General Chat

Sometimes democratic elections produce unwelcome & unexpected results.

Meanwhile, powerless paperweight politicians’ pointless promises and propaganda should be tested using the revamped Jeremy Kyle inscrutable lie detector machine.

Talk over coffee this morning led to three of us stating we would not waste our time voting, so deeply is labour entrenched in many people's psyche in this area. Personally, apart from Brexit, I have not voted in national elections for quite some time because we all know who is going to get in here - never by anything other than by a vast majority!

Local elections are different as we have LibDem councillors in a sea of surrounding Labour councillors who constantly try to thwart anything supported by our LibDem councillors. I, personally, would not give time of day or entry to my home to a few of the Labour Councillors (two of whom I knew in my younger years) whose personal behaviour would bring a rise to anyone's eyebrows.

Another coffee-pal said she would vote but put in a ruined form, so incensed is she with the whole lot of them.

One said it all depends on the weather (as someone has already mentioned).

A motley crew we are but we know our area well.

Well if that's the case may the lord help us all

There is a fair possibility that Corbyn will end up in no.10 even if his party wins fewer seats than the Tories. Johnson says that should this come to pass he will squat in no.10 and defy the other parties to evict him using the Parliament Act.

Our offices are in Shoreditch. We could pay for the cab.

https://tinyurl.com/y47mnsu3

Postal Votes?

When do the Royal Mail plan to go on Srike - the run up to Christmas!! :-S

Farage had little or nothing to say on the subject, surprising for him.

I have serious reservations about postal voting. One of my friends has a postal vote and has to walk further to the post box than the distance to the polling station.

Well we won't be able to vote by post as it'll take far too long for the ballot paper to get here at Christmas.

Finny date for a general election (IMO) / People will be so

preoccupied with Christmas shopping, the weather will be inclement'

I thought it was the 9th ? The UK will elect the PM it deserves ;-)

I'd love to hang comrade Corbyn :-|

At this time of year does a "hung parliament" of MPs mean the same as "hung turkeys" ?

run run run
the farmer's got his gun
so run Boris run Boris run run run
he'll get by without your porky pies
so run Boris run Boris run run run

I just wish they would get all this sorted once and for all it's really peeing me off now :-|

lol it's my SIL's birthday, and two days before mine. Gives us something to look forward to ;-) ( not really!).

Beg pardon I got it wrong .it is the 12th one of my senior moments :-D :-D :-D

BBC are saying 12th as is Sky news

oh right I am just reading online so may be behind, why the change?

No 19th it has just been confirmed

12th?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50229318