UK General Election 2017 Megathread

[AgnesIO]

And budget cuts leading to increased food bank usage is fair?

Income Tax will increase for those earning over £80k which is about 5% of the population

Seems fair to me!

No, it's wrong. Disgusting, even. That doesn't mean we go to the opposite end of the scale and punish people for their success.

[MKR&*42]

Wow I mean.

Why would they even put the percentages on there I mean cmon, lying 101.

[FlyingJesus]

TECHNICALLY it's a podium but the way they've drawn it it's clearly meant to look like a bar graph

[lemons]

Because everyone will have one, it'll be the new A level and people will have to be in education eeeeeven longer to stand out

Just because university could be free/cheaper doesn't mean every BTEC Barry is going to be applying to uni + A levels are already difficult enough and act as a filter to the unis people can apply. Records amount of people are already going to university and doing masters degrees instead of going down vocational routes yet fees are now over £9k!

[FlyingJesus]

Yeah and already we're seeing people getting absolutely nothing from their degrees and employers preferring work experience because of how many graduates are around willing to take whatever

[lemons]

ye well don't do media studies or sports at london met and you'll be fine

[-:Undertaker:-]

Ipsos Mori out this morning...

Important to note if you put this into the Electoral Calculus, you get a Tory majority of 20 seats (+5 on 2015).

[MKR&*42]

You kinda touched on this in your post there^ but for the first time, more people are dissatisfied with May than satisfied.

More Britons dissatisfied (50%) than satisfied (43%) with Theresa May as PM - first time w/ @IpsosMORI.

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) June 2, 2017

[AgnesIO]

Just because university could be free/cheaper doesn't mean every BTEC Barry is going to be applying to uni + A levels are already difficult enough and act as a filter to the unis people can apply. Records amount of people are already going to university and doing masters degrees instead of going down vocational routes yet fees are now over £9k!

Record amounts are only able to do degrees due to fees being trebled. Universities can afford to do it now as the floodgates were opened by the Government on places, allowing then to offer more and more students the opportunity. Numbers will surely have to be cut if tuition is free?

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Can't see May staying for too long after this election. They may well increase their majority, but I can't see a whitewash.

Conservatives will have to be very careful with the levels of austerity if Corbyn stays (in the event of a Conservative majority); the left will continue to rise.

[lemons]

Liar Liar protest song against Theresa May by Captain Ska makes the Official Singles Chart Top 5

Liar Liar, the song criticising Prime Minster Theresa May by Captain Ska has made its debut on the Official Singles Chart.

The track enters at Number 4 on this week's Top 40, giving the seven-piece London band this week's highest new entry.

Liar Liar has been scaling the Official Chart all week, ahead of the General Election on June 8. The song was originally released in 2010 in response to the coalition government, but band recorded a new version of their track that includes soundbites from several of May’s speeches and the lyrics: “She’s a liar liar, you can’t trust her, no, no, no”.

Sales of Liar Liar are being driven by downloads, with 42,000 people picking up a digital download of the track this week, while the song has so far been streamed just over 300,000 times.

The song's music video, which includes statistics on UK poverty levels and references to school and police cuts, is now has almost two million views on YouTube.

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-...-top-5__19328/