General Election June 2017

Respect to your dad

No matter what your age, if you are on this forum chances are that you are left wing it seems. All we all have in common is cycles, as a transport mode. Is it that in general people who cycle are left, or people who ride fixed. or people who join forums? Or is it London?

I guess track cycling certainly results in a lot of left-leaning cyclists.

makes sense now... ;)

I get the tribalism thing. I've always considered my political party the same as my football team, you don't change who you support, you might bitch and moan about them (I really wasn't happy with Corbyns position on brexit) but when it comes to the big match against your hated rivals your right be behind the team.

what could be more libertarian than riding a bike?

ayn rand loving scumbags, the lot of you.

people who join forums

Is there a graph for mumsnet voting?

Seems so

Liberal left leaning forum

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Most of the older labour voters are dead from being poor and working proper jobs.

True that,
not many of my Dad's mates from the Building & Construction trades
lasted more than a few years into retirement,
after years of exposure to lead-based paint, solvents and dusts.

I'm starting to think my grandparents politics are probably quite unusual. They're in their 90s and Labour (more into the Liz Kendal type than J Corbz).

They're house-proud, still reading widely, and follow several forms of news (Guardian, Times, BBC).

Tolerance and alturism, being society-minded hasn't diminished even slightly with age.

They're awesome.

Farron quits: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40281300

Very Lib Dem, surprisingly perhaps?

Vote Vince!
Will there be a £3 option?

farron pretty much saying he wants to devote more time to his magic friend who tells him to hate gay people. so long, funny man.

Years ago, the Labour candidate in our constituency (rural Hampshire - dyed in the wool Tory central) came to the door canvassing for votes. My 90-something Gran got to the door before me, told the candidate that she'd always voted Labour as it was the party for the working class, that he'd get her vote but when was he going to do something about all these foreigners moving here. Poor bastard didn't know what to say.

At my secondary school we had one black pupil in a school of 750 pupils, so it was a real concern obviously.

I think if I was a Tory, I wouldn't shout about it on here. There are probably quite a few shy Tories who want to keep it to themselves, and probably also some who would quite like to get into an argument but know it wouldn't end well...

Because shy right-wingers is such a thing on the Interwebs

Stay active; stay left

Gentlemen dress to the left.

political compass divides the world up on two dimensions: an economic scale from left to right, and a social scale from authoritarian to libertarian. Its a way of understanding that while Stalin and Ghandi were both economically left wing, they did have differences in approach

https://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2

Where's the Weak and Wobbly axis?
For Mother Theresa

https://twitter.com/BBCWalesNews/status/875070851338698753

Step aside Paxman!

They must be the toughest demographic to affect on the doorstep.

Brian Paddick resigned first citing Farron's opinions and Farron was gone hours later.

Resigned from what?

Home affairs spokesman for a party about as likely to get voted in as UKIP atm. That's got about as much gravitas as cutting up a pay and go sim card and calling the local shop owner you bought top ups from a paedo.