Current Affairs The General Election

[Minimeister]

Absolute disaster.

You did warn about this mate. Thank you for your efforts.

 

[Toast]

95% chance of SNP gaining Jo Swinsons seat.

She's said she won't quit as leader though.
Will just be ridiculous.

 

[SteRobbo84]

If you voted Tory, or failed to vote at all, you are scum.

 

[devogue]

This is what we're dealing with.

Dealing with this in some group chats I'm part of Certain friend voted Conservative purely because they hate Muslims

 

[ClausThomsen]

The next 5 years aren't going to be a good time to fall into poor health unless you're well off.

 

[nsno-chris]

And what honestly does a working person want? A stereotypical working class person? Please share your knowledge Delphi you oracle.

not what corbyn offered

and stop being a condescending bell

 

[john jako]

Any tory fancy getting jabbed right in the grid now? I’m up for a meet anywhere.

 

[PhilM]

I will never join any political party. I like to be a free spirit lol

But the country is better off when we have a sensible centre left option. I dont believe we did this election.

Neither party has a strong, respectable and universally luked leader and as such both have strayed away from the centre ground with their pledges and policies.

However, peculiarly I think the Conservatives lack of too many concrete pledges (Brexit, police, NHS, immigration errr...) meant they swayed less from the centre...

... or at least in the eyes of many, so people have went for what is perceived as a safer voter - devil you know.

 

[kenada_blue]

New world, for the people, yooof gathering, renationalising Jezza Corbs just got battered by this guy...

 

[Tubey]

There's lots of long term problems for Labour.

One is aware of them. You had hoped that a youthful vote, and increased turnout would have offset it.

It looks as it it hasn't.

Lots of things to say. To me Corbyn has had a radical manifesto, but it hasn't been matched with a radical rhetoric for most of the time. I think people struggled to believe it. It's hard to be insurgent one minute and quite cautious the next.

Take it from someone who didn't want a Tory win but definitely didn't want a Corbyn win.

It isn't just the leader. It's the policies too. "NATIONALISE EVERYTHING!" has zero appeal; nationalise some things as part of a moderate, evolutionary, fully costed centre-left manifesto would have massive appeal.

The answer isn't to find a 'radical' leader - the answer is to appeal to people; pragmatism over ideology. Play the game that exists, not the one you wish existed.

Johnson plowing hard right was an opportunity for Labour to appeal to normal people horrified by it. Instead, they went harder in the opposite direction. In a country that is centre-right and has no socialist history whatsoever. Suicidal.

 

[NorthernBlue]

There's lots of long term problems for Labour.

One is aware of them. You had hoped that a youthful vote, and increased turnout would have offset it.

It looks as it it hasn't.

Lots of things to say. To me Corbyn has had a radical manifesto, but it hasn't been matched with a radical rhetoric for most of the time. I think people struggled to believe it. It's hard to be insurgent one minute and quite cautious the next.

The youth vote was needed in working class northern towns. It was never there. It only exists in the cities that are usually labour anyway.

 

[ADT]

People in the south know nothing about politics they just ask their mates what they’re voting for and just vote blue because “at least they voted”

 

[dannyboy]

I have to laugh at Ed Balls ripping into the Labour Party on ITV, this clown lost his actual seat in 2015. The idea we get the likes of him back in charge and sweep aside the Tories is ridiculous.

 

[Connor]

Dealing with this in some group chats I'm part of Certain friend voted Conservative purely because they hate Muslims

Same boat. Lads from parts of the world that have been, and still are, destoryed by Tory governments – buzzing that they've begged for more.

 

[john jako]

Dealing with this in some group chats I'm part of Certain friend voted Conservative purely because they hate Muslims

I hope there no longer a friend