General Election - 8th June.

xmiles wrote:Just in case anyone cares:

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xmiles wrote:Just in case anyone cares:

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Natasha Whittam wrote:

xmiles wrote:Just in case anyone cares:

http://e.infogr.am/stop_the_tories-0?src=embed

I'm not looking forward to several weeks of xmiles anti-Tory crap. Please can someone ban him.

Hipster_Nebula wrote:I will be voting Conservative for the first time.

xmiles wrote:

Hipster_Nebula wrote:I will be voting Conservative for the first time.

Why?

Hipster_Nebula wrote:

xmiles wrote:

Hipster_Nebula wrote:I will be voting Conservative for the first time.

Why?

Because the SNP have lied to the people of Scotland and followed Labour down the pits of sanctimonious holier than thou socialist grievance culture protest party CRAP. 

at this point the Conservatives are the only party with any interest in hard working British people.

at this point the Conservatives are the only party with any interest in hard working British people.

wanderlust wrote:Everybody else is saying that the Brexit issue is just a decoy to take attention away from the Government's piss poor performance

Natasha Whittam wrote:

wanderlust wrote:Everybody else is saying that the Brexit issue is just a decoy to take attention away from the Government's piss poor performance

That's just a ridiculous comment, absolutely mental.

The ship is steady. Not perfect by any means, and could be a lot better. But steady.

The simple fact is that small minded people like yourself will only vote for one party, regardless of the facts.

wanderlust wrote:
They're doing well if we ignore the NHS crisis, the education crisis, 4 million British children living in poverty for the first time ever, the deterioration of international relations, the undercutting of worker's rights, prices rising faster than wages, cutbacks in public services, the deterioration of the national infrastructure, the housing crisis, the rocketing national debt......

Natasha Whittam wrote:

wanderlust wrote:
They're doing well if we ignore the NHS crisis, the education crisis, 4 million British children living in poverty for the first time ever, the deterioration of international relations, the undercutting of worker's rights, prices rising faster than wages, cutbacks in public services, the deterioration of the national infrastructure, the housing crisis, the rocketing national debt......

Virtually all those have been in crisis my whole lifetime, and you know it.

And all of them were prevalent under the last Labour government.

• Cut working-age social security spending by £12bn.
  

• Open 500 new free schools over the next parliament.
  
• Maintain per pupil funding for four- to 16-year-olds in state schools.
  
• Keep the pupil premium for disadvantaged children at current levels.
  
• Train an extra 17,500 maths and physics teachers over the next five years.
  
• Turn “failing and coasting” state secondary schools into academies.
  
• Schools classed as “requiring improvement” by Ofsted to have new head teachers.
  
• Remove cap on undergraduate numbers for university student recruitment.
  
• Introduce a postgraduate loan scheme for masters and PhD students.
  
• New measures to tackle abuse of student visa system.
  
• Maintain the size of the regular armed services and not reduce the army to below 82,000; retain the Trident continuous at-sea nuclear deterrent.
  
• In response to the controversy over government surveillance, it promises: “We will keep up to date the ability of the police and security services to access communications data – the ‘who, where, when and how’ of a communication, but not its content.”
  
• Short, sharp jail spell for prolific offenders.
  
• Scrap the Human Rights Act.
  
• Migrants to wait four years before they can claim certain benefits or social housing.
  
• “Ambition” to reduce net migration.
  
• • English MPs will be given a “veto over matters affecting England”, with the “principle of English consent” extended to include and English rate of income tax.
  
• • A new Scotland bill will be introduced to implement the recommendations of the cross-party Smith commission, set up after the independence referendum, which recommended the devolution of further powers to Holyrood.
  
• Freeze rail fares in real terms over whole parliament.
  
  
• More trains, roads and cycle routes.
  
  
• Invest in Midlands infrastructure and build a northern powerhouse.
  
  
• Support a further 3m apprenticeships.
  
  
• Business loans for 75,000 entrepreneurs.
  
  
  

• Protection for the role of journalists via the British bill of rights with police barred from accessing journalists’ phone records to identify whistle-blowers without prior judicial approval.
  
  
• Consultation on business rates relief for local newspapers in England.
  
  

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  •  Halt new public subsidies for onshore windfarms.
    
    
  • A free vote to repeal the ban on hunting with dogs.
    
    
  • Ban wild animals in circuses; new “blue belt” to safeguard precious marine habitats; insulate 1m more homes.
    
    
    
  
  
  

Bread2.0 wrote:Ah...it's all the last Labour government's fault......I see.

Fuck off.

The Tories have been in charge for 7 years.

Are we currently unable to score goals because of Owen Coyle and his ping pong fascination?

Natasha Whittam wrote:

Bread2.0 wrote:Ah...it's all the last Labour government's fault......I see.

Fuck off.

The Tories have been in charge for 7 years.

Are we currently unable to score goals because of Owen Coyle and his ping pong fascination?

I wasn't suggesting it was their fault, I was pointing out that these problems have been around longer than the current government.

I'll expect your apology by 5pm.