The General Election Thread

[northstander]

i will say this the turnout overall looks to be a disappointing 65%, it doesn't bother me who you vote for or why, but vote you should, too much has been given by so many for people not to vote especially when you can do it by post and not have to go out of the door.
but, i don't believe it should be made compulsory as that in itself goes against democracy.

 

[whp.blue]

Many of the Tory voters in this thread have come across as callous and have a distinct lack of compassion, I am not sure they mean to but it is how they come across, I know lots of Tories who are nothing like that and are decent caring people

Compassion doesn't pay the bills or run the Economy and to be fair that is just your Liberal standpoint anyway

Everyone paying their tax does though.

Yes but before you pay tax you need to work unless we are going to start taxing benefits

mind you 11.5bn...... might just be part of the answer

 

[SWP's back]

Beaker using the #edstone for a political headstone , rumours he'll go by dinner time.

I think he pretty much has to. He has also lost some pretty key members of any future shadow government. Time for a complete rethink from Labour it seems!

He's managed to get that goggle-eyed fruitcake Balls thrown out, so I think Ed deserves another 50 years.

We need a Save Our Ed campaign.

 

[Len Rum]

Morning punters.
First of all congratulations to the Tories. Ruthless winners.
I think Labour got done over twice by the SNP, in Scotland (obviously) and in England where voters didn't want the SNP influencing the government in any way.
I still think Labour should have got at least around 270 seats and it's a desperately disappointing night for them.
Oh well back to supporting the real blues. I just hope they can be as ruthless at winning as the political blues.
PS I won't be taking any further notice of opinion polls in the future.

 

[SWP's back]

Many of the Tory voters in this thread have come across as callous and have a distinct lack of compassion, I am not sure they mean to but it is how they come across, I know lots of Tories who are nothing like that and are decent caring people

They're probably arsehole too, they're just less likely to say what they really think when they're not anonymous.

The irony of calling people arseholes anonymously online.

 

[worsleyweb]

Morning punters.
First of all congratulations to the Tories. Ruthless winners.
I think Labour got done over twice by the SNP, in Scotland (obviously) and in England where voters didn't want the SNP influencing the government in any way.
I still think Labour should have got at least around 270 seats and it's a desperately disappointing night for them.
Oh well back to supporting the real blues. I just hope they can be as ruthless at winning as the political blues.
PS I won't be taking any further notice of opinion polls in the future.

FAIR PLAY TO YOU FOR COMING ON.

 

[M18CTID]

Many of the Tory voters in this thread have come across as callous and have a distinct lack of compassion, I am not sure they mean to but it is how they come across, I know lots of Tories who are nothing like that and are decent caring people

For the record I voted Lib Dem.

Secondly, when did anyone ever put compassion ahead of self-interest when casting their vote? The vast majority of people vote for what they feel will be best for them and/or their family, and that applies to whatever side of the political divide you're on. That doesn't mean people lack compassion - it simply means they're looking out for themselves first and foremost.

 

[Newman Noggs]

Since most politicians are self-serving c*nts in my experience I''m not too concerned either way. If you're middle class you're going to get clobbered whoever gets in.

As a public sector employee we've been asked to predict what would happen to my Department following cuts of 20,30 and 40%. So major public sector cuts are a certainty. That shouldn't concern me because there are huge areas of bureaucracy and waste.

What does concern me is that where the cuts fall is being left to the bureaucrats to decide. Not being turkeys voting for Christmas, they naturally decide that cuts should be in the frontline, not amongst the huge swathes of managers and consultants.

 

[Lucky13]

Morning punters.
First of all congratulations to the Tories. Ruthless winners.
I think Labour got done over twice by the SNP, in Scotland (obviously) and in England where voters didn't want the SNP influencing the government in any way.
I still think Labour should have got at least around 270 seats and it's a desperately disappointing night for them.
Oh well back to supporting the real blues. I just hope they can be as ruthless at winning as the political blues.
PS I won't be taking any further notice of opinion polls in the future.

Very gracious of you Len , it has been fun , do you think Miliband can survive the week?

 

[Mark - TheBlue]

"A conservative government would be giving the security agencies and law enforcement agencies the powers that they need to ensure they're keeping up to date as people communicate with communications data. We were prevented from bringing in that legislation into the last government because of the coalitions with the Lib Dems and we are determined to bring that through because we believe that is necessary to maintain the capabilities of our law enforcement agencies so they can continue to do the excellent job day in day out of keeping us safe and secure"

At least Theresa May is going to keep us safe. Thank god.

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