If we have a General Election?

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How many of you would vote Labour if we had a General Election, just wondering as there have been a few negative comments on here about Labour recently

Do none of you vote for your constituency representative? It's not about parties or PM's. It's about who you chose to represent you. Regardless of party or policy. If you have a good mp hold on to that one.

I for one am extremely glad for Corbyn right now. If they’d agreed on a GE last night, in all likelihood the lying snake that is BoZo would have ensured we crashed out first, and then had an election. Corbyn is the only one actually thinking of the country rather than his party at this very moment.

Mustard- Corbyn knows he wouldn't win. If he cared for his country and wanted to give the Labour party a chance he would stand down. Whatever people think of him personally, a lot vow never to vote for him, and he must know this.

From the last couple of days in the House of Commons Boris Johnson is actually making Jeremy Corbyn look good.

@Tippety I know. Hence why I said at this very moment. Although if Boris continues the way he’s going, JC is going to be soaring in the polls soon! And I never thought I’d say that.

I think Boris is more popular with the voting public than a lot of people think.

If anyone was actually thinking of the country they would have given time for a deal to be struck instead of this farce of keeping us in at any cost

DP (type 1 diabetic) thinks people will die if the status quo remains. He is very on the ball with his medication and hounding the dr and pharmacist for his prescriptions.
Others who maybe not as on the ball as him will end up going without.
He thinks they are rationing medication to have a stockpile and until we leave with or without a deal that stockpile will keep on growing and people will end up dying .
Consider that the next time you think that a deal needs to be in place before we leave and extending the time we remain in this purgatory

I think you’re fooling yourself @oliversmumsarmy. I live with a lifelong Tory voter who won’t vote for a party led by Johnson as long as he’s got a hole in his arse. I quote verbatim.

I think you’re fooling yourself @oliversmumsarmy. I live with a lifelong Tory voter who won’t vote for a party led by Johnson as long as he’s got a hole in his arse. I quote verbatim

Well lucky him for having a hole in his arse. Some people I know don't.

The power base behind Johnson is the far right free marketeers who wish for a deregulated market, ie no protections, to allow maximum profit. They for wish the UK to make a trade deal with the US so US businesses can hoover up the rich pickings in UK market if UK has a hard Brexit and cuts most of its ties with EU trade block. UK would become a low tax, small state economy. Employment rights, environmental rights, maternity leave and NHS (especially via inflated pharmaceutical pricing) eventually swept away. I said don’t want this for the UK

Interesting twitter thread at what’s at stake at mo. mobile.twitter.com/FGMRaulier/status/1169539670407045120

• typo, ‘wish for’

If anyone was actually thinking of the country they would have given time for a deal to be struck

Johnson is bluffing he wants a deal. EU have still not had any proposals from Johnson’s govt and Johnson won’t show Parliament any proposals - because he has none as he wants no deal.

The Tory "government" has been stockpiling bodybags since February because they expect the UK mortality rate to go up in the wake of Brexit.

Just repeating that in case anyone missed it. Our own government is so confident that Brexit is likely to cause a statistically significant increase in deaths that they are stockpiling body bags. That's not Project Fear. That's not scaremongering. That's our own government's contingency planning. And yet it plunges on regardless trying to force the scenario through that will lead to those deaths. Some of our lives are considered acceptable collateral damage so long as the Tory party manages to cling on to power and reward its benefactors with lots of lovely tax breaks, and people are happy to keep voting for that.

Do you think it will be the CEOs and the hedge fund managers and the MPs who will be dying?

Vote for Corbyn? Not if my life depended on it. He's a fantasist at best, a complete moron who'll damage this country enormously at worst. Actually he's probably worse than that but I'll get flamed enough as it is

The Tory "government" has been stockpiling bodybags since February because they expect the UK mortality rate to go up in the wake of Brexit.

Worth repeating til everyone in the country sees it.

