Off Topic General Election Special

[Amin Arrears]

I’m not voting and anyone who votes, unless they have a good independent standing, is a moron.

The system is old fashioned and broken but we the people are stuck with it because they’re all tyrants, every single one of them.

Case in point if (when) the conservatives walk this election on the back of a campaign of media smears, and a 10 year reign of sheer ineptitude, there is something very, very wrong. But both parties have their fingers too deeply in the pie and will not relinquish the power they have over us all and the ability to fatten their bank accounts on the back of the taxes they steal off us at every single opportunity. They even tax us when we die.

I have people on Facebook, minimum wage, zero hours types, they are people I know and they are poor and struggling, spending most their time sharing Corbyn smears and telling the world to vote conservatives. This is a special kind of stupid.

All voters are equally as gormless and stupid. Led by the nose by the worst kind of crooks.

 

[originalminority]

She’s attacked & abused because she’s a strong successful black woman. It’s usually done by white men who believe they are superior to her. They’re not.

Dianne Abbott is the most abused MP in Westminster. Prior to the last election over half of all abusive Tweets sent to MPs were directed at her. Why is it that MPs like Phillips, Cooper & Swinson & others jump to speak up for Berger, Allen & others but usually stay silent when Dianne Abbott is the subject of abuse?

That's rubbish and I'd say Thatcher and May were both ridiculed more than Abbott.

 

[Leon...]

Is that inflation or index linked???

that’s like me showing a house price in 1980 in east hull & comparing it to today in Chelsea

Have a look at this (although only goes up to 2016)

The article goes into great detail, explains its sources and methodology:

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https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog...the-biggest-borrowers-over-the-last-70-years/

 

[Leon...]

I think Russ Abbott has achieved more.

Great reference mate.

So, other than Brexit, what else will the Conservatives do?

Some upbeat good news please.

 

[Noggin The Nog]

I’m not voting and anyone who votes, unless they have a good independent standing, is a moron.

All voters are equally as gormless and stupid. Led by the nose by the worst kind of crooks.

Interesting post and some good points. However, as our forefathers and foremothers fought like hell for the vote, then I'm voting. It may be to write:
'None of them', across the paper, but it still counts as a vote.

 

[Sir Cheshire Ben]

That's rubbish and I'd say Thatcher and May were both ridiculed more than Abbott.

Thatcher had done one well before the Twitter generation. She wouldn’t even come close. Ridicule is also different to abuse.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp....es-half-online-abuse-sent-female-politicians/

 

[Sir Cheshire Ben]

Talking policies & manifestos what’s your thoughts on the contents & potential implications detailed on page 48 of the Tory Manifesto.

Also was it placed on page 48 purposely & provocatively?

 

[Ric Glasgow]

Great reference mate.

So, other than Brexit, what else will the Conservatives do?

Some upbeat good news please.

Put 20,000 police officers on the streets and pay them more than £30 a year....Diane Abbott's figures not mine.

 

[balkan tiger]

She’s attacked & abused because she’s a strong successful black woman. It’s usually done by white men who believe they are superior to her. They’re not.

Dianne Abbott is the most abused MP in Westminster. Prior to the last election over half of all abusive Tweets sent to MPs were directed at her. Why is it that MPs like Phillips, Cooper & Swinson & others jump to speak up for Berger, Allen & others but usually stay silent when Dianne Abbott is the subject of abuse?

I know Dianne Abbott is one of the highest profile of the minority MP's but if she is really getting over half of all the abusive tweets, Why is that?

 

[City Man]

I know Dianne Abbott is one of the highest profile of the minority MP's but if she is really getting over half of all the abusive tweets, Why is that?

Maybe you should ask why govt ministers like James Cleverly or Priti Patel get nothing like the same volume of abuse?

 

[Amin Arrears]

Interesting post and some good points. However, as our forefathers and foremothers fought like hell for the vote, then I'm voting. It may be to write:
'None of them', across the paper, but it still counts as a vote.

our forefathers fought for democracy. What we have is not democracy, it’s temporary dictatorship, it’s authoritarianism.

If we look at the definition of democracy:


Definition of democracy


1a: government by the peopleespecially : rule of the majority
b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections

I don’t think that describes politics at all.

I’m not even convinced the votes are actually counted and it’s not a predetermined conclusion.

I would agree with drawing a dick on your paper. It’s what I do.

 

[Barchullona]

Nope
It was an advisory referendum...an opinion poll really
Not their job

You can bet Remainers would have claimed it was a binding, overwhelming mandate if they had won. Presumably the 1973 one about staying in the EEC was an opinion poll as well. Remainers have the same attitude to votes which don’t go their way as Dr Allam.

 

[Clovis Iscariot]

The scoundrel card is the first defence of a racist.

That really doesn’t make any sense. It’s as though you thought you could jiggle the words around, to make yourself look clever.

 

[Sir Cheshire Ben]

Put 20,000 police officers on the streets and pay them more than £30 a year....Diane Abbott's figures not mine.

An ellipsis is three dots. I thought your superior Oxbridge education would have known that.

[HASHTAG]#thicko[/HASHTAG]

 

[Sir Cheshire Ben]

That really doesn’t make any sense. It’s as though you thought you could jiggle the words around, to make yourself look clever.

Look clever? Is that like pretending racism doesn’t exist?

 

[Barchullona]

our forefathers fought for democracy. What we have is not democracy, it’s temporary dictatorship, it’s authoritarianism.

If we look at the definition of democracy:


Definition of democracy


1a: government by the peopleespecially : rule of the majority
b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections

I don’t think that describes politics at all.

I’m not even convinced the votes are actually counted and it’s not a predetermined conclusion.

I would agree with drawing a dick on your paper. It’s what I do.

You want to look up dictatorship and authoritarianism in your dictionary whilst you are at it.

 

[Leon...]

Put 20,000 police officers on the streets and pay them more than £30 a year....Diane Abbott's figures not mine.

That doesn't even replace the police numbers the Tories cut since 2010.

 

[Barchullona]

An ellipsis is three dots. I thought your superior Oxbridge education would have known that.

[HASHTAG]#thicko[/HASHTAG]

Pointing out the correct use of dots is my territory, Ben.

 

[Sir Cheshire Ben]

You want to look up dictatorship and authoritarianism in your dictionary whilst you are at it.

It’s all detailed on page 48 of the Tory Manifesto

 

[Amin Arrears]

Oh, Dianne Abbott.

She puts a few exclamation marks at the end of everything that’s wrong with party politics!!!

The only reason she’s stealing an £80k salary off the public is because she is part of a major party.

Make them all independent and she’d have to try and find a job. Probably a cleaner.