UK General Election

Hlafordlaes said:
UK: I'm leaving you.
EU: So sorry for you. OK.
UK: When I leave I'll slam the door.
EU: Par for our friendship so far. And?
UK: I've left!!!! Article five-oh, baby! You don't care, so there!
EU: What about the furniture and the children?
UK: I'll through fiscal stones at your house, btw.
EU: What say we finish the divorce first?
UK: Uh, what say, a little sex once in a while?
EU: Out of the question.
UK: I'll encourage your other friends to hate you, too.
EU: Please concentrate on packing your things.
UK: Gimme some snooky!
EU: OK, so now I've had to kick you in your "rocks" of Gibraltar. Please stop!
UK: I'm throwing a hate-you party (aka "election")!! Yay for me.
EU: So glad for you. OK. Leave.
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:thumbsup::D
 
theprestige said:
Perhaps they just don't feel obligated to keep the EU together on the EU's terms.
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Sure, but EU does. It gets a vote just as UK does. Expect EU to prioritize itself over UK. The answer would require EU to dismantle itself to serve the UK, which is implausible to say the least.

McHrozni
 
Archie Gemmill Goal said:
Well that's fine and dandy but misses the point. Feel free to want and try to get whatever you feel is the best outcome but if 40% of people support Brexit on the belief that they can get that then it's not a mandate to deliver a Brexit that doesn't get that outcome.
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I've already explained about the 40% figure that's being bandied about. It does not show that 40% of people only support Brexit on the condition they get free trade and restricted immigration. In fact, it explicity states that this is not the case

poll said:
When we asked the 40% what they would prefer if they were forced to choose, they split evenly between immigration and trade.
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Using figures that are demonstrably incorrect does not help your case.
 
Garrison said:
My issue is not with Corbyn's being left wing, it's with his being inept and having a huge pile of dirty laundry just waiting to be aired in the press.
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As the UK press currently stands it is quite happy to take his clean laundry, pour chocolate sauce on it and then air it.
 
Vixen said:
<sigh> Looks like the SUN and the DAILY MAIL have already started their election campaign.

Let's face it, it was these two papers that swung it for BREXIT. One is owned by an Australian who lives in the USA (iirc) and the other by an Non-Domestic Resident (someone who gives his principle address as abroad to avoid UK Income Tax).
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I believe he is now a US citizen as the American's have rules preventing foriegn nationals owning their press.

The other actually inhefited his non-dom status, along with a title, from his father. Avoiding taxes is apparently a family tradition.
 
P.J. Denyer said:
As the UK press currently stands it is quite happy to take his clean laundry, pour chocolate sauce on it and then air it.
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What a poor put-upon martyr he is. He must have expected to be treated differently from every other political leader, and it must be so disappointing not to be given special kid-glove handling. One doesn't need the press to slate him, when you can hear the actual words coming from his lips.

Oh, and he doesn't need the press saying stuff about him to make his incompetence clear to millions. One only needs listen to what he tries to say, and how often he fails to say it, to see his incompetence. Further, you look at the lightweight rabble he has to surround himself with to see that Labour's third team aren't up to the job of running anything at all. He can't even inspire some of their actual talent to work with him, so why would he expect anyone outside his little group of acolytes to vote for him, or to write nice things about him? Once and for all, his standing in the opinion polls, his standing with the PLP, and his result in the General Election are not the fault of the press.
 
Everyone I've spoken to about the GE has been tired of politics and elections. I predict we are going to see a very low turnout , which will favour the Tories.

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I'll be away on holiday on June 8th. Normally I would apply for a postal vote, but at the moment I see little point as there is no-one I want to vote for. Anyone want to try to convince me otherwise?

I'm a pro-Europe left leaning pensioner who usually votes tactically for the Lib Dems as I live in the sort of constituency where you could stick a blue rosette on a pig and it would get elected.
 
Round here is a sea of yellow- Lib Dems. The irony is that if it weren't a prosperous, semi-rural community with next to no immigration, most of these would vote UKIP or Conservative. Nothing wrong with that, of course, we mostly vote for what benefits us.
 
baron said:
Round here is a sea of yellow- Lib Dems. The irony is that if it weren't a prosperous, semi-rural community with next to no immigration, most of these would vote UKIP or Conservative. Nothing wrong with that, of course, we mostly vote for what benefits us.
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Where are you? Newton Abbot here, and I presume you're somewhere close.
 
Seismosaurus said:
Well here's an interesting election promise : Labour says they will create four more bank holidays.

Is that really what the UK economy needs right now? More holidays?
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A bit misleading. One extra holiday for England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. The UK has around the same number of public holidays as Australia My state added an extra one (for AFL Grand Final eve) a couple of years ago without the social fabric being torn apart.
 
Then it's a good job nobody suggested that it would tear the social fabric apart, really. We all dodged a bullet on that one.
 
Seismosaurus said:
Well here's an interesting election promise : Labour says they will create four more bank holidays.

Is that really what the UK economy needs right now? More holidays?
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US businesses generally ignore "bank holidays" in favor of striking some balance between giving employees an expected number of recognized holidays and economy-stimulating (and profit-making) work days. Naturally quite a a few bank holidays are observed, but the general economy ticks on regardless of how many vanity days the government obliges itself to observe (and the banking industry for whatever reason sees fit to indulge). Does the British economy really depend so much on the government's power to declare "holidays"? How feudal.
 
theprestige said:
US businesses generally ignore "bank holidays" in favor of striking some balance between giving employees an expected number of recognized holidays and economy-stimulating (and profit-making) work days. Naturally quite a a few bank holidays are observed, but the general economy ticks on regardless of how many vanity days the government obliges itself to observe (and the banking industry for whatever reason sees fit to indulge). Does the British economy really depend so much on the government's power to declare "holidays"? How feudal.
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Probably veering off-topic. Obviously a lot of people work on declared public holidays, but in Australia, and the UK I think, employers have to pay much higher rates, meaning some small businesses may not turn a profit on these days.
 
lionking said:
A bit misleading. One extra holiday for England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. The UK has around the same number of public holidays as Australia My state added an extra one (for AFL Grand Final eve) a couple of years ago without the social fabric being torn apart.
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Is it just 1 extra my reading of that article, which is possibly wrong, is that all 4 would be holidays in the various nations?

My objection to it would be that it would just add to the load of holidays in March/April when the weather is cold, damp and depressing rather than adding some in June/July when the weather's slightly less cold and damp but equally depressing :D
 
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