head all day now

 

[tsubaki]

..the Labour Party say she's ill today and has had to cancel a scheduled interview with the Today programme. I'm afraid the demons will always come out to haunt this Labour Party until there's change, BBC pointing out to Jack Dromey that Corbyn has voted against terrorist legislation 17 times. It's difficult to argue seriously that you will protect the country against this threat with a record like that.

It really isn't - almost all of that legislation is of the "something must be done" kind.

 

[tsubaki]

Is it such a forgone conclusion that she will win her seat? I can't imagine how hopeless her opponents must be.

As a constituency MP she was quite good and she did use to come across reasonably well on This Week. Sadly it may be the case that her experience on there might well have convinced her that she doesn't need to do what the rest of the Shadow Cabinet seem to have done and work very hard on improving their presentational skills.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

As a constituency MP she was quite good and she did use to come across reasonably well on This Week. Sadly it may be the case that her experience on there might well have convinced her that she doesn't need to do what the rest of the Shadow Cabinet seem to have done and work very hard on improving their presentational skills.

The thing is, I'm not sure it's even presentational skills that are the problem. I couldn't care less if she comes across dull or a bit eccentric, but she seems to lack basic knowledge of her field. In the LBC interview she didn't know the details of a key policy on her patch, whilst the recent Sky interview suggests she had equally poor knowledge of a key policy paper in her area. Not having that knowledge is bad enough, but to then try and bluff your way out of both situations makes her look not only clueless but untrustworthy.

It's bad enough that she creates this impression in front of the electorate, but imagine you're a civil servant in the Home Office and she's your minister when you wake up on Friday.

 

[Clint Planet]

I won't replicate that long post of yours above, Clint, but WOW!

Then again, what would 128 economists know.

 

[Tubey]

She won't be. If the reports of her doing these interviews against the direct wishes of Corbyn and the Labour campaign team are true, there is no way that she will be rewarded afterwards. The only reason she is SHS to begin with is because of the boycott of Corbyn's cabinet by much of the PLP, which is not going to be an issue if he wins - either they will join the Government, or he won't be able to form one.

... which they're clearly not as she wouldn't have her shadow cabinet role if she was perceived as the liability she actually is.

It's wishful thinking on your part that she won't have that brief.

 

[Clint Planet]

Sturgeon and Abbott are basically free advertising for the Tories. Nobody sensible will want either of them in government.

Sturgeon is a formidable politician.

 

[tsubaki]

... which they're clearly not as she wouldn't have her shadow cabinet role if she was perceived as the liability she actually is.

It's wishful thinking on your part that she won't have that brief.

er - the bit you emboldened there apparently happened this weekend. She was given the Shadow Home Secretary brief last year.

 

[Titus Bramble]

I do wonder at times if young people see the tossers put up for election and decide not to bother on that basis, perhaps in the hope things will improve next time round, and then as we get older we realise that all there ever are is tossers up for election, so you may as well vote as not and go for the least bad option.

This absolutely does happen, I was guilty of it myself and plenty of my mates were the same .

A few years laters and we're all mature enough to make a decision on what we think would be best for us/the country. From personal experience, it's very difficult for your average 18/19 year old to make this type of decision without going along with how their parents vote