General Election 2019

With you londonpostie likely to revert to a two party system.

Labour will need to focus on policies, at the moment all the Conservative Party policies are only getting things back to where they were before the austerity programme, the cuts in public services, higher costs of living and wage stagnation etc of the last 10 years.

Conservatives will need to focus on Brexit which will be difficult as once we get into policies they are weaker and easier to counter, you cannot keep shouting Brexit, Brexit, Brexit for 6 weeks hoping it deflects the impact of austerity on people’s lives.

Lib Dems are a single policy party and have the same issue as the Conservatives how do you keep a Brexit focus for 6 weeks. They will need to focus on the few marginal remain primarily Conservative seats but cannot see them making huge inroads. 

The Brexit Party will be a disruptor and will potentially take some votes away from the two main Parties but have little chance of any seats and need to look further at who they potentially hurt the most by these in reality wasted votes.


What we all really need to do no matter where your politics lie, do not take the deluge of mainstream media, social media and spin on face value and look for and determine the truth behind them for yourself.

We are in for a divisive, potentially nasty 6 weeks ahead and we need to respect opposing views as in reality there is more to life than Politics and civility costs nothing but is invaluable.

We will be hearing the phrase 'Green New Deal' every day all day for the next 44 days. Labour will absolutely hammer it.

I suspect the 'transformative' agenda will trample the Tory Magic Money Tree.  Gaps will close.

Meanwhile, Lib Dem's will continue telling people off for being wrong and sending them to tidy their rooms.

As a starting point:

Better to look at the polling average, as many will know polling is all over the place and, with traditional voting groups breaking up, the way that they use the incoming data is by no means tested in this new reality.



On the election, good luck at selling the Green New Deal to working class voters from fhe North and Midlands, it’s as though Labour have holed up inside the M25 and haven’t talked to these voters.

With Greens back down to 4% there’s not much to squeeze there. Ideas on free care over 65 will be something to promote round here, though (oop north, that is). There’s one thing that would get people like my parents back voting Labour, though, and that’s getting rid of Jeremy Corbyn (they are fans of Andy Burnham, whose name they offered as being a decent replacement). Too late, now.

Labour are screwed under Corbyn, any competent leader of the party over the past 3 years would be in power by now. The man is a major liability but because a few thousand left wing nutjobs think he's the second coming we're most likely going to see boJo back in Number 10.

With any luck the SNP will take out Swinson and Farage will lose again.

..and then we can all get on with leaving the EU or not. Have to admit I'll laugh like a drain if we end up with the parties at almost the exact same number of MPs after this nonsense.

As you've already got these voters back after the Green high point at the Euros. You'll get nearly zero on that score from the right, however, and any sympathetic Lib Dem in a constituency that has Labour best placed and a solid remain candidate will already be tactically voting for Labour (me, for one).

If it's an attempt to supercharge the youth vote then it has some mileage but younger voters tend not to turnout in as high a number than other age groups, so it willl need a massive push.

There's a whole bunch of potential Labour voters who are just waiting for a sign that Labour is going to move back to what it was, though. They hate Corbyn and the Metropolitan viewpoint of current Labour and all it would take is a promise for Corbyn to step down after the election.

Voting in an election is one of the most important things you can do, that and jury service is the peoples' democratic responsibilities.

However with the voting booths to be open for 1 day only for 15 hours, is for me unholy undemocratic. With being Christmas, dark, roads could be icy or it could be raining, this may put people off from voting, also people especially working people who have little time, may have plans, which they cannot change and preclude them from voting. Also being before Christmas brings extra responsibilities and commitments.

The voting booth should be open from 7am on that Thursday until 10pm Saturday, to give people the best opportunity of voting.

What's undemocratic is not being able to arrange your own ability to vote with 6 weeks notice.

When the election is held wont put people off.

tbf, if your yardstick is Theresa May ...

I vote by post, but in doing so negates if want to change my mind and want to vote for someone else.

Our security team at work do 12 hour shifts. From 7 to 7, by the time they get home it can be 8-8.30 and being tired and hungry, do they want to go out and vote. I commend them if they did. The only way to give the population a reasonable chance to vote is by having polling stations open for 3 days and if it only improves the turnout only fractionally it would be worth it.

They’re also talking of abolishing postal voting, more vote rigging by the Tories.

I am also not against online voting, but appreciate most people will find this challenging.