O/T - general election 2019

[ragingpup]

I think swinson and farage are on next week one on Monday one on Tuesday

Honestly I enjoy watching these lying mps get grilled can’t wait to see how he roasts the others

I agree - he is brilliant at it.

[KerrAvon]

Corbyn was taken out of his comfort zone - he likes to talk about spending, but not where the money is coming from (like most politicians). I thought he was badly prepared - it's possible to not answer questions in a two minute radio soundbite or at PMQs, but not in a half hour interview.

Apparently Teresa May will be eligible to £22000 under Labour's plans to compensate the WASPI women.

[wendun]

Yes. It's also obvious that Nicola Sturgeon is reconciled to a Tory win. Her stuff about a referendum, more money for Scottish NHS and removal of nukes as price of supporting a minority Labour government is hardly likely to help Corbyn. She's playing to the Scottish gallery and will hope that BJ will refuse a second Scottish referendum - which she knows she'd lose - and then screw up Brexit so badly that the Scottish economy will take a hit and support for independence and rejoining the EU will surge over next few years.

[MillerBill]

Just seen the Andrew Neil interview with Jeremy.He was completely taken to the cleaners.These empty promises are just down right lies to try and capture votes and it was truly exploited last night.He came out looking absolutely stupid.Let's get Brexit done and move on upwards.Our kids don't deserve all this delay which is costing the country huge sums that can be used to benefit this country instead of subsidising the broken EU.

[Timbertop]

Is Boris on tonight (7.30 ?) ?

[Silly-miller]

Corbyn was taken out of his comfort zone - he likes to talk about spending, but not where the money is coming from (like most politicians). I thought he was badly prepared - it's possible to not answer questions in a two minute radio soundbite or at PMQs, but not in a half hour interview.

Apparently Teresa May will be eligible to £22000 under Labour's plans to compensate the WASPI women.

I knew about his practically remain vs remain before it don’t take a genius to work that out from the way his front bench talks his anti Semitic problems is the same issue he has on brexit and his IS policy. He’s a man with no action that’s being controlled by his front bench one or two unions, don’t get me wrong he maybe a decent guy deep down and if his front bench was better than it is he may have a more socialist unionist stance, but to me because he’s so neutral his party’s all over the bleeding place pushing things he don’t believe in and that’s poor leadership.

What struck me in that interview was the amount of tax increases labour has planed

Scraping couples tax allowance
Taxing pensioners £400 if they get over £14,000 a year (isn’t that anyone with two pensions?)

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Just seen the Andrew Neil interview with Jeremy.He was completely taken to the cleaners.These empty promises are just down right lies to try and capture votes and it was truly exploited last night.He came out looking absolutely stupid.Let's get Brexit done and move on upwards.Our kids don't deserve all this delay which is costing the country huge sums that can be used to benefit this country instead of subsidising the broken EU.

Yes we need to move on.

Brexit though has shown that the old stereotype of “tories protecting their money” is not really true anymore

What we have now are “remainers protecting their money” and they aren’t exclusively Tory, far from it.

Either way London rules, the North pays for it

[wendun]

Yes we need to move on.

Brexit though has shown that the old stereotype of “tories protecting their money” is not really true anymore

What we have now are “remainers protecting their money” and they aren’t exclusively Tory, far from it.

Either way London rules, the North pays for it

Grist, you always have an interesting slant on things. Here you have rather lost me on two counts. Not at all sure what "remainers protecting their money" means. And does the North really pay? I find economics difficult but in terms of contribution to UK GDP London far outstrips elsewhere, all the regions with above average contributions are in the South (with the exception of Cheshire and NE Scotland - oil, perhaps for this last one?) and every region in the North contributes much less than the average. The South East could probably follow Italy's lead and go for a Northern League type party and push for independence.

[Silly-miller]

Yes we need to move on.

Brexit though has shown that the old stereotype of “tories protecting their money” is not really true anymore

What we have now are “remainers protecting their money” and they aren’t exclusively Tory, far from it.

Either way London rules, the North pays for it

That’s so true

No mater which way I look at it labour are like a eu Conservative party I mean what else would you call renationalising 4 industry’s

Personally if I was leader of labour I’d

Charge a rail fee to any train/tram company using tax payers rails

Stick both men and women pension age to 64 immediately and to 62 by end of 5 years

Amend PIP to include people with mental disabilities

Increase minimum wage to £10

A extra 10% tax on anyone with a over seas bank account

Free tuition fees for under 24s and people on universal credit and reimbursed for anyone training to be a nurse or paramedic

No second referendum

As you see my views are nothing like what labour wants

[ragingpup]

raging, my reference to London-based was a cheap shot. I admit to being slightly miffed with you for the Wendy dig. This seems to have originated with dear roly to imply oddly and bizarrely that I'm an Owls fan.
I had hoped to clear out the Tories and end the Brexit madness but Corbyn and the cabal have handled the whole damn thing disastrously. We will be landed with BJ and I anticipate chaos both constitutionally and economically. Unfortunately, the Far Left and Unions control the levers of power in Labour and so I can only see the party dwindling to irrelevance. I shall probably move back to Ireland.

Hi Wendun - I absolutely had no idea of the history of the 'Wendy' name - I just liked the sound of it and it was used for no other reason. I had no idea about an Owls based history and how that happened. Sorry to miff you on that.