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
Worsleyweb said:
It’s not - I notice the other day someone on here said they were voting reform. Kaz says within a minute surely you are trolling. Different opinions are allowed without insults. The left screamed for harsher lock downs more state costs during Covid and now we are paying the price it’s almost as if that did not happen. Imagine if labour had been in during Covid. I dread the next 8 years.

Why should I say otherwise? My opinion and I maintain it. Pre Covid we were In a decent position to kick on.
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That is a bit unfair, loads of people have come on here saying they're voting Reform and have been engaged in discussions rather than simply dismissed as trolls. That doesn't mean we have to agree with them of course, that's the nature of a forum.

Kaz' comments at that poster were quite obviously a result of the fact they had a 3 month old account, about 20 posts and then they suddenly started posting conspiratorial and adversarial things on about four different threads within the space of an hour that looked deliberately designed to get a rise out of people. Maybe they were genuine but she was perfectly within her rights to say that is characteristic of trolling behaviour.
 
SkyBlueFlux said:
That is a bit unfair, loads of people have come on here saying they're voting Reform and have been engaged in discussions rather than simply dismissed as trolls. That doesn't mean we have to agree with them of course, that's the nature of a forum.

Kaz' comments at that poster were quite obviously a result of the fact they had a 3 month old account, about 20 posts and then they suddenly started posting conspiratorial and adversarial things on about four different threads within the space of an hour that looked deliberately designed to get a rise out of people. Maybe they were genuine but she was perfectly within her rights to say that is characteristic of trolling behaviour.
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Thanks
 
Enjoy your victory - genuinely pleased for you. I maintain it’s a fucking unmitigated disaster for the country. Back in the politics thread in a couple of years time.
 
Worsleyweb said:
Enjoy your victory - genuinely pleased for you. I maintain it’s a fucking unmitigated disaster for the country. Back in the politics thread in a couple of years time.
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I understand your reservations, my mum has similar perspectives, that side of the family are all small c conservatives. And maybe you’ll be right, who am I to say? Put it this way, if in 20 years Labour have led us down a bad path and the Tories have the swell of public opinion, the shoe will be on the other foot and I might be apprehensive about them in the same way because of my experience of the last 14 years.

All I can ask is that, if in four years we look back and it hasn’t been an unmitigated disaster, that perhaps those who predict the apocalypse will be big enough to introspect and admit they were wrong.
 
It will take a whole term to steady this ship and get the economy stable again , some hard decisions to be made but they have promised not the austery we had before , no point posting hysterically from day one , patience is key
 
kaz7 said:
It will take a whole term to steady this ship and get the economy stable again , some hard decisions to be made but they have promised not the austery we had before , no point posting hysterically from day one , patience is key
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If Labour haven’t sorted everything in the first week, including the war in Ukraine and the world global climate crisis, the Tory boys will be on here pronto telling us how right they were
 
Objectively, I've never been better off in my life.

But I look around at the fucking state of this country, that has somehow achieved a combination of high taxes and collapsing public services. I think of young people paying half their income on rent, with virtually no chance of buying a house. I think of the incredible stupidity of Brexit. I smell the fascists pulling on their jackboots and spouting their lies, conning people that they have easy answers to incredibly complex problems.

My conclusion is that it's not all about me, that we need a change of direction, and that Labour, for all its many faults, are our only hope. A threadbare hope, but all we've got. And, to be quite honest, I'm glad I'm not young.
 
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