Namtab posted:

Not putting me in the poll is an outrage and I urge you to use whichever option is closest in alphabetical order to namtab to vote for me

E: that would be "monster raving loony"

Guy Goodbody posted:

I'm not from England, I don't know how things work over there, but why are Lib Dems in this election? Weren't they completely destroyed last time you guys decided to have an election? How are they still claiming to be a political party?

ISeeCuckedPeople posted:

Well as it was presented to me...


None of these seemed to bad of an idea to me....

Investing 11 billion pounds in the NHS ...Good.

Discontinue pay caps for low wage public workers...Good.

Guarantee rights to EU Nationals working in health in the UK...Good

Training more health professionals...maybe this speaks to my US experience..but one of the causes of high costs in the US is lack of health professionals so IMO...Good.

Increasing spending on Mental Health Services.....Good.

Allowing more schools to teach medicine..connected with the above issue..Good.

Limiting access to some NHS services by some foreign nationals I don't think is a bad idea...if you have for example tourists having a non-emergency visit they should have to pay something. 20-30 dollars. But don't just give them service for free.

I'm assuming the last thing is not a bad idea either.

ISeeCuckedPeople posted:

Now explain why some people want to do away with fuel subsidies for flights and not expand your airports?

OwlFancier posted:

In fairness nor do most politicians.

ISeeCuckedPeople posted:

6 to 8 hours is a long period of time. If I could fly for a reasonable price as I understand you can in England to these places that I go in America I would.

But from my airport a 1.5 hour flight cost $400 and a 3-4 one costs $700. And those are local within the us. Not international.

OwlFancier posted:

And far less so than trains.

Trains are good.


I would probably argue that the prevailing attitude is that the environment doesn't really matter, which is also a bollockfeel position.

OwlFancier posted:

Not ideally no, but I'll take sappy hippies over people who are liable to gently caress us over out of malice.

Alas most human activity is emotional, not cognitive, so any political party advocating for saving the planet is going to attract a lot of people who want to do that by singing at it and holding hands.

What you'd want is the technocratic party, which sadly would also attract a bunch of silicon valley techbros, because you can even approach science in a cargo cult fashion.

I mean I'm a bloody commie mostly out of a mix of spite and idealism so I don't feel qualified to complain about the greens.

ISeeCuckedPeople posted:

The airlines would all convene together to do massive price hikes and blame the party who removed the subsidies and they would lose the next election based off that attack.

Stabbatical posted:

Namtab posted:

Your mate doesn't seem too bright imo

Guavanaut posted:

It might actually be a better thing under the current system if people just voted for the best constituency representative instead of going by party name. Although I'm not too sure how someone who hasn't heard of major national parties would glean that information.

ISeeCuckedPeople posted:

So based on the Yougov projections the Tories will not take a majority correct?

In that case is it hung? Or what percentage do you need to hold to hold power?

Can parties make coalitions? Would the rest of the left be willing to form a coalition with Labour or is their only hope come from winning a majority outright?

OwlFancier posted:

The comedy option is that remainaholic Tim Farron goes into coalition with the tories and does a brexit. I think the lib dem base might actually catch fire.

MrL_JaKiri posted:

In the actual meaning of the word, rather than the pejorative one!

jBrereton posted:

Not in the UK, no. We're immune to it.

Quanta posted:

I guess I don't have enough faith in the average British idiot to be emboldened by the recent polling. I fully expect many of the people who say they're leaning towards Labour again to bottle it come voting day and deliver the nation again to Tory bastards. It'll more than likely be a repeat of the previous election where fence-sitters take the "safe" choice.

Anidav posted:

Are you guys Strong and stable yet？

Paxman posted:

He's not wrong.

The interview, with all the serious stuff too.

Josef bugman posted:

Could anyone tell me a bit more about the people other than Corbyn?

Tesseraction posted:

I'm assuming he's referring to the diuretic effect.

OwlFancier posted:

Of course strictly even seawater hydrates you, it just also fucks up your salt levels and causes your body to kill itself.

Irony Be My Shield posted:

It's also nowhere near as big an election issue as it is in the states. There's been very little of it in the campaign, other than Farron's bizarre homophobia being brought forward a few times.

Vitamin P posted:

If they press him he loving lies and says he'd press it.

How many vulnerable people are going to die from 5 more years of austerity because that prick was too proud to tell a fib.

JOHNSON COCKSLAP posted:

I do honestly think it was a half dozen guys happy to find something they could press. The crowd was happier to hear good lady calling them scum than they were angry about his answers

Snipee posted:

This is hope. At least it doesn't seem like the nuke question hurt him.

Josef bugman posted:

Quick things guys a person I know from Uni who is very much a centreist posted this on FB:


Any response to this that'd satisfy?

Vitamin P posted:

Mutually assured destruction is a thing people understand and people don't like to be told, by a man wanting to be their leader, that 'we loving die and the fucks that killed get off scott free lol' is in any way a plan.

OwlFancier posted:

I'd be curious about a poll of younger folks as to how they feel about it.

Guy Goodbody posted:

So if May gets re-elected, shouldn't they all do that? I mean, every time a Republican in America gets elected, people say they're gonna move to Canada but they never do. But that seems like a really viable option for British people, especially ones who have specialized skills like being a doctor

josh04 posted:

North Korea might, with all that money we've been giving them.

Regarde Aduck posted:

These "patriots" only seem to care about economics. And generally with no level of expertise. Where is the patriotic support for human rights, low levels of homelessness, low prison numbers, equality rights etc. Where is the progressive patriotism?

namesake posted:

Start spreading rumours about pencils or whatever the hell that was on about in the eu referendum.

54 - the sex number if you're bad at maths or really really good at sex.

Angepain posted:

‘If there is hope,’ wrote Winston, ‘it lies in the 18-24 year olds.’

If there was hope, it MUST lie in the 18-24 year olds, because only there in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 per cent of the population of Twitter, could the force to elect someone who wasn't a total poo poo ever be generated.

Winston thought about this for a while, and then opened the loving window and jumped out to his death.

forkboy84 posted:

I'm sorry if anyone thinks this is poor taste, but there's just nothing to say about whatever horrible poo poo has gone down in London, & I needed a laugh.