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To think we need a General Election asap

309 replies

millymollymandy46 · 04/12/2017 20:15

Surely now is the time for a vote of utter no confidence in Theresa May. AIBU to think she and those around her are utterly incompetent and making Britain a laughing stock around the globe?

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GoingIn · 06/12/2017 08:07

I think people are starting to recognise that the tory government policies are not working and a change is needed before the whole country is screwed.

PiffleandWiffle · 06/12/2017 08:12

So who would you rather vote in OP? All I see at the moment is Politicians carrying on with the little point scoring games at the expense of the country.

If they all sat down, put aside parties for Brexit, and worked together instead of this one-upmanship we'd be in a much stronger place.

Time for them to remember that they're paid for by the people to work for the good of the people.....

WitchesHatRim · 06/12/2017 08:13

Anyone who voted for Brexit should be taxed double and have benefits cut.

Don't be so bloody stupid.

Rebeccaslicker · 06/12/2017 08:14

Shhh - he's made an entire career out of doing that and nothing more. That's why it's so bizarre that he's now heralded by some as this great messiah of politics. If he actually had any power, he'd be clueless. All he's good at is deliberately taking the opposite view.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 06/12/2017 08:16

A change to Corbyn will screw it up completely.

If we the bloody this is s bad, then add Corbyn/McDonnel's anti business attitude to it and watch the shit really coming down.

It would be a perfect storm. They might get more tax revenues for a year or two and then it will drop off sharply and won't recover for decades.

So the poor will be even poorer and the Middke class will slide down in income to benefit levels so welfare expenditures will rise sharply while tax revenue drop.

How is that any good for anyone?

shhhfastasleep · 06/12/2017 08:18

This needs to be dealt with cross-Party. It's too important to deal with as a party political thing. May could tell the DUP to shove it and find support on this specific issue in the National fecking interest across the floor of the house.
Oh, well.. it was worth fantasising about it for a moment.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 06/12/2017 08:20

He would be clueless, would he?

My dog fulfilled his great dream the other day and cornered a cat in the bottom of the garden. Then I had to go and rescue him from the sticky situation because he had no idea what to do, apart from bark a lot.

makeourfuture · 06/12/2017 08:20

Google Chile

I did. Keep getting pictures of Thatcher hugging Pinochet.

shhhfastasleep · 06/12/2017 08:27

You see pictures of Thatcher and Pinochet? Good, you've made a start in learning about extreme right wingers.

Justanotherlurker · 06/12/2017 08:28

I think people are starting to recognise that the tory government policies are not working and a change is needed before the whole country is screwed.

I think many people can also see that JC are offering nothing but populist sound bites, with vague platitudes as to do the right thing.

It's not hard to look into his actions and see how many times he has said empty words even without reading the "bogey man" of the evil right wing press.

makeourfuture · 06/12/2017 08:28

Corbyn/McDonnel's anti business attitude

Haven't looked at economic figures have we? Why do the Tories keep pushing those dates back? Because they are standing on the throat of economic growth.

shhhfastasleep · 06/12/2017 08:30

If you think everyone who despises Corbyn loves Thatcherism, you are naive and deluded.

makeourfuture · 06/12/2017 08:30

Or is that Apartheid she's embracing?

Believeitornot · 06/12/2017 08:31

Corbyn/McDonnel's anti business attitude

What, so why is the Tory “pro business” attitude better? They’re pro business but not pro employee. Which is idiotic because you can’t run a business without employees.
Instead we have an economy built on very very well off individuals at the top at the expense of those who actually do the work to make them their profits.

BWatchWatcher · 06/12/2017 08:33

May was handed a turd.
It's the Brexiteers who got us into this mess.
Happy now?

annandale · 06/12/2017 08:34

I think we may end up with one, but I hope we don't. I suppose we could end up with a Tory majority again, with the DUP dropped like a hot potato and Stormont suspended, making some form of recrudescence of violence quite likely since the Government have amply proved they don't give a shit. I don't see Labour doing much better than last time, I think that was the peak for this particular configuration and having done unexpectedly well last time they will be torn to pieces this time - this thread alone proves there is a big lobby who will do almost anything to avoid a Corbyn government.

It's interesting that there is clearly now a push to blame any problems with Brexit on having a remainer in charge (that or the EU). Some of the mistakes TM has made are really terrible but this shite policy which is going to make most things worse is down to us. There is no politician in the world who would come out of leading any aspect of Brexit who would not look like a dick because it's a stupid, selfharming policy.

shhhfastasleep · 06/12/2017 08:35

Yep, thatcher sucked up to apartheid too. Doesn't mean this lot of jokers are extreme right wingers.

makeourfuture · 06/12/2017 08:39

What, so why is the Tory “pro business” attitude better? They’re pro business but not pro employee. Which is idiotic because you can’t run a business without employees.
Instead we have an economy built on very very well off individuals at the top at the expense of those who actually do the work to make them their profits.

Absolutely.

Tories are not pro business.

Tories are pro their business.

MissMustBeAMug · 06/12/2017 08:45

Everyone moaning about people who voted brexit being thick or having no critical reasoning skills make me laugh. Especially as it’s usually tacked in with some snobbery at the working/under classes.

In your eyes around half the country is too poorly educated to understand what’s going on.

And instead of being up in arms about the shocking state of education you just deride them instead.

If you are right and over half the country is very poorly educated...

Whose fault is that then?

Mrswrex · 06/12/2017 08:47

I dearly hope we don’t have one.

I want the Tories stood right next to this shitbomb when it goes off. They will be completely unelectable for years.

LizzieSiddal · 06/12/2017 08:56

Mrs yes I kind of agreed but what state will this country be in by the time they’ve finished?

And if Corbyn wasn’t labour leader we’d have a credible alternative.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 06/12/2017 09:00

Ah, the well known attack as a firm of deflection strategy, make. Nicely tried.

Guacamowle · 06/12/2017 09:06

We have what the country voted for. I don't trust May, but then again don't think any of the alternatives are that much better. The one who has impressed me most is Mhairi Black of the SNP but that's never going to happen!

makeourfuture · 06/12/2017 09:11

Ah, the well known attack as a firm of deflection strategy, make. Nicely tried

Keeping you guys focused is tough. And I've got a flare up over on Guardian's cif.

GoingIn · 06/12/2017 09:11

Lurker, jc or even the labour party are not in charge now, it's the tories. Even some tory MPs are realising that things need to change. Hopefully that number is growing and people are pressurising their MPs to lobby for a fairer society. You may be happy and content with how the UK is at the moment but many aren't, and yes that includes some (hopefully increasingly) tories.

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