May calls General Election on 8 June

[Bobby Hundreds]

While amusing this article actually has a point and is why Corbyn has been quite successful in running a campaign that overall has been positive and offers a positive vision of the future. I agree with what Sec has been posting lately, it looks like Conservatism has run out of ideas, they aren't even hiding the fact that things will get worse for the majority population and they are there to ensure that they will administer things so that they are even more painful. Sort of like someone poking you in the eye while you're having your teeth pulled.

 

It's when a party of power begins to run out of ideas that you have to start to worry for democracy by hook or crook they will want to solidify their position.

[Jairzinho]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i8qGOEmmyM

[Gym Beglin]

I've been busy on the Daily Mail forums. Even if I shame one of them into voting Labour it's time well spent.

[Denny Crane]

Hung parliament for me is the most likely result.

 

We could even see a 75% turnout, the highest turnout for 20 years.  

 

Labour will lose some seats where people are bothered by immigration and don't think Labour is for them  but will win quite a few Tory marginals that people aren't expecting. 

[Anny Road]

Hope you are right mate. I'm just banking on the youth. New registrations of voters. Voting for a future and taking back control from the old tory voters thinking of pensions and other selfish nonsense.

[Section_31]

Been listening to BBC 5live since 7am today, absolutely shocking. Not exaggerating to say it's been 90% anti-Labour /Corbyn. Didn't realise until today it was quite this bad.

 

I don't think the BBC are genuinely anti labour, I think two things are going on. 

 

(1) They're often accused of liberal bias, so their instinctive reaction to that is trounce Labour and try and shoehorn UKIP into everything, be it Newsnight or Jackanory. Much like if you accuse them of shunning equal opportunities they wheel out a weathergirl with no head. 

 

(2) They're sucking up to the boss. Ever since the Tories quite cleverly started making noises in 2010 about changing the way it's funded it's been brown pants time at Broadcasting House, this was taken on CCTV shortly after. 

 

[Anny Road]

Plus Sec the whole narrative prior to this election campaign and I confess I bought into it as did the PLP was that JC was out of his depth, ineffectual and a liability. They are pandering to this narrative rather than seeing to be attempting to change the outcome by readdressing JC's new found dynamism and positive campaigning strategy.

[lifetime fan]

It'll be an increase in % share of the vote for labour and an increase in the tory majority unfortunately.

[VladimirIlyich]

Corbyn just visited down the road from my parents and went down a storm. Thousands were there and it took me about 30 minutes for a 5 minute journey due to congestion. Seems he's more popular than the media let you believe. Who'd have known that!

[Section_31]

Corbyn just visited down the road from my parents and went down a storm. Thousands were there and it took me about 30 minutes for a 5 minute journey due to congestion. Seems he's more popular than the media let you believe. Who'd have known that!

 

I think he's very popular in his backyard. Went to Kent last week and the people we were staying with were horrified by the whole idea of him. It's a country divided, like the States.

[VladimirIlyich]

I think he's very popular in his backyard. Went to Kent last week and the people we were staying with were horrified by the whole idea of him. It's a country divided, like the States.

I think once some people hear him speak they are pleasantly surprised,even the floaters(meant in both senses of the word!)

[Denny Crane]

Marginal voters were asked how the General Election Campaign impacted their views of Corbyn & May.

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/ToryFibs/status/872220217916764162/video/1

[Faustus]

Section's right in that I imagine he's toxic waste in the Home Counties, but the mad thing is that his policies resonate there, even if 'Labour' or the entire concept of 'socialism' don't. That video Gyles Brandreth did for the One Show in Guildford is well worth checking out on YouTube. Admittedly it's not a rigorous scientific study, hence it being on the One Show, but it's nonetheless interesting to see him read out a list of Corbyn's policies to people and have them agree with what he says, only to recoil in horror when it's put to them that they're espoused by Corbyn.

 

It's one of the problems with this country in how tribal politics is, as opposed to being something to be internally debated and formulated organically. On the flip side, it's similar to how a section of people on Merseyside and in the north parrot the 'all the family vote Labour' and 'they're the party for the working man', without giving much thought into what it means and actually come out with some socially conservative (small c) stuff that occasionally strays into hardline rhetoric, hence the Brexit vote in the Labour heartlands.

