General Election - 4th July 2024

Who will you be voting for in the General Election?

  • Labour

    Votes: 266 56.8%

  • Conservative

    Votes: 12 2.6%

  • Liberal Democrat

    Votes: 40 8.5%

  • Reform

    Votes: 71 15.2%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 28 6.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 51 10.9%
  • Total voters
    468
Rammy Blue said:
Fair enough, lol. Looks like my brief foray into politics has concluded and I’ll stick to knowing they are all cunts and not voting. Cheers.
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Or you can see the evidence of 14 years of Tory corruption and vote to get rid of them. In five years time then you can judge whether to get rid of that government. There's no reason to think you might not be pleasantly surprised.

Now do you want me to record you as a non-voter or a don't know?
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
Just because some people don't see the appeal of Rayner doesn't mean you are going to convince them by pointing out your perceived inadequacies of her opponents. Fwiw I don't think Rayner comes across that well at times, she definitely lacks diplomacy skills which are pretty essential to be a skilled political operator. Unless she learns these quickly, I cant see her lasting in the cabinet for long.
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Diplomacy? Calling striking miners "the enemy within"? Calling a murderous dictator a friend? If Thatcher can do that, Rayner calling Tories scum is easily forgivable.
 
Vic said:
Or you can see the evidence of 14 years of Tory corruption and vote to get rid of them. In five years time then you can judge whether to get rid of that government. There's no reason to think you might not be pleasantly surprised.

Now do you want me to record you as a non-voter or a don't know?
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Nah, stick me down as Reform and pro-Farage.
 
One of the greatest politicians who ever lived, Aneurin Bevin, described the Tories as 'lower than vermin'. And the Tories of his day were a lot more likeable than the present ragbag of shysters, conmen, liars, oddballs and racists. A lot less openly corrupt, too.

Using blunt language is not necessarily a handicap to a politician. Winston Churchill could be exceedingly blunt. I think Angela Rayner's problem is that a) she's a woman, b) she's a northerner and speaks in a northern accent, c) she's working-class** and d) she's left wing (or perceived as such - I'm not that sure.)

If Lady Cynthia Harwood Ponsonby Smyth MP said 'Labour are frightful, horrid communist plebs' no one would bat an eyelid as it would be said in a posh voice.

Enough to make a cat laugh.

** Although strangely many of her critics are those who say 'Labour doesn't represent the working class anymore.' (As though the Tories, or Nigel Toad of Toad Hall Farage somehow do.)
 
Superace said:
I never get the anger from some about who others vote for. Vote for who you want that's the freedom our ancestors fought for.
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Yeah I agree, deciding who to put in charge of the country and be accountable for a large proportion of the quality of life of everyone that lives here isn’t a subject to get emotive about at all.

t’s not something actually important, like football, is it…? ;)
 
Vic said:
Or you can see the evidence of 14 years of Tory corruption and vote to get rid of them. In five years time then you can judge whether to get rid of that government. There's no reason to think you might not be pleasantly surprised.

Now do you want me to record you as a non-voter or a don't know?
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We will be pleasantly surprised for the next 4, maybe 8 years and then it will dawn on everyone that wages are still shite, rents and mortgages high, NHS waiting lists getting longer, pot holes everywhere still, no social care to speak of, same number unemployed, millions more here under uncontrolled immigration, gas and electric still sky high and guess what?

We will then vote the Tories back in because Labour will be in the doghouse.
 
I'm waiting to find out the local polls for clues as to tactical. Think I'm going green. Because fuck you! Plant some fucking trees. The older I get, the more I like trees. Just today, I saw a dog using a tree to temporarily hid from its owner - just that beats all your so called 'infrastructure' and 'policy' hands down. And trees take a long time to grow. Vote green this time - we'll do nowt but plant trees. Then in twenty years time, everyone will see the trees, remember the time we planted them - and be a lot happier for it.
 
bluethrunthru said:
Have you seen the fucking summer weather - if anything my money would be on waterpolo as the next big thing
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Nope, I've not witnessed the summer weather having lived here all my life.

Yes. I walked past a county cricket ground as they were running out the plastic in the rain yesterday.

Along with @RiversideBlue, you may have missed the satirical point of the post.
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
Nope, I've not witnessed the summer weather having lived here all my life.

Yes. I walked past a county cricket ground as they were running out the plastic in the rain yesterday.

Along with @RiversideBlue, you may have missed the satirical point of the post.
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I believe his was a satire on the English Weather. Twenty years ago it would have counted as self-satire. But the world has turned again, and we now know the alternative comedians were nothing like the definitive, final answer to societies problems that they purported to be. Thus we now treat topics such as the weather as equally deserving of "satire".
 
blueinsa said:
We will be pleasantly surprised for the next 4, maybe 8 years and then it will dawn on everyone that wages are still shite, rents and mortgages high, NHS waiting lists getting longer, pot holes everywhere still, no social care to speak of, same number unemployed, millions more here under uncontrolled immigration, gas and electric still sky high and guess what?

We will then vote the Tories back in because Labour will be in the doghouse.
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8 years of being pleasantly surprised sounds fucking ace.
 
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