The 2017 UK General Election Thread - Voting open today from 7am - 10pm

[KK]

There's still plenty of muppets on my Facebook feed saying things like "not voting they are all the same" or "not bothering my vote won't matter".

Yes that's right, May and Corbyn are pretty much identical in every way.

They're actually right in the sense they're both varying degrees of useless.

I can understand people not wanting either of them. I can't however understand the logic of the man in the Twitter/Guardian video.

[Squinty]

The Telegraph with an article about Jeremy Corbyn's 10 year connection to a group of holocaust deniers.

Is the Tory spin happening?

[KK]

Whether it's true or not, the Tories have form in these type of smear tactics as we saw in the London Mayoral Election. It didn't work, but it may play differently in the rest of the UK. I thought it was sad how it ended up hurting Zack, who by all local accounts was a great MP for his constituency. He lost control of his own campaign.

The right wing newspapers will happily oblige, as the Mail did accusing Ed Miliband's dead father of hating England.

[Eighthours]

Whether it's true or not, the Tories have form in these type of smear tactics as we saw in the London Mayoral Election. It didn't work, but it may play differently in the rest of the UK. I thought it was sad how it ended up hurting Zack, who by all local accounts was a great MP for his constituency. He lost control of his own campaign.

The right wing newspapers will happily oblige, as the Mail did accusing Ed Miliband's dead father of hating England.

It's not a smear if it's true.

[satriales]

Whether it's true or not, the Tories have form in these type of smear tactics as we saw in the London Mayoral Election. It didn't work, but it may play differently in the rest of the UK. I thought it was sad how it ended up hurting Zack, who by all local accounts was a great MP for his constituency. He lost control of his own campaign.

The right wing newspapers will happily oblige, as the Mail did accusing Ed Miliband's dead father of hating England.

It's not a smear if it's true.

It's a story with a headline that makes Corbyn look bad, but when you read the details it comes down to him knowing people that have different views. You could probably replace Corbyn with any other politician and still create the same story.

[Moggy]

There's still plenty of muppets on my Facebook feed saying things like "not voting they are all the same" or "not bothering my vote won't matter".

Yes that's right, May and Corbyn are pretty much identical in every way.

They're actually right in the sense they're both varying degrees of useless.

I can understand people not wanting either of them. I can't however understand the logic of the man in the Twitter/Guardian video.

The people I am talking about are more like the man in the video than people who are saying they are all incompetent. They are convinced they are "all the same" which is obviously untrue.

[Chris]

Damian Green currently having a mare on Marr.

Lots of Labour people sharing the Green/McDonnell spat. Funny, as it actually won't play well for them with less tribal voters, methinks. The kindly old man sham is shown up for what it is, and McDonnell looks economically illiterate.

I was referring to his one on one interview. He seemed visibly agitated at actually being asked to back up their manifesto with numbers. His comment that those with a 'genuine need' will still receive the winter fuel payment is laughable.

[Hypes]

twitter.com/Peston/status/866247295213416449

[satriales]

"Corbyn's not taking us back to the 70s. He's not gonna start making us wear what he wears."

[BID0]

"Corbyn's not taking us back to the 70s. He's not gonna start making us wear what he wears."

That last sentence. I'm crying

This is my new fav YouTube channel

[Moggy]

"Corbyn's not taking us back to the 70s. He's not gonna start making us wear what he wears."

I wasn't sure about him when his Brexit video went viral as it was from Russia Today.

But (I think he's left RT anyway) that's a great video. Funny and with a decent serious point.

[Knoyleo]

But (I think he's left RT anyway)

Was he ever "with" RT? I know their logo was on his first big video, but it's not like he was a correspondent there. Pie's always been a bit of character comedy. He even had a show at the Edinburgh festival last year.

[Moggy]

But (I think he's left RT anyway)

Was he ever "with" RT? I know their logo was on his first big video, but it's not like he was a correspondent there. Pie's always been a bit of character comedy. He even had a show at the Edinburgh festival last year.

He was with them but has severed links now.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/201 ... rgh-fringe

[satriales]

More lies from the Daily Mail as they have gone with the headline "CORBYN'S KICK IN TEETH FOR IRA VICTIMS" and then accuses Corbyn of refusing to condemn the IRA. This is based purely on this Sky interview where he literally says "I condemn all those that do bombing including the IRA".

[Alvin Flummux]

How exactly do they keep getting away with lying so openly? Where is the watchdog?

[Qikz]

How exactly do they keep getting away with lying so openly? Where is the watchdog?

Somehow Ofcom doesn't stop people blatantly making gooseberry fool up.

[Knoyleo]

But (I think he's left RT anyway)

Was he ever "with" RT? I know their logo was on his first big video, but it's not like he was a correspondent there. Pie's always been a bit of character comedy. He even had a show at the Edinburgh festival last year.

He was with them but has severed links now.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/201 ... rgh-fringe

Didn't know that, thanks.

[Benzin]

Daily Mail starting to panic about the potential lack of Labour being killed off then...

[Errkal]

How exactly do they keep getting away with lying so openly? Where is the watchdog?

There isn't one.

TV is subject ot ofcom and must be balanced and give time to each party relative to public opinions etc.

Newspapers have no such rule, there was going to be one but the Tories have said the plans will be scrapped in their manifesto.

[BID0]

More lies from the Daily Mail as they have gone with the headline "CORBYN'S KICK IN TEETH FOR IRA VICTIMS" and then accuses Corbyn of refusing to condemn the IRA. This is based purely on this Sky interview where he literally says "I condemn all those that do bombing including the IRA".

That interview is terrible I watched it on twitter yesterday. There appeared to be several twitter accounts with negative following/follower ratios all over it that didn't make a convincing argument, they just gooseberry fool posted and never replied.