[Section_31]

Section's right in that I imagine he's toxic waste in the Home Counties, but the mad thing is that his policies resonate there, even if 'Labour' or the entire concept of 'socialism' resonate. That video Gyles Brandreth did for the One Show in Guildford is well worth checking out on YouTube. Admittedly it's not a rigorous scientific study, hence it being on the One Show, but it's nonetheless interesting to see him read out a list of Corbyn's policies to people and have them agree with what he says, only to recoil in horror when it's put to them that they're espoused by Corbyn.

 

It's one of the problems with this country in how tribal politics is, as opposed to being something to be internally debated and formulated organically. On the flip side, it's similar to how a section of people on Merseyside and in the north parrot the 'all the family vote Labour' and 'they're the party for the working man', without giving much thought into what it means and actually come out with some socially conservative (small c) stuff that occasionally strays into hardline rhetoric, hence the Brexit vote in the Labour heartlands.

 

I think Labour itself is a toxic brand down south and in affluent areas, as is the concept of 'socialism'. Socialism to them means a bunch of people on the dole coming to gran a slice of their hard earned, rather than a council being able to afford to collect their bins. 

[Jairzinho]

Socialism to them means a bunch of people on the dole coming to gran a slice of their hard earned, rather than a council being able to afford to collect their bins. 

 

That and a slight fear that wanting to put the top rate of tax back to 50% and renationalise the railways is actually all a front for full blown Stalinism.

[Moo]

I think Labour itself is a toxic brand down south and in affluent areas, as is the concept of 'socialism'. Socialism to them means a bunch of people on the dole coming to gran a slice of their hard earned, rather than a council being able to afford to collect their bins.

I'd honestly have no issue whatsoever with the north joining Scotland, and perhaps Wales and NI, in seperating completely from little England(ers).

[Section_31]

That and a slight fear that wanting to put the top rate of tax back to 50% and renationalise the railways is actually all a front for full blown Stalinism.

 

It's all about how much you think you need 'the state'. Down south you can't fart without someone offering you a job, up here it's public sector/Starbucks or bust topped up with tax credits, it changes your whole perception of what it means to be 'self determining'. 

 

Being a one man band is all well and good but first you need someone to let you play. 

[Red Phoenix]

This looks like a good one for sharing, and anything similar that you can find. The hacks have done their final day propaganda pieces but we still have the rest of the day to lessen the effect.

 

https://twitter.com/pete_sinclair/status/872338717322641408

[Gym Beglin]

Not entirely true but I take your point.

[Anny Road]

Sick of hearing people say "I used to be a Labour voter but I'll be voting conservative because I think we need someone strong in the Brexit negotiations and Mrs May has shown she strong and will fight for the UK"

What planet are they on. It's as if they are in WW2 and do not want to kneel before the Hun. Surely a negotiation based on cooperation and respect will yield a better result for everyone as opposed to a fuck you attitude.

[Champ]

It has been the strategy from the outset. They know she is a liability when left to speak. She is a trembling nervous wreck who can only utter rehearsed soundbites.

They are banking on Corbyn being hated by the middle ground and her being able to scramble home with an increased majority.

Did you hear her on that 5Live thing still parroting that Strong and Stable shite? After the campaign she's run. I despair.

 

Edit Just seen your post, Anny. Like where has sh shown us she's strong? You say it often enough until that's what people accept whether there's a shred of evidence or not...

 

 

 

...if you're a Tory

[Jairzinho]

It's all about how much you think you need 'the state'. Down south you can't fart without someone offering you a job, up here it's public sector/Starbucks or bust topped up with tax credits, it changes your whole perception of what it means to be 'self determining'. 

 

Being a one man band is all well and good but first you need someone to let you play. 

 

Sadly, I think this is the perception that it's everywhere "down south". And I mean it's also the perception for people living in those areas.

 

Take Devon, for example. Of the 12 MPs there is one hateful Blairite in Exeter, Tory everywhere else I think. Maybe one Lib Dem. There is a perception that Tories look after these sort of areas, whilst one in four people in the county earn less than the living wage. It's about one in two for women.

 

As soon as you're more than about 20 miles away from London (and plenty in the city, or that have been forced to move) there are huge swathes of people earning fuck all, and facing the "Starbucks/Dole/Tesco" type options.

 

The same goes for Brexit. There will have been loads of farmer types in Devon that voted to leave, then a few weeks later found out they'd be losing out on thousands in subsidies. 

 

The Tories represent the interests of about 2000 people in the country, yet with a carefully manipulated set of stories pumped out by the billionaire media cunts they can convince 12/13m people to vote for them. 

[dennis tooth]

London, Manchester, Paris et al – State Sponsored Terror, Again and Again?

