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
hillbillyliar said:
Perversely, a smaller majority can make a party more radical, as extremists in the party may hold the balance of power.
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Also it's a lot harder to control MPs when they know their parliamentary vote doesn't matter so much. Big majorities usually lead to a lot of rebellions and factions developing.
 
Eccles Blue said:
I've just been out and realised that the house on the main road which always, even for Local Elections, has a Labour Flagpole in the garden and posters in all upstairs and downstairs windows hasn't got any up at all this time. As I say complacency.
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Maybe it's Rascal's pad (or one of the other socialism or bust posters)
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
It's definitely got worse in the last 15 years.

No coincidence that over that period social services, education, youth services and support for struggling parents has been decimated, as has neighbourhood policing.

The babies of poor and vulnerable parents who had things like Sure Start centres taken off them are now teenagers.
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Behaviour in primary schools is at an all-time low; record numbers of fixed-term exclusions; record number of permanent exclusions; record number of EHCPs for children with SEMH needs.
Number one reason teachers currently cite for bailing out the profession: dealing with behaviour. Covid absolutely shattered the lives of the youngest.
 
johnnytapia said:
Behaviour in primary schools is at an all-time low; record numbers of fixed-term exclusions; record number of permanent exclusions; record number of EHCPs for children with SEMH needs.
Number one reason teachers currently cite for bailing out the profession: dealing with behaviour. Covid absolutely shattered the lives of the youngest.
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Also knife crime among young people is on another planet to twenty years ago.
 
BobKowalski said:
Paying billions to compel kids to sit in nissan huts in the Outer Hebrides or as forced labour isn’t going to work. It appeals to the demographic who think kids ‘have it to easy’ and get a kick out of punishing them.

Kids today have already gone through a financial crisis, a two year quarantine, disrupted education and are being left with broken services, no freedom of movement as enjoyed by the youth of Europe and the chance of owning a home a distant dream. Oh, and fuck off huge University loans.

If you want conscription or national service how about we apply it to the over fifties who enjoyed none of the above and then shat over the kids. If any demographic could do with learning about ‘respect and community’ it’s the old fuckers.
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How did they shit on the kids? I guess you mean the Brexit vote

The one point I disagree with is the bit about university loans… Nobody forced them to go to Uni so why should the general public fund it?

My two lads chose not to go to uni.. both are doing very well thanks.. Their wives both went to uni but neither are using their degrees in their currently roles so in hindsight their studies and their bills could have been totally avoided… There must be tens of thousands like that
 
domalino said:
Also it's a lot harder to control MPs when they know their parliamentary vote doesn't matter so much. Big majorities usually lead to a lot of rebellions and factions developing.
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I was reading today that Labour have been working on the possibility, and how to keep MPs busy. New candidates have even been having training that addresses the possibility that they'll get bored and spend too much time in the discounted bars!

Bizarre than the people who have most impact on our day to day lives, have one of the few jobs where it's acceptable to get pissed throughout the day.
 
bluenova said:
I was reading today that Labour have been working on the possibility, and how to keep MPs busy. New candidates have even been having training that addresses the possibility that they'll get bored and spend too much time in the discounted bars!

Bizarre than the people who have most impact on our day to day lives, have one of the few jobs where it's acceptable to get pissed throughout the day.
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Should abolish them completely tbh. If MPs want to get pissed they can do it off site and without having the public contribute to their tab.
 
Bluemanc100 said:
I’d take the badly behaved kids from my youth..

The badly behaved kids of today give zero fucks about respect and many are very likely to stick a knife in you for next to nothing…
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Seems not as cut and dried as your perceptions.

VIOLENT BRITAIN? IT WAS WORSE IN THE 60s

Teenage violence is one of the biggest fears for people in Britain today - but the problem was actually far WORSE in the Swinging Sixties.
www.mirror.co.uk www.mirror.co.uk
 
Bluemanc100 said:
How did they shit on the kids? I guess you mean the Brexit vote

The one point I disagree with is the bit about university loans… Nobody forced them to go to Uni so why should the general public fund it?

My two lads chose not to go to uni.. both are doing very well thanks.. Their wives both went to uni but neither are using their degrees in their currently roles so in hindsight their studies and their bills could have been totally avoided… There must be tens of thousands like that
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Absolute nonsense. Education should be valued in and of itself. There doesn’t have to be an end-point (job).

I did a degree in French and German then became an engineer before finally moving into teaching. I’ve used my French sparsely and my German even more sparsely since graduating. But it gave me a wonderful insight into both cultures; it allowed me to study in both countries; it enhanced my fluency in both languages.

On the funding note - we fund things for the common good, not just because we might / might not use it. Libraries; galleries, musea, etc.

Education, at any level, should be fully publicly funded. We’ve lost sight of why and how learning should be valued.
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
Should abolish them completely tbh. If MPs want to get pissed they can do it off site and without having the public contribute to their tab.
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They should switch to more normal hours, and make drinking during the day unacceptable.

I'd change the rules, so it was less easy for constitutional idiots to waste everyone's time, and make Parliament somewhere that MPs only had to spend a couple of days a week. Get the business done, with less time for social events, lobbying etc. The expectation should be that they do work in their constituencies, so no second jobs to tempt them either.

Make them do the job we pay them for, but don't put them in a ridiculous position of being away from their families most of the week, with nothing but cheap drink, and lobbying events to keep them entertained.
 
bluethrunthru said:
The Tories on-line game is piss poor

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To whom it may concern,

We have plenty of places now that the Labour Party have supplied us with an extra 6400 teachers to educate our children.

PS. Please remind young Tarquin to bring his armbands on day one. Hell be doing cross country and there’s no bridge over the river.

Good day.
 
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