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Labour, with with a minority.

3 (8.3%)

Labour majority.

1 (2.8%)

Conservative with minority

7 (19.4%)

Conservative with majority.

22 (61.1%)

Monster Raving Looney Party

3 (8.3%)

Total Members Voted: 30

Voting closed: 09 June 2017, 10:40:51

[TheBoy]

I have a sick feeling that Labour are going to win   

Why? Aren't the polls still showing a conservative win 

The polls heavily down-weight young votes, as they don't usually show up.

But Corbyn appears to have them all stoked up, if they turn up, could be a shock

Its easy to get the 18-22yr old vote, just say you'll magically do away with tuition fees, using the money the fairies bring from their money trees.

[Lizzie Zoom]

I have a sick feeling that Labour are going to win   

Why? Aren't the polls still showing a conservative win 

The polls heavily down-weight young votes, as they don't usually show up.

But Corbyn appears to have them all stoked up, if they turn up, could be a shock

Its easy to get the 18-22yr old vote, just say you'll magically do away with tuition fees, using the money the fairies bring from their money trees.

Down here our local news has mentioned that there have been queues of young voters at the University of Kent

[Mister Rog]

I have a sick feeling that Labour are going to win   

Why? Aren't the polls still showing a conservative win 

The polls heavily down-weight young votes, as they don't usually show up.

But Corbyn appears to have them all stoked up, if they turn up, could be a shock

Remember that younguns are profound Twitterattis, Facebookers etc. The amount of Pro Corbyn Pro Labour stuff I've seen is staggering. Admittedly a lot of it is laughable, but nevertheless . . . . .  I've had to be very careful. I have some very lefty friends with whom I dare not even start to discuss politics. 

[RobG]

May`s manifesto

•£8bn to be spent on the NHS
•One million new homes by 2020, with another 500,000 by 2022
•Net migration to be reduced to below 100,000 a year
•Continue to increase the national living wage to 60 per cent of average earnings by 2020
•Put executive pay packages to annual votes by shareholders and force listed companies to publish pay ratios.
•Abandon plans for part two of the Leveson inquiry into media standards
•Hold a free Commons vote on bringing back fox hunting
•Means test the winter fuel allowance, meaning it will be taken away from wealthier pensioners
•Include the value of peoples’ homes in the means test for whether people are liable to contribute to the cost of adult social care
•Personal tax allowance to be increased to £12,500
•Higher rate tax threshold to rise from £45,000 to £50,000 by 2020
•Corporation tax to fall to 17 per cent from 19 per cent by 2020
•Eliminate the budget deficit by 2025
•Scrap David Cameron’s ‘triple lock’ on pensions after 2020 – meaning pensions will rise in line with earnings or inflation, whichever is highest.
•Consider a new criminal offence for company directors who "deliberately or recklessly put at risk" a pension scheme's ability to meet its obligations.
•Exit the European single market and customs union
•A vote in both Houses of Parliament on the “final agreement” for Brexit
•Agree terms of future partnership with EU alongside withdrawal, both within the two years allowed under Article 50.
•Convert EU law into UK law and later allow parliament to pass legislation to "amend, repeal or improve" any piece of this.
•Remain signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights for the next parliament.
•Increase overall schools budget by £4 billion by 2022.
•End universal free lunches for infants, but launch free breakfasts for all primary children.
•Lifting the ban on grammar schools
•Every 11-year-old expected to know their times tables off by heart.
•Halve rough sleeping over the course of the next parliament and eliminate it by 2027.
•The right to ask employers for up to a year of unpaid leave from work to care for relatives.
•Spend at least two per cent of GDP on defence and increase the budget by at least 0.5% above inflation in every year of the new parliament.
•Retain the Trident nuclear missile deterrent
•Concession to overseas aid spending critics: rules changed so other forms of spending count towards the commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of gross national income on international development
•Minimum service levels agreed with train companies and staff during times of industrial action.

Where`s the money coming from???

[STEMO]

Benefit claimants are to be killed and eaten.

[RobG]

Benefit claimants are to be killed and eaten.

Only those

[STEMO]

Benefit claimants are to be killed and eaten.

Only those

My reply may have seemed flippant, Rob, but the truth is that there's no point going over it now. People have voted and we get what the majority wants.

[ronnyd]

Just sat down after a very hectic day, the worst part was the SIL passing away, (the second one in three months) so SWMBO has had a shitty time of late. Anyway, i digress, just realised  that i havn,t voted yet but then saw that my Tory MP had a majority of over 21k so thought, sod it, why bother.

[STEMO]

Just sat down after a very hectic day, the worst part was the SIL passing away, (the second one in three months) so SWMBO has had a shitty time of late. Anyway, i digress, just realised  that i havn,t voted yet but then saw that my Tory MP had a majority of over 21k so thought, sod it, why bother.

Sorry to hear that, Ronny. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Corbyn is just about the best opponent Theresa could have hoped for. He is an old leftie who still thinks we live in 1974.

If she can't beat Corbyn then she doesn't deserve to be PM.

I think a half decent opponent such as Andy Burnham (yes I know he's a scouser but they can't all be 'on the rob' )and Saint Theresa could have had problems.


My prediction......an easy win for the Conservatives.
 

[RobG]

Benefit claimants are to be killed and eaten.

Only those

My reply may have seemed flippant, Rob, but the truth is that there's no point going over it now. People have voted and we get what the majority wants.

............and it won`t be the ordinary person`s nest being feathered whoever takes #10 Steve

[STEMO]

Corbyn is just about the best opponent Theresa could have hoped for. He is an old leftie who still thinks we live in 1974.

If she can't beat Corbyn then she doesn't deserve to be PM.

I think a half decent opponent such as Andy Burnham (yes I know he's a scouser but they can't all be 'on the rob' )and Saint Theresa could have had problems.


My prediction......an easy win for the Conservatives.

I think one of our Barnsley MP's, Dan Jarvis, should have a punt at the leadership. He's very inexperienced but he has five years to learn.

[ronnyd]

Thanks STEMO

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Corbyn is just about the best opponent Theresa could have hoped for. He is an old leftie who still thinks we live in 1974.

If she can't beat Corbyn then she doesn't deserve to be PM.

I think a half decent opponent such as Andy Burnham (yes I know he's an unprincipled, opportunist, two bob chancer with the IQ of Diane abbot, but hes more photogenic than the others' )and Saint Theresa could have had problems.


My prediction......an easy win for the Conservatives.

Fixed. 

I think May will win a majority and step down before the next election.

[Viral_Jim]

May`s manifesto
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Where`s the money coming from???

Well, as it's Blue spending, that'll be Strong and Stable fiscal governance. If it's red spending, it's a magic money tree apparently. 

I think one of our Barnsley MP's, Dan Jarvis, should have a punt at the leadership. He's very inexperienced but he has five years to learn.

I've always liked Hilary Benn whenever I've heard him speak on a topic. Know very little about him though (other than family tree obviously).