Off Topic General Election Special

Hilarious result, and a complete humiliation for May who's somehow contrived to lose a 20 point lead in the polls. Great to see the youth vote so massively up. Happy days.

 

It doesn't I know first hand.

 

I've just finished a PhD, there's no need to get into debt doing one, you get a wage and don't pay tuition fees (well you do but your sponsor/funding pays for it). I do however have a significant debt from the MSc and BSc I did before it. If she self-funded a PhD then fair play, but that's a crazy thing to do unless you're loaded and doing it for fun.

 

How many seats did labour win by I haven't checked?

 

The Tories losing their majority is the biggest victory they could have hoped for given where they started this campaign. May sought the mandate from the people she thought she'd waltz and the electorate have given her a bloody nose. Brilliant stuff

 

I thought it was 1997 all over again going by everyone's reactions.

 

I wasn't sure whether it would count against potential first home buyers.

 

No I am a first time home buyer. I said 'do you need to see my student loan record' and he dismissed it without a thought. It wasn't even on the forms to mention it. I suppose another lender may be different.

 

Won? She called a snap election in order to take advantage of the biggest post war Tory lead in the polls, the initial polls had them winning an overall majority of 100+ seats and yet they've ended up losing their majority, its a **** up of spectacular proportions.

 

A mortgage is now based on affordability.

So on the basis that your student loan is entirely affordable, it shouldn't, and in fact, doesn't, matter.

 

So labour won did they?

 

The mortgage advisor spent more time sweating over the fact that my mobile phone bill had a spike of £4 one month. "What's this? What have you spent it on? What else has risen?"

I had to provide documentation about all my spending patterns for food, drink, utilities etc.

 

You seem to be struggling with the concept of how winning works.

You also seem to be putting way too much faith in polls.

Is it a good victory? No, of course not, but they've still won.

UKIP have been ****ed off, that's good.

SNP have had a good kicking, that's also good.

Other than that, its really not great for any of us, from either side of the political spectrum.

 

At least it put a smile on my face this morning seeing how many seats the SNP had lost, and Mr Pig (Alex Salmon) losing his seat

 

Doesn't that tell us that people vote Tory just because they vote Tory?

It's this status quo that needs to changed (and hopefully is changing). We need to be electing people based on their actions, not just voting for the party we were taught to vote for as a child and trying to justify it through a character assassination of the alternatives.

 

It becomes a different proposition when you get slight salary increments, starting a family and working your way up the property ladder.

 

It stops their austerity plans dead in their tracks, it makes a hard Brexit extremely difficult for them to push on with, I'd say it's a brilliant result for anyone but the Tories

 

Labour won more seats.

Conservatives lost seats.

Conservatives are the biggest party but don't have an overall majority. You may call that winning. I don't.