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Kudos to you for making the effort to be active in this. ;bowdown
I cant help notice that the tories have suddenly began to speak of the difficult times ahead due to leaving the EU and how the economy has to be placed at the forefront of policy. I thought this leaving the EU was not perilous at all, but instead a brilliant opportunity. It seems now almost taken as fact that we will all be worse off and need tighten our belts. No one seems to think we will be better off now and even resigned to needing immigration levels to remain high just to function.
Unfortunately I think we get the future we as a nation deserve.
I thought the leader did well in the TV debate, their policies are in line with my own.
If I was aloud to vote I think it maybe yellow is colour....
We don't like over confidence, I am hoping it will bite her on the behind...
I was too young to vote or even really understand politics when Maggie came around but I think I now know how so many felt repulsed by her, and May is only Maggie light.
Even though he has been clear that under a Labour government troops they would only be sent into combat abroad if
- they were properly resourced
- there was a clear need for military intervention and
- there was a plan for lasting peace afterwards.
Which hasn't been the case under past Tory OR Nu-Labour governments?
Always voting Labour though. You can have mine ;ok
Come back to the
darkred side.I live in Leyton and Wanstead where Labour have a 15000 majority with the Tories in second. I'll be voting Labour as I've done in every election since 1979
My best mate lives in Colchester which the Lib Dems lost to the Tories last time, Labour have been a distant third in every election since 1997. He supports Labour but will vote Lib Dem because they have a realistic chance of beating the Tories. In his case a vote for Labour could help the Tories.
My optimism is based on what I see. Labour's campaign has momentum, Corbyn as the campaign has gone on is looking more assured and relaxed, which I think comes from the positivity from the voters he's met, he's enjoying every minute. The Tories on the other hand look like they are staring defeat in the face, which in effect they are, about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. They have run a very poor campaign from the start with May looking uncomfortable at every appearance, she looks lacking in confidence and belief. That is why I believe we will have a Labour Government on Friday.
Either way it will be a great achievement by Corbyn who has been demonised by the right wing media since he was elected leader (and before that) so I think to bring Labour up to the levels shown in the polls is a great achievement from being consistently written off and who knows he could just win it outright as I think he will.
What has surprised me was the high number who have registered to vote by the 22nd May deadline. Assuming a large number of those are young I think the chances are this will benefit Labour the most. I just get the feeling from news reports (regardless of what they are saying, and I note Daily Mail are giving Corbyn a tough time today over the nuclear stuff) that Labour are on the up in this campaign at just the right time and will do it, remember they said Trump would never this, that, the other and look what happened there...President Trump when everyone and his wife said it was nailed on Hilary Clinton so the seemingly impossible can and does happen.
The other issue if the tories win is that without doubt in my mind May has been exposed and her own party will get rid of her and so I wonder who will end up as leader should she resign through some made up health issue (get pushed out).
Have never wanted a party to be removed from power as much as I do now, May represents everything I cannot abide, only Boris would I dislike more.
I hope the Tory's don't win but I very much fear that they will.
I don't think that will be the case at all. May & the Tories have fought a poor campaign, perhaps based on an arrogance due to their supposed huge lead in the opinion polls. Corbyn & Labour have fought a campaign (as under dogs with nothing to lose) they have gone out, met the public and got their message across which has been well received by the public and has shown in the narrowing of the opinion polls. I believe in the final few days the gap will narrow still further and Labour will take a decisive lead. Far from Labour being in disarray as the media would have us believe, it is the Tories who are in disarray and May herself is finished, exposed over the last few months as weak and clueless, unfit neither to lead her party or be Prime Minister and frankly good riddance to her.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2017/jun/02/tactical-voting-guide-how-to-make-your-vote-count-in-the-2017-election
If you want the Tories to win then obviously vote Tory.
Also imo, I think the idea that we need to 'stop them using the internet' is nonsense. Again, it sounds good (yeah, blame the internet) but it will be unworkable and (ultimately) ineffective. And it's not like terrorism didn't thrive around the world in a pre-internet age.
I make you right that it will be a Tory victory, but not for the reasons you suggest. Bear in mind, before the latest attacks, Corbyn had already got some momentum in terms of promising more police etc - and highlighted the fact that cuts came under a Tory govt who had Teresa May as the Home Secretary.;ok
a) that years of Tory government have failed to enact the powers required to prevent extremism
b) that they have the powers, but have failed to enact them
Either way, it sounded like an admission of failure.
Not sure what the government can do though it sounds like a statement for more regulation and breaching of privacy using the internet something I could never advocate if you want to maintain any kind of Freedom par se.
That's the trouble for me: it's sabre-rattling with no end purpose.
Unless you are going to have a situation where the only access to the Internet is via government controlled servers, there is simply no way to regulate or police it effectively.
And anyway, if governments haven't learned by now that 'stop the supply' is not the answer then they do not deserve the responsibility of running the country.
May: Sounding tough, doing nothing.
I don't think on current record how anyone can be happy with how the tories have brought the NHS to it's knees, are slowly beginning on the police, and the economy will likely follow with a hard brexit. So all they are saying is you cant trust JC to run any of those things, especially the economy. That is surely the same argument that lost remain the referendum.
I feel more than anything the referendum holds the outcome to this election and were brexit not happening and with May at the helm the Tories would lose massively, there only hope is that leavers are wed to brexit enough to overlook the NHS, education and the police in the belief (without any evidence so far ) that she is best placed to negotiate brexit. I actually think the opposite is true as I think the EU hate her and them and now their moment of vulnerability has passed with the Franco German elections and with strong leaders in France and Germany they will tell May and her self important cronies where to go. Corbyn however will forge friendship and allow a deal which suits both, he will not get the cake and eat it, but that never has and never will be available, that is simply the pup we have been sold.