June the 8th General Election, who will you vote for?

krish

Another attempt at clinching a Darwin Award with a transatlantic crossing to his new job caddying at Mar-a-Lago, in that light aircraft he used back in 2010.

Marv

Only two choices really Conservative or UKIP and UKIP isn't the same now our Nige isn't heading the show. I do like Jezza but i would'nt vote Labour after what Tony Blair did to the country.

pandemic

As someone who grew up in working class Leicester, I can say I've never seen so many working class people disappointed with Labour than when he was elected leader.
From my experience, the feeling among the working class is that there is no longer a party that fights for them. The perception has shifted (I'm generalising) to the Tories are for the middle class and up, whereas Labour are now just for the scroungers. This is most likely why we'll see a low turnout. Labour will still win in these parts, but only because no one makes an effort to campaign in the city since 2005.
The working class round here are not socialist anymore, they sit firmly in the centre-left. It might be slightly different further north though.

Greg Hook

Labour have absolutely no chance at this election. I'm surprised it took May this long to announce it. Funny she blamed other parties when it's really in the Tories huge favour to call one sooner rather than later!

Just last weekend I was with a few staunch labour voters who said with Corbyn as leader and the state of the party they couldn't see themselves voting for Labour in a GE which they found extremely disappointing. But this is where Labour now sits.

If Labour lose a lot of seats, Corbyn needs to go and get someone sensible in with the hope that the party can rebuild for the next GE and not disappear into the wilderness for a generation.

Sonic67

The referendum vote had polling close with it alternating either way. This is the highest I've seen, polls wise. Even allowing for errors it should still be May storming it.

Pacifico

well that will be Labour - every election they pledge to throw more money at the NHS.

So we counting down.. 52 days to save the NHS!!!!!!

kbfern

At a guess my initial prediction is as follows:

Lib Dem  5-10 seats
Lab -50-60
Cons  60
SNP -5 min
Not sure about Wales & NI

Pacifico

This puts Labour in a bit of a bind policy-wise. They thought they had 4 years to come up with some and suddenly its only a couple of weeks. The Tories will dust off the same ones they used last year and the Lib-Dems will just keep calling for the referendum result to be scrapped.

Will we see a return to Ed Ball's magic money tree..

The Dude

It's been somewhat of a political masterclass ever since TM took the top job, one by one every single hurdle presented has been cleared without breaking stride.

The GE will cost Labour 100 seats, 75 to go to the Conservatives and 25 to the lib dems.

With Labour in the middle of a 10year self-harming cycle and Tim Farron still wittering on about cliff edges, UKIP all but gone... the Conservatives are the only logical choice left for a lot of voters, particularly anybody who voted for Brexit. We're going to have incredibly low turnouts in many labour constituencies i'd imagine?

Inferno

I have been a life long Labour supporter but no more especially now that that man is in charge, I will vote Conservatives and I want out as well and quite a few people that I know were all for labour but not any more, their a disaster waiting to happen and I hope they lose 60  and he loves off.