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June 7, 2017 at 9:37 pm #27205
barbarus
Who for and why? Prepared to say?
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peted76 wrote:Ho hum, now back to spinning those legs out..
Theresa May tried that – didn’t seem to work too well.
hawkinspeter
barbarus wrote:
barbarus wrote:It’s interesting to hear that some posters here who I have a lot of time for voted for all parties or even don’t care. I suppose it just shows that cycling > politics.Politicians come and go, but cycling is forever.
Well I’ve been knocking on
Well I’ve been knocking on doors for Labour for the past 6 weeks and am pleased to say we got the excellent and pro-cycling Ben Bradshaw back in here in Exeter. Totally agree with kiwi adam that labour’s manifesto is not extreme.It’s interesting to hear that some posters here who I have a lot of time for voted for all parties or even don’t care. I suppose it just shows that cycling > politics.
adamthekiwi
peted76 wrote:I don’t think there’s much irony here. There’s a difference between Corbyn being an open Unionist supporter in the 1980’s and Gray May scrabbling about for some friendly faces for some odd couple coalition.You’re right, huge difference. One was seeking (perhaps misguidedly) a peaceful solution to an horrific situation, the other is trying to grasp at power.
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alansmurphy wrote:peted76 wrote:I’ve voted conservative, no matter how unpopular it may be on the internets and on this very forum. I did this for two reasons mainly. One of them being that I believe that a country and commons divided is not what the UK needs right now.I want us to get through this Brexshit and then next election (it’ll be here very quick) I’ll use my vote based on parties manifesto’s (of which I think the LibDems are probably more my pick this year).
I wanted to trust corbyn but I can’t get past the fact he had links to the IRA and has refused on mutiple occations to condem any IRA bombings, to the point where Mi5 investigated it (as I believe the press would have us believe).
Ironic that the Tories are now in discussions with Sinn Fein…
I don’t think there’s much irony here. There’s a difference between Corbyn being an open Unionist supporter in the 1980’s and Gray May scrabbling about for some friendly faces for some odd couple coalition.
peted76
Well I think the clear winner
Well I think the clear winner in this years assault on the population by the most expensive PR teams each party employs was Lord Buckethead – I reckon he nailed his manifesto and he managed to get a selfie with Theresa May 🙂 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/09/lord-buckethead-elmo-and-mr-fish-finger-a-very-british-election
I’m pleased Jimmy Krankie has been put back in her box regarding the scottish referendum.
Ho hum, now back to spinning those legs out..
alansmurphy
peted76 wrote:I’ve voted conservative, no matter how unpopular it may be on the internets and on this very forum. I did this for two reasons mainly. One of them being that I believe that a country and commons divided is not what the UK needs right now.I want us to get through this Brexshit and then next election (it’ll be here very quick) I’ll use my vote based on parties manifesto’s (of which I think the LibDems are probably more my pick this year).
I wanted to trust corbyn but I can’t get past the fact he had links to the IRA and has refused on mutiple occations to condem any IRA bombings, to the point where Mi5 investigated it (as I believe the press would have us believe).
Ironic that the Tories are now in discussions with Sinn Fein…
StraelGuy
Check this out, so, so perfect.
srchar
brooksby wrote:Ultimately, whichever party you vote for, the Government will get in. However, please remember that if you don’t vote then you’re not allowed to spend the next five years complaining.I would usually agree, but the candidates on offer this time around are so woeful, I would sympathise with any abstainer… and I don’t think you get to stop paying tax if you don’t vote, so moan away!
brooksby
Ultimately, whichever party
Ultimately, whichever party you vote for, the Government will get in. However, please remember that if you don’t vote then you’re not allowed to spend the next five years complaining.
ktache
I don’t care how anyone has
I don’t care how anyone has voted, though I do care about the result, but if you haven’t voted yet please go out and do it now if you are registered. If nothing else deface your ballot, write something truely defamatory about the candidate you dislike the most, maybe a cartoon c**k and b***s, it might ammuse the counters later. Democracy is cool!
srchar
dottigirl wrote:I’ve followed this election in detail, and been disturbed at the inaccurate and biased press coverage, and the sheep mentality of many for believing Mail/Sun/Express/BBC headlines, etc.Bearing in mind most of the readership here should know how misleading they are about cycling, why do they think their election coverage would be any more trustworthy?
It never ceases to amaze me that so many people on the left think that press bias only exists to the right. All publications have an agenda, you just don’t realise the bias of e.g. The Mirror or The Guardian because you agree with them. I can’t think of a single unbiased mainstream publication.
Do you really believe that everyone voting not-Tory is tremendously well-informed and doing so based purely on policy, while everyone voting Tory is just an ignoramus who has been misled by The Sun, The Mail and BBC coverage?
drosco
Why does anyone care what
Why does anyone care what people voted?dottigirl
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Does that say more about the readership you’re bemoaning, or you?dottigirl wrote:I can’t believe I’m reading that so many of you are voting Tory.
I don’t know.
I’ve followed this election in detail, and been disturbed at the inaccurate and biased press coverage, and the sheep mentality of many for believing Mail/Sun/Express/BBC headlines, etc.
Bearing in mind most of the readership here should know how misleading they are about cycling, why do they think their election coverage would be any more trustworthy?
srchar
dottigirl wrote:I can’t believe I’m reading that so many of you are voting Tory.Really disappointed.
If anyone is yet to vote, please take a look at the manifestos and vote on that. Or speak to someone who works for the police, NHS, fire service…
I know three Met police officers (two voting Tory, one Green) and a surgeon who works for the NHS (Tory); he himself says that it is unsustainable in its current form and desperately needs to be reformed, but it is political kryptonite so will stagger on as is until things get very bad.
You can’t make lazy assumptions about people – there’s a finite amount of money in the country to pay for public services and the party in government can’t change that.
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