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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Or think of it this way:
City Stu in 2010: " Hello Mr Bank Manager, my business is in the shit, I'm in debt big style but I'm going to reduce my current spending and in five years time my books will balance and I can start bringing my total debt down".
Bank Manager: " Alright mate".
City Stu in 2015: "Hello Mr Bank Manager, sorry I haven't eliminated my deficit yet but it's down by 60% and falling."
Bank Manager: Too right you haven't eliminated your deficit, if you had your debt would have been 1.3tn and falling, as it is it's 1.6tn and rising. When are you going to get rid of your deficit?"
City Stu: " Er ..by about 2025....... Maybe"
Bank Manager: " You're 'avin a giraffe , by then your debt will be 2tn and if interest rates go up you'll never pay it back, especially as you're leaving that trading club. No way, you're not borrowing any more I'm capping your overdraft today. Goodbye mate".

It's a possibility, but I'd say a bigger possibility under Labour as the deficit would have been larger and therefore the debt growing faster.

That situation is essentially what's happened in Greece. Deemed irresponsible so their credit rating is shot so they literally can't borrow money so they have no choice but to spend less than they bring in in taxes. That's actual austerity rather than what we've faced in the UK (we still pay far more on public services than we take in tax).
 
Its clear that Corbyn and Farron have never negotiated a thing in their life. To achiev positive outcomes in a negotiation the worst thing you can do is give away any or all of your negotiation cards.

Analogies tend to work best. Lets just say that you are looking to leave your current job, have found a new one that you really like the look of, gone through the interview process and reached the point where you are clearly the preferred candidate for the role.

Naturally, the objective for the new job is to secure yourself the best package possible - salary, benefits, pension etc before you actually sign the contract.

When the new employer asks you if you would take the job if offered, what are you looking for salary wise, and are there any other businesses in the mix.

Would you answer....

A) Yes I would take the job as long as the salary is £20k and no there are no other alternatives - you're the only potential new employer

On this basis, what do you think your offer would be ?

Or would you say, Yes really interested in the job, like what I've heard, the salary needs to be better than what I'm on and I am talking to a couple of other businesses but your my preferred choice if this package stacks up ie you're prepared to walk away?

What would the offer be given that response ?

Farron is saying he would take what is negotiated back to the British people to vote on. What this clown is saying to the EU is Give us a sh*t offer, one that the UK people wont accept and guess what, we get the outcome the EU want - The UK staying in the EU.

Under Corbyn we have given away our negotiating position from the off and the EU royally shaft us to get it as we have NO ALTERNATIVE.

It is so naive it is untrue, and a clear demonstration that Corbyn and Farron are not fit for office and would sell this country down the river.
One thing wrong with your analogy is that either your future employer knows you are desperate for the job and are not talking to other employers or he is prepared to to allow you to talk to those employers but that the offer may be withdrawn if you don't accept now.
 
It's a possibility, but I'd say a bigger possibility under Labour as the deficit would have been larger and therefore the debt growing faster.
Why?
Alistair Darling ( remember him) in 2010 had a modest but more realistic plan for eliminating the deficit which wouldn't have resulted in crashing the economy in 2012 which has fcuked up the nation's borrowing ever since.
 
Why?
Alistair Darling ( remember him) in 2010 had a modest but more realistic plan for eliminating the deficit which wouldn't have resulted in crashing the economy in 2012 which has fcuked up the nation's borrowing ever since.
LOL

This is what the ONS said about your "Crash"
The weakness of the economy in 2012 stemmed principally from a disappointing foreign trade performance. During the first three quarters of 2012, export volumes rose only 0.2 per cent compared with a year earlier, against a 2.5 per cent rise in imports. This in part reflects the weakness in the UK’s main export markets, especially in Europe. Exports of services were particularly weak, falling by over 2 per cent over the period.
 
Not sure why you're surprised by that. Manchester has always been a Labour stronghold, and most of our users are Manchester-based. To be honest, I'm glad that, despite claims to the contrary, it's still a predominantly left wing forum. Those on the right just tend to shout louder.

It's all about opinions, not suggesting I'm right or that I will be proved right
 
Why?
Alistair Darling ( remember him) in 2010 had a modest but more realistic plan for eliminating the deficit which wouldn't have resulted in crashing the economy in 2012 which has fcuked up the nation's borrowing ever since.

