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 .
Fingeredmouse said:
I'm not sure they won't win with such a swing that it'll take a couple of terms at least for any recovery barring some spectacular event.
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Brexit is a double edged sword, go hard and country will suffer go soft and promises will be broken. I doubt she will be able to bend the EU over to get the middle ground required and if she manages to do it well I say kudos! This election swing won't matter.

Labour really needs to sort the leadership conundrum this time around. Can't have another weak leader and allow themselves to be steamrolled. I just rue the day Chuka decided to drop out of race 2 years ago! Brexit would have been avoided and he would have wiped the floor with Cameron by now!
 
DiseaseOfTheAge said:
Looking at the early results, we are as representative as ever.
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Is it

a) Because it's mostly young people on the internet (/r/unitedkingdom is probably as liberal as us)

b) Because we have the newbie doldrums removing the 'riff-raff', and those said riff raff tend to be, what, Tory voters? (Maybe Tory voters can't write a legible sentence?)

or c) Maybe United fans, having watched their side win countless trophies since 1992, are quite happy with post 1992 Britain, and would rather not return to the 80's :lol:
 
rcoobc said:
or c) Maybe United fans, having watched their side win countless trophies since 1992, are quite happy with post 1992 Britain, and would rather not return to the 80's :lol:
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I think RAWK is equally anti-Tory.
 
So.

The Daily Heil have an exclusive that it will be a tory manifesto to end free movement

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rcoobc said:
Is it

a) Because it's mostly young people on the internet (/r/unitedkingdom is probably as liberal as us)

b) Because we have the newbie doldrums removing the 'riff-raff', and those said riff raff tend to be, what, Tory voters? (Maybe Tory voters can't write a legible sentence?)

or c) Maybe United fans, having watched their side win countless trophies since 1992, are quite happy with post 1992 Britain, and would rather not return to the 80's :lol:
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The first two, plus we are a team from Manchester. Manchester is red in more than one way.
 
rcoobc said:
So.

The Daily Heil have an exclusive that it will be a tory manifesto to end free movement

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There goes the "it'll secure a softer Brexit" theory!

Times also saying they have news of a defection tomorrow, doubt it'll be a big one but I still wanna know.
 
Turned out to be just an ex-Labour MP, nothing fancy :(
 
pocco said:
Can anybody explain briefly (if that's possible) what each option will mean for us?
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Tories - We leave the EU. Scotland leaves us. Northern Ireland joins Ireland. Free trade deal with the USA. Workers rights get violated.

Progressive Alliance - England and Wales leaves the EU. Scotland, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar stay in the EU. Everyone smokes weed.
 
pocco said:
Can anybody explain briefly (if that's possible) what each option will mean for us?
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Tories win - The poor are burnt for fuel.

Labour wins - Your mum is nationalised.

SNP win - The UK changes its name to 'The Scottish Empire'.

Lib Dems win - Homosexuality is banned.

UKIP win - Nigel Farage replaces The Queen.

Greens win - People are made illegal and lettuces take over.
 
DiseaseOfTheAge said:
Tories win - The poor are burnt for fuel.

Labour wins - Your mum is nationalised.

SNP win - The UK changes its name to 'The Scottish Empire'.

Lib Dems win - Homosexuality is banned.

UKIP win - Nigel Farage replaces The Queen.

Greens win - People are made illegal and lettuces take over.
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A shame, say what you like about his personality but Nuttall has been doing a good job as Queen in recent months. Must have gained his leadership skills after all those years in centre-mid for Fergie.
 
Tories - 1984
Labour - A Brave New World
Lib Dems - The Handmaid's Tale
SNP - We
Greens - The Road
Ukip - Ladybird's Big Book of Dystopian Horror for 3-5 year olds.
 
Cheesy said:
A shame, say what you like about his personality but Nuttall has been doing a good job as Queen in recent months. Must have gained his leadership skills after all those years in centre-mid for Fergie.
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I think by that point I was too excited by the lettuces to be arsed to think of anything Nuttall related so went for the easy option.
 
rcoobc said:
Tories - We leave the EU. Scotland leaves us. Northern Ireland joins Ireland. Free trade deal with the USA. Workers rights get violated.

