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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Xiphos said:
Tory, lol
See you 10th June it will take me a couple of days to get over the hilarity of another damn good thrashing for the socialists and other bedfellows, toodle pip
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You said all this five minutes ago, you have no idea what you are doing, an excellent tory.
 
Smart move from May, she cannot lose unfortunately. Great news for Scotland, the snp popularity has probabky peaked and they will lose some seats which sends a message to the fukin idiot called sturgeon. I hope some independent unionist candidates stand up here because they will do well. If May is feeling brave she can put a line in her manifesto stating no new referendum. I might vote tory to keep the snp out.
 
blueparrot said:
Not sure it is, Lib Dem vote cant get any lower than last time, Labour vote can but would expect most of that vote, as it was down to traditional labour voters anyway, to go Lib Dem even UKIP before the Tories. Still would expect a Tory majority anyway.
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Lib Dem vote will rocket compared to what they got in 2015 I reckon. They have done the best at firmly planting themselves to shop for votes in the 48% remain pool.

I reckon UKIP will lose a lot of the 3.8 million votes they received in 2015 to the Conservatives. The Tories are fulfilling a lot of their desires, especially with Brexit and with how May is steering the party back to a more centre-right position.
 
The question is who will the 3.8 million idiots who voted for UKIP last time vote for now. And if the moderate labour supporting clowns really want Corbyn out will they not vote in areas where they have a slim majority to allow the Tories in with a bigger majority. If only we had voted to stay in Europe then we wouldn’t be in this mess.
 
As good as her word.

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Eds said:
The question is who will the 3.8 million idiots who voted for UKIP last time vote for now. And if the moderate labour supporting clowns really want Corbyn out will they not vote in areas where they have a slim majority to allow the Tories in with a bigger majority. If only we had voted to stay in Europe then we wouldn’t be in this mess.
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Why are ukip voters idiots?
 
urban genie said:
Only just got in and seen this.

As a lefty, I say bring it on, there has been no indication that corbyn could turn around the party by 2020 and that we won't be heavily defeated then except faith, so nothing to lose in having it now,
and one advantage for labour is with 8 weeks of campaigning the larger and more mobilised grassroots ability to doorstep and get out there may save seats that 3 more years of PLP bitching about the party would have been guaranteed loses.

Also if labour have any sense they will opt for pact with the lib dems to give them a clear run against the tories in remain backed seats in the south and vice versato try and get a hung parliament to form a coallition of them and the snp, keeping the tories out and with bad feeling in some areas over brexit this could be a negative for may and help in this.

More likely a landslide and perpetual tory government, labour having a whig moment and the country on it's arse, so same as now
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If Labour are that confident why are some Labour MPs going to defy their own leader and whips and vote against an election in the parliamentry vote tomorrow?
 
Magicpole said:
The 1982 Labour Manifesto was called the longest suicude note in history.

Maggie on the back of the Falklands showed that jingoism works and had a landslide.

We voted labour up here. We detested her and still do.
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You actually returned 21 Conservative MPs to Westminster, I 'll think you'll find the Manchester area voted Labour.
 
I posted this in the Brexit thread...

I suppose the only thing that might be positive about this shabby opportunism, is that May (hopefully) will be forced to outline where the fuck she's going with Brexit. As she has just stated in front of No 10 she wants a ringing endorsement to do whatever it is she's about to do, then an election might just tease out what the fuck that is.

The woman can certainly lie to camera, citing as the prime mover behind this snap election a divided Parliament against a unified country, what a duplicitous shit! When what she really meant was that she has a divided government and an election victory will strengthen her hand against the likes of Fox, Davis, Redwood, Cash, Duncan Smith et all.

Though that might be a misreading of her intentions, perhaps she'll use this election to resurrect a Red, White and Blue Brexit, no deal better than a bad deal. The concessions she has had to make so far were all in response to the hard reality of her weak bargaining position, she knows and anyone following the Brexit process knows, that no "good deal" is going to emerge from Brussels, so maybe she wants an endorsement to hard Brexit and blame the shit storm on the perfidious Europeans.
 
Xiphos said:
If Labour are that confident why are some Labour MPs going to defy their own leader and whips and vote against an election in the parliamentry vote tomorrow?
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What are you on about, where did I say labour were confindent, said they had fuck all to lose as in 3 years they would be even more weakened if they carry on infoghting.

tories will probably win a landslide, unfortunately.
 
bboy said:
I'm pissed off with this, BTW. It doesn't offer us any real choice over the type of Brexit deal, and she knows that. Whilst I might think the Tories are the most effective leaders for this country ATM, I am going to punish her for this. Lib Dems are second to Tories in my constituency, and whilst Corbyn is still messing about with 6th form politics, we need the party back in some form, so that's that.
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How long should she have left it ?

What if Labour were still in a mess 6 months, a year later ?

As mentioned earlier, she was getting plenty of criticism for having no clear mandate to rule as priminister - now she is allowing a democratic vote to happen, I say that's fair
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
It does (at least from May's point of view) appear to be logical. They have to get all the Brexit-related legislation through Parliament in the next 2 years. That's all the EU rules that have to be enacted under UK law. She only has an overall majority of 17 which means she's vulnerable to elements of her own party that could impede that process. She's banking on a significantly increased majority to get round that. But that assumes (a) she'll get it and (b) if she gets that majority it will help her.
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What's weird is that all of those things you mention have been that way for months, yet she was declaring how against the concept of a snap election she was only 2 weeks ago.

Seems clear it's not been a long term plan which raises questions.
 
Haha! If nothing else it gives the same half dozen posters a chance to repeat themselves constantly on a different thread.
 
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