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 .
EyeInTheSky said:
Not sure whats worse the terrible play on words and defamation of someone or the fact that people will be influenced or become more entrenched in their opinions despite there merit.
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The worst bit of both is insinuating that one is friends with Terrorists. It's unnecessary scare-mongering.
 
fecked them into the milk is currently my favourite phrase of the day :lol:
 
Thanks everyone.


altodevil86 said:
UKIP won't win any seats. If they can't get a majority with the DUP it will be a minority administration, assuming Lab/Lib/SNP also too short.
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But with a minority administration, governability, and that would be terrible at such times.
 
SteveJ said:
'Corbyn will tax your work, your garden, your home, your inheritance, your dog, your cat, your nan etc.'
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The template has already been done.

ELECTION BOMBSHELL AS CORBYN (INSERT FLAKY SENSATIONALIST BOLLOCKS HERE)

In a development that could ruin the Labour general election campaign, it has been revealed that party leader and prime ministerial hopeful Jeremy Corbyn once <<insert flaky sensationalist bollocks here>> with <<dunno, someone evil or something>> in 1986.

http://southendnewsnetwork.com/news/election-bombshell-as-corbyn/
 
Annihilate Now! said:
The worst bit of both is insinuating that one is friends with Terrorists. It's unnecessary scare-mongering.
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Scum bags.

The friends of terrorists are the terrorists who sell weapons through back channels for a profit and the government who allows it to happen where the MP's eventually get their cut when they leave politics and get positions in said arms companies as "advisors"
 
Jippy said:
The template has already been done.

ELECTION BOMBSHELL AS CORBYN (INSERT FLAKY SENSATIONALIST BOLLOCKS HERE)

In a development that could ruin the Labour general election campaign, it has been revealed that party leader and prime ministerial hopeful Jeremy Corbyn once <<insert flaky sensationalist bollocks here>> with <<dunno, someone evil or something>> in 1986.

http://southendnewsnetwork.com/news/election-bombshell-as-corbyn/
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Stop trying to distract from the fact that he once spoke out against child slavery. The guy is sick I tell you!
 
Had a dream of David Dimbleby's cromulent voice saying "we are forecasting a hung parliament!", heard it here first.
 
RedTillI'mDead said:
You can't blame Conservatives for Brexit, most of the party wanted to remain and most of their voters as well.
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Which is exactly my point. "Strong and stable" ... "oops, accidentally gambled away our influence on the continent"
 
EyeInTheSky said:
It would be something to have a leader people could actually love and want to back because they are trying to do the right thing. Sometimes the unexpected can be a good thing.
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To borrow a quote, I think that's because "people either don't know what they want or think you should bring back hanging for traffic wardens"
 
Cheesy said:
The party I'm voting for are guaranteed to keep out the Tories though, so...ya know...
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I'm in the same boat, think I would be 60/40 Lab/SNP if it was PR, but have to go SNP here.
 
Kentonio said:
I don't do this openly but I certainly think it. Not just about Tories (I've voted for them in the past) but for anyone who votes for a party that is intending to introduce policies that will hurt people.

Think of it this way, there are reportedly a large number of British people who went into agonizing depression and then killed themselves because of policies brought in by the conservative government. They had their means of keeping a roof over their heads and food on the table removed, and they couldn't see a better option than to kill themselves. Not whine on Facebook, not rant down the pub, but actually take their own lives.

Government and politics isn't some giant thought exercise where if you get it wrong we just sigh and vote for someone else in 5 years. If government gets it wrong, people suffer. People's lives get turned upside down. People die.

Now with the previous Cameron government there's an argument that people didn't know what would happen. There were certainly warning signs during the coalition, but its not unreasonable of people to think it wouldn't go so far. Now there is no excuse. People are dead, the NHS is being privatised, May has openly said she's going to attack our civil liberties and gut human rights law while continuing the vicious attack on welfare and now pensioners too.

If you vote for that to continue, then you're as responsible for the consequences as they are.
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Attacking human rights law is stop the terrorists, you don't need to worry about your dodgy porn downloads!
 
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Smores said:
Out of interest was it Mays feckwittery that did it? Or Corbyns campaign?
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I just wouldn't be able to look myself in the mirror knowing I voted for someone who wants to obliterate our civil liberties, reintroduce fox hunting, consistently shaft the poorest in our society whilst lining the pockets of the richest and oversee the wholesale dismantling of our public services. If I agree with Corbyns policies is almost irrelevant, at least I believe he genuinely wants things to be good for the majority of people. His heart is in the right place as opposed to in a jar in a hollowed out volcano lair.
 
You can't blame the Tories for the referendum or welfare cuts or any of the other shit in their own fecking manifesto because... well you can't spell Jeremiah without IRA.
 
Sparky_Hughes said:
I just wouldn't be able to look myself in the mirror knowing I voted for someone who wants to obliterate our civil liberties, reintroduce fox hunting, consistently shaft the poorest in our society whilst lining the pockets of the richest and oversee the wholesale dismantling of our public services. If I agree with Corbyns policies is almost irrelevant, at least I believe he genuinely wants things to be good for the majority of people. His heart is in the right place as opposed to in a jar in a hollowed out volcano lair.
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Interesting, think a lot of people have reached that conclusion to be honest. My office has always been 95% tory but ive spoken to a lot of people who echo your sentiments
 
Avatar said:
If the conservatives win like 45% of the seats, who would join them in forming a coalition gov.? Could they accept Ukip? And even if they do and it is still below 50%, who else?
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If they only won 292 seats surely they wouldn't be forming any coalition government? They'd be 34 seats short of a majority, surely that would mean a Labour/SNP coalition?

I can't see the Tories losing 40 seats though, you can get 20/1 on them going under 300 seats.
 
Very interesting article by Polly on the Guardian.

Couple of interesting points
  • Just 639 voters could have made it a hung parliament last time
  • 74% of votes were redundant
  • 103 Tory and 67 Labour seats have never changed since 1945
 
Shit weather all across Scotland today - expecting a crap turnout and a good 8-12 seats for the Tories. Could well mitigate any potential Labour gains down where you lot are.
 
Smores said:
Interesting, think a lot of people have reached that conclusion to be honest. My office has always been 95% tory but ive spoken to a lot of people who echo your sentiments
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Its strange, a lot of people I know have gotten more right wing as they have gotten older, Ive gone the other way :lol:
 
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These local council cuts are really hitting home:

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