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The General Election - June 8th 2017

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  • Do they want to do business in our very wealthy economy? We are about to leave the EU after all and about to negotiate a lot of new trade deals.
    Indeed. However, it'd be easier, and more profitable, to move their registered head office to Ireland and pay corporation tax there. Everything else stays in place for them.

    It seems that those that were fretting about business leaving the UK as a result of Brexit, are now advocating trying to further push them away.
  • The nuclear question was always going to be his Achilles heel. How the fuck did the people running the Labour campaign not get it sorted before now.
  • Thing is, he said he'd rather have it and not use it than not have it.

    No idea why Corbyn didn't just say 'Good, that's the whole Labour plan.'
    oh fair enough, I misheard him.
  • Because it's such a non-issue that they've probably been focussing on the things that matter.
    We will see how much of a non issue it is over the next few days.
  • Boris Johnson behaving like a twat as usual!
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    Curb_It said:
    I'm sure the genial landlord will welcome him with open arms if he does....

    Actually, whilst I cannot pretend that Izzard is my political soulmate, I have the utmost respect for his physical prowess in running 40 plus marathons in as many days a year or two back.
  • Labours policies make no sense whatsoever! For example: £10 minimum wage sounds wonderful but it's unrealistic for small businesses and the cost of living would go higher. It won't help when Labour want to increase Corporation Tax so that'd place an extra burden on small and medium sized businesses.

    Labour also want to put extra tax on the rich and their businesses- It's all very well doing this but the rich will end up moving to other countries which wouldn't help.

    We need to encourage people to start a business and Labour will be doing the exact opposite.

    But of course when the shit hits the fan from Labour's mad policies Brexit will be blamed by the hard lefties
  • Did Theresa May actually answer any questions? Did she even seem as though she wanted to? Yeah she said there are challenges, yeah she said there are tough decisions to be taken, yeah she said she wants a good deal over brexit, she peppered it all with lots about being clear which she wasn't. Theresa may did say she would consult about her Dementia Tax, but I was left wondering if any of her consulting would change the policy, or if she would do a Clough.
    Apart from mentioning Ken Livingstone by name, which I think Jeremy Corbyn did, I don'r remember him naming anybody else, sorry he mentioned Kier Starmer, but he didn't mention any of the opposition.
    Theresa May put down opponents by name several times.
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  • DiscoCAFC said:

    Labours policies make no sense whatsoever! For example: £10 minimum wage sounds wonderful but it's unrealistic for small businesses and the cost of living would go higher. It won't help when Labour want to increase Corporation Tax so that'd place an extra burden on small and medium sized businesses.

    Labour also want to put extra tax on the rich and their businesses- It's all very well doing this but the rich will end up moving to other countries which wouldn't help.

    We need to encourage people to start a business and Labour will be doing the exact opposite.

    But of course when the shit hits the fan from Labour's mad policies Brexit will be blamed by the hard lefties

    Theresa May has said there could be 'no deal' over brexit.
    That sounds like a fan shit combo to me.
  • They have the history - the Grand Old Nuke of York.
    That genuinely made me laugh out loud !

  • se9addick said:

    That genuinely made me laugh out loud !

    I won't lie, I was pretty pleased with myself.
  • Labour policies are so worrying and hearing Jc go on about them worries me even more. Some of the principles may be good but totally unrealistic. A cost of something like £50bn a year which is basically funded by pie in the sky tax increases likely to raise a fraction of that amount in reality.
    The lack of insight into how tax raising works in a global economy is frightening. Worse from Labour in their policies but also bad from tories in not challenging them more on them.
    An example is the proposed tax on derivatives. Currently global companies, in many cases with little presence in UK, do business through London because it is best and most efficient market in the world. Taxing this gives places like Zurich a huge advantage and much of this business will be lost. New tax revenue less than forecast, existing corp tax falls and fewer jobs so less income tax, NI and Vat as well as more unemployment.
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    https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCNews/status/870754944739008512/video/1

    He is such a childish public school twat. This man is our foreign secretary!
  • May was better than I thought she would be, fairly presentable but very cheeky of her to try and make out this was a proper debate: 6/10. Corbin did well and was quite authoritative until hit by the expected nuclear/IRA questions. I think he edged it 7/10 but you know tomorrows headlines will be all about, 'Masterful May' mauling Corbyn.
  • May was better than I thought she would be, fairly presentable but very cheeky of her to try and make out this was a proper debate: 6/10. Corbin did well and was quite authoritative until hit by the expected nuclear/IRA questions. I think he edged it 7/10 but you know tomorrows headlines will be all about, 'Masterful May' mauling Corbyn.

    Mrs Plum scored it 6/10 for each of them.
    She mentioned how Macron is a much more impressive politician than anybody in the UK.
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  • Who won?
  • Theresa May pulls out the magic money tree for her pals but can't justify more than a 1% pay increase for nurses who she apparently recognises do a good job.
  • My main takeaway from both the Q&A sessions is that they should raise the voting age to 40.

    And be expected to pass an intelligence test before being given the vote.
  • bobmunro said:

    And be expected to pass an intelligence test before being given the vote.
    These were the people we asked to decide about Brexit....
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    I forgot that Theresa May did actually mention a specific detail.
    When talking about mental health i believe she actually said that the Conservatives would put a counsellor in every school.
    Will she pay for that by using a magic money tree?
  • bobmunro said:

    And be expected to pass an intelligence test before being given the vote.
    Anyone who proposed that would get my vote.

    If I passed.
  • https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCNews/status/870754944739008512/video/1

    He is such a childish public school twat. This man is our foreign secretary!

    What difference does it make where he went to school?

    If someone referred to a politician as a Comp school twat that wouldn't go down well would it.
  • DiscoCAFC said:

    Labours policies make no sense whatsoever! For example: £10 minimum wage sounds wonderful but it's unrealistic for small businesses and the cost of living would go higher. It won't help when Labour want to increase Corporation Tax so that'd place an extra burden on small and medium sized businesses.

    Labour also want to put extra tax on the rich and their businesses- It's all very well doing this but the rich will end up moving to other countries which wouldn't help.

    We need to encourage people to start a business and Labour will be doing the exact opposite.

    But of course when the shit hits the fan from Labour's mad policies Brexit will be blamed by the hard lefties

    Can I suggest you re-read @seriously_red 's post above? It really nails the myth that only the Tories are economically viable...just the reverse actually.
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