Current Affairs UK General Election July

[Billy Dean]

 

[tsubaki]

Is he the guy sacked by Supreme Leader Corbyn for being disloyal?

He was, correctly.

 

[Eggs]

…..it’ll take some swing for Labour to get even the smallest majority. I think Labour will have most seats but whether they get a majority could be a close call.

I’m actually abroad for the last 2 weeks of the campaign, returning home on GE day. It’ll be a dash to the polling centre to vote Labour for Mrs Eggs and I in a very safe Labour seat.

 

[Jamiednm]

The fact that the Prime Minister calling an election in the rain is the biggest talking point on day one of campaigning demonstrates how insufferable this election is going to be and how pathetic our political parties and commentators are.

 

[Jamiednm]

1. Where have I actually said that?

2. The one thing Starmer has going for him over the buffoon you admire so much, is that he was a professional and the head of the cps, which in my book is far more admirable than being a shaggy haired cretin who people voted for because he had a posh voice and thought he was a bit of a character. When in truth he was utter vermin who had been sacked from every other job he had ever had for lying, had the political nous of plankton and was a total embarrassment as a statesman and representative of the country.

Oh and we need change and he’s the only real credible option fortunately or unfortunately.

The only ‘change’ the different political parties are capable of is how they spin their almost identical policies.

They’re all at the mercy of international institutions, big business and media opinions, they can’t institute anything meaningful themselves.

Yet we still have to be subjected to the best part of two months of wall-to-wall hyperbole which will (as always) result in a big pile of nothing, other than one ‘team’ being able to say they ‘beat’ the other ‘team’.

 

[Amw79]

The only ‘change’ the different political parties are capable of is how they spin their almost identical policies.

They’re all at the mercy of international institutions, big business and media opinions, they can’t institute anything meaningful themselves.

Yet we still have to be subjected to the best part of two months of wall-to-wall hyperbole which will (as always) result in a big pile of nothing, other than one ‘team’ being able to say they ‘beat’ the other ‘team’.

I get this political apathy and they’re all the same rhetoric, but just don’t think it’s the case.

The difference between governments in power can be the difference between introducing a minimum wage or not, exiting the EU or not, tanking the economy with an ideological budget or not.

Changes governments make have big effects and consequences.

 

[Jamiednm]

I get this political apathy and they’re all the same rhetoric, but just don’t think it’s the case.

The difference between governments in power can be the difference between introducing a minimum wage or not, exiting the EU or not, tanking the economy with an ideological budget or not.

Changes governments make have big effects and consequences.

It’s not rhetoric, it’s just how it works because we have a fundamentally broken system.

If it’s not Brexit, it’s the response the Covid, or the Global Financial Crisis, or the invasion of Iraq.

Whether the Tories or Labour are in charge, the government will still approach things in the same way, just with different spin.

 

[Eggs]

…..I find it depressing when TV go to places like Grimsby and ask people in the street who they’re voting for, it’s like they’ve been sleeping for 14 years.

 

[Ming the merciless]

…..I find it depressing when TV go to places like Grimsby and ask people in the street who they’re voting for, it’s like they’ve been sleeping for 14 years.

But it’s always people old enough to be out shopping in the middle of the day. Failing that, they ask small shop owners, well we all know how most of them vote. It’s pathetic.

 

[Ming the merciless]

He was, correctly.

If Corbyn would have sacked all the disloyal ones there would have only been about 30 to 40 MP’s left

 

[summerisle]

 

[Wizard]

…..it’ll take some swing for Labour to get even the smallest majority. I think Labour will have most seats but whether they get a majority could be a close call.

I’m actually abroad for the last 2 weeks of the campaign, returning home on GE day. It’ll be a dash to the polling centre to vote Labour for Mrs Eggs and I in a very safe Labour seat.

Can you not do a postal vote?

 

[PhilEFC]

It’s not rhetoric, it’s just how it works because we have a fundamentally broken system.

If it’s not Brexit, it’s the response the Covid, or the Global Financial Crisis, or the invasion of Iraq.

Whether the Tories or Labour are in charge, the government will still approach things in the same way, just with different spin.

I disagree.

Tory ideology and self serving is far removed from what Labour is now no matter how much people think Labour have moved to the centre.

 

[Thomasc]

…..I find it depressing when TV go to places like Grimsby and ask people in the street who they’re voting for, it’s like they’ve been sleeping for 14 years.

I saw a post by a local mp last night and every comment in the responses asked what Labour planned to do about immigration.

That’s all the great unwashed care about now thanks to 8 years of culture wars.

Seemingly not bothered about the economy, the fact that they can’t see a doctor, or the hospitals are struggling, or highest taxes in 70 years, or that truss tanked the economy last year

 

[Eggs]

Can you not do a postal vote?

….yep, we considered that but we go away in 4 weeks and felt it probably safer to make the polling station after we arrive back around 17.00 hrs on polling day.