UK general election

[X]

I don't agree it shows anybody running scared. If you feel that you are in a good lead, why would you go on a televised debate which only brings risk and no opportunity?

its a cold political calculation in my view, certainly noting to do with being scared

[Master]

I don't agree it shows anybody running scared. If you feel that you are in a good lead, why would you go on a televised debate which only brings risk and no opportunity?

its a cold political calculation in my view, certainly noting to do with being scared

Scared of losing her lead and exposing her lack of flexibility and constant need to control.

Similar to Khan being scared of Brook, scared of being knocked out and losing.

[Gandalf]

She is scared. Even at question times May is a poor public speaker and she has a long history of telling lies (Brock would love her). Corbyn on the other hand has become a good public speaker easily gaining support whenever challenged. Only the media doesn't like him. If the public saw for themselves then Corbyn would gain ground. They are closing that one down. The media, the gullibility.....they think that seals it.

[X]

One of the things I do like about this website is the totally different points of view on here.

Society generally doesn't mix much, and we also have the opportunity to converse (sort of) with different nationalities on here.

Avoiding the few nutcases, I must say I do find it interesting. Long live free speech.

[Gandalf]

[Master]

I think he was good on the show I watched yesterday and was impressed. Some of his ideas are old, naive and may not work but better than Teresa.

[Beanz]

Labour's Actual Policies

Ban companies based in tax havens bidding for government contracts
It's astounding that this isn't the case already. How on earth could anyone even attempt to justify taxpayers' cash being paid to companies based in tax havens for the purpose of dodging tax?

£10 minimum wage for all workers over the age of 18
The UK is the only country in the developed world where workers' wages are declining in real terms, while the economy is actually growing. A £10 minimum wage would help to reverse this scenario, and it would also significantly reduce the cost of in-work benefits like tax credits and housing benefit (most of which goes to working families these days).

All rented accommodation to be fit for human habitation
Again, astounding that this isn't the case already, but in January 2016 the Tories (over 1/3 of whom are landlords) deliberately voted down a Labour Party amendment to their housing bill to ensure that all rented accommodation is fit for human habitation.

Renationalise the railways
This is a very popular policy that is supported by an overwhelming majority of the public. Do you support rail renationalisation too, or are you one of the minority who think that the current shambles is acceptable?

Renationalise the NHS
The Tory party have been carving up the English NHS and distributing the pieces to the private sector, Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to reverse this process. Are you one of the 84% of people who thinks the NHS should be run as a not for profit public service, or the 7% who agree with the ongoing Tory privatisation agenda?

Free school meals
The policy of providing free school meals to all school children between the ages of 4 and 11 is based on evidence based research showing that universal free school meals lead to significantly improved grades. It will be paid for by ending the generous tax breaks (public subsidies) for the 7% of kids who go to private fee-paying schools.

Create a National Education Service
Jeremy Corbyn believes that education is a right, not a commodity. He wants to create an integrated National Education Service to ensure that education is freely available to anyone who needs it.

Scrap tuition fees
Thanks to the Tories (and their Lib-Dem enablers) UK students now face the most expensive tuition fees in the industrialised world for study at public universities, meaning students typically leave university with £50,000 of debt, and two thirds of them will never pay off their student debts. Labour would end this lunacy by getting rid of student fees.

Restore NHS Bursaries
One of the first things Theresa My did when she came to power was to scrap NHS bursaries for nurses and other NHS workers. This removal of financial support for nurses has caused a huge 10,000 decline in the number of applicants to nursing courses. This collapse in nursing recruitment would be bad enough in its own right, but in combination with a record increase in the number of EU nurses quitting the NHS and a mind-boggling 92% fall in nursing recruitment from EU countries, the UK is clearly facing a massive NHS recruitment crisis. Labour would reverse this calamitous state of affairs by restoring NHS Bursaries for trainee nurses.

Increase the carers allowance
Labour are proposing to increase the Carers Allowance for the 1 million unpaid carers in the UK. This would be paid for by scrapping the Tories' Inheritance Tax cut for millionaires. Unpaid carers save the UK economy an estimated £132 million a year, and they're doing ever more work as a result of the £4.6 billion in Tory cuts to the social care budget.

Create a National Investment Bank
This is actually one of Jeremy Corbyn's best policies, but few people actually understand it. It's absolutely clear that allowing private banks to determine where money is invested ends up in huge speculative bubbles in housing and financial derivatives, while the real economy is starved of cash. A National Investment Bank would work by investing in things like infrastructure, services, businesses and regional development projects, and would end up becoming a kind of sovereign wealth fund for the UK.

End the public sector pay freeze
Under Tory rule UK workers suffered the longest sustained decline in real wages since records began. The public sector pay freeze contributed massively to this. You'd have to be economically illiterate to imagine that repressing public sector wages with below inflation pay rises for year after year would not exert downwards pressure on private sector wages too. Ending the public sector pay freeze would actually boost the economy by putting more money in people's pockets, meaning an increase in aggregate demand.

End sweetheart tax deals between HMRC and massive corporations
David Cameron (the son of a tax-dodger) repeatedly lied through his teeth about how serious he was about confronting tax-dodging, whilst allowing HMRC to concoct sweetheart deals with corporations like Google, Vodafone and Starbucks. One of the main reasons the corporate press are so strongly opposed to Jeremy Corbyn is that they know that unlike David Cameron, he's serious when he talks about clamping down on tax-dodging.

