The Theresa May General Election thread (edited)

ICBM

Clarky said:

so… not long to go now and I still have no idea who to vote for…
I'm a life long Tory that don't like them any more
my heart says Lib Dem cos I'm a remainer and they agree with my personal view
but Lib Dem has no chance
I can't vote Labour whilst idiot Abbott is around.. she's too scary and incompetent to be anywhere near anything that matters..

this whole thing is completely shite and I have no idea what to do

If you can't make a difference, make a stand. Vote for what you believe in even if the candidate has no hope of winning.

Budgie

capo4th 

So you stupidly support terrorists remaining in this country and not deporting them? 

Why would you not not support this action? We need to take a stand against these religious nuts.

Personally I would rather put them in a boat and send it back where it came from.

If the boat were to return to where it came from, wouldn't it just return back to the UK? Are you seriously advocating treating suspected terrorists to a nice little cruise? Is this the official Tory Boy line? Having said that, you Tories do like a u-turn. 

Despite your recent protestations, you are a bit of a thick cunt aren't you.

fields5069

Budgie said:

capo4th 

So you stupidly support terrorists remaining in this country and not deporting them? 

Why would you not not support this action? We need to take a stand against these religious nuts.

Personally I would rather put them in a boat and send it back where it came from.

If the boat were to return to where it came from, wouldn't it just return back to the UK? Are you seriously advocating treating suspected terrorists to a nice little cruise? Is this the official Tory Boy line? Having said that, you Tories do like a u-turn. 

Despite your recent protestations, you are a bit of a thick cunt aren't you.

It's pub politics, I get it at work all the time. I really can't believe it's this easy to control people, and it's this denial of the truth which will get May voted back in tomorrow.

mikeyrob73

capo4th said:

Heartfeltdawn said:

And let's continue the mental bullshit:

https://twitter.com/DMReporter/status/872216795461156865

The Times of India reports that the first 10 pages of Wednesday's Mail attack Corbyn.

10. It would have been more but Dacre couldn't ejaculate any more foaming rage. 

What is Jeremy achieving with that funny cap ? 

keeeping his head warm 

Snap

Clarky said:

so… not long to go now and I still have no idea who to vote for…
I'm a life long Tory that don't like them any more
my heart says Lib Dem cos I'm a remainer and they agree with my personal view
but Lib Dem has no chance
I can't vote Labour whilst idiot Abbott is around.. she's too scary and incompetent to be anywhere near anything that matters..

this whole thing is completely shite and I have no idea what to do

similar situation here Clarky. I am voting tactically to keep labour out of the seat. Many reasons, but one of them being the labour candidate here looks like he's just left the sixth form.

ChuckManual

Clarky said:

so… not long to go now and I still have no idea who to vote for…
I'm a life long Tory that don't like them any more
my heart says Lib Dem cos I'm a remainer and they agree with my personal view
but Lib Dem has no chance
I can't vote Labour whilst idiot Abbott is around.. she's too scary and incompetent to be anywhere near anything that matters..

this whole thing is completely shite and I have no idea what to do

Of all the things that could put you off voting Labour, Diane Abbott should be the very least of them.  She's not going to be Home Secretary after the election, or Shadow Home Secretary, or Shadow anything.  She's made such a balls-up of this campaign, what little credibility she had to begin with has utterly evaporated.  Her career in frontline politics is over ...and to such an extent that Andrew Neil won't even have her back on This Week.

fields5069

Snap said:

Clarky said:

so… not long to go now and I still have no idea who to vote for…
I'm a life long Tory that don't like them any more
my heart says Lib Dem cos I'm a remainer and they agree with my personal view
but Lib Dem has no chance
I can't vote Labour whilst idiot Abbott is around.. she's too scary and incompetent to be anywhere near anything that matters..

this whole thing is completely shite and I have no idea what to do

similar situation here Clarky. I am voting tactically to keep labour out of the seat. Many reasons, but one of them being the labour candidate here looks like he's just left the sixth form.

Youth is a blocker for a candidate? Interesting.

Drew_TNBD

Our bassist is an idiot.

He shared this video of a Northerner saying that he'd vote for Labour but they've got no chance of winning, so he was going to vote for Conservatives instead. Then he called him an idiot and a typically ill educated ignorant Brit who is a moron, etc.. etc..

Then our bassist admitted to me a few weeks later that he wouldn't vote for the Greens because they've got no chance of winning.

The sheer audacity and lack of self awareness.

octatonic

Drew_TNBD said:

Our bassist is an idiot.

He shared this video of a Northerner saying that he'd vote for Labour but they've got no chance of winning, so he was going to vote for Conservatives instead. Then he called him an idiot and a typically ill educated ignorant Brit who is a moron, etc.. etc..

Then our bassist admitted to me a few weeks later that he wouldn't vote for the Greens because they've got no chance of winning.

