Brexit -am I stupid or what

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  1. Loofah

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    Our area is also true blue and I expect him to win again despite zero effort. The other candidates are frankly so weak that there is no sensible opposition. The Green candidate got announced today and given the furore over language because Boris called something a Surrender Bill I'm quite amazed by her rhetoric. Some examples from ONE initial spiel -

    I believe radical change is needed
    can no longer tolerate the lip service
    need to disrupt the system
    a radical enough agenda

    It is highly aggressive in nature and if other MPs are going to be pilloried then this sort of release should have been pulled straight away.

    Also - Green MEP: Election pact is 'vision of a new politics'; this is where Lib Dem, Plaid Cymru and Green Party plan for an electoral pact.

    It's not a vision for new politics, it's admitting your own policies and people aren't strong enough to win on their own merit and that you have to gang up on another party to try and derail them. What then? Who wins?
     
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      I saw Ian Austin's (ex Labour Minister and MP) who resigned from the Labour Party in February and stands as an Independent, interview on Sky News this morning. He told Labour voters that out of the choice of Corbyn and Boris being Prime Minister then they should vote for Boris. Seeing the man saying that I believe he was quite genuinely upset at having to say that but that he really believed what he was saying.
      He said Corbyn was not to be trusted and was a security threat and he said it in such a manner that you could see/believe that it was genuine.
      When McDonnell was asked this morning, while campaigning in Liverpool,about Ian Austin, his answer was to say that Ian Austin was working for the Conservatives!:doh: So he's accusing a man who worked for the Labour Party from the age of 16, became a Labour Councillor, and a Minister in the Brown Government, then a Labour MP from 2005 until he couldn't stand what was going on in the Corbyn Labour Party any more and became an Independent MP in February of becoming a Conservative and a Traitor.:dunno::wallbanging: I watched McDonnel campaigning this morning, he's very articulate, eloquent and, to me, machiavellian accusing a man who is still, basically, traditional Labour to the bone of working for the Tories without even blinking or taking a breath......he's not a man I would turn my back on.:nonofinger:
      I don't think Corbyn will last long after the General Election and there will be internal coup with either Starmer or McDonnel becoming Leader.:cat-kittyandsmiley::coffee:
       
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          Keep saying JC won't be around much longer! And that McDonnell is a turd isn't he!
           
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            So any government borrows money. There are pledges all-round from the parties saying they'll invest huge amounts into whatever, my question is this - is the economy now only in a position to survive the amounts said to be borrowed and invested because of the 'austerity' measures taken by the blues, or would the next government be in good shape to do this anyway? Rumour has it that the reds left zero cash in the pot so to speak and took us perhaps beyond the edge of sense financially but in honesty I don;t know if this is true or pure myth
             
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              Still thinking about putting that cross against the Labour candidate?

              This is what the Jewish Chronicle think about Jezza:

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              If Jezza gets into power - Brexit will be the least of our worries....
               
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                Ironic it's called the JC...
                 
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                  Agree with you there @ARMANDII .

                  Corbyn has some wacky ideas and the reality is that it is unlikely that any of his more 'wacky' ideas would actually get through Parliament.

                  I really like Kier Starmer. He comes from a working class background and has done well - I like that.

                  I struggle to understand how working classes can vote Tory these days because I think the Tories are too far from reality - Rees-Mogg prime example (no sane person could defend the foul stuff he spouts), BoJo - not done a proper days work in his life, detached from reality. They are only out for themselves. Working class voters chosing Tory just doesn't make sense to me - I'd be interested to find out why but the reality is Tory's are only out for themselves as upper classes. No matter how hard a working class person would want to fit in to their "world" you could never fit in - you will never get an invite to the Bullingdon Club! I can't say some of the places where I've worked before (due to non disclosure agreements) but I've experience that has really widened my eyes to Tory tactics and domination. Self-interest is one of the key threats to ethical standards in public life and self-interest is what Tories have bucket loads of (don't get me wrong, most politicians are about self-interest - but have seen it first hand too many times where the Tories are involved)

                  I'm a middle of the road kind of voter:
                  I want UK businesses to do well, but I also want all UK businesses (especially the large corporations) to pay taxes (not escape contributing to the country via taxation like they are now).

