Theresa May calls General election

[megilleland]

UK results 2015 UK election for comparison:

Conservative (331 seats) - 11,334,576 votes
Labour (232 seats) - 9,347,304 votes
UKIP (1 seat) - 3,881,099 votes
Liberal Democrat (8 seats)- 2,415,862 votes
Scottish National Party (56 seats)- 1,454,436 votes
Green Party (1 seat) - 1,157,613 votes

Turnout 66.1%
Electorate 46,420,413

Hereford & Herefordshire South
Conservative - Jesse Norman 24,844
UKIP - Nigel Ely 7,954
Labour - Anna Coda 6,042
Liberal Democrat - Lucy Hurds 5,002
Green Party - Diana Toynbee 3,415

Con majority 16,890
Turnout 66.8%

Herefordshire North
Conservative - Bill Wiggin 26,716
UKIP - Jonathan Oakton 6,720
Liberal Democrat - Jeanie Falconer 5,768
Labour - Sally Prentice 5,478
Green Party - Daisy Blench 3,341

 

Con majority 19,996
Turnout 72.0%

 

With six nominations in each constituency for this coming election both MPs are going to increase their 2017 election majority. Divide and rule wins again.

[ragwert]

I'd vote for her if I saw her like this 

[DILLIGAF]

Rumour has it that the PM will be visiting the shire this week. Think JN might be a little scared of a certain candidate in the run up to the GE, and needing a little advice and shoulder to cry on!

Let's face it JK has done more for Herefordshire in the past 12m than JN has done collectively.

[Denise Lloyd]

Oh sorry I have just posted this on the other forum prior to reading this

[ragwert]

About right...

[ragwert]

How right was Jeremy Corbyn in 2003

[megilleland]

Another one to add to the collection - sorry I meant the election!
 
A song accusing Theresa May of being a "liar" has reached number three in the iTunes charts and the top 10 radio charts.

“Liar Liar Ge2017â€, produced and performed by Captain Ska, skewers the Prime Minister on the NHS, education and poverty, and her party's several recent U-turns including calling the snap election. The chorus and easy-to-sing-along melody – “She’s a liar, liar, you can’t trust her, no no no no†– has helped the song to overtake Miley Cyrus, Niall Horan and Ed Sheeran.
 
Cheered me up no end.

[Colin James]

Well after seeing the debate last night on Sky and listening to the various pundits this morning, they all say Teresa May did better overall and I agree. 

[greenknight]

Yeah but to be honest Colin the bar isn't set very high in any shape or form...mind you Amber Rudd looks like a useful minder to have. I reckon she might be handy in a fist fight.

[Colin James]

Yeah but to be honest Colin the bar isn't set very high in any shape or form...mind you Amber Rudd looks like a useful minder to have. I reckon she might be handy in a fist fight.

 

ha ha 

[ragwert]

About right......

[Colin James]

[ragwert]

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About right too 

Only one candidate has knocked on my door not 20 mins ago...Jim Kenyon

[Glenda Powell]

No candidates other than Jesse Norman  has knocked my door. I had the Lib Dems leaflet last week and Labour and Independent leaflet just pushed through my door this morning. I am waiting to see the Question Time program tonight 8.30pm BBC 1. with Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn, I think and hope the audience will take the PM apart !.

[H.Wilson]

No candidates other than Jesse Norman  has knocked my door. I had the Lib Dems leaflet last week and Labour and Independent leaflet just pushed through my door this morning. I am waiting to see the Question Time program tonight 8.30pm BBC 1. with Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn, I think and hope the audience will take the PM apart !.

 

I never had you down for a Corbyn supporter? God help us if he gets in

[Glenda Powell]

H Wilson. I am NOT a Corbyn supporter!!!

[greenknight]

Mrs May is far more removed from the general public than I realised and to be honest she's been pretty distant even in the election period. If there is no hung parliament then we will be back here before the term is up unless May steps down otherwise we should all be prepared for civil unrest.

 

She may believe in the British people but is she truly representative of the British people because she seems pretty removed to me.

 

A rising star is needed within emerging politics to take the wheel.

[H.Wilson]

Mrs May is far more removed from the general public than I realised and to be honest she's been pretty distant even in the election period. If there is no hung parliament then we will be back here before the term is up unless May steps down otherwise we should all be prepared for civil unrest.

 

She may believe in the British people but is she truly representative of the British people because she seems pretty removed to me.

 

A rising star is needed within emerging politics to take the wheel.

 

May in my view is the ONLY choice, can you imagine the chaos Corbyn being PM and Diane Abbott home secretary! What a joke

[greenknight]

I don't disagree H but in a twisted way we may get a similar outcome. My landlady got another mailshot today.

 

The strap line being:

 

Theresa May...strong stable leadership in the national interest.

 

My feeling is that it should read:

 

Weak,unstable dictatorship during national unrest.

 

We shall just have to hope for the best and the saviour!

[H.Wilson]

I don't disagree H but in a twisted way we may get a similar outcome. My landlady got another mailshot today.

 

The strap line being:

 

Theresa May...strong stable leadership in the national interest.

 

My feeling is that it should read:

 

Weak,unstable dictatorship during national unrest.

 

We shall just have to hope for the best and the saviour!

 

[greenknight]

As I said before..I'm no fan of labour either but to be honest at the time I don't remember to much resistance from the Conservative back benches when we went into Iraq. As for Europe well there is a fair number of blue that support the pro Europe bag as we know. Tuition fees ..Well has this government reversed this process ...they have had long enough.

[ragwert]

Pretty good read.

