General Election June 8th

Who will you vote for at the General Election?

  • Conservatives

    Votes: 189 28.8%

  • Labour

    Votes: 366 55.8%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 37 5.6%

  • SNP

    Votes: 8 1.2%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 23 3.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 33 5.0%
  • Total voters
    656
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Hoghead said:
Perversely SNP could suffer if Labour get their act together and campaign as the effective opposition. The SNP aren't likely to gain any more seats, so could lose some.
That would be interesting.
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Especially as Sturgeon has been shown as being pretty incompetent at running Scotland and balancing the books even with the benefit of the Barnett firmula proping her up.
 
hilts said:
Good luck to you
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No chance your country ie Scotland would ever vote for indeoendence. The majority of the electorate know which side the bread is buttered. You have the best of both worlds an extremist nationalist anti English leader who can sit back and blame everything on the UK government while also knowing she can be safely relected and twist the uks government arm for more powers and money. Its win win for you as long as you are not stupid enough to vote for independence.
 
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Magicpole said:
Rather wee Jimmy as you put it than a bunch of self serving Tory cunts any day of the week.

The rest of the U.K. if it voted a Tory landslide seals the fate of every party up here saying staying together will be better.

How can being governed by a detested party forever be better?

That will be the choice and if we shite it then we deserve everything that servile attitude warrants.
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Agree wholeheartedly with everything you say and I ain't Scottish. Self-serving Tory cunts is an apt description.
 
Magicpole said:
You're so ill informed it's embarrassing.
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No mp you are just full of anger and hate you cannot see the reality of where the money and powers go in the uk. Its you that are deluded my friend ! What part of the uk funding scenario do you not understand. Come on man prey tell ? You get 120% more funding that the north of England we are both parts of the uk the same country. I think its best you stop your bleating and whinging and man up rather than act like Nicola and a spoilt screaming child.
 
It looks like Theresa May has taken her cue from President Erdoğan, except she's using a general election to increase her powers, the woman is coming across as nothing more than a control freak.
 
I don’t see that this does anything for the Brexit negotiation. The leave vote was based on a load of smoke and mirrors and the lack of any substance behind our negotiating position will still be there once the dust settles. All the election does is force every MP to formalise and explain their stance on the issue. The vast majority of MPs in both main parties are anti brexit and have been keeping there heads down leaving May isolated. This forces the Tory’s to back her and the Lab MP’s to back Corbyn – a situation that favours May in trying to force through the bum deal that will emerge on brexit and capitalising on the mess in the Labour party at the same time.
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
No mp you are just full of anger and hate you cannot see the reality of where the money and powers go in the uk. Its you that are deluded my friend ! What part of the uk funding scenario do you not understand. Come on man prey tell ? You get 120% more funding that the north of England we are both parts of the uk the same country. I think its best you stop your bleating and whinging and man up rather than act like Nicola and a spoilt screaming child.
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Bluntly put posts but this is essentially the case with Scotland. You left out the fact that Scotland and it's economy has been invested in with it being part of the UK for the last 310 years and all the power that gave them to get them where they are as a region today. In the time of Empires emerging, where similar to the Space Race of the Cold War it was necessary to avoid becoming a colony yourself, Scotland had a number of failed colonisation attempts and even well into the time of it being part of being the UK the clans were killing each other. SNP seem to think they've always been a united, all Scottish Gaelic speaking peoples though since they probably have Braveheart on repeat in the office.
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
What extra powers is she going to give herself?
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The power to push through her ill thought out ideological policies.

This is just a grab for power, to tighten her grip on her own party not just to increase her majority, she's a control freak
 
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The only positive from this is that Corbyn will be gone sooner now, and Labour can start to rebuild.
 
Cheesy said:
Don't you get it?

They are ill thought out ideological policies if he doesn't agree with them.
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Argh thanks.

I am sure Jezza will be putting forward his own fantastic ideological policies in a manifesto and the country will simply lap it up and he will have no worries.....

Eg

1 keep the nuclear submarines but don't have nuclear weapons.

2 Put a salary cap on how much I think people should earn.

3 I will ask Dianne Abbott for the others
 
tshirtman said:
The power to push through her ill thought out ideological policies.

This is just a grab for power, to tighten her grip on her own party not just to increase her majority, she's a control freak
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Oh the absolute tirant! Who does she think she is calling a democratic vote! Absolute maniac must be stopped!
 
Such a shame that Corbyn is currently Labour leader. Would she have dared to go down this route if Labour had someone credible to take her on? She knows she will win comfortably purely on the basis that Corbyn is a useless tit and when she does, she will claim that it is a ringing endorsement of her plans for a hard Brexit whereas all it will really show is that the country won't vote for Corbyn.
 
I absolutely detest the tories domestic politics and whilst I have confidence they'd get the best trade deals financially, I don't trust them with protecting the people's interests with regards to health regulations, nuclear etc. (TTIP type deals that sell the country out/giving nuclear power plant contracts to the Chinese).

On the flip, Corbyn, whilst he probably has his heart in the right place, comes across as a weak bloke - not the strong leadership qualities we need which May is demonstrating. I'm not entirely sure what direction they're pulling on matters relating to Brexit.

I welcome a reading of manifestos but can only see a landslide for Tories. Maybe better for Brexit but I fear where domestic politics would lead.
 
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