Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,485
Charlie put on his Famous Blue Helmet and lead massed singing of 'Brother Can You Spare A Dime'
All together now:-
Once I built a railroad, I made it run
Made it race against time
Once I built a railroad, now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,577
Now the fighting will start.
T May has made a tactical error.
Thinking labour was to be put to bed.
instead she ran a poor campaign, people found her out, the young came out to give her the boot
She will struggle now to hold this all together.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,845
D Little wrote:The conservative majority will be between 100-150
If you want to know the future, ask neoliberalism's very own Mystic Meg.
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Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
- Posts: 3,370
they will Jetrson Scotland.
Guest 1849- Registered: 12 Sep 2016
- Posts: 440
Weird Granny Slater wrote:If you want to know the future, ask neoliberalism's very own Mystic Meg.
Ooooh good another nameless warrior appears to troll me, what an insignificant life you must lead.
I'm happy to say I got this completely wrong but I'm delighted, politicians might stop taking us for fools.
In the meantime keep licking that window Granny.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,658
D Little wrote:
politicians might stop taking us for fools.
I doubt that will ever happen in my life time, they still do not realise we have brains and the majority (hopefully) no longer blindly follow how our parents voted.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
If they give in to Scotland and let them go their own way, on their own that will take away 30votes then in doing that the blues will have the amount they need.
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Vic Matcham wrote:If they give in to Scotland and let them go their own way, on their own that will take away 30votes then in doing that the blues will have the amount they need.
What do you mean give in? They voted to stay in and last night SNP lost 21 seats.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Great result for Stacey in getting 20, 000 votes after having so little time to make herself known to the electorate.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,658
Tories must have run one of the most negatives campaigns ever so they only have themselves to blame for loosing their overall majority.
I am sick and tired of hearing about Scotland and the SNP they have had far to much air time way over that of any other area of the country. I wish they had won the vote to leave with all their whinging and moaning while being of little benefit to the rest of the UK.
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,386
The 3rd election in a row where the Tories didn't really have much opposition in Brown & Corbyn, and they still can't win any of them clearly.
May's decision to call the election has backfired for her and this country. Strong and stable to weak and unstable
I hate politics and politicians
Off to look at old pictures of Dover on the other forum...
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Lucky for Cruella that her counterpart in Scotland is more in tune with the people and won back 13 seats from the SNP by engaging with the people there. In the short term the 10 DUP mps will support the Tories but a fresh General Election cannot be far away much to many people's displeasure.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
I would like labour and [jans favorit party] the snp team up and oppose the tories.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,485
In essence, the election was turned by a load of children, summoned by WhatsApp, voting for 'loadsa free stuff' as they 'study' golf course management or whatever, little realising that interest payments on the UK debt, in spite of so called austerity, are already greater than the entire education budget.
On the plus side, at least Corbyn did not win, otherwise we'd be waking to news that the Argentines were already steaming towards the Falklands unopposed. I'm not joking. The man and those behind him are a risk to the very Defence of the Realm.
A leopard does not change its spots but will continue to claim to have done so in an effort to seize power.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,658
Brian Dixon wrote:I would like labour and [jans favorit party] the snp team up and oppose the tories.
Who do you think my favourite party is Brian?
At the moment I think they are all a load of rubbish who either have their heads in the clouds about finances (Labour) or virtually no idea of how ordinary people feel (Tory), the rest are a waste of space and have been for years.
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Guest 1458- Registered: 16 Jan 2015
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The Bishop wrote:I do hope you are singing merrily to the organ playing (definitely no pun or insinuation intended). Will it be a dirge, a muted celebration or a triumphal march? (Interesting Desert Welly footwear noted in #852, by the way.)
SWWood- Location: Dover
- Registered: 30 May 2012
- Posts: 257
Captain Haddock wrote:In essence, the election was turned by a load of children, summoned by WhatsApp, voting for 'loadsa free stuff' as they 'study' golf course management or whatever, little realising that interest payments on the UK debt, in spite of so called austerity, are already greater than the entire education budget.
On the plus side, at least Corbyn did not win, otherwise we'd be waking to news that the Argentines were already steaming towards the Falklands unopposed. I'm not joking. The man and those behind him are a risk to the very Defence of the Realm.
A leopard does not change its spots but will continue to claim to have done so in an effort to seize power.
So we moan about the millennials when they don't turn out, then moan when they do! In essence I agree with your post, but I can't really blame them for voting as they did. What did the Conservative manifesto offer them?
That being said, last night's result was very damaging for this country. Having chosen Brexit last year, the electorate have just pulled the rug out from under the only party serious about delivering it! We have landed ourselves in a huge mess, and probably deserve the s***storm that we are heading in to.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I don't think the age of voters was a big factor the turnout was only 2% higher than 2015 so the young couldn't really be credited with changing things. I think the shock defeat in Canterbury of Julian Brazier was more to do with the public having enough of him over 30 years and the downgrading of the hospital over recent years.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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SWWood wrote:So we moan about the millennials when they don't turn out, then moan when they do!
No. I would never have given under 21s the vote in the first place. (And I voted at the age of 18 in Bridgwater on 13/73/1970)
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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If you can fight in the Army at the age of 18 then you should vote if you wish to.
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