Current Affairs 2017 General Election

[Eggs]

....this is the big day, England play Italy in the U20 World Cup semi final. Oops, wrong thread.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Voting is steady and brisk

 

[Chewbacca]

How can anyone vote labour? Better to go for a massive conservative majority and labour can rebuild from scratch.

I cant fathom which demographic would vote labour...

The 'not a selfish prick' demographic

 

[summerisle]

Voted this morning ; had to wait for the first time in years. #corbynlandslide

 

[Blue 1]

Boris: "Labour's numbers don't add up".
Hawking: "I'm voting Labour".

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Boris: "Labour's numbers don't add up".
Hawking: "I'm voting Labour".

Didn't he also slate Corbyn?

Shows the state of our politics at the moment.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

What I don't get about many Corbyn fans is that his voting record over his lengthy time in parliament was against any kind of EU membership. How can people who so strongly supported remain support a man who so strongly supported leave?

 

[flibbyflob]

Thank god it is finally here, seems to have been going on forever. Think we will see a Tory win and that might be a disaster long term but Corbyn had too much ground to make up after the way the party had fallen out over the last few years. Put too many people off, had he had another month and got the big hitters on his backbenches behind him he may well have done it. Part of me hopes some of those same big hitters are the casualties when they arrive as it would serve them right.

 

[summerisle]

What I don't get about many Corbyn fans is that his voting record over his lengthy time in parliament was against any kind of EU membership. How can people who so strongly supported remain support a man who so strongly supported leave?

 

[zzr45]

What I don't get about many Corbyn fans is that his voting record over his lengthy time in parliament was against any kind of EU membership. How can people who so strongly supported remain support a man who so strongly supported leave?

The same way privately educated, Islington home owning, never done an actual job, career politician Jeremy Corbyn can be painted as a man of the people I suppose.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I'm not voting for the Tories, due in no small part because of the tremendous lurch to the right they've made since the Brexit result. My question was why Corbyn/Remain supporters like him when he (and McDonnell) clearly thinks differently to them on EU membership?

 

[Clint Planet]

Retweeted Edzard Ernst (@EdzardErnst):
YOU CAN'T VOTE TORY IF YOU ARE
young
old
ill
disabled
poor
in favour of human rights
against selling arms to gangsters
against fox hunting

 

[Eggs]

...I'm legally voting twice today. Amazing. My daughter works in the NHS and can't get to the polling station and has nominated me as her proxy. She feels so strongly about the Tory mis-management of the hospitals she covers that she wants to register a Labour vote even though this is a safe labour seat.

 

[edge]

I'm not voting for the Tories, due in no small part because of the tremendous lurch to the right they've made since the Brexit result. My question was why Corbyn/Remain supporters like him when he (and McDonnell) clearly thinks differently to them on EU membership?

It's not a re run of the brexit vote, most people have a lot of other reason to vote for either party.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It's not a re run of the brexit vote, most people have a lot of other reason to vote for either party.

Brexit will be the dominant act of this parliament by some distance. I understand why leave voters are keen on Corbyn as he has always been a eurosceptic, I'm just not sure why remain supporters are so in love with him.