Something else NOT put on the side of a bus.

Goosey - are always so easily convinced by what newpaper owners want you to believe?

Tory "government" has been stockpiling bodybags since February because they expect the UK mortality rate to go up in the wake of Brexit

Are body bags the only thing they have been stock piling. Are body bags manufactured solely in mainland Europe

As far as we can see they are stock piling medication as well.

If anything they are going to need those body bags if we delay Brexit. Getting prescriptions is hard enough ATM whilst we have this delay hanging over our heads

You’re having trouble getting meds and you want to hang onto the government whose actions have caused the shortage @Oliversmumsarmy? That’s about as sensible as your inane comment on my husband’s arse.

Oliversmumsarmy the body bag stockpile is a confirmed fact from the actual doctor who contributed to the healthcare element of the government's official contingency plans.

The medication stockpile is your son's opinion based on no apparent facts whatsoever from which you are extrapolating deaths.

Not exactly comparable pieces of evidence, are they? Yet it's the remainers who are supposedly trying to 'scaremonger'?

I wasnt disagreeing that the government are stockpiling body bags I was just making a point that they weren't the only thing that was being stock piled

The government stock piling Insulin or other medications wouldn't have the same alarmist effect.

Atm dp cannot get his medication without a huge amount of planning and making sure he has put the repeat prescription in on a certain day so he is within days of running out

I was trying to say that dp believes that there are people who are not as rigid as he is at making sure they have their medication and the longer the status quo continues the more likelihood these people will end up having to forego their medication for a day here and there and that can have serious consequences on their health.

As for the comment on the bum hole. Dp has bowel cancer, the reference was pretty crude way of your dp saying that advanced bowel cancer was better than having Boris Johnson as a PM

He didn’t actually say that or even imply it. It’s a well known phrase in military circles, like clusterfuck or cake and arse party. It means never.

A really hard question to answer at the moment. I’m so sick of party politics that likely to vote for an independent if there is a credible candidate in my area. If not ... I just don’t know.

Conseravtives took 68% of the vote in my area in 2017. I did not vote for them last time, and I won't be voting for them any time in the foreseeable future,, but I don't know who I would vote for if there was an election soon. I don't suppose it would matter with that kind of majority.

I wasnt disagreeing that the government are stockpiling body bags I was just making a point that they weren't the only thing that was being stock piled
Christ, "it's not just body bags" is a very blasé way of looking at it.

If BJ implemented Ted the tax cuts he said he would, I would be 1000s better off a year as a higher rate payer, along with my other half. This disgusts us both. In no way do people like us need a tax cut.

JC will likely give us a smallish tax rise, probably not for a while, though. Will happily contribute to the greater good. Even with a large rise. Bring it on.

Most importantly JC will properly and consistently tax billionaires and mega corps who get away with murder. The press want you to think JC will go after the middle classes and their hard earned income and houses. It isn't the case, as he and JMcD have repeatedly said. Notice, who owns the press and what their interests might be.

Read the labour manifesto. That's what they want to do. Why assume otherwise?

I read the Conservative and Lib Dem manifestos. I assume that's what they want to do in a 5 year government. I didn't like what I read. So there you go.

My MP is one of the tory defectors who has had the whip removed. I still find him to be antithesis to most things I believe. I'll be curious to see who they helicopter in to replace him in this safe seat. Depending on that, I may well vote tactically for Lib Dem to avoid an ultra right wing tory government. I prefer to vote for my true beliefs though.

Always vote Labour, but Really really wish they had a new leader ,we should be wiping the floor with the tories just now but sadly as Corbyn wont pick a side Labour are looking really weak and muddled. I’m not a Corbyn fan at all, he is fine agitating from the back but not a leader in my eyes. ( and don’t get me started on Diane Abbot what really does she contribute ? I’ve yet to see anything ) Sadly I might have to vote Liberal Democrat as at least they have made a stance and are firm remainers