General Election 2017

Mikinton

Mikinton

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Noah said:
Someone I know has been placing bets on current politics, of his three bets he won money on the country voting for Brexit, he has just won money on a General Election being called in 2017; his outstanding bet is that Boris Johnson will become Prime Minister within 18 months.
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Does he have Macron at 6/1 for the French election (like I do :cool:)?

http://www2.politicalbetting.com/
 
kyoto49

kyoto49

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iamlegend said:
Good call by May, she gets her own term and can try and clean up the mess that will be Brexit.
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I'm unsurprised noone has liked this! Noone thinks May will clean up the Brexit mess in any way other than ensuring a mass corporate tax grab surely? :(
 
Mikinton

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kyoto49 said:
I'm unsurprised noone has liked this! Noone thinks May will clean up the Brexit mess in any way other than ensuring a mass corporate tax grab surely? :(
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I would have done but I was probably too keen to reply to Noah and missed it. Anyway, it's sorted.

My view is that we are where we are and I'd rather have someone with a strong mandate to negotiate with the EU rather than have to rely on support from Labour who seem to want another EU referendum (what's that? They've changed their minds? OK), and the LibDems who definitely want a second referendum.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Mikinton said:
I would have done but I was probably too keen to reply to Noah and missed it. Anyway, it's sorted.

My view is that we are where we are and I'd rather have someone with a strong mandate to negotiate with the EU rather than have to rely on support from Labour who seem to want another EU referendum (what's that? They've changed their minds? OK), and the LibDems who definitely want a second referendum.
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Third referendum.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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Mikinton said:
I would have done but I was probably too keen to reply to Noah and missed it. Anyway, it's sorted.

My view is that we are where we are and I'd rather have someone with a strong mandate to negotiate with the EU rather than have to rely on support from Labour who seem to want another EU referendum (what's that? They've changed their minds? OK), and the LibDems who definitely want a second referendum.
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I always thought Corbyn wasn't that fussed about the EU anyway, but party politics meant he had to go along with pretending he did?
 
Mikinton

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tek-monkey said:
I always thought Corbyn wasn't that fussed about the EU anyway, but party politics meant he had to go along with pretending he did?
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That's my understanding too. And of course he did take a week's holiday in the run-up to the EU ref, so probably not all that committed to the argument. (A bit like Theresa May, I suppose.)
 
kyoto49

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Mikinton said:
I would have done but I was probably too keen to reply to Noah and missed it. Anyway, it's sorted.

My view is that we are where we are and I'd rather have someone with a strong mandate to negotiate with the EU rather than have to rely on support from Labour who seem to want another EU referendum (what's that? They've changed their minds? OK), and the LibDems who definitely want a second referendum.
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A strong mandate to make us a low wage economy designed to be some sort of offshore tax free haven where global corporations can do as they wish? No thanks
 
basil

basil

don't mention the blinds
Listened to Corbyn's press conference this morning, banging on on about;

The establishment
The Bankers
The Cartels
The Hardworking taxpayer
Schools
NHS

Sounding a lot like Farage, where he differed was how he was going to address such issues.......
 
Mikinton

Mikinton

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kyoto49 said:
Genius

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/how-to-stop-the-tories_uk_58f89312e4b0cb086d7e4de6?7t
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I've seen a couple of those. At least the the one in your link is more passive and lets you draw your own conclusion. The other one I saw was more assertive telling you vote in a particular way, something which could leave you open to a banning if you're a Labour member telling someone to vote something other than Labour. (I couldn't find an example, but I'm sure someone got banned for tweeting to someone that they should vote Green.)
 
Mikinton

Mikinton

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Any canvassers out there? I quite enjoyed this from another forum.

Canvassing is going to be a problem for Labour
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A lot of the people who are actually experienced and good at it are either not going to bother, or not going to argue for Corbyn and not defend him from criticism.
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The people who genuinely want him as PM are mostly young and inexperienced, and live in a world where dissenting voices are deleted from Facebook, blocked or unfollowed on Twitter, or shouted down. These people will be awful on a doorstep, being told that Corbyn is pro-IRA, pro-Hamas, anti-Britain and an anti-semite.

A lot of them will frankly be more bothered about talking down Blair's Labour than talking up Corbyn's.

Nobody is going to vote for a party that hates its own time in power. It's all they have to go by ffs
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proactive

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
basil said:
Listened to Corbyn's press conference this morning, banging on on about;

The establishment
The Bankers
The Cartels
The Hardworking taxpayer
Schools
NHS

Sounding a lot like Farage, where he differed was how he was going to address such issues.......
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How is he going to address these issues? What are his actual policies beyond this is bad, we're going to make it better? Has he costed any of his 'policies'?
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
proactive said:
How is he going to address these issues? What are his actual policies beyond this is bad, we're going to make it better? Has he costed any of his 'policies'?
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Only policy I've seen costed was free school meals for 11 year olds and under paid for by taxing private school payments. Quite why private school payments aren't taxed when tampons are is beyond me, as they have very similar agendas.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
basil said:
Listened to Corbyn's press conference this morning, banging on on about;

The establishment
The Bankers
The Cartels
The Hardworking taxpayer
Schools
NHS

Sounding a lot like Farage, where he differed was how he was going to address such issues.......
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I have a few family members who wouldn't be here without the NHS, they way we are systematically dismantling it and funnelled money into private businesses is disgusting. It's one of my primary battlegrounds, if a party aren't pro NHS they are out.
 
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