Poll: Poll: Prime Minister Theresa May calls General Election on June 8th

Who will you vote for?

  • Conservatives

  • Labour

  • Lib Dem

  • UKIP

  • Other (please state)

  • I won't be voting

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Arthur Hucksake said:
Wish there was inheritance in the picture.

We've been pricing up a house extension to eventually move my Dad in with us, funded by re-mortgaging, but honestly i'm not sure he will last that long.

I've contacted the local MPs to get clarification on a few things. Part of me thinks this was all caused by the social not doing a more recent assessment. They sacked off a lot of admin staff that probably handled these workloads.

Bureaucracy is what kills this country more than anything else at times. No ownership, nobody wants to take responsibility.

If this was ten years down the line, it wouldn't even be an issue. I'd not be getting pillaged for £700 a month in childcare for my daughter and i'd pay the care bill.
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I'm in agreement here, it's nightmarish, complicated and no ownership. You have to be persistent, competent and have time to get anything done, exactly the things that most people dealing with this stuff don't have at the time they need to do it.

Despite what many people on here think, I don't desire change to make it harder to get the help needed, but easier. It doesn't matter to me whether the help comes from the state or somewhere else, the important thing is that it's there, and that is what doesn't happen at the moment.
 
Interesting to see that the gap between labour and the conservatives is changing on here.

I think most of us think it's a total shambles of a choice. Risky incompetent labour with their good intentions but inherently risky economic pledges and terribad politicians... or Tories with their probably safer economic policies but downright frightening March towards authoritarianism / totalitarianism. I've previously voted for the conservatives but feel they completely alienate me now despite being the obvious 'cold economic choice' which is what I would instinctively vote for.

I also wonder if people choose a party like they would a football team and just choose to support them through and through. A colleague at work mentioned he had voted conservatives the last four times in a row but had to concede "there is a point where common sense prevails and you have to accept the current conservative option is terrifying."

Can people on here genuinely be convinced to change party? My vote is still open but I'm currently siding with labour just to keep the conservatives out... wow I never thought I'd see the day.
 
Okay to did the Tory's see a poll a month ago, assume landslide and decided to slap together a load of bucketlist policies assuming we'll win anyway, we can do whatever we like?
Now Corby and his crew have decided, we're not going to get in, so we might as well promise the Earth in all headline grabbing aspects, and when we don't get in, we'll have five years of whinging at the Tory's saying we promised x y and z. All the uncrossed goodness, and win easily in five years time?

Hung parliament would be hilarious, absolutely awfully hilarious. We would actually watch the negotiating position go to oblivion, and associated madness.

Roll on interesting times.

Wonder what labour will promise next week?
 
Dolph said:
I'm in agreement here, it's nightmarish, complicated and no ownership. You have to be persistent, competent and have time to get anything done, exactly the things that most people dealing with this stuff don't have at the time they need to do it.

Despite what many people on here think, I don't desire change to make it harder to get the help needed, but easier. It doesn't matter to me whether the help comes from the state or somewhere else, the important thing is that it's there, and that is what doesn't happen at the moment.
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I honestly wouldn't be opposed to a side element of NI, that went towards later life care. If that doesn't get spent, then it goes as tax free inheritance to family.

That or a push on private policies, similar to what we have seen with pensions.

The world is a different place now. Living longer alone isn't the issue. It's more down to the fact that people who live longer, generally spend most of their working life sat on their arse so break down differently.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Okay to did the Tory's see a poll a month ago, assume landslide and decided to slap together a load of bucketlist policies assuming we'll win anyway, we can do whatever we like?
Now Corby and his crew have decided, we're not going to get in, so we might as well promise the Earth in all headline grabbing aspects, and when we don't get in, we'll have five years of whinging at the Tory's saying we promised x y and z. All the uncrossed goodness, and win easily in five years time?

Hung parliament would be hilarious, absolutely awfully hilarious. We would actually watch the negotiating position go to oblivion, and associated madness.

Roll on interesting times.

Wonder what labour will promise next week?
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After all the talk about needing to get a mandate from the people and secure a strong position to negotiate from I will laugh a lot if there's basically no change in the majority.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Okay to did the Tory's see a poll a month ago, assume landslide and decided to slap together a load of bucketlist policies assuming we'll win anyway, we can do whatever we like?
Now Corby and his crew have decided, we're not going to get in, so we might as well promise the Earth in all headline grabbing aspects, and when we don't get in, we'll have five years of whinging at the Tory's saying we promised x y and z. All the uncrossed goodness, and win easily in five years time?

Hung parliament would be hilarious, absolutely awfully hilarious. We would actually watch the negotiating position go to oblivion, and associated madness.

Roll on interesting times.

Wonder what labour will promise next week?
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You only believe that what labour is promising is "the earth" because the tories have made you believe that austerity is the only way forwards, cutting back is the only solution. You only have to look at how their manifesto has been costed, and approved by independent economists, to know that what they're promising, isn't the earth, it's just common sense from a perspective of taking care of the masses. Politicians, throughout many lifetimes, have never cared about anyone but themselves. They do what they must to get into power, fill their pockets and then go on their merry way. For once someone actually cares about more than lining their own pockets, and people start believing that it's too far fetched?
 
Caged said:
After all the talk about needing to get a mandate from the people and secure a strong position to negotiate from I will laugh a lot if there's basically no change in the majority.
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Will you still be laughing if we end up with hard Brexit or a deal designed to appeal to the hardcore leavers she's then beholden to with her small majority?
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Okay to did the Tory's see a poll a month ago, assume landslide and decided to slap together a load of bucketlist policies assuming we'll win anyway, we can do whatever we like?
Now Corby and his crew have decided, we're not going to get in, so we might as well promise the Earth in all headline grabbing aspects, and when we don't get in, we'll have five years of whinging at the Tory's saying we promised x y and z. All the uncrossed goodness, and win easily in five years time?

Hung parliament would be hilarious, absolutely awfully hilarious. We would actually watch the negotiating position go to oblivion, and associated madness.

Roll on interesting times.

Wonder what labour will promise next week?
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That's why I now think UKIP is the choice. Can't take the catastrophic option of Labour or the Libs so the only way to get a Brexit that doesn't roll over and agree to no controls on immigration is to vote UKIP.

I think that's exactly what the Conservatives did when putting that manifesto together and they over egged it.

Arthur Hucksake said:
I honestly wouldn't be opposed to a side element of NI, that went towards later life care. If that doesn't get spent, then it goes as tax free inheritance to family.

That or a push on private policies, similar to what we have seen with pensions.

The world is a different place now. Living longer alone isn't the issue. It's more down to the fact that people who live longer, generally spend most of their working life sat on their arse so break down differently.
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No one thought out this letting everyone in through freedom of movement and the fact that they'd be here a long time after their working years ended. They ought to tax the companies more for employing from outside the UK so that some of that benefit that companies gain goes into social care.
 
Weak and wobley Comservatives have already ditched a pledge in their manifesto LOL
Then on the Andrew Neil interview she repeatedly dodged questions about the NHS.
 
With the terrible incident in Manchester still ongoing, should this thread be temporarily closed while the main political parties suspend campaigning?
 
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