                  I believe there should be a proper benefits system that is robust but fair. Not a system that asks genuinely severely disabled individuals to attend interviews to keep their benefits, but equally it really really grates on me that some individuals manage to con the system. The whole benefits system needs proper reform - not an "on the cheap" reform using private firms to do benefits assessments - that is only asking for trouble as their aim is to meet unrealistic targets in order to profit - that is not what public service is about.

                  I want the NHS to stay purely in house. I have seen first hand the destruction of our amazing NHS and the impact of outsourcing - sorry but it just does not work!

                  I believe in immigration limits but not because of a hatred for fellow humans - racism and the far right make me feel sick and needs to be wiped out, but i believe in immigration limits as our small island is so over populated. We could do with a points based system like Aus?

                  But I also don't believe that we should cut our ties with the EU. Trade reasons being a huge factor but I also don't want our standards to drop or fail such as health and safety (yes some people joke) but food standards, consumer safety, workers rights and animal welfare is are so important.


                  I don't know what the answers are but I'm struggling to work out which party I will vote for. Previously Bucks had John Bercow as speaker so we didn't get a proper meaningful vote for an MP - but I was happy that it was JB as speaker because I think he was very fair and pulled up MPs on both sides when they were out of line. I just wish the lib dems could come swooping back in and make sense of it all (despite their past form) but I feel that I should vote Labour as surely, Corbyn won't last long and someone like Kier Starmer will take lead. I just know I could never ever vote Tory ever again after what I have had experience of work-wise. Plus, many of them are pro-hunting and how any human can condone such brutality for "sport/fun" cannot be classed as a reasonable human being in my eyes.

                  I wish there was an easy answer to all of this but unfortunately there isn't. It's a depressing state of affairs.
                   
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                    Glad I've got that off my chest. :phew::heehee:
                     
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                      I'm having no problem as to which party I shall be voting for.I'm working class and shall be on the Tory Bus all the way...Just my opinion but Kier Starmer widdles in the same pot at the rest of the Labour party.
                       
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                        No disrespect @lolimac, but why do you vote Tory? I just cannot understand. Genuine question.
                         
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                          I agree with you partially, Snorky, but I have to take into account that he is, on the surface, a staunch supporter of Corbyn and McDonnell, Abbott, etc, and preaches the same words and policies. The only reason a coup would take place is that Corbyn is, and has been for a long time, a person regarded by most people, and other political parties, as being unsuitable for being Prime Minister, not because his policies are unacceptable and therefore Karmer would only present a more suitable image and appearance.:dunno::cat-kittyandsmiley::coffee:
                           
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                            It's difficult to put into words @Snorky85 without writing an essay but in the short...
                            I don't trust the labour party..as far as I'm concerned they are just agitators and debt merchants.Corbyn reckons he's going to do soooo much for this country ..who's going to pay for it?
                            I know that I've put it in pure layman terms but there is not a soul on this earth that will make me believe otherwise...

                            Let's face it you can't trust any politician but I trust the Tories just that bit more.:dbgrtmb:
                             
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                              I think McDonnell is the man behind the Throne, so to speak, with connections to Momentum, and that he's been steering Corbyn, who's determined to complete his fantasy of not so much of being Prime Minister but more of being in control of a Country although, obviously both in this case both go together. Mcdonnel reminds me more of a coiled snake dressed in a sharp suit.:cat-kittyandsmiley::coffee:
                               
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                                Thanks @ARMANDII and @lolimac, genuinely appreciate you explaining your reasoning.

                                I agree Corbyn is an absolute nut and his way of paying for it through some crazy taxation (I think I'd heard a crazy one such as a one off lump sum taxation on anyone who has assets more than 500k?).

                                But knowing what I've experienced with the Tories, I could not stomach voting for them. They've gone too far - as has Labour in the opposite direction. All policiticans are full of BS, but ultimately that's why I go on the "human being" judgement over them - if they support barbaric "sports", killing for fun, then they are not human in my eyes and I won't support them full stop (yes I know not all tories support hunting).

                                Can someone bring some sanity back to this country? And actually be interested in resolving the mess and UNITING people rather than dividing them. UGH isn't it sad. :wallbanging:
                                 
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