And this is the point where we'll have to agree to disagree. I think that given the trajectory of the deficit in 2010, it wasn't of particular concern to Labour. I have no confidence that they'd have reduced it to the levels the Conservatives have, if at all given their reluctance to make any cuts in public spending at that time. Whilst I understand the argument that public investment creates growth, I believe the public sector was artificially inflated by borrowing in 2010.
 
And my fear is that the Tories will pander to the UKIP tendency in their party & the electorate instead of being pragmatic.
This is a good debate to be had on the A50 thread.

I do not mean anything derogatory at all - I genuinely and fully understand your views and CIL's and also Len's in the way you word things and are concerned about where things are going to go. I equally have major reservations about where things are going to go - I am not feeling remotely 'gung-ho' - in the manner that we keen Brexiteers are described (somewhat deliberately I would suggest) so as to 'run us down' and imply that we are 'xenophobic/jingoistic' etc.

I would suggest that the bottom line though - is that whilst there is so much in common in our concerns, that in the main, the difference is simply that you remain fully committed to a 'Remain viewpoint' and are not yet in a place where you have accepted that 'Leaving' is what the UK is going to do and therefore discussing how best to manage that in the coming months.

There has been so much focus on why the Leave decision is wrong and little on how to manage it. The A50 thread was started for that purpose, but the Champion Remainers generally prevent that discussion.

Anyways, moot point - If the Conservatives are not returned with a sufficiently large enough majority - we will not be leaving the EU - if it is we are likely to do so and I suggest we had better all turn our thoughts and debate on to how this can best be managed rather than prevented.

Should the Conservatives get their necessary majority then the Champion Remainers might have to allow the A50 thread to discuss going forwards rather than the current situation of deriding any thinking of the future - perhaps, if that does occur, we will see you and CIL on that thread to help move it forwards.
 
Its clear that Corbyn and Farron have never negotiated a thing in their life. To achiev positive outcomes in a negotiation the worst thing you can do is give away any or all of your negotiation cards.

Analogies tend to work best. Lets just say that you are looking to leave your current job, have found a new one that you really like the look of, gone through the interview process and reached the point where you are clearly the preferred candidate for the role.

Naturally, the objective for the new job is to secure yourself the best package possible - salary, benefits, pension etc before you actually sign the contract.

When the new employer asks you if you would take the job if offered, what are you looking for salary wise, and are there any other businesses in the mix.

Would you answer....

A) Yes I would take the job as long as the salary is £20k and no there are no other alternatives - you're the only potential new employer

On this basis, what do you think your offer would be ?

Or would you say, Yes really interested in the job, like what I've heard, the salary needs to be better than what I'm on and I am talking to a couple of other businesses but your my preferred choice if this package stacks up ie you're prepared to walk away?

What would the offer be given that response ?

Farron is saying he would take what is negotiated back to the British people to vote on. What this clown is saying to the EU is Give us a sh*t offer, one that the UK people wont accept and guess what, we get the outcome the EU want - The UK staying in the EU.

Under Corbyn we have given away our negotiating position from the off and the EU royally shaft us to get it as we have NO ALTERNATIVE.

It is so naive it is untrue, and a clear demonstration that Corbyn and Farron are not fit for office and would sell this country down the river.

It's less like negotiating a new position and more like negotiating a severance agreement in my opinion. Add to the mix that you owe your boss money and, just to further complicate matters, you're starting your own company and would really like to deal with him and his customers yourself in the future. Whoever conducts the negotiations on our behalf has to realise that there's two sides involved and, if we're to move forward relatively harmoniously, then both sides need to feel they've got something out of it. Lots of people just seem to think it's an opportunity to get one over Johnny Foreigner when there's still so many positives in us having a good relationship with the EU.
 
Its clear that Corbyn and Farron have never negotiated a thing in their life. To achiev positive outcomes in a negotiation the worst thing you can do is give away any or all of your negotiation cards.

Analogies tend to work best. Lets just say that you are looking to leave your current job, have found a new one that you really like the look of, gone through the interview process and reached the point where you are clearly the preferred candidate for the role.

