General Election, June 8th

[Matt]

Can't wait for tomorrow to go on Facebook and everyone becomes an expert with their fake outrage.

[Alf Bentley]

10 minutes ago, Carl the Llama said:

 

Blue jacket is a w*nker.

 

Justice for the Black Jacket One! 

[lgfualol]

36 minutes ago, TheUltimateWinner said:

Let's all have a giggle anyway

 

 

Absolutely love this. I hope this starts a feud between photographers and camera men. 

[ramboacdc]

14 minutes ago, Matt said:

Can't wait for tomorrow to go on Facebook and everyone becomes an expert with their fake outrage.

either way if she increases her majority half the country will be pissed.

if she falls short pandemonium ensues for a bit then when the coalition comes up, half the country will be pissed. 

 

life carries on however. 

 

i cant see how this gamble will land well for May as she has now split the country again after spending the last year dividing us on brexit. and then to call a GE 11 days before the negotiations start? poison chalice for anyone really. 

[Webbo]

[Voll Blau]

1 hour ago, Matt said:

Can't wait for tomorrow to go on Facebook and everyone becomes an expert with their fake outrage.

Yeah, how dare people express an opinion about a General Election result.

[AKCJ]

6 minutes ago, ramboacdc said:

either way if she increases her majority half the country will be pissed.

if she falls short pandemonium ensues for a bit then when the coalition comes up, half the country will be pissed. 

 

life carries on however. 

 

i cant see how this gamble will land well for May as she has now split the country again after spending the last year dividing us on brexit. and then to call a GE 11 days before the negotiations start? poison chalice for anyone really. 

I think the nation's opinion on May, as a whole, has gone down quite significantly.

 

I think the majority were fairly pleased with her handling of Brexit but these last couple of months have been a nightmare for her.

[AKCJ]

28 minutes ago, Matt said:

Can't wait for tomorrow to go on Facebook and everyone becomes an expert with their fake outrage.

I for one am glad that the nation is talking about politics.

 

It's important that everyone maintains an interest.

[ramboacdc]

Just now, AKCJ said:

I think the nation's opinion on May, as a whole, has gone down quite significantly.

 

I think the majority were fairly pleased with her handling of Brexit but these last couple of months have been a nightmare for her.

well we really had no choice in the matter of how brexit was handled. i think keeping hunt as health secretary wasn't a smart move however. she has put her head above the parapit here to be shot at constantly and been found wanting to be honest. I think she will get a majority but nothing major like she is expecting. 

[MrSpaM]

4 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

I for one am glad that the nation is talking about politics.

 

It's important that everyone maintains an interest.

Anybody voting Conservative has indirectly been called a "c**nt" about 50 times today by various people on my friends list. I think it's sad people can't vote without acting like this

[leicsmac]

1 minute ago, MrSpaM said:

Anybody voting Conservative has indirectly been called a "c**nt" about 50 times today by various people on my friends list. I think it's sad people can't vote without acting like this

And I'm reasonably sure that anyone voting Labour has been called "terrorist sympathizer" about 50 times by various people on other friends lists.

 

Not just a one way street, though I definitely agree about the polarisation.

[Bobby Hundreds]

10 minutes ago, ramboacdc said:

well we really had no choice in the matter of how brexit was handled. i think keeping hunt as health secretary wasn't a smart move however. she has put her head above the parapit here to be shot at constantly and been found wanting to be honest. I think she will get a majority but nothing major like she is expecting. 

 

At least the Tories know Hunt is completely toxic and have kept him away from any campaigning. Oh to see him lose his seat, would need an absolute miracle Lib Dem revival though!

[davieG]

1 hour ago, leicsmac said:

Hmmm...you could make the converse argument that older people are just as self-interested as anyone else, and will therefore vote for policies that guarantee their own short-term gain. Why vote for policies that won't really take effect until after you've gone, after all?

 

They also understand the power of voting better than most as they remember having to fight for it, so turnout is higher.

 

I'm sure a lot of older folks at least think they have the better interest of the country in mind when they vote, but I will never buy the idea that all or even most of them are altruistic.

As an oldie I like to think I take into account how things might affect might kids and grand-kids more than how it might affect me. So not a case of being generally altruistic but the affect is the same.

[Webbo]

7 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

And I'm reasonably sure that anyone voting Labour has been called "terrorist sympathizer" about 50 times by various people on other friends lists.

 

Not just a one way street, though I definitely agree about the polarisation.

I don't think anyone would call a normal Labour voter a terrorist sympathiser. The hard left maybe.

[ramboacdc]

4 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

 

At least the Tories know Hunt is completely toxic and have kept him away from any campaigning. Oh to see him lose his seat, would need an absolute miracle Lib Dem revival though!

isnt the independant there polling higher than the lib dems but lower than hunt? 

[leicsmac]

4 minutes ago, davieG said:

As an oldie I like to think I take into account how things might affect might kids and grand-kids more than how it might affect me. So not a case of being generally altruistic but the affect is the same.

