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  • 2019 General Election
  • Houns
    Full Member

    ‘My’ Tory MP Margot James resigned this year, have no idea who the Tory candidate is, I hope that this may sway some to vote for other parties.

    I’ll be voting labour, not my party of choice, but I hope we wake up tomorrow with them leading the counts, I think our country depends on it

    stevious
    Full Member

    They give away FREE SWEETS at the polling station you guys.

    crimsondynamo
    Free Member

    SNP marginal here. 1k lead over Conservatives.

    Scot Tory pamphlets have been amusing. Basically “SNP bad”, but not a peep about Brexit.

    The Scot Tory surge two years ago will recede the the absence of Ruth Davidson at the helm. She had a broad appeal that none of the current lot can match.

    I also think that as Brexit opinions have become more entrenched/radicalised on both sides, floating voter Remainer Scots will be far less forgiving of the Conservatives now than they were in 2017.

    northernmatt
    Full Member

    @siwhite @kerley

    I know these people personally and most of them are lifelong Labour voters that have switched to Tory because they simple believe everything they see/hear in the right wing press. Maybe not idiots, definitely gullible, one in particular is just a massive racist.

    outofbreath
    Free Member

    most of them are lifelong Labour voters that have switched to Tory because they simple believe everything they see/hear in the right wing press.

    Why would a lifelong Labour voter be reading the RW press? Mirror, Socialist Worker, Guardian, Independent are all available or if they want straight unbiased reporting just stop reading papers and choose an approprite news media. Christ, most RW people don’t read the RW press why would LW people be?

    BruceWee
    Free Member

    Come on guys, some people on here are calling Tory voters idiots and others are calling them selfish.

    Can’t we just compromise and call them selfish idiots?

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    scotroutes
    Full Member

    I don’t think any UK election has ever been won by less than three votes.

    NE Fife was won by 2 votes last time around. 😮

    AlexSimon
    Full Member

    If you would like to feel slightly optimistic about getting Boris out, have a read of this.

    The Largest Vote Swings in British General Election History Censored Out By the BBC and Mainstream Media

    v8ninety
    Full Member

    Why would a lifelong Labour voter be reading the RW press?

    I don’t know why ANYONE would read, and especially buy into the likes of the Sun and the Daily Mail. But so, so many do. And completely fail to see the bias that is staring them in the face. It’s massively depressing to me, that otherwise decent people become tainted by the vitriol.

    My in laws, in a slight non stereotypical shocker, are really nice, gentle, Christian folk. But they buy the Daily Mail, believe the stuff that’s presented as fact, and take it personally when anyone dare suggest that that rag is an evil, hate filled, xenophobic mouthpiece of Russian billionaires that once ran stories supporting Hitler. Don’t ask me how I know this… 🙄

    My point I suppose, is that lots of people don’t even realise how much they are being influenced by the drivel that they read.

    finishthat
    Free Member

    A lot of them are just voting Boris , not really Conservative – but Boris/GeBrDo. , and if he gets in he will mess about a wreck quite a lot of things before shuffling off to write amusing lies for news papers with a huge salary , one of the saddest things is that he will get a protection team for life.

    martinhutch
    Full Member

    If you would like to feel slightly optimistic about getting Boris out, have a read of this.

    God, I hope he’s right.

    Off out to do my civic duty now. If I can help halve the majority of the Tory incumbent then it will at least give him a shot across the bows.

    kimbers
    Full Member


    @binners
    or similar arty types

    IF Johnson were to lose tomorrow & have a resignation speech like Cameron could someone edit a video of No10 so that it was a fridge door & Johnson just opened it & walked in ?

    racefaceec90
    Full Member

    unfortunately where i live is a tory safe seat (devizes) so i voted labour.

    nickc
    Full Member

    Sorry dazh couldn’t remember whether you were in the consttituancy or just over the border. I think there’s a good chance this year if unseating the odious twerp. Small victories!

    v8ninety
    Full Member

    Already voted Labour by post, although it felt like a fools errand in (I think) the 10th safest Tory seat in the UK.

    Wish I could move to Scotland.

    finishthat
    Free Member

    In that article about the hardly reported swings it mentions Wokingham , Redwood has not mentioned Brexit once in any of his leaflets , there is a big push by LibDem and its working , it was a 56% remain area.

    doris5000
    Free Member

    They give away FREE SWEETS at the polling station you guys.

    ooh get you! Where’s that?

    My polling station is the local social club. You get the free smell of bleach and stale beer

    2tyred
    Full Member

    Why would a lifelong Labour voter be reading the RW press? Mirror, Socialist Worker, Guardian, Independent are all available or if they want straight unbiased reporting just stop reading papers and choose an approprite news media. Christ, most RW people don’t read the RW press why would LW people be?

    Have you travelled by bus or train or airport in the last few years? All those free newspapers? Who owns them and which wing do they play on?

    It’s everywhere and it’s normalised. Unless you actively avoid them, they’re right in front of you, every day.

    dazh
    Full Member

    I think there’s a good chance this year if unseating the odious twerp. Small victories!