The sheer audacity and lack of self awareness.

But they don't have any chance of winning, Drew.

Sporky

ICBM said:

If you can't make a difference, make a stand. Vote for what you believe in even if the candidate has no hope of winning.

And if everyone voted for what they wanted, instead of following all this "x can't win" crap, we might have something better approaching a democracy.

'Course, I'm not sure that'd be any better...

Fretwired

Drew_TNBD said:

Our bassist is an idiot.

He shared this video of a Northerner saying that he'd vote for Labour but they've got no chance of winning, so he was going to vote for Conservatives instead. Then he called him an idiot and a typically ill educated ignorant Brit who is a moron, etc.. etc..

Then our bassist admitted to me a few weeks later that he wouldn't vote for the Greens because they've got no chance of winning.

The sheer audacity and lack of self awareness.

Why are you surprised? He's a bass player .... ;-)

cj73

Well well 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/07/diane-abbott-to-step-aside-for-the-period-of-her-ill-health-corbyn-says?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Budgie

octatonic said:

This is pretty excellent.

Agreed. An excellent speech.

Heartfeltdawn

ChuckManual said:

Of all the things that could put you off voting Labour, Diane Abbott should be the very least of them.  She's not going to be Home Secretary after the election, or Shadow Home Secretary, or Shadow anything.  She's made such a balls-up of this campaign, what little credibility she had to begin with has utterly evaporated.  Her career in frontline politics is over ...and to such an extent that Andrew Neil won't even have her back on This Week.

She will however be eating insects in the Australian jungle with Ant & Dec giggling over the top. 

Fretwired

Diane Abbott pranked ...

Ms Abbott was caught out by an email prankster who sent her a message purporting to be from Seumas Milne, Mr Corbyn’s director of communications. She apparently said in a response: “Do you still want to add colour to the illness story? If so maybe we should speak.” In reply to a second email from “@Sinon_Reborn”, she said: “I am not sure what colour I can add . . . I am worried about telling untruths about my health which are easily disproved”.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4578646/Diane-Abbott-fooled-Seumas-Milne-email-prankster.html?ITO=1490

fields5069

Sporky said:

ICBM said:

If you can't make a difference, make a stand. Vote for what you believe in even if the candidate has no hope of winning.

And if everyone voted for what they wanted, instead of following all this "x can't win" crap, we might have something better approaching a democracy.

'Course, I'm not sure that'd be any better...

Like it or not, in most constituencies outside Scotland we became a 2-party system in 2015. The Lib Dems and Greens got 1500 votes each last time round in my constituency, it's very unlikely they'd overturn that to get at least 10,000 votes this time round (turnout was 40k last time), so to a certain extent I'm sure there are people out there voting for the lesser of 2 evils as they see it. I'm voting for the party I think will be more effective in government overall, but particularly in the area of social welfare.

fields5069

Fretwired said:

Diane Abbott pranked ...

Ms Abbott was caught out by an email prankster who sent her a message purporting to be from Seumas Milne, Mr Corbyn’s director of communications. She apparently said in a response: “Do you still want to add colour to the illness story? If so maybe we should speak.” In reply to a second email from “@Sinon_Reborn”, she said: “I am not sure what colour I can add . . . I am worried about telling untruths about my health which are easily disproved”.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4578646/Diane-Abbott-fooled-Seumas-Milne-email-prankster.html?ITO=1490

It's in a real newspaper so there's no way that's fake.

Ro_S

Good to see that Labour have finally put Diane Abbott in a metaphorical cupboard for the little left of the election campaign - rather too late, though. 

Her sick note says that she is a gobshite suffering from persistent brain farts.

ICBM

Sporky said:

And if everyone voted for what they wanted, instead of following all this "x can't win" crap, we might have something better approaching a democracy.

Not under this electoral system we wouldn't.

We would have rule by the largest minority, overriding the majority - which is not a real democracy.

And which is why the Tories have been in power - often with large 'majority' governments - for most of the last 70 years even though they have never had a majority of the vote.

Of course the same is true for Labour as well, in the fewer years when they've been in power.

Fretwired

fields5069 said:

Fretwired said:

Diane Abbott pranked ...

Ms Abbott was caught out by an email prankster who sent her a message purporting to be from Seumas Milne, Mr Corbyn’s director of communications. She apparently said in a response: “Do you still want to add colour to the illness story? If so maybe we should speak.” In reply to a second email from “@Sinon_Reborn”, she said: “I am not sure what colour I can add . . . I am worried about telling untruths about my health which are easily disproved”.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4578646/Diane-Abbott-fooled-Seumas-Milne-email-prankster.html?ITO=1490

It's in a real newspaper so there's no way that's fake.

It's in most of the papers - it's not fake. No denial from her camp. One of the reason's she's been replaced IMHO.