Progressive Alliance - England and Wales leaves the EU. Scotland, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar stay in the EU. Everyone smokes weed.
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Speaking of weed, I hope CISTA stand some candidates again. They were an alright protest option. Plus they had that funny story of that one candidate who got ejected from a polling station for smoking weed while there, which quite frankly I'd expect from my CISTA candidate if I was voting for them.
 
rcoobc said:
Is it

a) Because it's mostly young people on the internet (/r/unitedkingdom is probably as liberal as us)

b) Because we have the newbie doldrums removing the 'riff-raff', and those said riff raff tend to be, what, Tory voters? (Maybe Tory voters can't write a legible sentence?)

or c) Maybe United fans, having watched their side win countless trophies since 1992, are quite happy with post 1992 Britain, and would rather not return to the 80's :lol:
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Oh please. I'm so sick of the bigoted and small minded attitudes towards people who have even remotely right wing or Conservative leanings. Seriously, stop tarring us all with the same brush! I consider myself rather moderate by Tory standards, I welcomed the LD coalition in 2010 - if anything for the sake of moderation, for checks and balances. I'm not a millionaire, nor a Sun-reading white van man who doesn't like foreigners, I'm just a normal working (and educated) family man who doesn't believe in Corbyn's brand of politics.

Seriously, feck off.
 
I fear the relentless narrative of "It'll be a Nazi landslide/James Corbyn doesn't have a prayer" will stop people voting for Labour; well, that and Sun photos of Jeremy sloppily eating kale in a wigwam.
 
17 Van der Gouw said:
Oh please. I'm so sick of the bigoted and small minded attitudes towards people who have even remotely right wing or Conservative leanings. Seriously, stop tarring us all with the same brush! I consider myself rather moderate by Tory standards, I welcomed the LD coalition in 2010 - if anything for the sake of moderation, for checks and balances. I'm not a millionaire, nor a Sun-reading white van man who doesn't like foreigners, I'm just a normal working (and educated) family man who doesn't believe in Corbyn's brand of politics.

Seriously, feck off.
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The average Tory voter, under thirty (I don't know if you are but the vast majority of our newbs are), isn't like you.
 
SteveJ said:
I fear the relentless narrative of "It'll be a Nazi landslide/James Corbyn doesn't have a prayer" will stop people voting for Labour; well, that and Sun photos of Jeremy sloppily eating kale in a wigwam.
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Could also have a sort of opposite effect though, wherein expectations for Labour are so low but a lot of Labour voting types go for the party on the day due to a lack of alternative choices. He'll still lose comfortably, right enough, but a Tory landslide has been anticipated to the point where anything other than a 10+ point win for them will be seen as incredibly disappointing. Still, will depend on each parties campaign...I've got little faith in Labour organising themselves effectively and putting forward a convincing argument.
 
Mozza said:
Two nonsensical statements.

Size of debt doesn't matter. It's how well you can afford to service your payments that does. As long as you grow the economy quicker than your payments growth rate you're fine.

I'm not sure what Labour did to build up the sub prime mortgage crises in America, please enlighten me
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Absolutely mental statement :eek:
 
17 Van der Gouw said:
Oh please. I'm so sick of the bigoted and small minded attitudes towards people who have even remotely right wing or Conservative leanings. Seriously, stop tarring us all with the same brush! I consider myself rather moderate by Tory standards, I welcomed the LD coalition in 2010 - if anything for the sake of moderation, for checks and balances. I'm not a millionaire, nor a Sun-reading white van man who doesn't like foreigners, I'm just a normal working (and educated) family man who doesn't believe in Corbyn's brand of politics.

Seriously, feck off.
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So you're a Tory who thinks the party needs someone to step in and prevent it from being a complete bunch of cnuts? What an endorsement.

pocco said:
Can anybody explain briefly (if that's possible) what each option will mean for us?
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If Labour win Tony Blair will probably drive himself to the Hague.
 
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