Call for a General Election-petition exceeds 200,000 signatures

[ForsythiaPlease]

In six hours, this is unstoppable-please sign and share
https://t.co/0aZ6Q6VhZD

They absolutely can ignore the message and demonstrably are going to.

What does that even mean?

Tbf if you think MN is a Keir love fest your finger is quite off the pulse anyway. The lurkers might be people actually posting not so much.

Did you quote the wrong poster, or misread, I am not sure which part of “they will ignore the message” was unclear?

That only someone in their own echo chamber would think the general public want another election 4 months after the last one.

Eh are you ok? That’s not what I’ve said. Many people are unhappy. Many official bodies are raising the alarm re: job losses. People are allowed to demonstrate how unhappy they are. MN is one huge leftist echo chamber. Reality is very different.

It is uncomfortable for sure. A government should be in its best times right now. Giving hope. Many people have buyers remorse. Anyone who can’t see this is a spectacular issue - there is no hope. You’ll hand the Conservatives back power for a generation with no viable opposition.

You also wrote 'there is no surprise or ignoring the message'. I would agree that contradicts what you wrote a couple of sentences earlier, but that's for you to fix.

I think there are a fair few in the public sector posting pro Labour and Starmer. Their positivity re Labour is not surprising but that doesn't reflect many people who have been hit by poor policies.

As for a release valve as claimed in pp I think things tend to snow ball more these days. Headlines pick it up, polls fall, PMQs happen, a bit like party gate but in the opposite direction

I doubt this is the lowest point. I'm interested to see where things go in about a year when a budget can't tax more again nor borrow more but growth has stalled.

Plus the channel issue which will get greater pressure including from France

Less than 60% of voters actually voted in the election. Wonder how many of them are now signing and sharing this petition? And really, who are we going to have that's any better. I didn't vote for Labour, and some of the stuff they've rolled out so far is shit, but I do believe in them being given a chance. That's the whole reason we have a voting system.

Will be interesting for sure.

I think he is just more dull than Boris. Boris has/had an element of obsessive fans in a way that Starmer doesn't. Boris you might want to go to the pub with in a way you wouldn't with Starmer. But then you'd probably be happy if your daughter was working for Starmer in way you wouldn't with Boris (remember the poor girl who got a peerage for her "services"). If Boris was flagged for not declaring Freebies, then it was just "oh well its Boris", Starmer got more hassle for declaring going to the football.

It's interesting how attached some of you are to the concept of anyone not agreeing with you being in some kind of echo chamber. Like only your take could possibly be reflective of reality.

In actual fact, we can all see the polls now, but tying this onto a pointless petition is not a reality based take. There are a number of things Labour should be worried about. This isn't one of them.

Get people back work is as vague as:

hire more teachers and fix crumbling schools

there is no plan

and laugh to think NHS is happy to start to do non-clinical jobs programme for the hundreds of thousands off on “mental un-health” or the shoplifters, drug dealers & gang creeps ruining the country.

How will NHS cope with county lines drug dealers in the building, the stench of skunk weed in the smoking areas wafting thru the hospitals or these folks driving trucks.

Johnson was very Marmite. Huge parts of the population absolutely despised him, maybe even a majority. But the ones who didn't were disproportionately likely to live in an area where their vote mattered more.

No

Eh? I don’t feel attached. I haven’t signed the petition, nor did I vote Labour or Tory. I know a political and economic disaster unfolding when I see one.

The only person who seems bothered is you. If the cap fits. Echo chamber indeed.

They then mass report and delete to silence the posters

So are you saying MNHQ delete posts for being critical of Labour?

I said attached to the concept that people who disagree with you are in an echo chamber. You seem surprisingly bothered about that being pointed out.

They did deal with this in parliament - I remember it! It basically went ‘Brexit is the will of the people so shut your pie holes’.

I’m alright thanks.

No of course not. Try reading again.

Not really. If I was bothered about being stuck in an echo chamber. I wouldn’t be on here.

@Aduvetday well given the skew on here I'm glad you post, otherwise it would all be pro Starmer / Labour

Wouldn’t it? Whilst trying to drag posters into bun fights to get them suspended. Crazy times.

Your post wasn't.