Paphos Life

aphrodite wrote: ↑Tue Apr 18, 2017 6:25 pm

surreyboy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 18, 2017 4:44 pm

aphrodite wrote: ↑Tue Apr 18, 2017 1:30 pm Very clever!

This will be the first time in my adult life that I will not be able to vote. I think all Brits overseas should be able to have a say.

Try this Aphrodite: https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

Thanks surreyboy, but I've been living outside the UK for more than 15 years and therefore not elible to vote, I couldn't vote in the referendum. I had been voting up until then by proxy vote.

See here, this will explain

Jimgward wrote: ↑Tue Apr 18, 2017 6:44 pm Corbyn, being unelectable, would be as well opposing, as he won't lose more members than he already has...

May is showing, yet again, that she will swing wth the wind... I don't see that as strong, she should have foreseen and decided previously... now she comes across as a ditherer... which I think she is...

She is also not allowing TV debates....

from C4 news...

Election 2017: No TV debates this time

No 10 is saying there will be no TV debates cluttering up your screens in this election.

Rather than go down the route of pretending they’re longing for such things to happen but the logistics might be tricky they’ve gone for a more open approach: forget it.

Don’t expect many press conferences either or extended interviews.

Theresa May is not a huge fan of these sorts of encounters and her team think they open up risks that don’t need to be taken. So the 2017 general election will make the 2015 one look like “access all areas” as far as the Tories are concerned.

I hear the manifesto will probably be a slimmed down affair too. Mrs May didn’t think much of the 2015 effort with its 500 or so commitments. One minister said it was a “Christmas tree” of a document and “written without any thought to post-Brexit Britain.” But quite how much shape Mrs May wants to put on post -Brexit Britain at this stage is another matter.

What will the immigration, agriculture or state aid sections of the manifesto look like? How much will Mrs May want to spell out ring-fencing or the end of ring-fencing for some departments? What will she want to say about the pensioner triple lock in an election in which differential generational turnout could be key?

Theresa May’s team have had more time to ponder these things because they knew an early election was a possibility but it’s not clear how advanced the work is and whether it will be a manifesto more of themes than commitments.

Jim B wrote: ↑Tue Apr 18, 2017 6:35 pm If Corbyn had any sense he would have the Labour Party vote against It, better to let them stew in a mess of their own making..

Lynsab wrote: ↑Wed Apr 19, 2017 8:04 am You don't think it could also be to do with 30 Tory MP's about to be charged with falsifying election expenses. She was in danger of losing her slim majority.

Neither do I think it was a smart move, it's quite easy to see the opposition is in disarray....saying you're not having a snap election for 10 months then suddenly calling one could have been predicted giving the divide she has in parliament....

It's just another five weeks of more bull.....there was a quick survey of people on the street yestrday asking their opinions, I think there's little stomach for it...

But nevertheless he we go again....

I'm hoping, but know I won't get lucky, that the dreadful ex ex leader of UKIP will be on not be on the news AGAIN, hells bells...

just when I thought I could safely put my tv on for longer than an hour without seeing that awful grimace....

I'm being bombarded already by several social media campaigns ( 48%, women against UKIP, etc etc) to not vote for Tory or UKIP....I'm almost sure that people still in turmoil will not know which way to vote....albeit we know article 50 is triggered, it now means to me what party would see us thru the storm correctly....jeez...

PaphosAL wrote: ↑Wed Apr 19, 2017 5:44 pm Spookey, but it feels even more like Lenin in Russia, 1917, josef, never mind Erdogan today. Are they both reading from the same song sheet, I wonder? (May and Erdogan, that is)

"Crush the Saboteurs" statement was Lenin. Did Theresa May actually state that? If not, certain sections of the UK Press should be ashamed of themselves for printing FAKE NEWS and should be heavily fined accordingly...