General Election June 8th

[worsleyweb]

You think 34 people dying in the uk is worse than 10,000 people dying overseas in the same duration of time.

Don't answer you I am afraid after your almost support / sympathy for Isis last week.

And I despise Corbyn for many other reasons than his terrorists apologists stance.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Just watching newsnight and Eric Pickles was asked what Mrs Mays biggest weakness was. "She's not at all good at negotiating. If you suggest something she likes she'll back you, but she's really poor at trade-offs and trying to reach a consensus". That's quite encouraging then!!

 

[1.618034]

I'm voting Labour because..

I believe that, especially now we're leaving the EU, we need to take back control of our utilities and railways. If the rest of Europe can and do run their, and our, railways and utilities, then there is NO reason we can't. To say anything else is IMO anti-British. Fuck the 70s, this is the 21st century and we can do it for the benefit of us all. And do you know what, it will make us money!

I want an end to tax cuts to big corporations and the most wealthy. I'd be more than prepared to pay more tax for better services. It will make money. If the rich run away, we chase them.

I want us to fund social care for an ageing population, rather than have a lottery depending on what disease you happen to get and how much you're worth.

I want an end to Austerity because it hurts the weakest the most, and IMO it isn't working. More of the same? No thanks. A prime example being the spending of £1.6Bn (to a private American company) to "save" £1.3Bn to investigate disability claimants, amongst whom suicide rates have risen. Yeah that went well.

I want fracking banned.

I want homelessness eradicated. It is a stain on our nation. These people need help. Get them off the streets, get them the care they need, get them the education they need. Once off the streets the will mostly get back to work and make us money.

I want us to build enough affordable homes which has been woefully lacking for years.

I want us to get a good deal with the EU on Brexit. IMO no deal will be disastrous. A deal that ensures that we can still trade and make money.

I don't want us more aligned/in bed with the United States, especially under the current nut-case. May's silence about him and his actions is shameful.

I don't want Primary Schools to have to open, fully staffed, an hour earlier on a budget of 7p per pupil, but I do want free, communal lunches for these children protected and expanded. It's a fantastic policy because hungry children are a nightmare for teachers and they cause themselves and others to not achieve...

I want the education of our people to be free and well funded from cradle to grave. Maybe, just maybe by educating our people better, we could fill skill gaps and wouldn't need quite so much immigration.

I don't want Grammar schools inserted into areas so that the rest of the un-selected get a 2nd rate education. If we educate our people well, they will repay it in spades. i.e. it will make us money.

I think making Private Schools pay VAT is a great idea. Charity? My arse. Oh, and it will make us money.

BTW I can already hear the "I want, I want, I want..." replies but you know what, that's what voting in a General Election is about. No?

Oh and because Theresa May is a spineless **** and Jeremy Corbyn has gone up hugely in my estimation, and I'm gald that the Labour party are finally presenting an actual alternative. That alone is great for our country.

This is a huge election and it will set out our future post-Brexit, so IMO we need to reverse the decline in our services and infrastructure before we become a low-tax, low-wage shadow of the nation that we are, or rather we should be.

It's been emotional but invigorating, so I'll finish with a bit of Fela Kuti, just for Chippy (I'm sorry mate, I know you mean well...), Worsley (I'm really not sure that you do...) et al...

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

If I was Tory I would vote Labour on the basis of this - I get all media do the same but The Sun can just f*ck off !

It's strange that, after 7 years of conservative government, all they've got is 'don't vote for Corbyn'. And to think how they castigated 'call me Dave' and Gideon over 'project fear'......

 

[Damocles]

What's wrong with fracking?

 

[CitizenTID]

Lucky for you there's pictures on the ballot.

With the matters on the national stage being so significant to the country and more so to me than local matters I see little need to know what they're saying.

 

[CitizenTID]

What's wrong with fracking?

The Earth will fall from beneath us.

 

[Ricster]

Don't answer you I am afraid after your almost support / sympathy for Isis last week.

And I despise Corbyn for many other reasons than his terrorists apologists stance.

Support or sympathy? Not even close but my understanding that our foreign policy helped create ISIS and fund ISIS is clearly what upsets you. Unfortunate that so many people in the UK have the perception of what they read in the media is true.
I work for a charity currently in these regions and the dog shit people are fed over the airwaves is absolute bollocks.
The only thing i will apologise for is being more humanitarian than you could ever dream of.
Please also stick to your new rule of never replying. Youre ideaoligies arent what i want to hear!

 

[BlueAnorak]

I've been sitting thinking about Corbyn and the journey he has been in these last couple of years. I look at the right wing press from day one, setting out to create an image of the man that was one of weakness, mad lefty, terrorist loving, scruffy.

That he couldn't be trusted with the economy, that he was bad for business. The fact that he didn't want to incinerate millions of innocent people by firing nuclear weapons, was seen as a failing.

A failing to admit that destroying the lives of millions was not something to take lightly.

He knows that the people who sent them to us, would be safe from our retaliation and it would be the people who died. Instead he wanted to talk, to search for ways to avoid war, to save the lives of our forces from wars for financial gain and oil.

It is with a historical perspective that we see what he said was right. The wars in the Middle East have been an unmitigated disaster and have unleashed Islamic terrorism and given those who wish to promote it, the ammunition they need to point to western interference and exploitation.

Again in relation to Ireland, he realised that the only way that centuries old conflict would be ended was when both sides sat down and talked. If those events hadn't happened, then we might still be watching our nightly news to keep up with the killings. Who wants that? After every war that has ever been people sit down and do stuff they said they would never do and many people die because of that intransigence.

Fast forward again and we see this 'weak' man face down this hostility. Face down and defeat Red Tories in his own party, emboldened by the media to bring him down. He stood firm.

Compare that to May who folded when she faced a u turn in robbing pensioners.

The media have done their worst and headlines today from the two scum bucket publications, show they are not yet finished with disgraceful
headlines.

The perception of Corbyn has been shaped in the public mind as all the negatives they have poured onto him. Now that he is out there speaking to the people, that perception is changing.

The thing to remember is he was always like that. It was people believing the character assassination
of the right wing press that was wrong.

He has emerged from all this with his dignity in check. The gap has closed a great deal and that is down to him. It may not be enough, but for me Corbyn has shown himself to be as strong as a lion to endure all those strings and arrows of outrageous fortune and has beaten them.

Whatever happens he is going nowhere and those traitors in the Labour Party who have tried to bring him down now know, they are the ones out of step and can take their Tory hearts and go fuck themselves.

You gave it a right go Jeremy, you have great resilience and yes strength. I hope you get the reward tomorrow and all those opposed to this Tory shower of cunts have enough seats to send the Tories out of office and Mayday Mayday down to the Job Centre.

Well done, you've got balls of steel.

Good post. He may have balls of steel, but if I could NEVER vote for him then he probably really is unelectable. It's down to trust about his ability to defend our country.
Consider for a second Dan Jarvis as Labour Leader - former Major in the Parachute Regiment - no trust issue at all.

 

[Damocles]

The Earth will fall from beneath us.

Not if done properly. This is like saying we shouldn't use nuclear because it might meltdown