General Election - December 12th, 2019

Who will you vote for in the 2019 General Election?

  • Conservative

    Votes: 160 30.9%
  • Labour

    Votes: 230 44.4%
  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 59 11.4%
  • Green Party

    Votes: 13 2.5%
  • Brexit Party

    Votes: 28 5.4%
  • Plaid Cymru/SNP

    Votes: 7 1.4%
  • Other

    Votes: 21 4.1%

  • Total voters
    518


Corbyn admires Bayern - the club all should aspire too
Here that you blue boys?

This bloke really is just an envy ridden fruitcake, his obsession with people with a lot of money is mad,
what's his plan then, tell Sheikh Mansour to fuck off, expropriate the Etihad, Emirates etc; and all will be brilliant?
 
To do what exactly???. I've asked for an example of what terrible thing he could do? If you want to know - quid pro quo - what terrible things Corbyn and McDonnell will do, I can rattle you off a list any time you like.

He is not in the slightest bit interested in anything other than himself which makes him totally unfit to be PM. What he might do ? Who knows. No sensible person should want to find out.

 
This bloke really is just an envy ridden fruitcake, his obsession with people with a lot of money is mad,
what's his plan then, tell Sheikh Mansour to fuck off, expropriate the Etihad, Emirates etc; and all will be brilliant?

Wouldn't mind he will be a millionaire himself.

Man of the people my arse.
 
But very very little which does not depend upon it. I hope for you that few things you hold dear requires growth or money.

Seems odd to me that people like you don't seem to grasp that it costs money to run hospitals and provide you with social care and a state pension. And if we have less growth and less money, then these thinga get worse.
Yet you’ve jumped ship and decided that spaffing future prosperity up the wall via Brexit is ok now that your beloved Tories have fully morphed into becoming The Brexit Party 2.0.
 
That report (which is 20 months old btw) came from the president who said that and that the policies in place and going forward are aimed and must readress the balance after the austerity measuresof the previous government.

More recently from a report in the summer of this year

The Portuguese economy is resisting the prevailing gloom in Europe.

Activity remained strong, with GDP rising by 0.5% in the first quarter, or 1.8% at an annual rate, compared with 1.2% in the euro zone, forecasts Brussels.

Following the trend of 2018, Portugal's good economic health comes mainly from private consumption fueled by rising wages and employment dynamics. The preliminary data, says the national statistics institute, "reflect a significant acceleration in investment."

The government deficit has fallen from 7.2% of GDP to 0.5% of GDP since 2014, and the unemployment rate from a peak of 17.9% in early 2013, to about 6% currently.

"The tourism sector has been the largest driver of the export recovery in Portugal," Ben Westmore, the head of the Portugal desk in the Economics Department of the OECD, confirmed to VOA.

These numbers make Portugal the darling of international financial institutions. The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, praised Portugal's economic recovery recently in Lisbon. "Portugal and the Portuguese people deserve huge credit for their efforts, for which they should be proud," Lagarde said.


Portugals biggest problem and lend to your comment is that wages thoigh growning, haven't grown as fast as hoped and so many are still on wages below the EU average for a country and why many young people work across the continent.


Anyway we are not voting in portugal, though so a nice little side topic back to the election.


Pledges to plant more forests from Lib dems and tories this morning
There is no doubt mate that Labour would spend more on public services in the short term at least and that public services in the short term at least, get better.

Vic I think it was, said something along the line be of how much better public services were under Blair. Well no shit Sherlock.

The $64,000 question is, is it sustainable? It's no use showing me how the wheels haven't fallen off yet in Portugal after 18 months. Every time Labour get in, they overspend, over-borrow, over tax and as a result, screw up the economy. And in so doing, run out of money to do the very noble things they would like to do. Look at what we've had to endure after last time a Labour government was in - and a very mild one at that. And no, that was not all down to the 2008 crash. We were spending more than we earned, every year even during string economic growth it was totally unsustainable.

It's no use whatsoever making hollow promises which are undeliverable because you'll run out of money. And it is disingenuous to suggest that only 1% of the population would have to pay more tax. In fact it's not that, it's just a lie. Spending on anything like the levels suggested by Labour could not possibly be delivered without tax increases impacting far more people. But of course they cannot admit that or even those they are trying to bribe, would not vote for them.
 
He is not in the slightest bit interested in anything other than himself which makes him totally unfit to be PM. What he might do ? Who knows. No sensible person should want to find out.


This bus lark yet again, I suppose if the net figure, say £200 mill was on it, that wouldn't have swayed anyone would it?
I'd have thought by now that the losers of the referendum, instead of this incessant hand wringing exercise, that basically,
is just incomprehension that people, on occasion, don't think like them, simply accepted this fact.
But no, it was a bus, the Russians, the Daily Mail (Why, oh why, don't the bastards read what I do), Murdoch, the Tories,
racists, fascists, it was them that made 'em do it.
 
Yet you’ve jumped ship and decided that spaffing future prosperity up the wall via Brexit is ok now that your beloved Tories have fully morphed into becoming The Brexit Party 2.0.
I think Corbyn would do far more damage, it's as simple as that.
 
My BT engineer is due between 8am and 1pm today to fix my broadband, which has been out of action for three weeks now. No tv during that time except via my phone.
They sent someone a couple of weeks ago, but he was there to fix the line for reasons which remain a mystery, which was working fine. I could have told him that. Tried not to be too pissed off with him, as it wasn’t his fault.
They’ve tried to fix it twice, down the line, to no avail. Once via a call centre in the sub-continent and once from Plymouth. On both occasions they promised to sort it. They didn’t.
Booked the day out of work twice, which has cost me a few quit on one occasion.
Can’t see a state run enterprise ever matching these service levels tbh. Nationalised industries are so inefficient
You do know it'll be your fault not theirs and they will charge punitive amounts for repairing your equipment.
 
Calling someone a liar seems fairly offensive.

Where have I called you a liar?

I’m merely stating there’s plenty we can listen to from within the party and the day to day running that have more experience than you.

I’m not suggesting what you said is even false, never mind a lie.
 
Corbyn is still rooted in the student protest movements of the '60's, despite the evidence of his own eyes, he clings to
the belief that this bankrupt philosophy is what we should adopt, he's a zealot, a man child, that just can not countenance
that his thinking is flawed. The tragedy, is that a once respected party is in the grip of such people because, in the main,
of the introduction of a £3 a pop membership, that instantly became the new home of far left nutters throughout the land.
The biggest hit to the Conservative campaign now, would be Labour binning this poison once and for all, sadly for them,
he's going for the last chance dance, and unless the polls are miles out, if they stick with him, they're screwed for years.
Not that I agree with your description of Jezz, but I'd rather have a man child in charge than these Tory gangsters.
State of this country - fcuked, divided, no future for young people.
It's the Tory gangsters who have brought us to this point,not Jezz.
 

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