To wonder which way the vote will go?

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There'll be a general election this year and there's been such a lot of chat everywhere about the Torys losing.

I'd love to think this will be the case, but was thinking where will the votes go! I've always voted labour, and will again, but is there a chance the Torys might get back in?

Maybe there's a big set of silent voters who'll vote them back!

Is the consensus here that they will lose? And if so, to labour?

Rubbish. I think most women, however gc, are sensible enough to see the bigger picture at this stage. The nhs, education, police, justice system, local councils, environment etc etc etc are crumbling under the current government. Anyone who votes tory based on the gender issue alone is either seriously deluded or would have voted for them anyway.

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Christ on a bike. You’re hilarious.

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow so are you.

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Yep. Racism rife, homophobia rife, the AIDS epidemic, marital rape legal, sexism and low level sexual assault part and parcel of being a woman in the workplace.

Every decade and every generation has challenges. But housing is a massive difficulty for young people. Right to buy and buy to let have both had negative impacts.

That's total bunkum

Talking of stupid

Rishi is actually a very principled and competent man

Hello Rishi's mum 👋

And we are only 5 pages in and it's descending into slanging matches and posts being deleted.

I rest my case m'lud 🤣

I’ll be voting conservative as there’s no alternative tbh. Not that this lot are impressing me tbh at the moment.

The SNP vote in Scotland seems very unlikely to hold

I'm assuming Labour will get it just because people vote for change, any change, after 14 years of any party.

No idea whether it'll be close or a landslide though.

You really don’t get it ? Baby boomer is not used in a way to disrespect people,surely as a trainee solicitor you have the awareness to understand that ?
BTW snowflake is also an expression used to put the younger generation in their place.I personally would never use that word because it is rude! You have a lot to learn!

There was some guy on tv talking about this months ago. He said whenever a politician has trashed the economy ((Truss) that party don’t ever get elected at the next election. He went right back to the 70’s in England and the US.

@Ineedaweewee baby boomer is a label the same way the silent generation, generation x is. I think you're being overly offended by a generational label.

Yeah. Boomer is an insult, Baby Boomer isn’t.

My own view (and I'm very much in the middle, probably just centre left) is that Labour will get in but slightly closer than it looks on paper at the moment.

The Tory's have simply not governed- their obsession was Brexit and now it is proven it wasn't a panacea for all ills the chickens have come home to roost- parts of the country are shit , not due to EU or immigration here from Poland etc but due to complete mismanagement , defunding of councils, paying huge amounts out to Tory sympathisers, not bringing in controls on water and beaches or utility bills etc - just a total lack of governance and constant navel gazing within their party.

Brexit has come home to roost too- very sensible to make young single EU people feel totally unwelcome who usually shared houses and were not taking up school places or that much time in the health service and replace the gaps in certain sectors with non EU whole families trailing. Not factor in export and import issues with anything involving food or medicines etc - it was always going to come back on them when the realities that there were no sunlit uplands for 'most' as part of it -

I don't think Labour will have much wriggle room either to change much for a very good while and will be looking to make some changes for the least outlay they can- I think the difference though is 'intent' - Labour are often much better for business too- and I say that as someone with a business.

Oh really? Lots of dog whistling going on.

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No minimum.wage either
Tbf my parents were quite affluent far more than I am now but they both worked for the Gas board ( as it was then ) In well paid office jobs and their only qualifications were a hand full of O levels between them
They were lucky and we went abroad every year ( i haven't been abroad in 15 years )
But the 80,s were awful for a. Lot of people.

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow boomer is not an insult. It's a shortened version of baby boomer.

Read what I wrote AGAIN! I acknowledged that Baby Boomer is acceptable! It is Boomer that is used to disrespect! Crikey I really CBA now!

Boomer is the insult.

Baby boomer isn’t.

Its like calling Millennials or Zeds snowflakes.

This article is well worth a read for anyone who still says 'better the devil you know' or 'there is no alternative'.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/01/what-have-fourteen-years-of-conservative-rule-done-to-britain?utm_brand=tny&utm_medium=social&mbid=social_twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow @Ineedaweewee the difference is I'm not offended by being called a snowflake because it really doesn't matter. Boomer is a shortened version of the term baby boomer. That is what I was referring to. If you're so offended might I suggest you take some time to have a cup of tea and relax?

The working your arses off thing is interesting. My FIL who is 84 admits they frequently went to the pub for 2 hour lunches and people would vanish for hours on end no questions-and his partner (now deceased) used to use that exact wording despite never working more than 12 hours a week max from marriage till her 60s.

The one thing I will say though is in the early 80s and again late 90s was I only had 13 weeks maternity leave in order to keep your job- Labour brought in big changes that would have made a big difference to me just after I had my son.