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You just can’t help making a political comment at every opportunity can you? I will be relieved for you when the GE is over and you can relax!😂

Gillian Keegan for me - no better!

Cut and paste this from Sky news: Sir Keir Starmer has said "wealth creation" is his top priority in an election pitch to the middle class and middle ground. "The first step of my Labour government will be to create economic stability, which means getting a grip of the spiralling welfare bill...

Mmmm.... The media and political 'experts' said precisely the same thing when Johnson and Co were elected (without the max).

I’m changing my view of Starmer from being thoroughly uninspired to gradually seeing he has a quiet determination to shape labour into a party that will not only win this GE (the easy bit) but future elections. Like Blair, he recognises that Britain is predominantly centrist and that is where...

Did he win many games? 😂

Popped in on this thread to learn a bit about Steve Cooper. Pretty pointless so far. Any chance of getting back to the topic?! So, regardless of whether you think RDZ, Mullery, Potter, Steve Gritt or Brian Clough was our greatest ever manager, could Steve Cooper do a job??

Is that really true?! If so, genuinely shocked and a very well made point

I'm quite intrigued by the part of this thread discussing tests or qualifications to vote (regardless of age). I am not sure that any such thing would be practically possible but changes to the school curriculum could be. It would be hard to remove political bias but a compulsory subject...

Sorry, was not having a go at you or trying to make it part of our little debate! I agree with both your points above too. Its a good topic to debate, like so many on here. I'm not a regular poster , more of a regular reader, and one reason for this is the number of times a potentially good...

Regardless of one's view on the topic, some of the anti 'older voters' rhetoric is unpleasant; 'Stiffs', 'one foot in the grave', 'senile old farts in their dotage' etc. I think we all hope to make it to a ripe old age and not be considered irrelevant or worse. Every single person here would...

But in my constituency I don't get any sort of say because the Tory candidate will always win, even this year. What I would like is a parliament with MPs from a range of different parties that reflect the political views of the whole electorate on the day of the GE. If I voted Green then my vote...

Fair point so they should be implemented together. I struggle to think of a better illustration of the cynical nature of our politics than this situation. Labour want to lower the voting age because they see electoral advantage. The Tories don't want to because they see disadvantage. Both will...

For me it is very simple. There is no point in giving more people the vote unless every vote, by those that can currently vote, counts. Bring in PR and then by all means lower the voting age because the 16-18 year olds’ vote will count too.

Please base your assertion on knowledge and facts rather than your bias. What you are saying is simply not true. If we are to ever address climate change we have to abandon personal bias or preference in favour of what actually makes a difference and is true