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
Bri said:
Even then, 60 seats is really 2 seats in the way our parliament works. Going to be tough for the Torries because everybody opposes their cuts. Has it been confirmed they're with the DUP? Last I head they had permission to form a minority government but they were only in talks with the DUP.
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Still in talks with the Loyalists mate.
 
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Bri said:
Even then, 60 seats is really 2 seats in the way our parliament works. Going to be tough for the Torries because everybody opposes their cuts. Has it been confirmed they're with the DUP? Last I head they had permission to form a minority government but they were only in talks with the DUP.
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Not sure, but have a feeling that the DUP may not be able to vote on certain issues due to the Anglo Irish agreement..
 
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Conservatives got 25% of the vote in Jarrow. Probably their biggest ever.

I don't like the system. It should be whoever gets the most votes, wins. Simple.
 
Would you all not rather have a political party that has fought to defend British interests and is fiercely loyal to the crown, rather than Sinn Fein (IRA) who Jeremy Corbyn has invited (not the DUP) to every annual Labour conference since 1983?

In a hung parliament it was always going to be one or the other and I thought people in this country would have been breathing a sigh of relief that it went this way.

We all see things differently though. I appreciate that <ok>
 
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Safc83 said:
Would you all not rather have a political party that has fought to defend British interests and is fiercely loyal to the crown, rather than Sinn Fein (IRA) who Jeremy Corbyn has invited (not the DUP) to every annual Labour conference since 1983?

In a hung parliament it was always going to be one or the other and I thought people in this country would have been breathing a sigh of relief that it went this way.

We all see things differently though. I appreciate that <ok>
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Couldn't agree more. The IRA were trying to kill us, that is anyone, man woman or child, and the Loyalist were trying to kill them - our enemy!
 
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Safc83 said:
Would you all not rather have a political party that has fought to defend British interests and is fiercely loyal to the crown, rather than Sinn Fein (IRA) who Jeremy Corbyn has invited (not the DUP) to every annual Labour conference since 1983?

In a hung parliament it was always going to be one or the other and I thought people in this country would have been breathing a sigh of relief that it went this way.

We all see things differently though. I appreciate that <ok>
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All bloody nutters in my eyes.. The DUP want to stop the theory of evolution being taught in schools and believe that dinosaurs never existed and that the fossils found have been put there in order to undermine the Bible's creationist theory.. They want to repel equality laws for women and believe homosexuality is a criminal offence.. Of course I am pro British, but that does not mean i will support nutters like these and think it is a terrible thing that they now hold sway in UK politics..
 
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MrRAWhite said:
In the real world the Tory policy of tax cuts for the wealthy and austerity for the rest of us has only succeeded in doubling the national debt. Continuing on these tried and tested measures of failure are surely utter madness. Labour's policy of reversing the tax cuts to the rich and investing in order to grow the economy in order to increase tax revenue in the long term is at least a plan.
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Just to get the facts correct in 2010 net borrowing was 150 billion and in 2016 it was 75 billion.
 
Woody said:
Just to get the facts correct in 2010 net borrowing was 150 billion and in 2016 it was 75 billion.
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That post is a complete manipulation. You do know 2010 was a Tory Government from May onward? Also you're singling out individual years instead of Party terms. Build a proper picture with stats instead of distorting them

From 2010 to 2020 the Tory's and their coalitions will have borrowed a total of £870 billion. compare that to every labour Government since 1945(£490 billion), this doesn't factor inflation which would lessens the blow for the Tories but not much, especially given that the main manifesto promise from the Tories for the 2010 election is that they would not borrow.
 
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MrRAWhite said:
Who mentioned borrowing? I'm talking about the national debt that has doubled under the Tories..So put that in ya pipe and smoke it pal!!!
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You really do persist with this, RAW. The deficit was £155Bn per year when Labour got the boot. You really think Labour would have stopped that particular tanker any quicker? Really....?
 
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