Off Topic General election

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General election

  • Conservative

    Votes: 28 57.1%

  • Labour

    Votes: 16 32.7%

  • Libdem

    Votes: 2 4.1%

  • Other

    Votes: 3 6.1%
  • Total voters
    49
MrRAWhite said:
Regardless of how bad the labour leadership is, I can't for the life of me understand why anyone from a working class background could even contemplate voting Tory.
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Perhaps they see it as the fastest way to get their party back. Until Corbyn is out, the traditional labour voter has no party representing them.

A crushing defeat has to be the end of him.

Who's in the running to replace him who would amount to 'normal'? Certainly not Sadiq Khan. He'll probably drive even more away.
 
May and her party have been very clever. "No snap election" was uttered nearly every day for the last 6 months. She has been planning this since the day she got in, with a 6 month head start over the other parties.

That was on BBC news earlier, quite a valid point I'd say.
 
Tel said:
Perhaps they see it as the fastest way to get their party back. Until Corbyn is out, the traditional labour voter has no party representing them.

A crushing defeat has to be the end of him.

Who's in the running to replace him who would amount to 'normal'? Certainly not Sadiq Khan. He'll probably drive even more away.
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My personal choices would be Hilary Benn or Yvette Cooper.
 
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Tel said:
Perhaps they see it as the fastest way to get their party back. Until Corbyn is out, the traditional labour voter has no party representing them.

A crushing defeat has to be the end of him.
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I'm voting LD until Corbyn goes. Can't vote Tory. Labour need a good hard kicking as you say.

I also don't think it's a coincidence that Labour have gone far left and the Tories have gone far right since the LDs got nearly wiped out at the last election. Having a semi-viable centre party stops the other two from getting too extreme. They're not going to win, but they serve a very important democratic purpose.
 
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Seems like supporting labour is like supporting safc. A lost cause.

Flogging a dead horse, both run by useless ****wits.
 
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Billy the Bastard said:
Durham County remained in Labour control but they lost quite a few wards to the Independents.
A very much reduced majority.
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That bastard Stephen Hepburn was voted in again at Jarrow. It's an absolute joke. You could stick a red ribbon on a donkey around there and it would get voted in.

Conservatives have picked up all over the UK. Parties need to be more centre these days, Labour have gone way left and working class people just can't and haven't connected with them.
 
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