Match Day Thread Trump v Clinton

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Will President Trump...

  • Pull it off

    Votes: 22 43.1%
  • Be impeached

    Votes: 2 3.9%
  • Be assassinated

    Votes: 14 27.5%
  • **** it up

    Votes: 13 25.5%

  • Total voters
    51
  • Poll closed .
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It will pick up again. I voted remain as I'm a greedy **** on the brink of buying my first house and didn't want to take a short term financial hit but long term we are probably better off on our own. It's also (hopefully) likely to benefit my company with better commonwealth trade deals and easier domination of the U.K. Market which means even more cash in my pocket. Ker ching.

I did regret voting remain as soon as I'd posted it.
And what in holy **** is THAT based on?
 
What utter nonsense. Have a look around Hull and work out where the funding came from for so many regeneration projects...
I'm glad you see so many regeneration projects, cos I don't see many. I'm guessing what money does come our way emanates not from the good folk of Slovakia.
Didn't we used to have a fishing industry and our own territorial waters to fish in?
Thank goodness Brussels stopped us from overfishing them and allowed those ethical Spanish to fish them sustainably.

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I'm glad you see so many regeneration projects, cos I don't see many. I'm guessing what money does come our way emanates not from the good folk of Slovakia.
Didn't we used to have a fishing industry and our won territorial waters to fish in?
Thank goodness Brussels stopped us from overfishing them and allowed those ethical Spanish to fish them sustainably.
Well you obviously don't even know what you're looking for. You'd rather trot out the same old, same old...
 
Many I heard talking on the tv who voted in were mainly focused on anti Brit sentiment .
What some said was shameful.
Do you know what you make some decent points at times then revert back to contradiction when you realise youve tried to be sensible.
 
Most Brexiters were either oblivious to, or dismissive of, the original aims of European governance, which wasn't even intended to be wholly about economics. The economics were merely a means to an end.
 
Well you obviously don't even know what you're looking for. You'd rather trot out the same old, same old...
So illuminate me then....where in Hull can I see these EU funded projects? (And were we not already a majority contributor in that EU funding anyway?)

Was £350 million a lie? If so, what was the correct figure?
Did anyone have a different or correct figure?
A damning indictment of the financial black hole if no one did. "No one really knows how much we put in and no one will sign the books off"
 
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Which is yet another layer of hoodwinkery. The Remain camp had cross-party support. Leave was almost entirely right wing in its parliamentary support.

Meaning most Labour, Tory and Lib Dems support the EU? Most MPs are either middle-class or upper-class. Just because support for the EU was cross-party, doesn't make it any less elitist. Parliament is the establishment and elitist; both houses. There are little to no true representatives of working-class people in Parliament and the few MPs who did have a working-class upbringing are class-traitors who have bitten the social mobility pill a little too hard.
 
Most Brexiters were either oblivious to, or dismissive of, the original aims of European governance, which wasn't even intended to be wholly about economics. The economics were merely a means to an end.

You could make the exact same point about people who voted to remain in the Common Market in 1975. People who supported the EU in the 1970s thought the Common Market was exactly what it said on the tin - a common trade agreement between sovereign European nation states; they thought the economic aspects were the ends, not the means. I highly doubt many in the 1970s envisioned the EU would would become a superstate in the 21st century and to their credit, Tony Benn and other 'hard-left' politicians in the Labour party did know and warned people about it. The EU has always tried to build a new pan-national corporatist empire, right down to the days of the Coal and Steel Community.
 
I can't agree. The motivation to make money is far more likely to make someone adopt a veneer. Nobody expects a wealth creator to be trustworthy. In politics, he has to be himself.

Yeah, a politician never lied to win votes...

He's adopting a stance to appeal to a certain vote base - the disgruntled bigots who have lashed out and are blaming scapegoats. He knows they've been left behind by the economic policies of previous administrations and so he's tapping into that as his core voter base.
 
It's not only immigration he's done a 360 on since he started his campaign. He used to be strongly in favour of abortion rights, LGBT rights, gun control (ban on assault weapons), favoured universal healthcare and even favoured higher taxes for the rich. Now he's strongly anti-abortion rights, a Second Amendment fanatic, against any form of universal healthcare, including Obamacare, and wants to lower corporation tax. He's a liberal masquerading as a conservative for Middle America's votes.


Trump even gave money for Hillary's campaigns for the Senate and her previous campaign for the Presidency.
 
What utter nonsense. Have a look around Hull and work out where the funding came from for so many regeneration projects...

If you mean the EU, where did they get the money from?
 
Most Brexiters were either oblivious to, or dismissive of, the original aims of European governance, which wasn't even intended to be wholly about economics. The economics were merely a means to an end.

The main aim was for a European Federation. and that is still the end goal. A look at the background of the first chairman and the history of those supporting him should be enough to set the alarm bells ringing.
 
The EU has 27 nations the world has over a hundred. Trading goods will happen or folk will lose jobs. If EU countries lose jobs they will probably vote their own exits. Where free movement comes in is anyones guess. Do we have that to enable us to trade with the USA? Nah ee dont . Its all about the economy, politics will always come second. My 2 bob.
 
Meaning most Labour, Tory and Lib Dems support the EU? Most MPs are either middle-class or upper-class. Just because support for the EU was cross-party, doesn't make it any less elitist. Parliament is the establishment and elitist; both houses. There are little to no true representatives of working-class people in Parliament and the few MPs who did have a working-class upbringing are class-traitors who have bitten the social mobility pill a little too hard.
It actually does. Not massively, but enough.
 
OBummer is appalling. HRC will be far, far worse if the cheat-machine works as designed. Trump should win (everyone I know, bar three, is voting for him), and he will deliver exactly what the USA and the rest of the world needs. The U.K. Media are just as bent as those in the USA.

I'm with Bengals Tiger. Trump will fare a lot better than the media would have you believe (hence the Brexit comparisons). They have contributed to a cultural environment which says the rubes, fools and knaves support the guy who says bad things, but the measured, reasonable, intellectual types vote for the woman who does bad things. A lot of folks know better.

The election will likely come down to which side can "get out the vote," as it always does. Obama would have lost in 2012 had the evangelical Christian block come out in their normal numbers. Alas, many chose to stay home rather than vote for a Mormon. So we were stuck with 4 more years of growing debt, mediocre economic growth, higher taxes, jobs leaving the country, and more statism. We have been piddling along at about a 2% GDP annual growth rate for so long now some take it as the new yardstick for a good economy. Screw that. We can do better. We should do better. We will do better with Trump in the White House. Clinton would just double-down on failed policies.
 
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