Post Match Thread: Election 2017

[cibaman]

Have they dropped the plans to scrap the appeals process for disabled people who have been told they are fit to work ? they should drop that before they have more people dropping dead after being declared fit

Must admit I was surprised that Labour prioritised abolishing student fees in their entirety over reversing the more draconian welfare changes.

 

[kaz7]

Must admit I was surprised that Labour prioritised abolishing student fees in their entirety over reversing the more draconian welfare changes.

No-one in westminster speaks for us and it stinks,i can see why May spent the whole time talking about Brexit,so she can sneak through policies like that and no-one notices except the people affected
As for going to the game tonite, the cheeky cow

 

[BlueHammer85]

Great stuff from Jezza today

https://politicalscrapbook.net/2017...h-four-hilarious-jokes-at-the-tories-expense/

 

[Vic]

I think the Tories were attempting to use their huge poll lead (and predicted large majority) to push through a fair few ideologically driven, shite policies.

This pissed off enough people for them to fail to win a majority at all, let alone a large one.

Changing the manifesto to remove the ideological crap is both good for the electorate (as they get a more centrist option) and the party (as they stand a good chance of a majority) as SWP said.

I mean fox hunting FFS.

Centrist? We've had 7 years of ideologically driven, shite policies. Apart from grammar schools, there wasn't much "ideology" that wasn't there before. Fox hunting was just a sop to the countryside bods to deflect from realising the EU subsidies ain't got long to go. Give up free school nonsense, the privatisation of the NHS, tax cuts for the richest, abolish the bedroom tax (maybe that's what the DUP wants and May won't concede), and maybe the nastiness and toxicity would be reduced.

Anyway, it's not quite a prediction but I did say the Scottish Tories were against the English Tories. Press talk today of the Scottish Tories becoming a separate party. What chance, when May loses a vote, that the Scottish Tories agree to abstain when Corbyn puts together his coalition of cohesion?

 

[argyle]

 

[Juan King]

I thought I was hallucinating when I saw this on TV earlier!

 

[Len Rum]

Timing is everything Mavis ( bit like the election).
Never mind.

 

[Bigga]

I think the Tories were attempting to use their huge poll lead (and predicted large majority) to push through a fair few ideologically driven, shite policies.

This pissed off enough people for them to fail to win a majority at all, let alone a large one.

Changing the manifesto to remove the ideological crap is both good for the electorate (as they get a more centrist option) and the party (as they stand a good chance of a majority) as SWP said.

I mean fox hunting FFS.

I get all that crap.

What I'm saying is surely some tw@ 'proof reads' before okay-ing some blurb.

Maybe the 'May Flower' read it out aloud to Dear Philip, who muttered "Yes dear!" to her asking if it sounded alright, all whilst he stood behind her, cowering and staring at her back?!!

Who the fook knows why that sh*t made it in to the manifesto!

It's like handing in homework, getting an F, and then deciding to alter it after, realising 'Actually it wasn't very good!'!

I mean WTF?

 

[Bigga]

No, it doesn't look good. They need to take a long, hard look at what lessons can be learned. One of them, IMO, is that extra funding is undoubtedly needed for NHS and social care, and that it will have to come out of taxation of those (individuals and companies) with deep pockets. It can't be wrung out of cutbacks year after year after year.

And I speak as a natural Tory voter, albeit one who abstained on this occasion.

I said as much myself and got an echo chamber in return as the other 'natural Tory voters' went quiet on the issue. It seems that common sense shows this to be the correct pathway .

 

[Ricster]

You've still not explained what her long-term motivations might be for that. Genuinely interested.

Think iys quite clear what their motives are after the cut to mental health and the NHS. Or maybe even the links with Branson and private health insurance.
Jobs for the boy's lets call it