By Peter Koenig

Global Research, June 06, 2017

Region: Europe

Theme: Intelligence, Police State & Civil Rights, Terrorism

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And again, as in previous terror attacks, the alleged three perpetrators are conveniently shot dead by police. Dead men can’t talk. The same pattern, all over again.

In Manchester, in London, Paris, Nice, Brussels, Berlin, Munich, Stockholm, Orlando, San Bernardino – and wherever terror strikes, the alleged culprits are killed. And they usually leave conveniently an ID behind. Dead terrorists can’t testify. They can’t be asked to corroborate the stories of the police and authorities. These stories become truth without questioning.

By the way, has anybody ever seen these dead terrorists? Anybody, I mean, other than the police? Somebody neutral, trust-worthy? – Or are these dead terrorists perhaps invented to hide the real perpetrators behind these awful crimes on society?  –  Horrific crimes on a government’s own people, with only one purpose – continue and step up wars by military, financial and propaganda aggression throughout the world, to achieve what Washington’s bible, the PNAC (Plan for a New American Century), proclaims as ultimate goal: Full Spectrum Dominance? 

We are almost there. If we are not careful and wake up soon, the New World Order is already upon us, swallowing us alive, as a Python swallows an okapi.

The International Criminal Court premises in The Hague. (Source: Human Rights Watch)

Such state crime, like the recent Manchester and London murders, and all the ones before, would have to be judged by the Highest Court of Justice, à la Nuremberg. Today this is impossible. The International Criminal Court (ICC) of The Hague is no longer an independent court of justice. It’s been directed since long by Washington and Brussels and by those bloody fingers that pull the strings on these sick power cells. Justice is no longer the right of western citizens. Justice has been abrogated, bought, coopeted by force and by threat. Justice has become a pipe dream. It went the same way as has democracy decades ago. But an oblivious citizenry drunk from propaganda is still fantasizing about justice, equality and liberty.

London as Manchester are planned state sponsored acts of terror to achieve a multiple goal. Conservative Theresa May must win the elections on 8 June against Jeremy Corbyn the Labor Leader, who even after the purposeful state crime of Manchester has not lost popularity, to the contrary, he has moved up to a neck-on-neck race. He is indeed a big risk for the deep dark Zionist-masonic elite that manipulates the world towards NWO.

These state-sponsored attacks are also Gladio-2.0 in full swing; decapitating a new emerging European left, which Corbyn in the UK and possibly Mélenchon in France and the ‘Continent’, may be well poised to lead. Corbyn’s campaign aptly calls for a return to social justice, to health care, including care for the elderly, a reformed and free system of education, and not least, back to labor rights that were fatally decimated by the many years of neoliberal and Tory leaders.

While Theresa May’s election program, announced just a few days before the Manchester horror, called for new and tremendously unpopular social cuts – like the elderly who needed care in the future had to spend their own savings first before the state may intervene helping with the cost for their care. Ruin them first into poverty, before assisting them to survive a gradual death in misery. This campaign ‘promise’ which she eventually withdrew, was a failure that cost Madame May many supporters, who switched to her socialist adversary, Jeremy Corbyn, even if they didn’t particularly like him.

Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn (credits to the owner of the photo)

When Theresa May called for snap elections in April 2017, she surprised the world. She then thought she knew what she was doing. She had and has only a small 17 seat majority in Parliament, but had a huge, up to 24-point advantage in the polls over her opponent, Corbyn. She hoped, she might expand that advantage to between 50 and 100 Parliamentary seats to push through effortlessly BREXIT, unpopular social cuts and militarization, in her way.

But Corbyn’s relaxed, laid-back manner in which he propagated more social benefits and sovereignty for the Brits, propelled him rapidly as a serious challenger for PM May. So, a fingered ISIS terror attack, like Manchester, with usual left-behind ID for doubters, was in order. It was expected to avert the worst, a Corbyn win. It didn’t work. Postponing elections would be even worse because with every day that passes Corbyn is gaining more grounds.

As a last-ditch effort, a quickly organized killing spree in London is expected to secure May’s election win. Will it? – At first sight, it looks like the Brits are not so easily swayed. They too, may start smelling a rat. Two consecutive terror attacks, mass killings shortly before elections, both allegedly claimed by the Islamic State (IS) and carried out by Islamists, who as per MI5, Scotland Yard’s and Mme. May’s own admission, were known to authorities – who wouldn’t see through the farce?

