General Election - December 12th, 2019

[MillionMilesAway]

Sorry to see Dennis skinner go.

The winner there was very complimentary about him, I understand.
I don't know why he wasn't present for the announcement.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

The winner there was very complimentary about him, I understand.
I don't know why he wasn't present for the announcement.

Sick apparently.

 

[SWP's back]

He's a serial liar the likes this country has never seen. The people behind him are extreme right wingers.

What's worrying is that in future elections this populist nationalism and avoiding media scrutiny will now be the norm.

Ok Boomer.

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

Scotland has gone almost totally yellow. That's what they want, let them have it. Bye, we won't miss you

Really, I don't agree. Think they'll suffer and we owe a lot, as a nation, to the contribution from many Scots down the years.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Sick apparently.

That's what I assumed - can't imagine him ducking anything!

 

[Deleted member 77198]

But presumably there were plenty of Tory constituencies that voted Remain where the MPs voted for Brexit in parliament. What happened to Redwood for example?

The thing is, Brexit or Remain, the richer people in society won’t be affected by to the extent that poorer people will.

The more affluent will be alright either way, in the main. They know they’ll be looked after by the Tories or that they’ll have enough money to cope with whatever happens.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

I think they’re done and dusted as a party to be honest, and a new party like “The People’s Democratic Centre Left Party” (for want of a better name) need to emerge.

Either that or they’ve been very very clever here, know that the Tories can’t deliver a good Brexit and will see millions of people flood back to Labour in five years after the Tories fuck shit up.

When Brown got voted out in 2010 and the crash had happened a couple of years before, the narrative was Labour would leave balancing the books to the Tories. The cuts to services and austerity would make Labour a shoe in to take power again. We then had the disaster of Milliband and now Corbyn.

I think 5 years time is being a bit optimistic, it’s almost feels like Labour don’t want to be in power and are fine pulling their faces at the Government from the other side of the house.

 

[inchy14]

It isnt in question that Corbyn etc are rubbish.

However you know how the media sways things against City.

They do the same but for the Conservatives.

Oh please, You're telling me that this isn't the case on both sides? Behave mate, it's always been the same.

 

[Bozzie]

It’s a great day for the country

We've elected a moron as Prime Minister and it's a "great day for the country"? I get that most people, regardless of how they voted, voted for the 'lesser of two evils', it simply depended on which you considered to be the lesser. I voted Labour for that reason because I thought, this time, the alternative was far too unpalatable, since 1979 it really hasn't bothered me that much so I've not voted. The reality is, we shouldn't have to vote for a moron just to keep another moron out of Downing St.On the plus side, I'll probably be dead before the next occasion the urge to place my x becomes too great to ignore!

 

[Deleted member 77198]

When Brown got voted out in 2010 and the crash had happened a couple of years before, the narrative was Labour would leave balancing the books to the Tories. The cuts to services and austerity would make Labour a shoe in to take power again. We then had the disaster of Milliband and now Corbyn.

I think 5 years time is being a bit optimistic, it’s almost feels like Labour don’t want to be in power and are fine pulling their faces at the Government from the other side of the house.

I was kind of joking with that one. I don’t think those who’ve been in Labour this time round would have the foresight to plan something like that.