General Election 2017 | Cabinet reshuffle: Hunt re-appointed Health Secretary for record third time

How do you intend to vote in the 2017 General Election if eligible?

  • Conservatives

    Votes: 80 14.5%
  • Labour

    Votes: 322 58.4%
  • Lib Dems

    Votes: 57 10.3%
  • Green

    Votes: 20 3.6%
  • SNP

    Votes: 13 2.4%
  • UKIP

    Votes: 29 5.3%
  • Independent

    Votes: 3 0.5%
  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 2 0.4%
  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 11 2.0%
  • Other (UUP, DUP, BNP, and anyone else I have forgotten)

    Votes: 14 2.5%

  • Total voters
    551
  • Poll closed .
Currently number 1 in iTunes chart but in official Top 40 it's 7th according to yesterday's chart update and they've replaced it with the old version of the song. Sneaky!

I wonder how they get away with justifying that. If they don't allow any political songs they'd be culling the list far more often.
 
I wonder how they get away with justifying that. If they don't allow any political songs they'd be culling the list far more often.
Ones about the PM, during an election campaign, come with potential legal difficulties?
 
Ones about the PM, during an election campaign, come with potential legal difficulties?
Yeah. Natalie Bennett wasn't even allowed to say the name of the constituency she's standing in on This Week, loads of random rules particularly on BBC.
 
Looking back over the quiz, it occurs to me that there isn't a question for future NHS spending and how we'll fund such. A glaring omission IMO. Two policy examples being the Lib Dems income tax rise, and UKIP's GP appointments charge.
Is the quiz on ideology or actual current policies?
 
Now, if only there was a way to find out which party chronically underfunds public services and not vote for them.

Not sure how that alters the fact that it was mediocre policy making. Hell, it doesn't even channel the proceeds into reducing said class sizes.
 
Anyone read up on this proposed labour garden tax? My council tax could increase to £600 per month :eek:.
 
I'm supporting the most anti brexit candidate as frankly the national players are all a shambles.

Lol at someone being taken to task for not finding Corbyn 'nice'. Hang 'em
I think the most anti-Brexit candidate is Theresa May.

She's treating the Brexit voters this election in the same manner that the most hardcore remainers think of them, merely as neanderthals that will parrot any phrase you care to throw at them, rather than seeing them as neanderthals who hate their lives and think the country owes them free money which is actually the case.

She was in the notoriously difficult Home Secretary role for 6 years, a record term and particularly remarkable given that she presided over the Conservatives' miserable failure to meet their election promise to bring net migration down to below 100k where she should have been the first neck on the block, which would suggest she is a very shrewd political operator.

Why then did she bring the three stooges into her government, Boris Johnson, David Davis and Liam Fox, as opposed to bringing in those that she personally trusted to get the best deal for Britain on Brexit? Her other cabinet choices were sound enough, why did the three most important government roles in Britain's recent history go to those not competent enough to get anywhere near such positions up to this point, why did she set herself up to babysit three idiots for the duration of her time as Prime Minster when she had spent her whole life waiting for and dreaming about it?

Maybe she's just suddenly become an idiot, but then I add this to the way she treats Brexit voters and that the only reason she ever gives for not holding a second referendum on the terms of Brexit is that it would give the EU the incentive to give us a bad deal, and I think ultimately she is going to hold a second referendum. And with the pawns in place, herself absolved of all blame, and after 2 years of increased economic hardship and reality biting into the will of all but the most ardent leave voters, the moment will arrive that the three stooges come back with their inevitably crummy deal and the country will vote to remain, hung around Boris, David and Liams' necks.
 
Not sure how that alters the fact that it was mediocre policy making. Hell, it doesn't even channel the proceeds into reducing said class sizes.
Reducing class sizes was one of the first things Jeremy was talking about as the election started. I certainly trust labour more than the conservatives to actually put some money towards it.
 
How big's your fecking garden?
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Is the quiz on ideology or actual current policies?

It would seem to be a mixture of things, from existing policies to a range of hypotheticals. I've not read every manifesto out there mind, so it is possible that they are all on the table somewhere.


Is he paid more tax we could give more money to schools

You can't, Labour has already spent the money in question.
 
It'll be a real shame when his kids have to go to school with all the plebs won't it?
I've never set up a crowdfund thing before. Anyone want to go ahead and set one up to help this poor chap out...?

 
Anyone read up on this proposed labour garden tax? My council tax could increase to £600 per month :eek:.

Just reading about this:

Telegraph:
Opponents of the tax say it would cause house prices to plummet, putting homeowners at risk of negative equity and forcing families to sell off their gardens to developers to lessen their tax burden.

Because the tax would also apply to agricultural land, it could have a knock-on effect of driving up food prices.

A surcharge on Britain's suburbs and rural communities.
 
Wtf? 'It will go off':lol:

Conservative response to Thornberry saying Brexit food exports to will Australia ‘go off’

Responding to Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry’s comments that the UK food industry will struggle after Brexit because “you can’t export it to Australia – it will go off”, Neil Parish, Conservative candidate for Tiverton and Honiton and former chairman of the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs select committee, said:

“Yet again, Emily Thornberry is completely out of touch with reality. Australia is already our 12th biggest export market for food and drink and demand is growing fast – because our great British food makes it Down Under in perfect condition.

“These comments would be funny but it is no laughing matter that Jeremy Corbyn and Emily Thornberry could be negotiating Brexit just 11 days after polling day.

“If they don’t think we can export food around the world, they would make an absolute meal of the Brexit negotiations – and we would all pay the price.”

ENDS