Westminster Politics
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Ooo, you cheeky monkey!The bit about him developing amnesia on the night he got the rent boys is a tad farfetched.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...ding-mps-over-sex-and-drugs-scandal-r3pgwvn72
i hate it when i fail my detect sarcasm roll
youtube discourse is the apex of human communication and is the only indicator of What The Ordinary Voter Feels
Good post. No idea why people are trying to argue against the idea that Amazon doesn’t pay it’s fair share... surely that’s simply an established fact by this point?
What a rewarding career being a PIP assessor must be. You can tell it attract society's brightest and best
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.c...e-attempt-then-challenged-her-son-to-a-fight/
The original statement was in relation to RLB's inaccurate statement that they paid "£5m in tax". This is obviously nonsense as they pay billions in NI, fuel duties, VAT, PAYE of their employees, business rates, corporation tax etc.
If the argument is solely in relation to corporation tax then it's an argument against governmental policy over the last few decades. Amazon simply pay the minimum legal amount that they have to pay and pass those tax savings to their customers (who judging by Amazon sales are delighted with this strategy), this means they grow and pay more tax. If any of their customers don't feel they pay their fair share they can either buy from another supplier or donate the cost savings Amazon pass on to the treasury.
If a government enacts a policy that is impossible to equitably police, then they'd be stupid to expect anything other than inequitable results. To blame Amazon for wanting to be as successful as possible is a bit strange.
Labour will back a December election now, according to BBC.
Corbyn confirmed it just now himself.
Corbyn confirmed it just now himself.
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An election just before Christmas?
Turnout will be incredibly low. Plus the fact that a lot of working-class people are suffering from electoral fatigue and are more apathetic due to Brexit dragging on.
Tory landslide.
Turnout will be incredibly low. Plus the fact that a lot of working-class people are suffering from electoral fatigue and are more apathetic due to Brexit dragging on.
Tory landslide.
Why do people make out like voting is the most arduous thing in the world? It literally takes no time at all
Corbyn:
Labour had better hope boris runs as bad a campaign as May did last time
Cant see that myself though - and i suspect this time there will be a TV debate and it will be nasty
Farrage, Johnson, Swinson, Sturgon?, Corbyn
Will be key to see what the brexit party does I think (election pact with boris - only standing against remain MPS, or campaigning in every constituency)
This is going to be a horrible, mean-spirited election. Not looking forward to it at all.
But they're the best kind of elections, no ??
Just watching an interview with Corbyn with the Shadow Cabinet standing behind him - cringeworthy !
What difference does 1 day in an election make? Why do Labour want it on the 11th rather than 12th?
It’s dark before 4 on the 12th
Interesting
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50221856
Libs + Labour + SNP + handful of others and that could go through? - gut feel it will fall slightly short but will be close if all three main opposition parties back it
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50221856
Libs + Labour + SNP + handful of others and that could go through? - gut feel it will fall slightly short but will be close if all three main opposition parties back it
I genuinely fear for the safety of MP's and campaigners
I run elections for a local authority and the amount of work that goes into organising one is immense. People do not realise the amount of work and cost involved.
This about sums it up:
Out of interest how viable would it be to register all 16/17 year olds (and EU nationals) for voting by 12th December?
After the past couple of years, I wouldn't feel in the slightest bit sorry for the overwhelming majority of them.
Brought it on themselves.
Hopefully half of them, from all sides, will lose their seats and then find out what it's like to live on Social Security instead of £ 75k + expenses for sitting on their arses and arguing amongst themselves like drunk football fans in the pub on Saturday night.
lets be honest most had jobs at or above 75K before they entered politics - all will leave politics and be able to command comfortably more ... but on the point of safety im talking jo cox type stuff .., or is that just humbug and you think a few MP's being killed is ok because ... erm... brexit means brexit? or you dont agree with austerity or because corbyn is a danger?
Where’s the plonker Farage? Normally all over the media.
cancelled a rally about how bad the boris deal is - apparently seeking an electoral pact with boris (so probably on the phone with trump quid pro quoing away) where brexit will fight a number (to be determined) of labour leave seats which the conservatives wont contest in exchange for brexit party not standing in other constituencies ... and of course a cushy number for nigel when its all done (free trade ambassador to the usa or some such drivel I suspect)
16/17 year olds are already on the register as you can be on the electoral register from 16 but cannot vote until 18. Our systems would need updating to classify them as voters but there would be pressure from those who haven’t registered to register and that would be a lot of work.
I had read somewhere the electoral commission thought it would take around 6 months - (which fits in with a referendum timetable) but that it might well not be viable in 6 weeks??
the issue is more of a workload one than a technical one though from what you are saying
Jo Cox type stuff ??
I doubt it....The UK has its fair share of nutters, but Jo Cox was a one-off. The last time ( before Jo Cox ) was when ??
Some of the vitriol on here against the Tories would indicate that it's the Tories who will need to look over their shoulders, you know, just in case.
He wasn't a one off. He had a political motive and affiliated himself with your cause.
Just sayin' it like it is.
Brexit, Britain First.
Just off the top of my head
.Someone literally drove a van into crowd of people with the hope of killing Corbyn and Sadiq Khan(Corbyn was punched in the head as well this year)
.2017 Westminster attack - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Westminster_attack
.A man was arrested last month for attacking Labour MP Jess Philips office door.
To ensure all voters 16-18 who can register are registered, it would probably take that long as not all of them have registered currently as they don’t deem it important however may do when there is an election. The deadline to register for an election is also in advance of the election date so we will only get 2-3 weeks to get everyone registered. While there can be a patch up job for this election, it would be nigh on impossible to get all of them registered for this election so a lot of people would miss out and we would be swamped with the workload and getting everyone else registered including overseas voters and actually organising the election.
The other thing would be that it would require a change in legislation as well.
there was a poll recently showing that 70+% of brexit supporters feel some level of violence against an MP would be a price worth paying for the brexit they want
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-against-mps-is-price-worth-paying-for-brexit
so yeah MP's and campaigners walking dark streets at night - I have some safety concerns ... I mean how many death threats etc - we seem to be in a new era of threats etc so perhaps assuming its a one off is wishful thinking
https://www.ft.com/content/89096bfa-f8b9-11e9-a354-36acbbb0d9b6
As i say i have concerns about the safety of MP's and campaigners (on both sides) and I hope im wrong
Absolute bollocks.
Point me to one single post over the past five years where I have said anything like that.
I have consistantly said that I am anti-EU, as are hundreds of millions of us throughout Europe, but nothing about Britain First bollocks....