Naturally, the objective for the new job is to secure yourself the best package possible - salary, benefits, pension etc before you actually sign the contract.

When the new employer asks you if you would take the job if offered, what are you looking for salary wise, and are there any other businesses in the mix.

Would you answer....

A) Yes I would take the job as long as the salary is £20k and no there are no other alternatives - you're the only potential new employer

On this basis, what do you think your offer would be ?

Or would you say, Yes really interested in the job, like what I've heard, the salary needs to be better than what I'm on and I am talking to a couple of other businesses but your my preferred choice if this package stacks up ie you're prepared to walk away?

What would the offer be given that response ?

Farron is saying he would take what is negotiated back to the British people to vote on. What this clown is saying to the EU is Give us a sh*t offer, one that the UK people wont accept and guess what, we get the outcome the EU want - The UK staying in the EU.

Under Corbyn we have given away our negotiating position from the off and the EU royally shaft us to get it as we have NO ALTERNATIVE.

It is so naive it is untrue, and a clear demonstration that Corbyn and Farron are not fit for office and would sell this country down the river.

You're missing the crucial fact that we're not really in a negotiation.

The Country has voted to leave.

Cards are on the table, we're all in.

EU knows this and so rightly can sit with their feet on the table and reject everything. We need to persuade them to allow us to leave in a manner which suits them. We can't waltz in and make huge demands. It's not going to happen. May is convincing people that her position will get the best deal for Britain. But what people are forgetting is positive relationships can sometimes get a better deal.

If someone tries to shaft you then you might think, well fuck you pal, you're paying full price/getting fuck all. Someone that sits down with a mentality to work out a deal that suits both parties may get much further. We need to retain a relationship with the EU. We're not leaving the wife and saying, I'm taking all my cash see you later PS I still get to see the kids when and where I want. The wife holds all the cards.

She says, you can leave but I'll tell you how...and when...and how much it will cost you. As a country we don't have a fall back position at the moment of staying in the EU if there is no deal or any substance on the table.

Brexit is either a) going to take a fucking age to ever happen or b) never happen at all.
 
This is a good debate to be had on the A50 thread.

I would suggest that the bottom line though - is that whilst there is so much in common in our concerns, that in the main, the difference is simply that you remain fully committed to a 'Remain viewpoint' and are not yet in a place where you have accepted that 'Leaving' is what the UK is going to do and therefore discussing how best to manage that in the coming months.
You've got me wrong. Like you I'm a fellow Brexiteer. I accept that there may be a cost but, in my opinion, that's a price we'll have to pay for escaping the increasingly inevitable centralisation of key EU functions.
 
It's less like negotiating a new position and more like negotiating a severance agreement in my opinion. Add to the mix that you owe your boss money and, just to further complicate matters, you're starting your own company and would really like to deal with him and his customers yourself in the future. Whoever conducts the negotiations on our behalf has to realise that there's two sides involved and, if we're to move forward relatively harmoniously, then both sides need to feel they've got something out of it. Lots of people just seem to think it's an opportunity to get one over Johnny Foreigner when there's still so many positives in us having a good relationship with the EU.

Exactly this. 100%.

This isn't a poker game, it's two economies working together to ensure they both come out of this mutually beneficially.

The UK population is economically illiterate. I was until 5 years or so back when I asked @SWP's back and some others to start me off on a reading list. Even now I've only graduated from illiterate to uneducated.

Do you know why we give out foreign aid? It's because we want poor countries to become rich liberal democracies. To do tgis they need infrastructure, citizens who can go to schools rather than starve and many other things of this nature

We don't fund them to be kind. We fund them because once they get their shit together, we now have another customer for our goods and services and more resources keeping the price of goods down. We give them money to make ourselves rich.

The idea that the EU want the UK to fail here and we need some tough, strict negotiator to make sure they don't put one over on us is literal bollocks. The EU want us to stay rich so we will buy their goods and services. The Brexit negotiation will be handled by patient diplomats - neither May nor Corbyn will be anywhere near it
 
That's not true in society in general. Look at social media, protests, audiences in TV debates etc.
Exactly. I don't know what ric's Facebook is like but I've not had one person tell me to vote Tory on my wall.

I must have had 20+ tell me to vote labour as their status or profile picture.
 
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