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 Post subject: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Thu May 11, 2017 8:53 
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Four weeks to go, so time for a thread.
Here's a recent campaign pic from here in the Shire:
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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Thu May 11, 2017 10:23 
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I have some very committed Corbyn supporting friends who are absolutely convinced that the BBC are biased against him every time there's any coverage that's even slightly negative.
It seems pretty even handed to me, and the BBC are normally accused of being left leaning. What do people here think about the way it's being reported?


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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I think people who think that the BBC having any kind of bias is a problem haven't looked at a newspaper in twenty years.

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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The BBC are accused of bias from both left and right, which probably means they're getting it right most of the time.

Not that being without bias is wholly useful.

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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Barry Gardiner came across as a right twat on R4's Today, this morning. Seemed really annoyed that he was asked questions.

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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Yeah he was a proper bellend. Fits right in with the current shower, of course.

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Fri May 12, 2017 18:39 
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I'll be voting Labour, because fuck the Tories.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Fri May 12, 2017 18:44 
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Pundabaya wrote:
I'll be voting Labour, because fuck the Tories.

You should vote for whomever can keep the Tories out in your constituency. So if it's a safe Labour seat or Tory/Lab marginal then vote Labour. But if it's a Lib Dem/Tory marginal then vote Lib Dem.

I am voting Labour in the general election for the first time! My constituency is a safe Labour seat, but Tories were 2nd in 2015 and UKIP were third, so I'm not taking any chances.

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Fri May 12, 2017 19:38 
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Bromsgrove is a very safe Conservative seat, so I'll be voting safe in the knowledge that my opinion is largely irrelevant.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Fri May 12, 2017 23:18 
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Bedford is a nailed on Tory seat so I'll be voting Lib Dem to try and get them their deposit back.

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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Grim... wrote:
Bedford is a nailed on Tory seat so I'll be voting Lib Dem to try and get them their deposit back.

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That might be the first time I've seen you express a political leaning. Interesting


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Sat May 13, 2017 11:16 
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Looks like the Greens didn't learn from the last time and have submitted Spoz the Poet as their candidate again.
http://www.redditchadvertiser.co.uk/new ... confirmed/

Other than that we have clones of Paul Weller and Nick Robinson to go against Sajid Javid.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2017 20:23 
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DavPaz wrote:
Grim... wrote:
Bedford is a nailed on Tory seat so I'll be voting Lib Dem to try and get them their deposit back.

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That might be the first time I've seen you express a political leaning. Interesting

Do you have me on ignore or something?

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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Yes. Wait... Maybe not


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2017 22:36 
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Grim... is one of those wanky liberals

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Mon May 15, 2017 12:20 
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My current MP. He seems to lack a certain way with the younger voters.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Tue May 16, 2017 13:36 
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That's like a reverse- :attitude:

23 days to go and I'm suffering from a very deep ennui about the election. Might get some beer in later and dream up some questions for local candidates to ignore.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2017 18:11 
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Leaflet watch! Not sure what they're getting at.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Thu May 18, 2017 9:09 
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Smooth moves by the Tory candidate:

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/n ... _for_seat/

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AN election event featuring just the Muslim women standing in Bradford West has been criticised by two excluded candidates.

The Muslim Women’s Council (MWC) will today hold an event described as ‘an audience with’ independent candidate Salma Yaqoob and Labour’s Naz Shah.

But Conservative candidate George Grant, a Christian, called the premise “unprogressive, undemocratic and deeply unhelpful”.

He said: “It is not simply that this event prevents five of the seven candidates standing for Bradford West from putting forward their prospectus, it is the notion that selected candidates should be considered of greater relevance to a specific group in the community based purely on their gender and their religion.


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http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/n ... walks_out/

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A POLITICAL platform for Muslim women which was dubbed a "hustings in all but name" was spectacularly shunned by Bradford West Labour candidate Naz Shah after she walked out before the debate had started in a show of defiant democracy.


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Ms Shah asked that because the constituency's Conservative candidate George Grant was in the audience, that he be given a chance to speak.

Her request was refused because she was told "it's not a hustings" and she walked out of the room to a mixture of applause and boos.

Event organisers, The Bradford Muslim Women's Council, said Ms Shah's actions had been "unexpected".

But in an equally spectacular turn of events, no sooner had she departed from the hall that Mr Grant was invited to take to the stage.

Muslim Women's Council chief executive Bana Gora said: "Now that Naz has left we have an extra 10 minutes. Should we ask George Grant to come up?"

He took Ms Shah's vacated seat to shouts and applause.

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Thu May 18, 2017 9:59 
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What an utterly ridiculous farce!


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Thu May 18, 2017 11:41 
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What an utterly ridiculous farce!


Usual.

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Thu May 18, 2017 15:47 
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http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/n ... feminists/
More provincial news on the scuffle to oust Tory Fillibusterer Davies:
Labour sending in re-enforcements. I think they are getting very concerned about being beaten i to third.

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Thu May 18, 2017 17:31 
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I should be talking about the Tory manifesto but as they state they want to leave the single market and the customs union I really don't care if they promise a new Jerusalem.

Three weeks to go. Mrs May was in the Shire this week, and I'm happy to offer you a photo of the greeting she received in Abingdon:

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2017 9:00 
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I didn't watch the C4 interviews last night. Are they worth watching?