Here's what I'm really struggling to understand. All I've ever heard from people, for years, is:

"bloody bankers and their bonuses"
"bloody rich and their offshore tax havens "
"bloody politicians with their lying and second homes" 
“bloody corporations paying less tax than meâ€
"bloody Establishment, they're all in it togetherâ€
“it'll never change, there's no point in votingâ€

And quite rightly so, I said all the same things.

But then someone comes along that's different. He upsets the bankers and the rich. The Tory politicians hate him along with most of the labour politicians. The corporations throw more money at the politicians to keep him quiet. And the Establishment is visibly shaken. I've never seen the Establishment so genuinely scared of a single person.

So the media arm of the establishment gets involved. Theresa phones Rupert asking what he can do, and he tells her to keep her mouth shut, don't do the live debate, he'll sort this out. So the media goes into overdrive with:

“she's strong and stableâ€
“he's a clownâ€
“he's not a leaderâ€
“look he can't even control his own partyâ€
“he'll ruin the economyâ€
“how's he gonna pay for it all?!â€
“AND he's a terrorist sympathiser, burn him, burn the terrorist sympathiserâ€

And what do we? We've waited forever for an honest politician to come along but instead of getting behind him we bow to the establishment like good little workers. They whistle and we do a little dance for them. We run around like hypnotised robots repeating headlines we've read, all nodding and agreeing. Feeling really proud of ourselves because we think we've came up with our very own first political opinion. But we haven't, we haven't came up with anything. This is how you tell. No matter where someone lives in the country, they're repeating the same headlines, word for word. From Cornwall to Newcastle people are saying:

“he's a clownâ€
“he’s a threat to the countryâ€
“she's strong and stableâ€
“he'll take us back to the 70sâ€

And there's nothing else, there's no further opinion. There's no evidence apart from 1 radio 5 interview that isn't even concrete evidence, he actually condemns the violence of both sides in the interview. There's no data or studies or official reports to back anything up. Try and think really hard why you think he's a clown, other than the fact he looks like a geography teacher. (no offence geography teachers) because he hasn't done anything clownish from what I've seen.

And you're not on this planet if you think the establishment and the media aren't all in it together.

You think Richard Branson, who's quietly winning NHS contracts, wants Corbyn in?
You think Rupert Murdoch, who's currently trying to widen his media monopoly by buying sky outright, wants Jeremy in?
You think the Barclay brothers, with their offshore residencies, want him in?
You think Philip Green, who stole all the pensions from BHS workers and claims his wife owns Top Shop because she lives in Monaco, wants Corbyn in?
You think the politicians, both Labour and Tory, with their second homes and alcohol paid for by us, want him in?
You think Starbucks, paying near zero tax, wants him in?
You think bankers, with their multi million pound bonuses, want him in?

And do you think they don't have contact with May? Or with the media? You honestly think that these millionaires and billionaires are the sort of people that go “ah well, easy come easy go, it was nice while it lasted�? I wouldn't be if my personal fortune was at risk, I'd be straight on the phone to Theresa May or Rupert Murdoch demanding this gets sorted immediately.

Because here's a man, a politician that doesn't lie - he can't lie - he could have said whatever would get him votes anytime he wanted but he hasn't. He lives in a normal house like us and uses the bus just like us. He's fought for justice and peace for nearly 40 years. He has no career ambitions. And his seat is untouchable. That's one of the greatest testimonies. No one comes close to removing him from his constituency, election after election.

His Manifesto is fully costed. It all adds up, yes there's some borrowing but that's just to renationalise the railway, you know we already subsidise them and they make profit yeah? One more time… WE subsidise the railway companies and they walk away with a profit, just try and grasp the level of pi*% taking going on there.

Unlike the Tory manifesto with a £9 billion hole, their figures don't even add up.

And it benefits all of us, young, old, working, disabled, everyone. The only people it hurts are the establishment, the rich, the bankers, the top 5% highest earners.

Good, screw them. It's long overdue,vote Labour,for the many not the few.

[bobby47]

Ragwert, Very well written. Well done. This is exactly how I feel and how I see things. My warmest regards and congratulations on what is the best piece of work I've ever read on any political blog. Rob.

[ragwert]

Ragwert, Very well written. Well done. This is exactly how I feel and how I see things. My warmest regards and congratulations on what is the best piece of work I've ever read on any political blog. Rob.

Not my words Rob but yeah,exactly how I see it too.

[ragwert]

Have a listen to former senior met officer Peter Kirkham calling Theresa May what she is,a liar

https://www.facebook.com/walkingthebreadline/videos/1465876576766807/?hc_location=ufi

[ragwert]

Far from me liking anything to do with the BNP but Tony Robinson has a point

https://www.facebook.com/thetommyrobinson/videos/1027617387374315/

[ragwert]

Cassette boy strikes again 

[Paul Jones]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/diane-abbott-general-election-latest-car-crash-interview-dermot-murnaghan-lord-harris-terror-report-a7774626.html

[Denise Lloyd]

Julie Etchingham asked Theresa May what was the naughtiest thing she ever she was very coy and ummed and aahed for a little while then said probably it was when her and her friends used to run through fields of wheat and the farmer was not very pleased - mmmmmmmmmmm

[ragwert]

May in my view is the ONLY choice, can you imagine the chaos Corbyn being PM and Diane Abbott home secretary! What a joke

I think the seven years of austerity,the huge cuts in police,NHS ,Education,the rich getting richer the poorer getting poorer,etc etc.are a joke.

She's shown all of us how weak she is.I watch her speaking (or trying to) on TV and think is this our PM.