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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blue cigar said:
Well Andrew marr asked May a direct question about it today, her answer? There are many complex reasons why people use food banks! She did not deny it or answer the question posed, pretty poor from a pm. Maybe Marr was making it up?
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Surely there are 'strong and stable' reasons why people use them. :-)
 
kevin horlocks wand said:
He made her look a bit of a tool about how she voted on Iraq (for) v Corbyn (against).
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Only saw a little bit of it, but you could sense she was thrown by the 'robotic' label. The programme in her brain was searching for synonyms of 'strong and stable, but Lynton Crosby had clearly not adjusted the settings. Half expected her to come out with 'long-term economic plan' or even 'head slapping'.
 
blue cigar said:
Dont be silly or ignorant, whichever it is. Nurses are very poorly paid for the work they do, the hours they do and the stress they deal with. They get awful pay rises usually around 1% and the govt (inc previous labour) take the piss because they know the nurses wont strike. Hardly a suprise they struggle to cope. I'll side with the leader that promises to confront the sitiation.
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Neither silly nor ignorant. They may not get paid enough for what they do, but they're not on the bread line. I'd like to meet a nurse who uses a foodbank and find out why they're using it.
 
Mëtal Bikër said:
Brexit is my main issue at present and which party will deliver most on the winning majority.

My family has voted Labour since probably the 1930's, it's engrained in my family's ethos. This Labour are the party of the metropolitan middle classes. They're socialites, not socialists. It's also ironic that so many people criticised Cameron and his cabinet when I consider them to be the most 'left wing' Tory cabinet in recent history, yet people still wanted them out. May is moving the Conservatives more to the right and it's resonating with the public. Does it mean a shift in British society? Possibly, but then it's not surprising given the rhetoric from the left in recent years.

I actually do like Theresa May as PM, she seems more of a doer than a procrastinator to me. We need a doer in this period of EU separation not someone who'll drag their feet. If Corbyn was more like his younger self, anti-EU federalism and wanting the UK out of the Common Market, i'd back him, but even he knows that he'd have to face the backlash of what that would mean amongst his own party members. To get back that core Labour working class support he needs to stop pandering to the socialite, new labour, middle class ethic and start recognising and addressing the concerns of the working people of the UK, no matter how 'unethical' and 'racist' it appears to the metropolitan mindset.
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I lived in Gorton and Droylsden years ago and my family were always labour. I am also a brexit voter and its a concern that we have leadership during the process but its not my number 1 priority, i want public services and the nhs to be at the forefront and corbyn is the best man for that in my view.
 
malg said:
Neither silly nor ignorant. They may not get paid enough for what they do, but they're not on the bread line. I'd like to meet a nurse who uses a foodbank and find out why they're using it.
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Id also like you to meet a nurse using a food bank to see how you get on..
 
Read this on twitter so not sure if true but could be interesting

Emerging that May under investigation for alleged failure declaring a Brexit conflict of interest re-profits made by husband’s investments
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