General Election June 2017

Wow.

Offices not seats though (if you read the article).

As they do after each election.

Yes, on that:

The Sun reports that Sinn Fein’s 7 MPs are flying to London today to
take up Commons office space, and cites one insider mischievously
saying the party ending its Westminster abstention is just
‘speculative’.

Malfunctioning robots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw129jaW4Sk

Arlene Foster?

Surely all those letters were sent from Royston Vasey?

Re those letters about students. Couldn't the same be said for old people who are about to die?

Bang!

That's my manifesto- PR and ban voting at retirement age

old people who are about to die?

Old people are much less susceptible to contemptible bribes than youth.

I mean, yes, they have free TV licences (and the Monarchy to watch on them), free travel, heating / fuel allowances, Gold plated pensions fully protected from inflation etc. But they still wouldn't dream of allowing those kinds of peripheral things to interfere with their voting intention.

Burn!

Not sure proposing caps on voting for old voters is fair. Sure, they are more conservative as a whole.

But there are also immigrants that threw EU immigrants under the bus in the referendum. If you want to start limiting voting rights cos we disagree with people it's a hell of a slippery slope.

In that case, I propose we just run the place...surely it's easy...? ;) ;)

I think the suggestion of limiting older votes may have been somewhat tongue in cheek. (Which is a lot easier when you have no teeth)

Re those letters about students. Couldn't the same be said for old people who are about to die?

Brilliant, just snorted fanta all over my desk.

Priti Patel, the Conservative... MP?... told the trade organisation for curry houses that a vote for brexit was a vote against immigrants taking their jobs. Now those curry houses and restaurants are going to be paying a minimum of a grand a year per non-UK worker.

Really don't know how the Tories are going to get anyone to listen to them again. Maybe if they gave you a free kitten to hold while a Conservative MP talks at you? Like a cat cafe, or a petting zoo, but with an autoplaying MP telling you how free trade is great and socialism is just this season's fidget spinner

Wait till you hear this: Commonwealth citizens can vote! Thats everyone on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Commonwealth_of_Nations#Current_members

All dirty forrins, including me. Almost all with an exit plan with mostly growing GDP and a cushy life back home*.

* Maybe just me

and a cushy life back home*.

You'll have spunked all your savings on Rapha and Paul braks and be forced to live in the street or else be the most expensive cycle messenger ever tho

Or am tone-deaf like me ;)

Yeah I wouldn't have bought that either.

The sentiment of "I'm an immigrant, but screw the other ones" was used effectively in some areas. They [leave campaign] admitted immigration won Brexit, and used it wherever they could.

Basically the Tories sold the line that EU immigrants have it better is "unfair".

But then people stopped thinking and didn't consider that maybe 1 - they lied (as you said) 2 - race to the bottom job for all of us...

PS: I would vote for a petting cat ;)

I am the youngest person in the office where I work, and pretty much the only person with left leanings. I am told again and again that you get more conservative when you get older - does this hold true in practice? Are all the free love/hippies from the 70s now voting UKIP? Seems to be my father's course.

People say "when all these old people voting Con. now are dead, we will have a liberal revolution" - is that true, or do young people just get old, more tory and replace dead right wingers?

No

I'm not sure, its 22 year since I first voted and if anything I've become more left leaning.

I think things are changing, I think my generation in general terms will be worse off than our parents, still got a bit of uni debits to pay off, high house prices, no final salary pension etc.

I'm 41 now which is pretty old on this board I think. I've become more right leaning as I get older but I'd still vote Lib Dem if they had a chance to win. I voted Labour in the election and I can't see myself ever voting Tory.

I think if getting older = getting more comfortable and getting a bit blinder/more hardened to the problems of the world, then you're probably right that that does happen. But I think if you live in London and you see how rough things are for those at the bottom of the pile, it's much harder to justify voting selfishly. So I think geography is as important as age.

So I think geography is as important as age.
Agree

The Somewheres and their nimby insecurities.

the older i get the more i'm troubled by my inherent white guilt, something i seek to assuage by pretending to be leftier than thou.