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Wed May 31, 2017 9:20 
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I am already thoroughly, utterly, sick of the mudslinging that's going on in this election. I want it to be over already, come what may.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Wed May 31, 2017 9:25 
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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Wed May 31, 2017 9:29 
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I am already thoroughly, utterly, sick of the mudslinging that's going on in this election. I want it to be over already, come what may.


I always thought politics in the country became a lot duller after the demise of Lord Sutch.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Wed May 31, 2017 9:44 
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I am already thoroughly, utterly, sick of the mudslinging that's going on in this election. I want it to be over already, come what may.


I still don't feel any great connection with the parties' campaigns and messages, and am getting weary of being frustrated by the use of vacuous statements in place of actual policies. Saying you want 'the best deal' is up there with wanting better schools and hospitals when it comes to meaningless promises.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Wed May 31, 2017 10:08 
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http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/n ... ference_/#

This is nice.

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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Better quality of debate than in Oxford:

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The heckles included “hands off our free school meals”, “get back to the Bullingdon club” and “do you want to burn £50 in front of a homeless person?”.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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Osborne's having the time of his life.

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Wed May 31, 2017 13:19 
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BBC: Corbyn to take part in debate

Good decision Mr Corbyn.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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A party everyone can get behind

https://www.loonyparty.com/2017-general ... anicfesto/

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
PostPosted: Wed May 31, 2017 18:40 
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Christ has anyone else seen that car crash of May explaining why she won't be at the TV debate this evening? One of my friends added the comment:

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Try watching the video without the sound and look at her gestures and facial expressions. She looks like a psychopath trying not to kill your children.


I realise I'm hoping against hope here, and realistically I know the Tories will most likely still win, but a tiny little part of me is starting to believe that they could lose, or at least not get a working majority.

May has turned out to be as 'strong and stable' under a bit of pressure as a fucking meringue, whereas Corbyn, who's faced two years of monstrous hostility from pretty much every quarter head-on seems to have found his stride, and now that he's getting equal TV coverage as per the rules - is very much looking like the better leader IMO, and a far better human being to boot.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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Theresa May channelling her inner David Brent when she mentioned ITV

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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May is running probably the worst, most vacuous campaign in political history.

She'll win by a landslide.

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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Aye, the Tories will win for some bonkers reason, but I'm hoping for at least an increase in Labour seats and some kind of stability in their party behind Corbyn. Although equally they could take the loss as a reason to begin another implosion and round of pointless infighting.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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I'm hoping for Tim Farron as PM.

It could totally happen.

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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I think if the campaign had another month to run Labour could turn it around, as it is the snap election will most likely work in May's favour, but not in the way she intended. (i.e. She'll win because there hasn't been long enough for how shit she is to really become apparent, how awful their manifesto is and on the flip side how Corbyn has become a confident and assured leader, with a compassionate left wing manifesto that they have at least made a serious attempt to cost.)

As Bamba notes above though, if Labour do 'well enough' I think another term in opposition will be enough time for Labour to be ready to take power again, off the back of another national buttfucking from the Tories and a Brexit disaster. (And a proper Labour party this time, not the perversion that Tony Blair turned it into. I still rue the death of John Smith.)


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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What I'm finding interesting is how much Mrs May doesn't seem to be enjoying it. Basing a campaign on yourself and your leadership qualities then avoiding all contact except under very controlled circumstances, and even then coming across pretty rigid, seems to have been a very poor decision.

It also says a lot about the paucity of what the Conservatives are offering, almost as if they are well aware Brexit will bite them in the arses very hard very soon.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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Very surprised the May didn't attend the TV debate, not helped her much perception wise a week away from voting day.

Not sure she will get the landslide that was predicted a few weeks ago, she may even end up worse off!


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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What I'm finding interesting is how much Mrs May doesn't seem to be enjoying it. Basing a campaign on yourself and your leadership qualities then avoiding all contact except under very controlled circumstances, and even then coming across pretty rigid, seems to have been a very poor decision.

It also says a lot about the paucity of what the Conservatives are offering, almost as if they are well aware Brexit will bite them in the arses very hard very soon.

I get the impression that she genuinely did decide over Easter to call the election on the premise of President May, and only called Lynton Crosby afterwards, who then immediately told her to keep the fuck away from people.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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I know the polls are always wrong and that, but I think there is definitely a move towards Labour, or at least away from May's robotic weirdness and lack of backbone and personality. The possibility of a hung parliament seems distinctly, well, possible.

This New Statesman article was quite interesting: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/me ... wing-press

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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It's staggering really that Labour are polling as well as they are given the hostility of the press. I'd love to see what the political landscape would look like without fucking cunts like Murdoch et al.


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It's staggering really that Labour are polling as well as they are given the hostility of the press. I'd love to see what the political landscape would look like without fucking cunts like Murdoch et al.


And if the rest of the Labour party had properly got behind him as well, most notably a large number of his own fucking MPs.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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I'm going to vote for WEP. Reasons:

1) I feel that a vote for Labour would endorse Momentum and Corbyn and I'm not keen on that
2) The shadow cabinet lacks credibility in my eyes
3) Local Labour have whined and whinged about WEP appearing, went on about equality and selected a man to stand
4) local Labour look funny
5) and are very pro Corbyn
6) I feel betrayed by Labour over the whole Brexit episode
7) Labour coming third might affect change
8) WEP doing well will annoy Labour and MrsA.
9) She appears to be bright, articulate and capable

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I don't want the Tories to win so I am voting Labour. Simple as that.

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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Labour don't need to 'win' to mess up the Tories, just enough to wipe out the majority.

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