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The 2017 General Election

Matt.GC

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The Prime Minister has announced a snap general election to be held on June 8th (even though she promised countless times that she wouldn't).

With the 2014 Scottish indyref, 2015 GE and 2016 Brexit vote all seeming like distant memories, this is set to be a very strange election in strange and turbulent times for UK, European and international politics.

So, should we be having another election? Are you all voted out? Who will you vote for? Why? What are your priorities when considering who to vote for? Any predictions? What impact will the election and it's result have on the country? Thoughts and any discussion about the campaign so far?
 
If that was possible, I'd have blocked the football topic five years ago mate. :(
 
There are, as there always has been, only two options, and that's clearer than ever.

Socialism or barbarism.

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A pretty disgraceful election in my view. Shes making stupid excuses about strengthening her hand in the Brexit negotiations etc.

Yet the real reason is that she's being opportunistic and putting her party first. It's a cynical power grab at a time when she knows the opposition is in a pathetic place and she knows that Brexit will be such a disaster that she can't possibly win a majority 1 year after we're out.
 
Yes it's opportunist but every good politician is opportunistic. I don't like it but it sure as hell is going to make her brexit negotiation far easier with almost no opposition (if you can call the Labour party opposition just now).

One could argue this is only fair since literally no one voted Theresa May into power and so the british people deserve a vote. Obviously this isn't why it has happened but still.

I don't know what I would vote (I'm too young to vote in UK elections but not Scottish ones) as the conservatives have been useless since they took power (and I'm not a right wing kind of guy) I agree with much of Jeremy Cornyns policies but he is in no way shape or form the man to lead the party. The lib dems are dead and the snp are a disgrace to Scotland but seem to get away with there poor track record on health and education in the Scottish parliament because FREEDOM etc :rolleyes: which would only leave the greens and the less said the better.

So the only way I see this going is a monumental conservative victory followed by 5 years of tyranny
 
May is a lying profiteering person, a true politician after all.

Hopefully her majority will be eradicated, reduced or stay similar despite her best wishes. There is a chance it could happen and I hope it does. Remember to vote tactically if you don't like her or the Tories. Do your research don't waste your vote.
 
May is a lying profiteering person, a true politician after all.

Hopefully her majority will be eradicated, reduced or stay similar despite her best wishes. There is a chance it could happen and I hope it does. Remember to vote tactically if you don't like her or the Tories. Do your research don't waste your vote.
I would absolutely urge the same. The right are disunited in 1 party (UKIP are all but finished), the left are disunited in several. The sooner left of centre parties abandon their fantasies ( namely socialist uprisings, referendum reruns and nationalism at all costs) and start working together more to defeat the common enemy, the better. In fact it's essential.

This won't happen however. She'll get her increased majority very easily, possibly even a landslide.
 
Or ... you could all just storm the winter palace and install me as your overlord. Much simpler.
 
Theres no real centre ground any more it seems. The lib Dems are lead by that Farron bloke who's grating as hell, and doesn't believe in democracy, labour are being dragged kicking and screaming into marxism by Corbyn, the tories are, well, the tories.

Theres no real choice here.
 
Theres no real centre ground any more it seems. The lib Dems are lead by that Farron bloke who's grating as hell, and doesn't believe in democracy, labour are being dragged kicking and screaming into marxism by Corbyn, the tories are, well, the tories.

Theres no real choice here.
Whilst I don't completely agree with you assessment of the parties and their leaders, your point stands. There is no real choice here, and May knows that in that case a default Tory majority will be returned under our broken electoral system. Is a shameful U turn and shows that she's just as shallow and pathetic as that big foreheaded posh boy clown that she succeeded.
 
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Whilst I don't completely agree with you assessment of the parties and their leaders, your point stands. There is no real choice here, and May knows that in that case a default Tory majority will be returned under our broken electoral system. Is a shameful U turn and shows that she's just as shallow and pathetic as that big foreheaded posh boy clown that she succeeded.

My post was tongue in cheek. ;) Each party has its pros and cons, definitely not a black & white decision. I'm just summarising the general public attitude toward them.

I'd vote for corbyn no problem if he talked more about the good things we have as well as the negatives. He's a nice bloke, but he's a pushover. Do we really want American style SJWism to kick off over here? Everything with trigger warnings & talk of micro aggressions and patriarchy. Which supposedly is in the name of helping "victims"

I've had mental health issues (anxiety etc.) for a period, I'm not ashamed of it. And I don't want to be treated like a victim who needs to be wrapped in bubble wrap, protected from opinions I disagree with. There is progress still to be made on social issued no doubt, but there a better ways of going about it.

I don't want to risk voting for a party that will enable this type of behaviour nor support it. But neither do I want to vote for rich toffs who have no Idea how the rest live.

I might just vote monster raving looney & see what happens... :tearsofjoy:
 
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