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 .
I feel depressed already, I think we all know it will be a tory majority and I am nervous for the next 5 years. I would emigrate but I don't think I could stand to live too far from Old Trafford.
 
I feel depressed already, I think we all know it will be a tory majority and I am nervous for the next 5 years. I would emigrate but I don't think I could stand to live too far from Old Trafford.


If that is the case then Labour need to reflect. It'd be 2 elections in a row where the strategy seems to have been core vote + attract the students and blame media if it doesn't work.

Yeah the Daily Mail and the Sun are scum but it's a reality anyone that wants to get Labour to power is probably going to have to find a way of dealing with.
 
Plans for tomorrow:

Wake up. Vote (Green!). Buy sufficient quantities of alcohol to get me and my friend, who will be coming over to join me in misery, through the hours following 10pm.
 
On small businesses that barely make a profit, it doesn't make any difference whatsoever. Corporation tax being a tax on profits.

Or small businesses can reinvest the profits to grow.

Either way, Germany's Mittelstand businesses don't thrive because corporation taxes are low. They thrive because Germany looks after them in a way we don't.

I'm not talking about businesses that barely make a profit, they're irrelevant to corporarion tax. When I say small businesses I'm talking about a business that makes maybe a low six figure profit.

They're unlikely to have the ability to negate the corporation tax increases; so an extra 5% corporarion tax to them might be £5-10k extra to the government, rather than pay rises to their lower-middle income staff (or on the flip side £5-10k less in the owners pocket)
 
Think May is screwed unless she delivers a majority of 100+. Tory backbenchers are notoriously ruthless and they'll not want her to fight the next election, especially if it's against a centrist Labour party that provides a credible threat. As she's shown herself to be an absolute liability in campaigns.

Small to medium majority they'll get rid not long after Brexit negotiations conclude. Large majority, they'll stab her in the back closer to the next GE. Don't think any of the main UK party leaders will be around for the next one.
 
I have a feeling, Labour will realise they're on to something with Corbyn and they might just break away from the norm and hang on to him.

Or, like when he was under pressure from his own party early on in his reign, he might be stubborn as feck and not resign. I might just see what I can get on him still being leader next week actually.
If I had a house...
 
If that is the case then Labour need to reflect. It'd be 2 elections in a row where the strategy seems to have been core vote + attract the students and blame media if it doesn't work.

Yeah the Daily Mail and the Sun are scum but it's a reality anyone that wants to get Labour to power is probably going to have to find a way of dealing with.
The media haven't exactly covered themselves in glory.

Can I ask why you are voting for the Tories? Do you honestly think Theresa May will be a competent PM?
 
The media haven't exactly covered themselves in glory.

Can I ask why you are voting for the Tories? Do you honestly think Theresa May will be a competent PM?

No because I'm not voting for the Tories.
 
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Remember guys, the Tories are the party of low tax and low spending but NOT of balancing the budget
 
Was thinking they'd struggle to top yesterday, was wrong

 
Absolutely pathetic. If that was a non-politician, the Sun'd lose in court.

Also, I can't believe they're allowed to publish that on the day of the election.
 
Subtle as ever.

Whenever I pick up The Sun (never buy but when I find it in the canteen) I'm always amazed how much time it spends talking about itself. Every other paragraph contains a self-citation.
 
It seems the whole of social media is voting Labour. Just like they were all voting to remain.
 


Pinch of salt because Lib Dems etc.
 
It seems the whole of social media is voting Labour. Just like they were all voting to remain.


It's a very skewed medium and an echo chamber. Same in 2015 and for the EU ref as you said.
 
Puppet of Unions have definitely supported Metallica at some point.
 
It seems the whole of social media is voting Labour. Just like they were all voting to remain.

Quiet Conservatives, and old people will keep your man out of Downing Street.

There are young Tories, but (as this place is a good example of) it's hard to speak up if you have even remotely right wing views on anything, lest you'll be lambasted.