A socialist UK leader could not only rock the boat for the financial oligarchs, the Rothschild- Rockefeller clans, the Godfathers of the Bank of England, those who invented and imposed in 1913 the US central bank as a private institution, the Federal Reserve Bank (The FED), from which emerged the fraudulent dollar as an unbacked wild card world currency, and later its offspring, the equally unbacked, fake and deceptive euro. The US dollar, thanks to illegally negotiated deals in the early 1970s with the OPEC leaders, the Saudis, that all hydrocarbons had to be traded in US-dollars, is flooding the world in uncountable hundreds of trillions.

Thus, the US dollar had become willy-nilly (no written agreement anywhere) the world’s key reserve currency, thereby usurping entire continents, countries, societies and peoples, as well as Mother Earth herself, through illegal debt, also called ‘odious debt’, and filthy unsustainable exploitation of unrenewable resources. While steadily losing clout, this monster of legalized fraud is ever more rapidly moving towards total (western elite’s) world monetary hegemony.

But the path of deception on which the western monetary system runs is disintegrating fast. Therefore, state sponsored terrorism, spreading fear, promoting fascist governments with fascist economies is – so the self-styled hegemons – well worse sacrificing a few of your own citizens to prolong the atrocious western odyssey.

Would Corbyn win, he might put a monkey wrench in this wheel of destruction, put a hold on the unquestioned bombing of the Middle East; stop militarization of the UK and by extension of Europe; re-evaluate London’s cooperation with France’s Rothschild President, Macron, whose neoliberal policies are like the death knell for a sovereign Europe and sovereign states.

If Mr. Corbyn were to win – perhaps a miracle of higher forces (especially with all the actual vote manipulation and treachery that western powers have been practicing for decades) – he might gain enough European popularity to derail the German elections in September, already slanted for Madame Merkel to ‘win’ a fourth tour the force. Germany is hosting one of Europe’s largest and most modern military camps, where German and NATO troops will soon be training for urban warfare in European cities  – i.e. to fight European citizens who may protest against neo-fascist economic slaughter à la Greece.(http://thesaker.is/germany-and-nato-preparing-for-a-fascist-repression-in-europe/)

This typical financial bankster-oligarch robbery scheme will likely be imposed on other European countries that still have trillions of state assets to be stolen. Consider Greece a mere training ground.

This is clearly what Emmanuel Macron announced with a Lucifer smile, when he talked about greater “European Integration” and “Security” were among his top priorities. He was groomed by the financial mafia to press for rapid privatization of state assets; and by NATO, to make sure a militarized Europe would not allow social protests to the harsh measures of ‘social decapitation’ looming upon Europe. So rapidly, that the average citizen doesn’t even notice the pillage until it’s too late. That’s what’s called economic fascism. Oppressing citizens’ rights to social benefits they earned during their generation-long hard work for a Europe without war, is what the Masters of the Universe are aiming at.

A Europe not for peace but for war – war with the east – the East, where the world’s Future lays – pushed and provoked by the west. As an allegory to Leonard Cohen, ‘First, we take Moscow, then we take Beijing’. Or so ‘their’ dream goes. And on the way devastating what’s left of Europe for the third time in hundred years. The deep dark illuminati masters pull their strings from safe heavens around the globe. But the empire of Wall Street and of Weapons of Mass Destruction and their swamp of corrupted Washington should be spared. Would it?

And thus, the march goes on, towards Full Spectrum Dominance under the dictate of a US dollar hegemony. That’s what Manchester, London, Paris, Brussels — et al, are all about. Calling them mere ‘False Flags’ has become an insult on humanity. They are state orchestrated murders, executed by their sophisticated and highly trained western secret services.

People wake up! – If Manchester’s and London’s screams for help aren’t strong enough, what will shake us to our feet and our deep-down spark of consciousness, We the People?

Calling the murder of seven people and more than 4 dozen injured a ‘False Flag’ is an understatement? Is it a state sponsored criminal act?.

Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World Bank staff and worked extensively around the world in the fields of environment and water resources. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for Global Research, ICH, RT, Sputnik, PressTV, The 4th Media (China), TeleSUR, The Vineyard of The Saker Blog, and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance.

[dennis tooth]

landslide

[Lee909]

Sorry but this its ok down south. Its easy to get a job is bollocks.

 

I dare not take a job in a site paying more as there always cutting staff further and further in sites. Add to that rents at over £1000 a month in Watford for anything bigger than a 1 bedroom flat. Its shit down here too. London and surrounding isnt a vast land of tories its pretty mixed. The South West and vast areas of parts of the north have vastly swung to the right