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Well I am voting for my local conservative MP tomorrow. I dont trust any other party in my area.
You are free to make a mistake
so you’re willingly voting away your (and our human rights) ? Who exactly is the terrorist sympathiser – seems like it’s May responding to terror attacks by ripping up western liberal freedoms. If she’s that easy to topple with a few attacks surely this kid of response will encourage more
We all have the right to vote for who we want and who we think will add value to our lives. Labour have let me down drastically and so I would never vote for them.
You trust the Conservatives?
Yes in my experience I trust them over Labour.
‘We all have the right to vote for who we want and who we think will add value to our lives.’
I wonder what Luke means be ADDING value-everything the Tories do literally takes away from real value. Unless Luke is talking about housing bubbles and asset values that have been similarly inflated. In that case he is talking about the ‘maximisation of self-interest’ which is the neo-liberal by word.
Luke-can you see further than this? Can you see what austerity is doing to the next generation? Can you not see that the selling off of power plants and energy and housing and the NHS to often foreign investors will drain the UK of financial resources?
Are you aware of the 12 Billion cuts in welfare that will leave people foundering and that will drain money from local economies?
Can you think beyond the cross-eyed view of the end of your nose?
I feel a bit sorry for Luke, who, of course, has the right, indeed, the duty to vote for the Party whose values he most supports and identifies with.
However, I hope he will read this before coming to a final decision tomorrow:
http://novaramedia.com/2017/06/03/austerity-has-been-an-economic-disaster/
I am aware that housing costs increased significantly under Tony Blair. I wasnt talking about that.
Health, well under Tony Blair significant number of people into the country. If you sit in any hospital you will see that different groups of people using the service. So if you are unwell than having access to private health facilities on the NHS is beneficial. This was started under Tony Blair, of course.
I am aware of the cuts to some peoples benefits. With the increase of people in the country we need to adjust on the levels of benefits. The UK has some of the highest levels given to people who are unable to work.
Luke
This is absurd
If Blair did anything he massively cut NHS waiting lists and vastly improved access
And we are not generous re benefits: we are actually very mean compared to most countries
You are really not basing your opinions on facts
Richard
I said that Tony Blair let in a significant number of people into the UK without the infrastructure. Tony blair introduced private companies into the health system.
And migrants helped grow the economy for us all
For Luke:
‘The UK is among the least generous countries in Europe when it comes to paid leave and unemployment benefits, research by recruitment website Glassdoor shows.
The country was the least-giving in Europe when it comes to unemployment benefits. Even the US, which overall has the most frugal benefits system, provides more generous unemployment benefits, the recruitment website found.
Why advertise with us
The UK offers unemployment benefit of between £51-£65 per week, for up to 26 weeks, according to Glassdoor. The UK government website shows that young unemployed people, between 18 and 24, can receive up to £57.90 (€74.30, $82.84) Job Seeker’s Allowance, and those 25 or over can receive up to £73.10
In the US, maximum weekly unemployment benefits differ per state, from less than £140 up to £488 in Massachusetts.
Andrew Chamberlain, Glassdoor’s chief economist said that the general perception of the UK used to be that it provided a generous scheme for all. “We now have evidence to suggest that Britain is no longer an easy ride, especially when compared to its European neighbours, he said.
See:http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-least-generous-country-europe-unemployment-benefits-1544415
Ask him anout this, first: https://www.indy100.com/article/election-2017-jeremy-corbyn-terrorism-policing-pmq-david-cameron-2015-bridge-7776511?utm_source=indy&utm_medium=top5&utm_campaign=i100
It would be nice to make this viral.
A lot of talent and hard work went into this – well done.
He did a few good ones on Cameron too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YBumQHPAeU “people rising from the bottom to the top, has got to stop”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBpQJ98rR4o “getting piggy with it” – bit NSFW this one.
If you do away with human rights Luke, that vote may not exist in the future.
My grandfather fought in WW1 and my father in WW2 for the founding of the Human rights convention. These were hard fought for future generations.
Mrs May is doing exactly what the terrorists want, giving them the oxygen of publicity, and taking away our human rights, making us just like them.
She is acting like a rabid dictator. she is not fit for office. Think again Luke, for future generations sake.
Wake up.
You are right to highlight that I am deeply worried about security for my family if Labour were in government. I am really scared on his voting records, as well as all his comments about the safety of the UK.
