the snap general election thread

hallmark

Moby wrote: »

It was different Chuck.....Corbyn was looking for peace while May is looking for political advantage to shore up her position!

Corbyn opposed the peace process & voted against it. He voted against the 1985 Anglo-Irish agreement.

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Moby

hallmark wrote: »

Haha, it's slowly dawning on Jezza's fanclub that they lost on Thursday.

Their celebratory posts are turning into the usual bitter whining, this time aimed at the DUP (who most of them had never heard of until yesterday lolol) or Saudi Arabia.

This is what I'm playing at the moment, in honour of Jezza's failed campaign. Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoZP18U5VyY

You're posts are convincing no one. For what it's worth I think Theresa May is a brilliant PM who needs to stay in Downing Street as long as possible!;)

hallmark

Moby wrote: »

You're posts are convincing no one. For what it's worth I think Theresa May is a brilliant PM who needs to stay in Downing Street as long as possible!;)

Haha, unlike Labour activists I couldn't care less if my posts convince anybody of anything. The Tories won & Jezza lost & it's sweeeeet.

Watching you lot cry about it just makes it even sweeter.

chucknorris

Like I said above, I genuinely really don't know anything about Corbyn's links with terrorism, I don't need to look beyond his policies to know that I would never vote for him.

hallmark

chucknorris wrote: »

Like I said above, I genuinely really don't know anything about Corbyn's links with terrorism, I don't need to look beyond his policies to know that I would never vote for him.

My comment wasn't aimed at you

chucknorris

hallmark wrote: »

My comment wasn't aimed at you

I know, but I just wanted to make the point to everyone (not just you) that I judge Corbyn on his politics alone. I don't want to get drawn into his personality or alleged terrorist links, TBH I think that if there was serious evidence that he was actually linked with terrorism, then he couldn't remain the leader of the Labour party (maybe that is niave, but nevertheless my belief).

Moby

The tories now need to eat a large slice of humble pie because they smeared Corbyn day after day as being a terrorist sympathiser. The DUP are not the Ulster Unionists Party. The Ulster Unionists were a respectable Party now swallowed up by the DUP who are the orange equivalent of Sinn Fein. THey have some very shady characters in their ranks, they are homophobic, don't believe in gay marriage or abortion, don't believe in global warming and had connections with the UDF and the Red Hand scum bags, who were responsible for murdering innocent catholics.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2017/dup-chief-arlene-foster-met-uda-boss-days-after-loyalist-murder-in-bangor-35776873.html

Ian Paisley Jr, son of the party’s founder Ian Paisley, has previously called !!!!!exuality “immoral, offensive and obnoxious” and said he was “repulsed” by gays and lesbians.

The party once championed a campaign called “Save Ulster from Sodomy”.

Ballard

chucknorris wrote: »

Is there not something different about both their circumstances though? May had little choice, she had to liaise with DUP, what about Corbyn, was he also forced by circumstances? I don't actually know anything about Corbyn's alleged links with terrorists, but I suspect his situation is probably starkly different to May's.

May only had to link with them if she wanted to stay in power. She called an election in full knowledge that Brexit talks were about to start and now she's desperate to cling onto power so has linked with the DUP. I can't see any circumstances where anything that she's done can be seen as being good for the country.

Corbyn, on the other hand, had talks with both sides in order to broker peace (if what I've read and heard is to be believed).

Arklight

chucknorris wrote: »

If you were a party political leader like May, would you have done anything different (post election result)? Be honest.

A leader like May, yes. But not a leader with any scruples.

Can you imagine Jeremy Corbyn forming a government with the DUP? Or Tim Farron, or Nicola Sturgeon. Or Macron,or Trudeau or Merkel.

This does not reflect well on the Tories.

hallmark

chucknorris wrote: »

I know, but I just wanted to make the point to everyone (not just you) that I judge Corbyn on his politics alone. I don't want to get drawn into his personality or alleged terrorist links, TBH I think that if there was serious evidence that he was actually linked with terrorism, then he couldn't remain the leader of the Labour party (maybe that is niave, but nevertheless my belief).

It depends what you call links with terrorism.

Nobody is suggesting he was involved in terrorist activities.

Everybody knows he offered fulsome support to people who were (a matter of public record & not opinion). Inviting Sinn Fein to the house of commons just 3 weeks after the IRA killed 5 people whilst trying to kill the prime minister with a bomb is just one example.