2017 General Election thread

[Tangled up in Blue]

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-40547740

See the Tories aren't the only ones to have found a "magic money tree".

At least Labour are planning to put theirs to better use than the Tories squalid deal with the DUP.

Mayday.Mayday.:winking:

 

[londonblue]

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-40547740

See the Tories aren't the only ones to have found a "magic money tree".

At least Labour are planning to put theirs to better use than the Tories squalid deal with the DUP.

Mayday.Mayday.:winking:

Personally I think a billion pounds is money well spent if it keeps ********* out of the picture. After all, it only works out as about £17 per person.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Personally I think a billion pounds is money well spent if it keeps ********* out of the picture. After all, it only works out as about £17 per person.

it doesn't keep him out of the picture - it galvanises anti Tory feeling among the public as they are told there is no extra money for vital services but £1 billion is tagged onto our debt to prop up a minority government.

There are not many people who would admit to being so politically biased that they would back a billion pounds of tax payers' money to keep out one politician - one who a couple of months was predicted as leading to political wilderness for the Labour Party and doesn't currently have the MP's to form a government. I applaud your honesty in admitting to being so blinkered.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-40547740

See the Tories aren't the only ones to have found a "magic money tree".

At least Labour are planning to put theirs to better use than the Tories squalid deal with the DUP.

Mayday.Mayday.:winking:

it's a logical aim, but it's not a policy and it's very unlikely to happen

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

it's a logical aim, but it's not a policy and it's very unlikely to happen

Certainly I think that the Blair government's introduction of tuition fees, (obviously after the Iraq War) was the worst thing TB ever did.

Why should working class kids (or anyone else for that matter) be saddled with 50,000 quid's worth of debt when they graduate?

As one of three kids, with a widowed mother, from a working class background,who all got degrees,I doubt very much we would have, if there hadn't been free tuition fees and reasonably generous maintenance grants, back in the day.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Personally I think a billion pounds is money well spent if it keeps ********* out of the picture. After all, it only works out as about £17 per person.

Or 1 million quid per DUP MP.:winking:

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Or 1 million quid per DUP MP.:winking:

a billion divided by 10....I think you are using what is I believe commonly known as the Philip Hammond HS2 maths method!

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

a billion divided by 10....I think you are using what is I believe commonly known as the Philip Hammond HS2 maths method!

Or what some have referred to as the Dianne Abbott school.:winking:

I was only 99 million out. Needless to say, I failed "O" level Maths.:duh:

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Or what some have referred to as the Dianne Abbott school.:winking:

I was only 99 million out. Needless to say, I failed "O" level Maths.:duh:

Dianne was unwell, Phil Hammond was innumerate - not a great vibe for a Chancellor!

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Dianne was unwell, Phil Hammond was innumerate - not a great vibe for a Chancellor!

He's an Essex boy though.:winking:

 

[londonblue]

it doesn't keep him out of the picture - it galvanises anti Tory feeling among the public as they are told there is no extra money for vital services but £1 billion is tagged onto our debt to prop up a minority government.

There are not many people who would admit to being so politically biased that they would back a billion pounds of tax payers' money to keep out one politician - one who a couple of months was predicted as leading to political wilderness for the Labour Party and doesn't currently have the MP's to form a government. I applaud your honesty in admitting to being so blinkered.

He's not PM. He's out of the picture. After all, as I've pointed out, £1bn is 0.035% of GDP. It's peanuts, but in this case it's peanuts well spent.

 

[MK Shrimper]

He's not PM. He's out of the picture. After all, as I've pointed out, £1bn is 0.035% of GDP. It's peanuts, but in this case it's peanuts well spent.

So to you, Corbyn is worse than a collection of religious extremists, abortion deniers, climate change cynics and evolution deniers?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

He's not PM. He's out of the picture. After all, as I've pointed out, £1bn is 0.035% of GDP. It's peanuts, but in this case it's peanuts well spent.

Rather than being "out of the picture" Jeremy Corbyn stands a very good chance of being the UK's next PM.Remember Labour are ahead in the polls and JC is also ahead of the Maybot.

 

[rigsby]

Rather than being "out of the picture" Jeremy Corbyn stands a very good chance of being the UK's next PM.Remember Labour are ahead in the polls and JC is also ahead of the Maybot.

You do realise that once the status quo get the Brexit they want, in other words remain. Then they will turn on JC and rip apart his 'forest of money' promises and he will be discarded along with the other pawn (May) they used in the recent GE.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

You do realise that once the status quo get the Brexit they want, in other words remain. Then they will turn on JC and rip apart his 'forest of money' promises and he will be discarded along with the other pawn (May) they used in the recent GE.

Interesting.Think you mean the establishment rather than the status quo.Didn't May promise to clear up the mess she got the Tories into? She's more likely to carry the can atm if Brexit negotiations go badly,if she can last that long,that is.:smiles:

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

You do realise that once the status quo get the Brexit they want, in other words remain. Then they will turn on JC and rip apart his 'forest of money' promises and he will be discarded along with the other pawn (May) they used in the recent GE.

as this is an internet forum I believe the correct response to this post is 'LOL'

 

[londonblue]

So to you, Corbyn is worse than a collection of religious extremists, abortion deniers, climate change cynics and evolution deniers?

Yep, because he's an apologist for people who are far worse, which makes him even more dangerous.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Yep, because he's an apologist for people who are far worse, which makes him even more dangerous.

so to obstruct one person you see as an apologist you are backing paying £1 billion to 10 apologists. Such a bizarre attitude.
It doesn't even make financial sense, the DUP would back virtually all Tory policies anyway (other than the ones Labour would back) so it is literally throwing money at a problem that is not there. It's one of the most politically illiterate policies I've ever heard. But if it make you happy....that's something I guess.

 

[londonblue]

so to obstruct one person you see as an apologist you are backing paying £1 billion to 10 apologists. Such a bizarre attitude.
It doesn't even make financial sense, the DUP would back virtually all Tory policies anyway (other than the ones Labour would back) so it is literally throwing money at a problem that is not there. It's one of the most politically illiterate policies I've ever heard. But if it make you happy....that's something I guess.

No, I see it as obstructing him and all the people that support him, i.e. all the racists and terrorists he classes as friends.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

No, I see it as obstructing him and all the people that support him, i.e. all the racists and terrorists he classes as friends.

do you recognise the logic that with no financial outlay the right wing DUP will support the right wing Conservatives rather than the left wing Labour?