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Westminstenders: Register to Vote

959 replies

RedToothBrush · 24/11/2019 21:25

The closing date for registration is this Tuesday

The weekend has seen the leaders question time debates.

Johnson failed to answer a question and the BBC edited later edited footage to change laughter at him to applause.

Swinson continues to prove that the Lib Dem campaign planners don't understand the electorate. They based the campaign around her and the more the public see her and the more she opens her gob she proves she's the witless headgirl who really knows fuck all.

Corbyn has now adopted a neutral 2nd referendum position. Far too late.

Jo Johnson apparently said that a good election manifesto is one people aren’t talking about 48 hrs later, and it seems that the Conservatives really have gone for that strategy.

Johnson had promised a manifesto for change yet of the three main parties it seems far from that. It avoids controversy for the most part, but also doesn't offer solutions to some of our biggest problems like social care. But with the Tories so ahead in the polls, the status quo and making sure they don't have a repeat of the 'dementia tax' car crash seems to be the order of the day. Because Brexit is going to going to provide a magic solution instead...

Meanwhile the Labour Party have gone completely the other way and really have gone for it and come up with ideas. With a mixed response from the public and press.

And I still can't tell you what is in the LD one, cos Prince Andrew...

This week should see the election come into focus as postal voting starts. As it stands its hard to bet on anything but a Tory majority.

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BoreOfWhabylon · 26/11/2019 18:54

I am guessing most of us are in the 35 - 45 age bracket?

Happy Birthday for tomorrow MssClimpson, I'm another boomer Grin

BigChocFrenzy · 26/11/2019 19:23

Happy 70th Birthday tomorrow, MrsClimpson 💐🎂 !

I'm North of 60, as are quite a few others here, I suspect

BigChocFrenzy · 26/11/2019 19:24

Oops I married you off
Sorry, MissClimpson BlushGrin

Jason118 · 26/11/2019 19:29

I can't remember back as far as that age bracket.

IgnoranceIsStrength · 26/11/2019 19:29

ghostoffrankgrimes my username covers the end of your quote well. And I am in the 35-45 bracket

missclimpson · 26/11/2019 19:30

Thank you BigChoc and everyone. (I don't think Lord Peter would approve of marriage for Miss C. 😀).

missclimpson · 26/11/2019 19:32

And he would think Boris was a cad.

Alsohuman · 26/11/2019 19:33

He wouldn’t be far wrong there.

DryIce · 26/11/2019 19:41

I keep feeling like i am resigned to the incoming shitshow, but then I read about the polls changing and voter registrations and get my hopes up. And it's the hope that kills you!

DryIce · 26/11/2019 19:43

I am also too young for that age bracket!...(until January...)

NoCryingInEngineering · 26/11/2019 19:43

Smack in the middle of the 35-45 bracket here. And still undecided how to vote. Though I do know how I won't be voting iyswim

ListeningQuietly · 26/11/2019 19:55

Another gimmer here Grin

Stinkyeddie · 26/11/2019 20:03

(Gimmer and proud!)

bellinisurge · 26/11/2019 20:14

I didn't see Corbyn and Andrew Neil thing. Anyone care to comment. They are salivating about it in the Arms. I'll try and watch it on catch up but I'd like to hear what people here thought.

chomalungma · 26/11/2019 20:15

Has anyone seen the latest Conservative political broadcast...

It's Boris talking in the office with the same poster everywhere in the background.

TheABC · 26/11/2019 20:20

38 here. It's admittedly a well-heeled professional group, but the bulk of my friends are in the same age group and loathe the Tories. Most of us plan to vote tactically, according to our priorities.

Peace! Freedom! And a hard-boiled egg!

TheABC · 26/11/2019 20:23

@DryIce, at least it's a short wait until the election. Plus Christmas after with a reasonable chance of treats and escapist TV to block out the anguish.

ListeningQuietly · 26/11/2019 20:24

Proof that Rail Franchising rewards failure
www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/26/bosses-retain-roles-as-first-group-takes-over-from-virgin-trains

derxa · 26/11/2019 20:26

Pedant alert
I don't know how this 'old gimmer' thing started on MN but 'old gimmer' is an oxymoron. A gimmer is a young female sheep. Old ewe would be more accurate. As you were.

lonelyplanetmum · 26/11/2019 20:27

I thought Andrew Neil was his usual rude self. He just hectors away interrupting -without slowing time for, or listening to, responses.

I thought Jeremy Corbyn managed averagely well- keeping calm but it would have been hard for anyone to get a word in edgewise.

JC was starting (understandably) to get irritated. I thought towards the end of the interview when Neil basically accused him of taking the wrong sides (implying he was not patriotic) Corbyn should have waxed lyrical about loving the U.K. Not his style I know but that was a missed opportunity.

If I understood correctly Neil asked about scaring off higher rate tax payers saying that 31,000(?) of the very top earners pay 12% of our tax revenue which was astonishing.

lonelyplanetmum · 26/11/2019 20:29
  • allowing not slowing
derxa · 26/11/2019 20:31

The only response to the chief Rabbi that is moral is, "I'm sorry and I'll do whatever I possibly can to win back your community's trust." So that's what I will say. Jess Phillips on Twitter

BercowsFestiveFlamingo · 26/11/2019 20:37

There's some very unpleasant racism on those tory threads.

Please report anything racist. I've not seen the second thread and couldn't find the first one again when I looked earlier. The Brexit Arms is bad enough at times and gives me the rage. Those threads end up like Swiss cheese.

GeistohneGrenzen · 26/11/2019 20:40

derxa 'old gimmer' is an oxymoron. A gimmer is a young female sheep. Old ewe would be more accurate.

An old gimmer might be physically in their 70s/80s, but still feel 19 inside. Most days.

At least that's what I tell myself Grin as do many others of my vintage...

DustyDiamond · 26/11/2019 20:42

Please report anything racist. I've not seen the second thread and couldn't find the first one again when I looked earlier. The Brexit Arms is bad enough at times and gives me the rage. Those threads end up like Swiss cheese.

I do hope you're not implying that the Brexit Arms threads are a hotbed of racism, so much so that most of our 'racist posts' are deleted?

Because that would just be a bare faced lie, wouldn't it cupcake....?!

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