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2019 General Election
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Ouch.
Cue
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It was a small A4 sheet I saw in the Beaconside Cafe, I’ll see if it’s still up next time I’m there
On another note, travelling in election season is the worst. All you hear are people simultaneously using the words “Communist”, “Marxist”, and “Corbyn” while also complaining about the price of train tickets
Turkeys vote for Christmas at Christmas...
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
If it's the one I'm thinking of it was organised in the name of the eco-mentalist, climate-emergency mob, so I gave it a wide berth.
Having said that non of our candidates is in the least bit inspiring or even remotely local and I doubt anything they could say 'live' would change the extremely dim view I have of the lot of them.
OK, yar!
Noah
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Got a leaflet through my door today promoting the 'Liberal Party.' No not Jo Swinson's mob, but, and I quote: 'The original party of David Penhaligan, Lloyd George and William E. Gladstone.'
The Liberal party are the rump who didn't like the merger with the Soc Dems and stayed as an independent group. David Penhaligan threw me but apparently he was the Liberal MP for Truro in the 1970s & 80s.
Mikinton
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Strange they didn't mention famous dog-lover Jeremy Thorpe instead.
BobClay
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I believe Churchill did a bit of flitting back and forth from the Tories to the Liberals and back again in his day. 'Crossing the floor' so to speak. This leaflet seems to be advocating some sort of devolution for Cornwall !!! … as if we need yet another layer of bureaucracy and government and jobs for the boys.
It also states: 'A bank in every town.' 'NHS dentist for every resident in every town.'
So at least half the population will have to become dentists ? Well I'm up for it, never look a gift horse in the mouth I say …. ARF ARF !!
(Sorry … couldn't help myself on that one.
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It also states: 'A bank in every town.' 'NHS dentist for every resident in every town.'
So at least half the population will have to become dentists ? Well I'm up for it, never look a gift horse in the mouth I say …. ARF ARF !!
(Sorry … couldn't help myself on that one.
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Withnail
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Tilly
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They are all also rans
And when the Tories win, and the real pain begins, it won't be you Conservative voters who will admit it's your fault for getting them a majority to destroy, no way, it'll be blame everyone and anyone and anything else, the immigrants, the unions, single parents, the sick, all those scroungers
Enjoy your victory people
Your time has come
Lucy
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Don't forget Europe, it'll all be their fault.
Well, one week from today we'll know for sure. (I must tidy up my nuclear hardened bunker and get in some more bacofoil hats …)
I'm going to be watching it from the East Coast, so I should know how bad it gets before bed time.
I remember watching the referendum and think - wait....wtf.
Mikinton
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Easy, Tiger. Don't go tarring all us Conservative voters with the same brush. (I wouldn't, for example, dream of saying all Labour voters were anti-semitic racists, though it's obviously a bigger problem than they care to admit given that, over 3 years since the Chakrabati report, it's one they've still not solved or even look like solving. What chance of fixing the economy when Jezza can't even etc etc )
Yes, I accept my share of any fault, as indeed I did around this time last year while sat in my hospital bed thinking "Oh, why did I vote Tory? I'm sure that had I voted Labour my stay would have been more comfortable." Similarly when I ring my local clinic for an appointment and am told I'll have to wait a fortnight (!). "Deal with it, Tory - you voted for it." And I certainly wouldn't go blaming the groups you've listed. That's one for "Daily Mail readers" and, in the case of immigrants, those Leave voters in notionally Labour constituences, like in the Welsh valleys.
I go into most elections aware that there are trade-offs. I don't see us as "turkeys voting for Christmas" but more as losers on the swings but gainers on the roundabouts (but grumbling about those swings as we stand on the train on our daily commute). Hopefully I'll get to spend more time on the roundabouts than the swings.
Anyway, I don't see it as an automatic victory for the Tories. There's a week to go, and, as someone once said, a week's a long time in politics.
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Tilly
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A week to go?
Nope
The postal vote is massive, and the postal voters are generally the old, and the old who actually vote are by a large majority, Conservatives
They've already voted . It's done
The new age is almost here
Triple self flagellation all round!!!
Tilly
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Do we automatically become part of The Arctic when the shit enters number ten?