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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Len Rum said:
Cameron in your opinion was suitable as PM, yet he plunged this country into a Brexit crisis which even you acknowledge is an existential risk.
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Fucking politicians giving the people a vote eh.

Wouldn't happen on your watch. No sir. Equality for all, except for decisions that you don't like.
 
20 years ago I was a full time 'matcher' of unemployed people to job vacancies. Then came along technology and it became pretty much self service, online job hunting. In recent weeks my job has started to incorporate some of that old style matching again.
A lot of the jobs advertised now, compared to 20 years ago, are ruthless in their specifications for flexibility and yet are zero hour contracts. Or, if full time hours, want applicants to be available to work every single day.I have been absolutely gobsmacked by the dearth of quality jobs that offer a half decent work/life balance. The sheer arrogance and effrontery of many employers is a direct result of Thatcher's legacies.
It's horrendous.
 
Brussels have just announced they will allow Corbyn longer to prepare for Brexit negotiations should he be elected. Labour could be ahead in the polls by tomorrow IMO.
 
City Raider said:
Personally I prefer my fiscally unsound govts (and they all are) to be broke delivering decent public services.
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At least your voting with your eyes wide open. There is fiscally 'unsound' then there is fiscally 'irresponsible'. I have more concern about those who (in my opinion) are being hoodwinked into voting for Corbyn based on the myriad of hugely expensive initiatives and who seem to believe that you can blindly throw money at everything and get things for 'free' with seemingly no payback. All this costed on the basis of taxing 'the rich' and private business which it seems Labour think they can do with no consequences and without any real true knowledge of what revenue will accrue. They are quite simply biting the hand that feeds them.

No business works like that, so why should government - unless of course you are anti capitalist and a Marxist....
 
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mackenzie said:
20 years ago I was a full time 'matcher' of unemployed people to job vacancies. Then came along technology and it became pretty much self service, online job hunting. In recent weeks my job has started to incorporate some of that old style matching again.
A lot of the jobs advertised now, compared to 20 years ago, are ruthless in their specifications for flexibility and yet are zero hour contracts. Or, if full time hours, want applicants to be available to work every single day.I have been absolutely gobsmacked by the dearth of quality jobs that offer a half decent work/life balance. The sheer arrogance and effrontery of many employers is a direct result of Thatcher's legacies.
It's horrendous.
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Yep, it's red in tooth and claw, but some people are doing alright and look at all the cranes in Manchester! And we've had non stop increasing living standards these last seven years! Yes we have! It's a fucking nirvana! And only bitter old socialists stuck in the 70's and people who love to put Britain down can't see it.
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
I'd rather help my kids out whilst I'm alive, to be honest. Once I'm gone, I won't be too bothered what happens to it!
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And that's your right.

But some think all inherited wealth is wrong. But if inherited wealth is wrong then surely any help available to your kids and not available to others is wrong.
 
Hamann Pineapple said:
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Haha. Go on Jezza !

As much as May has run a dreadful campaign - Corbyn deserves a lot of credit, he was given no hope by anybody a few months ago, even he's own party members - My Tory mates cheering when Corbyn was announced party leader as this 'guarenteed Tories would be in power for years to come' .. that might still be the case but they've gone very quiet these last few weeks.
 
SWP's back said:
Nothing the electorate love more than being dictated to by Brussels.
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Yeah, they should have told him to get his arse over lickety split and had they done so would that have been Brussels dictating to the UK as well? Pray tell, if Brussels giving more time to Corbyn is dictating and Brussels giving no more time to Corbyn is dictating, what could Brussels have said that was not dictating?

Nothing, presumably.
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
Not sure what is so limiting about leaving £325000 before any tax kicks in really.
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All inheritence or care tax is just plain wrong end of. You pay tax all your life, well most do, unless you are super rich. So any savings you have had or property has had tax already deducted. Why on earth should you pay again. When others spend everything they have end up with nowt and the state then pays for their care. A fair society should be just that fair to all.
 
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