Stop major corporations ripping off their suppliers
Major corporations are withholding an astounding £26 billion through late payment, which is responsible for an estimated 50,000 small businesses going bust every year. The scale of this problem is so massive that it should be a national scandal, and Jeremy Corbyn is absolutely right to align himself with small businesses to defend their interests.

[brocktonblockbust]

I have never seen a bigger piece of ~SHIT~ than Jeremy Corbyn. That video proves what an absolute idiot he is. He LIKED the Iran deal BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAA WHAT A STUPID SHEEP SHAGGER

[Beanz]

I have never seen a bigger piece of ~SHIT~ than Jeremy Corbyn. That video proves what an absolute idiot he is. He LIKED the Iran deal BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAA WHAT A STUPID SHEEP SHAGGER

Whatever you think of Corbyn he is neither Welsh nor Cornish. Epic Fail.... Again

[Gandalf]

I have never seen a bigger piece of ~SHIT~ than Jeremy Corbyn. That video proves what an absolute idiot he is. He LIKED the Iran deal BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAA WHAT A STUPID SHEEP SHAGGER

[Dia bando]

Middle England will not vote for Corbyn simple.
He has one or two good policy's but he wants a open border policy.
Before you have a free for all you need to get some money in the cofers the Tory's will empty the box.
The 2 leaders are like Matt emulsion bland and disinteresting.
This election is a important one as the outcome will mould our Country into a self governing none European​ flunky state as we were.

[Beanz]

Middle England will not vote for Corbyn simple.
He has one or two good policy's but he wants a open border policy.
Before you have a free for all you need to get some money in the cofers the Tory's will empty the box.
The 2 leaders are like Matt emulsion bland and disinteresting.
This election is a important one as the outcome will mould our Country into a self governing none European​ flunky state as we were.

One or Two? And you call yourself a Labour supporter? Can you not swallow your pride for one second and get behind the policies of the Labour party or you going to abstain and help the Tories continue their stranghold on this country and the working people within it.

Corbyn does not have an Open border policy and you are swallowing this whole austerity bullshit in order to excuse yourself not supporting Corbyn. He is talking about investing in infastructure, education and building council houses something long overdue in this country and likely to swell not empty the coffers.Do you want the NHS to be sold off to the same private American companies responsible for all those dead claimants they said were fit for work? Do you want the massive corporations paying no tax to be given even more of a free ride and the power to shape public policies in their favour? Do you want workers rights to be further eroded and Zero hours contracts extended into all areas of work? Do you want public sector pay cuts to increase and to take away free school meals form those who need them? Do you want those caring for disabled and often terminal family members to be paid less than those on the dole for round the clock 24/7 care every day and night of their lives? Do you want huge companies to be able to continue defaulting payments to their suppliers driving small business into bankruptcy while they rake in huge profits? Because the Tories do and if you think that Corbyn is bland and uninteresting then you will be helping them stay there if you are not going to vote against them.

Today the Labour party demonstrated true leadership in guaranteeing European working residents here the right to remain if they are voted in. This will give the EU no option other than keeping those same rights for British workers and residents in the EU. Science, business, education is very reliant on these workers and it would be churlish and decidedly childish and unpatriotic to use British citizens as pawns in some negotiation game as May is suggesting. Corbyn and the Labour party have said they will go ahead with Brexit but in a responsible manner rather than ditching all the environmental and workers safeguards in place like the Tories are going to do.

I would like to have stayed in Europe but it seems that many who voted for Brexit have had another agenda all along and nothing the Labour party does will convince those who want the UK to return to the 1960's or even before. That time has gone and hopefully the young will stick two fingers up to the old way of doing things and change Britain for the better. It cannot carry on like it is.

[Gandalf]

I am not a die hard lefty, but I know what is right. There was one guy on this radio show waffling on for minutes about why he couldnt vote for Corbyn: 'Just too untrustworthy' and 'he doesn't speak for me'. He spoke for 3 minutes like this and basically said a lot of nothing. I shook my head wondering if I was right about the Western brain drain.

Corbyn's gonna do much better than people think but there are a lot of dead heads out there.

[Master]

I am not a die hard lefty, but I know what is right. There was one guy on this radio show waffling on for minutes about why he couldnt vote for Corbyn: 'Just too untrustworthy' and 'he doesn't speak for me'. He spoke for 3 minutes like this and basically said a lot of nothing. I shook my head wondering if I was right about the Western brain drain.

Corbyn's gonna do much better than people think but there are a lot of dead heads out there.

Corbyn was in Scotland yesterday and gave a good rallying speech to all workers about fairness and equality of opportunity. It all made sense and I hope they vote for him to get back the seats they lost to SNP.

[brocktonblockbust]

Middle England will not vote for Corbyn simple.
He has one or two good policy's but he wants a open border policy.
Before you have a free for all you need to get some money in the cofers the Tory's will empty the box.
The 2 leaders are like Matt emulsion bland and disinteresting.
This election is a important one as the outcome will mould our Country into a self governing none European​ flunky state as we were.

@Gandalf and @Beanz. Wrongly think that I was calling Corbin a Welsh or a Cornish. I just wanted to use the word sheep-shagger I did not use it in your sense of the word sheep-shagger. Get your heads out of that little box do you think everything in the world is British English? Wrong again - epic fail as beanie says. Also I feel sorry for students in korea that have to listen to miles British accent he claims he sounds like an American but I highly doubt that. As for beanz he Probably sounds like a Dutchman