Westminstenders: 10 day count down

[RedToothBrush]

10 days to go...

... Wake me up when the shit show is over.

Ricky Gervais
@rickygervais
It's disgusting that a qualified gynaecologist can refuse to check a lady's cock for ovarian cancer. What if her bollocks are pregnant? She could lose the baby. I'm outraged.
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Jessica Yaniv
@trustednerd
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So a gynaecologist office that I got referred to literally told me today that "we don't serve transgender patients."

And me, being me, I'm shocked.. and confused... and hurt.

Are they allowed to do that, legally? Isn't that against the college practices? @cpsbc_ca

@Justanotherposter
Don't get too excited - may not actually vote labour - only because I am going to vote tactically- and am leaving it to the last minute to access to decide what that is!!!!
Good thing is two days of snow forecast here - will be hard for those Tory voters to get out....

Actually something that has occurred to me, as so many discuss the lack of conservative signage (seen none in my constituency) is that it's intentional. Hoping that people will walk into the polling station, and just vote by habit. That will favour the tories I believe. By not promoting the election it encourages lack of engagement in issues by their core voters......just a thought...

30.8 green, 30.8 lib dem, 38.5 labour.

@TheElementsSong

My tortie was very good at showing her displeasure. Not giving her enough attention? Time to climb the curtains. Mind you, I must have really pissed her off that time she threw up in my handbag.

And I got 35.7% Green, 28.6% Lib Dem, 28.6% Labour. Thank goodness I’m only 7.1% Tory (despite my DM’s best efforts).

@ContinuityError Fortunately my tortie girl prefers to vomit on carpets not handbags but her favourite trick is to demand cuddles at 4am by means of sitting on my chest and prising my eyelids open with carefully extended claws.

pmk

I came up very Lib Dem on that questionnaire, with a minority Lab & no Green which surprised me - but I only selected a limited number of policy areas. A lot of the manifesto promises are very similar but some are annoyingly vague (this is prob why I ended up with more LD).

There isn't much to choose between LAB, LD and Green in many manifesto areas tbh.

Is anyone else sad about Kamala :'( , my favourite presidential candidate by miles.

PMK

I'm half English, half Welsh. My result is always the same

There is a massive difference between Labour and Lib Dem on spending! Policies cost money and Labour’s cost a lot! So if it’s you that’s paying, this could influence you.

I liked Kamala @Greykitten but still reckon Biden is the best choice for removing Trump.

The republicans I know aren't in the slightest interested in the impeachment stuff and haven't moved to the left. ( One did vote for Obama before moving to Trump so there is hope)

I think it is easier to replace one old white man with another and anybody would be better than Trump.

I'm sad about Kamala.

I scored a Labour/Green mix, which didn't surprise me. 😁

Wonder what Bozo had to say to Trump to get him to keep his gob shut about the election? I don't know why they're so shit-scared of the association - if people are mad enough to vote for a Johnson Govt with all that entails then they probably think Trump is great too.

I have no issue with paying bubbles.

Anyone who ahs been on that website at any point and chosen to pay more has come up with results that reflect that.

Just 3 examples of the population declines in Eastern EU. These aren't natural declines but caused by EU FOM. How will the people of these countries survive in later years without a working population to support them?

The numbers below (in millions) run from 2010 to 2019 (2019 is a forecast) and come from the World Bank

Romania:
20.2, 20.1, 20.1, 20.0, 19.9, 19.8, 19.7, 19.6, 19.5, 19.4

Latvia:
2.1, 2.1, 2.0, 2.0, 2.0, 2.0, 2.0, 1.9, 1.9, 1.9

Hungary:

10.0, 10.0, 9.9, 9.9, 9.9, 9.8, 9.8, 9.8, 9.8, 9.7

The current economic system is expensive.

Basically, we are paying an absolute fortune to a teeny tiny group of people. And we are getting less and less and less in return.

Labour's policies aren't 'expensive' in that the system of us paying all that money (in terms of profit) for nothing for us (in terms of depleted public sector, stagnation of social mobility, decline in real terms standard of living) will be shifted, so that the current 'winners' get less of the profits.

The only people for whom Labour's policies will be truly expensive are those businesses ;and a teeny handful of individuals) who are currently making greater profits (percentage wise) than at any point since the war.

For the rest of us, taxes may go up a bit but profit redistribution (especially towards the public sector) means that we are quids in.

It's the difference between a more co-operative approach to wealth and profit and the current mad system where wealth is being sucked out of the system and a super-hierarchy if the 1% is being created.

That system of wealth being drained to the 1% is dysfunctional.

It has to change.

It's not healthy.

And it's bloody expensive - unaffordable - for the rest of us.

Also have no issue with paying more.

Well said cat

My result. I only chose the 7 most important (to me) categories.I'm a bit surprised. Still voting tactical Labour.

Absolutely no Tory, thank God.

Hateisnotgood
Look at Poland to see what will happen next ....
Poor rural areas will depopulate. The young and the bright will move abroad and massively increase their wealth and their skills.
Many will send money home. Others will return home and create businesses and families to rejuvenate the economy.

The country with the most rapidly ageing population in the EU is Germany after all .....

Hungary has had positive net migration in the last decade, its declining population is due to low birth rates.

In fact all three of those countries have fertility rates below replacement levels.

One is a mother fleeing domestic abuse whose ex has stopped paying the paltry amount he pays for his 4 kids just before xmas!

And tomorrow I'm attending UC meeting with someone who is also fleeing dv.

"Great" Britain in 2019.

Sobering isn't it?

In fact all three of those countries have fertility rates below replacement levels.
As does the whole of Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Australasia .....
Only Africa has a birth rate above replacement

Yes, BigChoc.

Talking about MPs ...

In my MPs office, it's now regular to go and buy bags of food for constituents in emergency need of food.

(Obviously, not right now, when she isn't an MP and can't do constituency work - which rather begs the question of what people in dire need are doing for help ...)

This is a crazy state of affairs.