General Election June 2017

You just have to be a pro and a bit gressive.

So, are we "Ready for Mogg"?

https://readyformogg.org/

Do people like Michael Gove?

Gove is Murdoch's man and his wife works for Dacre. Bring Gove in and you get the support of the Murdoch press and the Mail. There is a suggestion that Murdoch insisted on it as a condition of support.

I've signed that shiiit

Bring down the torys one vote at the time.

http://rochdaleherald.co.uk/2017/06/09/dup-offer-to-support-may-if-she-kicks-bishop-brennan-up-the-arse/

The Democratic Unionist Party has offered to support Theresa May’s minority government on the condition that she kicks Bishop Brennan up the arse, according to a Government source.

If we are posting parody..

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2017/06/09/ukip-melted-down-for-glue/

Perhaps due to this he's got sway with loads of freelance journos, the kind that'll happily support certain Labour-blaming narratives, global-warming obfuscation, general directed outrage etc.

Many of them are Oxford alumni.

Ha ha! Is this for real?!

It can't be....but I hope it is.

He worked like a dog, both on media and canvassing in marginal constituencies across the country.

He is emotional and over wrought in that video and I disagree with him on many things, but unless you've done the work he did to contribute to a Labour win I think your comment is a bit rich.

Some amazing letters :)

sounds to me like a call for PR.

Words fail.

Well, they should have failed them.

I do think it's a valid complaint that a student, two weeks from leaving their university town forever, votes there. On the other hand they vote in the interests of students in general, and those towns remain university towns, even if the individual students are themselves 'transient'. Something none of those letters seem to have any awareness of.

I imagine the electorate of Warwick and Leamington (where I come from) do pretty well out of the student population. I strongly suspect they contribute positively to the area economically.

Also, I was in Wolston a couple of weeks ago. It's quite pretty in places. As we were walking through, though, it had the distinct smell of 'Brexit' about it...

It's a valid complaint for anyone that moves then, not just students. To solve it you would need to develop some sort of residency requirement. By choosing one category of person, who they have chosen because they disagree with their politics, they are discussing, at the very least, a form of gerrymandering, and at the most, a call for a form of limited franchise for a particular class.

The solution is electoral reform, obviously.

Yes, it probably is a valid complaint. However, a student lives in an area for most of the year for (almost) the duration of a parliament. They're entitled to representation there.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/12/tories-bartering-womens-bodies-maintain-power-dup?utm_content=buffer2c76f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

I didn't mean to come across as agreeing with the complaints, more pointing out that the validity only works if you think of individual cases (eg those about to graduate) and conveniently forget that your "big universities" town is going to stay that way and (hopefully) always be full of pesky students...

Testify

To use the parlance of our times..... suck it up snowflake

But if you changed it, you'd get the following letters:

"SIR - It has come to my attention that several young people who have not lived here for years, are still voting in my local constituency. As they are now studying in London and such places, many of these young absentee voters have acquired gay friends and generally been brainwashed by the liberal urban elites. Now we, the true locals, are stuck with an MP who in no way represents our views and values. Yours, Red Faced Grouch."

Indeed.

I think they're underestimating the alignment of the ideology completely - suggesting that free tuition and being brainwashed by emotional campaigners are the main reasons for voting Labour is utterly patronising and shows the extent to which the age divide is growing in the country.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/general-election/sinn-fein-mps-fly-to-london-to-take-up-westminster-offices-1-4474095