To be looking forward to my free unicorns when labour get into power

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I’m very excited about my unicorns come Friday that will be arriving on Friday when labour get into power. I just need a big enough garden for it but I’m hoping Labour will give that to me too along with my free broadband and everything else they have promised!!

I'm going to call my Unicorn Boris and when it tells lies I'll lock it in the fridge.

@xingming can I ask what your experience of campaigning in the Labour Party is? Because that's certainly not been my experience over recent years.

Is that you Boris? Be a dear and fuck off will you.

I’m currently training to be a nurse. In the past continuous 9 days I’ve worked roughly 110 hours - 85 of those were on placement and unpaid. The other 25 were bank shifts to bring in money to try and support my family. The NHS is on its knees and we have people believing Boris Johnson, who has lied even in the face of evidence he’s lied, over a 70 year old man who has a pretty consistent record vote wise and who I feel has made it clear he actually gives a shit. Yes, all of the manifesto isn’t deliverable, but do you really think the Conservative one is?? I’ve listened to people discussing the vote today while I’ve been on placement and I swear people have literally been brainwashed by the media...overhead was: Person 1: “I’m not voting for that Corbyn, his policies are ridiculous” Person 2: “Can’t say I’ve heard what his policies actually are” Person 1: “Well I’ve not read about any of them, but he’s too left wing”

I really hope people vote consciously tomorrow.

Yawn. What a very uninspired post.

Charlottespleb, do you actually believe this ridiculous vitriol you're spouting?

Can you provide a reputable source for your last comment about labour giving away land etc?

Or was it just absolute nonsense with no basis is reality at all?

Momentum may be the active campaigning voice for Labour, but there are plenty of Labour supporters who have no interest in them, and people who are prepared to vote tactically to get the Tories out.

I'm a 'one person band' worker, and I don't see myself prospering and thriving in a country where I'm tripping over people sleeping on the streets, watching lines of hungry children queuing at food banks and feeling increasingly unsafe from civil unrest created in part by the generational unfairness that you describe, which will increase under Johnson's regime.

Unless your life pleasures are centred on counting how much money you're not paying in tax, I can't see that anyone in the UK is going to thrive or prosper from a hard Brexit, to be honest.

Where did you read I was campaigning for Labour? I am a proud radical one nation Tory. Sorry to disappoint.

Powertothemeeble I and many appreciate the work that you do, and I hope that enough people wake up to the reality of Johnson's plans for the NHS and how it will affect them and the people they care about.

Yes, even those who can afford private healthcare because they're as dependent as everyone else on A&E.

God, the tories on this thread really do have some fucking awful craic, don't they.

You know what's rarer than a unicorn? A funny Tory

How is Brexit not going to cost people their jobs is the question. My DH is an Associate Architect with a big firm, EU employees have left over the uncertainty, the diminishing access to EU talent is a serious concern for this industry. Anecdotally, I know two designers that have been made redundant due to Brexit uncertainty, which is not going to be fixed by Boris in one month! We are not voting Labour but we sure as hell aren't voting for Brexit Boris!

Yes, all of the manifesto isn’t deliverable, but do you really think the Conservative one is??

Certainly not. What a shame we have been robbed of a viable opposition.

Labour should have walked into office a long time ago and would have done but for Momentum making a joke of the party.

Can you provide a reputable source for your last comment about labour giving away land etc?

Lib Dem, eh? I was mocking Labour's manifesto "commitments", so obviously not.

No Charlottespleb I'm not a LibDem, unfortunately Jo Swindon is just a Tory in LibDem clothing, which is a real shame as I would like to be able to vote for the only party who have explicitly stated they want to cancel Brexit.

I just do not understand how anyone with integrity and sense could possibly vote for a party led by a buffoon who has actively, blatantly and unashamedly lied repeatedly to the people he is supposed to represent and work for.

@xingming Ha I didn't get that impression af all - I was questioning because you were talking about the active campaigning voice so I wondered about what you knew about active campaigning in the party

Would also be interested in the notion of radical conservatism. An oxymoron surely?

I'll trade my unicorn for a decent NHS and social care. The older I get the more I despise the Tory party and the absolute contempt they have for the public.

I'm looking forward to a day when we can discuss politics without unicorns being mentioned at all. Unfunny, unoriginal bollocks.

I want a goat. Unicorns suck big style.

ListeningQuietly I just had a look at the Tory manifesto. Is what you are referring to is dropping the Leveson Inquiry? Or the post brexit reforms to our own judiciary to give more power back to politicians?

I had to skim read a lot of it to get to there. I'm old too, I didn't like it.

Politicians don't need more power. We've just had several years of watching them do their best to split the country and go largely untroubled because nobody has power remotely on a level with them. Over time they have neutered almost every check and balance in our political system, and now they have their focus on human rights, the free press and the judiciary.

Tory plans look like a power grab. Labour plans like a pack of shameless lies with a nugget of malice in the middle.

Read what I wrote Charlotte. I wasn't arguing, I read the manifesto and wanted clarification, because I don't understand the law. I didn't like what I read, despite being old.

I wasn't saying the Tories are right.

I can’t wait to get my unicorn! In fact I think I may even paint my unicorn red to match the colour of Bo-Jos face when he finally realises what an embarrassment he is. We have had months of lies, fake stories and incorrect information.
I really hope that the fake profile bots haven’t made their way into mumsnet to stir the political pot and peddle more lies.

Hope you can afford private healthcare, OP.

I just find the whole post a bit baffling to be honest - both Tory’s last manifesto and the Brexit campaign promised a whole bunch of ‘unicorns’ last time round and they didn’t materialise, but for some bizarre reason people just stick their fingers in their ears and refuse to believe it.

I mean even as recent as a month ago, Johnson was very adamantly promising that we absolutely be out of EU by 31st October...

Yet instead, we seem to have a bunch of population who really do think implementing nationalised railways and healthcare is a ridiculous achievement DESPITE the fact that other European countries manage it just fine.

I am from a Scandinavian country and Corbyn’s policies are run of the mill to me. He would be centrist in my country. I don’t understand how people think he is a communist.