O/T - general election 2019

[Silly-miller]

He's a career politician, most of his career anyway, worked for a year or so in Parliament as a journalist and then became an MP, he obviously had the right connections.

The previous MP was an English teacher for many years and then Head of English, we need more MPs who have spent more than 5 minutes in the real world.

Amen to that

Should be a minimum requirement having 10 years in a normal job before being a labour mp. Makes me physically sick that these elite ****s are wearing a labour badge

[flourbasher]

Sarah champion will be voted back in by the Rotherham public. She won't have to phone or knock on doors to campaign. I don't want Labour in power. I want Brexit. Waste of time voting for any party other than Labour in Rotherham and I won't vote for them.

Most RUFC are totally exasperated by opposition fans mocking us for our recent social history so now is the chance for the town to say it was unacceptable and we,re doing something about it by voting out the inept council.

Won,t happen though

[gm_gm]

Jimmy Saville is dead. Unlike a lot of serial offenders still roaming free in Rotherham.

I’ll be voting for any party who can stave off the threat of Corbyn or Swinson getting into power.

God forbid that happening.

To be fair Kerr I think most people who think rationally will agree with this, the extremists however won’t agree

[jocksgloves]

They are all self-serving oppotunists. All hoping to eventually jump on the Euro parliament gravy train, as the Blairs and Kinnocks did. That's why they are desperate to hang in there. None of them are worthy of the great power we give them.
Time was that Labour leaders were hewn from the Unions and grassroots. Now they are Oxbridge graduates, hitching their wagons to any convenient party.
This last few years has shown the true democracy that people at the top believe in. When I lived in the Town constituency, I voted independent. Now my constituency has only the three main parties, so God knows what the choice is there. Any MP who's views differ from their constituents on Brexit should have had the backbone and honour to resign.

[Brin]

Sarah champion will be voted back in by the Rotherham public. She won't have to phone or knock on doors to campaign. I don't want Labour in power. I want Brexit. Waste of time voting for any party other than Labour in Rotherham and I won't vote for them.

Stovic, you're right in the fact Labour will hold Rotherham again come the next elections. Looking at the list of councillors seats there are currently:

48 Labour
11 Brexit
1 Lib Dem
3 Non Aligned.

After all this town has suffered and the way it is spiralling downwards with it's mass immigration imports, with Labour being in control of our town, why oh why do the folk of Rotherham vote these people in? They are definitely not getting my vote again when the elections start.

[Silly-miller]

Honestly labour policy on brexit is scary they are going to re negotiate a deal and put it to people their deal or remain. Ffs it’s remain or remain how can anyone vote them in

[ragingpup]

To be fair Kerr I think most people who think rationally will agree with this, the extremists however won’t agree

If you see Corbyn as a left wing extremist (interested to hear which of the manifesto commitments you would say is extremist?!), are you not including Farage as a right wing extremist by the same token?

[Silly-miller]

If you see Corbyn as a left wing extremist (interested to hear which of the manifesto commitments you would say is extremist?!), are you not including Farage as a right wing extremist by the same token?

I didn’t know he had a manifesto yet

Labour manifesto

Living wage to £10 - that’s nice but companies will just stick prices up to cover wages leaving us the same as we are now.

30 hrs free childcare for 2- 4 year olds isn’t child care free anyway? I wouldn’t know so I’m not sure 🤔

Scrap tuition fees - what on school isn’t school free anyway or uni? If it’s uni how will they pay for all that money, under half of our gdp comes from uni fees

Renationalisation of water rail and mail honestly if you believe they can get the money to do that and be legally able to do that your as thick as Alan Stubbs hiring old blackstock

Negotiate with Eu for a new deal keeping us in customs and in Eu courts and part of Eu army and vote on that deal or remain?

Come on they don’t give a **** about us Yorkshire lads

[Godsend.F.C.]

Childcare at present is available from the age of three and it’s not exactly free. There’s all sorts of rules and regs and conditions attached to it. Gross earnings, nett earnings, hours worked, nationality.
They should reduce Uni fees but bit by bit over a period of time and make them interet free if they’re not already. No kids should leave Uni in loads of debt.
Nationalisation - they ought to take Royal Mail back, sold on the cheap and now there’s talk of strike action. There’s been problems with Royal Mail since it was privatised.
Some of the Rail franchises are a mess.its legal to re-nationalise but can be costly.
They would have to raise tax bands for those above 80k and 100k and raise CorporationTax,the rest would have to be borrowed.

How do you think the Torys are going to pay for their Manifesto.?

[flourbasher]

Uni fees and a grant for living expenses used to be issued to undergraduates by each local council. I,m not sure if this was funded by local or central govt though.
This allowed each student to be debt free within a year or two of finding their first job assuming they didn,t go mad whilst studying.

The budgets are different now because relatively few went to Uni before higher education was dumbed down. Now it seems to be the norm for teenagers to go to Uni so it would cost more.
I think it was Tony Blair who delivered his education education education promises by slashing entry standards and course standards allowing more teenagers to attend Uni