UK General Election 2017 Megathread

[-:Undertaker:-]

those harping on about jeremy corbyns IRA links are completely arrogant. the majority of the british public have no idea about the irish troubles, or ireland in general tbh. every military force in n.i during that time were terrorists. stop pretending you give a shit about northern ireland

Oh I do apologise, I forgot that only you are entitled to an opinion about the Troubles and only you care. Right.

And no, not every military force in Northern Ireland was a terrorist group so do not attempt to slur the British armed forces which keep you safe while you live and work in *our* country with comparing them to evil scumbags who plant bombs to kill civilians.

The IRA and UVF were terrorist groups, not Her Majesty's Armed Forces who were keeping order and protecting the *vast majority* of people in Northern Ireland who do not share Gerry Adam's and Martin McGuinness' lunatic dream of the Republic annexing the north. Typical of so many Irish nationalists, a huge chip on their shoulder in regards to the British but decides to live here.

[MKR&*42]

I do agree in part about Paxman actually I think Andrew Neil would have been a better choice here really, and May got nowhere near the grilling that Corbyn did.

Though May performed IMO much, much weaker against him compared to Corbyn besides the last 5 minutes.

Loved that 1 man standing ovation

Bring on Wednesday's debate and I look forward to seeing who Labour will send...really leaving it till the last minute here.

[lemons]

Jeremy won that 100%!

[-:Undertaker:-]

I haven't been watching any debates nor do I plan to really, the increasing Presidentialisation of our politics is nauseating. Turns me off completely. I only wanted David Cameron to face debates given he was all for them and raised the idea against Gordon Brown when he thought he could win but ran away like a big pussy from any debate with Nigel Farage.

If from this point on we agree to drop all these debates but have *real* town-hall style meetings across country then yes please!

[Martin]

I'm guessing the man that did the standing ovation was a family member or something, or May paid him beforehand

I don't think either really achieved anything ground-breaking in the interviews. I found the interviewer guy really annoying too at times how he interrupted them.

[hungryfront]

I haven't been watching any debates nor do I plan to really, the increasing Presidentialisation of our politics is nauseating. Turns me off completely. I only wanted David Cameron to face debates given he was all for them and raised the idea against Gordon Brown when he thought he could win but ran away like a big pussy from any debate with Nigel Farage.

If from this point on we agree to drop all these debates but have *real* town-hall style meetings across country then yes please!

Debates are important because they're not scripted. Speeches politicians do are written by somebody else, not by the actual politician.

Jeremy Corbyn answered questions much better than Theresa, who just avoided the questions.

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[-:Undertaker:-]

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 43% (-)
LAB: 37% (+3)
LDEM: 8% (-)
UKIP: 4% (-)

(via @Survation / 26 - 27 May)

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) May 29, 2017

Debates are important because they're not scripted. Speeches politicians do are written by somebody else, not by the actual politician.

Not really, provided the politician knows what to reel off they usually get away with it.

Decades ago - Harold Wilson was the last to do so - prospective Prime Ministers used to have huge public meetings in all the British cities whether they had a chance there or not: they would tour Liverpool, Manchester, London, Cardiff, Belfast, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Newcastle - all the major cities and would face the public in a non-controlled environment. Now it is all in studios/makeshift studios. It's sterile.

Jeremy Corbyn answered questions much better than Theresa, who just avoided the questions.

I haven't watched the debate like I said, but you must've been watching another debate tonight to everyone else then as I just saw a clip on Sky News of Jeremy Corbyn avoiding a question on whether he would give the go-ahead for an airstrike on terrorists.

[FlyingJesus]

Neither of them were that great (or that bad) but the person who 1000% came off as looking worst tonight was Paxman. Absolute clown acting like Jeremy Kyle and repeating questions that had already been answered. Last few days I've been tempted to just draw a massive penis on the ballot paper but now I'm worried that'll count as a vote for Paxman

[hungryfront]

I haven't watched the debate like I said, but you must've been watching another debate tonight to everyone else then as I just saw a clip on Sky News of Jeremy Corbyn avoiding a question on whether he would give the go-ahead for an airstrike on terrorists.

He voiced his opinion and said he would give the letters to nuclear commanders (therefore would use them). Nice try, next strong and stable point?

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[-:Undertaker:-]

He voiced his opinion and said he would give the letters to nuclear commanders (therefore would use them). Nice try, next strong and stable point?

I wasn't talking about the nuclear letters, so nice curveball you've thrown there. I just saw him on television point blank avoid the question on whether he would authorise airstrikes on terrorists. So much for plain speaking Jeremy, along with the fact whenever his past support for the IRA comes up he witters on about wanting peace - that's all very well and good but since when did somebody who wanted peace back a terrorist group that blew up and killed innocent people?

Jeremy Corbyn, would you be prepared to use our nuclear deterrent? #BattleForNumber10 pic.twitter.com/bqMCcwFgct

— Sky News (@SkyNews) May 29, 2017

He can't even answer what *you* brought up - whether he would be prepared to authorise nuclear missile launches.