To think we should just all vote for labour

[brexitstolemyfuture]

Renationalise the railways and energy companies.

Stoping any rises in pension age.

Taxing the top 5% to pay for oap social care.

No tax rises to people warning under 80k.

No to nuclear weapons.

Giving workers the right to strike.

Reverse legal aid cuts, giving the poorest people access to the legal system.

No target on immigration.

Banning driver only trains to keep the underground in safe hands.

Increased rights for the Roma.

Review of disability benefits changes.

Scraping tuition fees.

Honestly all such good ideas, we can get him ellected!

[Kursk]

To quote the biggest socialist of them all, "we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economical weak, with it's unfair safeties and it's unseemly evaluation of a human being to wealth and property, instead of wealth and performance".

[Slarti]

Unilateral nuclear disarmament?

I thought they'd used the word "mulitlateral" which has the exact opposite meaning.

[Dianneabbottsmathsteacher]

Always amazes me how friends of friends work for someone famous and some find the famous person wonderful whole someone else comes on to tell us what a bastard he/she was to their friend.

Never belive the 'my friend works for' on here it's usually bullshit

[Dapplegrey2]

Sorry Ceto, your parents.

[Dapplegrey2]

Interestingly, Theresa May has persuaded my parents to give up a lifetime habit of voting Conservative by the simple expedient of her pronouncements on fox hunting.
Ceto the Tories have always been largely pro hunting so why did your mother vote for them in the past?

[LonginesPrime]

No to nuclear weapons

Unilateral nuclear disarmament?

Sounds great - definitely sign me up for that!!

[Fruitcorner123]

YANBU but they have said they will support trident. Fed up of hearing about this mass exodus that's going to happen as soon as taxes rise slightly. Ridiculous! How have the media convinced people if this!?

[Tanith]

I think this wonderfully sarcastic article says it all!

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/labour-leaked-manifesto-1970s-stuck-tories-fox-hunting-jeremy-corbyn-theresa-may-a7730941.html


"Several Conservatives have taken issue with Labour’s pledge to be “extremely cautious” before using the nuclear deterrent. What sort of 1970s nonsense is that? If you’re going to be extremely cautious about dissolving millions of civilians in an apocalyptic firestorm, you might as well bring back outside toilets and On the Buses.
Instead of caution, Labour should get with the times by promising to set off a nuclear warhead if a five game accumulator comes up on Bet365. This is the excitement we crave, knowing that if West Bromwich Albion don’t get an equaliser that’s the end of Helsinki."

[RockinHippy]

I wouldn't usually choose Labour, but in our constituency they have the best chance of beating the Tories, so we will definitely be voting for them, plus I really like Corbyn, he is a rare man of principle in politics & that is coming from 2 friends who have worked with him & despite being very hard to please, they think he's wonderful & more than strong enough for the job.

The nuclear disarmament thing annoys me though. He has never said they will do that, only something along the lines that no nuclear weapons worldwide would be wonderful, which of course it would be, but he's not a stupid man & he won't be disarming the UK if he gets in.

[Puzzledandpissedoff]

by the time Trident's replacement is complete, Jeremy Corbyn will probably have retired to his allotment

I wouldn't be too sure ... the way things are going, they may well stuff him and put him on display in a glass case like his hero

Complete with his little Lenin cap

[BadLad]

Did Remain ever counter the 350 million figure with the real amount?

[TessTube]

I also have no idea what the connection is apart from I would have loved to nuke that fucking bus.

[ExplodedCloud]

I dont know Enthusiasm. Orange brought it up!

[EnthusiasmIsDisturbed]

We know who had that sign on he bus

But what has that got to do with the election

Of course someone could buckle under the pressure but we need to know what they believe their intention would be

[ExplodedCloud]

The official Leave campaign.

[blaeberry]

The £350 million was an outright lie at the time. And they new it.

But the point here was who was 'they'. 'They' wasn't any political party with the ability to make any commitment. The referendum was only for leave/remain, there was no attached manifesto.

[ExplodedCloud]

You asked what's the point of building it, Anon.
I think it's impossible to know what would happen if things escalated. I dont have that psychic ability. It's a question nobody can answer unless they're in it. Lots of people might say "Hell yes I'd press the button!" And then actually buckle when called upon to make the decision.

[Orangebird69]

And the difference is?

[TessTube]

Oh sorry I misread,

I thought for a second someone still believed them

[TessTube]

Oh Orange come on, they'd admitted that was horse shit as soon as the sun came up.

[ExplodedCloud]

The £350 million was an outright lie at the time. And they knew it. They never had the slightest belief that they could or would work towards contributing that figure, or any money reclaimed from Europe to the NHS.

[makeourfuture]

You can't Un invent technology though can you? They are here. By all means work for a safer world and less of them but they are here to stay

There is talk about missile defence systems. Particularly being developed by the US.

From one perspective, it might bode well for the UK. But if it became a reality....if there was no more MAD/balance of power....

How would you negotiate with a nation, that with a few keystrokes could remove the "shield" from over your country.

[Orangebird69]

Exploded, it's as laudable as the Leave campaign saying that £350m a week could be spent on the nhs.

[Anon213]

But its not just about the renewed Trident, its about the current deterrent. If he wont use it now then we are defenseless whilst he was in power.

[ExplodedCloud]

Tbf, Anon, even if Labour win, by the time Trident's replacement is complete, Jeremy Corbyn will probably have retired to his allotment. So it's a moot point really. You have no idea who'll actually be around to press any big red buttons when it's delivered.