This is the man who was right on the need to talk to Sinn Fein
And Nelson Mandela
And to oppose the Iraq war
And Syrian intervention
What are you saying? His judgement has been sound on all these issues
More eloquent than usual! There is some information content for a change!
🙂
Unfortunately, it’s not as ‘musical’ as the one he did about Cameron last time which was just brilliant.
More chopping and changing required for this one because May has studiously avoided saying anything of note for some time and her intonation remains flat at the best of times!
I’m still not convinced the Tory Election Campaign isn’t a huge practical joke,
I can’t figure out whether Lynton Crosby has or hasn’t seen this film?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPXHRX8Q2hs
are they trying to play 4 dimensional chess with us as the Trump supporters like to claim or are they just indescribably dunderheaded?
I keep whistling the tune to myself and then bursting out in laughter!
I don’t know why I’m voting Lib Dem but I am.
They claim to be the most pro European of the main parties, yet they reject European models of funding health care and they reject European levels of VAT on food and energy.
There’s a lot of confused voters out there.
Tactical voting – google it for your constituency. get the Tories out.
I regret that Corbyn decided to vote for this election. He did not have to do it. I think the team got carried away with the wonderful manifesto which they had ready and thought that’s what they could rely on to battle their way through. I fear that May will get her extra seats to keep her in power for another 5 years. It may have been possible to chip away at the current majority and allow her incompetence to show through before going to the country with Labour in a much stronger postion. There are loads of Lukes who haven’t a clue. My only comfort is that at my age 5 years goes just like that…
Carol-I was hoping to see neo-liberalism ousted before I hit 60 but I know that probably isn’t going to happen now. How sad for Jeremy and the suburb way he has revitalised the young -let’s hope this has given them fire for a fight because that would be some legacy from this extraordinary election.
I think the problem is there has been decades of dumming down and anti-intellectualism which is neo-liberalisms ‘greatest’ achievement. My generation I see as largely cringing, cowardly, spiritless dolts whose minds are caught in an ‘S bend’ of gross self-interest and tunnel vision. There are indeed lots of Lukes around ( and I wish him well and thank him for his honest post on a blog that he knew would question him) and they will carry the day, the small-minded burghers of britain and the deluded strugglers of the WestMidlands and the North East, who, in a regressive spirit, seem to think the Tories will help them and seem to worship these power-dressed card-sharps.
This country has become an open sewer of small-minded, myopic, narcissistic buffoons fed on a diet of Clarkson, Daily Heil, The Sun, Express combined with the crassest crap that the media can produce. Do we have to wait for a whole zombified generation to die off before change happens? Or possibly nearly two generations as it seems to be the 18-25 that have some appetite for change while the over 65’s seem to be the ‘pigs in shit’ generation.
The is a small candle of hope that we might have a surprise today but the force ten gale of despair is about to blow it out.
Just a quick note. I know there wasnt so much a question about this. However this website is one of my main go to reads in the morning. Head for points, BBC and the FT are the rest. Some threads, as with all the internet, I find more interesting than others. But I do enjoy it, more the corporate and tax side.
I may get back to tax sometime
But let’s be honest, it’s just part of political economy
And thanks
Just a quickie – as the actress said to the bishop – to say I agree totally with you Carol. Corbyn should never have voted for the election. It was the wrong policial decision and the country will pay a high price for it. Irrespective of his personal integrity, he is not a strong enough leader to combat the corrupt and powerful forces that lie behind the Tories. And there appears to be nobody in Labour with a sufficient grasp of economics to expose publicly the ‘Household Budget’ myth.
It’s a dull, grey morning here on the south coast and I have bad feeling as to how the day will end. But, like you, I’m of an age when the years flee by ever more rapidly and won’t bear the brunt of what the neo-liberal gangsters have in store for the country. The energetic focus now has to be on doing whatever one can to decimate the Conservatives in 2022. I have no doubt that their time is up but they will crash and burn as they become more irrelevant in the course of history. My immediate concern is that there is nobody immediately visible to replace Corbyn as a winning leader.
Time to batten down the hatches!
I can hear the knives sharpening already……May will probably win but she won’t last long. So much for getting a mandate for the person in charge of negotiations. Her own people despise her. Boris is rubbing his hands with glee. They can’t wait to get rid of her. I can’t bear the thought of the years of austerity and poverty to come. But the Tories will bow to pressure and hopefully they will blow like the wind and respond to the dire needs they will see before them and divert from their dogma (even if they keep bleating it out to their faithful followers to keep them on board.)