Poll: Exit Poll: UK General Election 2017 - Results discussion and OcUK Exit Poll - Closing 8th July

Exit poll: Who did you vote for?

  • Conservatives

    Votes: 302 27.5%

  • Labour

    Votes: 577 52.6%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 104 9.5%

  • Green

    Votes: 13 1.2%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 19 1.7%

  • Scottish National Party

    Votes: 30 2.7%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 6 0.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 46 4.2%
  • Total voters
    1,097
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Kermit said:
the problem with all government employees is they always claim to be under paid. I'm not saying nurses don't deserve more but then lets pay Police more, Nurses more, Doctors more, firemen more, local council/goverment more, ambulance drivers more, teachers more, etc. Give them 5% and whats that, £3 billion, then 5% year after another £4 billion and before you know it your in proper magic money tree territory and burdening future generations with more debt than unfortunatly we're already burdening them with.

"Nurses start on £21,692 rising to £28,180 on Band 5 of the NHS Agenda for Change Pay Rates. Salaries in London attract a high-cost area supplement. With experience, in positions such as nurse team leader on Band 6, salaries progress to £26,041 to £34,876". These salaries might not look great but within a few years of qualification nurses (of which there are over 600,000) are above the average salary in the UK. So not bad for a job with good pension, good career ladder and pretty much guarenteed job when compared to millions in the private sector.
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Everyone claims to be underpaid, It is however unusual to make statement about money trees, lambast anyone arguing against our current apparent economic growth, austerity driven, death spiral and then find a billion essentially to fund keeping yourself in power.

She said she needed a large majority as a mandate to rule, turns out she just needs a large cheque, funded by us!
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnoos3-wLiQ

mmmm both Labour and the SNP also tried to get the DUP onboard in previous post election coalitions so says the Irish guy in the youtube clip

I think most people just need to get over it - the numbers in the election didnt pan out for Labour this time. Suck it up there will be another along in a bit and we can do it all again
 
stewski said:
Everyone claims to be underpaid, It is however unusual to make statement about money trees, lambast anyone arguing against our current apparent economic growth, austerity driven, death spiral and then find a billion essentially to fund keeping yourself in power.

She said she needed a large majority as a mandate to rule, turns out she just needs a large cheque, funded by us!
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I think the money tree she was refering to had to have around 50Billion growing on it to fund everything Corbyn had on his plate. A billion between mates these days isnt that a big deal
 
jimjamuk said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnoos3-wLiQ

mmmm both Labour and the SNP also tried to get the DUP onboard in previous post election coalitions so says the Irish guy in the youtube clip

I think most people just need to get over it - the numbers in the election didnt pan out for Labour this time. Suck it up there will be another along in a bit and we can do it all again
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If you are talking about Gordon Brown I don't think approached one side of the divide in Northern Ireland with an offer of One Biiiiilion dollars mwhahahaha.
That said, you are right, another election will likely be along shortly after the death twitch of the current PM is finished.
 
jimjamuk said:
I think the money tree she was refering to had to have around 50Billion growing on it to fund everything Corbyn had on his plate. A billion between mates these days isnt that a big deal
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Well the principle isn't good - having to find an extra billion from somewhere to spend on just one region when the other 3 lose out. But yeah the magic money tree comparisons re: Corbyn's spending aren't exactly equivalents but far from it as you've pointed out.
 
Kermit said:
its worth a billion to have 'a' government that hopefully has the power to see Brexit and other legislation through rather than one that is hobbled at every turn by the opposition voting against everything the government tries to get through the houses not necessarily for the good of the country but just because they can and would no dount vote down good or necessary legislation out of spite.

Or as many seem to think, the UK in would be great in Corbyns hands when it comes to Brexit discussions and £50 billion+ additional spending to help spirral the UK debt even further skywards just like (or worse) the last Labour governement that helpfully left a note for the incomming Conservative exchequer "there's no money left"

Labour = spend, spend, spend like a multi million pound lottery winner with no control that you read about 5/10 years later thats now broke and living in a bedsit

I did actually prefer the previous Tory/Lib Dem coalition that tempered many Tory policies and amazed Lib Dems took a lot of slack for that at the next election.
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You do realise, by talking up a "no deal" wto position, we could end up costing ourselves £100 Billion, with nothing to realistically show for it, over a similar time period to the Labour Manifesto pledges?
 
dowie said:
Well the principle isn't good - having to find an extra billion from somewhere to spend on just one region when the other 3 lose out. But yeah the magic money tree comparisons re: Corbyn's spending aren't exactly equivalents but far from it as you've pointed out.
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Inward economic investment can (and has) improve(d) debt to gdp, the austerity/cuts approach, is observably failing!
 
stewski said:
If you are talking about Gordon Brown I don't think approached one side of the divide in Northern Ireland with an offer of One Biiiiilion dollars mwhahahaha.
That said, you are right, another election will likely be along shortly after the death twitch of the current PM is finished.
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Maybe - maybe not - who knows what he would have promised if given the oppotunity
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ele...ion-2010-DUP-now-being-courted-by-Labour.html

May wont see another GE but I'm sure she will survive until the EU exit anyway in a couple of years give or take
 
Kermit said:
i didnt suggest the no deal option, its just that 'winner' Corbyn seems to think the best way to negociate is to offer everything on a plate to the EU for starters before they've even offered anything in return, he'd just cave in and give everything and get nothing.
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Talking up an all round face saving option of tariff free trade without being in the single market is the only decent manoeuvre I've seen on Brexit so far and it hasn't come from the awkward woman!
 
Kermit said:
i didnt suggest the no deal option, its just that 'winner' Corbyn seems to think the best way to negociate is to offer everything on a plate to the EU for starters before they've even offered anything in return, he'd just cave in and give everything and get nothing.
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Yup, that wasn't helpful, essentially saying that he'd bend over to get any deal (then again there was an aspect of his campaign simple deliberately avoiding giving even less detail re: Brexit than the tories). Though from the other perspective the implied threats from the conservatives could have been toned down a bit too.
 
Can we get the DUP to handle Brexit negotiations? They've done a fantastic job of getting the best deal for Northern Ireland.
 
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