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Off Topic Predict the outcome Poll

Discussion in 'Watford' started by yorkshirehornet, Jun 7, 2017.

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Who will win???

Poll closed Jun 8, 2017.
  1. Conservatives with 50 plus majority

    4 vote(s)
    21.1%
  2. Conservatives with 25 plus majority

    3 vote(s)
    15.8%
  3. Conservatives with 1- 24 majority

    6 vote(s)
    31.6%
  4. Hung Parliament - Conservatives the biggest party

    1 vote(s)
    5.3%
  5. Hung Parliament - Labour the biggest party

    2 vote(s)
    10.5%
  6. Labour with 1- 24 majority

    2 vote(s)
    10.5%
  7. Labour with 25 plus majority

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  8. Labour with 50 plus majority

    1 vote(s)
    5.3%
  1. superhorns

    superhorns Well-Known Member

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    You are merely using lazy stereotyping, you do not know me at all. I thought you did not favour personal attacks?
     
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  2. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    I am not feeling at all lazy... you choose to gloat.... that is my response... ...The evidence you present here is that you enjoy being better than others....

    You present yourself as a robotic eulogist of the right wing Tory dialectic.. .with not one independent view of your own....

    I truly worry about a world in which people who have the views you purport to embrace rule those less fortunate.....
     
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  3. superhorns

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    I disagree with many Tory policies but on a competence level there is no alternative. The Labour Party are the only other choice but are bitterly divided with unsound financial policies. Your constant stereotyping do you no favours whatsoever. You should be supporting Theresa May, she has moved the Tories well to the centre of British politics.
     
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  4. yorkshirehornet

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    Your centre is actually the right.....Major was more to the centre... or Blair
     
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  5. colognehornet

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    You have not answered a previous post of mine - will the payment of the Brexit bill, and all of the lost trade which results, be a result of sound financial policy ? The Tories have saddled future generations with a massive debt. As for stereotyping, or making personal attacks, Yorkie was simply pointing out the reality - namely that you have never expressed anything remotely like compassion for those less well off financially than yourself - that is simply an accurate observation not an insult.
     
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    You must be joking when you talk about May being at the centre of British politics. She has been captured by UKIP and the extreme right wing of the Tory party. If as I expect she wins this election, it will be interesting to see if she does have a mind of her own. She has been controlled throughout the election campaign to say nothing, and has avoided letting anyone know what she believes or what she will do next. How anyone who has listened to her robotic answers can vote for her is mind blowing.
     
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  7. superhorns

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    The financial effect of Brexit will not be known for some time. I believe the UK will eventually benefit from removing the shackles of the EU.

    Parrot phrasing about the less well off is so so easy. Taking political decisions, particularly by those in government, is extremely difficult. As an example, the well meaning substantial employee protections enjoyed by French workers actually acts as a deterrent to employment which harms the very people it was meant to help.
     
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  8. colognehornet

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    Today is the 104th anniversary of when the suffragette Emily Davison threw herself in front of the King's horse and died. I sincerely hope that the British electorate will realise what she died for, and have not stayed at home thinking that their vote would not have made any difference.
     
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    How do you judge a society SH ? By GDP, or jobs, or by other criteria ? The poorest section of British society (poorest 25%) earns around 70% of what the poorest 25% in France earn - Britain has a level of poverty which compares only to that in Eastern Europe.
     
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    Most knowledgeable political commentators have rightly assessed that she has followed up on her maiden speech to govern for everybody. Her ideas on social care, workers on the board, means tested pensioner benefits, industry intervention etc are all policies associated with middle of the road politics.

    As well as getting the wrong prediction on the UK two party domination your Lib Dem anti Brexit revival seems to have withered.
     
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    Maybe you would like to think about what you have just said. She has already U-turned on at least half of those.
     
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  12. superhorns

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    15 minutes to the exit polls, champagne glasses ready :emoticon-0140-rofl:

    Hope I'm not being a little over confident <bubbly>
     
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  13. yorkshirehornet

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    a lot of us agree!
     
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    That highlights exactly what I said. She may have been too far to the centre for her own good. Hopefully she will revert to more recognisable Tory policies.
     
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  15. yorkshirehornet

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    as per Major?
     
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    Why did you quote them is such a favourable way then? How odd.
     
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    Read it again, I just explained why the PM is further to the centre than say Cameron, not whether her ideas were good or bad.
     
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    Put your bottle away SH.
     
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  19. yorkshirehornet

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    ;)

    going to be a long night methinks
     
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  20. superhorns

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    bugger :emoticon-0101-sadsm
     
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