General Election June 8th

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I'll give 500 to 1 odds if anybody fancies it.

Is that you Fetlocks?

 

[cibaman]

The reason, I believe, is because manifesto pledges that are then put into place once the winning party
gains power, can not be rejected by the Lords, whilst policies formed in government that were not manifesto based
are subject to endless scrutiny, which we've seen lately.
Prior to this announcement the starting point for payments for care costs were around £23,000, I've not checked, but they
probably still are. I have personal, and distressing, experience of this whole process, in that my mother, who suffered from
vascular dementia, had to live with me,who was then working, and was cared for by my wife, who was not, and still isn't,
in the best of health. This happened over a period of 3 years, until, doubly incontinent, raving and suffering intense distress,
she had to go into a care home. All her, and my late father's money, around £50,000, was quickly used up, then I was contacted
by the care home and council about any other assets, so her bungalow, worth £165,000 at the time was put up for sale.
Knowing this would happen, I had managed to arrange a 'Deed of variation' a complicated procedure that effectively gave me 50%
of the house, so this was safe, but the other half quickly went.
So, in essence, if you're in a care home, your assets will get used to fund it, the Tories proposition, however, would mean you
get to keep £100,000 of those assets.
It's been badly presented though, but if anyone can tell me what Labour proposes, or how it will find funding for this,
I'd be interested.

I think she probably always intended to have a cap but didnt want it restricted to the proposed £72k. Rather than specify an increased amount she took it out of her manifesto hoping that it wouldnt be noticed.

I hope she does better in the brexit negotiations.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

May is a spineless ****.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

Colin posted it before.

There will be a new wealth tax.

Sorry, hadn't noticed that. Another fucking 'Wealth' tax? It'll eventually come down to anyone earning a tenner
a week more than a binman with all these marvellous goodies on offer.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Colin posted it before.

There will be a new wealth tax.

Think a wealth tax is long overdue. Much better than keep going to the income tax/VAT well and, it it was done properly, could see the end of stamp duty and council tax.

 

[inbetween]

Do you not think there was communication with the Germans during the war? Very odd if you dont.
There is no doubt Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi should be removed from public life, it seems has will be soon anyhow, which will be good news.
From air bombing the middle East from the thirties and overturning governments in the middle East years before ISIS, most people would work out they are there because the environment for it to feed on has been facilitated by the west. Not just me and Corbyn would think that.
May or may not happen, who knows.

Of course there will of been communication but what achieved more, a bit of a chat or a military European deployment with the Americans that liberated a continent. Bit of an extreme example but still it is an example of where pacifism can simply have no place.

Had we negotiated with the IRA and republicans instead we would probably have lost NI or come to some sort of agreement which violated the right for the Northern Irish to self determine. Had we negotiated with Argentina we would probably of ended up losing the Falklands and we would probably end up losing Gibraltar when Spain shouts at us again in the future. All sounds extreme again but if you aren't willing to defend yourself and are more than willing to negotiate with nutcases then hell why not?

 

[jay_mcfc]

12/1 on odds checker

Is that fake news? Best odds I see are 10/1, shortest 4/1 with others ranging between six and eight to one.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

May is a spineless ****.

She's definitely demonstrating her negotiating skills to the watching foreign Johnies. Whatever she agrees, if Murdoch and Dacre don't like it, she'll be back in a couple of days with a new plan. I'll wager those EU chaps are quaking in their boots.....

 

[The perfect fumble]

I'm afraid you have (deliberately?) missed the point. Corbyn was and is, an IRA supporter, a united Ireland for him,
meant IRA victory, not dialogue with all sides bringing it about, the IRA obtaining it by mayhem and murder.

You reckon we'd have the Northern Ireland Assembly without all that mayhem and murder?

 

[BigOscar]

What happened to all the competent people? I swear it's a fucking circus these days. I wouldn't trust any of these twats to plan a birthday party, yet alone run the country.