 

Oh, of course - and I'm sure there are a fair few also like you.

 

I was just taking issue with the assertion that older people all know the best direction for the country and will apply it rather than be subject to their own self-interest, simply because they have more life experience.

 

 

2 minutes ago, Webbo said:

I don't think anyone would call a normal Labour voter a terrorist sympathiser. The hard left maybe.

You'd think so, but this is social media, after all: extremis from both sides is to be expected.

[Matt]

30 minutes ago, ramboacdc said:

either way if she increases her majority half the country will be pissed.

if she falls short pandemonium ensues for a bit then when the coalition comes up, half the country will be pissed. 

 

life carries on however. 

 

i cant see how this gamble will land well for May as she has now split the country again after spending the last year dividing us on brexit. and then to call a GE 11 days before the negotiations start? poison chalice for anyone really. 

 

Exactly and I question that not much will change, I have no evidence to suggest it will, lies, lies, lies, false promise after false promise, moan, moan, moan, outrage, outrage, outrage, repeat in 5 years time.

 

19 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

Yeah, how dare people express an opinion about a General Election result.

 

How about people express an opinion on lies. Let's get truth and action!!

 

You can't lie in an advert but the people who want to lead our country are aloud? They can lie in their campaign advertising? Oh ok...

 

Besides do you include all those that I speak about on Facebook having their opinion, outrage and thinking they're an expert who then follow it up by 'By the way i'm not voting'?

 

17 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

I for one am glad that the nation is talking about politics.

 

It's important that everyone maintains an interest.

 

Yeah it is good, but the lying, bickering and lack of action has made me disillusioned, people are talking about bullshit because that's what these idiots feed us.

 

Actions speak louder than words - that is what would maintain my interest.

[LiberalFox]

2 minutes ago, Matt said:

 

Exactly and I question that not much will change, I have no evidence to suggest it will, lies, lies, lies, false promise after false promise, moan, moan, moan, outrage, outrage, outrage, repeat in 5 years time.

 

 

How about people express an opinion on lies. Let's get truth and action!!

 

You can't lie in an advert but the people who want to lead our country are aloud? They can lie in their campaign advertising? Oh ok...

 

Besides do you include all those that I speak about on Facebook having their opinion, outrage and thinking they're an expert who then follow it up by 'By the way i'm not voting'?

 

 

Yeah it is good, but the lying, bickering and lack of action has made me disillusioned, people are talking about bullshit because that's what these idiots feed us.

 

Actions speak louder than words - that is what would maintain my interest.

Assume you are voting Labour then?

[Voll Blau]

1 hour ago, Matt said:

How about people express an opinion on lies. Let's get truth and action!!

 

You can't lie in an advert but the people who want to lead our country are aloud? They can lie in their campaign advertising? Oh ok...

 

Besides do you include all those that I speak about on Facebook having their opinion, outrage and thinking they're an expert who then follow it up by 'By the way i'm not voting'?

You're sort of all over the place there mate. I'm not sure what kind of point you're trying to make? If you're on about people sharing fake news and shit memes I'm completely with you, but people shouldn't be sneered at merely for expressing a political opinion on social media.

[Guest]

A friend on facebook just put that he was going to vote tory. Questioned why, he said it was because he didn't want to pay more corporation tax (he's a small business owner). Showed him the labour manifesto - reintroduction of lower corporation tax for small businesses - and he seems to be warming to the idea of switching over. A small victory, but a victory nevertheless.

[davieG]

Don't know if this is amusing or not as I can't hear well enough to tell.

 

If it's crap I'll delete it.

[Guest MattP]

2 minutes ago, toddybad said:

A friend on facebook just put that he was going to vote tory. Questioned why, he said it was because he didn't want to pay more corporation tax (he's a small business owner). Showed him the labour manifesto - reintroduction of lower corporation tax for small businesses - and he seems to be warming to the idea of switching over. A small victory, but a victory nevertheless.

Did you show him the minimum wage pledge as well? 

[Guest Kopfkino]

4 minutes ago, toddybad said:

A friend on facebook just put that he was going to vote tory. Questioned why, he said it was because he didn't want to pay more corporation tax (he's a small business owner). Showed him the labour manifesto - reintroduction of lower corporation tax for small businesses - and he seems to be warming to the idea of switching over. A small victory, but a victory nevertheless.

 

That's great, I'm all for better informing people before they make their choice. But you've twisted it a little given that he's still going to be paying more corporation tax under a Labour government.

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, KingGTF said:

 

That's great, I'm all for better informing people before they make their choice. But you've twisted it a little given that he's still going to be paying more corporation tax under a Labour government.

No he wouldn't, that change only applied to larger businesses. They would reintroduce the lower rate of corporation tax for small businesses. Page relating to small business in the labour manifesto:

 

 

[ramboacdc]

more postal votes gone missing in cambridgeshire. mate just told me as theirs never turned up and was told "just go the polling station" got there and they turned her away.