Re: O/T General Election : Wed Oct 30, 2019 12:36 pm  

I will vote Conservative and do not come on this site to be criticised and vilified for doing so. Let's get back to RL.

Re: O/T General Election : Wed Oct 30, 2019 12:44 pm  

60sCat wrote:

I will vote Conservative and do not come on this site to be criticised and vilified for doing so. Let's get back to RL.

No vilification from me, being able to vote for who you want and being free to say you do so is the very basis of democracy. Personally, have not made up my mind yet, mainly because I find it impossible to work out what any of these fakers actually think.

Say what you like about the previous generation of politicians, at least with Thatcher and others you knew why you loved or loathed them and they rarely let you down in that respect. My generation gets bandwagon jumping, social media fawning and often hysterically preaching nobodies whose only desire seems to be to forge a future career in the media or if that fails to get a gig on strictly.

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Re: O/T General Election : Wed Oct 30, 2019 12:45 pm  

While the conversation was about MPs that do or don't support Wakefield Trinity/Belle Vue I was happy to let it run but once it descends into just a political argument on principles or name calling particular MPs based on tabloid facts it will have to be locked.

Re: O/T General Election : Wed Oct 30, 2019 12:50 pm  

Kevs Head wrote:

Irrespective of views on Brexit, anybody who votes for the Tories is voting for another five years of austerity, cuts to vital public services, the continued degradation of the NHS and the ‘bonfire of regulations’ (ie. working peoples’ hard earned rights and protection) not to mention real cuts to income caused by a hard, harmful Brexit. Anybody who says, ‘I’ve been a Labour voter all my life but this time I’m going with Boris’ needs to give his/her head a good shake.

Conversely - anyone who wants a Corbyn government with Abbot, Phillips etc having any sort of input need to give their heads a wobble. It matters not in Wakefield and Normanton/Cas, despite overwhelmingly voting leave and being ignored by our Labour MPs, there is no chance the Tories pick up the seats and no other alternative really as lib dem and BXP going nowhere.

Can see this thread getting locked down pretty soon.

Re: O/T General Election : Wed Oct 30, 2019 1:11 pm  

You don’t know what a Corbyn govt would do but you do know what a Tory govt would do.....they’ve been doing it for the last 10 years.
Apart from that did anyone hear the pretty pointless vox pop on Radio 5 this morning? Seems that the rugby league towns are the new election battleground. They interviewed somebody from each of Cas, Leeds, Hudds and Wakefield (Wildcats?!?!). The Wakey fan’s response was interesting.

Re: O/T General Election : Wed Oct 30, 2019 1:17 pm  

Very interesting to see that Mary did not vote in favour of the December 12th General Election, (Shock horror) says it all really doesn't it? Just for a second concentrating on that number one key pressing issue - Brexit. 116,165 leave voters in the Wakefield Constituency 58,800 remain voters in a 71% turnout.

Re: O/T General Election : Wed Oct 30, 2019 1:17 pm  

60sCat wrote:

I will vote Conservative and do not come on this site to be criticised and vilified for doing so. Let's get back to RL.

I do not agree with your choice, but I would not vilify you for it because I respect your right to choose what you want.

The vilification of someone who disagrees with you is a major problem with UK politics at the moment. A lot of this comes from the 2016 referendum, but we really need to move on and get politicians who are respected and respect each other.

Re: O/T General Election : Wed Oct 30, 2019 1:20 pm  

The Wakefiled vote

116165 Leave
58877 Remain oh and Ms Creagh's vote which appears to be valued at 57289, just tipping the balance over to her supported option.

Ms Creagh needs introducing to democacy

Re: O/T General Election : Wed Oct 30, 2019 1:22 pm  

Kevs Head wrote:

Irrespective of views on Brexit, anybody who votes for the Tories is voting for another five years of austerity, cuts to vital public services, the continued degradation of the NHS and the ‘bonfire of regulations’ (ie. working peoples’ hard earned rights and protection) not to mention real cuts to income caused by a hard, harmful Brexit. Anybody who says, ‘I’ve been a Labour voter all my life but this time I’m going with Boris’ needs to give his/her head a good shake.

Re: O/T General Election : Wed Oct 30, 2019 1:35 pm  

I would point out that Boris voted twice against the May deal therefore ensuring Brexit did not occur.
The election is not about Brexit which the current PM wants it to be but about how the country is run for the next five years and how it is now. I would suggest you forget Brexit when considering how to vote and think if you are happy with what it is now then vote for the status quo if not then select an alternative.
I will be voting Labour because I don’t like the country now or what it could become even based on his short time as PM. I hear the usual argument how things will be worse under Labour and Corbyn but as pointed out no one knows but what we do is how they are now.