General Election June 8th

Who will you vote for at the General Election?

  • Conservatives

    Votes: 189 28.8%

  • Labour

    Votes: 366 55.8%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 37 5.6%

  • SNP

    Votes: 8 1.2%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 23 3.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 33 5.0%
  • Total voters
    656
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inbetween said:
An increased Tory majority is inevitable
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Not sure it is, Lib Dem vote cant get any lower than last time, Labour vote can but would expect most of that vote, as it was down to traditional labour voters anyway, to go Lib Dem even UKIP before the Tories. Still would expect a Tory majority anyway.
 
dickie davies said:
Labour has been there before, in fact worse when Michael Foot's Labour party was totally decimated, but I'm in total agreement that whoever is in power should be facing a strong opposition
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The 1982 Labour Manifesto was called the longest suicude note in history.

Maggie on the back of the Falklands showed that jingoism works and had a landslide.

We voted labour up here. We detested her and still do.
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
Hopefully someone who is not as left wing as Corbyn. I am not a labour voter but I do want a credible opposition party who can hold the government to account. Over the past few elections both main parties have have been hugging the middle ground thats how Bliar came to power. With the loss of their mps in Scotland the only way Labour stand a chance again is if they do the same thing and lean right. There simply isnt enough old school left wing socialists in our country.
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I agree, Labour is really caught in a trap, they either stick to there principles and remain left with a leader like Corbyn and have zero chance of coming to power
Or... lean to the right, but that position is well and truly taken by the tories - i dont think any Labour candidate can close the gap
 
I never thought I'd feel as awful as I did the day after the 1992 election, but in 2015 I somehow did.

This will just be an encore of that.
 
nico1 said:
Make no mistake, voting for the Tories strategically or whatever, isn't ever going to help labour or the left.
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I am voting Conservative for the 1st time because it is by far the lesser of two evils in my opinion, I despise many Tory policies(the sabotage of the NHS in order to justify privatisation for example) but when compared to the far left identity politics that infests Labour currently, it is the only viable option, no matter how distasteful I find it.

Rather than trying to help Labour I am more hopeful that a crushing defeat at the GE will be the catalyst for the Labour party to fix it's problems and start trying to represent average people instead of pandering to race baiters and pinko loons.

Regardless of anybodies political leanings, this country is genuinely fucked without a legitimate opposition and race baiting bigots, quasi-communist dreamers and 20 year olds with a degree in Lesbian Dance Theory are never going to be that.
 
I'm pissed off with this, BTW. It doesn't offer us any real choice over the type of Brexit deal, and she knows that. Whilst I might think the Tories are the most effective leaders for this country ATM, I am going to punish her for this. Lib Dems are second to Tories in my constituency, and whilst Corbyn is still messing about with 6th form politics, we need the party back in some form, so that's that.
 
KenTheLandlord said:
Lol

You ask a question that has no relevance
I ask to clarify
You shout abuse

Genius debating skills.

Try again, and form a coherent question.
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Your really hurting aren't you, Brexit, Trump, Corbyn/Labour wipeout, i'v no need whatsoever to debate with you, i wouldn't be able to stop laughing anyway, see you 10th June
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
No chance your country ie Scotland would ever vote for indeoendence. The majority of the electorate know which side the bread is buttered. You have the best of both worlds an extremist nationalist anti English leader who can sit back and blame everything on the UK government while also knowing she can be safely relected and twist the uks government arm for more powers and money. Its win win for you as long as you are not stupid enough to vote for independence.
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I'm not Scottish
 
Only just got in and seen this.

As a lefty, I say bring it on, there has been no indication that corbyn could turn around the party by 2020 and that we won't be heavily defeated then except faith, so nothing to lose in having it now,
and one advantage for labour is with 8 weeks of campaigning the larger and more mobilised grassroots ability to doorstep and get out there may save seats that 3 more years of PLP bitching about the party would have been guaranteed loses.

Also if labour have any sense they will opt for pact with the lib dems to give them a clear run against the tories in remain backed seats in the south and vice versato try and get a hung parliament to form a coallition of them and the snp, keeping the tories out and with bad feeling in some areas over brexit this could be a negative for may and help in this.

More likely a landslide and perpetual tory government, labour having a whig moment and the country on it's arse, so same as now
 
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