Can't see another General Election anytime soon. I could be wrong of course. I mean if the shoe was on the other foot would Corbyn stand down? No chance. John Mcdonnell said he and Corbyn would both go if they lost, which they did and they are still there. Tories wont allow another GE I wouldn't have thought, they have a PM for 5 years.
May's campaign was awful. She's horrific in public. No wonder she doesn't debate :)
I still can't get my head around the fact 40% of people voted to wreck the economy. Mental if you ask me when that's where all our money comes from. People were properly brainwashed in to thinking austerity is a choice
I guess technically it was but that just means austerity further down the road. The national debt has risen more than £3 billion since the election was over. That gives some insight in to the debt we are in. It goes up something like £5,100 a second. Those chickens are coming home to roost one day unfortunately.
Heard some stats that Labour are by far the biggest Left party in europe. Their counterparts in France have 10%. Most people in europe have given up on the type of polices Labour put forward. I'm not having a go as the policies were good bar the student fees, just definitely not deliverable in our current fiscal state.
The student fees policy is both comical and clever. Comical because
a) 50% of the fees aren't paid back anyway
b) it's no win no fee education what can be more socialist than that
c) scrapping fees is a tax break for middle and upper classes in the main
d) fees scrapped in Scotland didn't get any more poor students in to education
e) the students voting for it are essentially voting for less jobs when they leave due to impact on economy
f) If 50% of fees aren't paid back now we can only assume that 50% of students aren't getting the jobs they thought they would get
e) The young person who decides not to go in to further education has to pay tax and subsidize the ones that do.
So who did the policy help bar the wealthier families. On the other hand it was super clever, 1m new students in to higher education each year. So lets just say 3 years worth of students in education now. Labour got 2m votes from that policy in the main so not so stupid. Not only that but it's those voters that are savy on twitter and facebook. Once that was leaked the campaign ran itself.
Tory manifesto was boring and more of the same austerity. People didn't vote for that understandably, even if they didn't have an idea of the consequence.
It will be interesting going forward. Personally I don't really care too much for politics, it's all about the economics. Not enough of it was discussed this election unfortunately. Virtually no one watched the instiute of fiscal studies youtube videos where they pulled the manifestos to pieces. The essentially said that Labour were 20% short in their income calcs anyway. And that is on top of increasing the defecit. Yet right up to election day I heard Labour supporters using the National debt against the Conservative party. Pure madness really but it seems people these days will believe absolutely anything.
Personally I'm just glad the whole sh show is all over.