the snap general election thread

hallmark

fun4everyone wrote: »

chuck how do you feel about the depths of police cuts? Normal crime such as burglary is not even investigated any more. Violent crime they are "too busy" to attend if you dial 999. That is not the mark of a civilised country. I do not buy the "austerity" line when tax cuts are handed out left right and centre

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/872879060212494336

The above is a great short video just showing the depth of the cuts

Which has led to the following

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10285564/Police-do-not-investigate-six-out-of-10-reported-crimes-admits-chief-constable.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-36340275/police-too-busy-to-attend-brierley-hill-burglary-businessman-says

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3827728/Arson-evidence-police-tell-fire-crews-Force-claims-busy-attend-couple-s-home-petrol-bombed-slept.html

I presume your point is we should hate the Labour party for destroying the economy & making such cuts nececessary?

And avoid like the plague a Corbyn Labour Govt, which would destroy the economy so badly that even greater cuts still would be required to pay back the debts after?

steampowered

hallmark wrote: »

I presume your point is we should hate the Labour party for destroying the economy & making such cuts nececessary?

Do you seriously believe that the Labour party was to blame for a global recession affecting every country in the world? Or are you just trolling? I genuinely can't tell.

hallmark

steampowered wrote: »

Do you seriously believe that the Labour party was to blame for a global recession affecting every country in the world? Or are you just trolling? I genuinely can't tell.

They were certainly partly to blame for that boom & bust. They Governed one of the biggest economies in the world in a country that plays an enormous part in Global Financial Services. Of course their bigger crime was not to have used those absolute bonanza years of boom to give us a superb economy that could have shrugged off the bust. Instead Brown spent like a drunken sailor, most of it on buying Labour votes, then absolved himself of any responsibility when the money ran out as it always does.

So yes - they played their part in the recession and they were 100% responsible for the disastrous state of the economy after their 13 years in power, which has led directly to every cut made since.

hallmark

It does make me laugh though, how Brown & every Labour supporter credit Brown & Labour with the state of the UK economy during the Boom years but rush to say "ooh it was the global recession, not us" for the Bust. Pitiful.

steampowered

hallmark wrote: »

They were certainly partly to blame for that boom & bust.

Sigh. I guess that answers my question. It seems you are just trolling rather than attempting to have a serious discussion.

fun4everyone

hallmark wrote: »

I presume your point is we should hate the Labour party for destroying the economy & making such cuts nececessary?

And avoid like the plague a Corbyn Labour Govt, which would destroy the economy so badly that even greater cuts still would be required to pay back the debts after?

masterwilde

Hallmark has a right to blame Labour for the global recession, hell we could have just let the banks go under, but then he would blame Labour for that.

Its well known that the banks are responsible for the recession. Its well known the UK government working alongside the BOE attempted to save the banks, ergo the economy.

But the tories borrow more than Labour ever did and we currently have most services facing financial hell, but hey its just the Conservative party NOT fixing a damaged economy, that was further damaged by the conservatives themselves.

Herzlos

Yeah I can't get my head around how Labour can be responsible for sub-prime lending by US banks, or how the Tories could have done anything better when it crashed.

mrginge

masterwilde wrote: »

Hallmark has a right to blame Labour for the global recession, hell we could have just let the banks go under, but then he would blame Labour for that.

Its well known that the banks are responsible for the recession. Its well known the UK government working alongside the BOE attempted to save the banks, ergo the economy.

But the tories borrow more than Labour ever did and we currently have most services facing financial hell, but hey its just the Conservative party NOT fixing a damaged economy, that was further damaged by the conservatives themselves.

This sounds terrible.

Thank god the Labour Party are planning on cutting back on all this borrowing. :doh:

fun4everyone

Seen on twitter

Hi Theresa May. Did you ever wonder how it felt to be Jeremy Corbyn with the whole press attacking you and your own MP's out to get you?

:rotfl:
https://twitter.com/alexnunns/status/873498595810578432