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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satchef1 said:
  • Angela Watkinson
  • George Osborne
  • Simon Burns
  • Gerald Howarth
  • Eric Pickles
  • Alan Haselhurst
  • Andrew Tyrie
  • Peter Lilley
All not standing for re-election. I wonder if any of them are among those potentially about to be prosecuted?
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Well Pickle's, Burns and Hazelhurst have all been my local MP at some point in my life and are all in safe seats and are well liked I doubt the would have had to spend much to get re-elected.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Agree you could refer to the capital as district one. Give the other regions various numbers.....
Maybe organise some annual event involving people from each district.
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Yes :D

gotta be careful with that though - potential for some pesky rebels to undermine it


But seriously I don't see the issue with having a federal system (including English regions) along the lines of say the Canadian model.

If northern regions always vote labour then let them be run by labour at a local level with more power devolved to make local decisions and vice versa for the South East. If 90% of people don't want, for example, the 'bedroom tax' in some region of the country then let them chose how to allocate and fund social housing using their own tax revenue. Ditto to NHS trusts, social care etc.. etc.. No more blaming the Tories in Westminster - give a regional government the responsibility for it.
 
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Mr Jack said:
Smart move. Appearing with the also-rans only makes him seem like a minor league leader and, as we saw with Ed Miliband, it ends up being all-against-Labour. The only problem is that it weakens Labour's "May is a chicken *bwuck* *bwuck* *bwuck*" line on her avoiding the debates.
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A smart move if played right - but I don't think it was played for those reasons.
 
dowie said:
But seriously I don't see the issue with having a federal system (including English regions) along the lines of say the Canadian model.
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We could call those regions something like 'Counties' and let the regions elect their own representative - how about calling them 'Councillors'?
 
dowie said:
But seriously I don't see the issue with having a federal system (including English regions) along the lines of say the Canadian model.
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That's lib dem policy...for a long time.

That, coupled with support for PR are two very attractive policies of theirs. They also had some excellent classical liberal politicians such as David Laws (lets ignore the expenses for a mo) . However, as they're merged with social democrats they are becoming more-and-more "blaire-light" and with their blind pro-EU stance (which is arguably anti-classical liberal economics) they start to become the "authoritarian autocrats" rather than the Liberal Democrats, and now i don't know who to vote for as a classical liberal.
 
Quartz said:
We could call those regions something like 'Counties' and let the regions elect their own representative - how about calling them 'Councillors'?
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I think you've completely missed the point unless you want to radically change the mandate of councils including merging a bunch of them or perhaps just don't understand their function
 
aslco said:
That's lib dem policy...for a long time.

That, coupled with support for PR are two very attractive policies of theirs. They also had some excellent classical liberal politicians such as David Laws (lets ignore the expenses for a mo) . However, as they're merged with social democrats they are becoming more-and-more "blaire-light" and with their blind pro-EU stance (which is arguably anti-classical liberal economics) they start to become the "authoritarian autocrats" rather than the Liberal Democrats, and now i don't know who to vote for as a classical liberal.
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I've floated between tory and lib dem... though did like labour once under Blair - albeit I wasn't old enough to vote for him. I'm generally liberal too though not much of a fan of the social democrat side either.
 
I wish I could say I'm surprised by the amount of votes the tories have gotten on the poll of this thread but I'm not...
 
I am dismayed by it though, this is a party that is destroying the NHS, dismantling the tax credits system; that's before looking at that vile rape clause, making further education for adults more and more difficult every year. This is a party that has slashed taxes for the rich but taken more and more from those of us who have the least and in doing so have trippled the national debt. It's the Tories who introduced disgusting zero hour contracts, distorted the national living wage and plan on obliterating workers rights once we have left the European Union. Do you people honestly believe that children who can't afford grammar schools or don't sufficiently meet the criteria are prevented from having the same opportunities as everyone else? Do all of you want to have to pay a fee to go and see your GP? What happens when like myself your on a low income and are really ill? What about the pensioners and the pension age continuing to rise?

Since the tories have come into power, I've had to use foodbanks when I wasn't working due to illness, I see more homeless people now on the streets than I ever did as a kid growing up and in real terms affording things has become more and more difficult.
 
aslco said:
That's lib dem policy...for a long time.

That, coupled with support for PR are two very attractive policies of theirs. They also had some excellent classical liberal politicians such as David Laws (lets ignore the expenses for a mo) . However, as they're merged with social democrats they are becoming more-and-more "blaire-light" and with their blind pro-EU stance (which is arguably anti-classical liberal economics) they start to become the "authoritarian autocrats" rather than the Liberal Democrats, and now i don't know who to vote for as a classical liberal.
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I find the whole situation with David Laws a bit sad and a bit hilarious - for all the faults he and the local Lib Dem councillors, etc. did atleast try and make an effort - people here voted him out to punish him and the Lib Dems in general with the result they got a Tory replacement who is all soundbites and little results or action.
 
Rroff said:
I find the whole situation with David Laws a bit sad and a bit hilarious - for all the faults he and the local Lib Dem councillors, etc. did atleast try and make an effort - people here voted him out to punish him and the Lib Dems in general with the result they got a Tory replacement who is all soundbites and little results or action.
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In my eyes the lib dems did sell out and to be frank the lib dem leader doesn't inspire much confidence with me. They'd be as bad as the tories as manifesto pledges went flying out of the window shortly after the got elected. Say what you want about Corbyn but in my opinion the only credible vote if you're earning under 70k a year is labour.
 
Vidar said:
I am dismayed by it though, this is a party that is destroying the NHS, dismantling the tax credits system; that's before looking at that vile rape clause, making further education for adults more and more difficult every year. This is a party that has slashed taxes for the rich but taken more and more from those of us who have the least and in doing so have trippled the national debt. It's the Tories who introduced disgusting zero hour contracts, distorted the national living wage and plan on obliterating workers rights once we have left the European Union. Do you people honestly believe that children who can't afford grammar schools or don't sufficiently meet the criteria are prevented from having the same opportunities as everyone else? Do all of you want to have to pay a fee to go and see your GP? What happens when like myself your on a low income and are really ill? What about the pensioners and the pension age continuing to rise?

Since the tories have come into power, I've had to use foodbanks when I wasn't working due to illness, I see more homeless people now on the streets than I ever did as a kid growing up and in real terms affording things has become more and more difficult.
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No this was all the previous and previous, previous governments faults.

You obviously don't understand how politics works. It's a long line of blame stretching back to the Whigs.
 
Yup... I think @Vidar is a bit confused - if there is nothing regulating zero hours contracts then they're allowed to exist by default and always have been - no government/political party introduced them, though one party did once promise to end them:

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Psycho Sonny said:
No point in me voting. SNP has a majority of 81% the other 19% shared evenly by labour and conservatives.
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I really don't understand this position on voting. I bet there is a sizable proportion of eligible voters in your constituency that didn't vote and that if they all voted for the opposition, they would win.
I live in Theresa May's constituency and she's projected to get 71% of the vote here. I will still be voting against her though. By not voting I would be in effect voting for her by my inaction.
 
This woman is horrendous. Listen to all those tories sneering and being rude when public questions are asked by corbyn. Bunch of rich idiots which no comprehension of the working class or disabled.
 
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