    Yeah I’m trying not to get too excited, but there’s a real difference this time after the tragedy of 2017. I’ve never seen people so fired up about getting rid of Whittaker. Mrs Daz has volunteered her services today to drive labour voters to the polling station. Think lots of others are doing the same. Also hoping the forecast deluge this afternoon keeps many of the older generation at home. The signs are good.

    tjagain
    Full Member

    Already voted Labour by post, although it felt like a fools errand in (I think) the 10th safest Tory seat in the UK.

    Which would have been an SNP seat a couple of elections ago. Every Scots seat is in play

    root-n-5th
    Free Member

    I like to have a balanced view and see all the arguments for their worth. Everyone has a fair point. This guy sums up my view really eloquently, and he only mentions half of it.

    I’m hoping that humanity sees sense today, and people aren’t stupid enough to believe what the vile right-wing press are vomiting everyday, and that some balance can be restored to the force. I don’t know why I get so worked up or hopeful about these things – I just end up utterly depressed, and then apologise to all the homeless people I meet in London, freezing on the streets. I shouldn’t have to donate to food banks or Shelter in 2019, no-one should. It’s sickening. As someone said above, see you on the other side.

    Del
    Full Member

    “democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard”

    amedias
    Free Member

    Observed in our local FB group this morning:

    “Does anyone know if you can vote online? There’s no polling station near me and I need to stay in today as have delivery coming”

    FFS, where to start…

    kelvin
    Full Member

    Nick, Daz… I obviously voted Labour, but I’m far less optimistic about the chances locally… a lot of 2017 Labour voters I speak to have been aghast at the last few years, and aren’t coming back. And Johnson has energised many of the people inclined not to vote last time to get out and vote Tory. Tactical voting might swing it, but it’s who turns up in numbers to vote that matters most (as is often the case). Let’s hope the teenagers make the difference.

    boomerlives
    Free Member

    I’ve found out this morning that the Labour candidate who doorstepped me and wouldn’t answer questions on Corbyn or Brexit and has sent 8 communications to my house is not actually standing in my area
    He’s missed the constituency border by about half a mile
    You couldn’t make it up

    BillMC
    Full Member

    Just about to set off down the town hall with my Mrs’ proxy vote but alas with an 18000 Tory majority I am only stating our preferences.

    You couldn’t make it up

    you probably did

    reggiegasket
    Free Member

    Brexit was always a stupid idea, driven by right-wing factions and swallowed by foolish reactionaries.

    But putting Boris in charge, officially, must go down as the most depressing political event of my life. I don’t know if I want to live in a country like this anymore. We’ll see.

    boomerlives
    Free Member

    So why isn’t labour dead against it?

    No don’t bother, it’s been done to death


    @BillMc
    – you get the govt you deserve. Evidently

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    That’s me voted, voted for the party I’m a member of.

    It was very busy at my local Polling Station…

    eskay
    Full Member

    Voted labour before work, really hoping my fellow constituents vote that utter **** Rees mogg out

    n0b0dy0ftheg0at
    Free Member

    I’m in one of the most marginal 2017 seats, really hoping we get rid of Royston this time, that 31 vote win has to be reversed this time… I hope! Too zombied to be ready to walk down with better half on her way to work, popping down a bit later.

    Edukator
    Free Member

    Lib Dem at an edukated guess, Bikebouy, why be coy?

    richardkennerley
    Full Member

    really hoping my fellow constituents vote that utter **** Rees mogg out

    He’s been hiding in his fridge for weeks now, he’ll need thawing out

    kerley
    Free Member

    Why would a lifelong Labour voter be reading the RW press?

    And more importantly how could a lifelong Labour voter vote for Conservatives? Understand they may want Brexit and see it as important for some reason but how could a person that has supported Labour values for their whole life switch to support Tory values? Especially at the current time where Labour are about as “Labour” as they could possibly get.

    Answer, they didn’t really support or understand Labour values and just saw it as the party they should be supporting because of their parents, because they are working class etc,.

    dantsw13
    Full Member

    Kerley – most people couldn’t tell you the actual policies of the main parties. Just because they’ve voted Labour all their life doesn’t mean they are really politically engaged.

    Like it or not, the simplistic online lie campaign works.

    endoverend
    Full Member

    They give away FREE SWEETS at the polling station you guys.

    If it’s the Tories giving out those sweets I wouldn’t trust eating one…

    Edukator
    Free Member

    Not everybody votes the way they say they do. My in-laws were cancelling out each others vote for years. When MIL revealed how she had really been voting it caused much amusement. That’s why it’s a secret ballot, otherwise every election would see arise in divorce and the prison population.

    piha
    Free Member

    A minority of Jeremy Corbyn supporters at his final rally got rather unpleasant.

    kennyp
    Free Member

    Just cycled down to the polling station and parked my bike outside.

    One candidate told me I’d have £350 million to spend on new bikes after Brexit, another said my bike should be nationalised and given to everyone to ride, one said I could get free bike riding tuition (but was fibbing) and the last one said my bike would be far better if the front wheel was broken off from the rest of the parts.

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